RECOMMENDED VIDEO: PIERRE CASSEN OF RIPOSTE LAIQUE SPEECH.

I am doing nothing but copying and pasting from our Gates of Vienna buddies' site, but I'm pretty sure they don't mind. If in that way but a sole reader comes across the following video, which he would otherwise have missed - it's been worthwile.




And here is the transcript:

00:00 On the 30 Oct. 2010 in Amsterdam, Paul Weston,
00:04 the English politician who at that time was not yet
00:08 the president of PEGIDA UK, said in support
00:12 of Geert Wilders these few words which I ask you
00:16 to memorise: “Let me tell you this:
00:20 to all of you, liars, traitors, careerists, socialists:
00:24 you hold the power now
00:28 but in a decade (this was in 2010)
00:32 WE will hold the power and WE will hold you to account.
00:36 We will drag you before a Nuremberg-type court
00:40 and you will be judged for high treason,
00:44 and for the first time in a long while WE will be your judges.”
00:53 How —
00:57 Socialists en Prison!
01:01 Into prison, Socialists!
01:05 — how not to think
01:10 of these words from Paul Weston, seeing all
01:14 that we had to suffer this weekend. We have seen
01:18 patriots banned from demonstrating in Calais.
01:22 We have seen patriots banned from demonstrating
01:26 in St. Brieux by a prefect who unilaterally
01:30 – his name is Pierre Lambert — had decided,
01:34 having forgotten to remove the sausage skins from his eyes,
01:38 had decided that there was no Islamisation in Europe,
01:42 and as there was no Islamisation, no demonstration must take place.
01:46 While the patriots were banned from demonstrating
01:51 in those two cities, we saw the Antifa,
01:55 as usual, vandalise everything in Rennes.
01:59 We saw, despite the State of Emergency, this same gang
02:03 authorised to demonstrate in Paris. But we have also seen,
02:07 when it appears that France is at war,
02:11 we saw in Lille the UOIF (Union of Islamic Organisations) affiliated with
02:15 the Muslim Brotherhood, dare to hold a congress
02:19 when, during a period of war, this affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood
02:23 does not hide its plan to Islamise our country,
02:27 to introduce the Sharia everywhere in France,
02:31 and everywhere in Europe, and in this period of war we authorise our enemies
02:36 to hold a congress without this bothering Cazeneuve (Minister of the Interior)
02:44 We are seeing how far
02:48 they dare go,
02:52 and how openly they mock us — I am speaking
02:56 of the Islamist leaders — because even while we are debating the question
03:00 on the forfeiture of nationality, you have
03:04 Tariq Ramadan, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in France, who says
03:08 that the France of Cazeneuve (Interior Minister), of Valls (PM) of Hollande (President)
03:12 suits him and that now he wants French nationality.
03:16 Despite —
03:20 Islam en dehors — Out with Islam
03:24 Out with Islam
03:29 — despite the repression,
03:33 despite the threats, despite the intimidation,
03:37 we see despite this, and we have seen since
03:41 this weekend the acts of resistance multiply.
03:45 the comrades of Saint-Brieuc, despite the ban
03:49 by Prefect Lambert (let me remind you he was
03:53 among the Antifa this Saturday — a PREFECT!),
03:57 the comrades of Saint-Brieux
04:01 also defied this prefect’s ban on demonstrating.
04:05 They came, they distributed patriotic leaflets
04:09 at the market, showing their love of France,
04:14 and at 50 have held out, despite the bans from the police, for as long as possible.
04:22 We have
04:26 seen in Calais that while the initiative was banned,
04:30 the initiative by PEGIDA, we saw
04:34 via mobilisation on the internet, 350 to 400
04:38 of our compatriots, ready to come, because they did not accept
04:42 that in Calais the migrants had the right to demonstrate,
04:46 the lefties had the right to demonstrate, that they had the right to attack the local people,
04:50 and that only the patriots, willing to defend the Calaisians,
04:54 were banned. At 350 — 400 they were
04:58 there, they were present, they manifested an act of strong resistance,
05:02 which this regime wanted to break by force,
05:06 as we saw by the scandalous arrest of the General Piquemal.
05:15 And your presence, our presence,
05:19 the initiative by SIEL tonight shows that there is
05:23 in this country a patriotic current, that defends itself in
05:27 the streets, in the re-information, on internet sites
05:31 that are advancing, that defends itself by all means,
05:35 to pass on the message of France, the message of the love of our country,
05:39 the message of our people, a message which
05:43 we continue to develop with all our strength!

As always, many thanks to the incomparable GoV-affiliated characters Oz-Rita, who did the translation, and Vlad Tepes, for subtitling.

The money quote here, and A VERY SERIOUS WARNING to all socialists, greens, and traditional parties committing treason by deliberately ruining our Continent, is of course:

"We will drag you before a Nuremberg-type court and you will be judged for high treason..."

I hope to see that day.


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SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: JEAN BERAUD ( 1849-1935).

Jean Béraud (January 12, 1849 – October 4, 1935) was a French Realist/Impressionist painter, born in Saint Petersburg, where his father was working as a sculptor in Saint Isaac's Cathedral. Béraud is famous for his renditions of life in Paris during the Belle Époque (roughly the period between the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and World War I). While his Parisian scenes of daily (and nightly!) life are incomparable (it is actually a shame that Béraud received little to no recognition outside France), he nevertheless also made a name for himself with religious subjects.




Elégant soirée.




First Communion.


In recognition for his work, Béraud in 1894 received the Légion d'Honneur, the country's highest decoration.



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SATURDAY NIGHT DAVID SOUL, ROGER DALTREY.

Tomorrow it's Valentine's Day, so you'll forgive ole Outlaw the saccharine.


David Soul aka Hutch (from the 1975-1979 cop series Starsky and Hutch) with Don't give up on us, a 1976 smash hit pretty much worldwide.




Kind of far away from his role as renegade San Francisco cop John Davis in Magnum Force, huh?



Roger Daltrey with Without your love.




1980 hit from the soundtrack of the movie McVicar.


Good night, and take care of your sweetheart tomorrow.



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RECOMMENDED READS: MARK STEYN'S "TOSS ANOTHER WESTERN SOCIETY ON THE BARBIE?"

Mark Steyn is in Oz, and he mentions an all too familiar observation by one Claryssa Bye, who writes for the Daily Telegraph there:

Australia's population has just hit a new high of 24 million. But, as in Britain, Canada, France and elsewhere, the question is what's driving that population growth. Clarissa Bye reports in the Aussie Daily Telegraph that there are strange discrepancies between the robust fertility rates in certain parts of Sydney (Lakemba, at right) and the dearth of births in others (Surry Hills, Potts Point). As she notes, Lebanese- and Syrian-born residents have an average of four and 3.5 children respectively, whereas Australian-born women have 1.86.




Muslims in Lakemba, 24 January 2015, defending their leering illiterate murderous fucker of 9-year old children, aka 'the prophet mohammed' (Piss be upon him in royal quantities). Why is it that we never have these troubles with the Thai, Armenian, Chinese or Chilean immigrants in our midst? (I name just a few of the nationalities in my own hometown, pop. 34,000)


Along the way in Ms Bye's story, a certain demographic doom-monger puts in an appearance:

IT'S the biggest story of our times, but political correctness has stifled debate so badly that politicians are too afraid to even talk about it.

According to visiting ­Canadian author and free-speech advocate Mark Steyn, low birth rates have put Western societies into a "demographic death spiral"...

"Normally for a population transformation you need a Black Death, the Plague or a world war," he said. "But in this case we are having it without any of that. That's why it's the most fascinating question of our times."

People underestimate how fast this change takes place. A small minority having four kids doesn't sound that big a deal. But, to keep the math simple, take a population of 100,000, 90 per cent of whom have 1.86 kids per woman and 10 per cent of whom have four:

The 90,000 have 83,700 children;
The 10,000 have 20,000 children.

In turn:

The 83,700 have 77,841 children;
The 20,000 have 40,000 children.

And thereafter the minority is the majority. And all that growth is without a single new immigrant...

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NIGHTMARE IN CALAIS.

Via Riposte Laïque, a site I should actually link more to:


Simone is a citizen of the northern French town of Calais, infamous for having the "Jungle" right next door. Hear her testimony:




Hat tip Gates of Vienna.



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THE ULTIMATE FOLLY OF BELGIAN INTERIOR MINISTER JAN JAMBON'S "CHANNEL PLAN".

A chilling article in that leftozoid rag De Standaard.

"1,000 POLICE OFFICERS EXTRA IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM.

In 2019, Belgian Police will draft another 1,000 officers in the fight against radicalisation and terrorism, the federal government announced in a press conference. [Of these] the plan involves three hundred extra officers for Brussels.

The so-called "Channel Plan" [named after the ABC-Channel which runs in a SW-NE angle through Brussels] is a result of the Paris terrorist attacks, which were linked to Brussels, and the heightened terror alert. Interior Minister Jan Jambon (N-VA), who prefers the label "Federal Action Plan against violent extremism and terrorism", emphasizes that the Cha
nnel Plan for Brussels fits in the Federal Action Plan.

...


Three hundred officers are scheduled to be deployed in eight communes in Brussels, among them Molenbeek, Schaarbeek, Vilvoorde en Anderlecht. To tackle radicalization a different approach on several levels is necessary, said Jambon. And therefore good communications are necessary.




The Channel Plan is built around four chapters: Prevention, Administration, Operational and Judicial. One of the cornerstones of the plan is getting to know who exactly resides in the communes and where. Returned Syria fighters must be watched closer and the illegal economy supporting terrorism, like identity fraud and gun trade, will be taken on. Apart from that, "centers of hate preaching" must be snuffed out.

State Security gets 103 extra staff and the border controls in the airports will be reinforced. There is talk of a "Coast Plan" to avoid the emergence of refugee camps. There, too, police will be reinforced. Justice Minister Koen Geens (of the Christian Democrat party CDV) will step up efforts to reinforce Prosecution in Brussels and Halle-Vilvoorde.


Some of the measures included in the Judicial Chapter:

* Reinforcing the (follow up of the) registration mechanism of mosques and prayer houses
* Courts and Prosecution will be reinforced with 42 magistrates and 126 staffers
* Deradicalization programmes in Ittre and Hasselt will be reinforced with 36 prison guards
* State Security will be reinforced with 103 personnel
* CTIF, the joint Judicial and Police organization charged with wiretapping and communication interception will get 6.9 million EUR extra
* The budgets for the growing investigation costs like trace analysis, DNA analysis et al will be enhanced with 16 million EUR


In all, the measures approved by the government encompass 300 million EUR for a scheduled budget of 400 million EUR. One hundred million EUR is held in reserve, to be used later in the year. 72 million EUR goes to the Justice Department."

Why do I write "chilling"?

Can't you see for yourself?

What we have here are a set of measures which would be WHOLLY, TO-TAL-LY UNNECESSARY if past governments had not pursued insane policies dictated by the vile idelogy of multiculturalism. This may sound over the top, but it is not.

In March 2000, the then government Verhofstadt I passed the notorious Snel-Belg Wet (Quick Citizenship Bill), a wreck of a law on a par with other "jewels" of measures like the Euthanisia Law, Gay Marriage, and, in 2003, the official refusal to participate in the liberation of Iraq.

But the Quick Citizenship Bill would perhaps prove the most disastrous of all. It made becoming a naturalized Belgian so easy that not even proof of willingness to integrate, the minimum of which was learning one of Belgium's three official languages, was needed.

Although never officially stated so, it is clear that the Quick Citizenship Bill was in reality meant to electorally cut off the ascendance of the Vlaams Blok, Belgium's only truly conservative party. Indeed, under its Chairman Frank Van Hecke, who in 1996 had taken over the post of Party Chairman from Karel Dillen, the VB's founder, the Vlaams Blok (after 2004 called Vlaams Belang) would continue to achieve electoral successes, ultimately culminating in the party acquiring 25 per cent of the Flemish vote in the 2004 elections.

The Quick Citizenship Bill was, not surprisingly, first and foremost the brainchild of the socialists and greens, apart from the liberals the other two factions in the Verhofstadt I government (it should be noted that this was the first and thus far the only time the greens participated in a federal government).

The socialist parties, SP.a in Flanders and the Parti Socialiste in Wallonia, had at the time already strongly established muslim political players, especially in Brussels.

The green parties, Groen! in Flanders and Ecolo in Wallonia, had smaller contingents of them but were economically even more to the left vis-à-vis their socialist counterparts.

The results of the Quick Citizenship Bill were disastrous, and over about the decade following its passing in the Belgian Parliament, an estimated 600,000 foreigners residing on Belgian soil acquired Belgian nationality and were henceforth allowed to vote in either municipal, regional or national elections.

Together with other legislation aimed at facilitating family reunions, and socio-demographical phenomena like the astounding fecundity of the "New Belgians" vis-à-vis the autochton population, the QCB changed the Belgian political landscape forever.

If today, Brussels, the European Capital so to say, is a staggering 25% muslim already, it is legislation like the Quick Citizenship Bill we have to "thank" for that.

With the enhanced muslim presence in all matters and strata of society, have come the near insurmountable problems so characteristic for basically every muslim society on the planet...


... so that today, in early 2016, vain idiots like Jan Jambon now have to resort to "Channel Plans" to try to counter the appalling results of fostering and allowing large communities in the heart of the country which are basically SUPPORTING TERRORISM.

Take Molenbeek, for example.

It is 80 per cent muslim.

If Molenbeek were, say, 80 per cent Japanese, it would in all likelihood be a tremendous bonus for Brussels and Belgium.

Molenbeek would almost certaily be very low on crime, and it would very probably be a veritable cash cow for Brussels. There would be high tech companies and the streets would be very tidy. There would be no "need" to hire city personnel in futile efforts to reduce rampant youth unemployment. To the contrary, youth unemployment and general unemployment in a "Japanese" Molenbeek would almost certainly be in the single digits.


But alas, Molenbeek is not 80% Japanese.

Molenbeek is 80% muslim.

And therefore, youth unemployment is something like 50 per cent.
The streets are dirty.
The shops are shabby.
Most eateries are unhygienic.
The city administration is bloated to no end (Among the hundreds of city employees paid handily to do nothing and vote Parti Socialiste, is a certain Mohammed Abdeslam, brother of Salah and Brahim Abdeslam, who participated in the November 2015 terror attacks).
Molenbeek boasts very few high tech companies, but a tremendous number of car import and export firms.
Fiscal oversight of businesses in Molenbeek is a joke, since VAT or Taxes officials dare not look too closely at the books of the kebab shops, garages or whatever.
Police dare not enter certain neighborhoods in Molenbeek.
Molenbeek is bankrupt.
Molenbeek is the jihadi capital of Europe, and at least a sizeable part of its population knows very well about the terrorists in its midst, but will do nothing to at least finger them to the police.


And that is why anno 2016 400 million EUR for a "Federal Action Plan" is needed.

And exercise in futility if ever there was one.

Not only is Belgium's muslim population deficient, in that it requires more money to "sustain" it than it contributes to the greater Belgian society...

... but also do the activities of certain, ah, individuals among that population require massive amounts of money to prevent widespread slaughter at home and abroad.

Meanwhile, to finance it all, the gullible autochton population pays taxes...

... and taxes...

... and taxes...

... and taxes...



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SATURDAY NIGHT THE BEATLES, MAGNAPOP.

The Beatles with Across the Universe. From the 1969 compilation album No one's gonna change our world. Written by John Lennon, who I regard as both one of the greatest musicians ever as well as a filthy immoral scoundrel.




Too bad I only found a halfway decent version.



Magnapop with Lay it Down. From the 1994 album Hot Boxing.




Alternative rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. Singer's Linda Hopper.


Dobranoc.



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TOO BAD THE GERMAN FRAULEINS IN KOELN DIDN'T WATCH FINNISH STATE TELEVISION.

At first I thought this was from The Onion, but sadly, it was not.


Finnish State TV YLE released an instructional video aimed at teaching women techniques to ward off rapists.

For some reason, the Finnish gal's body language reminds me of Yoda.

May the Farce be with you:




And notice that the would be rapist is a white male.

Yes.

Of course he is.

Hat tip Gates of Vienna.



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RECOMMENDED READS: PATRICIA MC CARTHY'S "REAL MEN ARE GOOD. LIVE WITH IT."

Over at American Thinker, Patricia McCarthy has a damn fine piece that's a must read for... well, for just about everybody.

But maybe, just maybe, with an emphasis on our young lads transiting from boy- to manhood. Say, between the ages of 12 and 20 years old. Real men are good. Live with it.

"All parents of teens or even older young men and women, parents who are struggling to pay for college and/or wondering what the future holds for their children, should run, children in tow, to see three films: In the Heart of the Sea, 13 Hours, and The Finest Hours.

For at least two generations, our young people have been sorely abused by progressive tenets – the alleged insidiousness of patriarchy, the conviction that misogyny has undermined women for centuries and still does. This is the nonsense that gave birth to militant feminism, to silly notions like "gender as a social construct." Then there is the academic, educational, and cultural mandating of tolerance and acceptance of every social/cultural/gender fad, real or imagined, that has done terrible damage to at least two generations of young men and women.

They have been, in calculated fashion, disabused of the glory and wonder of old-fashioned masculinity. Our young people, unless they are from a military family, know nothing of the type of man who is brave, selfless, protective of his family and of strangers if need be. They have been indoctrinated to believe all men are cads, that male college students are all potential rapists, that men in general are to be feared, not to be respected, let alone loved.

This is why these three new films are so necessary for all young people to see. Each is based on a true story. In the Heart of the Sea is based on the shipwreck of the Essex, a whaling ship that was destroyed in 1820 by a huge white whale. Herman Melville based his extraordinary novel Moby Dick on this real event in 1851. 13 Hours is based on the terrorist attack in 2012 on the diplomatic outpost where Ambassador Christopher Stevens was stationed in Benghazi and on the CIA facility a few miles away. Stevens and three others were killed. Four incredibly brave men saved the lives of their colleagues despite a stand-down order, abandonment by the State Department, and the denial of the awesome power of the American military that was not allowed to rescue them.




The Finest Hours is the phenomenal tale of the greatest small-boat rescue in American history. Against all odds, a Coast Guard crew of four men saved the lives of 32 men after their tanker split in half in a ferocious storm off the coast of Massachusetts in 1952.

The common denominator of all three films is the wonder and talent of men; very smart men, brave men. In each story, an unlikely leader arose to lead. Each of those men was an expert on navigating the slice of the world he knew so, so well. The men who followed their lead knew a leader when they saw one. They were all as one with their chosen life's work.

The complexity of a whale ship in the early 19th century is a wonder to behold. The youngest member of the crew of the Essex was 14, an orphan and the only survivor still alive for Melville to interview many years later. The obstacles the heroes of 13 Hours overcame are nothing short of miraculous. The same is true of the rescue of the men of the Pendleton in The Finest Hours.

But while these glorious tales of heroism abound, our children are being taught outrageous things in school. Our girls are being taught to fear men. Our young men are being taught to fear women. Universities are requiring new students to answer extremely personal questions about their sexual history when most of them do not have one. Academia is intent upon driving another nail in the coffin of traditional families, a longtime progressive goal. A professor of mine once said in a women's studies class: "The nuclear family is the most destructive institution in the Western world." Wrong. It is the rock of Western civilization, the basis of all that is good in the world.

Men have taken care of women for centuries. Women have taken care of men for centuries. But it is not a zero-sum game; men and women are profoundly different. That is life as a human on this planet. For decades, though, the progressive left has been submarining the whole notion of traditional family, of men as protective of women and children and of women as homemakers. Traditional family life is like holy water sprinkled on the devil to the left. It undermines their totalitarian instinct, their drive to control how people live.

Women and girls, pay attention! Most men are good men. They want a woman to love who will love them. They want a family for whom to strive and care. College men, most of them, are not rapists. Watch these films and learn what good men are made of. Then watch Mamet's The Edge and Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. Learn what "the edge" is – character – and what a "standing man" is. Learn and remember."

Here's the trailer:




Goede nacht.


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MUENCHEN UNDERGROUND: MUSLIM "REFUGEES" ATTACK GERMAN PENSIONERS STANDING UP FOR YOUNG WOMAN.

Somewhere on a Muenchen U-Bahn.

Four arabs harass a young woman.

Two pensioners defend the woman.

The arabs attack the pensioners.






"Islam is a part of Germany", eh, Angela?


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SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE (1848-1894).

Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) is an often overlooked French impressionist painter, although he was a crucial figure for that art movement. Besides being an important contributor himself (albeit one who painted much more realistically), he sponsored Impressionist exhibitions and supported fellow artists like Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir. He went as far as buying some of their works (he bought himself his first Monet in 1875), and persuading the French State to buy Edouard Manet's Olympia, a scandal painting at the time.




Rue de Paris, temps de pluie (1877)

The scene depicts the Place de Dublin, back then known as the Carrefour de Moscou.





Le Pont de L'Europe (1876).

Nite.


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SATURDAY NIGHT TALKING HEADS, DEEP PURPLE.

Talking Heads with Once in a lifetime, from the 1980 album Remain in Light. Talking Heads was a new wave band formed in NYC in 1975, and consisted of David Byrne (singer, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums) and wife Tina Weymouth (bass), and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar).




I will forever remember that album, since me being an aviation freak, it noticed it first and foremost because of the stylized red Grumman Avengers with the Himalayas in the background on the back of the cover, an image originally intended to be the front artwork. Weymouth and Frantz conceived it, and Weymouth chose Avengers because her father, Ralph Weymouth, who rose to the rank of Vice Admiral in the USN, reportedly flew the type. I was unable to upload the image - tried it three times, failed each time (I use Photobucket). Must be protected somehow.



Deep Purple with Child in Time. From the album Deep Purple in Rock (1970). We will forgive them that it is a protest song against the Vietnam War - they were young and foolish.




English rock band, originally prog rock, formed in 1968 in Hertford. Originally progressive rock, they later evolved towards heavy metal and hard rock, pioneering that field with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.


Slaap wel.



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CAUGHT MY EYE LAST WEEK...

The Anglican Church has by now developed something like a tradition of dhimmitude. What's to make otherwise of the Bishop of London encouraging his priests to grow beards to increase their standing with muslims?

"...Clergymen should grow beards to emphasise their holiness to Muslims, the Bishop of London has suggested.

... Writing in the Church Times, Rev. Chartres, who himself sports a 'modest' beard, said: 'The discovery that two of the most energetic priests in east London had recently grown beards of an opulence that would not have disgraced a Victorian sage prompted me to look again at the barbate debate throughout Church history.

'The two priests work in parishes in Tower Hamlets. Most of the residents are Bangladeshi-Sylheti, for whom the wearing of a beard is one of the marks of a holy man.'
He said the desire of the clergy of Tower Hamlets to 'reach out to the culture of the majority of their parishioners can only be applauded'.

... One of the priests praised by the Bishop of London, the Rev. Atkinson told The Telegraph he found having a beard had helped provide a connection with many people in his parish, around 85 per cent of whom are Muslim...."

I wrote "something like a tradition of dhimmitude" because you may recall that the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, in 2004 chose to commemmorate 9/11 by giving a lecture in al-Azhar University in Cairo to blather about the "common ground" between Christians and muslims. In 2008 he expressed his belief that the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable". And just before retiring in 2012 he also opened that wearing the veil "could help muslim women assert themselves".

The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is not much better. BareNaked Islam in 2014 sported an article in which Welby "warned against developing a “culture of fear” towards Muslims in Britain and said the proportion of Muslims in Britain who are radicalized remained “extraordinarily small.”






There are many other examples. We know all about the (grand) majority of our political "leaders" being spineless cowards and bastards when it comes to standing up for western civilization.

But what is just as frightening is the phenomenon that our religious leaders too, by and large, show an extraordinary lack of zeal for standing up for their part of the job.

And the most obvious example is, naturally, the pope himself. A deluded social justice warrior who last year allowed an outfit called "Racing Extinction" to project images of endangered species on Saint Peter's Basilica in order to lament the Earth's "dwindling biodiversity"...




... but who COULD NOT EVEN BE BOTHERED to raise but a finger, much less issue a strong-worded message, when the ruins of Iraq's oldest Christian monastery, that of Saint Elijah on a hill near Mosul, were pulverized by IS around the same time as his lightshow was going on. The photos below are a rather poignant symbol of the Middle East's "dwindling religious diversity".




That monastery, locally called Deir Mar Elia, was in all likelihood constructed by Assyrian monks in the late 6th Century - in fact more or less around the time the gruesome death cult known as islam saw the light. Later, a Chaldean Catholic order moved in.

In 1743, the Persian leader, Tahmaz Nadir Shah, ruined the monastery and offered its 150 monks the choice between conversion to islam or death.

The 150 monks refused to convert, choosing death instead.

Tahmaz Nadir Shah had them massacred.

We need Christian leaders like Saint Elijah's 150 butchered monks...

... AND NOT THE FALSE PRIESTS WE ARE STUCK WITH TODAY.



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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: WEHRHAFTES OESTERREICH SPEAKS OUT.

The following video is remarkable because for the first time since the "refugee" invasion an apparently well-organized body of serving and retired Austrian Army officers speaks out about the grave dangers threatening Austria and, by extension, Europe.

Wehrhaftes Oesterreich is their name - which can be loosely translated as Fortified Austria. Hat tip for the video our irreplaceable friends at Gates of Vienna, and thanks to Nash Montana for translation, and to Vlad Tepes for subtitling:




It is about time that we see the emergence of just such a group. It should be clearly understood that in normal, peaceful circumstances, I regard the military as just another state body subjected to the control and scrutiny of the executive and legislative powers. Again in normal circumstances, calls for a strenghtening of the military by the military should be channeled to the state and the people by the responsible Defence Minister only.

These are, however, no normal circumstances.

Europe, and by extension the entire West, is being threatened on two fronts.

First there is the threat from within. The continent is being irresistibly steered towards an demographical, economical and cultural suicide by an immoral, reckless and ignorant political class of which virtually all strains, from left over center to what passes for the right, have drunk the Kool-Aid of the insane multiculti ideology for far too long. Far too many of the leftist dogmas have, over the past half-century, and enthusiastically forwarded by the media and the education establishment, found their way into the collective heads of the body politic - and the citizenry. This has had the effect of:


* a loss of belief in who and what we are,
* a denunciation of the political, cultural, economical and technological marvels Europe has given the world
* a rejection of Christianity, which, far from being an impediment in Europe's past, has actually been an essential factor in Europe's path to global leadership
* a willful ignorance of the enormous sacrifices by generations past better than us
* a loss of morals and morale
* a sapping of the strength to offer resistance to the decay, even to the point of taking away people's will to procreate


Second, there is a huge threat from outside, as evidenced by the invasion of muslim hordes on a scale unseen in history; the impending invasion of disgruntled Africans fleeing a continent of which the failures are as much due to their own incapacity to get things right as to the eager implementation of failed leftist theories; and the flaring up of old East-West tensions.


In the face of such threats, if the political elites are unwilling or incapable to take the necessary steps to PROTECT Europe and its native citizens... the military MUST step in.

I therefore hope the emergence of the Wehrhaftes Oesterreich group heralds the appearance of many more such groups across Europe:




May this be a start.



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SATURDAY NIGHT DIRE STRAITS, ERIC CLAPTON.

Dire Straits with Tunnel of Love.




From the 1980 album Making Movies.



Eric Clapton with I can't stand it.




To the best of my knowledge the sole single drawn from his album Another Ticket (1981).



Buenas noches.



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THE DAILY MAIL'S BEN JUDAH BOOK REVIEW: "HOW LABOUR HAS TURNED LONDON INTO A FOREIGN CITY."

The Daily Mail's Harrier Sargeant reviews "This is London. Life and Death in the World City", a sobering book by Ben Judah, a young author and reporter.

"An Afghan and I once broke into a small house in Peckham. I had met him while researching a report on immigration for the Daily Mail.

We were on a rescue mission. Inside the two-up, two-down property in South East London, every room was packed with beds, mattresses and migrants.

On the landing, grey and scarcely breathing, lay the man we had come to rescue from this awful place.

The other migrants who were there started to shout at us. Apparently, the sick man owed them and their trafficking gang money. We had to hustle him out fast.

I emerged shaken. I had glimpsed a London I did not know existed — one of Third World poverty, exploitation and criminality.

It is writer Ben Judah’s great achievement to reveal that hidden city in his new book, This Is London: Life And Death In The World City.

A young war correspondent, Judah examines his home city as the foreign metropolis it has now become.

Since 2001, immigration has transformed the capital. More than half of Londoners are now not ethnically British.

As he says: ‘I was born in London, but I no longer recognise this city. I don’t know if I love the new London, or if it frightens me: a city where at least 55 per cent of people are not white British, nearly 40 per cent were born abroad and hundreds of thousands are living illegally, in the shadows.’

Who are these new Londoners? In order to find out, Judah immerses himself in the migrant world.

He spends a night with the Roma beggars who camp in the tunnels beneath Hyde Park. He stays in a doss-house in Barking, East London. He cajoles an astonishing array of migrants from across London to describe their lives.

Whether a mini cab driver who also washes dead bodies, a Romanian prostitute in a blonde wig, or a wealthy young African with bodyguards hired from his own tribe, they open up to Judah.

The quantity and authenticity of his interviews build up an irrefutable argument. Here, as opposed to what the Left is always telling us, are the real effects of immigration.

Immigration, Judah makes clear, has touched every aspect of life in London and utterly transformed it.

The English upper classes no longer inhabit the splendid townhouses in Mayfair. Suburbs such as Edmonton in the north of the city are no longer home to the aspirational, largely unionised, English working-class.

As for white, East End gangsters such as the Kray Twins, you will only find those in movies.

The same goes for the prostitutes who used to inhabit Soho. Even tramps, for goodness sake, are rarely English any more. Such is the level of liberal propaganda that we have largely remained blind to this startling transformation of our city.

Judah systematically maps these changes — the result of Labour relaxing immigration into the UK.

Left-wingers and the business establishment pat themselves on the back for creating an open city that welcomes the world. In fact, we have lost control of our borders and have no say who comes here.

This week, it emerged that Brussels is attempting to blackmail Britain by saying that if we don’t take as many as 90,000 migrants a year, we will not be able to send failed asylum seekers back to safe countries on the Continent.

Then came the story that a tribunal had ruled that a group of migrants in the Jungle camp in Calais had a ‘human right’ to join family members in Britain. It is a precedent that could have far-reaching implications.

Aside from legal rulings, the truth is that much of our immigration policy is now dictated by criminal trafficking gangs who make a fortune smuggling people into Britain — not our elected leaders and certainly not voters and taxpayers.

It is criminal gangs who decide who comes into the UK and in what numbers. They largely decide what happens to the migrants once they arrive.

In handing our immigration system over to them, we have allowed conditions of unimaginable squalor, misery and criminality reminiscent of Victorian times to take hold.

So how has it happened? Well, get rid of any notion that we are doing the world’s poorest many favours.

Judah quickly discovers that multiculturalism for many migrants is a euphemism for slave labour.

It starts when would-be immigrants listen to the sales pitch of the agents for the people-traffickers. They promise that London is ‘a second paradise’ where ‘every man is rich’.

On offer is free NHS treatment, free housing, free schooling and countless welfare benefits. It is a place of opportunity, security and, above all, available women.

This was a definite pull for one young Afghan working in a butcher’s in Neasden, North West London.

As he put it, in his village, if you slept with more than one person in your life, ‘they shot you in the back’. In Britain, however, sexual opportunities were immense...."

As the saying goes... read it all.


It would be nothing more than pure justice if, as a reward for their part in deliberately destroying the most advanced and humane society Mankind has ever spawned, the "rub their noses in diversity" crowd would one day pay their fair share. I sincerely hope to see them bleed.



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GENERATION IDENDITY VIDEO: EUROPE IS DYING.

MFBB.

RECOMMENDED VIDEO: "WITH OPEN GATES. THE FORCED COLLECTIVE SUICIDE OF EUROPEAN NATIONS."

Watch this sobering video of a continent gone insane:




Also, don't miss Mark Steyn's "It's still the demography, stupid".

"Last year, Angela Merkel decided to attempt it. The German Chancellor cut to the chase and imported in twelve months 1.1 million Muslim "refugees". That doesn't sound an awful lot out of 80 million Germans, but, in fact, the 1.1 million Muslim are overwhelmingly (80 per cent plus) fit, virile, young men. Germany has fewer than ten million people in the same population cohort, among whom Muslims are already over-represented: the median age of Germans as a whole is 46, the median age of German Muslims is 34. But let's keep the numbers simple, and assume that of those ten million young Germans half of them are ethnic German males. Frau Merkel is still planning to bring in another million "refugees" this year. So by the end of 2016 she will have imported a population equivalent to 40 per cent of Germany's existing young male cohort. The future is here now: It's not about "predictions".

On standard patterns of "family reunification", these two million "refugees" will eventually bring another four or five persons each from their native lands - or another eight-to-ten million. In the meantime, they have the needs of all young lads, and no one around to gratify them except the local womenfolk. Hence, New Year's Eve in Cologne, and across the southern border the Vienna police chief warning women not to go out unaccompanied, and across the northern border:


~Danish nightclubs demand guests have to speak Danish, English or German to be allowed in after 'foreign men in groups' attack female revellers


But don't worry, it won't be a problem for long: On the German and Swedish "migrant" numbers, there won't be a lot of "female revelry" in Europe's future. The formerly firebreathing feminists at The Guardian and the BBC are already falling as mute as battered wives - saying nothing, looking away, making excuses, clutching at rationalizations... "

At some point civil war will break out.

Collaborating politicians of all stripes, but especially the leftist and green ones, must know...

... that a heavy price will have to be paid.


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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: DRESSCODE FOR INFIDEL WHORES IN ITALY ACCORDING TO MODERATE MUSLIMS.

Again, via our friends over at Gates of Vienna, an interesting video shot in Milan. Following New Year’s Eve's groping jihad in Cologne, Italian TV program La Gabbia (“The Cage”) programmed an emission titled: “Muslims: Women Without the Veil Are Not to Be Respected”. La Gabbia's producers sent a reporter dressed in jeans and high heels to several mosques to engage Muslim men and ask them how they think women should dress.

Par0 did the translation, Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:




How sad that only now some people are finally beginning to understand the ramifications of unchecked muslim immigration. Why is this woman dumbfounded when Lega Nord, Vlaams Belang, Front National, Sverigdemokraterna, Dansk Folkeparti, the PVV et al have for decades been shouting at the top of their lungs about the clear and present danger muslims constitute for our continent?

Even when we are bombarded day in day out with a myriad of signs that the troubles caused by muslims are going crescendo, leftist rag De Standaard finds it necessary to give a forum to an ardent islamic supremacist journalist, a "Dutch" woman no less, Hassnae Bouazza:

"WE HAVE OUR OWN HATE PREACHERS HERE. WITH BLONDE HAIR."

"So the molestations in Cologne have everything to do with islam? And what about sexual violence in Dutch families or on Muenchen's Oktoberfest, reacts Dutch journalist Hassnae Bouazza. "The evil in muslims must be named, but not the racism of the autochtons, because then you demonize Henk and Ingrid".

I don't have the heart nor the time to translate the rest of the piece. Suffice to say it's one long diatribe with the age old characteristically muslim message of victimization. Just the title and two sentences of her story contain already the following obvious misnomers:


a.) With a "blonde hate preacher" she's clearly fingering Geert Wilders. Amazing actually, since the man has been living for about twelve years now surrounded by body guards. Imagine that. Guy almost can't pee without someone looking over his shoulder. Wilders has paid a GIGANTIC price for defending European Civilization: his personal freedom. And here is Hassnae Bouazza calling him a hate preachers, when the real hate preachers can, undisturbed and without fear for physical harm, deliver their messages in The Netherland's countless mosques.

b.) "Sexual violence in Dutch families": another howler. While it is of course true that in a very small minority of authochton families domestic/sexual violence is rampant, women's shelters main "clients" are... muslim women. As for the rights of muslim women between the sheets, well, I can't imagine there's many of them able to deny their husbands sex saying "not today honey I have a headache".

c.) Sexual violence on the Muenchener Oktoberfest: haven't heard about it yet. Any of the readers have info on that, drop me a line.

d.) If there's anything that has been named ad nauseam over the past decades, it IS the "racism" of the autochtons.


At De Standaard, they may finally see the light when the lights go out.


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SATURDAY NIGHT DAVID BOWIE SELECTION.

As you may or may not have noticed, David Bowie died from cancer recently.


Here's a selection of my favorites, off the top of my head.



Life on Mars.




From the 1971 album Hunky Dory. Perhaps my all-time favorite Bowie song.



Panic in Detroit.




From the 1973 album Aladdin Sane. The use of conga drums is an early testimony of Bowie's experimental zeal.



Soul Love.




Second track from the legendary album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972).



Moonage Daydream.




Also from, etc. Competes with Life on Mars for my all-time favorite Bowie song. With all the laurels heaped on Bowie, it's easy to forget how much this album owes to Mick Ronson, a first class guitarist who performed with top notch stars like Lou Reed, Van Morrison, Mott the Hoople, Morrissey and others. Pay special attention to the marvellous guitar solo starting at the 3:13 mark.



Five years.




From, etc.


Amsterdam.





Originally a song by Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel, covered by Bowie and performed since 1968.



This is not America.





A 1985 song performed by Bowie and Pat Metheny Group; from the soundtrack of the movie The falcon and the snowman (1985).



When the wind blows.




A song from the 1986 film of the same name.



Absolute Beginners.




Theme song of the 1986 musical film of the same name which introduced, uh, Patsy Kensit.


Never let me down.




From his seventeenth studio album of the same name, released in 1987. It was recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, near beautiful Lake Constance, which is a nice enough place to drop by at least once in your life.



Jump they say.




From Black Tie White Noise, eighteenth studio album by Bowie (released in 1993). We were just talking about Mick Ronson, the gifted guitarist. Ronson contributed to this album, but it was to be the last time. Later in the year he died of cancer, aged only 46.


Ashes to ashes. Which was my first encounter with the Bowie Phenomenon, thanks to my good friend John D. S., who really introduced me to quality music.




From the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).



I never gave much - if anything - for Bowie the Man, only for Bowie the Musician (even though I often had but the foggiest idea what exactly it was he was singing about). I suspect/assume Bowie in his younger years was something of a sexual pervert, who may or may not have bedded Mick Jagger, amongst others. I don't care about that - to each his own. Worse was the news that he fucked 15 year old girls Lori Mattix and Sable Starr, and these are just the names that we know. Also, me being a catholic, although admittedly not a very good one, I assume people would expect me to be angry at Bowie's aversion vis-à-vis the Catholic Church, as evident in amongst others his last but one album The Next Day.

But no, I'm not angry. I am of the philosophy "The deed is the punishment". And I just calmly notice that Bowie did to teens what he accused the Men of the Church of, and that a man who married a woman named Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid probably would never have made a music video mocking another religion of which the highest authorities, contrary to those of Christianity, have thus far refrained from paying damages to its countless victims of paedophilia.

That said, as a musical performer I consider the Thin White Duke without equal. The world will certainly be a duller place with him gone.

Rest in peace, David Bowie. And thanks - I mean it - for brightening up my life.



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STORY OF WALID MUSTAPHA CHALHOUB, "CANADIAN" SEXUAL PREDATOR, SUSPICIOUSLY ABSENT IN EUROPEAN MEDIA:

From The Montreal Gazette, January 6, 2016:

"Walid Mustapha Chalhoub, 33, a resident of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, is charged with sexual assault on eight minors and an 18-year-old woman he had previously dated. He faces 48 charges in all in a trial at the Montreal courthouse. That includes ten counts of sexual assault, two counts of armed sexual assault and 11 counts of extortion.

Quebec Court Judge Serge Boisvert heard testimony from two young women who were close friends when they decided to go to Chalhoub’s apartment in the borough because a schoolmate had told one of them Chalhoub had a way for them to make easy money. The women were 16 and 17 when they went to Chalhoub’s home in August 2013. Both gave the Montreal police videotaped statements, last February, in which they said Chalhoub was vague about the contracts he offered them. The statements were played for Boisvert before each witness testified.

The young women said they were given alcohol and offered marijuana when they arrived and found a small party in progress in Chalhoub’s apartment. As the night progressed people gradually left and Chalhoub talked of being a chauffeur for escorts, claimed he was part of the Mafia and boasted that he had killed people.

Both women said they assumed Chalhoub wanted something sexual from them but that he was never specific when they discussed the contracts. One witness, who was 17 when Chalhoub sexually assaulted her, said she initially assumed her body would be painted while she was nude before going to his apartment. In her videotaped statement to Montreal police Det.-Sgt. Brigitte Guérard, recorded on Feb. 10 last year, the witness said that once she signed the contract Chalhoub suddenly made it clear he expected sex from her. She could either make $5,000 to perform fellatio on him using Nutella, a hazelnut cocoa spread, or make $12,000 to have intercourse with him. He said the sex acts would be recorded on video and sent to an Internet site where clients would to pay to view it. He assured her the video would not be accessible in Montreal. She told Guérard she felt drunk when she signed the three-page document.

She said she decided to back out of the agreement as Chalhoub walked with her to a Petro-Canada gas station near his home to buy condoms. When asked if she had actually agreed to have sex with Chalhoub at that point she replied that she was going along with him because she felt pressured and threatened.

“I said I didn’t want to do it. He said that to annul the contract would cost me $3,800,” the witness told Guérard in February. “He said he could set my house on fire, to think of my family, that he was part of the Mafia.”

The witness said she agreed to have sex with Chalhoub only out of fear and that she cried and held her 16-year-old friend’s hand while he raped her. She later testified that she didn’t want her friend to leave because she dreaded the idea of being left alone with Chalhoub.

“He told me to stop crying because it didn’t excite him,” the witness said.

The young woman’s father was in the courtroom while part of her videotaped statement was played for Boisvert. The man stared directly at Chalhoub, who sat in a prisoner’s dock, and never took his eyes off of him. Chalhoub avoided the father’s stare by keeping his eyes fixed on a television screen as the statement was shown. The father left the courtroom before his daughter described being raped...."

Check out Ezra Levant's take on The Rebel Media: Muslim Rape Slavery comes to Canada:




Canada's Lunatic-in-Chief Justin Turdeau has plegded to resettle 25,000 "Syrian" "refugees" by the end of February. Good luck with that.


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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: PAT CONDELL'S LATEST ON THE GROPING JIHAD.

Via our buddies at Gates of Vienna:




In other news, last Sunday, on the train Brussels-Tournai, three underage Syrian "refugees" of 12 and 13 year old harassed several girls and women. First they touched two 16-year old girls, then they groped a 22-year old woman. The woman started screaming and offered resistance, whereupon other passengers intervened.




Police was able to catch them afterwards in Tournai station, but after interrogation a judge ordered their release. When asked later why he had done so, the judge apparently communicated that at first he "underestimated the seriousness of the facts", then that he had only known of the incident with the woman, not of the prior harassment of the two girls.

Police is now reportedly looking for the three "refugees" again.

The latter, ladies and gentlemen, is what our Dutch and French neighbors call a "Belgenmop". A Belgium prank. An anecdote so stupid it can only happen here.

Btw, the three happen to live in France (Tournai is just near the border) and their parents are known to have asked asylum.

And islam has nothing to do with it.


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MOLENBEEK: PEACEFUL INHABITANTS NOT PLEASED WITH RTL CAMERA CREW POKING AROUND.

Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, this morning. A crew from TV broadcaster RTLInfo wants to interview people in Evariste Pierron street, where the family of Chakib Akrouh lives, the "Belgian" who was the third man of the terror group who machinegunned people on a cafe terrace in Paris on November 13. He blew himself up during the police siege in Saint-Denis on November 18.



Des journalistes de RTLinfo agressés ce matin à Molenbeek

Watch the Culture Enricher at the 0:38 mark.

Not all muslims are terrorists, but the overwhelming majority of them are terrorist supporters.


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RAINER WENDT, CHIEF OF GERMAN POLICE UNION: "EVERY OFFICER KNOWS THAT A CERTAIN POLITICAL EXPECTATION IS BEING CULTIVATED."

Via our Brothers-in-Arms at Gates of Vienna:




I have a natural aversion against everything that reeks of unions, but Wendt is completely correct. Note how Nordrhein-Westfalen's current Minister-President, Hannelore Kraft, who doubles as the leader of the Social Democratic Party in NRW, squirms like a snail to deflect the blame for the creation of Germany's stifling PC Climate.

Sorry. I meant actually, the ENTIRE Western World's stifling PC Climate.

Leftism in all its forms is going to be the death of us.

Whether it's ten US sailors surrendering to pipsqueak rafts of the Iranian "Navy", gay marriage, the gender industry, euthanasia, sclerotic economies, race wars, MMGW lunacy, murdering millions of perfectly healthy foetuses in the womb, the EU bullying against Poland while groveling in the dirt for Turkey, importing millions of muslim beasts in our countries...

... It is always THE LEFT. Everywhere you look.


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GOP ESTABLISHMENT JUST-DOES-NOT-GET-IT.

Mark Steyn in his inimitable way nails it when he rips Nikki Haley's unforgivable jab against Donald Trump during what should exclusively be a SOTU rebuke: "The Stupid Party gets Stupider".

I wholeheartedly agree. Read the column, on this blog I will limit myself to just one quote:

"So these days the GOP can't even schedule an insipid forgettable SOTU response without insulting the overwhelming majority of its actual voters."

But Steyn also linked to a recent Brent Bozell critique of the GOP establishment, and I would recommend it just as well - on this occasion, perhaps even more:

"In Politico Tuesday, Republican elites warned that if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz become the nominee it would ruin the Republican brand.

How's that for party unity and loyalty?

More to the point: What brand?

The GOP brand is already ruined. And they ruined it.

The GOP brand was one that championed limited government. The second largest expansion of the federal government came under the stewardship of President Bush 43 with the GOP in control of both the House and the Senate. Since 2008, the growth has exploded, with more debt added during the Obama administration than all others combined. And since 2010, the GOP leadership has approved every single spending measure.

So much for limited government.

The GOP brand championed family values. They have done virtually nothing to uphold the American family in the face of relentless attacks from anti-family leftwing radicals. It is now illegal to defend your religion. God is being expelled from the public square everywhere. Marriage as a sacred institution has been abandoned. We are being forced to fund the killing of babies. None of these things were imaginable a generation ago. The GOP leadership has stood down every time families begged them to rise up.

So much for family values.

The GOP brand championed a strong national defense. Our adversaries are dangerous, threatening and on the march everywhere. Islamic terrorism is sweeping the globe. This administration has responded by gutting the military – and the GOP has endorsed it. Just as worrisome, our military are being emasculated from within by a politically-correct deconstructionist agenda that is ruining morale. The GOP is doing nothing about it.

So much for the commitment to a strong national defense

For years the GOP elites, along with their high-priced consultants, have cynically manipulated the Republican base, constantly promising to deliver on one issue after another, in order to get elected, yet delivering on nothing because there was never the intention of doing so.

Time and again since 2010, the Republicans have pledged to defund Obamacare. They’ve had countless opportunities to do so with meaningful legislation. Every time the opportunity has arisen, they’ve headed for the tall grass. Fail.

Republicans ran tens of thousands of ads in 2014 promising to stop Obama’s executive amnesty overreach. The moment to opportunity presented itself – they funded it.. Fail.

The Republican leadership declared its intention to stop federal funding of Planned Parenthood for once and for all. No serious effort has been enacted. Fail.

These Republicans declare in all of their speeches that they intend to rein in spending and shrink government – yet haven’t once even tried seriously. Fail.

I’m sure I could think of more failures. But there’s something I can’t recall. Beyond welfare reform and the naming of two superb Supreme Court Justices, I can’t think of any GOP accomplishment advancing the GOP brand over the past quarter century.

The rise of Trump and Cruz (and Carson and Fiorina too) is a direct reaction to the establishment’s own criminal incompetence.

But the GOP honchos are so blind to reality they can’t see any of this, or too dishonest to admit it. From Politico:


~In private conversations with several former aides, Mitt Romney, who in March will keynote the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner, has expressed rising frustration about Trump’s prolonged lead in polls and has argued that the real-estate mogul could inflict lasting damage on the party’s brand.


This from the Democrat-lite Republican who inexcusably couldn’t defeat the incumbent more vulnerable than even Jimmy Carter. His solution is to call for more of the same against Hillary Clinton.



Why does anyone bother listening to these men?

Consider these breathtakingly asinine comments from McConnell’s former chief of staff, Josh Holmes, in Politico:


~At some point, we have to deal with the fact that there are at least two candidates who could utterly destroy the Republican bench for a generation if they became the nominee… We’d be hard-pressed to elect a Republican dogcatcher north of the Mason-Dixon or west of the Mississippi.


These men really don’t care enough about the disintegration of America to do anything about it. They really don’t care about the Republican party either.

For them—the incumbents, the consultants and the Chamber—it is always about power. Their power.

The establishment is frightened. They should be. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz don’t pose a threat to the GOP, they pose a threat to them. The current worry among Republican elites boils down to this, and this only: The GOP establishment is paralyzed by fear that it will be defeated by Trump or Cruz."

-Brent Bozell is chairman of ForAmerica, the nation's largest active online conservative network with nearly 8 million supporters.


Like I said, Trump is no sane conservative's idea of an exemplary frontrunner for the GOP, but sane conservatives should by now be so I-N-F-U-R-I-A-T-E-D with the party Traitor establishment that for them Trump Trumps everything.

America should hope and pray for a Trump/Cruz ticket.



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TRIFECTA ON THE POLICE/MEDIA COVER UP OF NEW YEAR'S MUSLIM RAPE WAVE.

Hat tip Theo Spark.


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ZUMWALT FINISHES SEA TRIALS, ENTERS PORTLAND HARBOR.

Watch this video from Maine Imaging Photography. It shows the USN's Zumwalt (DDG-1000) entering Portland Harbor following sea trials in December. The Zumwalt is the first of three of its class, stealth destroyers being built for the Navy by General Dynamics BIW (Bath Iron Works) in Maine.




Woooooow, what a cute video!!!! What a nice ship.

On a sea like a billiard table.


Below is a pic of the German battlecruiser/battleship Scharnhorst prior to July 1939.






Here's a pic of the same ship, post August 1939.






Spot the difference? The Kriegsmarine considered both the Scharnhorst and it's sister ship the Gneisenau rather poor sea boats, bow-heavy and slow in turning.

That is why in the summer of 1939 both battlecruisers/battleships were fitted with a so-called Atlantikbug (Atlantic Bow).

To be sure, this adjustment was no wonder cure. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau continued to suffer from non-combat damage in heavy seas - during which "A" turret could barely be used. But is was an improvement.

I am no naval engineer, much less a seafarer. My marine expertise limits itself to having been on board ferries across the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Skagerrak. But when I look at the Zumwalt... I seriously wonder whether this ship can survive in a North Atlantic monsterstorm. The rationale for its bow is that it should "pierce the waves". It may pierce it so well that in a heavy storm it becomes a submarine.

Oh yeah... look where the Zumwalt's bridge is vis-à-vis the Scharnhorst's and Gneisenau's. Even with their new Atlantikbug, both ships could get "wet" to the bridge. I wonder what it's gonna look like on the Zumwalt's bridge in storms like these...




e.g. at the 1:01 mark.

I fear the Zumwalt is going to end up as but little better than the LCS - investment-wise of course. I have heard positive things about BIW so maybe they can make it a better ship than I imagine. But I do have serious doubts. Maybe, at some time in the future, BIW will be asked to fit the DDG-1000 and its sister ships with an Atlantikbug of their own.


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MUSLIM SEX MOBS ON NEW YEAR'S EVE: KOELN APPARENTLY ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.

More and more data is emerging indicating that the massive scale of sexual harassment, burglary and molestation by young muslim males opposite the Koelner Hauptbahnhof on New Year's Eva was no isolated incident. Bild reports:

FAR MORE ATTACKS THAN THOUGHT?

THE NEW YEAR'S EVE HORROR BALANCE.

Already more than 500 complaints in Cologne. +++ 500 men would have harassed women in front of a disco in Bielefeld.

Some exerpts from the Bild article:

"Thus far, Cologne Police has received 516 complaints - among them 150 because of sexual harassment! Apart from that other delicts, for the most part physical violence and theft. Police is currently investigating 350 hours of video material. More than 30 suspects have been charged, 19 of them are old acquaintances of police.

On two men Police found papers with German/Arabic translations - with phrases like "I kill you", "I want to fuck" and "Big breasts". Lots of stolen cell phones were located in asylum centers or in their immediate surroundings, Der Spiegel reports.

Police investigations mainly focus on men from North African countries [which is strange given earlier reports about the majority of the perpetrators being from the ME - MFBB]. It has yet to be seen whether it will be possible to charge them with specific, documented criminal acts.

On Saturday evening at around 9.10 pm a Moroccan who had stolen a cell phone from a 23-year old Cologne woman, was arrested. Since 2013 he has been charged several times for felony.

In other German cities, attacks were clearly far more severe than thought thus far!

The journal "Westfalen Blatt" reports that on New Year's Eve, a 500-strong muslim mob violently tried to force itself into the "Elephant Club" disco. In the process, numerous women were touched inappropriately. The disco's security chief: "only using physical violence were we able to help the women and set them free." Bielefeld Police confirmed: "the first complaints from violated women are being processed". "Our officers had to regularly provide assistance in enforcing the disco's rules. The agression from the [muslim] mob was without precedent and very aggressive."

In Hamburg, 108 complaints from women have been received so far. Last Thursday, the number was "only" 70. A spokesman explained the rising number as the result of "more attention being paid by public servants"."

PI News, which is on top of things regarding the ongoing crisis, reports that it is still under attack. A screenshot from their site, taken around 11.30pm this evening/night:




The DDOS attacks could originate from three sources: the German government itself, leftist radicals, or muslim organizations. Regardless the identity of the hackers, it is clear that some have a vested interest in the German people not knowing to what extent the fabulous multiculti model is an absolute and horrible failure.



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SATURDAY NIGHT THE HOLLIES, METALLICA.

The Hollies with "The Air that I breathe". From the 1974 album Hollies.




Ballad written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. The Hollies formed in Manchester in 1962 around Allan Clarke and Graham Nash as a Merseybeat group. 54 years later they are still there, and never even broke up to restart again.



Metallica with Nothing Else Matters. From the 1991 album Metallica (aka "the Black Album").




Band formed in LA in 1981. Its constant members are James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. I am of the MTV Generation. Watched these guys, among many others, in countless weekends in the late eighties and early nineties.



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ONLY IN BELGIUM: MINISTER FOR ASYLUM AND MIGRATION THEO FRANCKEN ORGANIZES SEX EDUCATION FOR MIGRANTS "TO TEACH THEM RESPECT FOR WOMEN".

I'm again a bit late to shed some light on this subtopic but so be it. Well, whaddaya know? Belgian Minister (OK, technically he's a State Secretary, but whatever) for Asylum and Migration Theo Francken will organize sexual education for (male) refugees and asylum seekers.



FRANCKEN WANTS TO EDUCATE ASYLUM SEEKERS: "A WOMAN IS TREATED WITH RESPECT HERE."



In the article there's first some talk about the rampant fights between Iraqis and Afghans in the asylum centers, a thing he "wants to end once and for all". He's looking into more severe measures, because "the heaviest sanction now, 30 days exclusion from the asylum centre, doesn't seem to impress anyone."

No shit, Sherlock. Have you already tried to cut off their wifi?


But then comes the thing:


The State Secretary also mentioned the courses he's planning for all asylum seekers that will teach them how to engage women. "Some asylum centers are already organizing this on the stump, but the government wants to expand the pattern over the coming weeks", daily De Standaard writes. "The main goal is that asylum seekers are taught to show respect for women. It's about the fact that it is normal that men and women are absolutely equal, that women can go to work, that they have the right to vote, in other words that a woman is somebody who should be treated with respect and who is not a slut or whore. We had these debates 50, 60 years ago and we are not going to have them again, we won't give in a millimeter".


Ladies and gentlemen, to call this drivel insane gobbledegook is bestowing it with too much honor.

In a normal country, COMPLETE NONSENSE coming from the mouth of a minister no less, should be enough ground to sack him.

But not so in Belgium.

So then our moral and intellectual betters usher in tens of thousands of barely literate "refugees" from islamic hellholes where despising, humiliating and abusing women has been part and parcel of the cultural DNA for 1,400 years...

Then they are dumbfounded when things like in Koeln and Weil-am-Rhein and Finland and Salzburg occur...

... but DON'T YOU WORRY, because Asylum and Migration bigwog Theo Francken is going to process these savages thru a 30-day course of sex ed and all them Mohammeds and Ibrahims and Alis will magically emerge from it like your average day cream using sensitive euroweenie metrosexuals.

Good luck with that.

I have stated on many occasions before that I am reporting from the world's biggest Open Air Lunatic Asylum. Perhaps I should be a bit more crass yet.


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MERKEL CRACKING DOWN ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN GERMANY: PI-NEWS SUBJECTED TO HEAVY DDOS ATTACKS.

Even our lamestream media couldn't look past the appalling events in at least five German cities on New Year's Eve, so bad was it. In Germany, the country's most-influential political blog, PI-News, run by Stefan Herre, was on top of things.

And it seems Merkel's goons are not pleased with that.

Just tonight I was reading Steyn's latest take on German authorities cracking down on what they call "a rash of incendiary speech"...

"The German state is apparently incapable of springing to action over organized mass sexual assault in at least five cities on a rape-out-the-old New Year's Eve (oh, and Finland, too), but you've gotta be able to prioritize, right? Post reporter Anthony Faiola's snide opening is a classic of the genre:

BERLIN — Donald Trump may be testing the boundaries of tolerance on the U.S. campaign trail. But here in Germany, the government is effectively enforcing civility, taking aim at a surge of hate speech against refugees and Muslims.

There's actually nothing very "civil" about "enforcing civility". Indeed, if civility (which derives from "civis" - citizen) has to be enforced, it is by definition no longer civility at all. Nevertheless:

As Western Europe's most populous nation grapples with a historic wave of mostly-Muslim migrants, politicians and activists are decrying a rash of incendiary speech bubbling to the surface of German society. In a country whose Nazi past led to some of the strictest laws in the West protecting minorities from people inciting hatred, prosecutors are launching investigations into inflammatory comments as judges dole out fines, even probation time, to the worst offenders.

German authorities, meanwhile, have reached a deal with Facebook, Google and Twitter to get tougher on offensive content, with the outlets agreeing to apply domestic laws, rather than their own corporate policies, to reviews of posts.

I said yesterday that "without free speech, there are only the official lies". The first week of the New Year in Germany has provided a grim example of that: In one of the most famous public places in Germany a mass sexual assault took place ...and every organ of the state colluded in covering it up. The initial press release from the Cologne police read:

POL-K: 160101-1-K/LEV Ausgelassene Stimmung - Feiern weitgehend friedlich

"A mood of exuberance - largely peaceful celebrations." That's what they told the citizenry. What they told each other was quite different:

The outbreak of violence was also far more serious than previously thought, and at one point senior police officers feared "there could have been fatalities".

Two publications have released what they claim is an internal report by a senior officer who was at the scene.

Which is full of stuff they didn't have room for in their night-of-exuberant-celebrations press release:

"We came to the conclusion that the situation threatened chaos or serious injury, if it didn't lead to fatalities."

Police decided to clear the area but met with resistance and were "repeatedly bombarded with fireworks and pelted with bottles..."

"Many women came to officers shocked and crying and reported sex assaults. Police forces were unable to respond to all the events, assaults and offences. There were just too many at the same time."

Because all the other coppers were back at the police station investigating mean-spirited Tweets?

Fortunately, none of this unpleasantness made the news:

Following a barrage of complaints on social media that the New Year's Eve events were deliberately under-reported amid fears they would encourage anti-immigrant sentiment, Germany's public broadcaster, ZDF, was forced to apologise for its decision not to report on the attacks until Tuesday, four days after they had occurred.

"The news situation was clear enough," the show's deputy chief editor, Elmar Thevessen, wrote on the Heute (Today) programme's Facebook page. "It was a mistake of the 7pm Heute show not to at least report the incidents."

But, if you have to report it a week later, blame the victims. Cologne Mayor and "refugee activist" Henriette Reker told the hundred-plus sexually assaulted women of her city that the easiest way to solve the problem is to keep men at "arm's length". This may work for Mayor Reker traveling around her fiefdom with a car and security detail, but, alas, out on the streets, men often have longer arms than women, and, when there are more than one of them, you can easily wind up out-armed: "Ich hatte Finger an allen Körperöffnungen," as one young lady put it. "I had fingers on every orifice."

And so the Arab Spring has come to Europe - or at least the Tahrir Square part of it.

But don't even think of saying things like that because that makes you just as bad as the gang-rapists. Just ask Ralf Jaeger, the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia:

Mr Jaeger also warned that anti-immigrant groups were trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred against refugees.

"What happens on the right-wing platforms and in chatrooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women," he said. "This is poisoning the climate of our society."

So, in the multiculti utopia, chatrooms are "at least as awful" as gang rape. Maybe his cabinet colleagues might usefully stick some fingers in Herr Jaeger's orifices, starting with his mouth..."

... when, after clicking through to PI-News...

... I found I could not access it. That was around 1am on Saturday morning, January 9, and still so half an hour later, it wouldn't open.

I suspected a strong DDoS-attack, but luckily, at 1:32am, I found it was back online:




It turned out to be what I feared. Translation:

"After a strong DDoS-attack on our server we are currently, after two hours, back online. It's possible that PI in the following hours will remain somewhat "shaky", but we are optimistic that the heaviest attacks are behind us. We apologize to our readers for the missed On-Time and continue right away further on with new posts. Your PI-Team."


Godspeed, guys!


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CARTOON OF THE DAY.

Via PI-News:




Father: "That's my daughter!!!"

Policeman: "Be tolerant, you shit Nazi!"


Barely a couple of days after the terrible events in front of Cologne's Hauptbahnhof, Mayor Henriette Reeker found it necessary to point out the perpetrators had nothing to do with the refugees.

It now turns out that most were exactly that: Syrian refugees. According to Cologne Police, most of those they controlled were not of North African origin, but asylum seekers from... Syria.

And many stolen cell phones have been located in refugee centers.

"Islam is a part of Germany", eh, Angela?


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OUTLAW MIKE ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP.

Trump is no conservative.

Trump is an opportunist.

In the absence of electable candidates in the Republican camp however, and because he calls a spade a spade, he deserves the Republican nomination.






For a long time Rick Perry was my man. For reasons unfathomable to me, he did not tick with the American public.

Then I started growing very fond of Dr. Carson. But he is way too nice and he started saying funny things. Plus, because of the current occupant of the White House's catastrophic tenure has ironically made it very difficult for people of color to again give it a try for POTUS, Dr. Carson has also become as good as unelectable.

Cruz remains as the sole Real Conservative. But as of today, he's still unknown to far too many Americans and were he the nominee, Clinton would almost certainly be victorious.

Because this Monster would completely ruin what is left of the United States after 8 disastrous years of a cryptomarxist at the helm, it is absolutely necessary - it is absolutely vital - that the GOP comes up with a candidate who can WIN.

Only Trump remains.

That is why I endorse Donald Trump for President. And while I'm at it, Ted Cruz for veep.

The rest of the GOP candidates should call it quits. Playing time is over.


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KOELN, GERMANY, NEW YEAR'S EVE: ABOUT 1,000 MUSLIMS HARASS AUTOCHTON POPULATION, LAUNCH FIREWORKS IN CROWDS; SCORES OF WOMEN GROPED, VIOLATED.

Via PI News:

"Today at 2pm a press conference took place in Police HQ Koeln, Germany, to address the extraordinary evens on New Year's Eve around the Koelner Main Station. Even Koeln's usually over-the-top politically correct Police president Wolfgang Albers (2nd from the left) appeared shaken and spoke of "an unbearable situation" in Koeln. The reason? Criminal behaviour of "a hitherto completely unknown situation" by a group of around 1,000 men, "of apparently Arabic or North African extraction".

"At noon (on the 4th of January), Koeln Police had already received complaints from 60 women, but it is thought that the real number is far higher. These are tales about theft, violence, sexual harassment and rape."

"Islam is a part of Germany", eh, Angela?


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SATURDAY NIGHT CHRIS REA, QUEEN.

Chris Rea with I can hear your heartbeat.




From the album Water Sign (1983).




Queen with Killer Queen.




Album Sheer heart attack (1974).



Nite.


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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016!!!

Like every year, my sincere best wishes to all our readers of good will everywhere!




Thanks for staying tuned!



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