DEMOCRATS, GUN CONTROL LAWS AND THE CHRONICLE OF DEATHS FORETOLD.

The big news of the day is of course Brexit, and we will come to that - I hope so - but in the meantime my take on another hot topic.


There may have been a time when Democrats actually stood for some positive vision, some sensible projects.

But it's clear that must have been a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

The corpses of those gunned down at the Pulse nighclub were still warm when Demonrats already jumped on the occasion to scandalously use this as leverage for their age-old gun control laws.

Guns are tools. They are tools of death, but they remain TOOLS.

Suppose that statistical evidence would show that more people die in traffic under the wheels of, say, BMW cars, than when other makes of cars are involved. What should be done? Should the State forbid BMW to build any more cars? Or should the State impose much harsher fines on reckless drivers?

I don't know if the latter would have much effect, given how unhinged some people can be behind the wheel, but I think that it should be crystal clear to anyone that closing down BMW factories the world over would be a very stupid means to address the situation.

It's the same with guns. Guns are not the problem. The shooters are the problem, and in today's world "the shooters" verrry often means islamic terrorists.

The people murdered in Orlando died not because of AR-15's being available on the market.

They were murdered because islam hates gays, plain and simple.

France has very strict gun control laws. Yet the people murdered at the Bataclan theatre in November 2015 were gunned down anyway. With AK-47s bought in my own country, Belgium.

Which also has very, very strict gun control laws.

Failure to acknowledge this simple truth, means ensuring that carnages like in Orlando and Paris will happen again.

Therefore the demonrat bozos featured in the cartoon below, courtesy Biff Spackle, are criminals themselves.







Hat tip Theo Spark.


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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: BILL WHITTLE ON GUNS, ISLAM AND ORLANDO.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch made the scandalous decision to deliberately omit any references to islam or ISIS from the Orlando terrorist's released 911 transcripts.

She is effectively aiding and abetting the enemy.

She is therefore unfit for her position.

One person who does call the enemy by it's name is Bill Whittle.





Hat tip Gates of Vienna.


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RECOMMENDED VIDEOS: IDENTITAERE BEWEGUNG DEMO IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA.

I guess Austria's Identitaere Bewegung - in France called the Génération Identitaire - is still a noble unknown across the pond, but the movement is definitely picking up steam. Recently, they held a demo in Vienna. Via our buddies at Gates of Vienna:




It kind of warms the heart that not all of Europe is lost yet - especially upon realizing IB is first and foremost a youth movement.

I am 50. All my life I have passionately loathed the "soixante-huitards" - the hippie generation. I detested them - I still do. But I always felt terribly isolated in my attitude towards what I have forever considered a generation of hypocrites, hedonists, traitors to our magnificent civilization, and nest-shitters. It always seemed like I was forever a loner in my assessment.

Seeing these young people, men and women alike, denounce this very same filth and their descendants, well... that's marvelous!


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RECOMMENDED READS: THE GATESTONE INSTITUTE'S "A MONTH OF ISLAM IN GERMANY: MAY 2016."

Over at The Gatestone Insitute, Soeren Kern has compiled a bleak report. In light of the dreadful information it contains, it is difficult to think of Germany's ruling "elites" are anything else than completely and irreversibly insane.

"◾During an investigation into the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve, a chief superintendent from the Cologne police department revealed that he was ordered to remove the term "rape" from an internal police report about the assaults.


◾The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, says it will process more than one million asylum requests in 2016.


◾Thousands of Christians in German refugee shelters are being persecuted by Muslims, sometimes even by their security guards. — Open Doors, German branch.


◾"German security officials have indications that members and supporters of terrorist organizations are being smuggled in with refugees in a targeted, organized way in order to launch attacks in Germany." — German Federal Police.


◾Muhterem Aras was elected as the female first Muslim speaker of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg. Aras has been a proponent of allowing migrants without German citizenship to vote in local elections.


◾A 26-year-old migrant from Afghanistan was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for raping a woman who had offered him accommodation in her home in Cologne by means of a website, "Refugees Welcome."





May 1. The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the third-most popular political party in Germany, adopted a manifesto calling for curbs to migration and restrictions on Islam. The document calls for a ban on minarets, Muslim calls to prayer and full-face veils.

May 2. Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, revealed that around 90 "predominately Arabic-speaking" mosques in Germany are under surveillance. He said they involve mostly "backyard mosques" where "self-proclaimed imams and self-proclaimed emirs" are "inciting their followers to jihad." He called on moderate Muslims to work with the government to fight extremism and defend the constitutional order. Maaßen was speaking ahead of a security conference in Berlin at which he said that his agency we receiving on average four terror alerts every day: "The Islamic State is committed to attacking Germany and German interests."

May 2. During an investigation into the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve, a chief superintendent from the Cologne police department revealed that he was ordered to remove the term "rape" from an internal police report about the assaults. The superintendent, identified only as Jürgen H., said that he received a telephone call on January 1 from an official at the interior ministry in North-Rhine Westphalia, who told him in an angry tone: "This is not rape. Remove this term from your report. Submit a new report." The revelation adds to suspicions that there was a political cover-up to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.

May 3. A 20-year-old migrant from Afghanistan sexually assaulted a six-year-old boy in the changing room of a sports hall in Munich. Police said the same migrant had sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl at a public swimming pool in 2013.

May 3. A high court in Düsseldorf ruled that a group of eight German Islamists who dressed up in orange vests with the words "SHARIA POLICE" and who attempted to enforce Islamic law on the streets of Wuppertal in 2014 would face trial. The ruling overturned a lower court decision in December 2015 that the men would not face trial. The upper court said that the men had violated a law banning the wearing of uniforms at public rallies. The law, which prohibits uniforms that express common political views, was originally designed to ban neo-Nazi groups from parading in public. If convicted, the Islamists face up to two years in prison..."

Don't you never, ever say "Wir haben es nicht gewusst".



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THE BLESSINGS OF MULTICULTURALISM IN BELGIUM: TWELVE TERROR SUSPECTS ARRESTED, POSSIBLY PLANNED ATTACK DURING RED DEVILS SOCCER MATCH.

Via Het Laatste Nieuws, this morning:






New terror cell rounded up: 12 suspects arrested who planned attack during Red Devils soccer match.

"Last night anti-terror units rounded up a new terror cell, the Federal Prosecutor confirmed. In the course of some 40-odd house searches in sixteen towns, 12 suspects were arrested. 152 garage boxes were searched. Weapons or explosives were not found. The suspects would have been planning to execute an attack on Brussels' Rogier Square during the Red Devils' soccer match htis afternoon, VTM News learned [Red Devils = Rode Duivels, Belgium's national soccer team, currently participating in the European Soccer Championship].

In the course of this large anti-terror sweep police searched forty houses in sixteen communes: in Brussels, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Schaarbeek, Anderlecht, Koekelberg, Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Evere, Vorst, Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Ganshoren, Zaventem, Ninove, Wemmel, Fleurus, Tubize and Liège. Forty people were apprehended for interrogation. Of these, twelve were arrested. In the coming hours, the Federal Prosecutor will decide whether they will stay in jail or not.

The Federal Prosecutor stated "that immediate intervention was necessary", but declined to give further information."

The info is a bit confusing, since the article states boldly that the twelve planned a terror attack, which implies there's evidence, while later in the same article "the federal prosecutor will decide whether they will remain in custody or not".

Be all that as it may, the important info is "that immediate intervention was necessary".

No immediate interventions are necessary in Belgium's Armenian, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese or whatever communities. We got no problem with them. They contribute, they respect the law. You barely even hear them. They are a bonus to the country.

If an intervention involving FORTY house searches in MUSLIM communities in no less than SIXTEEN communes "is necessary"... there have been some SERIOUS hints. That's SERIOUS cause for concern.

I notice something else: houses were also searched in Ninove, Tubize, Fleurus, away from the big cities.

That means the islamic cancer is metastizing.




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TAQQIYA FROM THE HUSSEINI ISLAMIC CENTER, ORLANDO, FLA.

The Husseini Islamic Center in Orlando, FLA, reportedly condemns the horrific attack at the Pulse nightclub by Omar Mateen that left 49 dead and scores of wounded:

"Members of Husseini Islamic Center (HIC), stand united with our fellow Americans in categorically condemning this attack. We share the grief and sorrow of the nation and stand united with the Central Florida community and City of Orlando. Our heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to the families and loved ones who are victims of this tragedy."

Oh really?

As recently as 2013, that very same Husseini Islamic Centre invited a certain Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar, a British born islamic "scholar" to speak at the centre's mosque. During that speech, Sekaleshfar said "the killing of homosexuals is the compassionate thing to do"....

... and nobody at the HIC objected:




Here's video of the "event":

“Death is the sentence. We know there’s nothing to be embarrassed about this, death is the sentence...We have to have that compassion for people, with homosexuals, it's the same, out of compassion, let’s get rid of them now.”

Guess the good sheikh made himself abundantly clear, huh? So, Husseini Islamic Centre, spare us your nonsense and lies. We all know that you condone, even cheer, the murder of 49 of your "fellow Americans".


The supreme irony is, of course, that perhaps nowhere on the planet as many men engage in homosexual behavior as in the muslim world. This article is lifting just a tip of the veil, but there are many, many more hints. But what would you expect in a societal model that condemns its young men full of testosterone to rampage around with basically no one else but their own sex? A societal model that hides its women - especially its most attractive ones! - from view? The islamic world is basically one enormous prison where far too many of the male inmates can only rely on their own sex to let off some steam.


Anyway... as a human and a Christian, although admittedly, far from an ideal one, I offer my sincere condolences to the relatives of those brutally murdered and wounded. This is a tragedy without equal. And, I fear, an omen of things to come, if coward politicians continue to evade the truth about the attack's real nature.


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SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: THEO VAN RYSSELBERGHE (1862-1926).

Théo van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 14 December 1926) was probably the foremost Belgian neo-impressionist painter. Beginning as a Realist, he evolved rather quickly to impressionism, exhibiting at the age of 19 already at the Brussels Salon.





The garden of Félicien Rops at Essone.

Van Rysselberghe, born in Flanders but francophone, since a scion in the Belgian bourgeoisie where Flemish was considered a peasant's language, was also a co-founder of the artistic circle "Les XX" (Les Vingt, The Twenty), a band of progressive Belgian artists rebelling against the prevailing realism of the age - much like a generation earlier the Pre-Raphaelites in England had rebelled against the style of Joshua Reynolds and followers.




The beautiful and delicate "Marguerite de Mons", a painting of a girl who was mourning her recently deceased mother.



Les soeurs du peintre Schlobach.



Swimmer resting.(1922)


Good night.


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SATURDAY NIGHT THE HAPPY MONDAYS, CHRISTOPHER CROSS.

The Happy Mondays with Step On. From the 1990 album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches.




Madchester band around Shaun (vocals) and Paul (bass) Ryder from Salford, Greater Manchester.



A nice ballad: Christopher Cross with Sailing. From his debut album Christopher Cross (1979).




Singer/songwriter from San Antonio, Texas.



At the time of finishing this Saturday Night I saw that we had no less than 402 hits from Japan today. Dunno where I earned so much attention from the Land of the Rising Sun, other than that an old post about Unit 731 must suddenly have been picked up by someone who thereafter snowballed it.

Just to make a couple of things clear...

While I reserve the right to point out certain things re the horrible excesses committed by Japanese military personnel during its militaristic regime's tenure, I want to make it clear that I don't hold the Japanese people themselves responsible for that. I want to emphasize that I respect Japan and its citizens TRE-MEN-DOUS-LY. I salute you and your ingenuity, stamina, labor ethic, scientific and technological prowess; your fascinating history and rich culture; your fine cuisine (our family is a regular visitor to a very decent Japanese restaurant in Brussels, Kabuki); and last but not least, your absolutely beautiful country. May we have the good luck to visit it one day.

Also, you must be goddam smart people in allowing immigrants only under the most stringent conditions - especially muslim immigrants. I know your island nation faces its own particular problems, what with your demographic challenges, your tsunamis, your proximity to that North Korean lunatic et al, but of this I am sure: Japan and the Japanese will see things through.




おやすみなさい、良い夢を!



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IT'S RAMADAN AGAIN: PEACEFUL, LAW-ABIDING MUSLIMS TORCH TWO POLICE CARS IN MOLENBEEK, BELGIUM.

Via HLN Online:

"In Molenbeek, two police cars were torched yesterday evening. Earlier reports had it that youths had set alight one car with a molotov cocktail. During the night a second car was torched. Police arrested a suspect, an 18-year old man. He will be questioned before the prosecutor today, according to Johan Berckmans, spokesman for the Brussels-West Police Zone.

The first car was set on fire in Vierwindenstraat, where in March terror suspect Salah Abdeslam was arrested. There were no wounded. The officers got a call around 18.30h regarding an arson attempt of a garage in an adjoining street. When they checked out the place, they heard an explosion. It quickly became clear that it was their own car which was burning, as well as another car parked nearby.

The second car was torched around midnight in De Rooverelaan, near Brussels West Station. The car in question was an unmarked Peugeot 807 of a branch of a local police service dealing with specific youths. This car would also have been set alight with a molotov cocktail."

A video of the event yesterday evening:





Earlier this week, it became known that at several schools in Brussels muslim pupils as young as eleven years refused to follow swimming and music classes. The swimming classes because of the risk of swallowing some water from the pool and drinking is forbidden during the day when it's ramadan; the music classes were no-no because music is haram.

With every passing day now, it becomes apparent what a gigantic danger muslims pose for civilized societies.

The day is rapidly approaching when humanity will have to deal with this hellish sect once and for all. The best option would be to deport each and every muslim from normal countries to their homelands and let them rot there. But such a thing is impossible without an all-out war. It is clear that the mere existence of this insane moon cult, which makes beasts of those it possesses, is not only a stain on Mankind, but a horrible burden as well, litterally holding humanity back from achieving its full potential.



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DUESSELDORF, GERMANY. HAMZA, "SYRIAN" REFUGEE FROM MOROCCO CAN'T GET CHOCOLATE PUDDING, TORCHES ASYLUM CENTER INSTEAD. DAMAGE 10 MILLION EUR.

Islam is DEFINITELY a part of Germany these days.

It barely made the news, perhaps a footnote here, so I suspect probably nothing at all across the pond, but last week an asylum center in Duesseldorf was torched by some of the very refugees it was sheltering.

Via PI-News:

"Ever more details regarding the torching of the asylum center in Duesseldorf emerge. On Wednesday evening, the two 26-year old North African prime suspects were arrested. Since the beginning of 2016, police had to intervene 89 times in the now burned up hall, the two would have been the instigators in many of the riots leading to the interventions. The plan to torch the building would have originated, according to Express, with "Fat Hamza" (photo), who was angered because he did not get chocolate pudding. Therefore, already on Monday Police had to be deployed to contain the group gathering around the firebrand leader.

(Via L.S.Gabriel)

On Tuesday, asylum cheater Hamza and his sidekick, actually two Moroccans pretending to come from Syria, were pissed off because security had not awoken them for breakfast before the sun came up; yet at noon the whole gang around their fat boss demanded more variety at the buffet, this despite ramadan. Since the guards were slow to respond, Hamza gave the "Feuer Frei" order. Schnapps was poured on a mattress and set alight. Result: around 10 million EUR damage, because Hamza from Casablanca did not get chocolate pudding."

More info at Express.





This is Hamza, a 26-year old refugee from Casablanca. Casablanca is a city in Morocco which reportedly lies somewhere smack in the middle of Syria.

Hamza is simultaneously a world-renowned microbiologist, a nuclear physicist and a rocket scientist who likes to play Beethoven on his piano, paid for with the receipts from lectures he gives on architectural topics, and who in his scarce spare time, when he's not too tired from working his fat ass off for the wellbeing of the good citizens of Germany, writes poetry.

As we know by now, he also has a serious knack for chocolate pudding.



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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH IN EUROPE.

Via The Rebel Media and The Gatestone Institute, a telling video featuring Giulio Meotti:





Meotti is a journalist for Il Foglio, one of Europe's very few decent newspapers.



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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: THIS IS EUROPE.

This is our continent, this is our civilization.





And no insane suicidal leftist or greenie multiculti idiot or no backward inbred wifebeating follower of mohammed (may piss, excrement, vomit and menstruation blood be showered upon him in royal quantities) will take it away from us.


WE WILL FIGHT FOR EUROPE.

WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR CIVILIZATION.



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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: PAUL WESTON OF LIBERTY GB ON LONDON'S NEW MUSLIM MAYOR SADIQ KHAN.

A couple of weeks back we had a post on Sadiq Khan's election as Mayor of London, and his dubious ties to extremist muslims.

Turns out it is even far worse, something MSM deliberately chooses to ignore.

A telling video with Paul Weston, Chairman of Liberty GB:





And here is the transcript:

"So, Sadiq Khan is now the Mayor of London. What sort of man is he?

He took his oath on the Koran, so he puts Islam before his country. His brother-in-law was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, and apparently Sadiq Khan is related to four members of a proscribed extremist organisation. One of his aides, Shueb Salar, had to be eventually fired for writing about killing Jews.

Sadiq Khan worked for Liberty civil rights organisation, which included at that time Azad Ali on its board. Azad Ali wanted to kill British soldiers.

Sadiq Khan has represented the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan - after Louis Farrakhan said, we want to kill all the whites.

Sadiq Khan has represented Ali Dizaei, the corrupt Muslim policeman who went to jail for perverting the course of justice.

Sadiq Khan has represented Babar Ahmad, a terrorist linked to al-Qaeda.

Sadiq Khan has represented Shaker Aamer, who toddled off to Syria with a false passport, obviously to do some charity work, according to Sadiq Khan - of course he didn't, the British Intelligence want to know about him.







Sadiq Khan represented Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is wanting to kill Jews around the world, stone homosexuals to death and adulteresses to death.

Sadiq Khan's represented the Muslim Council of Britain after – after they were dropped by the Labour government for being basically linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

He has been on Press TV in Iran, calling moderate Muslims Uncle Toms, because they are not proper Muslims, because they're moderates.

He shared stages repeatedly with Muslims calling for the murder of Jews and for the takeover of the West, and because he's represented these people, he's linked to Cage's Adnan Qureshi, who said that Jihadi John was a beautiful young man.

Now, Sadiq Khan will tell you that because he worked in the civil rights industry, these are the people that he came across, because of civil rights issues. But you'll notice they are all particular types of people. You will notice that Sadiq Khan never represented Sergeant Blackman, Marine A. He never represented Tommy Robinson.

We wrote to Liberty - the group, civil rights group Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti's Liberty, Sadiq Khan's Liberty – and said, are you going to represent Tommy Robinson? We never got a reply from them, because Tommy Robinson is the enemy of Sadiq Khan, as is Sergeant Blackman, Marine A, the enemy of Sadiq Khan.

And this is a man that is now the mayor of the capital city of England, the Mayor of London, a man who has spent his entire life associating with enemies of Britain, enemies of Jews, enemies of women, enemies of the infidel, enemies of the English basically, the British. This is the man who is now the Mayor of London.

This could never have happened twenty years ago, very unlikely it could have happened ten years ago, but now that the white English native population of London are now a minority, this is the sort of man, with his extremist friends, that can become the Mayor of London - which is an obscenity, it is a catastrophe. It is a sign of a country which is fast disappearing.

I wouldn't mind particularly if he was a Muslim who just happened to be a Muslim, but you do not have that huge range of extremist friends … clearly his sympathies lie with extremist Islam.

How is it possible? Well, we know how it's possible, it's possible because the English no longer remain a proper voting block in their own capital city.

In ten years' time, twenty years' time, we are going to find that what's now happened in London is going to happen in the country on a national basis, and we will have at some point a Muslim Prime Minister, and the media will say, oh he's a lovely man, just like they all said Sadiq Khan was a lovely man, but he's not, and he won't be.

All of these Muslim people involved in politics are driven by Islam. They're not driven by love of England, not a single one of them.

This is why no Muslims should be holding political public office in this country, and Sadiq Khan is a prime example of exactly why not. We've been saying that at Liberty GB for a long time now, and
it's perfectly acceptable, I think, not to have somebody like Sadiq Khan, linked to all of these extremists, running our capital city.

If you think the same that I think about this, and we do not want these people running our political system in this country when they are clearly enemies of England, of us, of you, then please join Liberty GB, because we're standing up and saying it.

Nobody else is. You will not find UKIP saying it.

We need to do something about this, because as I say, in ten years, twenty years, thirty years maximum, this will be an Islamic country run under Sharia law, based purely on the demographics.

So do something about it, join Liberty GB, support Liberty GB, do something, and stop the future of more Sadiq Khans running more cities in this country before we eventually have a Sadiq Khan as Prime Minister with all of the terrible people surrounding him.

So please - do something about it.

Thank you."

You can join Liberty GB here.



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SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: AN AFTERNOON IN BRUGES.

Spent the afternoon with my family and my aunt in Bruges. Some impressions:




The baroque façade of Saint Walburga Church, a former Jesuit Church, now a parish church.

The Basilica of the Holy Blood is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Bruges, Belgium. The term "Basilica" implies something grand, but this building is actually quite small - that's because it was originally built in the 12th century as the chapel of the residence of the Count of Flanders. It consists of the Chapel of Saint Basil below, in Romanesque style, and the Chapel of the Holy Blood upstairs. The latter, on the photo below, is home to the famous Relic of the Holy Blood, allegedly collected by Joseph of Arimathea and brought to Flanders from the Holy Land by Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders.




To the right, there's an elevated altar of some kind where the relic is displayed:



I stepped up the stairs and prayed for what I deemed necessary. Don't worry, it had nothing to do with me personally.



Then it was off to the Groeningemuseum. There's a plethora of Flemish/Belgian works spanning five centuries to be seen there, and I was unable to take a photo of possibly the most famous of them all, a work by Jan Van Eyck, foremost of the Flemish Primitives. I will thus have to resort to just post this internet pic:



The Virgin and Child with Canon Vanderpaele (1434-1436).

Then a magnificent work by François-Joseph Navez (Charleroi 1787 – Brussels 1869), a very successful neoclassicist painter:



Portrait of Théodore Joseph Jonet and his two daughters (1832)



Emile Claus (Sint-Eloois-Vijve, 27 september 1849 - Astene, 14 juni 1924), is considered the most important representative of Belgian Impressionism:



The river Lys at Astene.



And finally the foremost reason we came to Bruges on this sunny Spring afternoon:



A very fine example of Roman Catholic Marian art, the Madonna with Child by Michelangelo, on display in the Church of Our Holy Lady. One of the very few works by the famous Renaissance artist outside Italy. It wasn't until a regular reader, KR, corrected an error in an article by Giulio Meotti two weeks back that I learned of the existence of this breathtaking marble sculpture (shame on me). Unfortunatly, since there's no way of getting closer than 15 feet, and since there's bulletproof glass in front of it, the photo is of inferior quality. But far more decent ones can easily be found.


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SATURDAY NIGHT THE STRANGLERS, BLONDIE.

The Stranglers with Tramp. From the 1981 album La Folie.




At 77, Jet Black must be the oldest active drummer. Though this year he did not tour due to health problems.



Blondie with Call me. From the soundtrack of the 1980 movie American Gigolo. You know - if you're a dinosaur like me - with Richard Gere.




Did you know Debbie Harry once was a Playboy Bunny?


Not that I care. Nite.



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INSANITY IN THE UK: MURDERERS AND CRIMINALS FROM THIRD WORLD HELLHOLES WELCOME; AMERICAN, AUSTRALIAN AND CANADIAN FAMILIES FACE DEPORTATION.

Fellow blogger Cambrian Dissenters has an article up that makes your blood want to boil:

"A recent news story concerning hard working families from the civilized world getting deported while tens of thousands of terrorists, murderers, rapists and an assortment of other violent criminals are welcomed with open arms, illustrates perfectly that the erasure of civilization in Great Britain is the cold calculated policy of a government who are determined to fundamentally transform the country on behalf of the UN/EU global elite.

American couple Jim and Vaughn Cavanagh along with their two young daughters have been given notice to leave the country despite supporting local jobs by investing $150K in their small business. They pay for private health insurance, private dentistry and private education for their daughters so they are not a drain on scarce public services. Their crime was 'not meeting the criteria' to remain.





Canadian couple Jason and Christy Zeilsdorf along with their five children, the youngest of which was born in Scotland, have been given notice to leave despite investing some $300K in their small business. Their crime was failing to employ two full time workers for twelve months as their business could only afford one.

In the same article Australian couple Gregg and Kathryn Brain along with their young son Lachlan have been given notice to leave despite the fact that they re-located halfway across the planet via a Home Office immigration program. Their crime was that the Home Office changed the criteria after they had sold up their home and possessions and re-located.

Lower down the page in the same article the shocking truth is revealed about the attitude and the different government criteria they apply to civilized and uncivilized immigrants. If this isn't deliberate de-civilizing, also known as ethnic cleansing, I don't know what is.

While these three law abiding, hard working families are being kicked out a convicted Iraqi child abuser Howri Hamad Garib is being allowed to stay because his crimes are not deemed serious enough by the Home Office to warrant deportation.

If this isn't enough, convicted Al-Qaeda terrorist, Baghdad Meziani, was allowed to remain in Great Britain upon his release from prison after serving only five years of an eleven year sentence despite being recommended for deportation back to Algeria by the judge.

Double murderer, Saliman Barci, an illegal immigrant from Albania, has been allowed to use taxpayer funded legal aid to fight his extradition back to his homeland and a twenty-five year prison sentence.

Despite supposed strict vetting procedures, Barci and his wife posed as Kosovan refugees to falsely claim asylum and eventual British citizenship, a fact that the American people should take note of with respect to their President's promises to vet Syrian so-called refugees...."

The Daily Mail has the goods (or should I say the bads) on the Zielsdorf family:





Jesus Christ. Read, just READ, the names of those five beautiful children: Lochlan, Ariana, Aelwyn, Bryn and Kiernach. Lochlan and Kiernach are Irish in origin, Aelwyn and Bryn Welsh. Through and through wonderfully sounding, ancient European, Celtic names. The only exception is Ariana, which is Greek/Italian but which may also have a Welsh origin (since 'arian' is Welsh for silver). As for the father's name, Zielsdorf, there's clearly some good German blood in his ancestry. The mother's got red hair - a clear giveaway at Scottish or Irish forebears. In any case, you would be hard pressed to find a more quintessentially autochton European family.

And now, the multiculti goons and diversity nazis want this hardworking PRODUCTIVE family GONE...

... and replace it with Howri Hamad Garibs, Baghdad Mezianis and Saliman Barcis. Population replacement, nothing less.

How utterly insane, how horribly immoral is that?



This world has gone stark bonkers.


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HAH, TURKEY. WORLD'S OLDEST CHURCH SUFFERS EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN SUICIDE ATTACK.

Via Pamela Geller, bad news about Christianity's oldest church, the Church of Saint Mary, situated in Hah, in Turkey's southeast. I suffered serious damage when a muslim terrorist blew himself up near it:

"Erdogan’s Turkey. A homicide bomber killed five and caused extensive damage to the world’s oldest church. Islamic supremacists are happy to die to eliminate any other religious history. Just this week I reported that Muslims in Turkey were demanding to pray in one of the most iconic, historic churches in Turkey, the Hagia Sophia. It’s all about erasing what’s not Islamic.

The whole of the Muslim world stands against Israel — for being Jewish. It’s that simple. Islam cannot and will not tolerate any other faith."

Then there is some background to the story via The Express:

“World’s oldest church where three wise men roamed WRECKED by suicide bomber,” By Katie Mansfield, The Express, Jun 3, 2016:
THE most ancient church in the world, which hosted the three wise men after the birth of Jesus, has been savaged by a suicide bomb.

Five people were killed when a suicide bomber struck at a checkpoint next to St Mary Church in Hah, Tur Abdin, in south east Turkey.

The church, also known as Idto d’Yoldath-Aloho, in the mountainous Tur Abdin region near the Syrian border, is considered the heartland of Syrian Orthodox Christianity.

The ferocity of the blast smashed all the church’s windows, and with the church lying between two Christian villages there are fears of more atrocities from jihadi forces.

Speaking the day after the attack, which happened on Wednesday May 25, Nuri Kino, the founder of advocacy group A Demand For Action, said: “Hah is my heart and soul… it is one of the most important places for our people in the world.

“Yuldath Aloho has faced many wars and genocides and never been destroyed.

“Yesterday all the windows were crashed. We feel with all those that were killed, no human blood, no matter if they are Turks, Kurds or Assyrian/Syrians should be shared.

“The inhabitants in our villages are vulnerable and we are pleading to the world to stop them from being hurt. Yesterday was a day of total shock for us, we are losing our people in Iraq and Syria and now this in Turkey.

“We are tired of tears, tired of being hurt in country after country. The people of Tur Abdin stand not alone.”

It is believed the three wise men visited the site after they had given their presents of gold, frankincense and myrrh to Jesus in Bethlehem.

The temple was later built in the name of Jesus’ mother....

Pope Francis could not be reached for comment. He's too busy telling us that we should celebrate mass muslim migration to Europe.


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DUESSELDORF, GERMANY: POLICE FOILS ISLAMIC STATE-ORDERED TERROR ATTACK.

Via PI-News, 2 June 2016:

"Police arrested three Syrian men today suspected of planning an IS-ordered bomb attack in the old town centre of Duesseldorf. Two of the muslims would have had to blow themselves up in the neighborhood of Heinrich Heine Avenue (photo). Other members of the terror cell were tasked with attacking passersby with knives. The plans only came to light because another cell operative was arrested in France and testified about the planned attacks. The arrests took place in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Baden-Wuerttemberg and a "Bundesland" in Germany's East. In the meantime, with regards to the upcoming European soccer championship, the US government issued travel warnings for Europe. German officials however tried to calm things down by quoting "security reports" indicating that the planned terror attack [in Duesseldorf - MFBB] had nothing to do with the European soccer championship. Phew, we can all breathe easier!"

Chancellor Merkel was quoted as saying: "Nya nya nya kann dich nicht hoeren!!! Islam ist eine Religion des Friedens!!!".

I'm sure you don't need a translation.

She also said: "Islam is a part of Germany".

On that count she's definitely right, though not in the way her deluded mind sees it.



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BELGIAN NAVY TESTS NEW NH90 "CAIMAN" HELICOPTER.

For what seems like aeons the Belgian Navy used either the light Alouette chopper or the Seaking. These days have finally come to an end, with the introduction of the NH90, NFH version (NATO Frigate Helicopter; the Army version is called the TTH, for Tactical Transport Helicopter).

NHIndustries is a European consortium with shares held by Airbus Helicopters, Fokker Aerostructures, and AgustaWestland. The NH90 is a medium-sized, full fly-by-wire, twin-engined multi-role chopper. In the Belgian Navy, its reached initial operational readiness in August 2015.

Between 18 and 24 May, a Caiman, as it is commonly referred to instead of the NH90, conducted tests on board the frigate Leopold I: takeoff/land, dataconnections during flight, a simulated crash, manoeuvring in the hangar, and recce flights. Pic taken somewhere on the North Sea:





Some specs:

* a crew of 2 pilots, with possibly a sensor operator (not on TTH)
* capacity: 20 seated troops; or 12 medevac stretchers; or 2 NATO pallets; or 4,200 kg (9,260 lb) external slung load
* Length: 16.13 m (52 ft 11 in)
* Rotor diameter: 16.30 m (53 ft 6 in)
* Height: 5.23 m (17 ft 2 in)
* Empty weight: 6,400 kg (14,100 lb)
* Useful load: 4,200 kg (9,260 lb)
* Max. takeoff weight: 10,600 kg (23,370 lb)
* Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322-01/9 turboshaft, 1,662 kW (2,230 shp) each, or:
Powerplant: 2 × General Electric T700-T6E turboshaft, 1,577 kW (2,115 shp) each
* Maximum speed: 300 km/h (162 knots, 186 mph)
* Range: 800 km, 497 mi (TTH); 1,000 km, 621 mi (NFH) ()
* Service ceiling: 6,000 m (20,000 ft)
* Rate of climb: 8 m/s (1,574 ft/m)
* Armament: anti-submarine and/or air to surface missiles for the NFH version, 2x door gun for the TTH version


I recall that some two years ago some concerns were raised regarding the naval types' reportedly excessive corrosion problems; this was following a deployment of the first two Dutch NH90's to the Carribean. But these problems seem to have been solved. At any rate, the corrosion issues can't have been in either airframe or rotors, since these are made of advanced composites.


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HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY 2016.

On this Memorial Day 2016, DowneastBlog honors one among many, PFC Paul E. Conlon. He was 21 when he fell in Afghanistan.

Via the MilitaryTimes:

"... of Somerville, Mass.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; died Aug. 15 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device and then received small-arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire. Also killed was 1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile."

I have a graph for you.






Let us thank Paul, and so many others, for bringing hope in a wretched part of the world through his sacrifice.

Pray for him and his loved ones. God bless.



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EASTER HOLIDAY IN SOUTH WEST ENGLAND.

- All over the last summer, autumn and winter I had read about the migrants making a terrible nuisance of themselves near the Eurotunnel entrance, so I figured that for our Easter holiday to the south of England this year round, it might be safer to take the ferry Calais-Dover instead. And since there's no backflow, I also reckoned that taking the Eurotunnel to get back to France would pose no problems. So the plan was, France to the UK: the P&O Ferry. UK back to France: Eurotunnel.

The photo shows us approaching Calais port with the ferry terminals. Notice the barbed wire to keep migrants from climbing over the fences and disrupting the traffic. At regular intervals there were police vans with officers on guard. Welcome to European holidays in 2016!

Except that we did not board a ferry to go to England after all.

At the check-in terminals, they told us the storm in the Channel was so bad, Dover Harbour was closed. Earliest departure was scheduled for three pm, which meant waiting for four hours and ruining our afternoon schedule. Eurotunnel apparently cooperating with P&O Ferries however, they offered us the possibility to trade in our ferry tickets for Le Shuttle tickets for the same price, if only we took the risk to not be able to board the train immediately.

We took our chances and to our surprise, fifteen minutes later - the Chunnel entrance is right to the west of Calais, as opposed to the ferry terminals which are right to the east - we were waved through to the Le Shuttle loading platforms right away.

Half an hour later we were in Folkestone!




There was a stiff breeze and rough water (for landlubbers) but imho no waves that warranted closing a harbour.




We had booked three nights at the Imperial Hotel in Torquay, and one night in the Shore View Hotel in Eastbourne. When we left Folkestone there remained an estimated five hours of driving to Torquay, and it was only 1pm local time or so, so I figured there was sufficient time to visit two places - even if it had to be in a hurry. Place No. 1 was the house in Chawton where Jane Austen had spent the final eight years of her life. Jane Austen (1775-1817) is a quintessential British Romanticism writer and a contemporary of literary giants like William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and Lord Byron. She wrote but a small number of books, and by the time she settled in Chawton she had written two of her best known masterpieces in draft form already: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Before publishing them, she may have revised them here. Completely new works written in Chawton were Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. A bit to my surprise I also discovered, upon coming across several naval displays, that two of Jane Austen's brothers made it Admiral in the Royal Navy: Sir Francis Austen became Admiral of the fleet and Charles Austen reached the rank of Rear Admiral.


O'er here at DowneastBlog, we have touched on the subject before. In 2009, that is. Pride and Prejudice is perhaps Austen's best known work, a novel of manners first published in 1813 and destined to become on of the most successful novels in English literature, with over 20 million copies sold to date. There have been several film and TV adaptations, of which the 2005 version, directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew McFadyen as Mr Darcy, is possibly the best so far. Here is what I wrote at the time, and this is the soundtrack exerpt 'The Living Sculptures at Pemberley':





From Chawton it was but a short hop to Winchester, which boasts a magnificent gothic cathedral. What English gothic cathedrals lack in height compared to their continental counterparts they make up in length, and indeed Winchester Cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. Work began in 1079, and the consecration took place in 1093 already, but for centuries there would be alterations and additions.




View of the nave looking eastwards towards the choir. Under William of Wykeham (1367–1404) the nave, until then in Romanesque style, was recased in Caen stone and remodelled in the Perpendicular style, the third phase in English Gothic Architecture, with an emphasis on vertical lines...





... The ceiling is spectacularly embellished by those vertical lines converging into an intricate pattern: Winchester Cathedral's vault is a veritable poem in stone!





After that it was off to Torquay, focal point of the English Riviera. That's not exaggerated: temperatures are said to be the highest in the UK (although I would wager the Scilly Islands are still warmer) and there are palm trees galore. This town of around 65,000 was also home to Agatha Christie, and around the harbour there's a so-called Agatha Christie Mile, a walk with successive plaques and a bust highlighting specific events in her life and work.




At night, I took strolls through Torquay. It was still March and somewhat chilly, but the town centre was not exactly deserted. One one of my walks I came across "Hole in the Wall", Torquay's oldest pub, established circa 1540. The text reads: "For hundreds of years Smugglers . Men of the Sea . Businessmen . Locals . Visitors alike have enjoyed drinking at the Hole in the Wall."




On our second day, we visited Jurassic Coast, so called because there fossils dating from the Jurassic Epoch are supposedly omnipresent. Alas, for me the harvest was meagre... Pic taken in Charmouth, just east of Lyme Regis. Charmouth seems to be the place where you have the biggest chance to come up with decent fossils.




The day after, we intended to visit The Eden Project in Cornwall. History buff that I am - freak, rather - I could not resist stopping in nearby Brixham where I knew a replica of the Golden Hind was moored, Sir Francis Drake's flagship with which he circumnavigated the world between 1577 and 1580. He set sail with five ships and came back with only one. Originally it was called the Pelican, but while underway he rebaptised it in Golden Hind, to honor Sir Christopher Hatton, his patron, whose heraldic emblem contained a golden hind. It is hard to believe that Drake survived the perils of the world's oceans with this small galleon, which had a water displacement of a mere 100 tons!




After a relatively smooth ride, apart from a huge traffic jam before and in Totnes, we arrived at The Eden Project, which is situated in a disused kaolinite quarry two kilometres from the town of Saint Blazy, just inside Cornwall. The Eden Project is the brainchild of a certain Tim Smit and consists mainly of two gigantic biomes in which vegetation typical for a Rainforest and the Mediterranean has been recreated. Indeed it is said that the largest of the two biomes contains the largest piece of Rainforest outside the Amazon! Apart from the biomes, there are substantial outdoor gardens including a walk back in time for Earth's vegetation, the "Core", a building for educational purposes, and a visitor centre.




What the Rainforest Biome looks like from the inside. The biomes' "shells" consist of a skeleton of tubular steel cladded with hexagongal (mostly) and pentagonal thermoplastic ETFE panels. ETFE stands for ethylene tetrafluoroethyle, a polymer. It was chosen because it maintains it's strength over a wide temperature range, is self-cleaning, and has a high melting temperature. Also, it's resistance to ultraviolet radiation means it will lose its transparency only after a very long time.




On Thursday it was time to go back. The plan was to head back to Folkestone in two stages: Torquay-Eastbourne (you may recall we had booked one night there) and Eastbourne-Folkestone. WITH some serious sightseeing on the way of course. I calculated that we could make it to Eastbourne in the not too late evening AND visit both Greenway House and Stonehenge. Greenway House was the summertime residence of Agatha Christie. She once described it as "the loveliest place in the world" and on this glorious Spring morning it was hard to disagree!




Greenway House, the magnificent summer residence of Agatha Chrisie and her second husband Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. They actually got to know each other in Iraq, where Mallowan was overseeing excavations.




... This particularly sunny day made the splendid views on the river Dart and the surrounding hillsides all the more enjoyable...





On heading back in the afternoon, we passed through Wiltshire, and of course we could not resist stopping at Stonehenge, some 13 kloms north of Salisbury. A lot had changed here since our last visit, which was during our honeymoon in 1999.




Most archaeologists agree that Stonehenge was built between 3000BC and 2000BC. Stonehenge is a wonderfully accurate cosmic clockwork. Sunset at the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, is perfectly aligned with the axis composed by the "horseshoe" of the five central trilithons, the heel stone at the periphery, and the embanked avenue leading up to the site from the northeast. Similarly, this same axis is also perfectly aligned with the rays of the rising sun at summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Construction-wise, transporting, carving and finally arranging the five trilithons of three sarsen stones each, each stone weighing some 50-odd tons, must be considered a major technical feat for the time. The outer ring sarsens originally crowned by lintels are hardly less impressive. And placing the smallest bluestones can't have been a laughing matter either. Still... Brits may not like to hear this, but upon walking around the site, it struck me that for all Stonehenge's evidence of technological and cosmological marvels, Egypt's Great Pyramids, built in the same timeframe, dwarf this ancient project by many orders of magnitude.




I always try to cram as much as possible in a day, and in 2014 we had such a wonderful time in and around Eastbourne, so I thought that before heading for Down House we could just as well make a slight detour and once again take in the view at Beachy Head, just west of Eastbourne...




... and while in the neighborhood, why not stop in Berwick to check out again the beautiful murals in Berwick Church, painted in, IIRC, 1943 by the artist pair Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group. This pic from outside the church was taken on a spectacular early Spring morning; you may recall the same view from one year ago when we visited the place in the early evening.




Then it was off to Downe and Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, just SE of London. He wrote On the Origin of Species in this very study!




View on Down House from the garden. Behind my back is a path that leads to Darwin's greenhouses, where he also conducted experiments. Both the house and garden are kept in immaculate condition.




After this thoroughly satisfying visit - including a simple but decent lunch in the house's cafeteria - it was time to go back. In the evening we boarded Le Shuttle again at the Coquelles terminal, near Folkestone. A smooth 25-minute ride brought us back in Calais. Yet another great holiday in the UK!



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