Sunday, August 23, 2015

THE GATESTONE INSTITUTE ON THE MURDERS OF CAROLA AND EMIL HERLIN.

A compelling article on the IKEA murders in Sweden, via The Gatestone Institute:


"A surge of rage has washed over otherwise docile Sweden. After a double homicide at an IKEA store in Västerås, where an illegal alien stabbed two random Swedes to death, more and more people are questioning why the government is exposing Swedish citizens to murderers from across the globe.

On August 10, news of the IKEA murders shocked Sweden. Two asylum seekers from Eritrea (the second largest source of asylum applicants in Sweden), were suspected of having grabbed knives from the kitchenware department and attacked two random Swedes. The victims were 55-year-old Carola Herlin and her 28-year-old son, Emil.

The elder of the two asylum seekers, a 36-year-old man, had twice been denied residency status in Sweden -- because he had already been granted residency it in Italy -- but he had not yet been deported. (Eritreans without residence permits in other EU-countries automatically get to stay in Sweden.)



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Carola Herlin and her son Emil were victims of the evil ideology of multiculturalism.




The killer also inflicted life-threatening injuries on himself, and underwent several surgeries before the police could finally question him. On August 14, he confessed. His 23-year-old compatriot was released from custody, because the police no longer believe he had anything to do with the murders or had even known what his friend was planning to do.

Fear has now struck the Swedes. Even those who had routinely brand critics of immigration and multiculturalism racist, were shaken to the core. Questions flooded the social media: Who are these people that are let into Sweden? How many of them are not innocent victims of war, but in fact war criminals and other criminals, hiding among the refugees? And should we pay billions in taxes to support and shelter citizens of other countries, while some of them try to kill us?

The fact that the police refuse to deny the persistent rumor that one of the IKEA victims was beheaded, only adds fuel to the fear.

So many questions and no answers. No one from the government has even bothered to make a statement about the horrific double murder. None of the mainstream media has confronted the government about the violent crimes committed by asylum seekers against Swedes. On the contrary – the media have done the utmost to convince Swedes that everything is safe and sound in Sweden. Better than ever, in fact. The day after the double murder, Sweden's largest morning paper, Dagens Nyheter, published an article titled, "After all, deadly violence on the decline." The article begins:


"In recent weeks, several brutal murders have been committed, and many people ask themselves where society is headed. The answer is that Sweden has, after all, become a safer place. Deadly violence has been on the decline for some time."



Nowhere does the article explain that the reason deadly violence has been on the decline is that emergency medicine is now able to save the lives of a lot more victims of knife- and gunshot-injuries. The so-called Laser Man, for example, shot a number of immigrants in Sweden in the 1990s. Forensic pathologist Jovan Rajs commented, "The Laser Man shot eleven people, and one of them died. In the 1930s eight or nine would have died, in the 1970s about five, and today probably none."

Ergo, deadly violence remains on an even level thanks to better health care in Sweden, but all other kinds of violent crime (including attempted homicide) has gone off the charts. Violent crime is up 300% and rape is up 1,472% since 1975, the year the Swedish Parliament decided to turn homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country.

Ninety percent of asylum seekers to Sweden lack proper identification papers, so in reality no one knows how many murderers, rapists and thugs hide among the 100,000 or so people granted asylum in Sweden every year.

Frustrated Swedes are now howling with powerlessness on social media. The normal democratic order, where citizens can contact politicians or the media to make their voices heard, has all but evaporated. Newspaper websites have removed the reader comment fields, and the politicians hide behind a wall of officials, who brand callers expressing concern "racist," and hang up. Thousands bear witness to this on Facebook. One person who actually got to talk about her uneasiness is Ewa, who writes on Facebook about calling Immigration Services:


"Well, I've unleashed the devil now. I called Immigration Services and demanded to talk to a Unit Manager. ... I gave him an earful about every injustice I could think of, like how badly we treat our elderly and how we take away their homes and give them to asylum seekers. I also told him how unsafe Swedish women feel due to all these gang rapes perpetrated by asylum seekers and other foreigners. Also asked him if we all have to be beheaded before they stop taking in these kinds of people. ... Now I'm sitting here, feeling completely empty after crying, screaming, discussing, raging and getting all this frustration out of me. Told him there are many of us who feel depressed because of what Immigration is doing. He was really sorry I feel this way. Yes, I told him, a lot of people feel this way but they are afraid to open their mouths because then they are labeled racist. You don't even have to be a Sweden Democrat to see that our country is falling apart more and more with each passing day. Something you and all the rest at Immigration Services are responsible for. Where do I apply for asylum, I asked, when the day comes and I can no longer live here? Our country is ruined economically, socially and so forth and you are responsible. He answered that it was the politicians who decided about this, but that they would do everything in their power to make things better."

Another woman, Amanda, wrote on Facebook that she e-mailed Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. She noted that "nothing may change, but at least I've made my voice heard." Her e-mail read:


"Hi, why did the Prime Minister feel it was essential and urgent to go and talk about the fire at the mosque in Eskilstuna, no one even knew what started it when he held his speech? But now, he's as silent as the grave. Why? It's his/your unconditional and lax immigration policies that have enabled this culprit to move freely in society, despite having received a deportation order not just once, but twice. Can you tell me if this is something the citizens of this country should get used to, that immigrants, upon receiving deportation orders, kill people in order to get a lifelong contract with the Swedish state? It is your personal responsibility every time this happens, I hope you know that. Because this is nothing if not a political issue regarding immigration, and... its massive consequences to an entire nation."

The mosque fire in Eskilstuna that Amanda referred to happened December 25, 2014, and is one of many incidents affecting Muslims and other immigrants that have received huge attention, while the rape epidemic in Sweden is basically ignored. After the fire, the Prime Minister was quick to make a statement:


"It is despicable, a despicable act. We will never tolerate this type of crime. People who want to practice their religion should have the right to do so. Today I feel great sympathy and empathy for those affected."

Three months later, it turned out no crime was behind the mosque fire, and police dropped the investigation. Most likely, it was caused by an accident or children playing with fire.

But when a Swedish woman and her son are brutally knifed to death in the most Swedish of all places – an IKEA store – the Prime Minister has nothing to say.

The Swedes are not prone to rebellion. To find a citizen that took up arms and marched on the citadels of power, one has to go back to the days of Gustav Vasa – the king who during his reign, 1523-1560, founded the nation-state of Sweden.

Although Sweden today is not occupied territory, it is governed by a power that has shut down the democratic process by the "December Agreement" of 2014. In the general election that year, the only party critical of mass immigration, the Sweden Democrats (SD), became the third-largest party in Parliament. The left-wing and center-right blocs then agreed to lock SD out of political power, but SD refused to be silenced. When the left-wing minority government budget was presented one month after the election, SD voted for the opposition's budget – a shocking and unique occurrence in the Swedish Parliament. Here, it is considered "good manners and decorum" to vote for your own budget proposition first, then lay down your vote and let the government win. But after the Sweden Democrats' "coup," Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (of the Social Democratic Party) was forced to govern with a center-right budget during his first year in office.

One would think that this came as a pleasant surprise to the center-right opposition, but that was not what happened. No one wants support from the "racist" Sweden Democrats. Rather than call a snap election, the two blocs entered into an agreement in which the center-right opposition promises to abstain from voting when it comes to important issues such as a proposed budget.

Thus, the December Agreement is in reality a kind of "relay-race" dictatorship: The left-wing government gets to do what it wants for the next four years, and after that, for next the four years (if there is a change of power), it will be the center-right government's turn. This means both parties are free to ignore the 58% of Swedes who now feel that immigration is too high, and may choose to vote for the Sweden Democrats in the next election.

When the Swedes got the news about the December Agreement, they did what they usually do – clenched their fists in their pockets, formed Facebook groups and wrote angry comments on Twitter and Facebook. But the politicians congratulated each other on once again restoring order; they ignored the people's concern that democracy had now become even more eroded.

A well-known stand-up comedian, Magnus Betnér, thought it a good idea to mock frightened Swedes in a YouTube clip:


"Yes, it's really tragic two people were murdered in IKEA. ... but... it's not dangerous; Sweden has never been safer than it is now. ... Very few of you guys watching this clip will be murdered. And those of you who are, will be murdered in your own homes."

When the establishment refuses to take people's concerns seriously, rumors on social media spread fast. A stubborn rumor claims that Carola Herlin was beheaded by the Eritrean murderer. According to sources interviewed by Gatestone, the woman had her throat slit and was also stabbed in the abdomen. Her son tried to defend himself, but received a deadly stab wound to the stomach.

When Dispatch International called Per Ågren, the police investigator in charge of the case, and asked him about the rumor, he said: "I'm not going to confirm... describe anything at all about what happened, except to say that two people were murdered. You won't find out how from me."

One of the first measures taken by the police after the IKEA murders was to start guarding all the buildings housing asylum seekers in the county. There was some apprehension concerning "dark forces," the police claimed, without specifying who these "dark forces" were. The night of August 15, an asylum house in Arboga had to be evacuated after someone shouted something about a bomb outside. Now the mainstream media were really on their toes: Carola and Emil Herlin, according to their reports, had been "at the wrong place at the wrong time."

The newspaper Aftonbladet interviewed an anonymous woman who said, "My cousin has lived here for over a year. He told me the Swedes are the nicest people in Europe. Then something like this happens. I could never have imagined."

Once again, it is supposedly the Swedes who should bow their heads in shame. Supposedly, we are not the ones grieving; we do not have the right to be frightened to death over the immigration policy of our rulers – it is the asylum seekers who are the victims, even when they kill, rape, rob and abuse.

The burning question is: What will the people do, whom no one will listen to? In East Germany of 1989, the people took to the streets, scaled the Berlin wall and made the government to resign. The other communist dictatorships of Eastern Europe fell in similar ways. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the right to bear arms), exists to ensure that the citizens are able to seize power from a tyrannical government.

If powerlessness drives people to answer violence with violence, maybe one should not ask why Swedes are "racists" if they do not want the highest immigration level in Europe?

The most relevant question is why one government after another has chosen to spend Swedish taxpayers' money on citizens of other countries. While Swedish students take a plunge in the PISA tests, 60% of the welfare benefits go to immigrants who make up about 15% of the population. Healthcare and other social services are deteriorating, according to many Swedes, while violence is exponentially increasing. When more and more Swedes feel that they are being badly treated in their own country, the politicians have created a powder keg ready to explode at any minute.

The truth is that even the docile Swedish people have a limit. When those in power expose us to bloodbaths, whether in the Big Square of Stockholm in 1520 or at IKEA in Västerås in 2015, there will always be those who are ready to overthrow the mighty. Just as in Gustav Vasa's day, a lot of Swedes have firearms. They are not as easy to come by as in the United States, but more and more Swedes are getting hunting licenses, and are thereafter legally able to buy guns. From now on in Sweden, anything can happen."

Ingrid Carlqvist is editor-in-chief of Dispatch International.



This case is not the first, nor, I fear, will it be the last, courtesy our moral betters in the media, politics, education and the "cultural" sector. In these segments of society dark forces are at work who a.) make sure not too much attention is given - if at all - and b.) who perversely reckon on the general public to quickly forget what happened. Quick test: how many among you remember a similar incident in Norway in late 2013, whereby another illegal immigrant from South Sudan, who also had his asylum application rejected, murdered three native Norwegians on a bus?


His victims were the bus driver, Arve Haug Bagn (55), another man in his fifties whose name I have been unable to find, and Margaret Molland Sanden, a 19-year-old biotechnology student at the Oslo and Akerhus University College of Applied Sciences. A crying shame:

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You don't remember? The likes of Mona Sahlin and Gustav Fridolin will be elated to hear that.



MFBB.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

SATURDAY NIGHT DEPECHE MODE, RUSH.

Depeche Mode with It's No Good.




Album Ultra, 1997.


Rush with Digital Man.




From the 1982 album Signals.


Slaap wel. And thank God there were gun-toting American blokes, prolly clinging to their religion too, on that Thalys train, or we would be talking about 30, 40, 50 or more dead and MSM, whorenalists and the usual suspects would be worrying about backlash against mooslims.



MFBB.

Friday, August 21, 2015

GHENT, BELGIUM. RABOT NEIGHBORHOOD. A GAY COUPLE'S STORY.

A small story which cleverly hides a far bigger story. Via Het Laatste Nieuws Online:


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"Dirty homo! Leave!" It is but one Facebook soundbite Kristof from the Victor Frisstraat posted Wednesday night. It was promptly shared 200 times on the social network site. Similar insults have become a daily routine for him and his partner (28). Quite a shocker in a city which has included LGBT integration in its governing charter.

Three years ago the couple moved into the multicultural Rabot neighborhood. "We knew what we were doing [which is actually interesting, this remark shows they did expect trouble - MFBB], but the houses here are cheap and living in a multicultural neighborhood sounded like a fancy thing. Moreover, on has the right to choose where he lives", so he starts his story. "The first year everything was hunky dory. We tried to establish contact with the neighbors and there were no problems. But the last two years have been hell. We are constantly provocated. An example: they park in front of our garage. It is however clear there's a garage. When we address the guy [who parked in front of our garage - MFBB] we get insults hurled at us or even threatened physically."


Wednesday evening Kristof's partner, upon returning home from shopping, saw that the car of his neighbor across the street was again parked in front of their garage. When he walked over to ask the man to drive away, "Dirty homo! Leave!" was the only thing he got to hear. "The situation escalated completely. While we called the police, the man's wife called nine Turks. Police only arrived after three quarters of an hour, judged this was a simple neighbors' quarrel, and left again. We were left on our own."


Feeling insecure


That was asked too much for Kristof. "Talking to those neighbors won't do anyway. It's not that we live in fear now, but we don't feel safe anymore. But we don't think of leaving! Otherwise they've got what they wanted. Things really have to change. Ghent is portrayed in the media as a friendly and sympathetic city. It is indeed a beautiful city, but it's not always that peaceful. Things have to change."

Since then, the Facebook message was shared hundreds of times and more than 400 people gave a thumbs up. "We did not expect it would go that viral." Yesterday morning Kristof's partner contacted mayor Daniel Termont (SP.a). He was very upset. "This is unacceptable. I asked our corps chief to investigate whether the police really left without doing anything. And I will ask the Head of the Office of Integration to contact those involved asap. Accepting LGBT's is a priority."


Termont's promises were not void, because the couple did get a phone call from both the Office of Integration and the local police. "That felt good! It is their intention to organize a meeting soon to tackle the problem."

Police is stating that with regards to the incident Wednesday evening they did not get a call for homophobic violence. "We did get a call for a wrongly parked car and threats". "When our officers arrived, the car was gone and it was quiet. Our people could not see anything wrong."



Sorry Kristof and partner, but I bet you voted for Termont. Should have voted for Vlaams Belang. Oh yes, but they are Nazis, right?

Good luck with the multicultural pipedream.



MFBB.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

LATEST CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS VIDEO QUOTES MEDICAL TECHNICIAN USING SCISSORS TO CUT THROUGH FACE NEARLY FULLY DEVELOPED BABY BOY AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACILITY.

Your tax dollars at work.




"Planned Parenthood is working hard to counter the steady drip of damning videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress, but not even the highest priced Washington, D.C. flacks are likely to be able to erase the thought picture of someone cutting through a child’s face with scissors.

Holly O’Donnell and her Planned Parenthood colleague were harvesting organs that day at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, a mega-clinic in San Jose, California that has an annual budget of $100 million or 10 percent of the national organization.

O’Donnell, who turned whistleblower after leaving StemExpress, said the child was the most fully developed she had seen up to that point. She describes in great detail how the newly aborted boy was rinsed off and prepared for dissection.

Her colleague called her over and, according to O’Donnell, said, “Hey Holly, come over here, I want you to see something kind of cool, kind of neat.” O’Donnell said she was flabbergasted to see “…the most gestated fetus and closest thing to a baby I’ve seen.”

Her colleague then took an instrument and “tapped the heart and it starts beating.”

O’Donnell says, “I am sitting here looking at this fetus and it’s heart is beating and I don’t know what to think.” She said she didn’t know if the child was alive or dead but “it had a face. It wasn’t completely torn up. Its nose was very pronounced. It had eyelids and its mouth was pronounced.”

The medical technician said the child was so intact that they could “procure a lot from it. We’re going to procure a brain.” The tech told O’Donnell they would need to “go through the face.” The medical tech took scissors and cut through the child’s lower jaw up through the mouth. O’Donnell was directed to cut the rest of the way through “the middle of the face.”

“I can’t even describe what that feels like,” said O’Donnell. O’Donnell had to take the boy’s remains and put him in a bio-hazard container and “then I realized I was the only person ever to hold that baby.”

“That was the moment I realized I couldn’t work for [StemExpress] any more,” she said."



Still not a peep from De Standaard. By contrast, last Friday they were shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that Walter Palmer had been a naughty boy long before he killed Cecil The Lion:


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"The storm following the killing of Cecil The Lion is not even over before Walter Palmer finds himself in the eye of yet another. It appears that the hated dentist cut his teeth in earlier nasty cases."


I ain't gonna give Dr Palmer a pass if he did something illegal. But the difference between the attention given to a dentist cutting his teeth in earlier nasty cases and StemExpress/Planned Parenthood nastily cutting through nearly fullgrown baby boys' faces is striking.


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They cut through his face to get to his brains. Reaction of De Standaard:


via GIPHY



Congratufuckinglations you prog bastards.

And they call us Nazis.



MFBB.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

CALAIS, FRANCE: BARBARIANS INSIDE THE GATES.

A French woman recounts how the sudden arrival of thousands of illegal immigrants turned her mother's life upside down. Via our buddies over at Gates of Vienna. Translation by Vlad Tepes.




The torrents of illegal immigrants penetrating Europe are a telltale sign of the failure of other people and races to build decent societies where there is a modicum of good governance, the rights of the individual are respected, and serious efforts are undertaken by the State as well as by its citizens to make the best use of the available resources to enhance chances for everybody.

As I have stated before, there are two dynamics behind the massive flux of illegals towards "Fortress Europe". First, the waves from Africa are caused by the failure of the socialist model, which post-decolonisation was eagerly promoted/exported by the First World's leftists. Kaunda in Zambia, Rawlings in Ghana, Machel in Mozambique, Nasser in Egypt, Nyerere in Tanzania... they all tried the leftist recipes, they all failed.

The irony is that there is perhaps light at the end of the tunnel for quite a good many of these countries, especially - I'm not kidding - sub-Saharan ones. Indeed, economic growth in quite a few of these countries hovers around 4.5 to 5 per cent - courtesy capitalism which is finally being discovered as the prime engine of economic development. Many of the blacks on the rickety boats crossing the Mediterranean actually hail not from sub-Sahara Africa, but from the Sahel and West and East Africa - not surprisingly countries where the second factor in the exodus comes into view: islam.

Indeed, the second component of the immigrant wave which finds its origin primarily in the Middle East is caused by the failure of islam as a societal model. There's no need to elaborate here - the naked truth is staring us in the eyes. Only leftists can't see it because of the pink or red hue of their glasses.

Frenzied efforts to try to provide shelter for the hordes besieging our continent will not help. In Belgium's case, for instance, it is terribly disappointing to learn that the responsible Minister, Theo Francken, of the supposedly center-right N-VA party, has announced his intention to provide thousands upon thousands of new places for the arrivals in derelict hotels or unused army barracks by 2016. A move like that will only have a reinforcing effect upon the migratory waves.

Not until we are able to call a spade a spade and pinpoint the 'root causes' to failed societal models in the immigrants' countries, will any serious progress towards solving the refugee crisis be made.

In the meantime, native Europeans who don't have the benefit of living in the posh quarters Europe's "elites" prefer, will pay the price for the mayhem.


MFBB.

Monday, August 17, 2015

BELGIUM: FIELD DAY WITH REGARDS TO OUR CULTURAL ENRICHMENT.

The State Television's news service, De Redactie, was overjoyed today to let us know hundreds of asylum seekers were waiting in line since the small hours before the offices of the Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken, that's "Office for Refugees/Foreigners" for you:


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Spot the hottie fourth, erm, fifth, from the left. My oh my, those legs!




There was an accompanying video and it is my great pleasure to offer you some snapshots taken from the part where the interviewer starts asking them hapless noble souls where they come from. Here goes:


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"Syria"


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"Somalia"


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"We come from Iraq."


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"Iraq"


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This joker wins the Outlaw Mike Award for Originality 2015: "I want to let my family come over from Iraq". Sure! We can't wait for them to arrive!


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"Afghanistan." Wonderful! With a little luck, there's a Hindu Kush Elon Musk hiding behind this noble façade.



What do all these guys have in common huh? Red Sox fans? Guardian readers? (maybe!!!) Amy Schumer fans? Formula 1 pilots?

I will tell you: they ALL come from muslim countries, thereby confirming what every person with half a brain knows: islam as a societal model is a CATASTROPHIC FAILURE.

We import these bozos, we import their pathological lifestyle and its ramifications for OUR society. By doing so, we are sowing the seeds for harvesting, in the near future, the same godawful mess that caused these 1 digit IQ idiots to flee in the first place.



MFBB.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

THE AFTERBURNER WITH BILL WHITTLE.

Via Theo Spark, Bill Whittle's latest afterburner, The Great Unlearning:




MFBB.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

SATURDAY NIGHT TUBEWAY ARMY, LILY ALLEN.

Tubeway Army with Down in the Park, a number from the 1979 album Replicas.




Postpunk/new wave band around Gary Numan, one hell of a weirdo.



Lily Allen with The Fear.




From the 2009 album It's not me, it's you.



Nite.



MFBB.


Friday, August 14, 2015

SWEDEN 2015 IN FOUR STORIES.

1.) MALMO VIOLENCE ESCALATING, PROMPTING DEPLOYMENT OF HUNDREDS OF NEW POLICE OFFICERS, via The Local:


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"Hundreds of new officers are set to be appointed in a move to boost Malmö's police force, following a series of numerous shootings and explosions in the southern Swedish city in recent months, the national police chief revealed on a visit to the city.

“The police in the south is the prioritized area and will receive most of the new police officers in 2015 and 2016. At the moment, slightly more than 90 officers [are being appointed], in January just above 100, and in summer 2016 there will be further additional staff, but the figure has not been determined yet,” Dan Eliasson told regional newspaper Sydsvenskan.

His announcement comes just weeks after a regional police union raised concerns that police staff shortages in the city were putting the public at risk, as around a third of the 705-strong Malmö force were on holiday.

But after a meeting with regional heads of Malmö 's police force on Wednesday, Eliasson pledged to step up presence in the area.

“All of the Swedish police force's resources are available to them. We have already reinforced Malmö with staff for the acute situation, but if more is needed I am prepared to make those decisions. It could be reconnaissance resources, investigators, bomb technicians, helicopters, anything,” he told Sydsvenskan.

Just hours after his announcement officers were called to a series of car blazes across the city. A group of men were seen breaking into and setting a car on fire on Annebergsgatan south of the central Pildammarna park in the early hours of Thursday. The incident was followed by another two vehicles going up in flames in the Oxie area of the city shortly thereafter..."



2.) SWEDISH ARMED FORCES NOW DOWN TO... 15,000.

A chilling article, via The Gatestone Institute: the Swedish military has all but vanished:


"... In the fall of 1998, General Wictorin had his plan for the historical transformation all worked out. But his big mistake was that he had not grasped that the politicians had now identified defense as an area ripe for major budget cuts. When the state budget was presented, two days after General Wictorin proposed his plan, the defense budget was 15 billion kronor short (about $1.9 billion USD in 1998 dollars). In the documentary, General Wictorin says: "It demanded magic tricks we could not perform. Our plan went straight in the trash; with these cuts, it was not possible to implement it."

Then everything just unraveled. In 2000, the Swedish Parliament made a new decision on defense -- to cut the budget by half. Compared to 1985, there was now only:

*Fifteen percent as many Army combat units
*One tenth as many local defense units
*Half as many Home Guardsmen
*Half of the Air Force
*One quarter of the Navy


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The modern Swedish military, built up over a hundred years, was scrapped in ten or eleven years. According to the military historian Wilhelm Agrell, the dismantling process was inconceivably vast. Every last item stored in the mobilization repositories was hauled away to central storage bases. The process quickly got out of control, and before long, no one knew where anything was. The whole maneuver also turned out to be quite a bit more costly than expected. Nothing went according to plan, and then it was time for the next big decision on how the military should be handled.

In 2004, more units were scrapped and 5,000 military personnel (25% of the total) were let go.

"The new defense," said Agrell, "was supposed to be in place in 2004, but at this time, everything was a screaming mess. There was no new defense and not enough money. What to do? Well, the politicians once again ordered more cutbacks."

This was what was left:

*Six percent of the combat units
*No local defense
*The Home Guard was once again cut in half
*100 airplanes instead of 200

A navy cut in half, with only seven surface vessels and four submarines..."




The castration of the Swedish military is such a hilarious joke for the Russians that Russian TV broadcast this (badly made) video about it:





C.) SWEDISH FASHION LABEL ACNE LAUNCHES NEW GENDER EQUALITY COLLECTION FOR MALES EMBLAZONED WITH ADVICE: "PLEASE CALL ME GIRL".

Leftist rag De Standaard is happy to let you know that Swedish fashion label Acne has launched a new collection of males:

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"Men sympathizing with the concept of gender equality, can now root for their cause even more with the new collecion of Swedish fashion label Acne Studios. At least if they are not afraid to walk around with the statement 'Please call me girl' on their chest.

Acne designer Jonny Johansson perhaps let himself inspire by Chanel's protest or else he thought it was about time to do his bit in the war on women: several sweaters and shawls in his winter collection have their own slogan, e.g. 'Woman Power', 'Gender Equality' and 'Radical Feminist'..."


Memo to 'Jonny' Johansson: if you really, really want to do your part in the 'War on Women', you could perhaps better change them slogans to something like 'Stop Clitoridectomy in Malmo', you bloody balless earthworm.









I'm too goddam tired, rest of the stories follows, I just post this to force myself to continue. Too many blogposts stay in the scaffolds although edited for three quarters, and then I never get around to finish 'em and get them posted.

Stay tuned, Sweden's far worse than you think.



MFBB.

MOVE OVER ADOLPH! IT'S HILLARY'S TURN!

ROFL!




MFBB.

Saturday, August 08, 2015

SATURDAY NIGHT JOHNNY CASH, GARBAGE.

Johnny Cash with Ring of Fire.




1963. Like good wine, huh?



Garbage with Vow. From their titleless 1995 debut album.




Raw, Great, and I CAN'T believe it's been twenty years.


Can't.

And I gotta write some post 'bout Butch Vig once.



Good night.



MFBB.


ps: and if you're looking for a good Saturday night movie, try The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. It's damn good.

Friday, August 07, 2015

SWEDEN CAVES IN ONCE MORE: SEPARATE HOURS FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN SWIMMING POOLS.

Via Tundra Tabloids, a translated opinion page of a (former?) muslim woman who now lives in Sweden and decries the fact that the same mechanisms which ensured that her sex was second-rate in her country of origin, are now being put in place in Sweden... with the collaboration of feminists:


“Religion and culture are once again arguments allowed to oppose gender equality and equal treatment of men and women,” writes Sara Mohammad.

[…]

We are many who escaped from a cultural of religious repression and demands for control of women’s sexuality and denial of equality between women and men.

We came here to Sweden with high expectations of a free society. We wanted to be part of a free country that the Swedish women’s liberation had achieved. We also wanted to support women’s liberation in the countries we came from.

But today we see with concern religious forces gradually moving its positions in Sweden. We have experienced it, we recognize it, we do not want to suffer again.

Religious norms and values ​​always have brainwashed us to perceive them as something natural and desirable. In fact, they are often misogynistic ideas that oppress.

In a feminist government Swedish society should treat everyone equally. It doesn’t help for societal institutions to maintain ideals from countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.

A breakdown of women and men, as in the case of separate bathing times in swimming pools, is proof of Islamist power and ability to push through old rules in the new country.

What looks like a simple solution to a practical problem is in fact a surrender to the oppression we once fled from.

The repression exercised by both male and female Islamists.

Religion and culture are once again arguments allowed to oppose gender equality and equal treatment of men and women. When religious leaders get a little finger it will not be long before they take the whole hand. We begin to get used to give representatives of the human vision to set the agenda, we do not know where we will end up.

Many have come to Sweden to live in freedom, but there are others who wish to run the country in the opposite direction – toward bondage.

Slowly but resolutely want to change the way we look at ourselves and at each other.

Separate bathing times is not a single detail, but part of a systematic and methodical work that Islamists are pursuing.

A common opinion is that “Muslim women should be allowed to live in the same way as they have always done.” Ie during Hijabs, burkas and separate spaces when they are outside the home.

But it is wrong! Muslim women have not always lived as today. On the contrary!

For those seen photos from Iran, Afghanistan and Egypt from the 70s can see that it rather has been a trend in the other direction, backwards into the Middle Ages.

Similarly, those who want to take part in Swedish history to see that Sweden has become much less liberated and open than before.

The more we are encouraged to hide behind veils, behind screens in the SFI classes and the gender-segregated communal bath, the greater will also be the native Swede affected and see himself with the other’s eyes.

Today, it is we who fled the repression victims. Soon affected the whole community."




And to cheer you up, here's two summer pics from France's Mediterranean coast:


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Per Garry Trudeau, the women in the background belong to France's "powerless, disenfrachised minority" of muslims.


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Like lying on the beach with death at your side. Hat tip for the photos my uncle R.




MFBB.

Thursday, August 06, 2015

FLANDERS, BELGIUM. MUSLIMS DEMAND FEAST OF THE SACRIFICE IS RECOGNIZED AS "FLEMISH CULTURAL TRADITION", THREATEN MINISTER BEN WEYTS.

Flemish Minister of Public Works, Tourism and Animal Welfare Ben Weyts (NVA) (quite a portfolio, but then he is not a federal minister but a minister of the Flemish Region,in Belgium's north) recently stated categorically that the slaughtering of animals at the occasion of the impending feast of the sacrifice will happen according to Belgian (and European) laws, which stipulate that the animals have to be anesthesized.

48 muslim organizations in Flanders and Belgium have now published a so-called "offical notice of default" demanding that he revokes his decision, in the same breath threatening to charge him with "all damages" which should result if - fasten your seat belts - Weyts would use force of law to make Belgian muslims follow, well, Belgian law!

Via HLN Online:


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When I read that this morning, I did not know if I should laugh or cry.

It's evening now, and I tend towards the latter.

The situation is grotesque. Belgian (and European) law is crystal clear: no animals should be killed without being anesthesized. Like in every civilized country, animal welfare laws have over the past decades been put in place to ensure that animals do not suffer needlessly. And yet here we are, in 2015, and a staggering total of 48 muslim organizations (I was even unaware there were so many) are challenging an Interior Minister FOR THE MERE FACT...

.... that he is pointing out that Belgian Law should be respected.

I first meant to write now that "it doesn't get more insane than this" to mention the 48 organizations' second demand, namely that "the feast of the sacrifice be recognized as a Flemish cultural tradition", but I stopped from doing so because I'm pretty sure that it WILL get more insane than this.

As Belgium's catastrophic demographic trends continue to deteriorate, expect more, and more, and more, and more, and more of this.



MFBB.

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

FIFTH PLANNED PARENTHOOD VIDEO RELEASED; "IT'S ALL JUST A MATTER OF LINE ITEMS".

An exerpt from The Hill:


"...In the fifth of a series of videos from the Center for Medical Progress, a woman identified as Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, discusses contributing to the organization's "diversification of the revenue stream" and the potential to "get creative" with conditions for procurement needs. The video was reportedly filmed in April at a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas.
"Just depending on the patient's anatomy, how many weeks, where it's placed in the uterus ... we're going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less intact and then some that will not be," she says.

"But it's something that we can look at exploring how we can make that happen so we have a higher chance," she adds.

"And we've had studies in which the company, or in the case of the investigator, has a specific need for a certain portion of the products of conception and we bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this. So we deviate from our standard in order to do that.

"If we alter our process and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. I mean, it's all just a matter of line items," she says...."






As per usual, Mark Steyn is on top of things:


"In other words, their priority is not a "woman's health needs" but a cleanly delivered "fetus" with the relevant "portion of the products of conception" intact - the leg, the liver, the heart, the lung, whatever it is the client has had "baked" into the contract. This is in itself a crime: You're not supposed to manipulate the abortion - and potentially cause more pain and discomfort to the woman - in order to get clean, sellable baby parts.

But, as Ms Farrell makes plain, at Planned Parenthood they see the woman less as a patient than as a supplier whose truck needs a bit of maneuvering to align at the loading dock.

Lovely. But it gets better. For the parts to be useful to the customer, you can't employ the customary pharmaceutical aids to abortion - the stuff that kills the "fetus" - because, if you do, all the parts you want to sell will be poisoned and valueless..."




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Still not a peep from De Standaard, though you can be AB-SO-LU-TE-LY sure they know of this topic and its magnitude. By contrast, we all know about Cecil The Lion. A couple of days ago, they sported the headline :"ZIMBABWE WANTS EXTRADITION OF MURDERER CECIL THE LION".

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By contrast, their buddies from Het Laatste Nieuws - just as left as De Standaard but less "sophisticated" DID cover the issue...


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... deeming it necessary that we, the Great Unwashed, know that "celebs massively support Planned Parenthood".

You read that right. That screenshot I took above is from the AFAIK only column Het Laaste Nieuws spent on the case. In other words, what is important to know is not so much the outrageous fact that Planned Parenthood is illegally selling fetuses and part of fetuses for big money, BUT "that celebs massively support PP"!!! And who do they pick for illustrating their article? Why, Lena Dunham!!!


Sick, sick, sick!



MFBB.

Friday, July 31, 2015

HOW TO CHANGE A LIGHTBULB...

... on top of a TV tower.




Hat tip my uncle R.



MFBB.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

MUSLIM IDIOTS FROM BIRMINGHAM THREATEN GEERT WILDERS.

The Brummy Bearded Apes have a message for their buddies the Dutch Bearded Apes:




Oh the joys of multiculturalism!



MFBB.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

WANT A FETAL CADAVEROUS SPECIMEN BETWEEN 13 AND 24 WEEKS OLD? PLANNED PARENTHOOD WILL CHARGE YOU 340 BUCKS.

When I was a young lad in the mid-seventies and abortion became an issue in Belgium, groups opposing the practice used as their main slogan: "Abortus is Moord" [Abortion is Murder - MFBB]. How well do I recall my father's sneering remarks about those groups which he considered archconservative backward christian zealots. He had those remarks invariably followed by what he assumed was the basic logic justifying killing fetuses: when a woman had been raped, when scans revealed the fetus was malformed etc.

My father, never a liberal, but actually a staunch conservative (although he never used those terms), was just another victim of leftist propaganda - even back then. It has never been different.

And those cases were never the issues spurring abortion activists to seek legislation sanctioning murder in the womb.

Technically, my own wife had an abortion eleven years ago. In her thirteenth month. When an echo revealed, indeed, incurable deformities of our unborn child. Not only that, but carrying on the fetus might have meant the death of my wife when it would have been time to deliver.

We did not need legislation. The staff at UZ Ghent was very understanding and helpful. In matters like these, it is far better to trust on sound judgment from reasonable people which you can count on will be present. The fetus was removed, then cremated, and we asked for, and got, a Christian service for little Adam (as my wife had christened him) from the priest responsible for the chapel on the premises of the University Clinic.

Adam rests forever under the weeping willow tree in our back garden.



No, the so-called reasons pro-abortionists always profferred as the grounds for their grisly undertaking actually come into play in a surprisingly small percentage of cases. But what the legislation has caused is the elimination on an industrial scale, protected by law, of perfectly healthy fetuses.


Our moral betters are evil - plain and simple. And evil begets more evil. It is therefore not surprising that abortion spawned this horrible trade.

Watch this video and shiver:




Obama was the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood, in 2013:


"Remarks by the President at the Planned Parenthood Conference

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel - Washington, DC
26 April, 2013
11:17 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you! (Applause.) All right, everybody have a seat. Have a seat. You're making me blush. (Laughter.)

AUDIENCE MEMBER: I love you!
THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. Thank you. (Applause.)
Cecile, thank you for the warm introduction, and thank you for the outstanding leadership that you’ve shown over the years. You just do a great, great job. (Applause.) I want to thank all of you for the remarkable work that you’re doing day in, day out in providing quality health care to women all across America. You are somebody that women -- young women, old women, women in between -- count on for so many important services. And we are truly grateful to you.

I'm sorry that I could not be at the party yesterday. I understand it was a little wild. (Laughter.) That's what I heard. But as all of you know, obviously, we've gone through a pretty tough week and a half, and I was down in Texas, letting the people of West, Texas know that we all love them and care about them in their time of grieving. (Applause.)

But obviously this is a special national conference, because it’s been nearly a hundred years since the first health clinic of what later would become Planned Parenthood opened its doors to women in Brooklyn. And for nearly a century now, one core principle has guided everything all of you do -- that women should be allowed to make their own decisions about their own health. (Applause.) It’s a simple principle.

So what I see in this audience, extraordinary doctors and nurses, and advocates and staff who work tirelessly to keep the doors at health centers all across the country going, then I'm reminded of those very early efforts and all the strides that we've made in subsequent decades. And I also think about the millions of mothers and daughters and wives and sisters, friends and neighbors who walk through those doors every year..."



Is there anything this monster does that's actually beneficial to the country? Anything at all?



MFBB.

MEET A PRIME EXAMPLE OF OUR MORAL BETTERS: LORD SEWEL.

Via The Telegraph




"Lord Sewel, formerly a Labour peer and ally of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, was said to have been caught on video telling the £200-a-night prostitutes that he wanted to "be led astray".

The Lord Speaker issued a strongly-worded statement in which she said Scotland Yard would be asked to investigate. Baroness D’Souza said: "Today’s revelations about the behaviour of Lord Sewel are both shocking and unacceptable.

"Lord Sewel has this morning resigned as Chairman of Committees.

"The House of Lords will continue to uphold standards in public life and will not tolerate departure from these standards.

“These serious allegations will be referred to the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards and the Metropolitan Police for investigation as a matter of urgency."

In footage published by The Sun on Sunday, the 69-year-old peer is said to have stripped naked in front of the pair in his flat near Westminster last week. Hunched over a table, the former Labour minister for agriculture, environment and fisheries is pictured with a rolled-up bank note in his hand as he appears to snort white powder.

The peer's third marriage, to Lady Jennifer, 54, took place in 2005.

He is seen in the video footage with his wedding ring on show.

One of the escorts is said to have told Lord Sewel: "You're such a party animal!", before he allegedly replied: "I know. Disgusting, isn't it?"

He is alleged to have snorted three lines of cocaine during the 45-minute session."




But the best line in that article is:


"Lord Sewel, a former senior vice principal of Aberdeen University, received £84,525 as chairman of the Lords' Privileges and Conduct Committee - the body that upholds standards of behaviour among peers."



Lord Sewer is a Labour politician.

Politicians of all stripes have been known to behave in an absolutely despicable manner, wasting taxpayer money in the process. But it definitely seems to me that those from the left excel more than their counterparts from the right - or what passes for it these days.


MFBB.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

PICS OF THE DAY: GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, GUN-FREE ZONES KILL PEOPLE.

Via our buddies over at Gates of Vienna: two telling pics from the Chattanooga USMC recruiting station:


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Although the glass is shattered, you can still make out the following:

"FEDERAL INSTALLATION. FIREARMS ARE PROHIBITED IN THIS PROPERTY."


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I suppose Muhammmad Youssef Abdulazeez must have been illiterate. Too bad the people inside were not.


MFBB.

Friday, July 17, 2015

OUR MORAL BETTERS SELLING BODY PARTS FROM ABORTED FETUSES.

Look for yourself. The euphemistically called Planned Parenthood is selling body parts from aborted fetuses.

Since this does get a lot of coverage in the US, this post is primarily intended for readers outside the States. In particular in abortion-crazy Europe, where you can be sure the story will be buried as deep as possible - if it gets coverage at all.




Leftists are wretched people.

I am getting more and more convinced that actually we must not see islamic terrorism as our prime concern - we can actually always deal with that. If only we are willing to make a stand, we can pulverize them and blow them away any time we want. Any time.

Our No. 1 Enemy is leftism, in all its forms. It is leftists who are sapping our strength, undermining our belief in ourselves, crippling our finances, tearing our social fabric apart, discredit and strangle our military, open our borders wide to welfare seekers and criminals, poison the minds of our youths, break down moral safeguards, ruin our economies, reward those who profit from society while punishing those who contribute to it, make heroes of felons while mocking brave men and women making a real difference, defecate on Christianity but lie in bed with a belief system that is basically hellbent on destroying us, promote relationships that don't produce offspring while attacking those that provide stability and safe homes for children, design ugly euthanasisa schemes to finish off unwanted elderly people...

... and murder the most vulnerable among us in their mothers' wombs.

Such is the handiwork of our moral betters.

Leftists - socialists, communists, greens, call them whatever you want - THEY ARE THE MAIN ENEMY.

And they should be treated as such.



MFBB.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

SCHAARBEEK/BRUSSELS: FIRST ISLAMIC HIGH SCHOOL IN BELGIUM.

Leftist rag De Standaard is happy to inform us about the following:


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"The government of the French-speaking community in Belgium (I know, difficult to explain to a foreigner) has given the green light to ECIB (Enseignement Confessionnel Islamique de Belgique), a muslim non-profit, to start from September on on the premises of the subsidized islamic school La Vertu [The Virtue; MFBB] with a high school, writes the daily La Libre Belgique on Thursday. According to La Libre Belgique it's a first in Belgium.

In a first phase there will be 120 places for students of the 1st en 2nd year. The aim is to create a second (3rd and 4th year) and third grade (5th and 6th year). This would amount to a total of 660 places. At this moment 90 students have enlisted already."



According to Joelle Milquet, Walloon Minister for Education, the La Vertu school has given evidence of its openness towards other faiths.

About one month ago police raided Milquet's private home because in all likelihood she had given orders to 8 members of her ministry to help her in last year's elections. The 8 people involved, all of them of foreign origin, would have helped to organize festivities and events in immigrant Moroccan, Congolese and Turkish communities, events where Milquet then presented herself. In a normal country the deployment of staff, normally supposed to be engaged in purely professional matters, for political campaigns in support of the minister in question, would lead to the instant dismissal of said minister.

But Belgium is no normal country. Count on Joelle Milquet to keep her "job".

We have met this bitch before. Two years ago, when she was Interior Minister in the catastrophic Elio di Rupo government. Below you see a period photo when she posed with a radical imam, Iliass Azaouai, who, btw, would in the meantime have been killed in Syria:




And currently this horrible woman, now on another ministerial post where she can do tremendous damage, assures us that the soon-to-be islamic high school La Vertu "has given evidence of openness towards other faiths". Yeah right.


I am not an Education Minister, but I trust that my judgment is far more sound than Madame Non's. La Vertu High School will be the first in a long series of muslim-only schools, a development that will only speed up the process of segregation and the creation of a parallel state in the state. A parallel state that will ever more brazenly show it's inherent hostility vis-à-vis its host.

Apart from that, no one should fool himself that the "students" this school will deliver will be in any way prepared for either the job market or college/university. They have tried it in The Netherlands - with catastrophic results, see the failed experiment with the Ibn Ghaldoun islamic high school:


"The Ibn Ghaldoun school in Rotterdam has been declared bankrupt. The Court in Rotterdam declared the bankruptcy on Tuesday.

The Islamic secondary school drew media attention this summer when 27 exam papers were stolen.

In addition, it emerged from inspection that the quality of education had been poor for years. There were also administrative and financial problems.

State Secretary for Education Sander Dekker (VVD) announced last month in response to the findings of the inspection that state financing would stop as of 1 November. Shortly after, the school filed for bankruptcy.

The more than six hundred pupils of the school can for the time being be accommodated by the Christian association Melanchthon. They will be taught at the current location as a temporary branch of the school association. There will however be completely new teaching staff.

(Note from translator below)

What is more disturbing is that apparently the authorities had been tipped off about grade and exam fraud at the school in April, 2 months before it came out about the exam papers being stolen, and did nothing. They are now claiming that it was because they had planned an inspection anyway. There will be an enquiry, but you can be certain the excuses will come thick and fast. Should point out the seriousness of the exam paper theft – all schools thoughout the country get the same exams. The papers had been stolen, so in theory every kid in the country could have known the questions in advance. The authorities had to do some serious damage management.

The NRC newspaper has a copy of the letter sent by an anonymous teacher in April to complain about the school.
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/09/27/onderzoek-nrc-inspectie-deed-niets-na-tip-ibn-ghaldoun/

It turned out that teachers has been fiddling with the grades, letting kids go on to the next year they should have stayd behind. Apparently the school’s true academic results were shocking."



Courtesy translation from NRC: Vladtepesblog.



I...


... am beginning to understand - far, far too late, granted - that our prime enemy is not islam.

It's our own insane and coward politicians.

They should receive a just punishment.



MFBB.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

NEW HORIZONS REACHES PLUTO.

After a nine-year long journey covering 3 billion miles NASA's New Horizons probe has reached Pluto. Great coverage from EarthSky dot org:


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"Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto on July 14. The color image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument that was acquired earlier on July 13. This view is dominated by the large, bright feature informally named the “heart,” which measures approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across. The heart borders darker equatorial terrains, and the mottled terrain to its east (right) are complex. However, even at this resolution, much of the heart’s interior appears remarkably featureless—possibly a sign of ongoing geologic processes.
Credits: NASA/APL/SwRI"

There's an absolutely great series of short, easily understandable explanatory videos out there, Pluto in a minute. Here are a couple of them:






More from EarthSky.org:


"NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.

After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday (July 14, 2015), about 7,750 miles above the surface – roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.

Per the plan, the spacecraft currently is in data-gathering mode and not in contact with flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physical Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Scientists are waiting to find out whether New Horizons “phones home,” transmitting to Earth a series of status updates that indicate the spacecraft survived the flyby and is in good health. The “call” is expected shortly after 9 p.m. tonight (July 14).

The Pluto story began only a generation ago when young Clyde Tombaugh was tasked to look for Planet X, theorized to exist beyond the orbit of Neptune. He discovered a faint point of light that we now see as a complex and fascinating world.

John Grunsfeld is associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. He said:

Pluto was discovered just 85 years ago by a farmer’s son from Kansas, inspired by a visionary from Boston, using a telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona. Today, science takes a great leap observing the Pluto system up close and flying into a new frontier that will help us better understand the origins of the solar system.

New Horizons’ flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up-close introduction to the solar system’s Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets. Kuiper Belt objects, such as Pluto, preserve evidence about the early formation of the solar system.

New Horizons’ almost 10-year, three-billion-mile journey to closest approach at Pluto took about one minute less than predicted when the craft was launched in January 2006. The spacecraft threaded the needle through a 36-by-57 mile (60 by 90 kilometers) window in space – the equivalent of a commercial airliner arriving no more off target than the width of a tennis ball.

Because New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft ever launched – hurtling through the Pluto system at more than 30,000 mph, a collision with a particle as small as a grain of rice could incapacitate the spacecraft. Once it reestablishes contact, it will take 16 months for New Horizons to send its cache of data – 10 years’ worth – back to Earth...."




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Some general info on the New Horizons probe, slightly adapted from Wiki:


* it hurtles through space in one of two "modes", either spin-stabilized mode (for cruising) or and three-axis stabilized mode (for science experiments). Both modes are controlled with hydrazine monopropellant. Post launch there was an additional delta-v of over 290 m/s (1,000 km/h; 650 mph), which was fueled by a 77 kg (170 lb) internal tank. Helium is used as a pressurant, with an elastomeric diaphragm assisting expulsion. And now that we are talking about hydrazine, that's N2H4, and it was first used as a propellant fuel in Nazi Germany's Me163B rocket interceptor, where it was called "B-Stoff". It's a colourless highly toxic flammable liquid, and I recall that back in the eighties, every time an F-16 had an accident (the BAF operated far more F-16's then than it does now, and one of the reasons is that there were so many accidents in the beginning), there was a huge fuss about hydrazine contamination at the crash site. But I digress.


* New Horizons has 16 thrusters: four 4.4 N (1.0 lbf) and twelve 0.9 N (0.2 lbf) plumbed into redundant branches. The four "large" ones are used primarily for trajectory corrections, and the small ones (the types were also used on the Cassini and Voyager spacecraft) are used mainly for attitude control and spinup/spindown maneuvers. Two star cameras are used to measure the spacecraft attitude. They are mounted on the face of the spacecraft and provide attitude information while in spin-stabilized or 3-axis mode. In between the time of star camera readings, spacecraft orientation is provided by dual redundant miniature inertial measurement units. Each unit contains three solid-state gyroscopes and three accelerometers. Two Adcole Sun sensors provide attitude control. One detects the angle to the Sun, whereas the other measures spin rate and clocking.


* Power supply: check out the cylindrical radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) protruding in the plane of the triangle from one vertex of it. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator is an electrical generator that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect, which describes the conversion of temperature differences directly into electricity. Therefor, an RTG has no moving parts. NH's RTG will provide about 250 W, 30 V DC at launch, and is predicted to drop approximately 5% every 4 years, decaying to 200 W by the time of its encounter with Pluto/Charon in 2015. The RTG, model "GPHS-RTG," was originally a spare from the Cassini mission. The RTG contains 10.9 kg (24 lb) of plutonium-238 oxide pellets. Each pellet is clad in iridium, then encased in a graphite shell. It was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy at the Materials and Fuels Complex, a part of the Idaho National Laboratory. Less power than the original design goal was produced because of delays at the United States Department of Energy, including security activities. The mission parameters and observation sequence had to be modified for the reduced wattage; still, not all instruments can operate simultaneously. New Horizons carries no batteries and RTG output is relatively predictable; load transients are handled by a capacitor bank and fast circuit breakers.

The amount of radioactive plutonium in the RTG is 10.9 kg (24 lb), about one-third the amount on board the Cassini–Huygens probe when it launched in 1997. That launch was protested by some. The United States Department of Energy estimated the chances of a launch accident that would release radiation into the atmosphere at 1 in 350, and monitored the launch as it always does when RTGs are involved.


* The NH probe's Flight computer comprises two computer systems: the Command and Data Handling system and the Guidance and Control processor. Each of the two systems is duplicated for redundancy, thus there are actually four navigating computer. The processor used for its flight computers is the Mongoose-V, a 12 MHz radiation-hardened version of the MIPS R3000 CPU. Multiple clocks and timing routines are implemented in hardware and software to help prevent faults and downtime. To conserve heat and mass, spacecraft and instrument electronics are housed together in IEMs (integrated electronics modules). There are two redundant IEMs. Including other functions such as instrument and radio electronics, each IEM contains 9 boards.




Oh to be part of such a magnificent undertaking!


MFBB.

Saturday, July 11, 2015

SATURDAY NIGHT NEIL DIAMOND, JUDIE TZUKE.

Neil Diamond with Solitary Man.




Brilliant debut single from the Year of Our Lord 1966. Love the horns.



And for the romantic souls among us, Judie Tzuke with Stay with me till dawn, a nice ballad from her 1979 debut album Welcome to the cruise. I remember it well from my early teen years.




Her family emigrated from Poland to the UK in the twenties, and changed their surname from Tzuke to Myers. So she was born a Judie Myers. As a respectful nod to her ancestors she adopted 'Tzuke' again as her stage name.


Slaap wel.


MFBB.


PS: and a damn hot ticke, uhh, a stunningly beautiful woman at that!

RECOMMENDED READS: KATIE PAVLICH'S ARTICLE ON PARENTS OF CHILDREN MURDERED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Via TownHall, Katie's column addresses the suffering of parents whose children were murdered by illegal aliens - and how the government's insane open border policy is responsible for that.


"When Kate Steinle was killed in the sanctuary city of San Francisco last week by an illegal alien who had been deported five times with seven felonies on his record, I pointed out that unfortunately her case isn't an isolated incident. Thanks to open border, anti-interior immigration enforcement policies and a lack of immigration law enforcement , violent criminal aliens are walking the streets of America right now and they've taken many innocent lives along the way.

Last night on Hannity, parents whose children have been killed by illegal aliens spoke out about their own personal hell created by a failed government system.

"To me what matters is that my only child, my son Dominic, is no longer with me. And it's not because he drove carelessly and did anything wrong, it was because he was on his way to work on his motorcycle and a guy who has been here for eight years committing many crimes, including felony armed robbery, two DUIs, decided the law doesn't apply to him because there were no consequences before," Sabine Durden said. "I've been fighting about this for years. I know other families who have been fighting this and its been swept under the rug for years."

"Our lives will never be the same, he was my only child," she continued.

"It's government that did this. It's cherry picking laws because you're trying to import votes or you're trying to import cheap labor, it doesn't matter, the laws are being cherry picked and there's consequences for that and my son paid for that," Dan Golvach said about his son, who was shot in the head by an illegal alien (who had been deported four times with a violent criminal record) while parked at a red light. "He blew my son's brains out. It didn't end there because he moved down the road and shot another young man...then he shot a couple."

"I'm looking at this and thinking and listening to all of these other stories and thinking the lenience that our government is showing these illegals is costing innocent American lives," Mary Ann Mendoza, whose son was killed by an illegal alien going the wrong way on the freeway while drunk, said."






RNC Chairman (and Ueber Wimp) Reince Priebus reportedly talked wiht Donald Trump on the phone for an hour or so, advising him to tone it down. I'm no fan of Trump, not at all, but at least he's telling it like it is.

That the fucking scoundrel and horrible abomination who has the audactity to call himself POTUS, aka Barack Obama, chooses to remain silent now, that's something I understand.

That the GOP establishment is doing the same, is utterly disgusting.


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Kate Steinle, and so many others, rest in peace. God bless.



MFBB.

Friday, July 10, 2015

BILL WHITTLE ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S RACIST PAST.

A must-see video by Bill Whittle. Although of course, we rightwingers know all that or at least suspected it.

It should rather be a must-see video for America's blacks. AND legions of gullible white low info voters.





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Thursday, July 09, 2015

OUTLAW MIKE'S PHAVOURITE PHILM PHRAGMENTS.

Sgt. Worcester speaks. A scene from Hamburger Hill - again.




I guess I'm just in such a mood right now.



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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

RECOMMENDED READS: KHALED ABU TOAMEH'S "WHEN PALESTINIANS DIE IN JAIL."

Via the indispensable The Gatestone Institute, an article by Khaled Abu Toameh, When Palestinians die in jail:



"Three Palestinian men were found dead in their jail cells in the West Bank and Gaza Strip this past week.

But their stories did not attract the attention of the international media or human rights organizations in the U.S. and Europe. Nor was their case brought to the attention of the United Nations or the International Criminal Court (ICC).

By contrast, the case of 17-year-old Mohamed Kasba, who was shot dead north of Jerusalem by an Israeli army officer as he attacked the officer's car with stones, received widespread coverage in the Western media.

The UN even rushed to condemn the killing of Kasba, and called for an "immediate end" to violence and for everyone to keep calm. "This reaffirms the need for a political process aiming to establish two states living beside each other safely and peacefully," said UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Maldenov.

The UN official, needless to say, made no reference to the deaths that occurred in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas jails. He did not even see a need to express concern over the deaths or call for an investigation. Like the mainstream media in the West, the UN chooses to look the other way when Palestinians torture or kill fellow Palestinians.

The reason the case of the three detainees will not interest anyone in the international community is because the men did not die in an Israeli jail. Instead, the three men died while being held in Palestinian-controlled jails.



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It's no fun finding yourself in a PA jail, but you won't hear that from our lamestream media.




Had the three men died in Israeli detention, their names would have most likely appeared on the front pages of most leading Western newspapers. The families of the three men would have also been busy talking to Western journalists about Israeli "atrocities" and "human rights violations."

But no respected Western journalist is going to visit any of the families of the three detainees: they did not die in an Israeli jail.

The same week that the three Palestinian men were found dead in jail, the UN Human Rights Council decided to adopt a resolution condemning Israel over the UN report into last year's Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip. Again, the UN Human Rights Council chose to ignore human rights violations by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, who deny detainees basic rights and proper medical treatment.

Two of them died in PA security installations in Bethlehem, while the third was found dead in a Hamas-controlled jail in the Gaza Strip.

The two detainees who were found dead in their jail cells in Bethlehem are Shadi Mohamed Obeidallah and Hazem Yassin Udwan. The man who died in the Gaza Strip jail was identified as Khaled Hammad al-Balbisi.

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas claim that the three men committed suicide.

In the case of Obeidallah, the Palestinian Authority police said he hanged himself with a piece of cloth inside the jail restrooms. He was taken into custody on suspicion of committing a murder three years ago.

The second man, Udwan, died a few days later in another Bethlehem police facility. According to police officials, he too committed suicide.

The detainee in the Gaza Strip, al-Balbisi, was being held by Hamas authorities for allegedly assaulting his wife.

But al-Balbisi, 43, apparently did not commit suicide. He was very ill when he was arrested by the Hamas security forces, and did not receive proper medical care while in detention.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Gaza-based non-profit group dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law and upholding democratic principles in the Palestinian territories, called for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the detainees.

"PCHR stresses that the Palestinian Authority is responsible for the lives of prisoners and detainees under its control and is thus responsible for treating them with dignity, including offering them medical care," the group said in a statement...."




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Tuesday, July 07, 2015

EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF FEDERICA MOGHERINI GOES STARK RAVING BONKERS: "ISLAM BELONGS IN EUROPE."

Via Dutch site GeenStijl, some shocking statements from the EU's "Foreign Minister", Federica Mogherini. I never thought I would miss Catherine Ashton.

"Islam holds a place in our Western societies. Islam belongs in Europe. It holds a place in Europe's history, in our culture, in our food and – what matters most – in Europe's present and future." "Throughout our European history, many have tried to unify our continent by imposing their own power, their own ideology, their own identity against the identity of someone else."

"Daʼesh is Islam's worst enemy in today's world. Its victims are first and foremost Muslim people. Islam is a victim itself."

"For this reason I am not afraid to say that political Islam should be part of the picture. Religion plays a role in politics – not always for good, not always for bad."


I can't find the heart to post more quotes from that speech, check it yourself here, but please, please, PLEEEEEAAAAAAAASE!!!!!!, someone shut this INSANE woman's piehole and send her packing, like, RIGHT NOW !!! She studied Political Science, which means she's too fucking dumb to do anything requiring real intelligence on the one hand, and too fucking lump to do anything useful with her hands, but maybe, just maybe, she can stand somewhere inside the EU Parliament holding a neon signpost pointing to the Parliament's restaurant (provided she can find a power socket and plug the jack in the correct way).


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EU Foreign Policy Minister in the Iran Nuclear Negotiations talks, which have proven to be a TREMENDOUS success (*). The guy to the right is Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.




Some relevant bio facts about Federica Mogherini:

* member of the Italian Communist Youth Federation from 1988
* in 1996 joined the Youth Left after the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party before its transformation into a social democratic party.
* In 2001 she became a member of the National Council of the Democrats of the Left (DS), later serving on its National Executive Board and Political Committee.
* In 2003 she started working at the DS's Foreign Affairs Section
* Mogherini was in charge of maintaining relations with the Party of European Socialists, the Socialist International and other Left-wing parties, including with the US Democratic Party.


Need some more info? What did you say? Oh, the topic of her thesis while she was a student Political Science? I got that: it was called "Relationship between religion and politics in Islam". Ik kid you not.


It's things like this which give me nightmares. People like Mogherine are the gravediggers of western civilization.


MFBB.


(*) for Iran.

Sunday, July 05, 2015

INDISPENSABLE BBQ TIPS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LINDSEY PELAS!

Via Theo Spark:




I think it is safe to assume Miz Pelas will not pick up Sir Tim Hunt's cancer research. Neither, I fear, can we count too much on her to help solve SpaceX's Dragon problems.


But at least you now know how not to mess up the summer BBQ's!



MFBB.

Saturday, July 04, 2015

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, BRYAN FERRY.

Live with Selling the Drama.




1994. Album Throwing Copper. An album notable for several hits as well as poignant cover art by Scottish painter Peter Howson. Can't say I find it beautiful. But I acknowledge it's Art. Sort of.



Bryan Ferry with Windswept.




From the 1985 album Boys and Girls.


Slaap wel.



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YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. I sometimes have the impression I'm the only European still holding that view, but on other continents there still seem to be plenty of people with their heads screwed on right. Here's a small sample from US-based catholic organization CatholicVote:




This message is endorsed by Outlaw Mike.

And if you are from De Standaard, that leftist rag of which the reaction to this quintessentially decent video is a hateful sneer and more attention for a badly made parody, you can go royally fuck yourself. Or some other ass, for that matter. #Lul/Trut.



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HEAVY RIOTING IN THE HAGUE; LOCAL POLICE TOLERATE PARALLEL MUSLIM POLICE FORCE TO RESTORE ORDER.

Heavy riots since about one week in the Schilderwijk, a triangle-shaped area in The Hague, The Netherlands. This predominantly muslim neighborhood, also dubbed the 'Sharia Triangle' in which last year ISIS-flags were flown at rallies, has been simmering with unrest for some time, but wat ignited the powder keg was the death of an Antillian immigrant by the name of Mitch Henriquez. One week ago, during a local festival not far from Schilderswijk, Henriquez ran amok and shouted to police that he was armed. Five officers were needed to subdue him. It is still not clear how this happened, but the man died by choking during the brush. Maybe the police are partly to blame for being somewhat hard-handed, what is clear though is that Henriquez would still be alive if he had behaved like a normal citizen - i.e. not hurling insults at police while threatening you are armed, and not fighting them as they try to put handcuffs on or whatever.

That is one thing.

The other thing is that the incident was used by antifa thugs to spark even more unrest, and the area has for several consecutive nights been in turmoil, with extensive damage being done to state-owned infrastructure, banks etc. As of July 4, some 200 rioters have been arrested:


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But it is the latest development that is of most interest here, because in the name of restoring order the authorities have apparently accepted the help of muslim vigilantes in Schilderswijk. Dutch site GeenStijl reports that around 80 what it calls 'Sharia Police' acted as a buffer between Police and rioters.


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This should definitely not be seen as a positive development, for it signals the ceding of authority to a parallel police force.


Several conclusions can be drawn from the whole episode:


a.) Multiculturalism is a catastrophic failure. You cannot integrate foreign groups if they radically denounce the local mores, mores which pre-multiculturalism made The Netherlands a very wealthy and safe nation. We are talking about such typical Dutch traits as labor ethic, respect for the law, their famous frugality (granted, not always a boon), the desire (sometimes obsession) to keep everything tidy and clean etc. Antillians are immigrants from the Dutch Antilles, most of them couldn't give a rat's ass about those age-old Dutch values. It is therefore no surprise that crime rates among them are the highest of all immigrant populations, higher even than among Moroccans (who are no. 2).

b.) Conflicts between immigrants and police invariable attract the attention of extreme leftist racaille hellbent on stoking the flames of unrest even higher. The merest brush with the authorities will result in the presence of antifa thugs in nothing flat, because it is one more occasion to confront the police. In their twisted worldview, order has to be disturbed, infrastructure has to be demolished. The old 'Things have to be razed down in order to make a new and better society' trope.

c.) The turmoil is exploited by muslims to assert power. Indeed, the havoc wrought by Antillian, Moroccan and antifa thugs is a godsend for the Sharia Triangle's parallel police force to "prove" their usefulness in "restoring order". The gullible idiots in The Hague's City Council, mayor Van Aartsen up front, actually see this as a positive development. In reality, it will in time lead to a 'no go zone' for the real Police.


This entire mess can be laid almost exclusively at the feet of leftism: insane open border policies, abandonment of conservative values, white guilt, socialist dogmas...

... these are the bitter fruits.

And this is only the beginning.



MFBB.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

RECOMMENDED READS: MEET CONNIE ST LOUIS, BITCH, FRAUD, SERIAL LIAR AND FOURTEENTH GRADE "SCIENCE JOURNALIST".

Don't expect MSM to pay much attention to this, and if they do, they will still end their columns with a sneer aimed at eminent scientist and (real) Nobel Prize Winner Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991 and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1999. His Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded in 2001, he shared with Leland Hartwell and Sir Paul Nurse for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin-dependent kinases.

Unless you've been living on another planet, you know that Tim Hunt's career was effectively ended by a hateful tweet in response to a so-called sexist remark, which I won't repeat here, because I cannot fathom what's so terrible about it - besides, Sir Hunt had it followed by "and now seriously".... although that too was not deemed important enough to mention by our moral betters in the media.

Well, the cunt who wrote that tweet, Connie St Louis, has now been exposed as a serial liar and a fraud who fabricated her CV out of thin CO2. Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos reports:


"It’s terrible that by mere accident of birth, some people are afforded benefits and opportunities that are denied to others.

That’s why I think Connie St Louis, the black female journalism professor whose malicious slander led to the virtual destruction of a Nobel Laureate’s career, needs to urgently check her privilege. Because unlike most people in the country, it seems she can get away with murder, thanks to her gender and, yes, her skin colour.

St Louis is responsible for the sacking of Sir Tim Hunt, a Nobel prize-winning biochemist who became the target of an online lynch mob after his comments about women in science were taken out of context.

St Louis claimed, and continues to claim, that Hunt had argued for single-sex laboratories after claiming that women in science were a distraction who “fall in love” with male scientists and “cry” when criticised.

St Louis, eager to combat damaging stereotypes, immediately went off crying to the media.

But a report from an anonymous EU official who attended Hunt’s talk told the Times last week that his comments were clearly made to poke fun at himself and that, after making them, Hunt went on to talk at length about the importance of women in science.

As Richard Dawkins, one of Hunt’s most prominent defenders, says, St Louis’ story made Hunt look like a chauvinist monster. But the full story shows him to be the precise opposite. What has happened to him is therefore nothing short of an international scandal.

There are elements of Rolling Stone in this debacle, not only in the way narrative has been prioritised over fact-checking, but also in the fabulism of Hunt’s accuser. Because, according to an explosive report by the Daily Mail, St Louis is a serial liar and fraud who has fabricated most of her own CV.

Her online resume describes her as an “award winning freelance broadcaster, writer, and scientist” who “presents and produces a range of programmes for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service” and “writes for numerous outlets, including the Independent, the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Sunday Times.”



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Yes, in today's PC tyranny, an incompetent bitch and serial liar can end an eminent scientist's career.




But, according to the Mail‘s investigation, St Louis has no bylined works in either the Mail, the Independent or the Sunday Times. Prior to the Tim Hunt affair, she had only written one article for the Guardian, in 2013.

Her CV also boasts of a Joseph Rowntree fellowship which she received to write and publish a book. But she received the fellowship in 2005, and ten years later has yet to produce a completed work.

St Louis is currently a professor of science journalism at City University — that much is true. But if I were one of her students, I’d be demanding my money back. St Louis has lied about her CV, and she has lied about Tim Hunt.

Anyone else would be fired on the spot.

But let’s face it, it ain’t gonna happen. St Louis is a black woman. A black woman in science journalism, no less. There’s no way the Guardian or the BBC would allow anything bad to happen to such a rare and valuable person. That’s probably why they aren’t planning to follow up on the Mail‘s story.

Indeed, so important is St Louis to the Guardian that the Mail reports that Guardian editors made over 30 edits to her article on their website, in which she defended her conduct. The article was not updated with a disclaimer making note of these changes, in contravention of normal Guardian policy.

There’s a word for these double standards: privilege.

Yes, contrary to what a rainbow-haired Tumblr blogger may have screamed at you over social media, it’s not white males who need to check their privilege today, but minorities in positions of influence like Connie St Louis, who seem to think they can lie about themselves and others with impunity in pursuit of some noble higher goal.

In this case, as so often, that higher goal was delivering a good kicking to a much more successful man.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if it were Sir Tim Hunt or some other villified white male who had engaged in the kind of CV-spinning that St Louis did, the BBC and the Guardian would be shouting it from the rooftops.

Evidence of this double standard is everywhere. Just look at Bahar Mustafa, the delightful “diversity officer” of Goldsmiths University who hosted events that banned white men, repeatedly said she wanted to “kill white men,” labelled people “white trash” — and then claimed she couldn’t be racist, because she’s an ethnic minority.

There’s someone who knows how to use their privilege, baby.

Mustafa still has her job, by the way. (It’s taxpayer-funded, of course.) After all, we can afford to lose scientists like Sir Tim Hunt, can’t we? He wasn’t doing anything important, just trying to cure cancer. Openly racist “diversity officers” like Mustafa though, they’re the people we can’t afford to lose.

It’s easy to laugh, but the privilege of minorities in modern Britain has real consequences. In Rotherham, the abuses of Pakistani grooming gangs were ignored for years because officials in the town were afraid of offending minorities or appearing “racist.”

Even the official report acknowledged the part played by “misplaced political correctness” in the horrific episode. But the underlying problem was not addressed.

And it won’t be. As I write, it’s Monday afternoon, and there is still no glimmer of a story on the Connie St Louis CV revelations from the BBC, Guardian, or Independent.

Why? Because these Lefty (alright, closet Lefty in the case of the BBC) news outlets have imported the bad habits of the American Left, in particular their hare-brained identity politics.

No doubt, editors at these publications believe that attacking Tim Hunt is righteously “punching up” at the privileged, whereas exposing St Louis’ wrongdoing would be “punching down” at the underprivileged. What a world."



What a world? You bet.


MFBB.