A NEW BIRTH OF PIZZA.

I'm trying to be optimistic, and luckily there's some ground to be. Treatment has been good overall, my response was every time they checked positive. I am now in the last phase of the treatment, for the time being at least, since the kind of cancer I have cannot until now be cured completely, i.e. as things stand now it can always recommence. However, the young and competent Dr. F. here at a particular University Clinic near Brussels has assured me I should be able to look forward to, say, perhaps 5 years without worry of it breaking out again. Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that in five years research has advanced sufficiently to enable complete healing. By the way, you should know that MASSIVE research IS being done day and night all over the world, covering the entire spectrum of all known cancers, and great inroads are made - I could see that for myself by comparing articles written in 08 to ones written as recently as autumn 2012. I actually think the War against Cancer is being won - slowly but surely.

Thing is, in this final leg of the cure I have to take the utmost care to avoid infection of all kinds, since my immune system is as good as down, courtesy the last chemo. That also means severe restrictions on food in my case. I have to make do with prepackaged sterile bread and yoghurts and one spartan warm meal of only a handful of ingredients. Urgh.

And the weird thing is....

... I find myself thinking of and longing for all day long for... PIZZA.

Sheesh! Never knew I could almost litterally be dying (no pun intended) for pizza so much. Not that spongy stuff they sell you in a Pizza Hut, thank you not so very much. But a REAL, GENUINE PIZZA they actually bake for you right under your nose in the oven in a veritable pizzeria. Up until now I never bothered too much about pizza's names, read I wouldn't be able to identify them judging by their toppings. When ordering some, I always took the one with at least 75 per cent of the toppings I liked.

And now it turns out the sought-for Ideal Outlaw Mike Pizza does not exist!!! Time for adding an annal to the History Of.

Searching the web, and knowing I like, apart of course from the tomato sauce and/or the chopped canned tomatoes, also sweet green or black olives, anchovy (a must), finely sliced ham, and mushrooms and mozzarella, it seemed to me the pizza that came closest to my ideal was the Pizza Quattro Stagioni. However it CAN'T be complete without an egg smack in the middle, and a real FAT, glittering, huge bulbous egg sunny side up at that.

People being dumb the world over in alarming numbers, I of course found no one who had ever had this Groundbreaking Idea of adding the fried egg in the middle before. This also means the accompanying pic is but an effort to convey my important invention to you:




In honour of the Italians - thank God he created them darn spaghettis, and accidents like Belgium's PM Elio Di Rupo happen anyway, otherwise we'd live in a pizzaless world - I have decided to apply a fully Italian name for my invention, so it's not gonna be Pizza Four Seasons with Egg according to Outlaw Mike but Pizza Quattro Stagioni con uovo secondo Fuorilegge Michele. A New Birth of Pizza!!!

No thanks please.


Apart from that, drifting in and out of sleep images of Poland's most famous soup also keep spooking my fuzzy brain. Like with the pizza, it's gonna be at least another ten days before I will taste it again courtesy severe hygienic (pfah!) restrictions on OM's menu. What soup am I talking about. It's called Zurek.

Zurek is basically a sour rye soup made of soured rye flour (comparable to sourdough) and meat (usually boiled pork sausage which the Poles call kielbasa, or pieces of smoked sausage, bacon or ham). The soup itself, though not clear, is quite liquid, certainly not viscous, and, unlike basically all western salt-based soups, tastes sour. You got to like it - I certainly do. Add morsels of boiled potato and halved hard-boiled eggs, and it's delicious. From our travels to Poland I recall that around Zakopane we sometimes ate żurek in an edible bowl made of bread!

Anyway... try it if offered the chance. You're bound to become an aficionado.



Nite. It can't be crazy rightwing stuff all the time.


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400 PPM CO2 MILESTONE, RISING SEA LEVELS: BELGIAN TV BROADCASTER HEADING FOR THE HILLS.

Panic in Brussels!!! The commercial TV broadcaster VTM had an item about a milestone of paramount importance that has just been passed, namely 400 ppm CO2! VTM's news anchors pissed their pants because never before has there been more CO2 in the air!!!









Notice the shameless presence - again - of the thoroughly discredited hockeystick graph.




While alarmingly rising sea levels are forcing the VTM staff to escape to Belgium's 'roof', the High Fenns (and I figure on the Baltia Tower, alt. 700m, there's just enough room for Jill Peeters and cronies, we will now listen to retired Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University, who on March 26, 2013, gave a devastating testimony before a Washington State Senate Committee against the belief that human induced CO2 is causing global warming. Via American Thinker:

"Although many greens in Washington State were earlier trying to use lower snow packs in the Cascade Mountains as evidence of global warming, such arguments have fallen by the wayside as the snows of Rainer have returned and continue to mount since the late 1990's after a 20 year period of mediocre snowfalls (1976-1996). In early April 1999, Paradise Ranger Station on Mt. Rainier (+14,411) recorded a whopping 280 inches of snowpack on the ground -- which is over 23 feet. That same year, Mt. Rainier's twin sister to the north, Mt. Baker (+10,750), broke the all-time snowfall record for one year with 1,140 inches (95 feet -- snowfall does not record snowpack, only the accumulation of each particular snow event) at its ski resort. The previous all-time record for snowfall in one year was held by the Paradise Ranger Station itself when 1,122 inches of snow fell in the winter of 1971-72. By mid-April of 1972, there was 302 inches of snow on the ground at Paradise, which is over 25 feet. That Washington State snow is very wet and heavy also indicates that such deep snowpacks are profound indeed. In other words, the Washington Cascades are some of the snowiest mountains on earth. Though the Cascades are certainly localized to the Pacific Northwest, they are still important weather barometers.


Throughout the 20th century, Paradise Ranger Station (+5,400 feet) was known for its absurdly high consistent snowfalls and snowpacks. Between 1920 and 1980, Paradise usually recorded a snowpack greater than 200 inches (almost 17 feet) 4 to 5 times out of each decade. In particular, the decade of 1945-1956, and then again from 1966-1976, were characterized by very deep snowpacks. The average snowpack between 1945-1956 was an incredible 231 inches, and then 225 inches between 1966-1976, far surpassing the average snow packs of the 1930s, which was 188 inches. In comparison, even the very snowy 1920s only averaged 200 inches of snow.

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However, the great snows between 1945-1976 came to an abrupt end by the spring of 1977 in which Paradise only had 126 inches of snow on the ground, barely over ten feet. More modest snow packs continued on up until the spring of 1996. Between 1976-1996, the Paradise Ranger Station surpassed the 200 inch mark only twice -- in the springs of 1982 and 1984. This was a very marked change from previous decades.

As such, the 1997 hefty spring snowpack at Paradise of 258 inches (almost 22 feet), was actually a harbinger of much snowier winters to come. Since 1997, Paradise has surpassed the 200-inch mark eight times. Even this last winter, which was very quiet for Pacific Northwest standards, Paradise still showed a snowpack of 197 inches in mid-April -- just 3 inches shy of that exceptional 200 inch mark.

Since 2006, Paradise has averaged a very snowy 205 inches of snowpack each year, compared to only 168 inches between 1976-1996. Even more incredible, on June 1st 2011, Paradise still had a snowpack of 201 inches -- it is off the charts to have so much snow on the ground so late in the year. Since 1996-97, Paradise has averaged 196 inches of snow pack each year, which is actually a very high number because such consistency spans almost two decades. The snows of Rainier have thus been perfectly consistent with Easterbrook's contention that 1940-75 represented a cooling trend, and that the warming trend of 1976-1997 was halted by the present cooling trend that began in 1998.

In other words, in spite of the fact that global warming advocates have been complaining that the weather of the 21st century has so far been the warmest on record, it is simply not true. According to Easterbrook, such hand-wringing is not based on original raw data, but has been created from computer model adjustments that artificially elevate the warmth of this last decade and purposefully devalue the truly warm decade of the 1930s -- the Dust Bowl years. Easterbrook states 1936 was the hottest year as far as modern records are concerned, but he also pointed out that in ages past, the earth was far warmer than it is now. Easterbrook went on to say the planet is still in the process of coming out of the Little Ice Age (1300-1850), and that the warm-up began long before human induced CO2 could have been the culprit."

SO sad that I have to watch day after day after day how our gullible population is being spoonfed on a daily basis data which are at best one-sided and at worst downright fraudulent.

The NERVE of VTM to come up with an item like this after such a long and severe winter, for Belgium at least.


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MESSAGE TO THE GOP.

First of all, my sincere condolences to the relatives of the people so callously murdered in the Boston Bombings. I will pray for the dead and their loved ones.

Then, here is a Timeless Conservative Message for Boehner & Co. and a far too big number of spineless GOP personages, whether or not in power.



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THE 'DR' KERMIT GOSNELL TRIAL: "IF DR. GOSNELL HAD WALKED INTO A NURSERY AND SHOT SEVEN INFANTS WITH AN AR-15, IT WOULD BE NATIONAL NEWS AND THE SUBJECT OF PRESIDENTIAL HAND-WRINGING."

That quote is from Rep. Smith (R-New Jersey) and if you haven't heard yet about the Kermit Gosnell trial that's because the MainStreamMedia isn't doing its work, and that's not surprising. After all, what happened at Gosnell's 'clinic' is one of the inevitable consequences of legally enabling abortion on a nationwide scale. It's proof, for the umpteenth time, of the disastrous effects on society of yet another leftist dada.

It's appalling. Pundit and Pundette is just one among many rightwing blogs that have been trying for months to make this abhorrent story known nationally. I DO hope it will get a fair amount of attention in Europe too, but I doubt it given the high degree of enlightenment here. Anyway:

"...Dr. Bernard Nathanson made history in 1984 when he narrated a film of an ultrasound which showed a child silently screaming as it was being aborted.

The film was big news. It got the nation's attention and the issue of fetal pain was hotly debated. Some denied that the child was experiencing pain, but it was generally agreed upon that if that was the case, it was a terrible thing that shouldn't be allowed to happen.

Fast forward almost thirty years to this blood-curdling testimony from Gosnell henchwoman Sherry West. It's enough to break America's heart, if it still has one:

The proprietor, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, asked her to help him with something and directed her to another room. There an 18-to-24-inch baby, who did not yet have eyes*, was lying in a clear glass pan, she recalled in horror. It was “screeching, making this noise” that “sounded like a little alien," she said. It “really freaked me out,” she said, causing her to leave the room.
"Making this noise" "like an alien"? That's called crying. It's what human babies do when they're in distress, in this case, the ultimate distress. The "aliens" here are the inhuman monsters who caused that distress.

So . . . if a baby screams during an outside-the-uterus "abortion," does it make a sound? Or, to put it another way, if an abortionist goes on trial for murdering infants, but the media refuses to cover it, is it really happening? And does America care?

This time the scream is loud and clear, but nobody's listening.

***
Hang on -- America has a heart, after all, and the Washington Post is all over it.

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(*Huh?)

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A headline you'll never see in the American press:

'Fetuses and blood all over the place': Medic's graphic account of 'be-heading live babies' at abortion 'House of Horrors' in Philadelphia
Brace yourselves:

Massof, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to the murder of two newborns at the clinic, revealed Thursday that he witnessed an abortion at 26 weeks - two weeks beyond the 24-week limit in the state.

He also claimed he saw about 100 babies born alive and then 'snipped' with surgical scissors in the back of the neck, to ensure their 'demise'.

He also spoke of the gruesome scenes at the clinic which was allegedly found dirty and rundown with rusting surgical instruments.

'It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place. It is literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body,' he told NBC.

He also alleges the clinic's ultrasound machine was manipulated to make fetuses appear smaller and therefore younger.

Dear God in heaven."

Abortion is MURDER. Get this story OUT.


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BELGIAN STATE CONTROLLED TV BROADCASTER ELATED OVER MARGARET THATCHER'S DEATH.

Well, to be sure, Belgium's prime state controlled TV broadcaster 'EEN' ('One'), at least did say at the very beginning that the death of Britain's first female PM caused 'mixed reactions'.

What mixed reactions you will ask?

Oh, check out for yourself. Just for the fun of it, I took screenshots as today's newsreel's progress strip went forward and the Belgian population received its daily dose of fair and balanced information. TA-DAAAAA!!!!!





The caption reads: 'JOY BECAUSE OF THATCHER'S DEATH'.




Bozos dancing and cheering the passing of the UK's first female PM.




A very representative specimen of a stiff upper lip member of the British Aristocracy is of the opinion 'that's how it is. We all have to go once'.




'What's her legacy here?' Here? Nothing.'




Asked for his opinion, yet another True Briton, upon asked what Thatcher's reign resulted in, summed it up neatly: 'The destruction of North England, of worker's families, of Liverpool'.




'Thatcher leaves me cold, after what she did to Wales and the miners'.




'Places like Grimethorpe are ghost towns.'




Then it's the turn of a Union Boss, IIRC in Yorkshire: 'There will be many in the miners' villages who won't shed a tear...'




'But who will drink on her passing and say: Good Riddance!'




'Margaret Thatchers dead. LOL.'


I've been battling cancer since late November and frankly, after yet another day's hard work, and coming home late after visiting several clients, I just wanted to sit down and relax a little. This newsreel however, seen at noon, baffled me so much that I felt I really had to preserve the key shots for posterity. May, in a saner age, people watch them and realize how all over the western world such blatant leftist bias and the deliberate spreading of falsehoods to the gullible population really, truly was an omnipresent feature of our times, not only in Belgium. To be sure, right at the beginning of the newsreel there was one - one - chap sitting in a cafe who thought that Thatcher 'was someone who meant what she said and did not come back upon it'. It could be catalogued as s positive opinion. See? In EEN's news report there was room for the good and the bad, which in its vocabulary means 'fair and balanced'.

You can also learn from this coverage that at the time of Thatcher's tenure all British workers were miners, and that apparently the entire country lies in waste at the moment.

Goodbye for now. I only wish I had the time and energy to provide a similar set of screenshots of EEN's coverage of Hugo Chavez's death.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT WHIRLPOOL PRODUCTIONS, SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS.

Number one tonight is Whirlpool Productions with From disco to disco.




A 1997 house hit from one American and two German blokes.


Southern Culture.... aka SCOTS follows with Camel Walk.




Album: Dirt Track Date, 1997.

Comments are meagre but your servant's a bit f*cked up. Nite.


MFBB.

THOMAS SOWELL: 'GUNS SAVE LIVES'.

Merely looking at the faces of Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza, it's clear that already prior to their acts of terror they belonged in a High Security Funny Farm. As anyone with an objective mind and who has spent a minimum of time on basic research knows, guns, or rather the free possession of guns in the US, was not the problem with the murders committed by these loons. The mere fact that people of the calibre of Loughner and Lanza would have found guns and assault weapons ANYWAY, even in a country with strict gun control laws, is such a glaring truth that it is difficult to believe people can believe otherwise. No. It seems to me the mental health of these individuals was the problem. And it also seems to me that there is an undeniable correlation between mental health and being brought up in a dysfunctional family.

We all know one of the main reasons for dysfunctional families: the war that's being waged on traditional families, in its fifth decade now, by the Left.

Leftists have a habit of creating havoc in a society. Afterwards they will always propose bad solutions for problems of which they were the cause.


Thomas Sowell has a very astute angle on the gun control debate, albeit not from the mental health angle. But it is very much worth a careful read. From Townhall, April 2, 2013, 'Guns save lives':

"We all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves. But even someone who reads newspapers regularly and watches numerous television newscasts may never learn that guns also save lives-- much less see any hard facts comparing how many lives are lost and how many are saved.

But that trade-off is the real issue, not the Second Amendment or the National Rifle Association, which so many in the media obsess about. If guns cost more lives than they save, we can always repeal the Second Amendment. But if guns save more lives than they cost, we need to know that, instead of spending time demonizing the National Rifle Association.

The defensive use of guns is usually either not discussed at all in the media or else is depicted as if it means bullets flying in all directions, like the gunfight at the OK Corral. But most defensive uses of guns do not involve actually pulling the trigger.

If someone comes at you with a knife and you point a gun at him, he is very unlikely to keep coming, and far more likely to head in the other direction, perhaps in some haste, if he has a brain in his head. Only if he is an idiot are you likely to have to pull the trigger. And if he is an idiot with a knife coming after you, you had better have a trigger to pull.




Surveys of American gun owners have found that 4 to 6 percent reported using a gun in self-defense within the previous five years. That is not a very high percentage but, in a country with 300 million people, that works out to hundreds of thousands of defensive uses of guns per year.

Yet we almost never hear about these hundreds of thousands of defensive uses of guns from the media, which will report the killing of a dozen people endlessly around the clock.

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

....

More children may die in bathtub accidents than in shooting accidents, but you are not likely to read that in most newspapers or see it on television newscasts. Some in the media inflate the number of children killed by counting as children the members of criminal teenage gangs who shoot each other in their turf fights.

Many seize upon statistics which show that Britain has stronger gun control laws than the United States and lower murder rates. Yet they ignore other countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States, but which have much higher murder rates, such as Brazil, Russia and Mexico.

Even in the case of Britain, London had a much lower murder rate than New York during the years after New York State's 1911 Sullivan Law imposed very strict gun control, while anyone could buy a shotgun in London with no questions asked in the 1950s.

Today, virtually the entire law-abiding population of Britain is disarmed-- and gun crimes are vastly more common. Gun control laws make crime a safer occupation when victims are unarmed..."

Well said, or rather written. Too bad these wise words will, as usual, get lost in the wind forever for five hundred million Europeans who are deliberately kept dumb by their moral betters and their mercenaries the whorenalists.

To finish, Americans should TAKE NOTICE of the names of these traitors:




Take notice of their party affiliation please.


MFBB.

HAPPY EASTER!!!

MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT PAUL WELLER, DINOSAUR JR.

Excellent single from Paul Weller, The Changingman.




From the album Stanley Road (1995).



Dinosaur Jr. with Take a run at the sun.




Dinosaur Jr formed in 1984 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Front man is J Mascis.


Goede nacht.


MFBB.

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, EMPEROR OF HYPOCRITES.

Good article over at American Thinker by Steven Simpson, Turkey's Erodgan and the Zenith of Hypocrisy:

"Turkey's Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is once again engaging in his favorite political pastime - Israel-bashing.
Late last month at a U.N. convention held ironically to promote religious tolerance, Erdoğan lambasted Israel by calling Zionism "a crime against humanity." Indeed, Erdoğan even outdid the biggest anti-Israel institution in the world - the United Nations - which in 1975 passed its infamous "Zionism is Racism" resolution.

But Erdoğan's continuous contempt for Israel shows the arrogance and hypocrisy of Turkey. For if there has ever been a country in the Middle East guilty of committing crimes against humanity, it is Turkey. Indeed, next to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, 20th-century Turkey ranks right up there when it comes to massacres, rapes, expulsions, and rapine perpetrated against ethnic and religious minorities - namely Armenians, Greeks, and Kurds.
Before documenting Turkey's crimes against other people, it should first be noted that today's Turkey has for all intents and purposes become an Islamic republic in everything but name only. The so-called "Turkish-Israeli" alliance has been in tatters since Erdoğan came to power in 2003. Aside from veering Turkey on an Islamist course - and cause - the Turks (even with Obama's "apology tour" that began in Turkey back in 2009) remain extremely anti-American. This writer back in 2010 documented Erdoğan's democratic ascent to power, his ideology and goals, and what an Islamist Turkey means to America, Israel, and the West in general.

.....

This now leaves us with Erdoğan's hypocrisy in lecturing Israel about supposed "war crimes" and leads us to actual war crimes perpetrated by Turkey during the 20th century - crimes that still go on today against the Kurds. It is a record that not only has caused oceans of blood to be spilled, but still has repercussions felt to this day.


Probably the most well-known war crime that Turkey engaged in was the slaughter - if not genocide - perpetrated against the Armenians in the first two decades of the 20th century. In fact, the Turks were already slaughtering Armenians in the late 19th century in what has come to be known as "the Hamidian massacres." Estimates of the slaughter range from hundreds of thousands to millions. In any event, Turkey has consistently and constantly denied that such crimes against the Armenians took place. Turkey is so sensitive to the charge of genocide that when the U.S. Congress in 2010 finally passed a resolution condemning this crime, Turkey threatened "serious consequences" to the "partnership" between America and Turkey. Ironically, Barack Obama, who had the audacity to say back in 2007 that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," sought to stop the congressional resolution on the Armenian genocide.
Continuing with Turkish war crimes, and the hypocrisy of the neo-Ottoman crypto-Sultan Erdoğan, there were the massacres and expulsions of the Greeks from their ancestral homelands. This is another Turkish crime against humanity that is little-known, and even less spoken or written about. "The Pontian Genocide" took place between the years of 1916 and 1922. Again, estimates vary in the casualty rate, but the slaughter could have been as close to 1,000,000 Greeks killed. This doesn't even take into account the surviving 1.5 million Greeks who lived in Asia Minor (Anatolia) for millennia before being expelled by the Turks to European Greece during this era.

Finally, there are the Kurds. If there was ever an authentic Middle Eastern minority of Muslims that deserves a nation-state, it is the Kurds. While Islamist governments in Iran and Turkey (as well as the Arab world) talk about "Islamic solidarity" when it comes to the so-called "Palestinians," there is not even a syllable of talk regarding the plight of the Kurds. The Kurds have been killed and suppressed by Arab, Persian, and Turk for centuries, all of whom see the legitimate aim of the Kurds to establish their own state as a threat to the status quo of continuous Arab, Persian, and Turkish imperialism.
While the Kurds are spread out over Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, it has been in the last country that the Kurds have basically been written out of history by the Turks. The Turkish quest to deny any semblance of a Kurdish existence has been so bizarre that Turkey even banned the Kurdish language during the years 1983-1999 and routinely referred to them as "mountain Turks." To this day, Turkey routinely crosses the Syrian and Iraqi borders to fight against "Kurdish terrorists."

This background on Turkish war crimes is just a brief sketch of the brutal actions that Turkey has committed over the decades (if not centuries). The next time the arrogant, bellicose, and venomous Erdoğan along with his fellow Islamists lectures Israel about "crimes against humanity," they should look in the mirror and admit to true war crimes..."

Erdogan is nothing less than a scoundrel, having even the nerve to exhort Turks living in Western countries to remain Turks and not to integrate.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT THE STRANGLERS, THE BREEDERS.

Funny number by The Stranglers, Let me introduce you to the family.




From the 1981 album La Folie.


The Breeders with Cannonball. From the 1993 album Last Splash.





Despite the obvious talent (Kim Deal came from the Pixies, Tanya Donelly from Throwing Muses), The Breeders remained - remain, they still tour - a one hit wonder.


Nite.


MFBB.

DENNIS PRAGER ON THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA.

The older I get the more I tend to think that to hold leftist views is actually a sign of mental derangement. One cannot deny that the efforts of the 'Old Left' during, say, the first half of the twentieth century in securing essential rights for the working class, women, the elderly, deserve the highest praise. But somehow, somewhere in the mid-sixties, things started to go wrong for the left. Perhaps it was modern media which brought home to westerners the appalling conditions in which the greater part of humanity still lived, thereby inducing guilt for 'having it so good'. Perhaps it was a series of vicious nest-crapping philosophers - Derrida, Sartre, Marcuse - who made it their life project to poison the minds of generations of students.

Either way, since let's say the sixties the Left generally pursues goals and interests that are simply harmful to our own people and our own societies. A good example is given by Dennis Prager in a column over at Creators.com:

MARIJUANA: ANOTHER GIFT OF THE LEFT TO AMERICA'S YOUTH.

"Denver television station CBS4 reports that Colorado has seen a sharp spike in marijuana use among teenagers since Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 last November legalizing recreational use of the drug. As described in The Economist, along with a Washington State measure also legalizing marijuana, Amendment 64 is "an electoral first not only for America but for the world."

That means two American states are to the left of the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and every other liberal country regarding marijuana.

CBS4 quotes a number of local high school students:

"I've seen a lot more people just walking down the street smoking (joints)," high school student Irie Johnson said.

"In high school it has kind of gotten out of hand," student Alaina Tanenbaum said.

According to the CBS4 report, based in part on data from a local drug testing lab: "Experts say the test results show that children are getting higher than ever with alarming levels of THC, marijuana's active ingredient, in their bodies."

The massive increase in both the number of users and the amount of marijuana used by young people is precisely what I, and many others, predicted.

It was easy to predict.

When something desirable is made easier to obtain, more people will obtain it. It is difficult to imagine an exception to this common sense observation.

So, legalizing marijuana is foolish because it leads to far more use of the drug and the availability of ever more potent forms. But the foolishness doesn't end there. Equally foolish is that as a society we have made peace with marijuana while making war on tobacco. This has been a classic example of upside down thinking, and we are reaping exactly what we have sown. We have produced a generation of young Americans who would never put a cigarette or cigar near their lips but who increasingly get high on pot.

Yes, tobacco -- specifically cigarettes -- kills and marijuana doesn't.

But, forgive the ultimate political incorrectness, young people would do much better in life if they smoked tobacco rather than weed.

First, tobacco doesn't kill young people. When it kills, it generally kills much older people. Moreover, according to a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, if you stop smoking cigarettes by age 44, you will lose only one more year of life than a person who never smoked.

Second, regular pot smokers increasingly tune out of life, becoming what are known as potheads, or, to put it bluntly, losers.

Third, as noted in the CBS4 report, "new studies that have been published say the risk of a car accident increases two-fold after someone consumes pot." In other words, innocent human beings -- sometimes whole families -- are more likely to be maimed, paralyzed and killed by pot smokers than by cigarette smokers.

For myriad reasons, then, I would far prefer my teenager indulge in cigarettes -- not to mention cigars -- than pot. Anyone who thinks that pot is less harmful to a teenager than tobacco is fooling himself -- and his teenager.

If this is not obvious, ponder these questions: Would you rather your airplane pilot smoke pot or tobacco while flying? How would Britain have fared in World War II if Winston Churchill had smoked pot instead of cigars?

In terms of the effects of tobacco and pot on the smoker while smoking, there is simply no comparison between pot and tobacco.

What the left has done to America's youth in the last 40 or so years is so damaging as to be unforgiveable. They have ruined public school education; left them with so much debt that they will likely be the first American generation to live materially inferior to the their parents; and robbed their innocence with sex education classes, now beginning in kindergarten in Chicago and elsewhere. Now they are making marijuana available to more kids and in greater potency than ever before.

But they have left them with higher self-esteem."

Damn right.


MFBB.

TEN YEARS AGO: THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ.

Sorry. I just lost my text. I know that this sounds lame, but I have neither the time nor the energy to reconstruct what I just wrote. I was diagnosed with cancer of the bone marrow in November 2012, have until now undergone 17 chemiotherapies, and still have my company to run. Which means that not only my time but also my energy is very severely limited.

Suffice to say that ten years on, I still squarely endorse the Bush Administration's decision to invade Iraq. Those who were for the war, were right. Those who were against were and are dead wrong.

A salute to the brave Coalition troops, the Americans up front. Our throughts and prayers should go to those who paid the ultimate price, as well as those who still bear the consequences of wounds inflicted during the campaign.

MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT L7, SPLIT ENZ.

L7 with Pretend we're dead.



Pro abortion c*nts from LA. It's prolly no coincidence that this single, their most successful one, was drawn from an album produced by Butch Vig, Bricks are Heavy (1992). What Vig touches usually becomes if not gold, then at any rate silver.

Split Enz with Message to my girl. From the 1983 album Conflicting Emotions.



Yup, that's a young Neil Finn. After Split Enz's 1984 breakup (though there've been many reunions over the years), Finn would go on with several projects, the best well known one Crowded House of course.

Slaap lekker en nog een fijn weekend hé.

MFBB.

BILL WHITTLE ON THE SEQUESTRATION.

As per usual, a smack in your face video by Bill Whittle, on the fallacy by the Dems and their Ueber-Mogul Obama as they tried to depict the sequestration as something like akin to a fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.



Poor, poor Europe in the grip of the leftist media. America has a plethora of erudite, sound, convincing and utterly decent rightwing intellectuals. And 500 million Europeans are carefully shielded off of their influence by the scoundrels in our national broadcasters.

Oh, and our comrade-in-arms Cambrian Dissenters has some good things to say about BHO's response to the sequestration. Go check it out.

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MELANIE GRIFFITH RIPS DAVID CAMERON ON IMMIGRATION.

If only there were more like her. Melanie Griffith has some very valid points to say on the boundless immigration ruining the UK, and simultaneously explains what the slimy, traitorous creature known as David Cameron, UK PM, really stands for. From our friends at Gates of Vienna:



As long as we Conservatives keep getting leaders who in fact want us to become more leftist, there's no salvation for our countries, our economies, our heritage... our people. Far, far too many conserative leaders, MP's, and others in positions of power are traitors to the cause.

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SATURDAY NIGHT NICKELBACK, HEART.

Nickelback with How you remind me. From the 2001 album Silver side up.



Canadians from Hanna, Alberta. Currently based in Vancouver. Frontman is Chad Kroeger.

Heart with Crazy on You.



From the iconic album Dreamboat Annie (1976).

Goede nacht.

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DEVENTER, THE NETHERLANDS: MUEZZIN NOW ALLOWED TO CALL MUSLIMS TO PRAYER FROM THE MINARET EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK.

In Deventer, a Dutch town in the north of The Netherlands, the mosque's muezzin has been allowed to call muslims to prayer every day.

It wasn't bad enough that until now, the filthy infidels living in the neighborhood had to bear with the muezzin's call to prayer 'only' on Friday. The lunatics sitting in Deventer's municipal council, in their infinite wisdom, have ordained that from now on the azan can be heard every day of the week. IN ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES, islam is proving itself a daily nightmare for the hapless non-muslims living there, who are either being terrorized or downright forced to flee. There's no such niceties there when it comes to facilitating the worshipping of other gods than allah, to the contrary. But over here, the historically ignorant multiculti scum that passes for our rulers are litterally tripping over each other to accommodate a hateful, mysogynistic, homophobic and utterly backward 'religion' that has given the world very little - and then only a thousand years ago and to a large extent not even something original.


From HLN, March 8, 2013:

"The Centrum Moskee in Deventer (Overijssel province) can from now on call the faithful to prayer every day between midday and 2pm.
Until now the azan (call to prayer) was only allowed on Friday, but the mosquegoers wanted to hear the sound every day. Thereupon the town council investigated where the characteristic sound would generally be heard and subsequently distributed among 495 households around Smyrna Street a bulletin of inquiry, in which people could indicate whether or not they objected to the azan.
Of those questioned, 167 households let it be known, anonymously, that they did not want to hear the noise, a spokesman for the town said. Because that's a minority, the city council now allows the daily call to prayer. The mosque has to install a volume limiter to keep the noise level under a certain treshold.
According to Henk Kelder who lives a stone's throw away from the mosque, the noise isn't bad at all. "I 've been living here since before the mosque was built and I never bothered about the azan and actually I'm always at home on Fridays" he explains. "Our churches make noise too and you never hear someone complain about that." Kelder is chairman of a neighborhood committee and says that his committee doesn't involve itself with the mosque. "The only thing that's bothersome is parking. And then especially on Friday noon, then it's very busy in the street" says Kelder."

Het Laatste Nieuws wouldn't be Het Laatste Nieuws if the only Dutchman they gave a forum too wouldn't be one who couldn't be bothered with a half-crazed muezzin yelling the neighborhood together every day of the week. The HLN editors probably got a boner upon finding out that very same Dutchman was found willing to rip Christianity en passant, since 'churches make noise too and no-one complains about that'.

Apart from this very saddening 'interview', one can note AGAIN that islam never gives an inch back. First they started with their mosques in garages. Then they built, partly with infidel taxpayer money, a brand new mosque. Then they tinkered and negotiated until they got permission for a call to prayer on Fridays. And now they have gotten permission for a call to prayer EVERY DAY.

Next thing you know, they'll be asking for sharia. And while the Deventer city council is anxious to accommodate its muslim invaders so as not to appear 'intolerant', an estimated 100,000 Copts have fled Egypt since the Morsi takeover.








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SATURDAY NIGHT THE STROKES, DAVID BOWIE.

The Strokes with Someday.

Blokes from NYC who formed in 1999. Someday is from their 2001 debut album Is this it.

David Bowie with Never let me down.

I guess everybody knows the guy.

Nite.

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TEN YEARS OF DOWNEASTBLOG!!!

It's the last day of February, so I have to be quick. DowneastBlog is feting it's tenth anniversary this month. Indeed, the very first post went up on February 11, 2003. Initially a project of three Mainers, Tom, Kerry and Scott, one of them, Kerry, hauled me on board somewhere in the autumn of 2003 after getting acquainted on some Iraq forum. So my posts proper did not start until later that year. Be that as it may, DowneastBlog was online as of FEB 2003. What I never envisaged at the time was that it would be me, the Belgian outsider, who'd keep the candle burning ten years on. After barely two years, both Tom and Kerry stopped posting. Scott held on a little longer. Anyway, I guess I still have to thank Tom for keeping this blog in the air.






So here I am, ten years and possibly about 1,800 of my own posts later. We never acquired a numerous readership. But I guess we must have a few aficionados. I don't regret anything I've written and stick to the basic validity of the judgments I have made over the years. I take nothing back. I haven't flipped ideologically, to the contrary. No about-turns. I'm as proudly conservative, if not more, than ten years ago. I'm convinced we have to carry on this fight - we, rightwingers - for we CANNOT allow the unholy alliance of the left, the watermelons and islam tear the very fabric of our society apart. Granted, it's an uphill battle. They have the media channels. They can keep fooling the bazillions of 'low-info' voters. But giving up is not an option.


Enough grand words for today. I'm sick (literally; even very, very sick. More about that in a couple of weeks). I'm dead tired. Still having to run my company in a very bad economic crisis (sales just about collapsed over the past months). But I have to carry on.


Nite.


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NIGHTMARE ON ANTWERP'S STREETS.

A flying pig moment today over at Het Laatste Nieuws:

"HALF OF ALL THE PUPILS IN ANTWERP'S MUNICIPAL BASIC EDUCATION IS ENROLLED IN ISLAMIC COURSES"

"Currently, in Antwerp's municipal basic education net, a total of 5,165 students follow islamic religious courses. That's 49.3 per cent of the total number of students following one or another course dealing with religion or ethics. Second comes non-confessional morality with 2,907 students (27.7 per cent). Catholic lessons come in only third, with 2,152 students (20.5 per cent).


.... The numbers come from Vlaams Belang member of the municipal council Wim Van Osselaer, who asked Antwerp's town selectman for education, Claude Marinower (Open VLD) to provide them. The number of muslim students has been steadily on the rise for a couple of years. In 2007-2008 it was 'only' 33.6 per cent, according to Vlaams Belang it was 45.6 per cent in 2012. 'The spectacular rise of the number of muslim students in Antwerps educational net is frightening me' says Van Osselaer. 'Almost half of the students enlisted in Antwerps municipal educational institutions are now being raised in an islamic culture. All of them are thus to a certain degree influenced by islam, of which the norms are barely compatible (my translation) with human rights and our European freedoms"

May justice be done one day. That those responsible for importing this backward, murderous despicable 'religion' in our civilized world be punished. And punished severely.

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SATURDAY NIGHT GEORGE BENSON, GOO GOO DOLLS.

George Benson. On Broadway.





Originally a 1963 hit for The Drifters, On Broadway was covered probably more than twenty times, but only got real extensive airplay after Benson's 1978 version (album 'Weekend in LA'). Benson, a Pittsburgh, PA native, has been making music and touring continually since 1963 - and I'm not even counting his 1954 stint as Little George Benson. I wonder what Rihanna or Beyonce will be doing in 2063?



Goo Goo Dolls with Iris.





GGD formed in 1986 in Buffalo, NY. Seems to me they only came to prominence with this hit, drawn from the soundtrack of the 1998 pooper City of Angels (with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage).


Goede nacht.


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TAKUAN SEIYO'S TENTH INSTALLMENT IN THE 'THE BEE AND THE LAMB' SERIES.

Yet another gem by that most illustrious gentleman and chronicler of the West's woes; Takuan Seiyo. The tenth installment in the 'The Bee and the Lamb series'. From our pals at Gates of Vienna:

"...Postmodern (“PoMo”) ideology explicitly rejects truth and logic. In such a framework, it’s easier to understand the curious mixture of presentism and relativism we visited earlier. Hicks summarizes this perverse phenomenon as: “On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.” He adduces enduring examples of postmodernist theory blatantly at odds with historical facts:



Postmodernists: The West is deeply racist.


Fact: The West ended slavery for the first time ever, and racist ideas are on the defensive only in places where Western ideas have made inroads.



Postmodernists: The West is deeply sexist.


Fact: Western women were the first to get the vote, contractual rights, and the opportunities that most women in the world are still without.



Postmodernists: Western capitalist countries are cruel and exploitive of their poorer citizens.


Fact: The poor in the West are far richer than the poor anywhere else, both in terms of material assets and the opportunities to improve their condition.




The place of honor in the postmodernist Pantheon belongs probably to Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Derrida’s main task in life was to help advance Marxism by deconstruction of the rational foundations of the West. An academic superstar, the list of universities where he coughed the infecting mist into the brains of adoring tens of thousands included, among others, France’s three most prestigious universities: Sorbonne, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Johns Hopkins, Yale, New York University, The New School for Social Research, Stony Brook University and the University of California at Irvine.



Jacques Derrida, who made a career of poisoning the minds of generations of western students. A traitor in the mould of Jean-Paul Sartre.


The Australian mathematician and architectural critic Nikos Salingaros summed up Derrida’s “contribution” to Western Civilization as a lethal virus absolutizing subjectivity, motivated by the will to destroy [3]:


“Deconstruction asserts that texts have no ultimate meaning, and that their interpretation is up to readers. Deconstruction [snip] erases associations that form coherent thoughts. It acts like a computer virus that erases information in a hard disk. The Derrida virus seeks to undermine any original meaning via a complex and entirely self-referential play of words.


Deconstruction devalues common sense and rejects customary wisdom. [snip] As a virus, it has invaded civilization, erasing collective common sense while spreading with astonishing rapidity.


Deconstruction is not simply a worldview among others. A method to erase knowledge, masquerading as a new philosophical movement, cannot be quarantined within academia. Indoctrinated students eventually enter the real world threatening to create havoc. [snip]


Deconstruction has been remarkably successful in dismantling traditional literature, art, and architecture. Like a biological virus [snip], it only partially destroys its host, because total destruction would stop further transmission. It breaks up coherent sets of ideas by separating natural modules into submodules. Some of these submodules are then selectively destroyed in order to subsequently reattach their components randomly into an incoherent construct.[snip]


Once formed, worldviews are unlikely to change and are trusted more than any direct sensory evidence. These internal worldviews become so much a part of oneself that they are unlikely to undergo any modification, unless one is forced to do so. For this reason, those who have adopted a cult philosophy deny all evidence that threatens the cult’s vision of reality. Rational arguments make no difference.”



Salingaros quotes Derrida himself:


“All I have done … is dominated by the thought of a virus, what could be called a parasitology, a virology, the virus being many things … The virus is in part a parasite that destroys, that introduces disorder into communication. [snip] This is what happens with a virus; it derails a mechanism of the communicational type, its coding and decoding … is neither alive nor dead … [this is] all that I have done since I began writing.” [4]


If Derrida infected the culture with an intellectual virus, Michel Foucault (1926-1984) carried this one step further by sparing no efforts to infect himself, eventually dying of AIDS after a promiscuous sweep of the homo bathhouses of San Francisco.



Yet another one who chose to defecate on the accomplishments of our illustrious western civilization even though he enjoyed the multitude of opportunities life in its sphere offered. How on earth is it possible that monsters like Foucault had such a tremendous appeal on our gullible students?


A graduate of the two aforementioned citadels of French learning, Foucault is acknowledge as perhaps the preeminent social theorist and historian of ideas of mid-20th century, though he was, to be blunt, simply a malevolent intellectual masturbator in the solipsistic German tradition (e.g. Hegel, Heidegger). A prolific one, though, with a recondite vocabulary and soporifically impenetrable style, which, along with his membership in the French Communist Party, later supplanted by Maoist idolatry, qualified him for admission to France’s most august intellectual body, Collège de France, as — this bears reflection — Professor of the History of Systems of Thought.


Like Derrida, Foucault spread his intellectual HIV over much of the world in person. In addition to his teaching positions in several French universities, he held academic posts in Sweden, Germany, Poland, Tunisia and, in the United States, at the University of Buffalo and at UC Berkeley.


We will not waste time perusing his books, though various dystopian afflictions plaguing the West now are the result of eager university students absorbing their postmodernist teaching and then inflicting it upon their lessers after assuming responsible positions in society.


Among others, we owe the pervasive odor of urine and the pitiful shrieking hobos in our center cities, and not a few small genocides by obvious madmen left to live among the sane, to Foucault’s 1961 book, Madness and Civilization and its critique of domineering Reason suppressing the truth of madness. Those who wonder how Europe could have possibly committed the prima facie insanity of importing millions of sharia pollinators might peruse Foucault’s panegyrics to the new form of “political spirituality” he perceived in Muslim turmoil during the 1979 Iranian mullahs’ revolution [5].


How vast and demented Foucault’s influence has been might be inferred from a peek into Journal of Research in Nursing that, one might assume, exists in order to publish learned articles about the swabbing of wounds and intravenous nutrition. The abstract of “On the constitution and status of ‘evidence’ in the health sciences” reads:


“Drawing on the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, this paper interrogates the constitution of ‘evidence’ that defines the evidence-based movement in the health sciences. What are the current social and political conditions under which scientific knowledge appears to be ‘true’? Foucault describes these conditions as state ‘science’, a regime that privileges economic modes of governance and efficiency. Today, the Cochrane taxonomy and research database is increasingly endorsed by government and public health policy makers. Although this ‘evidence-based’ paradigm ostensibly promotes the noble ideal of ‘true knowledge’ free from political bias, in reality, this apparent neutrality is dangerous because it masks the methods by which power silently operates to inscribe rigid norms and to ensure political dominance. Through the practice of critique, this paper begins to expose and to politicise the workings of this power, ultimately suggesting that scholars are in a privileged position to oppose such regimes and foremost have the duty to politicize what hides behind the distortion and misrepresentation of ‘evidence’.” [6]



Professor Hicks summarizes Foucault in these words:


“In his ‘Introduction’ to The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault [snip] speaks of his desire to erase himself. [snip] Foucault extends his desire for effacement to the entire human species. At the end of The Order of Things, for example, he speaks almost longingly about the coming erasure of mankind: Man is ‘an invention of recent date that will soon be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.’”


What civilization, then, could possibly enshrine a death-craving, babble-spouting sodomite nymphomaniac, but one that has been similarly infected? Except it’s not the civilization that has been infected but just its official custodians and their acolytes whom another Frenchman, Julien Benda, accused of treason already in 1927. The simpler folks had just been seduced to turn away. They inhaled in increasing doses and came to like a compound of dumb digital diversions, sex, porn and pop, uppers and downers, slavery to credit and status shopping, and news and entertainment programs programmed by programmers with hidden agendas and degrees conferred by the same loci of treason and insanity as had enshrined Messrs. Derrida and Foucault. And Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) too, the guru of the 60’s and the most influential peddler of the Frankfurt School’s tainted goods in the United States.




Perhaps the most prominent 'intellectual' traitor of the West, Herbert Marcuse.


The Institut für Sozialforschung had been established at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by an endowment from German expat Felix Weil and his father, a prominent grain merchant in Argentina. It was a particularly German concoction, heavily influenced by Hegel and Heidegger, and imbued with the notion that Western Civilization, having mortally injured itself in Word War I, was fit for the trash heap and had to be replaced. Mutating a new form of Marxism, the Frankfurt School taught that power lay with the institutions of culture, rather than with those who controlled the means of production. Thus was “Critical Theory” born, by which all Western cultural precepts and institutions could be taken down one by one, so that Revolution might finally succeed.


The raison d’être for this work being to plow through where there is too much beating around the bush, let us redefine “German” as “German-Jewish.” Practically all the big names of the Frankfurt School were Jews: Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Friedrich Pollock, Leo Lowenthal, Kurt Lewin, Adolph Lowe, Erich Fromm, David Riazanov (Russian) [7]. The gentiles were a small and less distinguished minority: Karl Korsch, Karl August Wittfogel, the fabled Soviet spy Richard Sorge.


Why would the wealthiest (and Jewish [8]) grain merchant in the world want to fund a Marxist institute is as much an enigma as why the wealthy (and non-Jewish) industrialist Friedrich Engels would finance Karl Marx or why hundreds of the wealthiest Americans, many from old American families and, again, with a disproportionate Jewish participation, would actively, passionately, devote so much energy and money toward the destruction of their own country and their own ethny. The American evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald who reconstructed the previously semi-taboo Jewish components of major Leftist calamities like the Bolshevik Revolution, Communism, and the Frankfurt School, has built a theory around that. Alas, the theory he laid out in his The Culture of Critique trilogy and other writings is little more than a medieval blood libel: the Joos have a genetic evolutionary strategy to dominate and feed off their “white” host [9].


A credible theory, instead of sieving out all the contradictory data and making unwarranted generalizations based on the hand-picked remainder, would account for and integrate the counter-indicators; for instance, that the Jews were among the most patriotic segments of the German population: from a community of under 600,000, an estimated 90,000 Jews served in the German Army during World War 1 and 12,000 lost their lives. Likewise, whereas the most consequential proponents of Marxism in all its forms have been Jews, the most consequential proponents of libertarian freedom were also Jews: the important ones include Mises, Hayek (1/4 Jewish), Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Friedman...."

Too bad a literary genius like Takuan Seiyo has but a infinitesimal fraction of the appeal and readership that scoundrels like Derrida, Foucault and Marcuse had - and have. What a tragedy, in fact.



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SATURDAY NIGHT THE FRAY, THE PRETENDERS.

First, The Fray with How to save a life, from the 2005 album with the same title.



Alternative rockband which formed in 2002 in Denver, CO.


Then The Pretenders with Brass in Pocket.



UK/US band (Chrissie Hynde hails from Akron, Ohio) which formed in 1978 in Hereford, England. In 1980 Brass in Pocket was their breakthrough hit.

Good night to all readers of good will. Plus, I might add, have a nice weekend.

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MUSLIM VIGILANTES IMPOSING SHARIA LAW ON LONDON'S STREETS; GERMAN CHURCHES BEING CONVERTED INTO MOSQUES.

First two videos of muslim vigilantes imposing sharia law on the streets of London - Whitechapel, to be exact:





And via Gatestone Institute, an article by Soeren Kern, about German churches being converted into mosques:

A Muslim plan to convert a former Lutheran church in the city of Hamburg into a mosque is generating controversy across Germany.

From Berlin to Dortmund to Mönchengladbach, the gradual proliferation of mosques housed in former churches reflects the rise of Islam as the fastest growing religion in post-Christian Germany. In the most recent case, the church would be the first converted into a mosque in the second-largest city in Germany.

The latest dust-up involves the former Kapernaumkirche (Capernaum Church), located in the Horn district in downtown Hamburg. The church, a cultural heritage site, was abandoned in 2002 for financial reasons due to declining membership.

The building and an adjacent 44 meter (144 foot) tower/steeple as well as the surrounding land was sold in December 2012 to the Al-Nour Islamic Center, which has approximately 600 members, mainly made up of Arab Muslim immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa.

The church is currently undergoing renovations at a cost of one million euros ($1.4 million) and is scheduled to be reopened as a mosque on October 3, the Day of German Unity [Tag der Deutschen Einheit], a public holiday commemorating the anniversary of German reunification in 1990. Muslims in Germany have also claimed October 3 as Open Mosque Day [Tag der offenen Moschee], a day when non-Muslims are allowed to visit mosques.

Major German newspapers have greeted the news with apparent resignation, and have published editorials with titles such as "When Mosques Replace Churches," "Tenant Allah," "Christian on the Outside, Muslim on the Inside," and "The New Normal."

But political and religious leaders have been more circumspect; many have responded to the situation with a sense of unease and foreboding.

Marcus Weinberg, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in Hamburg, said: "I am opposed to this. Even if the transaction is legally permissible, the conversion of a former church into a mosque will do little to improve cultural and religious coexistence in the area." He has appealed to city officials to meet with the Al-Nour Center to discuss "attractive building alternatives."

Helge Adolphsen, the former senior pastor of St. Michael's Church, the most iconic church in Hamburg, said: "This is the breaking of a dam."

And of course, lookie who's facilitating the process:

"In November 2012, the city of Hamburg signed a "state treaty" with its Muslim communities that grants Muslims broad new rights and privileges -- but does little to encourage their integration into German society.

The agreement, signed by Hamburg's Socialist Mayor, Olaf Scholz, and the leaders of four Muslim umbrella groups, has been praised by the proponents of multiculturalism for putting the northern port city's estimated 200,000 Muslims on an equal footing with Christian residents.

Not coincidentally, one of the signatories of the "historic treaty" happens to be the Chairman of the Al-Nour Center, Daniel Abdin, who is leading the effort to convert the former church into a mosque.

According to Fromann: "The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has guaranteed that Islamic religious communities have the right, within the framework of applicable laws, to build and operate mosques, prayer and meeting rooms, educational institutions and other community organizations according to their own discretion. This includes ensuring the right to equip Islamic mosques with domes and minarets."

Says Abdin: "Do not worry, the muezzin (the crier who calls the Muslim faithful to prayer five times a day) will not shout from the minaret." Probably at least not right away."

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DR DAVID VINER, CLIMATE RESEARCH UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, 2000: 'SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST.'

Yes, they've been fooling us that long. Far longer, actually. When I was a kid, we had to study the conclusions of the Club of Rome, an outfit of ecoweirdos according to whom the planet would run out of, oh, basically everything a healthy capitalist society needs by 1985 or so. Anyway, I picked this 2000 The Independent article because it's such fun to rub the watermelons' noses in their sheer folly. The article quotes, amongst others, a certain Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, as saying that 'within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren't going to know what snow is.'"




R-i-i-i-i-i-g-g-h-h-t.

Meanwhile, in the real world....




You will recall that the CRU of the University of East Anglia is such a paradigm of scientific prowess and infallibility that its head, Phil Jones, was forced to resign a couple of years back over the tinkering with data to mask a.o. the MWP (Medieval Warm Period).

We're 2013 now, and STILL the ecobozos wield considerable power. How on earth is that actually possible???


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SATURDAY NIGHT LED ZEPPELIN, MICHAEL PENN.

Led Zeppelin with Kashmir. From the album Physical Graffiti (1975).



The ultimate Led Zeppelin song.


Michael Penn with No Myth.



From his debut album March (1989).

Good night.


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"TOP" BELGIAN DAILY DE STANDAARD NOW OPENLY PROMOTING ISLAMIC BANKING.

This article dates from October 2011 and was actually a dormant post I never came about to flesh out. It only appears now because I added the 'De Standaard' flag and wanted to check out if the query worked, for which I scrambled a couple of posts with the De Standaard Watch label. This concept post happened to catch my eye so here it is.

And now that we are at it, I'll elaborate a bit on it. So in October 2011 a De Standaard editor, Joel Ceulaer, a lefty nutcase (an oxymoron of course) who never fails to flaunt His Moral Superiority over the Flemish peasants of the famed center right undercurrent in Belgium's northern half, wrote an article praising Mohammed Boulif and his efforts to get Belgian banks interested in the virtues of Sharia Banking. The title is an enlarged caption by Boulif: 'FINE PRINT IS FORBIDDEN IN ISLAM'. 'Would banking according to sharia rules have prevented the crisis?'. Golly it might. According to Joel Ceulaer that is.




Yes yes yes yes yes. Well, fine print may be forbidden in islam but fooling filthy infidels is not. Leftozoid nutbag Ceulaer is prolly so enamored with the amazing aspects of sharia banking that he's momentarily forgetting that Mr Boulif was a couple of years ago Head of Belgium's Muslim Executive, the official institution (financed with dough from you guess it infidel peasant pigs aka Belgian taxpayers). And he's also forgetting that that institution was so singularly ineffectual and corrupt that it had to be disbanded a couple of times. Not to mention that it contained a fair number of highly suspect personages (according to State Security). Well, Mr Boulif unrightfully kept pocketing a year's salary AFTER the dissolution of the Muslim Executive, a fact the then Minister of Justice, Laurette Onkelinckx (PS), had to admit publicly. At the relevant press conference where this item was brought up, she vowed that 'Boulif would pay it back'. I wonder if that ever happened, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Hey, stealing from infidels is indeed not in any islamic fine print: it's written black on white in large characters in their holy book, with recommendations. Not that Ceulaer noticed.


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BBC COWARDS FORCE PLAYWRIGHT TO OMIT LINE ABOUT HONOR KILLINGS SO AS NOT TO OFFEND MUSLIM COMMUNITY.

The BBC, that godforsaken snake pit of insane alternativos, closet-or-not-so-closet jihadists, and communists, has forced a playwright, author of a piece about honor killings, to omit a line about honor killings so as not to stigmatize 'the entire muslim community'. When you read the actual line, it's laughable. Or so it would be, were it not that it is so utterly tragic:

"Bhatti spoke about the changes made to the play at Tuesday’s Index On Censorship conference, which discusses artistic freedom of expression in the UK. As reported in The Independent, Bhatti explained the controversial line: “At the end, a character says: ‘There is so much pressure in our community, to look right and to behave right.’ The compliance department came back and said, ‘we don’t want to suggest the entire Muslim community condones honour killings.’”

Bhatti continued, “It’s an extraordinary and awful situation. They said the lines were offensive but they absolutely were not. We live in a fear-ridden culture.” Bhatti said that the line was “a crucial part of the story”, and that the BBC said it could be kept in if she found factual evidence of community pressure resulting in an honour killing.

A Radio 4 spokesperson commented: “This is a hard-hitting drama about the realities of honour killing in Britain. A single line in the script could be taken to infer that the pressure and motivation to commit such a crime in a family comes from the wider Muslim community, potentially misrepresenting majority British Muslim attitudes to honour killing. Gupreet Kaur Bhatti was asked to amend this line in the normal editorial process of script development.”

I'm pretty sure that if I would pull that Radio 4 spokesperson's pants down - and if it's a man (or at least if the creature was born that way) - I would not find two testicles, just a lil' sausage which now and then leaks some pipi.

NUKE THE BBC.



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MELANIE PHILLIPS ON THE CRISIS OF CONSERVATISM.

It is clear that conservatism is in the ropes on both sides of the Atlantic.

Which should not be, because basically all problems besetting our societies are the handiwork of the left, and it's actually US, Conservatives, who hold the keys to righten things - fiscal responsibility, moral values, work ethics. The really HUGE problem seems to be cultural, in that the lackeys of the left in the media and the educational system win hands down the 'effort' (one cannot even call it an effort) to 'win the hearts and the minds of the people'. Indeed, leftist nonsense is 'cool'. It's 'good'. It does not matter what the results are, if only it feels 'good'. Children are being raised to believe, no, to take it for granted, that being left, progressive, is 'GOOD'. By contrast, being right, conservative, is 'BAD'. Better, 'EVIL'.

Melanie Phillips has some interesting thoughts to share about the topic:

"The agony of the US Republicans, engulfed by an existential crisis since the second term victory of Barack Obama, reminds me so much of the UK Conservatives’ similar crisis after the accession of Tony Blair to power in 1997.

That victory ushered in a three-term Labour hegemony. The Tories, aghast at the inversion of the natural order by which they assumed they had a divine right to rule, looked in bewildered mortification upon the upstart Blair whom they found it impossible to dislodge -- and arrived at precisely the wrong conclusion about both conservatism and British society. It was a fundamental error that I believe the Conservative Party is still making – and if they aren’t careful, the US Republicans will fall into the same trap.

The root of the error was to misunderstand both why the Tories lost power in 1997 and the appeal of Tony Blair. They looked at Blair-- young, telegenic, hip, with his jeans and his guitar and his ‘hey man’ and his ‘I feel your pain’ -- and they were torn between thinking he was a cynical charlatan and alternatively that he won power because he was in tune with Britain’s shift towards a more caring, sharing, emoting, tolerant, liberal society.

Wrong on all counts. Blair won above all because the Tories had made themselves unelectable. The government of John Major, which took over after the reginacide of Margaret Thatcher, had become a national joke, an embarrassment, a synonym for sleaze, arrogance and supreme incompetence. Moreover, a number of Tory MPs just looked ... well, totally weird. The whole lot of them were viewed as totally beneath contempt and wholly unfit for government.

Blair saw his opportunity – but having concluded about his own party that its left-wing positions had made it unelectable, he took a leaf out his friend Bill Clinton’s book and triangulated his message. While remaining committed under the radar to extreme, indeed revolutionary left-wing positions – the erosion of sovereignty by closer union with the EU, mass third world immigration, multiculturalism, gay rights -- he sent out the (misleading) message that he was instinctively on the side of Middle Britain and would put right what worried them most. This was above all intolerable levels of crime and disorder and poor education standards, which in turn stood proxy for a feeling that society was breaking down...."

Also, check out Mark Steyn's column Who are we?. He's onto the same thing.

MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT THE EAGLES, AL STEWART.

Time for a Golden Oldie. The Eagles with One of these Nights. From the 1975 album with the same title.



Formed in 1971 in LA. Highest selling US band in history.

Then it's Al Stewart's turn, with Year of the Cat.



From his seventh studio album of the same name. It would be a bit unfair to call Stewart, a Scottish singer-song writer, a two-hit wonder (the other hugely successful number being On the Border) since he has some good lesser-known singles (Song on the Radio, Time passages), but still it's a pity not a couple more jewels followed.

Good night. Sorry for being AWOL on the two previous occasions. Was, you guessed it, totally f*cked up. Slightly better for the moment.

MFBB.

SHEER INSANITY: BBC PROMOTES 'HIJAB FOR A DAY'.

In case you didn't notice it, today, February 1st, was 'World Hijab Day'. Cause the people behind the event want to show us what a much better world it would be if more women would cover up and submit to the wonderful religion of islam. Yes, the world is on fire everywhere 'islam' touches the rest of humanity, from Mali, Nigeria and South Sudan to the Middle East, Afghanistan, Thailand and the Philippines, and in the countries where islamic vermin has through immigration gotten a firm grip on the host society - always consuming massive resources like parasites, without offering anything worthwhile in return - the dark shadow of a return to a medieval status for the female part of the population is looming.



Over here at DowneastBlog we celebrate World Hijab Day in the appropriate manner of course:




Now over to our British colleague at Musings of a Durotrigan:


"It often seems that there is nothing British about the BBC other than the money that pays for the licence fee. Am I being facetious? A little, perhaps, but then again the tenor of some BBC programming – BBC3’s ‘Make Me a Muslim’ on Wednesday for example – and its promotion today of the‘Hijab for a day’ initiative does raise significant questions regarding its cultural agenda, for as far as the corporation is concerned, it would seem that the island of Britain is little other than a geographical space. With respect to this island’s native inhabitants – whom the BBC repeatedly asserts do not exist – its aim often appears not to be the celebration, promotion and protection of their cultures, but of their thoroughgoing deculturisation and absorption either into a transnational cosmopolitanism or even Islam. Its promotion of ‘Hijab for a day’ fits neatly into this programme of deculturisation and alienation of Britons from Britain.

What is ‘World Hijab Day’? What could be its purpose? Who dreamt it up, and why? The BBC informs us that it was the brainchild of New York Muslim Nazma Khan who wishes to ‘counteract’ controversies about the hijab and Muslim veiling in general: It encourages non-Muslim women (or even Muslim women who do not ordinarily wear one) to don the hijab and experience what it’s like to do so, as part of a bid to foster better understanding.

That is the official line of course, but in reality, as any sentient being can see, this is a straightforward method of normalising the presence of Islam and a step towards Islamic proselytisation – Dawah – on a grand scale. As such, it could be interpreted as an act of cultural imperialism and a celebration of Muslim misogyny. The question that really deserves to be asked is this: why is the BBC so persistent in promoting this misogynist system of belief and associated cultural practices? Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s Head of Religion and Ethics will have a role to play in this of course, but to lay the blame upon this one man would be totally misplaced and unfair, for the cultural self-loathing of which this is but one expression, is deeply rooted within the BBC. If the BBC really cared about the rights of women, it would be promoting the following: ‘World Non-Hijab Day’, a day upon which women around the world who normally wear a veil cast it off for the day ‘and experience what it’s like to do so, as part of a bid to foster better understanding.’ When will we see mass unveilings in Saudi Arabia? Now, that really would be newsworthy! Shall we start a campaign for such a day? Women everywhere deserve it.

The BBC should be called to account for its persistent promotion of misogyny, for under the guise of religious 'tolerance', it is attempting to compel us to accept the intolerable."




Cripes girl. How that hifuckingjab makes you FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGLYYYYY!!!!!

How sad. Another victim of leftoid self-hatred. Our children are being mindpoisoned day in, day out.


MFBB.

TAKUAN SEIYO'S THE BEE AND THE LAMB (9TH INSTALLMENT).

As always, a must-read by Takuan Seiyo, the 9th installment already in the 'The Bee and the Lamb' series. From our pals over at Gates of Vienna::

By Takuan Seiyo A Whole New Road to Serfdom

That Which is Not Seen (continued)

"For over 60 years, White mea-culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting: education high and low; paper media, then electronic, then digital media; all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory (e.g. K-12) and discretionary (e.g. television) self-flaying on account of long-ago Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, Male Supremacism, Racism, Antisemitism, and so on.

It’s the evils of the Iberian Inquisition — which were evil — but not the evils of the Japanese equivalent in which, in the 40 years up to 1597, 50,000 Christians were publicly crucified, burned or beheaded. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which — not in the 16th century but now, in the 21st, condemns Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. It’s America’s destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanism’s destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, let alone its obliteration of all the pre-Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa.

It’s the evils of feudalism and industrial workers’ exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next season’s seed.

Feminism, Socialism and anti-Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed (except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody). American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you don’t know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL.

One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another people’s territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim “No Thanks for Thanksgiving” as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too.

Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one-third of America. The self-defined “Feminist-Tauist-NeoPagan-Post-Structuralist-Deconstructionist-Socialist” useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2013 Dear White People by “wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same.”



Just one member of countless legions of insane, grossly ignorant and self-hating white liberals: Gillian Schutte. From The Guardian of course.

Yet the Magyars don’t seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair-haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, don’t agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 38 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about “Cortez the Killer”, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed.

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996) is a book by Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique “eliminationist antisemitism” in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization — the Holocausts — stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 21 million civilian Slavs, and that’s counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone.

In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non-German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 50 million victims of the Bolsheviks in Russia, or Mao’s 70 million in China, or the Mughal-Muslim genocide of Hindus — the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 14..."

Food for thought.


MFBB.