SCHAARBEEK RIOTS FUELED BY SOCIAL MEDIA.

More news about the mechanisms behind the riots following the alleged sexual abuse of a 4 year old girl of Guinese parents in primary school Ecole No. 1 in Schaarbeek, Brussels.

As we have seen, a thorough medical examination of the child revealed only that the blood in her underwear was manifestly not the result of sexual abuse, but of an infection caused by bad hygiene. For perhaps obvious reasons the parents of the kid refused to acknowledge this and kept insisting their child had been sexually assaulted by school staff. That's an echo of another notorious case in Antwerp some six years back, where muslim parents of primary school 'De Blokkendoos' went so totally berserk over alleged sexual abuse by a female autochton teacher that the woman in question broke down psychologically. In that case, a judicial enquiry proved beyond doubt that nothing happened, but the false rumours kept spreading like wildfire via social media, and in the end the teacher, Magalie Alpaerts, mentally incapable to resume work, lost her job.

As for this case, here too, the excessive and violent reactions were fueled by what cannot be labeled otherwise than 'fake news'. And the main culprits are:


a.) one Yusuf Yildiz, a Schaarbeek City Council member for cdH, a centrist party. cdH used to be the Walloon, French speaking counterpart of the 'Flemish' 'Christian' 'Democrats' until some twelve years ago, when the then Chairwoman, Joelle Milquet, decided that the 'C' for 'Christian' was sooooooo old-fashioned and from then on cdH simply meant 'centre démocrate Humaniste'. But I digress. Anyway, via HLN, a screenshot of Yusuf Yildiz' short film, which he spread via social media and wherein he stated, without proof whatsoever and BEFORE the results of the medical examination were in, that the girl had been sexually assaulted:





Yildiz put the film on Friday on his FaceBook page, and litterally labeled the case “the sexual abuse of a 4 year old child on École 1”. The video was viewed almost 160,000 times and shared more than 3,000 times.


b.) One Abobakre Bouhjar, Parti Socialiste.


c.) One Cellou Satina Diallo, City Council member for the Parti Socialiste. He, too, would have exhorted his followers to take violent action. This is a list of 'Mr' Diallo's demands:





By his own confession, 'Mr' Diallo spent the entire morning and noon following the results of the medical examination before the school entrance, sharing photos and films, and oh so happily fanning the flames of anti-white sentiment. Which is quite rich, since as a City Council member he is paid to look after Schaarbeek's best interests, and not waste his time out in the streets... while his salary is ultimately being paid by those same hated Whites. But how could our community organizer be bothered by such mundane things as, dunno, doing something about Schaarbeeks potholes, when gullible Flemings continue to lavishly pour their tax money in the bottomless sinkholes of Brussels and Wallonia?






Yusuf Yildiz, Abobakre Bouhjar, Cellou Satina Diallo... if Population Replacement was the Brussels Underground, we would have reached the end of the line by now. This is what happens when 'progressive' parties put wholly unqualified people on lists with the naked aim to garner as many votes as possible from the imported voting cattle in their districts. And if you import the Third World, you become the Third World. If nothing is done to counter this, the local firestorm which we have been witnessing these past days on the streets of Schaarbeek will one day engulf the entire nation.

Anyway, affter reading how a number of two-digit IQ 'officials' were able to stoke serious unrest in a Belgian commune, I was reminded of an article by Mark Steyn in The Irish Times a full 16 years back, with the apt title "The sting in Sudan's tale of vanishing penises":

"I haven't really followed Sudanese current events closely since, oh, Gen Kitchener's victory over the Mahdi at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. But a recent story from that benighted land happened to catch my eye.

Last month mass hysteria apparently swept the capital city, Khartoum, after reports that foreigners were shaking hands with Sudanese men and causing their penises to disappear. One victim, a fabric merchant, told his story to the London Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. A man from west Africa came into the shop and "shook the store owner's hand powerfully until the owner felt his penis melt into his body".

I know the feeling. The same thing happened to me after shaking hands with Hillary Clinton. Anyway, as Al-Quds reported, "The store owner became hysterical, and was taken to the hospital." The country's "Chief Criminal Attorney-General" Yasser Ahmad Muhammad told the Sudanese daily Al-Rai Al-A'am that "the rumour broke out when one merchant went to another merchant to buy some Karkady [a Sudanese beverage]. Suddenly, the seller felt his penis shrivelling".

The invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute, in its exhaustive coverage, noted that the penises of Khartoum were vulnerable not merely to handshaking. "Another victim, who refused to give his name, said that while he was at the market, a man approached him, gave him a comb, and asked him to comb his hair. When he did so, within seconds, he said, he felt a strange sensation and discovered that he had lost his penis."

Tales of the vanishing penises ran rampant round the city, spread by cellphones and text messages. Sudan's Health Minister Ahmad Bilal Othman said that the epidemic was "scientifically groundless", and that it was "sorcery, magic, or an emotional problem".


...


There's something rather sad about a culture that has to import even its pathologies. The telling detail of the vanishing penis hysteria is that it was spread by text-messaging. You can own a cellphone yet still believe that foreigners are able, with a mere handshake, to cause your penis to melt away.

Aside from its doubts in its collective manhood, Sudan is no laughing matter. Two million people have been slaughtered there in the last decade. The Christian minority is vanishing a lot faster than that fabric merchant's wedding tackle. Osama certainly found the country fertile ground for his ideology: Sudanese mujahideen have been captured as far afield as Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan. An economic basket-case with a 27 per cent literacy rate has managed to find enough spare cash to export revolutionary Islam to many other countries. And they've got half-a-billion dollars' worth of state-of-the-art Chinese weaponry from Iran.

A handshake-fearing guy with a cellphone is one thing; what happens when the handshake-fearers have cellphones and a suitcase nuke? It's at the intersection of apparently indestructible ancient ignorance and cheap, widely available Western technology that the dark imponderables of the future lie...."

Well, what do you know. Here we are, sixteen years later, and Sudan has come to Belgium, only in this case Sudan is Guinee. Those throngs of Third World flotsam are UN-EM-PLO-YA-BLE in any society where asphalt roads are more numerous than earthen ones, and yet they are here, all of them have a roof over their heads, all are well fed and cared for, and everybody has a smartphone, courtesy taxpayer money from Belgium's dying white population. The 4 year old girl in question was examined in a top notch hospital (say what you will about Belgium, but our Health Care system still ranks among the best of the world), yet the highest post all the bottle, egg and banana skin throwers in the Schaarbeek demo could aspire to is that of janitor in that establishment.

Well okay, the most capable among them.



It is not going to end well.




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BRUSSELS WELL ON ITS WAY TO BECOME THIRD WORLD CAPITAL OF EUROPE.

For the second day in a row, heavy turmoil at a primary school in Schaarbeek, one of the most Culturally Enriched communes of Belgium's capital Brussels. The reason? Yesterday, monday 29 April, a 4 year old schoolgirl's parents found blood in her underwear after school and right away threw a tantrum, claiming their daughter had been sexually assaulted by school staff.

Such was the bruhaha that ensued - with a crowd of over 200 rapidly forming at the school entrance, that authorities found it necessary to medically examine the kid.

What do you know, this morning Police communicated the results of the examination publicly, and the responsible hospital's conclusions were that the blood in the kid's underwear resulted from an infection caused by bad hygiene.




This was not what the Guinese father of the child wanted to hear, and he stated loudly, in front of the accumulated crowd, that he did not accept the results of the medical examination.




Whereupon all hell broke loose. Several Culturally Enriching parents wanted 'justice' and demanded the school be closed and the staff given their pink slip. Most demonstrators were from the Guinese community, but there were also Cultural Enrichers from other countries where the mean IQ is 68.




At around 11.30 this morning parents and demonstrators who kept refusing to accept the conclusions in the medical report started throwing eggs and bottles at the police, which thereupon deployed officers in combat gear.





At 2.15 pm the situation escalated again and police used tear gas to disperse the Cultural Enrichers.




This nice group photo shows the logical endpoint of the successful immigration policies of our moral betters: a multicultural, colourful society where gay formerly catholic whites, Chinese buddhist transgenders and ginger haired lesbians from Eire live peacefully side by side with black muslimas. Progress! Oh yeah, the latter now demand that the school be closed. I am certain that doing so will notch up the IQ of their offspring with at least 5 points per month.



End conclusion: the gullible cream white Belgian taxpayer just coughed up in the neighborhood of possibly 20,000 EUR for mobilizing a medical staff to examine the 4 year old, several police squads including a group in riot gear, tear gas canisters, repairing thrown in school windows, damage to two police vehicles, medical aid for one Cultural Enricher who got wounded in the melée, disrupting traffic and lessons, harassing school staff and what not. From the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU Guinese muslims, you're doin' a mighty foin job of transforming this boring old Belgique into a vibrant progressive example to follow!!!



If you import the Third World, you become the Third World. Wait until the effects of the Marrakesh Pact kick in.



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FIVE SCI-FI MOVIES TO WATCH.

No spoiler alert. Try 'em. They are worth your time.


1.) Primer (2004).



About time travel.



2.) Looper (2012).



Same.



3.) The Signal (2014).



Alienation.



4.) Predestination (2014).



Again, time travel. A heck of a story.



5.) Moon (2009).



OK, if you're only gonna watch one, take this one.



Nite.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, ENNIO MORRICONE.

First Johann Sebastian Bach with the Badinerie of his Orchestral Suite #2 In B Minor, BWV 1067.





As noted before, in an earlier post, BWV stands for Bach Werke Verzeichnis, or Bach Works Catalogue.



Then Ennio Morricone with Gabriel's Oboe, from the soundtrack of the 1986 movie The Mission, a film by Roland Joffé.





I don't know how long ago it is that I watched this movie, probably more than two decades, but it was certainly a long time before I knew and appreciated its historical context. If next time you come across another Christianity-hating nitwit here's another argument with which to put him/her/it in place: the existence of a Jesuit Republic in what is now Paraguay, from 1609, when it was founded by the Jesuit Superior Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, to around 1768, when it was overrun by Spanish and Portuguese colonial authorities. The arts and some kind of proto-industry flourished there, and cities had paved streets and beautiful buildings. The 'Republic', where the native population, mostly Guarani Indians, lived free and slavery was forbidden, consisted of initially 30, then later 23 so-called reducciones. Its downfall came because of the 1750 Treaty of Madrid, which caused the ceding of Latin American land by Spain to Portugal, and conspiracies in Europe against the Jesuit Order. It is a topic well worth studying.

The title 'Gabriel's Oboe' refers to the character of Father Gabriel, portrayed by Jeremy Irons, playing his Oboe in a successful attempt to win the Guarani over to accepting him in their community.


Good night.


MFBB.

AD OF THE DAY.

AfD is now sporting ads for the upcoming European elections which depict a 19th century painting, "Le Marché d'Esclaves" (1866), by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

The caption reads: "So that Europe does not become Eurabia. Real Europeans vote AfD":








It was to be expected that self-loathing Europeans would start hollering and asking to remove these ads. But I was a bit surprised to notice that there were echoes across the Pond. Via Deutschlandfunk:

"Das US-Museum „Clark Art Institute“ aus Massachussetts fordert die AfD auf, ein Gemälde des Malers León Gérôme nicht länger für ihren Wahlkampf zu nutzen.

Die Nachrichtenagentur AFP zitiert den Direktor, Olivier Meslay, mit den Worten: „Wir verurteilen es strikt, dass dieses Werk dazu verwendet wird, die Positionierung der AfD zu untermalen. Wir haben der Partei geschrieben, damit aufzuhören.“ Meslay räumt aber ein, dass es keine Urheberrechte gebe, die dem Museum eine juristische Handhabe bieten könnten.

Bei dem Gemälde geht es um das Werk „Sklavenmarkt“ des Franzosen Gérôme aus dem Jahr 1866. Das Werk ist im Besitz des Clark Art Institutes und zeigt eine nackte Frau, die von Männern mit Bart und Turban begutachtet wird. Dazu heißt es auf dem Werbeplakat der AfD: "Damit aus Europa kein ‚Eurabien‘ wird“.

In short, Olivier Meslay, the curator of Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, where Gérôme's paiting is displayed, calls on AfD to no longer use the artwork in its campaigns. AfD is lucky that Meslay himself (a Frenchman, in the communist state of Massachusetts: what could go wrong?) admits that he has no legal power to stop AfD from doing just that.


Closer to home, this is a typical take by our moral betters as to why using "Le Marché d'Esclaves" is not done. Via 'Bento', ultraleft idiot and dhimmi Fabian Goldmann:

"Das Gemälde heißt "Le Marché d'esclaves" – Der Sklavenmarkt – und ist im Jahr 1866 der Fantasie des französischen Malers Jean-Léon Gérôme entsprungen. Heute ist es im Besitz des amerikanischen "Clark Art Institute".

Das stellt schon das Infoheft zum Gemälde klar (Clark Art Institute):

- Es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass der Künstler eine solche Szene beobachtet hat, denn es gibt, wenn überhaupt, wenige Zeugnisse solcher Sklavenmärkte.


Die abgebildete Szene hat es also sehr wahrscheinlich niemals gegeben.

Das ist auch gar nicht verwunderlich. Gérôme ist einer der bekanntesten französischen Maler des "Orientalismus". So wird die klischeehaft-mystische Verklärung der arabisch-islamischen Welt bezeichnet. Im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts war sie in der Kunstwelt ein absoluter Trend.

This childless, balless and clueless 'shining' example of European Progressive Manhood claims that the problem with AfD using 'Le Marché d'Esclaves' is a bad case of 'Orientalism' burping up, a term first coined by useless dhimmi idiot Edward Said.

Said posited that 'Orientalism' - the depiction or even imitiation of aspects of Eastern societies and culture in the nineteenth century, was bad art at best, for the scenes in 'orientalist' artworks were born out of the fevered imagination of 19th century Western European artists who had never set foot in the East, and appalling white supremacist paternalism vis-à-vis Oriental culture at worst.


Goldmann would do well to watch this 16-minute video shedding light on islamic slave trade in Western countries. After viewing it, he might not be so eager anymore to parrot Clark Art Institute's 'the depicted scene possibly never took place':





And:

"Ohio State University history Professor Robert Davis describes the White Slave Trade as minimized by most modern historians in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan). Davis estimates that 1 million to 1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European people which were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast), 16th- and 17th-century customs statistics suggest that Istanbul's additional slave import from the Black Sea may have totaled around 2.5 million from 1450 to 1700. The markets declined after the loss of the Barbary Wars and finally ended in the 1830s, when the region was conquered by France.

Hundreds of thousands of Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. These slave raids were conducted largely by Arabs and Berbers rather than Ottoman Turks. However, during the height of the Barbary slave trade in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Barbary states were subject to Ottoman jurisdiction and ruled by Ottoman pashas. Furthermore, many slaves captured by the Barbary corsairs were sold eastward into Ottoman territories before, during, and after Barbary's period of Ottoman rule.

The Barbary Muslim pirates kidnapped Europeans from ships in North Africa’s coastal waters (Barbary Coast). They also attacked and pillaged the Atlantic coastal fishing villages and town in Europe, enslaving the inhabitants. Villages and towns on the coast of Italy, Spain, Portugal and France were the hardest hit. Muslim slave-raiders also seized people as far afield as Britain, Ireland and Iceland.

In 1544, the island of Ischia off Naples was ransacked, taking 4,000 inhabitants prisoners, while some 9,000 inhabitants of Lipari Island off the north coast of Sicily were enslaved.870 Turgut Reis, a Turkish pirate chief, ransacked the coastal settlements of Granada (Spain) in 1663 and carried away 4,000 people as slaves. In 1625, Barbary pirates captured the Lund Island in the Bristol Channel and planted the standard of Islam. From this base, they went ransacking and pillaging surrounding villages and towns, causing a stunning spectacle of mayhem, slaughter and plunder. According to Milton, ‘Day after day, they struck at unarmed fishing communities, seizing the inhabitants, and burning their homes. By the end of the dreadful summer of 1625, the mayor of Plymouth reckoned that 1,000 skiffs had been destroyed and similar number of villagers carried off into slavery.’871 Between 1609 and 1616, the Barbary pirates ‘captured a staggering 466 English trading ships.’

In 1627, Pirates went on a pillaging and enslaving campaign to Iceland. After dropping anchor at Reykjavik, his forces ransacked the town and returned with 400 men, women and children and sold them in Algiers. In 1631, he made a voyage with a brigand of 200 pirates to the coast of Southern Ireland and ransacked and pillaged the village of Baltimore, carrying away 237 men, women and children to Algiers."

To conclude: the depiction of the naked white female among muslim slavetraders is not only far more than a 'figment of the imagination', but in all likelihood it was commonplace for centuries.

Thus, AfD has EVERY right, and I would say even the moral duty, to use this painting in its campaign.



MFBB.

TOON OF THE DAY.

Via The New York Post:




Socialists, communists, greens, progressives...

... they all have a reverse Midas Touch. Everything they touch turns to shiite.

Oh wait, let's not longer talk about progressives. Call 'em regressives instead!



MFBB.

SRI LANKA ATTACKS: MEDIA, POLITICIANS TRIP OVER EACH OTHER TRYING TO AVOID USING THE WORDS 'MUSLIM', 'ISLAMIC', 'JIHAD'.

What is absolutely astounding is how basically every media outlet from left AND right anxiously avoids mentioning the 'religion' of the Sri Lanka terrorists. This, for instance, is from Het Laatste Nieuws. They do come up with two names, Zahran Hashim and Abu Mohammed, names which do not immediately conjure up images of Fiji or The Salvation Army, and yet...








... HLN manages to write a ENTIRE article without the words 'muslim', 'islamic', or even 'jihad' - even as the Zahran Hashim chap in the photo above is making the ISIS sign! Now, if it were 'only' leftist outlets, one could understand. However, even 'rightwing' news outlets also fail to use the dreaded JIM acronym, check out this Fox News article e.g..


A rare exception is The Daily Mail, which offered this nugget of information:

"Ten days ago, according to documents seen by the AFP new agency, Sri Lanka's police chief Pujuth Jayasundara issued an intelligence alert to top officers warning Islamist suicide bombers planned to hit 'prominent churches'.

'A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama'ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo,' the alert said.

The NTJ is a small radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka which has no history of mass fatal attacks, but came to prominence last year linked to the vandalism and desecration of Buddhist statues."

Kudos to the Mail for not being one of the proverbial three apes. Btw, notice that? There have been some serious rows between Sri Lankan muslims and Sri Lankan's Buddhists, which are a clear majority. Yet the muslims chose to direct their attacks primarily against Christians, who represent only 7 per cent of the population and who do everything to stay under islamic radars. If anyone still doubts which group most pisses off the followers of the prophet, this is it. And yet world leaders, unfortunately including even President Trump, seem to be scared shitless to even wink as much in the general direction of Mecca. ALL of them are clueless, or pretend to be. ALL of them are shocked, shocked, shocked I tell you, and on top of that they are also SHOCKED, imagine, at this horror! Which, naturally, they condemn "in the strongest possible terms". There's a whole coven of 800 pound gorillas stampeding around in the room defecating, burping, urinating, and smashing all the porcelain on the ground, and still our fucking politicians and their lackeys the media whores pretend to hear and see NOTHING and fake ignorance about the motives and ideology behind this UMP-TEENTH massacre! From Belgian PM Charles Michel over Putin, Macron and Theresa May to the Pope himself, they all went Ilhan Fucking "Some people did something" Omar. It sure wasn't "some people did something" after Brenton Tarrant and accomplices gunned down 50 mosquegoers in NZ in March: suddenly anybody an inch to the right of David Brooks was in one way or another co-guilty. As far away as Austria, PM Sebastian Kurz - who real rightwingers would do well to keep a very close eye on because the brat is far too slick to be trustworthy - vowed to take down Martin Sellner's 'Identitaere Generation'!

Now compare the outrage and the name-calling following the Christchurch terror attack to this. In these Easter bombings at least four times as many people lost their lives at the hands of muslim terrorists... and everybody is CLUELESS as to the motives behind, and origin of, this latest mayhem. One such spineless politician was New Zealand's horrible PM Jacinda Ardern. This is a transcript from the Fox News link I provided earlier:

"New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemned the "devastating" attacks, and referred to the March 15 shootings at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in which 50 died.

"New Zealand condemns all acts of terrorism and our resolve has only been strengthened by the attack on our soil," Ardern said. "New Zealand rejects all forms of extremism and stands for freedom of religion and the right to worship safely."

How true do the words of Australian Senator Fraser Anning now sound:

"Let us be clear, while Muslims may have been the victims today, usually they are the perpetrators. World-wide, Muslims are killing people in the name of the faith on an industrial scale."

The man was BLASTED worldwide.

But he spoke the Truth, and nothing but the Truth.



MFBB.

HAPPY EASTER 2019.

DowneastBlog wishes its readers of good will a Happy Easter:





Please take some moments today to pray for the victims of the gruesome attacks perpetrated by muslim terrorists against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. As of now, 2pm local time, news is that there have now been eight acts of terror and the death toll would be over 200 already. In the Saint Sebastian Church in Negombo alone, at least 67 people were killed, and many more wounded and maimed.






MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT HANS ZIMMER, THE SHADOWS.

Hans Zimmer's The Oil. From the soundtrack of Dunkirk (2017).





If you check out the comments on this video's YouTube address, you can see a lot of glowing comments. Hafta say I cannot really sympathize, since I went away from seeing Dunkirk slightly disappointed. To me, it was not so much a movie as an artistic exercise.



The Shadows with Atlantis. Released as a single in 1963.





If you say The Shadows you say Hank Marvin. And Bruce Welch. And Fender guitar. And Vox amplifier.


Nite.


MFBB.

INSANE: JULIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, OAK PARK, CHICAGO, REMOVES DEPRESSION-ERA MURAL BECAUSE IT IS "TOO WHITE".

More ominous signs of the intellectual, cultural and moral rot taking hold among our "elites": a Middle School Principal in Chicago has decided that an innocent 1930s mural depicting white children having fun in a winter landscape has got to go because it is not 'diverse' enough. Via The Chicago Sun-Times:

"A Depression-era mural depicting white children playing outside in the winter was removed from Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park because school officials said it failed to represent the school’s diversity.

While some said the mural was upsetting to students of color who felt it excluded them from the school, a local historian likened the removal to a “modern-day book burning.”

Julian Principal Todd Fitzgerald announced the weekend removal in an email sent to school staff Monday.

“I have had students approach me pointing out that this picture does not represent our student body or the diversity of Oak Park,” Fitzgerald wrote. “We will be working with the Social Justice Club and our parent Diversity Committee to create a mural/canvas that better represents Julian Middle School.”

Cynthia Brito Millan, a coordinator for the middle school’s Social Justice Club, said the push to remove the mural began in February at a district school board meeting. Students expressed frustration about an atmosphere of exclusion for students of color — who make up 45 percent of the student body — and cited the mural as an example.

“This mural made students feel invisible because it doesn’t reflect the current student body,” Brito Millan said. “How can a student learn in a healthy environment when they don’t feel they are being seen?”

What utter madness. Should The Nightwatch (1642) by Rembrandt Van Rijn, on display in the Nachtwachtzaal in the Amsterdam Museum....





... not better be relegated to the darkest corner of the museum's attic, lest "people of color" in The Netherlands' already very diverse society feel excluded?


Or these busts of past administrators at Harvard Medical School:





All despicable Whites! How horrible!!! Would it not be better to get rid of at least a couple of them to better reflect today's die-versity? Preferably of the ones suspected of harboring conservative thoughts?


Oh wait. Let's not give anybody ideas.


Here is the self-hating asshole/clown/jerk responsible for this insane decision, "Dr" Todd Fitzgerald:




You can email the skunk on this address:


tfitzgerald@op97.org

Do not mince words. Call the bastard by his/its name. No need to be civil. There is a war going on.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT JEFF WAYNE, HER'S.

Jeff Wayne with The Eve of the War. From his debut album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds (1978).





The voice at the beginning is actor Richard Burton. The singer is Justin Hayward from The Moody Blues. As for the composer, Jeff Wayne, in his youth he was apparently so smitten by H.G. Wells's book that he decided to make a concept album of it.



Her's with What Once Was.





Her's was an English indie rock band from Liverpool, England, consisting of Stephen Fitzpatrick (vocals, guitar) and Audun Laading (bass guitar, backing vocals). Fitzpatrick was also a drummer, but they decided to simply use a drum machine instead. Her's formed in 2015 and they had only one full-length album, released in August 2018. Tragically, the duo was killed, along with their tour manager Trevor Engelbrektson, in a horrific head-on car crash and subsequent fire in Arizona on March 27, 2019. A very tragic loss, given the obvious talent of the duo. RIP and God bless.

Hat tip OutlawDaughter.


Good night.


MFBB.

RECOMMENDED READS: TODD ROYAL'S "QUESTIONING GLOBAL WARMING".

I have a perfect barometer of my own. My hands. When it's getting colder, not for just a day, or even two, but for a prolonged period, I start having chapped hands. To the point that they start bleeding and that I leave bloodstains every time I write something with a ballpoint pen, or even just put a simple signature on some document.

It is now almost the middle of April, and I am having chapped hands. Earlier this week I was slightly embarrassed to shake a customer's hand, for fear of leaving blood on it - not that I got something nasty to transmit, thank God.

But indeed, for some ten days now, temps over here in Flanders are down by at least some five degrees vs what is considered 'normal' for this time of the year. And when I checked out HLN this morning, this caught my eye:



IN THE COMING NIGHT, IT FREEZES ALMOST EVERYWHERE: UNTIL MINUS 4 DEGREES CENTIGRADE. Apple growers in Haspengouw have been working hard for the past nights with fire pots and covers to protect their blossoms from freezing temperatures.

And that is baaaaad news for the left and their newfound heroine Anuna De Wever, mastermind (or so she thinks) of the weekly climate marches of thousands of school children skipping class for the climate.


Over at American Thinker, Todd Royal takes the case of MMGW to the woodshed:

"In January 2012, sixteen eminent scientists published an article in the Wall Street Journal, titled, “No Need to Panic About Global Warming. If mankind is causing global warming then how do you explain:

“Today’s CO2 concentrations worldwide average about 380 parts per million. This level of CO2 concentration is trivial compared with the concentrations during earlier geologic periods. For example, 460 million years ago, during the Ordovician Period, CO2 concentrations were 4,400 ppm, and temperatures then were about the same as they are today. With such high levels of CO2 the Earth should have been boiling.”

It seems more reasonable to be agnostic based upon this fact:


~ According to the Climate.gov website, the current global average temperature is roughly ‘shy of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. About 55 million years ago – just after the age of the Dinosaurs – the era known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) saw average global temps as high as 73 degrees Fahrenheit.”



As humans only showed up about 100,000 years ago how do you account for the PETM era? Supposedly, 97% of scientists agree man is the cause of catastrophic GWCC. When in fact that statement is false. Moreover:


~ “A recent study reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies found that just 36 percent of earth scientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a climate change crisis. A majority of the 1,077 respondents in the survey believe that nature is the primary cause of recent GWCC.”


What if you believe the 97% scientist debate then why hasn’t this information been widely reported?


~ “The media ignore a petition on the Internet signed by more than 31,000 scientists, including 9,029 PhDs, 7,157 with a master’s of science, and 12, 715 with a bachelor of science degree, all of whom dispute the global warming thesis.”


The GWCC narrative also took a hit when a March 2019 NASA study found the famous Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland was starting to grow again “after retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually since 2013,” but is growing the past two years (2016-2018). Past natural variability seems to be the cause instead of vetting the scientific consensus that “demands to prove that rising CO2 is causing an effect like melting Greenland ice.”

Are there other factors that determine earth’s heating and cooling other than CO2? According to Professor A. Balasubramanian from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Earth Sciences, University of Mysore:


~ “The climate of a region (or whole earth) is determined by radiation energy of the sun, and its distribution and temporal fluctuations. The long-term state of the atmosphere is a function of variety of interacting elements. They are: Solar radiation, Air masses, Pressure systems (cyclone belts), Ocean Currents, Topography.”



CO2 is a factor that influences regional and global temperatures, and there are considerable questions about the role it plays in recent warming trends in the 20th and 21st century. Climate scientist Vijay Jayaraj cites these weather facts to make the case the earth is actually in danger of global cooling:



~ “There is poor correlation between CO2 emissions and global temperature. Between 2000 and 2018, global temperature showed no significant increase despite a steep increase in carbon dioxide emissions from anthropogenic sources. The same was the case between the years 1940 and 1970. When carbon dioxide concentration increases at a constant and steady rate and temperature doesn’t follow the pattern, we can be certain that carbon dioxide is not the primary driver of global temperature.”



MIT atmospheric physicist, Richard Lindzen, one of the world’s leading climatologists, also believes CO2 is not the main factor in GWCC and figuring out GWCC is a dicey proposition. He questions whether the earth is warming, cooling or somewhere in between – in other words Dr. Lindzen is a skeptic because he doesn’t know if CO2 is the main driver of weather. Climate scientists acknowledge life on earth happens because of the Earth’s positioning in the solar system to the sun and “that the sun is the biggest influencer and driver of global temperature.”

But our moral betters know better of course. Actually, while I wouldn't say I'm scared shitless, I do look forward to the upcoming May elections with more than dread. The ecoloons, i.e. the green parties, especially Groen! in Flanders, stand a good chance to win big, say 15 per cent of the electorate. This is the leading triumvirate of the Flemish Greens:





From left to right Petra De Sutter, formerly Peter De Sutter, but he got his dick chopped off. In other circumstances I would be sympathetic to the guy's plight, however, that dreadful appearance hides a mini-dictator. Then, in the middle, Meyrem Almaci, party chairwoman AND muslima. Don't let her liberal looks fool you, she's all for furthering the ongoing islamization of our formerly Christian countries. Finally to the right Kristof Calvo, a neocommunist who takes econutterism to troposheric heights, and is a proven liar. Some party leadership, huh?

Do these warmists look like clowns?

Yes they do.

But make no mistake, they are dangerous clowns. They are all ideological scions of Jos Geysels, Green party leader in the nineties and one of the leading architects of the cordon sanitaire, which has effectively put my party, the Vlaams Belang, in political quarantine for about a quarter of a century by now. De Sutter, Almaci and Calvo are the kind of people who, if you were living in the German 'Democratic' Republic and they were your neighbors and they caught you listening to Radio Free Europe, would report you to the Stasi.

If they win big enough, they will be incontournable when a government has to be formed, and that will mean carbon taxes, severely curtailing the use of company cars (in spite of the traffic jams, still hugely popular with the working population, even indispensable), enforced vegetarianism, and the installation of a "Climate Czar", yet another completely useless public 'function' whereby some green hack will get dictatorial powers to force all of us big carbon-footprinted chavs to spare Gaia...



It's articles like Todd Royal's that are needed to be brought to attention, for they offer solid arguments with which to fight the reigning climate lunacy.

Spread them wide and far.



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RECOMMENDED READS: MARK STEYN'S "THE CRAVEN PILE-ON OF HOLLOW CONSERVATIVES".

As per usual, Mark Steyn nails it:

"~The real problem, in America, Britain, Canada, Oz, NZ, is not the left, who know what they want and are serious about getting it, but the pansy right. It's easy to mock AOC and Justin and Jacinta Ardern, but all they're doing is sailing full steam ahead for their desired utopia. The right, who profess to disdain the final destination, nevertheless follow along, albeit at a more desultory rate of knots.



Sir Roger Scruton


We see this routinely in their urge to "distance" themselves: In Washington, as I mentioned the other day, House Republicans ostentatiously distanced themselves from their colleague Steve King, because in an ill-advised interview with The New York Times he appeared to endorse "white supremacist" concepts such as "western civilization". For some of us, it's hard to see the point of a conservatism that distances itself from western civilization.

The same fate has now befallen the most thoughtful and serious of living conservative philosophers, Roger Scruton. I have a modest acquaintance with Sir Roger, both personal (he's married to a friend of a friend) and professional: We once appeared in a debate moderated by none other than Margaret Thatcher. Mrs T obviously adored Roger and reckoned I was there just for the cheap laughs.

But that was then, and this is Theresa May's Tory Party. So Roger Scruton gave an interview to The New Statesman, which is left-wing but once employed him as its wine critic. But that was then, etc. At the new New Statesman he fell into the hands of one of those lefties whose goal in the interview is to talk to you for two hours and then pluck three partial quotes uttered twenty-five minutes apart that destroy your career and get you banished from public life. In this case, it was various Scrutonisms on China, Islam, Hungary and homosexuality, all of which are worth thinking about seriously.

But, as I say, that's the leftie hack's objective, and you can't blame him for achieving it. Douglas Murray, quite rightly, is more disgusted by the craven pile-on of so-called conservatives:

Within four hours of Eaton tweeting out his misquotations of Britain's most prominent living philosopher, the housing minister (James Brokenshire) announced that Scruton had been dismissed with immediate effect from his role as Chairman of the 'Building Better Building Beautiful Commission'. The sacking from this unpaid, advisory position came because of these 'unacceptable comments'.




James Brokenshire, "Communities Secretary" and Fake Conservative. With rightwingers like these, who needs wet floorcloths?


What's the point of James Brokenshire? He is the so-called "Communities Secretary" and was formerly a most undistinguished Northern Ireland Secretary. But, more importantly, what's the point of the Conservative government in which he sits? Roger Scruton is a humane and decent person: He wrote a novel about the girls of Rotherham, which none of the more fashionable literary types could be bothered with. He thinks seriously about everything from "Islamophobia" to social dancing. If there is "no place for the likes of Scruton" in public life, then there is no place for conservatism either. Douglas Murray again:

Even today the chances are that when you show up at any institution which has a position in the gift of the government the person still in charge there will be someone who used to write press releases for Tony Blair some two decades ago. And in nine years what have the Conservatives managed? Nothing. Or almost nothing. They pat themselves on the back for their heroism in a single successful appointment, only then – as Brokenshire showed today – to reverse and retreat when a left-wing magazine pumps inaccurate quotes onto social media.

There are many reasons to feel contempt for the modern Conservative party. Personally I can see no reason, after the fiasco they have made of Brexit, to ever vote for them again.

Indeed. I wish Douglas were correct that in nine years the Tories have managed merely to accomplish nothing. On everything from Brexit to Scruton to their new Internet clampdown they are making things worse."

Don't miss Douglas Murray's take, in The Spectator, on the scandalous sacking of Sir Roger Scruton:

"So the New Statesman decided to interview Sir Roger Scruton. Perhaps there are those who think that Scruton should not have agreed to be interviewed by the New Statesman, the left-wing magazine being unlikely to conduct a fair interview. But Scruton was the magazine’s wine columnist for many years, and under the editorship of Jason Cowley the magazine has been a slightly fairer and less battily leftwards publication than it was of old.

But today the magazine’s deputy editor, George Eaton, took to social media to announce the results of what he is parading as a ‘gotcha’ interview. The interview – which Eaton conducted himself – was, he promised, positively crammed full with ‘a series of outrageous remarks’. Eaton later posted a picture of himself drinking champagne to celebrate the fate of his interviewee, with the caption “The feeling when you get right-wing racist and homophobe Roger Scruton sacked as a Tory government adviser.” Eaton has since deleted the picture. Here it is."



George Eaton of The New Statesman, Deputy Editor of that rag and asshole superdeluxe. Sir Roger Scruton made the mistake of thinking leftists can be reasonable and trustworthy. I am no world class philosopher, but that's an error I would not have made.



"So what are the ‘outrageous remarks’? It appeared that Scruton had said that Islamophobia is ‘a propaganda word invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue’. Which is true. He also said that ‘Anybody who doesn’t think that there’s a Soros empire in Hungary has not observed the facts.’ A fact which is also true. Obviously since the British Labour party became a party of anti-Semites it has become exceptionally important to pretend that anti-Semitism is equally prevalent on the political right in Britain and that to criticise any of the actions of George Soros is in fact simply to indulge in anti-Semitism equivalent to that rolling through the Labour party. A very useful play for the political left, but wholly untrue. Anyway, I say ‘it appears’ that Scruton said this because there seem to be a few journalistic problems here.

Though Eaton says that Scruton said the above I am not confident that this is so. For Eaton – who used to be the Statesman’s political editor – appears to have a somewhat Johann Hari-esque way with quotes. He claims, for instance, that what Scruton said about Soros was somehow a comment ‘on Hungarian Jews’. As though Scruton had attacked all Hungarian Jews, rather than one very influential and political man who happens to be a Hungarian Jew."

To get back to Iowa Republican Steve King, who got a James Brokenshire treatment at the hands of American 'conservative' Mitch McConnell in that he was removed in January from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees for having committed the unspeakable crime of asking,

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”

... for the caravans of hundreds of thousands of Latinos, heading to the United States of America from every crime ridden dirt poor hellhole in Central America, and the mass movements of Africans and muslims from African and islamic shitholes, heading to Europe, the issue seems clear: for them, White societies apparently seem immeasurably more superior to their own. And I will now give you a chap who sheds some light on how that superiority came to be:






MFBB.

NEW YORK POST HAS A MESSAGE FOR ILHAN OMAR.

I guess most readers heard about Omar's latest gaffe.

Only, she's no Biden. Her 'gaffes' ain't gaffes. She means it. I'm talking, of course, about her remarks at a CAIR banquet in LA on March 23, during which she stated that the 9/11 terrorists were just 'some people who did something':






The New York Post had a fitting response to that:




... they only should have added 'islamic' before the word 'terrorism'.




9/11 is not even twenty years ago and here we are, with one Ilhan Omar (D-MN), notorious antisemite, on the pic above in the company of Linda Sarsour, being a Congresswoman. HOW-ON-EARTH is such a thing even possible???


MFBB.

JEWISH AND MUSLIM AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, A COMPARISON.

First Jewish aerospace engineering, with a modest lunar lander:






Then the glowing, promising muslim effort:






Nuff said.



MFBB.

RECOMMENDED READS: DENNIS PRAGER'S "ARE WOMEN MALCONTENTS?"

A must read by Dennis Prager over at Townhall:

"I have decided to finally read what is widely regarded as the literary work that unleashed the modern feminist movement, Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique."

I am halfway through the book, and I find it to be a well-written cri de coeur (cry from the heart). Historically speaking, there was always much to lament regarding the status of women. Though I have none of the contempt Friedan has for "housewifery," her description of women who felt they had no sense of self because they were only someone's wife and some children's mother is emotionally compelling.

But a big and troubling thought hit me while reading the book. In the 56 years since "The Feminine Mystique" was published, every complaint Friedan made regarding the situation of the American woman has been addressed. Few American women are forced into "housewifery." The few women who choose to place marriage and home over career have truly chosen to do so; it is the rare young woman for whom marriage and family are greater goals than a successful career. Nor do women any longer go from high school to the wedding chapel. They go from high school to college and often graduate school. In fact, far more women go to college than men.

Yet, if you were to listen to many American women today, you would think nothing has improved. Every women's group and millions of individual women say women are "oppressed" despite the fact that virtually nothing remains of the "feminine mystique" described by Friedan.

In January 2017, between 3 and 5 million American women took part in the Women's March, widely regarded as the largest number of Americans to participate in a single-day march in the nation's history. A year later, millions of American women again participated in the Women's March in marches around the country.

Feminist groups describe the state of American women in dire terms. Young middle-class and upper-class women, many attending the most expensive universities -- paid for by their parents -- are among the greatest malcontents in American life.

In fact, women today, including young women, who lead lives the very opposite of those described in "The Feminine Mystique," are about twice as likely to be depressed as men. And that statistic is true for women across all economic, racial and ethnic groups.

So, then, what was my big and troubling thought?





If women are as likely -- perhaps more likely -- to complain about being oppressed today when they aren't oppressed as they did when they were oppressed, and if women today are nearly twice as likely as men to be depressed, and if women at elite colleges -- where they are pampered and more assured a financially successful future than most men living now or who lived in the past -- are particularly angry and malcontented, simple logic suggests two choices: Either women remain as oppressed as in the past, or women tend to be malcontents.

Given that the reality is that American women -- especially the ones who do the most complaining -- are not oppressed, we are left to conclude that the female of the human species may tend toward being malcontents. The simple-minded will respond to this exactly as they were indoctrinated to respond -- not by asking, "Is it true?" but by accusing the person who offers this suggestion of sexism and misogyny.

So, allow me to respond in advance: This is no more an attack on women than describing men's nature as aggressive is an attack on men. Each sex has built-in issues that an individual has to overcome in order to develop into a mature and good person. Men have to deal with aggression and the sexual predatory aspect of male nature in order to develop into mature and good men. Women have to overcome the power of their emotions and their chronic malcontentedness in order to mature into good women. But in our disordered society -- a society that has rejected wisdom -- in raising their children, two generations of Americans have told only their sons, not their daughters, that they had to fight their nature. The feminization of society has brought with it the destructive notion that only males have to suppress their nature. Feminists really believe females are superior, so why would women have to fight any aspect of their inherently beautiful nature?

Finally, this helps explain why one would consider the left feminine and the right masculine. Though life in America is a blessing for the vast majority of its citizens, the left constantly complains about America. Indeed, the better America gets, the louder the left's complaints about America -- about its racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, bigotry, xenophobia, inequality, systemic bias, etc. The right, on the other hand, regards life's difficulties as inherent to life, not inherent to America's flaws, and doesn't much complain. Like men, conservatives complain less than liberals. And just as male and female feminists demand that American men complain more -- that their lack of complaining is a form of "toxic masculinity" -- the American left demands that Americans complain more.

All these women's marches and angry women at colleges probably tell us more about women's nature than about American sexism."

Amen, bro. It was about time one of us male 'oppressors' came forward with this message.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSE, CAT STEVENS.

Muse with Undisclosed Desires. From the 2009 album The Resistance.





English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. Matt Bellamy does lead vocals, guitar, and keyboards, Chris Wolstenholme bass guitar and backing vocals, and Dominic Howard is drummer.



Some seven years before flesh eating bacteria ravaged the inside of Cat Stevens' skull and turned him into a mooslim, the man wrote Wild World, a song from the album Tea for the Tillerman (1970).





At the time of writing Wild World, Stevens and his girlfriend Patti d'Arbanville were in the process of breaking up. Lady d'Arbanville dodged quite some bullet there.


Nite.



MFBB.

MUSLIM HIGH SCHOOL CORNELIUS HAGA LYCEUM IN AMSTERDAM, PROVEN HOTBED OF SALAFISM, ALLOWED TO CONTINUE DESPITE AIVD WARNINGS.

Via De Dagelijkse Standaard, a Dutch rightwing website:

"Het schooljaar 2019-2020 kan nog wel eens een goed jaar worden voor de islamitische school Cornelius Haga in Amsterdam, waar bestuurders banden met terroristen en homegrown salafist Arnoud van Doorn onderhouden. Voor komend jaar hebben al bijna 150 kinderen zich aangemeld voor een plekje op de Raqqa van het onderwijs.

Het is toch van de zotten? Het is inmiddels alweer weken geleden dat de AIVD aantoonde dat de Amsterdamse islamitische school Cornelius Haga Lyceum banden onderhoudt met terroristische organisaties, en de slappe minister Slob heeft de onderwijsinstelling nog altijd niet gesloten. Dat leidt nu tot een soort triomfalisme, waarin men het zelfs gepast vindt om via allerlei stekelige 1 aprilgrappen middelvingers uit te delen aan de overheid.

En nu kan dat walgelijke islamofascistische Cornelius Haga-hol een nieuw succes rapporteren: het loopt storm voor het schooljaar 2019/2020! Al 135 knettergekke fundamentalistische ouders hebben hun kinderen opgegeven voor een plekje op deze tuigschool..."

The gist of the story: A couple of weeks ago the AIVD [Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, the Dutch counterpart of the NSA if you will; MFBB] disclosed, in a report made public, that the staff of Amsterdam's islamic school Cornelius Haga had ties with islamic terrorist organizations. Here's a screenshot from NRC Handelsblad, a key Dutch newspaper:




The accompanying article states that AIVD warned Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema [a notorious islamophile and ecofascist; MFBB] about the "very worrisome situation at Cornelius Haga", where key personnel had ties with islamic terrorist organizations, a.o. the Caucasus Emirate. This Chechen jihadist organization (Imarat Kavkaz) is striving for establishing an islamic republic in Chechnya and surrounding areas in the North Caucasian. It is responsible for the two 2010 bombings of the Moscow underground and the attack on Moscow's Domodedovo Airport in 2011.

That the AIVD chose to make such sensitive information public via ordinary news channels is extremely rare and can only mean there is grave danger involved in letting Cornelius Haga continue.

Well, guess what. Since the disclosure of the report there's a stampede of islamic parents to Cornelius Haga for ensuring a place for their offspring in the coming schoolyear 2019-2020.

This development underscores for the umpteenth time the wide chasm that exists between "our" and "their" behaviour. As I have opined a couple of times before on these pages, if we get informed that some white trash criminal had his career cut short per the business end of police guns, our reaction is invariably "good riddance". Definitely NOT SO for our muslim "co-citizens", for whom islamic terrorists and criminals are heroes. We can be pretty sure that the news of AIVD proving that Cornelius Haga is a hotbed of salafism was actually seen as an endorsement in muslim circles.

The "British" sharia scholar Haitham al-Haddad is a known visitor of the school, and Education Minister Slob has gotten information that half of the hours in Cornelius Haga are spent on salafist courses, but all of that is no problem. However, Thierry Baudet and his Forum for Democracy making a breakthrough in the recent parliamentary elections, now, THAT's bad indeed!



Cornelius Haga Lyceum: prepping students to become model citizens in the future Islamic Republic of Holland. Within five years, most of the girls visible in this photograph will have given birth to their first child.

Islam has NO place in civilized countries.


MFBB.

THANK ALLAH IT'S FRIDAY!!!

Vlogger Hans Coudenys maintains a site, Ugly Belgian Houses, which sports the cream of Belgian architecture:




Take a look here. Sorry if you just ate.


He also published a book on the matter:




You can buy it here.


Have a nice weekend!



MFBB.

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS: PAUL JOSEPH WATSON ON LGBTQWERTY VS ISLAM.

PJW nails it:





For a good case in point, let's take a look at New Zealand, where last year PM Jacinda Ardern was the first NZ head of state ever to march in a Gay Pride parade:





For some unfathomable reason, that same wretched, ugly, worthless creature seems unable to detect the gross inconsistency of hugging both: a.) chaps who chop off their dicks thinking the fact alone makes them a woman and/or guys exploring other guys' anuses elbow-deep and, b.) fire-breathing imams who would gladly throw category a.) off Auckland's highest building.





As Mark Steyn observed:

"Apparently it's bad to force women into red robes and white coverings, but black robes and black coverings are totally cool - nothing patriarchal about them at all; in fact, the likes of Ms Ardern seem to get a kick out of it. Black isn't the new red.

Ms Ardern also ordered the nationwide broadcasting of the Muslim call to prayer, which apparently she can do, just as the Speaker of the legislature a couple of months back axed Jesus from the daily parliamentary prayer."

Unfortunately, the Jacinda Arderns of this world get far more airplay than the Mark Steyns. That, and eager followers as well:





The twat in the photo is Jill Rogers, Counties Manukau district commander superintendent (whoa, quite a mouthful), at the occasion, in 2018, of hosting for the first time an iftar dinner with the muslim community in south Auckland.

Just remember - and here we come to another breathtaking inconsistency - madam Rogers is one of those who will take pride, and loudly proclaim it, in "having broken free of the shackles imposed upon them by that evil white patriarchy"...

... yet at the same time she happily dons the garb imposed on females by and ARCHDOMINANT kind of male patriarchy, which does not allow women, in countries where they form a majority, to make it "district commander superintendent". Go figure.



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BOSTON DYNAMICS UPGRADES HANDLE.

In the Beginning there was Handle:





And then there came an upgrade to the Handle Logistics:





This Handle is a highly agile legs/wheels centered robot specifically designed for logistics. It is 2m high, weighs 105 kilograms, and can 'handle' a 30-kg payload. It has 10 joints and depth cameras for perception. Handle can build pallet towers, depalletize, and unload trucks in the warehouse.

I'm a bit surprised BD now resorted to a two-legged wheeled robot since it is clear that this kind of robotic dynamism requires constant dynamic counterbalancing. Given current microprocessor speeds I can imagine the software can handle this just fine - it's 'just' constantly re-calculating the equilibrium of robot and payload in function of the changing place in space, and thus momentum, of both. I guess the requirements for reacting mechanically can also easily be met. But what got me wondering is whether this type of configuration does not require an unneccessary power drain. On the videos you can clearly see how the huge pack between Handle's legs - which cannot be anything else than the battery - is constantly lifted up to provide the fitting counterbalance. The energy the battery expends for lifting itself up is energy that cannot be used for hauling payload.

Of course, guys coming up with this kind of technological marvels must be waaaaaaay smarter than I am so I assume they know what they are doing.

Also don't miss this Wired article:

"FOR INTERNET-GOERS, BOSTON Dynamics is that company that uploads insane videos of the humanoid Atlas robot doing backflips, of four-legged SpotMini opening doors and fighting off stick-wielding men, and as of last week, of a Segway-on-mescaline called Handle jetting around picking up and stacking boxes with a vacuum arm. For journalists and industry watchers, however, Boston Dynamics is that company that almost never talks about where all of this work is ultimately headed.

That’s beginning to change. The company is now teasing its ambitions as the four-legged SpotMini nears its commercial release. Today, Boston Dynamics is getting even more explicit about its vision with an announcement that it’s acquired a Silicon Valley startup called Kinema Systems, which builds vision software that helps industrial robot arms manipulate boxes. This acquisition is giving the Handle robot the gray matter it needs to follow SpotMini to market.

One of the biggest obstacles holding robots back has been their limited perception. We humans enjoy a rich constellation of senses that help us navigate our surroundings. Robots need the same, lest they destroy themselves. Go to pick up a box, for example, and you as a human probably don’t think deeply about the lighting and how it may cast shadows that throw off your hand placement.

Kinema’s software—which is robot-agnostic, meaning it already works on a range of robots beyond Handle—helps the machine through all these challenges. “Their system is able to look at a stack of boxes,” says Michael Perry, vice president of business development at Boston Dynamics, “and no matter how ordered or disordered the boxes are, or the markings on top, or the lighting conditions, they're able to figure out which boxes are discrete from each other and to plan a path for grabbing the box.”

and:

"The reason BD is able to riff on its robot shapes with relative ease boils down to one big thing: repurposed software.

When you think Boston Dynamics, you probably don’t first marvel at the code that’s running these machines—BD is famous for its hardware. But Raibert takes issue with that characterization. “I think it's a misconception that we're a hardware company,” he says. “The only reason any of our machines do what they do is because of the controls and perception and the systems that coordinate with the hardware. It's just that our hardware is so strong, that's what makes us look like that.”

Someone, after all, has to program Atlas to do those backflips. SpotMini needs software to autonomously navigate its world. And two-wheeled Handle needs finely tuned control algorithms to keep from falling on its face. BD works out these algorithms across its platforms. “There's a lot of stuff that flows,” says Raibert. “The next group uses a lot and then creates their own stuff, and then that flows back.”

Fascinating!



MFBB.

BRITISH TAXPAYERS DUPED FOR BILLIONS OF POUNDS BY MUSLIMS WHO INFILTRATED IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

This is gross.

"A network of fraudsters stole billions of pounds from taxpayers in a 20-year crime spree on an industrial scale, funneling tens of millions to terrorists including Osama Bin Laden, according to police and intelligence files.

An investigation by The Sunday Times has revealed how a sprawling gang of British Asians infiltrated government departments, associated with Abu Hamza and one of the 7/7 bombers, bought Ferraris with personalised plates and cosied up to politicians including Tony Blair - all while keeping their operations so secretive investigators had to resort to tying a camera to a dog to glean intelligence from inside one of their factories.

The files show four HMRC investigators pleaded with bosses to prosecute the crimelords but were rebuffed - and one claims he was prevented from sharing HMRC data with MI5 because the Revenue wanted to maintain the confidentiality of the terror suspects' tax records.

HMRC told MailOnline it 'can, has always, and does' pass information on to intelligence agencies 'within minutes if necessary' and that confidentiality 'doesn't come into it'.

An estimated £8bn was stolen from the taxpayer through scams including benefit fraud and a massive VAT swindle. The sum, equivalent to the GDP of Kyrgystan or Kosovo, is three times as much as the Government spends on MI5, MI6 and GCHQ each year.

The gang is alleged to have sent one per cent of the money - £80 million - to al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where it was spent on madrasas and terrorist training camps. MI5 sources say prior to his death in 2011 some of the money had reached Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.




(screenshot via The Times)


The true scale of the gang's profits, augmented by mortgage fraud, credit card fraud, and investments of the stolen cash, is unknown.

Some members of the syndicate have received and in some cases even finished jail terms - of a combined 100 years for frauds worth £100m - since the crimes first came to light in 1995, but the public has been prevented from hearing about the case or the identities of the wrongdoers by court orders.

The Crown Prosecution Service insists reporting might prejudice potential trials of the gang's ringleaders - despite the fact the kingpins fled the country years ago and are believed to be in hiding in the Middle East.

Last night Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the public accounts committee, told the Sunday Times said she would consider launching a parliamentary inquiry and would question Sir Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary and national security adviser to the prime minister, tomorrow."

.....

"'Officers and, increasingly, their direct management have become frustrated at the lack of action,' wrote the officer. His request was refused because HMRC was worried about preserving the taxpayer confidentiality of the terror suspects."

.....

"Thousands were given by the gang to the then-ruling Labour Party. An internal HMRC report said: 'There are numerous [gang] members involved in think tanks and business forums which bring them into contact with senior British politicians.

'I myself have seen one member shoulder to shoulder with Tony Blair on at least two occasions following the war in Iraq.'

The files also show that the gang enjoyed links with a top politician in Pakistan. There is no suggestion that Blair was aware of the alleged crimes.

HMRC intelligence officers also identified the gang's links to Shehzad Tanweer, a terrorist involved in the 7/7 London bombings in 2005 which killed 52 people, at least two years before the attack.

Associates of Tanweer, who who detonated a bomb while travelling eastbound on the Circle Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate, killing himself and seven others., were suspected of 'multi-identity fraud, phoenix trading, tax evasion, tax credit fraud and money laundering', according to the files.

Many suspects identified by the 1990s investigation were prosecuted, with second-tier members of the gang charged with carousel fraud and money laundering.

In the course of cross-checking HMRC files with secret MI5 intelligence, the CPS found the 'jaw-dropping' link, a source told the paper; that 'MI5 had information that the ultimate destination for some of the money was Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad.'

However, senior HMRC officials declined to use the intelligence to mount prosecutions and take the gang out of operation until after the bombings."

So "a sprawling gang of British Asians infiltrated government departments" huh?


So "His request was refused because HMRC was worried about preserving the taxpayer confidentiality of the terror suspects." huh?

So "Thousands were given by the gang to the then-ruling Labour Party." huh?

So "Senior HMRC officials declined to use the intelligence to mount prosecutions and take the gang out of operation until after the bombings." huh?


Would it be asked too much if we could know the party affiliation of those "senior HMRC officals"? The religion they adhere? Whether or not they belong to that fabled group of 'British Asians'?

The West is litterally financing its own funeral, whether by generous child allowances or by funneling hard earned tax money to muslim terrs.

Meanwhile, this is what happens to British patriots. Amongst others:





It is now safe to speak of a worldwide leftist/islamic alliance.



MFBB.

RECOMMENDED READS: TREVOR THOMAS' "SEATTLE IS DYING" (BECAUSE LIBERALISM IS KILLING IT).

A compelling article over at American Thinker, by Trevor Thomas, on the sad decline of a once beautiful and safe city, Seattle.

"If you haven't seen the KOMO News special Seattle Is Dying, you need to. (Watch it here.) The hour-long show does a sound job of depicting the ugly decline of one of the most beautiful places in America. However, the piece misses the forest for the nasty, dirty, twisted trees.

Part of the root of the problem in Seattle is political, but Seattle Is Dying virtually ignores the liberal politics behind Seattle's foul decline. As John Sexton at Hot Air put it, "[t]here's really no escaping the fact that the current situation is the result of political decisions."



~ And yet, reporter Eric Johnson [the KOMO reporter behind the story] said on Facebook that he though[t] politicizing the story was a mistake. He says he's received many offers to comment on national shows that lean either right or left and he's turned them all down. He really seems to believe that people on all sides of the aisle can see the problems and the solutions regardless of where they are coming from.



Johnson begins his report by describing the "seething anger" of Seattle residents who no longer feel safe in their city. Scenes of filth — that rival what is seen in third-world countries — and "lost souls" litter the hour-long report. Residents and small business–owners are "mad" and "embarrassed" at the fact that, in many places, their city, simply put, "looks like s---." And law enforcement personnel are little to no help at all.

After I read the article, I sniffed around a short while and quickly found out that at least thirty years back mayors and key legislators of Seattle were ALL democrats. What is more, an astounding percentage were openly gay! Cal Anderson, Murray (also charged with child molestation), Jamie Pedersen, Nicole Macri, I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

I was in Seattle in summer 1995 and it was still a beautiful city. How I remember walking through clean and safe streets, how I watched the fish-throwing spectacle at Pike's Place. A week before that, I had spent three days in San Fran and that place gave me - back then already - the creeps. In the Ramada Hotel on Market Street the staff expressly told me to avoid this or that area.

Nothing of the kind in Seattle, back then it compared so well with SF that when I was back in Europe I hailed it as a marvel to everyone who would hear it, to the point that I fear I began annoying people.

And so I am very, very sorry to hear about that once great city going all socialistic. Going all...

.... European.


Leftism is a mental disorder.



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SATURDAY NIGHT THE WALKER BROTHERS, DICK DALE AND THE DEL-TONES.

So Scott Walker died. He was a Scott alright, born Noel Engel Scott, but no Walker. He got that stage name from his buddy John Walker with whom he teamed up to form the Walker Bros., a short while later in the company of drummer Gary Leeds (btw, the name John Walker being a pseudonym itself for John Maus).





Got to know the band as a twentysomething when I started to compile my personal Top 2000, forget about them again later. Reconnected when I visited the Bokrijk Sixties Theme Park with our family a couple of years back (you should, too, when in the neighborhood, it's very much okay). RIP Mr Walker, I liked your music. For more fitting eulogies I refer to Tony, Sunflowers159, David, Susan, Margaret and others:






Dick Dale also died. Reconnected with that legend thx to Tarantino's use of Misirlou in Reservoir Dogs. If you haven't seen that one yet, do.





The King of the Surf Guitar, real name Richard Anthony Monsour, son of a Lebanese father and a Polish mother, reached the ripe old age of 82. Almost. RIP Dick and thank you too.


Goede nacht.


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MULTICULTURAL ENRICHMENT IN GERMANY, SPRING 2019.

Via The Telegraph, March 22, 2019:



"They wanted to kill as many infidels as possible."
(image via PI-News)

"German police arrested 11 people on Friday accused of having planned an "Islamist terrorist attack" using guns and a vehicle, prosecutors said.

The suspects, whose nationalities were not specified, had plotted to "kill as many 'non-believers' as possible," Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement.

Some 200 police commandos carried out raids in the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.

The chief suspects were two brothers aged 31 from the city of Wiesbaden and a 21-year-old from Offenbach.

They had allegedly made contact with various arms dealers, rented a large vehicle and amassed cash to cover the expenses.

Police were investigating 10 of those detained for terror-financing and criminal conspiracy. They were aged between 20 and 42 and lived in Frankfurt, Offenbach, Wiesbaden and Mainz.

During the raids, police confiscated several knives, more than 20,000 euros (£17,100) in cash, small amounts of drugs and written and electronic documents.

Germany is on the alert following several jihadist attacks in recent years...."

Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden? Where have I heard about Wiesbaden before?? Oh...

... yeah:





Via al-Beeb, March 12, 2019:

"A failed asylum seeker who was arrested by German police in Iraq has gone on trial accused of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old German girl in Wiesbaden.

Ali Bashar, 22, admitted in court that he had strangled Susanna Feldman, but said he did not know how it happened.

The May 2018 killing prompted outrage in Germany and led Chancellor Angela Merkel to call for faster deportation of failed asylum seekers.

The girl's body was found two weeks after she disappeared.

"Everything went black before my eyes, then it all happened," the defendant told the court through an interpreter. "I don't know how it could have happened."

Ali Bashar is also accused of attacking a man in a park and faces a separate trial next week for allegedly raping a girl aged 11..."

He doesn't know how it could have happened...

Might not Trump be involved? You know, with all his hateful rhetoric. Maybe, now that he's got his hands free from the Russia probe, Mueller could start a Tajikistan probe?



Via PI-News, yesterday:

"Von JOHANNES DANIELS | Tadschiken-Dschihad am „No-Future-Friday“ in Deutschland: An den ersten sonnigen Frühlings-Freitagen sind die deutschen Innenstädte gut besucht, von Wirtschaftsflaute keine Spur. So treffen gut gelaunte Shopping-Bummler auf die weltuntergangsselige Schulschwänzer-Sause gegen das Klima. Diese treffen wiederum auf psychisch verwirrte „Fridays-for-Allah“-Auto-Dschihadisten sowie auf Heerscharen von schwer bewaffneten Einsatzkräften, SEK-Sonderkommandos mit Maschinenpistolen und über den Innenstädten kreisenden Polizeihubschraubern. Es rührt sich was in deutschen Fußgängerzonen im Merkeljahr 2019!"

Translation:

"From Johannes Daniels - Tajik Jihad on "No Future Friday" in Germany: on the first sunny Spring Friday Germany's inner cities are crowded, of worker bees no trace. And so happy shoppers come across throngs of End of Days students skipping class for the climate. And these ones in turn bump into psychologically challenged "Fridays for Allah" car jihadists as well as platoons of heavily armed security forces, SEK-special commandos with machine guns and circling police choppers. Life in German pedestrian areas in Merkel Year 2019 is interesting!"

The article deals with a foiled car jihad in Essen and a massive raid on islamic terror cells in Ulm.



Meanwhile, in the runup to the May European elections, Heiko Maas, formerly Minister of Allowing Groping and Raping and now Minister of Submission to Islamic Countries, extols the virtues of having Open Borders:



The vicious gnome in the centre, in the pleasant company of his overlords, is "Herr" Maas, but I suspect you suspected that.


Here's the transcript of a speech he gave recently (courtesy our pals at Gates of Vienna):

00:00 "At the end of May we will be voting for a new European Parliament.
00:03 Unfortunately some forecasts predict
00:06 that populists and nationalists could win.
00:09 That should set off some alarms for us.
00:12 Right-wing populism is a direct attack on
00:15 the values that we hold dear in our hearts.
00:18 Our liberal democracy, our culture, our prosperity depend on
00:24 open borders and free trade. The enormous challenges of
00:28 climate change, digitisation and migration can’t be solved
00:32 by countries standing alone in Europe.
00:36 Isolation and nationalism are a false path that leads to
00:40 political helplessness.
00:43 Our country has a difficult past. Nevertheless, our parents’
00:47 generation managed to create a modern Germany
00:51 in the heart of Europe. Cosmopolitan with a liberal inner
00:55 essence, and neighbourly, peaceful partner outwardly.
00:59 To maintain and develop this further must be our mission now.
01:05 Yes, the European Union may not be perfect, but it is absolutely
01:11 indispensable. When everywhere in the world we hear:
01:15 “America First”, “Russia First”, or “China First”,
01:18 then our clear answer can only be:
01:21 Europe Untied.
01:24 We must not abandon the field to those who make people frightened
01:28 of Europe. We must speak about reform ideas that strengthen the
01:32 European Union.
01:36 Europe is the answer, not nationalism."

That's it! More Open Borders! More dead Susannas, Mias, Gretchens, more elderly beaten to a pulp, more security services stretched to the limit and beyond, more mini IS calipahtes in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Muenchen! The solution is so simple!

WIR SCHAFFEN DAS!!!


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DONALD TRUMP IS FINISHED!!!

Well okay, on Planet Zeist in any case:







Schadenfreude baby! ROOOOOOOOOFL!!!


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WARMIST PANIC!!! JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER GROWING AGAIN!!!

Het Laatste Nieuws is having a bad time. This is their Week from Hell. First they can't get around the Mueller Report conclusions, then they have to publish that Congress can't do jack sh*t about the President's veto and he will somehow get the money to get the Wall built, THEN he recognizes the Golan Heights as Israeli territory (ROFL), and to top it all off...

... one of the fastest melting glaciers in Greenland is growing again!


But that ain't no good news... HLN today:

"GLACIER GROWS AGAIN, BUT THAT'S NO GOOD NEWS.


One of the fastest melting glaciers in Greenland is growing again, say NASA scientists. In 2016 and 2017 the ice got thicker. In some areas the glacier is about 30 meters thicker than in 2015. Yet this is no good news, warn the scientists.

The Jakobshavn Glacier is one of Greenland's biggest glaciers and was calving away frighteningly quick. Year after year the ice retreated some three kilometers, as a result of rising sea temperatures and the planet getting hotter. Over the past couple of years, the glacier grew again a little.

The growth can be explained by colder sea temperatures. Glaciers thus appear to be very sensitive to variations of the water temperature. And that's no good news, say the NASA scientists. The ice seems to be so sensitive, that forecasts in the longer term are difficult.

Anyway, the glacier growing again will only be a temporary phenomenon and won't have an impact on rising sea levels."

Yeah right. Personally I am so sensitive to leftist bullshit, that forecasts in the longer term are not difficult at all: in 30 years, normals will be laughing their asses off over the sheer lunacy of Warmists.



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MUELLER REPORT RELEASED, FINDINGS MADE PUBLIC.

The Mueller Report has been released, and its findings have now been made pubic.

DowneastBlog is proud to give its readers a brief summary of the report:





Cost: an estimated 35 million dollars and counting.

All for nothing. And why?

Because part of the US population is unwilling to understand that not liking the winner does not nullify the result of an election.



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