LEST WE FORGET...

"Able Company riding the tide in seven Higgins boats is still five thousand yards from the beach when first taken under artillery fire. The shells fall short. At one thousand yards, Boat No. 5 is hit dead on and foundered. Six men drown before help arrives. Second Lieutenant Edward Gearing and twenty others paddle around until picked up by naval craft, thereby missing the fight at the shore line. It's their lucky day. The other six boats ride unscathed to within one hundred yards of the shore, where a shell into Boat No. 3 kills two men. Another dozen drown, taking to the water as the boat sinks. That leaves five boats.

Lieutenant Edward Tidrick in Boat No. 2 cries out: "My God, we're coming in at the right spot, but look at it! No shingle, no wall, no shell holes, no cover. Nothing!"

His men are at the sides of the boat, straining for a view of the target. They stare but say nothing. At exactly 6:36 A.M. ramps are dropped along the boat line and the men jump off in water anywhere from waist deep to higher than a man's head. This is the signal awaited by the Germans atop the bluff. Already pounded by mortars, the floundering line is instantly swept by crossing machine-gun fires from both ends of the beach.

Able Company has planned to wade ashore in three files from each boat, center file going first, then flank files peeling off to right and left. The first men out try to do it but are ripped apart before they can make five yards. Even the lightly wounded die by drowning, doomed by the waterlogging of their overloaded packs. From Boat No. 1, all hands jump off in water over their heads. Most of them are carried down. Ten or so survivors get around the boat and clutch at its sides in an attempt to stay afloat. The same thing happens to the section in Boat No. 4. Half of its people are lost to the fire or tide before anyone gets ashore. All order has vanished from Able Company before it has fired a shot.







Already the sea runs red. Even among some of the lightly wounded who jumped into shallow water the hits prove fatal. Knocked down by a bullet in the arm or weakened by fear and shock, they are unable to rise again and are drowned by the onrushing tide. Other wounded men drag themselves ashore and, on finding the sands, lie quiet from total exhaustion, only to be overtaken and killed by the water. A few move safely through the bullet swarm to the beach, then find that they cannot hold there. They return to the water to use it for body cover. Faces turned upward, so that their nostrils are out of water, they creep toward the land at the same rate as the tide. That is how most of the survivors make it. The less rugged or less clever seek the cover of enemy obstacles moored along the upper half of the beach and are knocked off by machine-gun fire.

Within seven minutes after the ramps drop, Able Company is inert and leaderless. At Boat No. 2, Lieutenant Tidrick takes a bullet through the throat as he jumps from the ramp into the water. He staggers onto the sand and flops down ten feet from Private First Class Leo J. Nash. Nash sees the blood spurting and hears the strangled words gasped by Tidrick: "Advance with the wire cutters!" It's futile; Nash has no cutters. To give the order, Tidrick has raised himself up on his hands and made himself a target for an instant. Nash, burrowing into the sand, sees machine gun bullets rip Tidrick from crown to pelvis. From the cliff above, the German gunners are shooting into the survivors as from a roof top.

Captain Taylor N. Fellers and Lieutenant Benjamin R. Kearfoot never make it. They had loaded with a section of thirty men in Boat No. 6 (Landing Craft, Assault, No. 1015). But exactly what happened to this boat and its human cargo was never to be known. No one saw the craft go down. How each man aboard it met death remains unreported. Half of the drowned bodies were later found along the beach. It is supposed that the others were claimed by the sea.

Along the beach, only one Able Company officer still lives—Lieutenant Elijah Nance, who is hit in the heel as he quits the boat and hit in the belly by a second bullet as he makes the sand. By the end of ten minutes, every sergeant is either dead or wounded. To the eyes of such men as Private Howard I. Grosser and Private First Class Gilbert G. Murdock, this clean sweep suggests that the Germans on the high ground have spotted all leaders and concentrated fire their way. Among the men who are still moving in with the tide, rifles, packs, and helmets have already been cast away in the interests of survival.

To the right of where Tidrick's boat is drifting with the tide, its coxswain lying dead next to the shell-shattered wheel, the seventh craft, carrying a medical section with one officer and sixteen men, noses toward the beach. The ramp drops. In that instant, two machine guns concentrate their fire on the opening. Not a man is given time to jump. All aboard are cut down where they stand.

By the end of fifteen minutes, Able Company has still not fired a weapon. No orders are being given by anyone. No words are spoken. The few able-bodied survivors move or not as they see fit. Merely to stay alive is a full-time job. The fight has become a rescue operation in which nothing counts but the force of a strong example.

Above all others stands out the first-aid man, Thomas Breedin. Reaching the sands, he strips off pack, blouse, helmet, and boots. For a moment he stands there so that others on the strand will see him and get the same idea. Then he crawls into the water to pull in wounded men about to be overlapped by the tide. The deeper water is still spotted with tide walkers advancing at the same pace as the rising water. But now, owing to Breedin's example, the strongest among them become more conspicuous targets. Coming along, they pick up wounded comrades and float them to the shore raftwise. Machine-gun fire still rakes the water. Burst after burst spoils the rescue act, shooting the floating man from the hands of the walker or killing both together. But Breedin for this hour leads a charmed life and stays with his work indomitably...."

Via The Atlantic, NOV 1960 issue.

Hat tip NEC338x over at CDR Salamander.



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TOON OF THE DAY.

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WELCOME TO THE GREAT SOCIALIST STATE OF CALIFORNIA!!!

First the appetizer. This is America, more precisely democrat-run CA:





Fox News' Tammy Bruce reports:

"One glance at the formerly Golden State is a frightening embarrassment. The latest indictment of liberal leadership is the trash heap of Los Angeles. Literally. Despite the emergence of louse-borne typhus, Los Angeles can’t seem to get its act together.

Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times reported a week ago on the obscene condition of downtown Los Angeles, “A mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash … stretching a good 20 yards along a skid row alley. Rats popped their heads out of the debris like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole, then scampered for cover as a tractor with a scoop lurched toward them. … The trash problem is not confined to any one street, but this particular location on the 800 block of Ceres Avenue is surrounded by food distribution companies that sell to shoppers, vendors, stores and restaurants. I counted seven within a block, so you have to wonder — given the colonies of football-size rats — about the potential contamination of the food supply chain and the spread of disease.”

What does the city say when confronted about the slow, or nonexistent, pace of cleanup?



A “spokeswoman for the city Department of Public Works said the backlog on service calls for trash pickup around homeless encampments sits at just under 8,400 currently. … ‘If it’s a homeless encampment, it’s a lengthier process because humans are involved and we have to meet certain protocols,’ she said, including a survey of who’s there, an inventory of personal property and notice of a cleanup,” the Times reported.



That’s right. Their concern for the people who are at ground zero for emerging deadly viruses is to follow protocols involving surveys and inventories. So don’t you worry — big government is keeping itself busy, as it behaves as though it’s normal to have more than 2,000 people sleeping on trash heaps, as potential epidemics lurk.

This is the idiotic disaster brought to you by unrestrained liberal leadership as it creates problems, then births a bureaucracy that will never deal with it.

One glance at the formerly Golden State is a frightening embarrassment. The latest indictment of liberal leadership is the trash heap of Los Angeles. Literally.

In San Francisco alone, as The New York Times reported, one of every 11,600 residents is a billionaire. The state actually has a budget surplus, but as we see, money can’t cure stupid.


Video courtesy Lew Rockwell.

Which brings us to Gov. Gavin Newsom and his plan. He’s outraged, just outraged at the “national disgrace” of California’s homelessness.

The Ventura County Star reported, “Gov. Gavin Newsom called growing homelessness in California a national disgrace as he announced Tuesday that he is launching a task force to find solutions amid a housing crisis in the most populous state.”

Like Los Angeles, instead of dealing with the reality of the problem, Newsom announced the creation of a task force, the members of which will travel around the state and make recommendations. There’s only one recommendation, and they won’t like it, that will change the state’s fate: a plea to all California voters to stop electing Democrats.

Yes, there’s nothing finer in a leader than the effort to blame everyone else for the scourge of homelessness your fellow Democrats have created over the years. California’s disaster isn’t a national disgrace, it’s not even California’s disgrace; it’s the disgrace of every liberal politician in the state who has led that state into medieval crisis.

Speaking of medieval crises, Dr. Drew Pinsky, the addiction medicine specialist, told Brian Kilmeade of Fox News that a deadly epidemic could emerge in Los Angeles during the summer months.



"I live in the great state of California, the utopia that is California, which is a nightmare,’ Pinsky said. ‘I want to give you a prediction here. There will be a major infectious disease epidemic this summer in Los Angeles.’ He continued, ‘We have tens and tens of thousands of people living in tents. Horrible conditions. Sanitation. Rats have taken over the city. We’re the only city in the country, Los Angeles, without a rodent control program. We have multiple rodent-borne, flea-borne illnesses, plague, typhus. We’re gonna have louse-borne illness. If measles breaks into that population, we have tuberculosis exploding. Literally, our politicians are like Nero. It’s worse than Nero,’ Pinsky said,” Fox News reported.



But it’s different now. Every Nero has a task force.

It’s so bad in California, even The New York Times deigned to allow an opinion piece decrying the growing instability of the state..."

Downtown LA under the effective stewardship of our friends the Democrats.


The return of a medieval disease... in California! Via DailyWire:

"The city, with a population topping four million and a broader metropolitan area with many millions more, is awash in massive problems — overcrowding, lack of housing, and high demand for free services among them. But other far more serious problems are lurking, Dr. Drew Pinksy said on Thursday.


“We have a complete breakdown of the basic needs of civilization in Los Angeles right now,” Pinsky told Fox New host Laura Ingraham. “We have the three prongs of airborne disease, tuberculosis is exploding, rodent-borne. We are one of the only cities in the country that doesn’t have a rodent control program, and sanitation has broken down.”

Pinsky said bubonic plague — also known as the “Black Death,” a pandemic that killed off millions in the 14th century — is “likely” already present in Los Angeles. The plague is spread by infected fleas and exposure to bodily fluids from a dead plague-infected animal, with the bacteria entering through the skin and traveling to lymph nodes.


Typhus, which broke out in the city last year, will likely return, Pinsky said. Already, a Los Angeles police officer has contracted typhoid fever, which infects fewer than 350 Americans each year. The various types of typhus are caused by a bacterial infection and spread by body lice, chiggers or fleas. In the 1600s, the disease decimated Germany.

“This is unbelievable. I can’t believe I live in a city where this is not Third World. This is medieval,” Pinsky said, according to Fox News. “Third World countries are insulted if they are accused of being like this. No city on Earth tolerates this. The entire population is at risk.”

Pinsky said the city simply can't handle the demand for services, noting that many homeless are mentally ill and don't want to accept housing.



“[T]he government is somehow insisting that housing is the problem when in fact we have chronic mental illness, we have addiction, we have people who don’t want to leave the streets,” Pinsky said. “They literally won’t take the housing if we give it to them. And that’s the population that’s vulnerable, and is going to get so ill this summer. It scares me for their well-being.”



The famed doctor also said California cities are suffering after allowing thousands of illegal aliens to flow in. He said the liberal politicians running most cities are “disgustingly negligent.”

Homelessness is also exploding in San Francisco — the home district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.

“A federal count shows the number of homeless people increased by double-digit percentages in three San Francisco Bay Area counties over two years as the region struggled to tackle the growing problem, including 17% in San Francisco and 43% in the county that includes Oakland,” the Associated Press reported."

Nancy Pelosi's vision for America. Now excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor.



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SATURDAY NIGHT CROWDED HOUSE, SUPERTRAMP.

Crowded House with Weather with You. Album Woodface (1991).





Crowded House formed in Melbourne, Oz, in 1985, around New Zealander Neil Finn (vocals, guitar, main songwriter) and Aussies Paul Hester (drums) and Nick Seymour (bass). Later on, Neil's brother Tim and Americans Mark Hart and Matt Sherrod would join.



Supertramp with School. From the 1974 album Crime of the Century.





Grrrrreat piano solo by Roger Hodgson, who also wrote and composed School.


Slaap wel.


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THE END OF THE CORDON SANITAIRE AROUND VLAAMS BELANG?

The most iconic image of this week was, for me at least, Belgian King Philippe I shaking hands with Tom Van Grieken, Chairman of Vlaams Belang:





As I wrote earlier this week, Vlaams Belang was the big winner of last Sunday's federal, regional and European elections. "The big winner" with only 18 per cent of the vote in Flanders? Yes indeed, in a hopelessly fragmented electoral landscape like Belgium's, gaining that much, up from about 6 per cent in 2014, is a game changer. Consider the fact that in Belgium, post elections, it is customary that the King has a short meeting with the respective party chairmen and/or -women. Never before was a VB president among those invited. The party was founded in 1977; in all those years, neither King Baldwin I, King Albert II, or King Philippe I received the Chairman of a political entity which has as its main stated aim the abolition of the Kingdom of Belgium and the independence of Flanders. It is true that in 1978 Baldwin I did invite then Vlaams Blok Chairman Karel Dillen - Vlaams Blok being the predecessor of Vlaams Belang - but that Dillen flatly refused to meet the King. Communautarian tensions were far harsher than now and Flemish rights trampled far more, and Dillen would not have been able to sell such a meeting to his base, even if he had wanted to go.

As the years passed by and Vlaams Belang steadily grew, so did the resistance of the traditional parties against what they regarded as uncouth newcomers. After an earlier major victory by Vlaams Blok in 1991, dubbed 'Black Sunday' by Belgium's extreme leftist media, Jos Geysels, Chairman of the Flemish Greens, masterminded the so-called 'cordon sanitaire', an agreement between all traditional parties to never enter in a coalition with the Flemish nationalists. This isolation only helped to make Vlaams Blok more popular in Flanders, and after a kangaroo court ruled Vlaams Blok 'racist' in 2004, the party had to change its name in Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest). In the same year it captured a staggering 24 per cent of the vote in Flanders, in all likelihood because Flemings have a sympathy for the underdog but also, as always, because VB was the only party having the guts to address the incessant flow of welfare money from rich Flanders to poor Wallonia, eternally in the grip of the hopelessly corrupt Parti Socialiste.

Unfortunately, post 2004 the VB's appeal steadily declined. This had several reasons. First of all voter fatigue, as more and more militants got convinced that their efforts were for nothing since the other parties would forever keep VB in political quarantine. Then internal strife, as several high profile people with less impeccable conservative credentials joined, inevitably giving rise to tensions and petty rivalries. But most of all the emergence of another Flemish nationalist party, N-VA (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, some kind of Vlaams Belang Lite), which was not subjected to a 'cordon sanitaire'.

It was this party that was a key partner in the federal government Michel I, which was in charge from 2014 until DEC 2018, and which collapsed because N-VA refused to sign the UN Migration Pact. It should be very well remembered that actually, it had every intention to do so. But it was Vlaams Belang which, through a spirited intervention by Filip Dewinter in federal parliament last October, threw the issue on the table, drawing attention to the devastating consequences of 'Marrakesh'. Thereafter, N-VA, its top brass knowing full well that the grand majority of Flemings would never forgive them the signing of the Pact if they ever got to know its contents, made a 180 degree turn and in the blink of an eye became hostile to the idea of sending a delegation to Marrakesh to sign the scam. Things came to a head in early DEC, N-VA stepped out, and a minority government, Michel II, continued.

During last Spring, a serious attempt was made by leftist organizations and all parties to convince the general public that the climate should be the No. 1 issue, not mass migration, but to no avail. As we have seen, last Sunday's elections not only signalled the fact that at least Flemings were not fooled re the real threat to our prosperity and safety, but also that more and more people want the 'cordon sanitaire' gone.

In short, this very undemocratic construction, invented by a petty green tyrant, and maintained by all other parties - who over the years had and have morphed in fifty shades of red, is now cracking. Even though all party bigshots with the exception of N-VA Chairman Bart De Wever started their 'working' week by exclaiming - for the umpteenth time - that they would 'NEVER' cooperate with Vlaams Belang, it is clear that their bases disagree. A staggering 85 per cent of N-VA voters, comfortable majorities of Christian Democratic and liberal ones, and even 40 per cent of the Greens, want the cordon to be shelved. The base knows (far) better than the 'elites' that this monstrosity is undemocratic tout court, but our moral betters still won't listen (yet).

So all of a sudden, it seems that the question is no longer whether the cordon sanitaire will disappear, but when. And as much as our King has annoyed me in the past with his predictable PC stances on a variety of issues, he deserves accolades this week for having shown the guts to grant the Chairman of Vlaams Belang, 32-year old Tom Van Grieken, an audience:





I do not think that the cordon will disappear overnight. Elites can be as stubborn as they are stupid. But that their 28 year old construction is cracking can now no longer be denied. They will now in all likelihood cobble together a freak show of a rainbow coalition and do everything they can to keep VB out, and N-VA will be complicit in this scheme, because its leadership is composed of traitors who promise their base one thing and then proceed to do the exact opposite. Case in point their despicable chairman Bart De Wever, who has been so frantically busy to keep the Right in Flanders divided (an alliance N-VA / VB would be an unbeatable combination) that over the past months I have begun to suspect he is, in fact, a leftist plant.

Continuing to shun the VB will only result in things getting worse (criminality, mass migration and population replacement, islamization), and in time VB will reap the rewards of this. In many towns the party was the biggest one last Sunday, a trend already visible in the municipal elections of last autumn, when support for VB reached very huge scores (40 per cent plus) in towns like Ninove and Liedekerke.

Anyway, Mr Van Grieken had his audience, both this young chairman and the King, it must be said, behaved gentlemanly - call me old fashioned, but I actually like Van Grieken's show of respect by slightly bowing to our sovereign - and the King's gesture in all likelihood is a sign of hope that before long...





... the awful cordon sanitaire will belong to the past.



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MEMORIAL DAY 2019.

We remember Captain Jesse Melton lll, USMC.

"Captain Jesse Melton lll served in the Marine Corps for 11 years. He died on Sept 9, 2008, while on active duty with the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom Campaign). He was assigned to HQ Battery, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii at the time of his death."

God bless...




... and never forget.



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VLAAMS BELANG UNDISPUTED WINNER IN BELGIUM'S FEDERAL, REGIONAL AND EUROPEAN ELECTIONS.

Quite some impressive gains for my party, Vlaams Belang, in the federal, regional and European elections held today in Belgium. In Flanders, Vlaams Belang is now the 2nd biggest party, after N-VA, also nationalist (it can best be described as Vlaams Belang Lite). This graph shows the results for the Kamer, the lower house of the federal parliament:





As you can see, all the traditional parties with the exception of the Greens lose, and Vlaams Belang gains 12.8 per cent. These are results from earlier in the evening, with 91 per cent of the votes counted, but the trend was already irreversible. It was pretty much the same story for the EP and the Flemish regional parliament. It is thus indisputable that the big winner in Flanders, Belgium's Dutch speaking northern part, is the Vlaams Belang.

This major gain was possible per the following factors:


a.) Since about 5 years, VB is being led by young, charismatic Tom Van Grieken. He is somewhat of a disappointment to me in that he's okay with gay marriage (not with gay adoption though) and that, outwardly at least, he has not fully adopted the severe anti-islam stance of Filip Dewinter, VB numero uno in Antwerp. But politics is the art of what is politically attainable, and I relucantly agree that in the pussified, feminized Flanders of today a young, somewhat more moderate image is better for gaining votes - which is what counts in the end - than the image conveyed by tough as nails Dewinter.

b.) The successive supposedly center-right "Michel" governments - Michel I from 2014 till December 2018 and Michel II since then until now, failed to deliver on practically all counts. As you may recall, Michel I ceased to exist when N-VA left the government last December over the Migration Pact in Marrakesh. Until then, N-VA had been in a coalition with Open VLD (Flemish liberals), CD&V ("Flemish" "Christian" "Democrats") and the Walloon MR (francophone liberals). Thereafter, Open-VLD, CD&V and MR continued with the smallest government since WWII. It should be remembered that N-VA truly is a Janus party because, until Vlaams Belang exposed the devastating consequences of the Marrakesh Pact, N-VA was very much okay with that monstrosity. In fact, if Flemings knew the extent to which the N-VA leadership talks one way but acts the other, I am sure VB would have surpassed N-VA.

c.) The giant deception effort by MSM to divert attention away from 'Marrakesh' to the climate change hoax failed. In January, two snotholes, Kyra Gantois and Anuna De Wever, began organizing Save the Earth demos by skipping class every Thursday. In the blink of an eye, the demos morphed into mass movements involving tens of thousands of youths paralyzing Brussels one day a week. Practically all parties, especially the Greens and the socialists, jumped on the bandwagon to make the climate the No. 1 issue, eagerly helped by the media, which in Belgium are leftist to a degree perhaps unsurpassed on the rest of the planet. Anyway, by and large Flemings were not fooled by the synthetic attempt to push migration to the background and punished the traditional parties for participating in the charade.

d.) Last but not least, a growing percentage of Flemings no longer accept the cordon sanitaire against Vlaams Belang. Even large parts of the base in many parties are okay with letting VB participate in government, but the elites still refuse to listen. Even after the clobbering they got today.



While today's elections have shown that Flanders is voting more rightwing than ever, the results south of the linguistic frontier show, sadly, another story. There the Walloons lurch ever more to the left. It is no surprise that with each election cycle, heavily socialist Wallonia is poorer and more miserable than before. They just can't help themselves. Some 14 years ago, when confronted with the naked fact that statistically, every Fleming, from the newborns to the centenarians, pays around 2,000 EUR per year in transfers to the south to keep the corrupt Parti Socialiste state afloat, then Walloon Minister President Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe famously exclaimed, "Flanders, give us another ten years!". This after they had launched their own 'Marshall Plan' to turn things around, although I suspect that neither of the PS bigshots actually ever read what was in the real Marshall Plan. Fourteen years have passed since then, and not a single socio-economic parameter in Wallonia has improved. And yet, the Parti Socialiste ('Party of 1,000,000 scandals') remains incontournable in the country's south. Not only that, but its political landscape has also seen the powerful emergence of the neocommunists of the PTB ("Parti du Travail de Belgique", litterally Party for Work in Belgium, although "Work" is, guaranteed, the last thing on the PTB militants' minds) and of Ecolo, the Walloon Greens. Predictably for a region run by our moral betters still using economic recipes with a track record of failure from here to eternity, with every passing year Wallonia lags further and further behind, and gives the impression it wants to remain on Flemish life support forever.

If the perpetual haemorrhaging of welfare money from north to south wouldn't be so tragic, it would be hilarious to read Walloon newspapers, where clueless reporters ask themselves again and again - and these elections are no different - "what Flanders wants".


More info tomorrow, time permitting.


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GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE WORST BRITISH PM EVER.

I am baffled that it took so long. There must be more than something rotten in the State of Small Britain.


To get some grasp about the kind of creature that PM Treason Maybe was, watch this video:





Good riddance, and let the door of Downing Street 10 hit you very hard on the way out.




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ADVICE OF THE DAY.

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RECOMMENDED VIDEOS: THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARADISE AKA VENEZUELA BY THE CATO INSTITUTE AND PRAGER U.

First the Cato Institute video. An excellent comparison between Chile and Venezuela:





Augusto Pinochet was not your ideal grandpa, but he saved Chile the horrible ordeal of Venezuela. Chileans should be grateful for that.



Then a video by Prager University: "How's socialism doing in Venezuela"?





Americans are next year offered the choice between More Winning or 'democratic socialism'. In the UK, the chance that a communist like Corbyn becomes PM is nog unthinkable.

Which begs the question: how many Venezuelas does the world need before people finally begin to understand socialism belongs in the dustbin of history?


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SATURDAY NIGHT FLEETWOOD MAC, JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP.

Had to happen one day. Fleetwood Mac with Go Your Own Way. From the iconic Rumours album (1977). Recorded (largely) in Sausalito's Record Plant.





One of the sounds I grew up with. Snicker.



John Cougar Mellencamp with Jack and Diane. Album American Fool (1982).





Your typical American Fool, but I do appreciate his work for Farm Aid.



Slaap wel.


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"PRO CHOICE' TWAT GETS ARRESTED FOR THEFT, DOES NOT LIKE IT.

All hail to the great state of Alabama which passed the Human Life Protection Act, and I hear that Missouri will follow suit.


Don't fall for the fake argument of this law forcing women to carry genetically impaired foetuses or the offspring of rapists. That argument is as old as the hills, and it's a lie. Liberal legislation has enabled the abortions of perfectly healthy human beings in the OVERWHELMING majority of cases. In the few single digit - or less than single digit - cases where the above mentioned categories come into play, I'm sure there are ways to find a humane solution. If the baby's birth really poses a threat to the health of the mother - as was the case during my wife's second pregnancy for instance - well, any sensible hospital staff does not even need a vehicle like the HLPA. These things can be discussed and solved on the spot, serenely and discreetly. And if the baby's father is a rapist, why does no one ever talk about the many couples out there incapable of having children? If a woman absolutely does not want to raise the child - which is of course perfectly understandable - well, I hear that in the US at least, the number of people waiting to adopt a child is almost forty times the number of 'available' children. There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that most would welcome children conceived in rape.


In short, it's better to trust human common sense and not have bad legislation which will immediately be exploited for completely other ends than the ones it was purportedly designed for. Roe vs Wade has resulted in the deaths of between 55 and 60 million foetuses which were neither genetically impaired or fathered by sexual predators. I'm not saying that having no legislation at all, or legislation like Alabama's HLPA, is always a good thing. I am just saying that sometimes it's better to stick with less than ideal laws severely restricting abortions - which may, alas and indeed, sometimes result in a tragic outcome - than providing laws that spell doom for litterally millions.


Anyway, predictably, the left lost its head collectively. One such idiot proved for the umpteenth time that leftists simply CANNOT grasp the concept that out there, there are good, decent, intelligent people who just happen to have another opinion. As Saint Winston once said, "some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage."


Via RedState:





That twat is another excellent example of the left's idea of freedom of speech and expression: "Sure, you can say what you want as long as it's exactly what I think". Straight out of the textbook of Frankfurter School icon Herbert Marcuse, more precisely from his 1965 essay 'Repressive Tolerance':

"Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.

Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc."

In short, freedom of speech for mee but not for thee, cause you disagree with mee. A staple of the left since time immemorial.

For more info, a little more than one year ago, we had a blogpost up about the Frankfurter School and its wretched teachings.


Anyway, kudos to that police officer for teaching that twat a lesson. Though she being a liberal, it's a safe bet she will have learned nothing.



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DUTCH DHIMMI KING WILLEM ALEXANDER JOINS IFTAR DINNER.

I have never had a high opinion of the Dutch King, so this series of photographs of him joining an iftar dinner is no surprise for me.

Of special interest is that women and men eat separately, but the Monarch of the Most Tolerant Nation On Earth apparently has no problem with setting the clock back fourteen centuries. Via GeenStijl:








Never mind the blonde gal at Willem Alexander's side. It's not his wife Queen Maxima. Must be a staffer or something. Anyway, the ONLY reason that this twat is allowed to sit at male-dominated tables is because of WimLex.

Apartheid in The Netherlands, A.D. 2019. The real howler is that in the photo below, you can see the King having a good time with muslim male chauvinist pigs - not that feminists have a problem with them - below a photo of Anti-Apartheid icon Nelson F. Mandela (F for Fucking, cause he was a commie terrorist, but I digress).





In other news, earlier this year The Netherlands Times reported that dozens could have been killed in a terrorist attack which was foiled last September:

DOZENS COULD'VE DIED IN FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK, PROSECUTOR SAYS. By Janene Pieters, JAN 10, 2019.

"The Netherlands escaped a terrorist attack that could've resulted in "dozens of victims" with the arrest of seven suspects in Arnhem and Weert in September last year, the Public Prosecutor said in court on Thursday - the first proforma hearing in this case. Only three of the six suspects still in detention were present at the hearing, AD reports.

"The suspects said goodbye to friends. These suspects were on the way to commit an attack, with dozens of victims. The Netherlands escaped a major attack", the Prosecutor said.

According to the Prosecutor, the attack was to happen at a festival. The suspects discussed how they would get ready outside the festival, and then go in and commit an attack. "They also talked about tactics: how should they do it? And what to do if one of them is tagged by the police?" They decided not to walk too close to each other, and detonate their bomb vest if they police grab them, the Prosecutor said.

The Prosecutor stressed that there was never a real danger, because the police infiltrated this group and foiled their plans. "But how different it could have been. If the string had broken with the infiltrators, we might have had dozens of victims."

The police infiltration started on May 18th last year, after intelligence service AIVD informed the police that main suspect Hardi N. was planning an attack. The police infiltrators made first contact with the group on June 5th in Arnhem. The suspects were eventually arrested in Arnhem and Weert on September 27th.

Shortly before their arrests, four of the suspects attended firearms training at a home in a holiday park in Weert, Limburg. What they did not know is that the two men who gave them training and provided the firearms, which had been made safe, were undercover police officers. The home was full of eavesdropping equipment and cameras. When the four left the park in a van, they were arrested. Three others were arrested in the Arnhem region. One of the seven suspects has since been released and did not have to appear in court on Thursday.

The suspects who did have to appear are 34-year-old Hardi N., 21-year-old Wail el A., 21-year-old Nabil B., 21-year-old Morat M., 30-year-old Shevan A. and 26-year-old Nadeem S. All of the suspects originally came from the Arnhem region, but some of them moved to Rotterdam and Vlaardingen recently. Their homes were searched after their arrests..."

Dammit, I digress again. Cause that foiled terrorist attack had nothing to do with islam.


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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: PVV AD ABOUT EUROPE'S ISLAMIZATION.

Although it's a Dutch ad, produced by the PVV (Partij voor Vrijheid, Geert Wilders' party), it might as well serve for my dear fellow countrymen and -women (all three of them), since in little more than a week there's going to be parliamentary elections in Belgium.





Ignore the danger at your own peril. But if you are a sane and alert person, vote for people and parties who want to stop the horrifying process of islamization of our countries and indeed, our entire continent.


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THIS IS THE ENEMY: THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY.

Time to start a new series, "This is the Enemy", and what better enemy to focus on first than the ultraleft LGBTQ community? Via Newswars:

"Converse has announced the release of a new line of shoes celebrating LGBT culture alongside a marketing campaign featuring characters of various sexual orientations, including an 11-year-old ‘drag kid’ who goes by the stage name ‘Desmond Is Amazing.’

“We’re happy to launch our Pride Collection, partnering with six individuals connected to the LGBTQ+ community who show the power of expressing one’s true self,” the apparel company tweeted on Monday.

Desmond is highlighted on the Converse website wearing a flamboyant outfit and make-up, striking a dramatic dance pose alongside a quote stating, “There is no normal.”

A brief bio describes him as a “drag kid / lgbtq+ advocate.”

Desmond Napoles has autism, according to his parents, who say that his ‘drag performances’ help him to cope with his disability.

He began to garner attention in 2015 after dancing in the NYC Pride Parade, and amid rising popularity on social media, Napoles was invited to appear on Good Morning America, where he danced for the audience and was paid a visit from three adult drag queens.

In late 2018, disturbing video footage surfaced of Desmond performing at gay bars in Brooklyn and San Francisco, while grown men threw bills at him, and shortly afterwards, journalists discovered Desmond had appeared in a interview with infamous 90s “club kid” Michael Alig, who had spent 17 years in jail for the killing and dismemberment of a fellow clubber and drug dealer.

“On Alig’s show ‘Pee-ew!’ 10-year-old Desmond sat between Alig and Alig’s fellow ‘Club Kid’ Ernie Glam, making stilted conversation about the child’s favorite television shows, ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and ‘Dragula,'” LifeSite reports. “Over their heads was a painting of a cartoon child skipping rope over the word ‘Rohypnol.’ Rohypnol is a well-known date rape drug often used to incapacitate victims marked for sexual assault.”"

Here are a couple of videos the bastards at YouTube won't yank:








Disgusting.

I will repeat it again. Over here at DowneastBlog we don't hate homosexuals and lesbians. Personally, although I haven't delved in the how or why of people being gay, I tend to believe that one cannot 'blame' someone being that way anymore than one can blame someone for having freckles or blonde hair. To the best of my knowledge, the percentage of gay people in society is around 3 per cent. I might add that one of my four best friends is gay. He lives with his partner, a Swiss man, near the town of L. And my friend is one of the nicest chaps you will ever meet. When he confided his being so in 1989 or thereabouts, I told him I didn't care.

But there's a kind of bipolar disorde, for want of a better denominator, between the acceptance by society of a mere biological fact and not dwelling upon it any more than necessary, and the outright promotion of the gay lifestyle the way we witness it now. Especially in a time when Whites are literally on the road to extinction.

If you are a sane person, fight this dangerous and destructive propaganda with all your might.



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BECAUSE IT'S RAMADAN, AND THERE IS NO HUMOR IN ISLAM!

Said that joker.

No pun intended!



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CHILDREN IN MUSLIM SCHOOL IN PHILLY SING JIHADIST SONGS.

All of them should be deported. ALL - OF - THEM. Via Breitbart:

"The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported Friday that the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia (MAS Philly) had uploaded a video of children wearing Palestinian attire and singing jihadist songs.





The video, which was uploaded to the center’s Facebook page on April 22, appears to be one of several videos uploaded in celebration of “Ummah Day.” (The word “ummah” refers to the worldwide Muslim community.) The center uploaded several other videos to its Facebook page, each featuring children making presentations that represented other Muslim countries. However, the Palestinian video now appears to have been deleted.

In the video, which MEMRI reposted with subtitles, the children are shown singing jihadist or terrorist songs, praising the “blood of martyrs,” a reference to suicide bombing. They also sing “Our Palestine must return to us,” and recite speeches praising suicide bombers: “They compete with one another to reach Paradise.” They add: “We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque … and we will subject them to eternal torture.” One child wears a t-shirt showing a map of Palestine on which Israel has been eliminated.

Such videos of children pledging their loyalty to terrorism are common on Palestinian television, particularly but not exclusively in Gaza, which is run by the Hamas terrorist group. Other Palestinian Authority publications extol the virtues of terror; to this day, the Palestinian government pays stipends to jailed terrorists and the families of dead ones.

In a statement posted to the MAS Philly Facebook page Saturday, the center said “not all songs were properly vetted.” It added: “This was an unintended mistake and an oversight in which the center and the students are remorseful.” "

An unintended mistake huh? The center and the students are remorseful huh?


MY A - S - S. We have heard that song before.



FYI:

"The Hadith makes it clear that Muslims are allowed to lie to unbelievers in order to defeat them or protect themselves. There are several forms:


a.) Taqiyya - Saying something that isn't true as it relates to the Muslim identity. This is a Shiite term: the Sunni counterpart is Muda'rat.

b.) Kitman - Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills "it shall be as if he had killed all mankind") while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of "corruption" and "mischief."

c.) Tawriya - Intentionally creating a false impression.

d.) Muruna - 'Blending in' by setting aside some practices of Islam or Sharia in order to advance others."

Be a fool at your own peril.



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PETER SKURKISS ON THE BUTTIGIEG 'FAMILY'.

Over at American Thinker, Peter Skurkiss with a piece about about the once respected magazine Time drooling over Pete Buttigieg and his 'husband':

"An early pioneer of conservative talk radio was the late Bob Grant (1929–2013), who broadcast out of New York City. Often when Grant was commenting on some outrage in the news, he'd say, "It's sick out there and getting sicker." If only he knew how his words would ring ever more true in the years to come.



This is not a family. It's a TRAVESTY of a family.



The case in point is the cover of the current Time magazine. It is a photograph of "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg and his "husband" Chasten Buttigieg standing close together with the caption "First Family." (Permit me a minor digression here. If Chasten is the "husband" of this couple, why are both of them using Buttigieg's last name and not Chasten's, which is Glezman? I guess I'm too old and deplorable to understand such nuances.)

This cover and its accompanying story is an in-your-face, full-blown endorsement of homosexual "marriage" and the effort to make it appear normal. Here we are seeing propaganda at its finest. It is an example of what the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) meant when he talked about "defining deviancy down."

Moynihan based this observation of the work of sociologist Emile Durkheim, who said there is a limit to bad behavior that a society can tolerate before it starts to lower its standards. Is this not what we have been seeing since the 1960s? One insult to the family, to fatherhood, to patriotism, and to normality itself ratchets traditional standards down. At that point, the system digests the changes, rests for a brief time, and then the Left begins its next assault. The trajectory is always down, never up.

I have been following the 'defining deviance down' process for more years than I care to remember. At first I was shocked at what the counterculture was able to get away with. Now I unfortunately believe that the end is not yet in sight in America's race to the gutter."

The near-pathological obsession of the left with gay relationships is astounding, even more so in light of the simply catastrophic demographic evolution in both Europe and North America, especially in the former. WHY is popular 'culture' doing its very best to extol the virtues of a lifestyle that is barren, anti-evolution and profoundly unhealthy? Here, for example, is a short trait about the health risks involved for gay males:

"Unhealthy sexual behaviors occur among both heterosexuals and homosexuals. Yet the medical and social science evidence indicate that homosexual behavior is uniformly unhealthy. Although both male and female homosexual practices lead to increases in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, the practices and diseases are sufficiently different that they merit separate discussion.


1. Male Homosexual Behavior

Men having sex with other men leads to greater health risks than men having sex with women1 not only because of promiscuity but also because of the nature of sex among men. A British researcher summarizes the danger as follows:

“Male homosexual behaviour is not simply either ‘active’ or ‘passive,’ since penile-anal, mouth-penile, and hand-anal sexual contact is usual for both partners, and mouth-anal contact is not infrequent. . . . Mouth-anal contact is the reason for the relatively high incidence of diseases caused by bowel pathogens in male homosexuals. Trauma may encourage the entry of micro-organisms and thus lead to primary syphilitic lesions occurring in the anogenital area. . . . In addition to sodomy, trauma may be caused by foreign bodies, including stimulators of various kinds, penile adornments, and prostheses.”2

Although the specific activities addressed below may be practiced by heterosexuals at times, homosexual men engage in these activities to a far greater extent.3

a. Anal-genital

Anal intercourse is the sine qua non of sex for many gay men.4 Yet human physiology makes it clear that the body was not designed to accommodate this activity. The rectum is significantly different from the vagina with regard to suitability for penetration by a penis. The vagina has natural lubricants and is supported by a network of muscles. It is composed of a mucus membrane with a multi-layer stratified squamous epithelium that allows it to endure friction without damage and to resist the immunological actions caused by semen and sperm. In comparison, the anus is a delicate mechanism of small muscles that comprise an “exit-only” passage. With repeated trauma, friction and stretching, the sphincter loses its tone and its ability to maintain a tight seal. Consequently, anal intercourse leads to leakage of fecal material that can easily become chronic.

The potential for injury is exacerbated by the fact that the intestine has only a single layer of cells separating it from highly vascular tissue, that is, blood. Therefore, any organisms that are introduced into the rectum have a much easier time establishing a foothold for infection than they would in a vagina. The single layer tissue cannot withstand the friction associated with penile penetration, resulting in traumas that expose both participants to blood, organisms in feces, and a mixing of bodily fluids.

Furthermore, ejaculate has components that are immunosuppressive. In the course of ordinary reproductive physiology, this allows the sperm to evade the immune defenses of the female. Rectal insemination of rabbits has shown that sperm impaired the immune defenses of the recipient.5 Semen may have a similar impact on humans.6

The end result is that the fragility of the anus and rectum, along with the immunosuppressive effect of ejaculate, make anal-genital intercourse a most efficient manner of transmitting HIV and other infections. The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming:

Anal Cancer
Chlamydia trachomatis
Cryptosporidium
Giardia lamblia
Herpes simplex virus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human papilloma virus
Isospora belli
Microsporidia
Gonorrhea
Viral hepatitis types B & C
Syphilis7

Sexual transmission of some of these diseases is so rare in the exclusively heterosexual population as to be virtually unknown. Others, while found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners, are clearly predominated by those involved in homosexual activity. Syphilis, for example is found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners. But in 1999, King County, Washington (Seattle), reported that 85 percent of syphilis cases were among self-identified homosexual practitioners.8 And as noted above, syphilis among homosexual men is now at epidemic levels in San Francisco...."

Read the rest here. Sorry if you just ate.


But be all that as it may... the overenthusiastic promotion of gay lifestyles by our moral betters comes in the worst of times, demography-wise. Whites are a dying race. There's no denying it anymore. Here, for instance, are the last two pages of a quarterly bulletin issued by an association of former students of a High School somewhere in Flanders. I'm sure it's the same story from De Panne to Sint-Pieters-Voeren. This is the last but one page, dealing with the "Overlijdens", the recently deceased (parents, uncles, aunts, brothers of former students):




Twelve dead and counting, wait indeed, there's more. The last page mentions another two deceased, and then we come to the paragraph with the newborns ('Geboorten'):




So, in short, we are talking here about fourteen people who have left us, and one replacement. Minus fourteen and plus one makes minus thirteen.

Or how about this? Here are two other telling pics, from a run of the mill parish church in Flanders, as you can find them anywhere from the North Sea to the German border. In Belgian Catholic churches, it is customary to provide two placards near the church entrance to display either remembrance cards and little crosses of the recently deceased, on the one hand:



In this case, eight people...



Or, on the other hand, little shells with the names of recently baptized children:




One. Just one. A little darling by the name of Lore.

Sure, you will argue that not all young parents are baptizing their children anymore. Well, that's fair. Still, I would wager, without checking any data, that a slight majority still does it. There used to be a time, not too long ago, when the little shells could reliably be used as a parameter for births. But okay, let's assume that only one newborn 'Biobelgian' out of two is baptized. Assume that for this little one who got sprinkled with Holy Water, there's another one who was not. That still leaves us with eight dead people vs two who will step in their place. Not good arithmetic. Especially not when, alas, we have to conclude that year after year, the number of people who choose to depart from this world WITHOUT Christian rites is ALSO steeply on the rise. On that first placard, there's perhaps three people missing who opted for having their ashes thrown and scattered in the wind without the Catholic church having a say in it. Not enough for our comparison to cancel out, percentage-wise, the non-baptized newborns, but we're getting there, certainly. Europe, more so than North America, can't seem to put Christianity out there with the garbage bags fast enough.


So Europe has apparently decided not to procreate anymore, at least the natives. And to discourage those who would still think of making kids themselves, there's now a gargantuan propaganda effort at work to fool our youngsters into believing that males buttplugging other males, or females doing females, is just as wonderful and normal - actually, even more so - than what heterosexuals do between the sheets.


We are already destroying ourselves.

But it seems that for the left things still don't go fast enough. The Time propaganda hit job, see above, is but one piece of evidence among a gazillion.



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THANK ALLAH IT'S FRIDAY!!!

During which Sparky Sweets, PhD, tells us a thing or two about Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, in the following Thug Notes installment:





I must have read it some eight to nine years back in this commemmorative edition of H.P. Lovecraft:




I thought it lacked some plot substance, but overall it was a good read. Lovecraft does have a beautiful, measured, clear writing style, even though these days it must come over as a tad old-fashioned. But if you are into books, buy Necronomicon, it'll be a nice and worthy addition to your library.

While we are at it, here's some Lovecraft 101:





Have a nice weekend!



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MAY 2ND, 2019.

It's been 8 years since my father died.




My father started working at age 14 and quit at 74. He died three years later, not a month and a half after his 77th birthday. He enjoyed a full pension a whole three years and three months. And I find myself wondering, was all that toil, all that labour, all that sacrifice, necessary?

For him personally, perhaps not. He could have had an easier old day. But it enabled my three siblings and me to pursue higher studies. It was my parents' daily travail - cause let's certainly not forget my mother - day in and day out, year after year, that made our lives more rewarding and comfortable. It's not that we grew up to be carefree and spoiled brats; it's that their efforts gave us a very serious head start in life. Something the four of us benefit from to this day. May my wife and I be able to do the same for our kids.

My father. What an example.




"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me."
~ Psalm 23:4 ~


Rest in peace dad. You are not forgotten.



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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.



MFBB.

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.



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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.


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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.



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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!



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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.



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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.






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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.


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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.



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