INSANE DEBATE IN UN ASSEMBLY: 'GIVE EARTH HUMAN RIGHTS'.

Fox News, April 18, 2011:

"Treaty supporters want the establishment of legal systems to maintain balance between human rights and what they perceive as the inalienable rights of other members of the Earth community -- plants, animals, and terrain.

Communities and environmental activists would be given more legal power to monitor and control industries and development to ensure harmony between humans and nature. Though the United States and other Western governments are supportive of sustainable development, some see the upcoming event, “Harmony with Nature,” as political grandstanding -- an attempt to blame environmental degradation and climate change on capitalism.

“The concept ‘Mother Earth’ is not universally accepted,” said a spokesman from the British Mission to the U.N. about Bolivia’s proposal. “In general, our view is that we should focus on tackling important sustainable development issues through existing channels and processes.”

The General Assembly two years ago passed a Bolivia-led resolution proclaiming April 22 as “International Mother Earth Day.” The measure was endorsed by all 192 member states. But Bolivian President Evo Morales envisioned much more, vowing in a speech to U.N. delegates that a global movement had begun to lay “out a Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.”

Morales, who repeatedly says “the central enemy of Mother Earth is capitalism,” called for creating a charter that defends the right to life for all living things. Morales, who was named World Hero of Mother Earth by the General Assembly, has since made great strides in his campaign.

In January, Bolivia became the world’s first nation to grant the natural environment equal rights to humans. Bolivia’s Law of Mother Earth is heavily influenced by the spiritual indigenous Andean world outlook that revolves around the earth deity Pachamama, roughly translated to Mother Earth..."

World Hero of Mother Earth and Bolivian President Evo Morales


GAIA, Deep Ecology, Ecosophy and whatever nonsense you care to name it are the logical result of the spiritual vacuum that originated in the West's rejection of Christendom. No one of the "great" thinkers of these fake pseudoreligions, because that is what they are, apparently ever came so far, in their 'intellectual' demarches, to notice that the world's NGO's bothered with blind people on Manaus' streets, polio in West Africa, extreme poverty in Calcutta or bilharziosis victims in Egypt.... practically all come from Christian nations... or nations that once were Christian.

In their eyes christianity was always a tool for oppression, and a ludicrous explanation for the wonders of the Universe. So they saw fit to discard it, judging it superfluous in this 'glorious' new world.

But Man is in his essence a Religious Being. Earlier this week I talked about this issue - a.o. - to the priest in my village, who recalled many conversations with ardent atheists (the worst among them Parti Socialiste hacks of course). This Priest, Father Luc D., told me that basically, human beings, a few exceptions notwithstanding, cannot live without some kind of religion. He told me of the troubles many atheists had as their age advanced.

It ensues that most people who discard their religion - and most earthlings who did so in recent decades were westerners - will inevitably look for something else to fill the void.

Now, Christianity is an anthropocentric religion par excellence - it places Man central in this world, and it entrusts him with possession of the earth - for good or for bad, we would of course be smart to rule it wisely - but that is the essence. It is US, men and women and our offspring, who are ENTITLED to this planet and must make best use of it.

Moreover, since according to christianity's Holy Book Man is made after the image of God, Christians get a profound sense of the Being Unique of Man, of his intrinsical value, of the preciousness of human life. It is precisely this worldview that has led to the typical western inclination to help wherever necessary if possible. Charity is a western concept.

Wise men such as e.g. Friedrich Hayek, who himself was an agnostic, fully understood the essentially benign nature of christendom. In his book The Fatal Conceit, Hayek writes:

"Even those among us, like myself, who are not prepared to accept the anthropomorphic conception of a personal divinity ought to admit that the premature loss of what we regard as nonfactual beliefs would have deprived mankind of a powerful support in the long development of the extended order that we now enjoy, and that even now the loss of these beliefs, whether true or false, creates great difficulties.” (Hayek, F.A., The Fatal Conceit, p. 137)

If despite this obviously Positive-Towards-Man worldview people decide to throw christianity under the bus, you'd better hope that if leaders of men who espouse the same anti-christian views replace it with something that's at least as good - for Man, that is.

As history teaches us, not even Leftists who PRETEND to care for Man - and even I am willing to acknowledge that at the basis of leftist thinking there is a kernel of earnestness in their desire to help the downtrodden of this earth...

... not even leftists have come up with something better. Quite the contrary, as massive starvation following socialist and communist experiments have so devastatingly shown in the twentieth century. This is what happens when God the Almighty becomes State the Almighty, for indeed, the God of the Left is the State. Still, in western democracies where the influence of leftism was diluted by the mere fact that they had to share power, their legislature has in many ways contributed to the well-being of many - but only because they could finance it with the milk cows of capitalism. Whether their plans can be sustained is a wholly different matter.

It becomes downright dangerous however if not even the leftist concept of compassion and how to finance it is maintained. Which is why in se, the radical green worldview is even more dangerous than the leftist worldview.

Because once your New Religion places the interests of 'Gaia' higher than those of Man, and the bozos who profess to this travesty achieve power, Man is REALLY in trouble. Luckily, greens represent thus far a smaller challenge to humanity's well-being than leftists since their numbers are less impressive. Leftists have left their trail on this planet from Marx, Engels and Hitler in Europe over Nasser in Egypt and Nyerere in Tanzania to Pol Pot in Cambodia and Kim Il Sung in North Korea. But Greens are a relatively recent phenomenon and to be encountered in force only, thus far, in Europe and North America. The fact that their worldview is so insane is another reason why it's less widespread.

But they are gaining, and the April 18 vote in the UN Assembly, orchestrated by a Bolivian quack, is proof for that. That, plus the fact that if you are a father of young children, you will doubtlessly find green insanity in your kids' schoolbooks - the indoctrination starts early.

People who would dismiss the UN vote on Earth's 'Human Rights' as a funny but otherwise harmless pastime, would do well to study the works of the fella who launched the Gaia concept: scientist, futurologist and environmentalist James Lovelock. Believe me, if you walk on two legs and can speak you're better off with good ole Christianity than with the Religion of Mother Earth, as designed by Mr Lovelock, because for him Humanity is 'an out of control cancer that Gaia will soon eradicate'.

Mr Lovelock has ardent supporters who are somewhat more specific:

"The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size."

— Prof Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.135

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund


The Gaia concept is bogus. Earth is made up of inanimate matter. Earth is OURS, and it's our RIGHT to use it resources as befits us. We would of course be wise to do that in a smart way. But to advance the idea that humanity should lay its head on the chopping block of Green Radicalism for the benefit of the magma under our feet or the wellbeing of the nickel and iron in earth's core is BEYOND STUPID. If you feel so bad for the third rock from the sun because 6 billion plus ungrateful two leggers trample on it, you can just as well feel soooooo sorry for Jupiter hurrrrrrrrrting when Shoemaker-Levy 9 ploinks in it, as happened in 1994. Did I say Beyond Stupid?

No, it's insane.

It's not only insane, it's also inhuman.

Or, given the April 18 debate, shall we say...

UN-Human???



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ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS POLICE TARGETTING WOMEN, GAYS IN LONDON'S CENTER.

Regular reader and commenter Joanne linked to this story about the 'London Taliban' imposing their will on the populace of the Tower Hamlets neighborhood. From the Daily Mail Online, April 18, 2011:

"An Asian woman who works in a pharmacy in east London was told to dress more modestly and wear a veil or the shop would be boycotted. When she went to the media to talk about the abuse she suffered, a man later entered the pharmacy and told her: 'If you keep doing these things, we are going to kill you'.

The 31-year-old, who is not a practising Muslim, said she has since been told to take holiday by the pharmacy owners and now fears she may lose her job.
She said: 'Why should I wear a hijab (headscarf) or burqa? I haven't done anything wrong.'

Other incidents reported include the placing of stickers across the white-minority borough which state it is a 'gay-free zone' and the daubing of paint on posters for clothing shop H&M featuring women in bikinis."

It should be noted that Tower Hamlets is definitely not a drab suburb on London's outskirts. No, it's a borough almost smack in the center of London, just east of the City, on the north bank of the River Thames. It's encompassing much of London's redeveloped Docklands region, a.o. Canary Wharf and the West India Docks. Many of London's tallest buildings in London are actually located in this area, notably on the so-called Isle of Dogs.

The enemy is not only inside the gates, he's lunching in the donjon.


Sad as this tale is, it does not surprise me in the least. London is simply undergoing an amsterdamization - Amsterdam in The Netherlands knows this phenomenon perfectly well.

Here and here are a couple of stories about gays being harassed in Amsterdam, to the point that they are actually forced to leave a thorughly islamized neighborhood. Yes, it has come this far. But it won't stop here, to the contrary, it is just the beginning.


This is a story about a lesbian couple in Amsterdam's East. The couple is leaving the neighborhood. The ladies can no longer bear being harassed, humiliated and threatened each and every day by moroccans.





The title reads 'Chasing away lesbian couple new deep mark'. On the video still you can read 'Voice of victim of anti-gay violence' and 'then I was called after: next time we knife you down dirty queer'.


I am willing to acknowledge that there is quite possibly a segment of muslim immigrants that just wants to keep a low profile and earn a living, and this within the law or possibly just skirting it. That does by no means mean that I think they don't bear non-muslims ill will. Islam simply has to produce hatred, and even in non-practicing muslims the hatred permeates to a level that is maybe shallow, but that is nevertheless there. The only good muslim is a muslim that is leaving islam.

The thing is, it deduces that a society would do wise not to consider an islamic presence as something like a fruit salad bowl. It's not that we can say, oh, we will just accept this kind of unharmful muslims and dispense with the radicals. No no no. It doesn't work like that. You always get the full package. You know a muslim family that's apparently reasonably integrated, with dad working, obviously staying away from politics and not visiting the local mosque too often, and teen daughters wearing jeans and long, visible hair.

Watch their eleven-year old boy.

A few years hence, he may develop into an islamic zealot.

Only if a country has no muslim immigrants, will it be able to have a society at peace. Mind you, that still does not make it safe from islamic terrorism.



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RIO SHOOTER MENEZES DE OLIVEIRA WAS A MUSLIM CONVERT.

We have all read the sad news that on April 7, a Brazilian madman entered a school in Rio de Janeiro, and started emptying his guns in the schoolcrowd. Ten girls and two boys were killed, and ten girls and two boys wounded. All victims were between 10 and 15 years of age. Given the circumstances, police were quick on the scene and when one shot the killer in the leg, he put a gun to his head and killed himself.

The shooter appeared to be 23-year old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira.


Then, suddenly, the story went cold.


We now know why.


The killer was a muslim convert.





But you won't find that on any western media outlet. You have to check out Spanish-speaking sites and al-Arabiya, for God's sake, to get to know that tidbit. According to his sister, de Oliveira was 'obsessed with muslim things' and last time that she saw him, he had grown a beard.


Now, what do you think the chances are this case would still be with us if that guy had been a Tea Partier hmmmmmmm?



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SATURDAY NIGHT KIM CARNES, GENESIS, COLDPLAY.

For a second there it looked as if there wouldn't be a Saturday Night Music tonight, and possibly for some time. Whatever YouTube or Vevo music video I checked out, there was no Embed button anymore. Then I got the idea that maybe the knob was still there in the right click menu and bingo, it was. I just hope YouTube won't play me a trick like iTunes did. I burn CD's not very often, but last time I tried it, iTunes did not sport the burn button below anymore... and there wasn't a possibility either in any rightclick menu or whatever.

Anyway, for the moment it seems I can post this li'l video with Kim Carnes' Draw of the Cards, from the 1981 album Mistaken Identity.





Jesus, are the eighties really that long ago?


I don't know what the Genesis band members took in the seventies. Still, they produced a gem now and then. Like Time Table on the album Foxtrot:





You gotta give it some time, then you may discover it's lovely, subtle and elegant.


Clocks by Coldplay:





Goede nacht.


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POPULAR UPRISING IN SPANISH TOWN OF SALT AS MUSLIM KILLS FIRST INDIGENOUS INHABITANT.

Curious phenomenon in the Spanish Catalan town of Salt, where authochtons have taken to the streets to protest the first dead at the hands of marauding muslims. Catalonia is one of Spain's seventeen autonomous communties. Actually, now that we are at it, you'd better not address a Catalan as 'Spaniard'. Anyway, check out this video, and pay attention to the woman complaining that females cannot get safely out in their own village after 8pm anymore:





Now that Salt has appeared on my radar, I discovered it is actually the homebase of a salafist, a certain Mohammed Attaouil, who's expanding his local caliphate from there. There's this chilling article, unfortunately in Spanish, but you can get an idea of what it says here. Warning, it's an automated translation so you'll still have to figure some things out for yourself.





Street view in Salt, Catalonia, not that far from Barcelona. The future of Europe?

One last thing. The mayor of Salt is Yolanda Pineda, of the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC).

But, I suspect you suspected that already.

Hat tip Observatoire de l'islamisation.



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ANTWERP: SOCIALIST-DOMINATED CITY COUNCIL ACTIVELY ASSISTING IN THE PLANNED CONSTRUCTION OF TWO SUPERMOSQUES.

From Gazet Van Antwerpen, April 7, 2011:

"The City of Antwerp eyes a storage complex on the Noorderlaan as a fitting location for a supermosque. At the intersection of the Noorderlaan and the Michiganstraat on the Luchtbal (well-known high-rise neighborhood in Antwerp's north - MFBB) lie the former GM buildings. These are now the property of one family. "We want to hire the complex in order to provide for a mosque", says Monica De Conick (SP.a), Town Selectwoman for Diversity [SP.a = Flemish Socialist Party - MFBB]. "The huge mosque should provide a solution for the many ill-equipped mosques in Antwerp, which sometimes cause trouble." The grand mosque in Luchtbal must provide room for hundreds [sic - meant is thousands. - MFBB] of faithful and is, according to Monica De Conick, situated perfectly. "There is sufficient parking space and there's a tramway. The plan is of course that the moslim community pays everything" [what a howler - MFBB]. "As a city, we only help in the search for a suitable spot. In Antwerp's south we also look for a place for a grand mosque".

Monica De Coninck is, like her boss Patrick Janssens, the mayor of Antwerp, a prominent member of the socialist party in Belgium's most important port. Like every good socialist, she has been groping in the taxpayer pot for her own benefit. Nine years ago, she was chairwoman of Antwerp's OCMW (Openbaar Centrum voor Maatschappelijk Welzijn - Public Welfare Center) and as such, she managed to siphon 9,172 EUR away from the OCMW's funds to pay for a shower in her private home. Two years later, and with Monica De Coninck still chairwoman, news leaked that the OCMW's books showed an inexplicable deficit of 50 million EUR, for which De Coninck had no explanation other than that "no one had bothered to do the OCMW's accountancy for the past three years". When our son was born in 2007, we paid a visit to a dear uncle and his German wife in Kapellen, an affluent town perhaps ten kloms north of Antwerp, and I recall that during this visit my uncle confided to me that at that moment Antwerp counted 36 mosques already. So when the article above states that currently, there are 43 mosques, it means that in just four years, another 7 have been added. And now De Coninck is actively lobbying for not one, but TWO supermosques. One in Antwerp's north, one in Hoboken, Antwerp's south. WITH the full backing of mayor Patrick Janssens of course. As in the rest of Europe, the most ardent supporters of the continent's islamization are the socialists. And the tactics employed differ not significantly from one country to another. First local mosques spring up everywhere, whereby the mosquegoers deliberately cause a lot of trouble to the neighborhood. In central Antwerp, in one case two prayer houses were installed on either side of a house inhabited by an autochton couple. After a while, the couple, thorughly terrorized and intimidated by the yelling and chanting, had to sell their house - for a bargain of course. The net result was a local mosque organized on the premises of three houses. With the massive and orchestrated influx of muslims, every year more room has to be provided so that the newcomers can actively profess their faith. And so, cliques of muslim representatives, either handwringing or with a smug smile on their face, or both, head to the City Council to "propose" a fitting solution: a HUGE mosque has to be built somewhere to accommodate all the faithful. The current Antwerp situation is a fine study in microcosm of this process, as it has been repeated, is being repeated, and will be repeated a thousandfold all across Europe. Right now, Mrs. De Coninck assures us that "the city will not pay for the mosque, the muslim community has to finance it itself, the city is only 'helping' to find a suitable location". In practice however, a huge part of the dough will doubtlessly come from the indigenous Antwerpian taxpayer, and the rest will be provided by Pakistani or Saudi Arabian madrassahs, or by the Turkish DITIB organization. But if you thought that the 43 "small" mosques in Antwerp's inner city will subsequently will be abolished, I have a bridge across the river Scheldt to sell you. Here are some of the current ones:

- El Mouslimin mosque (Moroccan), Jan Palfijnstraat, 2060 Antwerpen: capacity: 2,868 persons (1,426 m2);

- Imam Buhari mosque (a Diyanet-mosque), Everaertstraat, 2060 Antwerpen: capacity: 2,350 persons;

- Mehmet Akif mosque (Turkish), Dendermondestraat 34, 2018 Antwerpen, capacity: 1,500 personen (840 m2). Recently announced it will enlarge, planning is already well advanced

- Attaqwa mosque (Moroccan), Van Duyststraat 35-37, Deurne, capacity: 900 persons;

- Mohsinien mosque (Moroccan), Sint-Lambertusstraat 68, Berchem, capacity: 800 persons;

- Noor Ul-Haram mosque (Pakistani), Van Kerckhovestraat, 2060 Antwerpen: capacity 550 (655 m2).

It can be stated, with mathematical certainty, that the building of two supermosques north and south of Antwerp's center will NOT lead to the disappearance of the mosques in the inner city. Naturally, ONLY ONE party opposes the relentless islamization of Flanders' most important city. As per usual... the VLAAMS BELANG. The VB's leader in Antwerp, and candidate for the post of mayor in next year's elections, is Filip Dewinter. This is Dewinter on the proposed supermosques:

"It is unacceptable that the City Council keeps collaborating with islam and is actively cooperating in the buildup of a Flemish islam pillar. Antwerp is a Flemish and Christian city; a city of cathedrals and belfries, not of mosques and minarets. The City Councl is now signing up for a complete islamization of Antwerp. Town selectwoman Fatima De Coninck capitulates for islam."


"The construction, with the cooperation of the City Council, of two supermosques has nothing to do with guaranteeing the right to freedom of religion, but everything with the 2012 municipal elections. It is a stunt of the SP.a [Flemish socialist party - MFBB] to flatter Antwerps' muslim electorate so that Janssens [Patrick Janssens, notorious socialist apparatchik and current mayor - MFBB] can in the end still be kept on the mayor's seat. SP.a is prepared to islamize this city further for the sole purpose of obtaining the votes of muslims to be a factor of power in this city. This is why the Vlaams Belang is seriously considering to demand a municipal referendum on the construction of these two supermosques. Let the Antwerpian himself give his opinion about the continuing islamization of his city."

Filip Dewinter, one of our few superheroes. Incessantly in the thick of the fight against the mortal danger that islam poses for our societies. Vilified, demonized, ridiculed, denied airtime on TV and interviews in magazines, journals. I had to buy his book, Inch' Allah, under the counter at the local De Standaard bookshop in my hometown as if it were child porn... while their racks were full of leftist garbage.


Unlike a gazillion of his mainly socialist moral betters...

... never named, not even remotely, in a corruption scandal.


This is a poster accompanying his campaign in december 2010 where he went into the offensive against yet another mosque, this one in the small town of Lier southeast of Antwerp:





If only we had more Dewinters.



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TOMASO GIOVANNI ALBINONI: ADAGIO IN G MINOR.

From Tomaso Albinoni, famous Venetian Baroque composer much admired by Johann Sebastian Bach.





There is some ambiguity with regards to the authorship of this piece, since its composer was actually the 20th century Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto. He claimed however that it was based on a sonata by Albinoni, which he found right at the end of WWII in the archives of the Saxon State Library.

Whoever owns the most credit, this is a magnificent piece by a...

... Dead White Male.



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ANN BARNARDT BURNS QURAN, SHOWS MORE BALLS THAN US SENATOR AND TOP US GENERAL.

Most of us have read about or heard of Senator Lindsey Graham's remarks about limiting freedom of speech, "because in WWII that was happening also". This following the burning of a koran copy by Florida pastors Wayne Sapp and Terry Jones, which provoked violent muslim reactions worldwide.

That's absolute bogus, and sheer intellectual dishonesty.

In WWII, there were indeed severe limitations on freedom of speech. But not of the kind that Graham envisages. Back then, nobody, I mean NOBODY, would have prohibited you of burning a copy of Mein Kampf, nazism's 'holy book'. On the contrary, you would have gotten pats on the shoulder.

You would, on the other hand, have been made to shut up, or even imprisoned, if you would have publicly (or not so publicly) disclosed crucial info on, say, Operation Overlord, prior to D-Day. And rightly so.

It's the same here. I am all for limiting Terry Jones's freedom of speech if he announces that he will put the plans for Operation Red Sand on the internet. As for burning korans however... agree with Jones and Sapp or not (I agree with them), but if the reaction of muslim mobs to a quran burning half a world away is to attack UN workers and actually butcher people trying to put their islamic hellhole of a country on track for the 21st century...

... then paying lipservice to the killers like General Petraeus did is in a way justifying the murders. Legitimizing it. I don't think the parents of Lt Col Siri Skare, the Norwegian military pilot who was among the victims, are that enamored with Petraeus' cautious wording.

A fitting reaction to muslim mobs' rioting like the one in Mazar-i-Sharif would be, for instance, a stream of hot lead at a huge rate of fire. A fitting response to Karzai would be "Shut the fuck up you incompetent, and finally do something useful."


Apart from the business end of SAW guns and sound advice, a good reaction would also be:






Hat tip reader Leo Norekens.


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SATURDAY NIGHT BILL WITHERS, BILLY JOEL.

From a time when being a black artist still meant something. Bill Withers with Lovely Day (1977).





Now there's only Kanye West & clones, ululating jungle sounds.



Magnificent and underestimated number by Billy Joel, Laura.






Sorry for the light blogging. Been a rough week. Workload heavy, plus my dad narrowly escaped death. Was hospitalized on the 31st or so with an infection of the, what's the English word for urineblaas? Anyway, Friday morning 8 days ago at three o'clock in the morning his kidneys stopped working and he had a cardiac arrest. The doctor called my mother and told her to expect the worst, and warn me and my siblings. Three days of a certain mix of antibiotics had no effect (Ciproxine, Augmentin). It was only after they started administring Negaban on Monday morning that the tide began to turn. This afternoon he left intensive care for his normal room, where he was admitted nine days ago. Physically, being the strong person that he always was (he's 77 now), he has made a remarkable recovery. But - he's having hallucinations every now and then. I just hope this is a side effect of the plethora of drugs he got to get him thru.

Anyway, over here we keep our fingers crossed, knowing full well there's tears and bloodshed everywhere these days. Japan, Libya... the world sucks. And right this morning I attended the funeral of the father of one of my best friends. He's not coping with it well. God knows I wouldn't either were I in his place.

Have a nice weekend yet. Will try to flesh out some decent posts in the coming week.



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COMING SOON TO A TOWN NEAR YOU...

On March 25, the salafist movement Sharia4UK held a demo in Oxford Street, London.





Learn how to use firearms. Join a shooting club.


Hat tip Observatoire de l'islamisation.



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SATURDAY NIGHT: STEVIE NICKS, T-REX, OZARK HENRY.

Stevie Nicks with Stop draggin' my heart around.





Uh, if you are younger than 65 million years, Stevie is the blonde woman. The guy is Tom Petty.


Speaking of dinosaurs, here's T-Rex with Get it on.





Belgian singer/songwriter Ozark Henry with It's in the air tonight.





Our artists chronically lack effective managers and producers, otherwise several would have made it worldwide by now.



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BELGIAN AIR FORCE IN ACTION OVER LIBYA.

Since Monday, March 21 the Belgian Air Force participates in enforcing the no-fly zone above Libya and its coastal waters. To help enforce the naval blockade, there's also the minehunter BNS Narcis. The planes detailed with the task are six F-16s operating from the Greek Araxos AFB, on the north side of the Peloponnesus peninsula. Apart from denying airspace to Libyan aircraft, they also attack ground targets. Just this evening, the Belgian MoD released these images of an attack on a Libyan airfield:











The following video shows a strike on a hangar. What's weird is that the contents of the hangar seem to be blown up while the structure itself remains intact. Our F-16s use either laser or GPS guided GBU12s or GBU38s, to the best of my knowledge it should be possible with both to aim them through the hangar's front and this seems to be what happened:





I am a bit clueless here. When a laser-guided bomb like the GBU12 is used, the target has to be kept in the jet pilot's seeker field. But given the widely different angles on several of the photos I wonder if not a GBU38 JDAM was used. We've shed some light on the former bomb in earliers posts. As for the latter, the Belgian Air Force has had it in its inventory since a couple of years, and has been using it in Afghanistan. Below is a pic of one of our F-16s on KAF (Kandahar Airfield) being armed with a GBU38 (JDAM). It's actually a fairly recent weapon. I think the USAF used it in combat only as recently as 2004, and possibly only in 2006, while its cousin the GBU12 has been in use since 1976.





Naturally, the dumb*sses over at Belgian daily De Standaard, commenting on the strikes, had it completely wrong again when they described the plane destroyed as a "Sukhoi 2": "Het vernietigde toestel was van het type Sukhoi 2, vergelijkbaar met Mirages waar de Belgische tot begin jaren '90 mee vloog."





Translation: "The destroyed aircraft was a Sukhoi 2, comparable to the Mirages with which the Belgian Air Force flew until the early nineties".


Duh. This is a Sukhoi-2:





The Belgian Armed Forces have been starved of funds since time immemorial, but I don't think that even our Air Force wasn't using "something comparable" as late as the early nineties.

Personally I think it's - ahem, it was - rather a Sukhoi-22, of which the LAF at its zenith operated around 90 units. As of January 2011, the Libyans would still have used around 40 of them. If you look at the silhouette of the plane on the second photo above, and then compare it to the photo below, I think a Su-22 is indeed your best bet:





Can't these guys ever get their facts straight?



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PS: a Su-22 is now an old plane of course, but no matter what you think of the Ruskis or the Russian commies - they had and have DAMN GOOD engineers. I have always admired them. A pity that so much talent served so bad a cause.

SATURDAY NIGHT TALK TALK, THOMAS DOLBY.

Talk Talk with Dum Dum Girl.





Must be about the cheapest music video ever shot.


Thomas Dolby with Close But No Cigar.






Nite all. Sorry, was rather busy/f*cked up this week, so light blogging.



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P.S.: this evening, all over da planet squareheaded EEJITS will switch off lights in an insane effort to "save the planet", whatever that means - they'd better endeavour to save their brains, whatever. Now, I WANT YOU to put on as many lights as possible to even that out since a sudden massive drop of power demand may cause dangerous problems in power stations.

ISLAMIC CANCER FROM CALIFORNIA OVER ROCHDALE, UK TO NICE, FRANCE.

The first video makes clear where the loyalties of Amir Abdel Malik of the Muslim Students Association lie.





The second video shows how bad the situation of streets illegally occupied by muslims for Friday prayers in the city of Nice, France has become... despite the big words by UMP mayor Christian Estrosi.





The third video show peaceloving and law-abiding muslims in Rochdale, UK, who vent their frustration with the EDL:





If you are a non-muslim westerner, one day muslims will come to your doorstep too to LIMIT your freedoms.

Prepare to use DEADLY FORCE against them.


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SATURDAY NIGHT NEW MUSIK, AFGHAN WHIGS.

They all run after the carving knife. From a short-lived (1977-1982) British new wave band, New Musik.





This number is on the band's second album, Anywhere, released March 6, 1981. Yup, thirty years ago. I guess that makes it Old Musik for the teenagers round here. And if you recognize the bad guy in the white Lambo you must surely be a dinosaur.


Afghan Whigs with Going to Town. Studio version's so much better, but embedding was nowhere possible. So I had to - snicker - take this video from a David F****** Letterman show.





Guys hail from Cincinnati, where they formed in 1986.



Good night.



MFBB.

DEAD JEWS NO NEWS FOR BELGIAN "QUALITY" NEWSPAPER DE STANDAARD.

In light of the terrible situation in Japan, I find it almost heartbreaking that I feel just as well compelled to write a post on another topic that I can't get out of my mind.

The earthquake near Japan and the ensuing tsunami have claimed as yet an estimated 12,000 lives, and this number will undoubtedly rise. Then there is the horrible scenario of massive radiation pollution that may affect the lives of millions of Japanese.

Compared to this drama, the human mind tends to rationalize away the loss of "just" five Jewish lives over the weekend in Itamar, Samaria. And yet...




Massacre Israeli Fogel family by a Palestinian... door dave5511


... and yet, somehow this grusome act of terror seems to demand my attention to an equal degree, since it is yet one more indication of the grave predicament that islam poses to humanity. Radiation pollutes the body, but islam pollutes the soul. How else can you explain that upon learning of the massacre of a peaceful Jewish family, the Palestinian reaction was...





However, it's hard to tell what is more disgusting. The festivities of the Palestinians or the deafening silence of western media. Being a Belgian, I am all too well acquainted with the country's notorious "top" newspaper "De Standaard" (an oxymoron if ever there was one). No other Belgian newspaper matches this rag's vicious anti-Israel propaganda. And sadly, with this latest gruesome murder on two Itamar residents and their young children De Standaard has managed to hit yet another low.

To put matters in perspective, last fall they found it necessary, on three occasions, to lament a video showing an Israeli trooper dancing around a Palestinian prisoner. Below is a screenshot of one such occasion. The date is October 5, 2010:




Below you find the translation:

"... Israeli TV on Monday released a new video wherein an Israeli soldier is mocking a Palestinian prisoner. Indeed, the soldier is dancing around a young veiled woman who is blindfolded. A couple of weeks ago news leaked that a former female Israeli trooper put photos on Facebook dealing with her service time. On them, she posed laughing next to Palestinian prisoners with blindfolded eyes and hands tied behind their backs. Moreover, the images were accompanied by lewd commentary.

On te new images an Israeli soldier can be seen performing a parody of an oriental dance around a young veiled woman standing still against a wall, blindfolded and handcuffed. On the background music can be heard, as well as laughter from friends.

Palestinian authorities have asked Israel to take harsh measures against the "immoral and inhumane behaviour" of the soldier."

I was quickly able to find this particular article since five and a half months after date, non-subscribers to De Standaard Online can still google it and have it represented in full.


The murders on the Fogel family happened on March 11 - four days ago.

If you want to read it, you must subscribe to De Standaard Online. The ordinary Internet user will have to be content with this:

"FAMILY OF COLONISTS MURDERED. ISRAEL REACTS BY BUILDING NEW HOUSES.

BRUSSELS - Shortly after five jewish colonists (among them three children) were murdered by Palestinians, Israel gave permission to build another four hundred houses on the West Bank."

Y'all can believe that? Four days later, the murder has already been yanked from ordinary readers' attentions.

For "De Standaard" slitting the throat of a three month old baby, amongst others, is apparently less immoral and inhumane behavior than an Israeli trooper dancing around a Palestinian prisoner. And not only that, even in the face of this grotesque monstrosity they have the NERVE!!!!! to immediately spin their message in a condemnation of Israeli building projects in Judea and Samaria!!!


If De Standaard represents the standard for something, it surely has to be the standard for Internet Excrement.

Well, since our self-proclaimed "top" newspaper so utterly fails to inform us somewhat on the matter, I will do the job they are supposed to do.

Here, for example, is Elad Fogel, 4 years old, BEFORE islam came into his life:





And this is Elad, forever 4, AFTER islam came into his life:





Not that you would ever get to know his story from our whorenalists.

A couple of weeks ago, after a raving madman killed an almost equal number of people and wounded many others, our leftist moral betters were lightning quick to blame "hate rhetoric" from the GOP, Sarah Palin in particular, and the Tea Party - even though it quickly became apparent that the killer was a leftist nutbag.

Last week, the Fogel family was butchered by a muslim. But is it actually any wonder, since not only are muslims raised with tales telling them that jews are pigs and animals that have to be killed, but basically 90% of world media is serving them the same shit, be it packed in somewhat more hushed tones? Is it any wonder these scumbags feel legitimized to do as they do, when on every international forum Israel is being vilified and demonized, and its very existence questioned?

May Udi, 36, his wife Ruth, 35, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4 and Hadas, 3 months, rest in peace. Pray for them.



MFBB.

TIME TO STAND BY JAPAN.

No music this night because I deem it inappropriate at a time when Japan has to cope with the consequences of one of the biggest ever natural disasters to befall that country. A country and a people, it should be said, which I very much admire and respect.

My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their relatives.

Special attention must of course go to those directly affected by the explosion at the Fukushima plant. In a country where the collective psyche of its citizens is burdened by the memory of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic explosions, the nuclear fallout and possible meltdown at the 40-year old reactor must doubtlessly touch raw nerves.





Knowing the joy that children bring, I am thinking especially of parents with young children and pregnant women. I hope the authorities will do anything in their power and beyond to get people out of the danger zone, treat them well, and neutralize the risk at the plant. All hail to the brave crews who have to move inside the stricken reactor's premises.





Courage, and good luck.



MFBB.

FETULLAH GULEN: A DARK FORCE BEHIND TURKEY'S ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION - AND A TROJAN HORSE INSIDE THE US.

The time has come to consider throwing Turkey out of NATO. A compelling article by Janet Levy over at American Thinker: "Turkey and the restoration of the Caliphate":

"...Since the end of World War I when the German-allied Ottoman Empire was defeated and the sultanate and caliphate were replaced by the Republic of Turkey, Turkey has been an important U.S. ally because of its size, strategic location and profitable business opportunities for American companies. Although designated a "neutral" country during World War II, Turkey supplied the Germans with substantial quantities of chromites, essential minerals which harden steel for armor. The Turks didn't declare war against Germany until 1945, ostensibly to be a party to final negotiations at war's end. That same year, Turkey became a United Nations charter member and, as part of the U.N. command, participated in the Korean War, thereby earning a much desired place in NATO in 1952. The United States and Turkey enjoyed close bilateral relations through the post-Cold war period.


Today the government in Turkey has moved away from the West, particularly the United States and Israel, and toward Iran and Syria, effectively changing the balance of power in the Middle East and across the globe. Turkey is actively and more openly pushing for Islamization and an expanded role for the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2007 on Turkish television, Erdogan admonished Westerners' use of the term "moderate Islam," by declaring, "These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it."


That should have set off alarms in the West and extinguished any fantasies of Turkey's role as a pillar of "moderate" Islam. Erdogan had made earlier alarming statements, similarly ignored as in 1994, while mayor of Istanbul, when he avowed, "Thank God Almighty, I am a servant of the Shariah." Further confirming his strategy in 1996 after he was dismissed as mayor, the future Prime Minister stated, "Democracy is like a streetcar. You ride it until you arrive at your destination and then you step off." Since 2002, the Turkish government has been pursuing a version of Islam closely aligned with the Wahhabi extremist Islam of the Saudis.

....

The Erdogan government publicly claims to be democratizing Turkey but has curtailed freedom of the press, jailed and sued journalists for criticizing the government and confiscated newspapers and sold them to AKP sympathizers. AKP supporters have infiltrated the military and are suspected of wiretapping and evidence fabrication against retired military officers. Erdogan lowered the age for judgeships in order to replace nearly half of all judges with his younger AKP sympathizers. He also removed banking regulatory board members and replaced them with Islamic banking officials and is reported to have received significant financing from Saudi Arabia, including a known Al Qaeda financier.


Anti-Semitism and attacks against Christians and Catholics have increased in Turkey. Expressions of Armenian heritage and culture have been denied, church property has been confiscated, Armenian instruction has been limited to two hours per week (although Sunni Islam classes are required in Turkish public schools) and it is illegal to discuss the Armenian Genocide. Although Turkey previously enjoyed good relations with Israel, the Jewish state is now declared an enemy of Turkey and the media has promoted an anti-Semitic TV series and several anti-Semitic films. Last year, instead of sending aid through legal channels to Gaza and despite Israel's appeals to the government to stop the action, AKP officials openly supported the Gaza flotilla in partnership with the Global Muslim Brotherhood network. Turkey facilitated the purchase and departure from Turkish ports of the lead flotilla ship, the MV Mavi Marmara. Further, the AKP is closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood whose spiritual leader -- Yusuf al-Qaradawi -- calls for Islamic domination of Europe. That Turkey, a NATO member, should have such alliances is quite concerning.


In 2010, Erdogan received a human rights award from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and recently refused to impose sanctions on Gaddafi's regime, even as Gaddafi has used fighter jets to kill his own people.


Just this past week, Erdogan visited Germany and told an audience of 10,000 Turkish Germans (of three million in Germany) not to assimilate but to remain part of Turkey. Turkey has used Germany as a strategic base in Europe and sends young Turks, who have fulfilled their military service, into Germany through the extremist Islamic Society of Milli Gorus (IGMG). IGMG members with German-born daughters are encouraged to marry off their daughter to these Turkish males so that they can obtain permanent residency status and create a fifth column of Turkish Islamists. Trade between Turkey and Iran increased by more than 86% last year and Turkey has been supplying Iran's missile program. In return, Iran has agreed to contribute $25 million to the AKP for the upcoming election in June..."

The article then sheds light on the sinister personage of Fetullah Gulen, a closet islamic radical with Gramscian tactics:

"...A significant component and AKP ally in the changing face of Turkey has been the influential Gulenist Movement led by Fetullah Gulen, a powerful force in Turkey for over four decades. Gulen began a grassroots movement in the 1970's with the Islamist political party, Milli Gorus, a worldwide Islamist movement with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. AKP emerged from Milli Gorus to restore Islamic religion and culture.


The foundation of Gulen's teachings is that state and religion should be reconnected and the country re-emerge as part of a pan-Turkic regional power. A 2009 article in the Middle East Quarterly by Rachel Sharon-Krespin titled "Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition" quotes sermons delivered by Gulen on Turkish television in 1999 which provide insights into his methods.


"You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers ... until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria ... like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it ... You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey ... Until that time, any step taken would be too early-like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all-in confidence ... trusting your loyalty and secrecy. I know that when you leave here-[just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed here."


Beginning in the 1970's, Gulen began establishing a worldwide network to promote Islam and Turkish nationalism. His followers have since established hundreds of schools in over 110 countries. Gulenists operate an Islamic bank with over $5 billion in assets and own significant print and broadcast media properties, NGOs, think tanks and a publishing company. Gulen recruits Turkish youth by providing housing and education and grooms them for careers in the legal, political and academic professions. In recent years, the AKP passed legislation allowing graduates of Islamic high schools entry into Turkey's universities, guaranteeing Islamist leadership in the future. Gulen controls the majority of schools, universities and dormitories throughout Turkey. His followers remain loyal and donate up to one-third of their income to the movement. In Turkey, Gulen and the AKP together control the police, the intelligence services and the media and actively recruit diplomats for their utility as foreign intelligence satellites. Overall, the holdings are valued at up to $50 billion.

...

In the United States, Gulen operates the largest charter school network in America and enjoys the cooperation and protection of the U.S. government. His schools stress intercultural dialogue and tolerance. They include a curriculum that teaches the Golden Age of Turkey or the period of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish language, dance, culture, cooking and Islam, all financed by American taxpayers.


Meanwhile, his worldwide network reaches into U.S. politics through aggressive lobbying, political donations and paid trips to Turkey for members of Congress and their staffs. The Gulen Movement in the United States represents itself as a multi-faith global organization designed to bring together businesses, educators, religious leaders, journalists and others. Gulen has placed many of his followers in large U.S. engineering firms, NASA, the White House, universities and Hollywood. Through his U.S. State Department contacts, he has procured H1-B visas to staff his schools with Turkish followers.


Turkey through Gulen wields considerable power in American politics and is actively involved in lobbying Congress to promote its interests in Washington. Gulen was recently honored under Texas State Resolution No. 85, which recognized his contributions and promotion of world peace, with the Texas legislature describing the Gulen movement as fostering intercultural understanding and tolerance. During the 2008 election cycle, a Turkish-American couple, Yalcin and Serpil Ayasli -- founders of Hittite Microwave, a U.S. military contractor -- gave more money, $424,050, to politicians and political action groups than anyone else in the United States. In subsequent years, the Ayaslis have ranked among the country's top 20 donors. The couple's donations have been geared specifically toward advancing U.S. relations with Turkey and promoting Turkish interests, including stopping the Armenian Genocide Resolution. On this issue alone, "Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker", a service that tracks lobbyist interactions with government officials, reported that Turkey lobbied Congress on the Armenian Genocide Resolution and hired foreign agents to work with influential people outside of the government, spending $3.5 million and logging over 2,200 total contacts, including 100 with the executive branch...."

Meanwhile, quite a few ludicrous, ignorant and irresponsible EU leaders have organized in an informal pro-Turkey group, which they use to lobby for that country's entry in the EU. Here's for instance Poland's president Donald Tusk together with Erdogan:





And here is Sweden's Fredrik Reinfeldt with the (not so) closet islamic fanatic:





The degree of ignorance among our so-called "elites" is breathtaking. During the 1,400 year long struggle of islam with the West, the country that most fiercely pursued the islamization of Europe, and deployed the most massive military means to that aim... was Turkey's former incarnation, the Ottoman Empire. And before the Ottoman Empire, the Seldchuks beat the East Roman Empire out of Anatolia.

This degree of ignorance is only matched by the seemingly willful denial of Turkey's drive to islamic radicalization.

It is amazing, but exactly this country, this 1,000 year old foe, throughout history militarily the most successful against our shores and our lands...

...exactly this country lunatic quislings like Cameron, Reinfeldt, Tusk, Zapatero et al are hellbent to make it an EU member.

We sensible Europeans must do whatever is in our means to prevent that from happening.

By all means.

By ALL means.

I think that I made myself abundantly clear.



MFBB.

AMERICA'S EXPLODING BUDGET DEFICIT.

Over at Townhall.com, Mike Needham has a clear message for the GOP:

"BE BOLD, OR GO HOME."

"Over thirty years ago, in 1978, the United States government ran an annual deficit of $59 billion. In that year, a fiscally conservative legislative strategy might have been to cut $2 billion a week for the last seven months of the year. These “multiple bites at the apple” would have eventually, by year end, eliminated the deficit and actually resulted in a small surplus.
Much as the presidency of Barack Obama resembles that of Jimmy Carter, we are not in 1978. Our nation is at a tipping point and our fiscal situation is bleak. Today, we have a projected $1.65 trillion deficit. $61 billion is a mere drop in the bucket of red ink our nation is piling up literally by the minute.

Today, multiple $2 billion bites at the apple are woefully insufficient for the times we live in. Yet, according to Politico, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “are considering pushing forward a series of short-term continuing resolutions with targeted spending cuts that would be difficult for Democrats to oppose.”

Getting the $61 billion in cuts is an important trust-building measure between the American people and Washington – and the tea party activists and the Republican Party – since neither Washington nor Republicans have any credibility after the last ten years on the issue of spending. It is not, however, the only policy battle we must win this year.

Shortly, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release the Republican budget for fiscal year 2012. It is vital this is a bold budget and conservatives must fight for boldness in the appropriations battles that will follow.

Sometime this spring, there will be a fight over whether to raise the debt limit. Conservatives must fight to have transformational policies attached to any legislation which raises the debt limit. Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. We cannot have another clean increase of the debt limit this year, which would be the sixth such increase in the last four years.


....


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the Senate needed more time to consider H.R. 1 – the House spending bill which would cut $61 billion – since it was sent to the Senate on a Saturday. The question of time to consider H.R. 1 is a funny one considering the Senate’s first move after the House passed that legislation was to take a one-week vacation.

Last week, Senator Reid released an alternative that offered only a token $6 billion in cuts. It appears Senator Reid doesn’t have a real plan to cut spending. Enter Joe Biden. As you may recall, President Obama claims “Nobody messes with Joe.” Vice President Biden was tapped by President Obama to broker a deal between the House and Senate on the budget. With two weeks left on the clock until the next budget showdown, what does Joe do? He leaves for a five-day trip to Europe. I guess it’s tough to mess with him there.

There seems to be a pattern developing. In Wisconsin, when Democrats want to stall what Governor Walker is trying to do, they flee. Two weeks ago, faced with a continuing resolution passed by the House of Representatives, the Senate went on vacation. Today, Vice President Biden, tapped with brokering a compromise, leaves for Europe.

The House of Representatives has passed a modest $61 billion in spending cuts. These cuts pale in comparison to $474 billion in spending increases just since 2008. Now is not the time to be fouling off pitches. America demands and deserves bold leadership in Washington...."

In his first year in office, Obama oversaw a tripling of the already huge budget deficit from 459 billion US$ to 1.4 trillion US$, mainly as a result of the much-vaunted stimulus bill (ARRA), the takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the Wall Street bailout and the Omnibus spending bill.

The budget deficit in 2010 was 1.294 trillion US. Together with interests this lifted the exising public debt from 11.9 trillion US$ to 13.8 trillion US$.

The 2011 budget deficit was scheduled to be around 1.48 trillion US$, as the federal budget foresaw expenses of 3.708 trillion dollar while revenues were expected to be 2.228 trillion US$. This would mean that at the end of 2011 the public debt would reach well beyond 15 trillion US$.

However, when in February of this year Obama released his 2012 Federal Budget, it appeared the projected 2011 deficit had been updated to 1.645 trillion US$, or around 165 billion dollars more.

The bipartisan CBO (Congressional Budget Office) itself projects significant debt increases as it sees only comparable budget deficits ahead - adding "give and take" something in the neighborhood of 1.3 trillion US$ on average to the national debt every year for the coming decade. This means that already in 2015 the debt will have reached the colossal level of 20 trillion US$.

It is only when you ponder these gigantic numbers that the folly of Boehners 61 billion dollar cuts becomes apparent. As for Harry Reid's 6 billion dollar cuts...

... I wonder how it is possible to even mention that and still be able to walk home without having taken a tar bath and plastered over with feathers? Just watch this video:





Check out that idiot Harry Reid. But the most "memorable" moment is of course the clip where CBS's Charles "Chip" Reid asks Obama "the total over those 10 years, the total debt is $7.2 trillion on top of the $14 trillion we already have. How can you say that we’re living within our means?"

And the reply from the POTUS is... is.... is......


"Well here, he,he,he,he here's a, let me be clear on what I am saying because, um, I'm not suggesting that we don't have to do more."


MY.

GOD.

Who killed the guys who insisted Bush was an idiot?


MFBB.

MARK STEYN ON THE FRANKFURT SHOOTINGS.

Mark Steyn sheds light on the killing of two US servicemen at Frankfurt Airport by a muslim. From the OC Register, March 6, 2011:

"According to Bismarck's best known maxim on Europe's most troublesome region, the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Americans could be forgiven for harboring similar sentiments after the murder of two U.S. airmen in Germany by a Kosovar Muslim.

Remember Kosovo? Me neither. But it was big at the time, launched by Bill Clinton in the wake of his Monica difficulties: Make war, not love, as the boomers advise. So Clinton did – and without any pesky UN resolutions, or even the pretense of seeking them. Instead, he and Tony Blair and even Jacques Chirac just cried "Bombs away!" and got on with it. And the Left didn't mind at all – because, for a modern Western nation, war is only legitimate if you have no conceivable national interest in whatever war you're waging. Unlike Iraq and all its supposed "blood for oil," in Kosovo no one remembers why we went in, what the hell the point of it was, or which side were the good guys. (Answer: Neither.) The principal rationale advanced by Clinton and Blair was that there was no rationale. This was what they called "liberal interventionism," which boils down to: The fact that we have no reason to get into it justifies our getting into it.

A decade on, Kosovo is a sorta sovereign state, and in Frankfurt a young airport employee is so grateful for what America did for his people that he guns down U.S. servicemen while yelling "Allahu akbar!" The strange shrunken spectator who serves as president of the United States, offering what he called "a few words about the tragic event that took place," announced that he was "saddened," and expressed his "gratitude for the service of those who were lost" and would "spare no effort" to "work with the German authorities" but it was a "stark reminder" of the "extraordinary sacrifices that our men and women in uniform are making ..."

The passivity of these remarks is very telling. Men and women "in uniform" (which it's not clear these airmen were even wearing) understand they may be called upon to make "extraordinary sacrifices" in battle. They do not expect to be "lost" on the shuttle bus at the hands of a civilian employee at a passenger air terminal in an allied nation. But then I don't suppose their comrades expected to be "lost" at the hands of an army major at Fort Hood, to cite the last "tragic event" that "took place" – which seems to be the president's preferred euphemism for a guy opening fire while screaming "Allahu akbar!" But relax, this fellow in Frankfurt was most likely a "lone wolf" (as Senator Chuck Schumer described the Times Square Bomber) or an "isolated extremist" (as the president described the Christmas Day Pantybomber). There are so many of these "lone wolves" and "isolated extremists" you may occasionally wonder whether they've all gotten together and joined Local 473 of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves and Isolated Extremists, but don't worry about it: As any Homeland Security official can tell you, "Allahu akbar" is Arabic for "Nothing to see here."

Bismarck's second best-known maxim on the region is that the Balkans start in the slums of Vienna. The Habsburg imperial capital was a protean "multicultural society" wherein festered the ancient grievances of many diverse peoples. Today, the Muslim world starts in the suburbs of Frankfurt. Those U.S. airmen were killed by Arid Uka, whose Muslim Albanian parents emigrated from Kosovo decades ago. Young Arid was born and bred in Germany. He is a German citizen who holds a German passport. He is, according to multicultural theory, as German as Fritz and Helmut and Hans. Except he's not. Not when it counts.

Why isn't he a fully functioning citizen of the nation he's spent his entire life in? Well, that's a tricky one.

OK, why is a Muslim who wants to kill Americans holding down a job at a European airport? That's slightly easier to answer. Almost every problem facing the Western world, from self-detonating jihadists to America's own suicide bomb – the multi-trillion dollar debt – has at its root a remorseless demographic arithmetic. In the U.S., the baby boomers did not have enough children to maintain their mid-20th century social programs. I see that recent polls supposedly show that huge majorities of Americans don't want any modifications to Medicare or Social Security. So what? It doesn't matter what you "want." The country's broke, and you can vote yourself unsustainable quantities of government lollipops all you like, but all you're doing is ensuring that when, eventually, you're obliged to reacquaint yourself with reality, the shock will be far more devastating and convulsive.

But even with looming bankruptcy America still looks pretty sweet if you're south of the border. Last week, the former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Steve Murdock, told The Houston Chronicle that in Texas "it's basically over for Anglos." He pointed out that two out of every three children are already "non-Anglo," and that this gap will widen even further in the years ahead. Remember the Alamo? Why bother? America won the war, but Mexico won the peace. In the Lone Star State, Murdock envisions a future in which millions of people with minimal skills will be competing for ever fewer jobs paying less in actual dollars and cents than they would have earned in the year 2000. That doesn't sound like a recipe for social tranquility.

What's south of Europe's border? Why, it's even livelier. In Libya, there are presently one million refugees from sub-Saharan Africa whose ambition is to get in a boat to Italy. There isn't a lot to stop them. Between now and mid-century, Islam and sub-Saharan Africa will be responsible for almost all the world's population growth – and yet, aside from a few thousand layabout Saudi princes whoring in Mayfair, they will enjoy almost none of the world's wealth. Niger had 10 million people in 2000, and half-a-million of them were starving children. By 2010, they had 15 million, and more children were starving. By 2100, they're predicted to hit 100 million. But they won't – because it would be unreasonable to expect an extra 90 million people to stay in a country that can't feed a population a tenth that size. So they will look elsewhere – to countries with great infrastructure, generous welfare, and among the aging natives a kind of civilizational wasting disease so advanced that, as a point of moral virtue, they are incapable of enforcing their borders.

The nations that built the modern world decided to outsource their future. In simple economic terms, the arithmetic is stark: In America, the boomers have condemned their shrunken progeny to the certainty of poorer, meaner lives. In sociocultural terms, the transformation will be even greater. Bismarck, so shrewd and cynical about the backward Balkans, was also the father of the modern welfare state: When he introduced the old age pension, you had to be 65 to collect and Prussian life expectancy was 45. Now life expectancy has near doubled, you get your pension a decade earlier, and, in a vain attempt to make that deformed math add up, Bismarck's successors moved the old East/West fault line from the Balkans to the main street of every German city.

Americans sometimes wonder why, two decades after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. Army still lives in Germany. The day is approaching when they will move out – if only to avoid any more "tragic events" "taking place."

©MARK STEYN"

Now that I've got you in the mood - hopefully - you may want to check out the following video:






To cut a long story short, on the one hand the left has been waging a decade-long war to make whites reduce their fertility, either by:

* instilling in people's minds the phony worldview that humans are destroying the planet
* instilling in people's minds the false notion that whites are Earth's oppressors and that to atone for that, we must cede dominance to other races
* actively promoting non-reproductive forms of relationship
* actively promoting abortion


... while at the same time, they have successfully exported their non-workable political and economical theories across the globe.


* the political theories have led to the world's most oppressive regimes
* the economical theories have caused massive poverty, which in turn has led to overpopulation - the causal correlation between poverty and high fertility is well established


In short, had rightwing theorems on how to govern a state and how to run an economy been dominant, the world would have been a far, far better place. For instance, the great mass of African countries that now applied afrosocialism would have gotten richer and its populations would long since have stabilized.


The accomplishments of leftist ideologies can be summed up as follows: spreading unfreedom and poverty around, thereby contributing to overpopulation. Subsequently causing migration towards rich countries, which are predominantly white. After that, in all these countries facilitating the immigration influx from exactly those poor, unfree countries, at the expense of the economy of the rich ones.

No matter which way you turn it, whatever the left touches... goes wrong. Whatever they do, whatever they promote... goes wrong. Wherever leftist thoughts are applied or enforced... it goes wrong. Nazi Germany, mass starvation in Ukraine, the "Great Leap Forward", the Killing Fields, afrosocialism, nationalizations from Bolivia to Egypt, unsustainable welfare states, killing in the womb, freedom of speech under fire in courts from Canada over The Netherlands to Austria and beyond....

... whatever the left does, or proposes, or implements...


goes WRONG.


Its guilt for humanity's woes is DEVASTATING.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT THE WATERBOYS, ELASTICA.

The Waterboys with The Whole of the Moon.





Lead man Mike Scott is, afaik, the only consistent member of the band, and must have burned through a couple of tens of musicians. The Whole of... must be their archetypical early Waterboys song.


Elastica with Waking Up.




UK alternative rock band, London based. Frontwoman is Justine Frischmann, ex-Suede. Waking Up is from the debut album Elastica, released in 93.



MFBB.

SOME NEWS TIDBITS TO CHEW ON...

Still haven't noticed a certain pattern? Do you live on Phobos? Are you a horse? Or have you got Alzheimer?

Primo. From the New York Post:






Segundo. From FOX News:





A stepfather by the name of Mohammed Khan huh? Must be a coincidence.


Tertio. From Mail Online:





Uncle sez he was a devout muslim huh? Just like that? Is uncle laughing in our faces mayhaps?


Say out loud together with Outlaw Mike: islam is an insane, rotten, inhuman politico-religious totalitarian doctrine that makes monsters of men and women alike. And mohammed was a heinous paedophilic murderer. You're not speaking out loud with me? Then you must be either a follower of mohammed the heinous paedophilic murderer, or else you're at this very moment watching the inside of your rectum.


Meanwhile, on airports all over the globe:





Stole the pic over at Mike's America. Thanks Mike. Mike.



MFBB.

FIRST PRODUCTION F-35 TAKES TO THE AIR.

On February 25, 2011, the first production F-35 made its maiden flight:




The West's prime new tactical fighter, the fifth generation F-35 aka Lightning II, will come in three variants:






First there's the CTOL (Conventional Take-Off and Landing) variant, the F-35A, meant to replace ageing third generation fighters in the USAF and other air forces. It is the smallest of the three variants, yet it is the only one equipped with an internal cannon, the GAU-22/A. This is a 25 mm cannon, a development of the GAU-12 which is mounted on the USMC's AV-8B Harrier II, and which is primarily meant to engage ground targets.

Somewhat surprisingly for such an expensive aircraft, the F-35A is only expected to "match" the F-16 in maneuverability and instantaneous and sustained high-g performance. It should however vastly outperform it in stealth, payload, range on internal fuel, avionics, operational effectiveness, supportability, and survivability. It will have built in the functionality of the sniper pod, a device which today is mounted under the fuselage of, typically, third generation fighters like the F-16. The F-35 A variant is mainly intended to replace the USAF's "Fighting Falcon", beginning in 2013. Plans are that it should replace the A-10 Thunderbolt II starting in 2028, which not only seems impossibly far-fetched to me but also strange, since I cannot fathom how the slender airframe of the Lightning II could ever be capable of either operating from rugged airfields, or sustain the same battle damage an A-10 can take (and still be able to fly).


The F-35B is the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant. It's similar in size to the A, and as such, equipped with a VTOL system as quaint as it is original, has less internal volume for fuel storage, armament, or avionics to detect and engage the enemy. Lift power is provided by a huge fan directly behind the cockpit, and a jet thrust that can be rotated downwards at the back:





This is how it works:





Plans are that the United States Marine Corps will purchase 340 F-35Bs to replace all current F/A-18 Hornet models (the A, B, C and D-variants), as well as its AV-8B Harrier II's.


Finally there's the F-35C, the Carrier variant. It has larger wings with foldable wingtip sections, stronger landing gear for not getting crippled on pitching flight decks, and larger wing and tail control surfaces for enhanced low-speed control. Of course a tailhook will be provided. With twice the range on internal fuel as an F/A-18C Hornet, the F-35C will be a worthy successor to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

The United States Navy intends to buy 480 F-35Cs to replace its F/A-18A, B, C, and D Hornets, and backup the Super Hornets.



Nite.



MFBB.

IRENE KHAN IS A SCHTOOPID CUNT (2).

Almost to the date four years ago I posted the first "Irene Khan is a schtoopid cunt" post. Let's recap a little. Back then, she had been Secretary General of Amnesty International for six years, and two years previously, in 2005, she had publicly stated that:

"The USA, as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyperpower, sets the tone for governmental behaviour worldwide,..." "When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity."

"The detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law," she said. " Guantánamo evokes memories of Soviet repression."

In a perfect world, if the Secretary General of a once noble institution like Amnesty International publicly made a comment like that, he or she should resign immediately. Khan litterally stated that Gitmo was the Gulag of our times, which, apart from being a blatant lie, is the apex of hyperbole. Anyone who has delved even remotely in the history of the infamous Gulag Archipelago cannot but acknowledge that Khan's remark was infuriatingly dishonest, completely baseless, and an insult to the tens of millions of Gulag inmates and their relatives. Here's a short exerpt from my post back then:

"...Below you find a map of Cuba, with the exact location of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba's southeastern corner. Cuba is an island with a surface of 110,860 sq km (sorry, I always have troubles with kloms/miles converting), or slightly smaller than Pennsylvania. The Naval Base comprises a small surface of some 45 square miles. The actual detention center consists of three camps, Delta, Iguana and X-Ray, which until now have received 775 detainees, of which as of today approximately 340 have been released (a couple of tens of them immediately returning to their jihad activities and ambushing an killing US and coalition troops) and a further 110 labeled "ready for release". That leaves around 325 inmates, of which some 70 will ultimately face trial, which means that it is only the status of the remaining 250 which remains unclear, read, they don't know how long they will be held. Generally, the highest number of detainees present at one time was around 500. For those sobbing and weeping over this horrendous fact I'd like to point out that German and Japanese POW's also didn't know how long they'd be held. However, public outrage over Obersturmbannfuehrer's Schweinkopf's sad fate shoveling horse shit in the desert of Nevada was less then because people realized a war was going on.






Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand below is a map of the former Soviet Union, surface 22 million kilometers or around 200 times Cuba, and the red specks represent the known prisoner complexes in the USSR. Keep in mind that one speck does not necessarily means one camp. The Mother of all Penal Networks would ultimately count 476 camps. The most notorious area of them all - at least the one known to the general public - was in Kolyma, in the desolate wastes of eastern Siberia. There, on a surface four times the size of France, around 100 camps were set up. The highest number of detainees held at one time is estimated at 5,000,000, or 10,000 times as many as in the "gulag of our times" - Americans are schoolboys. This peak was reached during the reign of Stalin, who actually used the Gulag system not only to get rid of political opponents but also as a means of keeping the populace in a permanent state of terror, a bit like George Bush is doing now.

(end of exerpt)


Why do I mention this right now? Well, perhaps it did not escape your attention, but for those who did not happen to read it, here's an interesting tidbit about Mrs. Khan:






Got that you lousy proletarian? Last year, Madame Khan bagged a severance payment of UK £533,103 from Amnesty International following her resignation from the organisation on 31 December 2009. This payment was in excess of four times her annual salary of £132,490 (!). On February 19, 2011, Peter Pack, chairman of AI's executive committee, defended the decision to pay such an outrageous sum as follows: "The payments to outgoing secretary general Irene Khan shown in the accounts of AI (Amnesty International) Ltd for the year ending March 31st 2010 include payments [were] made as part of a confidential agreement between AI Ltd and Irene Khan.... It is a term of this agreement that no further comment on it will be made by either party."


The irony is that, much to the chagrin of many first hour AI activists who doggedly and passionately did their utmost best to alleviate the plight of the planet's countless political prisoners (AI's core mission), Irene Khan deliberately tried to steer AI into a quintessential leftist dada: fighting "poverty". . I was never someone who feeds on conspiracy theories, but could it not be... could it not be that Khan, with this strange move, tried to steer away public attention for human rights abuses towards a less laden topic? Especially since THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES HAPPEN IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES, AND THAT SHE IS A MUSLIM? Khan is a native of Pakistan, and each and every day that country's non-muslim population is prone to horrendous human rights violations at the hands of people who share her religion, islam.

Anyway, anno 2011 it has been demonstrated crystal clear that the best way to fight poverty is to introduce capitalism, but alas, people won't listen. Rather, they'd buy books like Khan's:






And here is the site she ordered set up to support her phony theories. Below's a screenshot:






A world where a cunt like Khan who bagged, apart from a yearly salary of 132,000 £, a severance payment of:


£533,103


...for sloppy, sleazy and ineffective work, while pretending to care for the wretched poor and downtrodden of this earth, and get away with it, well...

... that's a SICK world.



MFBB.


PS: the first muslim to head AI? Well, once again a follower of the prophet has done a stellar PR job for the Religion of Peace.

SATURDAY NIGHT SMASHING PUMPKINS, PETER GABRIEL.

Smashing Pumpkins with 1979.






Peter Gabriel with Humdrum.





Got to know this number through a friend who lent me a Live album, from 1983 I think that was. Normally, I don't like live performances that much, but on that album, basically all Gabriels songs were mesmerizing, including Humdrum.


Good night.



MFBB.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!

Via Dick Morris:







Proud of it, aren't we?


Sources:

(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration
(2) Wall Street Journal
(3) Bureau of Labor Statistics
(4) Census Bureau
(5) USDA
(6) U.S. Dept. of Labor
(7) FHFA
(8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller
(9) RealtyTrac
(10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ
(11) The Conference Board
(12) FDIC
(13) Federal Reserve
(14) U.S. Treasury

Like our pal CDR Salamander always says, Ponder.



MFBB.

OUTRAGE: AFGHAN CHRISTIAN CONVERT SAID MUSA ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED BY AFGHAN GOVERNMENT.

Regular reader Traveller forwarded me a link to the following appalling story. Via National Review Online, February 18, 2011:

AMERICA QUIET ON THE EXECUTION OF AFGHAN CHRISTIAN SAID MUSA.

February 18, 2011 6:00 A.M. By Paul Marshall

"A terrible drama is unfolding in Afghanistan: There are reports that Said Musa, whose situation I described at Christmas, will soon be executed for the ‘crime’ of choosing to become a Christian. (For background, see here.)

Musa was one of about 25 Christians arrested on May 31, 2010, after a May 27 Noorin TV program showed video of a worship service held by indigenous Afghan Christians; he was arrested as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy. He converted to Christianity eight years ago, is the father of six young children, had a leg amputated after he stepped on a landmine while serving in the Afghan Army, and now has a prosthetic leg. His oldest child is eight and one is disabled (she cannot speak). He worked for the Red Cross/Red Crescent as an adviser to other amputees.

He was forced to appear before a judge without any legal counsel and without knowledge of the charges against him. “Nobody [wanted to be my] defender before the court. When I said ‘I am a Christian man,’ he [a potential lawyer] immediately spat on me and abused me and mocked me. . . . I am alone between 400 [people with] terrible values in the jail, like a sheep.” He has been beaten, mocked, and subjected to sleep deprivation and sexual abuse while in prison. No Afghan lawyer will defend him and authorities denied him access to a foreign lawyer.

Any and every human being who is imprisoned, abused, or tortured for the free and peaceful expression of their faith deserves our support, but Musa is also a remarkable person and Christian. In a letter smuggled to the West, he says, “The authority and prisoners in jail did many bad behaviour with me about my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. For example, they did sexual things with me, beat me by wood, by hands, by legs, put some things on my head.”

He added a thing much more important to him, that they “mocked me ‘he’s Jesus Christ,’ spat on me, nobody let me for sleep night and day. . . . Please, please, for the sake of Lord Jesus Christ help me.” (View the full letter here)

He has not, in fact, even appealed to be released, only to be transferred to another prison. He has also stated that he is willing to give his life for his faith. “Please, please you should transfer me from this jail to a jail that supervises the believers. . . . I also agree . . . to sacrifice my life in public [where] I will tell [about my] faith in Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, [so] other believers will take courage and be strong in their faith.”

Newspapers in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe have reported the story, but with, the exception of the Wall Street Journal and, of course, NRO, American outlets have not found it worthy of attention. The Journal reports that “Afghan officials have been unapologetic: ‘The sentence for a convert is death and there is no exception,’ said Jamal Khan, chief of staff at the Ministry of Justice. ‘They must be sentenced to death to serve as a lesson for others.’”

The U.S. government — reportedly including Secretary of State Clinton — and other governments have pushed for his release, but to no avail.

But the president has been silent, even as we fight a war that has among its goals the creation of a government that conforms to international human-rights standards.

An American president certainly needs to guard and shepherd his political capital, and should not speak out about every prisoner. But Musa himself has appealed to “President Brother Obama” to rescue him from his current jail. And when an obscure and aberrant Florida pastor, Terry Jones, threatened to burn a Koran, not only President Obama but much of his cabinet, as well as General Petraeus, weighed in on the matter.

If the actions of a Florida pastor who threatened to destroy a book holy to Muslims deserved public and presidential attention, then the actions of the Afghan government, ostensibly a ‘democratic’ ally, to destroy something holy to Christians, a human being made in the image of God, also deserve public and presidential attention."

We are - officially, at least - ten years into the War on Islamic Terror now, and I would like to make it clear that I still support the West's missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have repeatedly stated that in my opinion, the best and most humane way to solve the islamic problem was to try to implement democracy, by force if necessary, in the hellhole that is the islamic world. Apart from nuking Mecca, Islamabad and Qom, and massive deportation of all muslims in civilized countries to the states they come from, I see no other strategic option for the West and, indeed, the sane part of humanity, to address the conundrum posed by the ummah's very existence. Islam is a cancer and its very existence a smear on Humanity itself.

But since we are civilized, we had, and have, the moral obligation to try out the current approach first. Only if it fails, will we have the moral justitication to resort to other, less nice measures.

Despite the fact that some form of democratic government has been installed in Iraq, I maintain as yet a certain scepticism, as I am trying to find out to what extent the Iraqi government is taking measures to combat the massive persecution of Iraq's christians. I am even more sceptic towards the savages in charge in Kabul, which I have always considered as some kind of Taliban Lite. But then I have always seen more use in Afghanistan's war theatre as a magnet to draw jihadists the world over to a killing ground.

Since Iraq and Afghanistan are the showcases for the West's strategic enterprise, I think that the best approach for our politicians at this time is to exert MAXIMUM PRESSURE on Kabul's, and, to a lesser extent, Iraq's 7th century boneheads to do more to protect their non-muslim citizens. It should be made abundantly clear to them that we offered these assholes the means to build a more fair and more prosperous society on a silver plate (smeared with the blood of our soldiers). It should also be made abundantly clear to them that so far, we are NOT impressed, to say the least, with their school results.

And finally, it should be made abundantly clear to them that if they fail to put a human face on the abomination that is islam, we, and the rest of humanity, will resort to other means to hammer sense in them, and winning hearts and minds will no longer be among those means.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT CREAM, PHIL COLLINS.

Cream with White Room. 1968.






Easy Lover, by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey. 1984.





Goedenacht.



MFBB.