Update
Introduced to the concepts of Adam Smith's The Wealth of
Nations by my high school economics teacher, Ben Mark, I set out to read it.
"You won't finish it," Mr. Mark predicted. As in so much else, Ben
was right. I never have. So when I came across this book by the great political
humorist, P.J. O'Rourke, I grabbed it. It is terrific. Not only do you get an
explanation of Smith's basic concepts, but it is full of the pointed wit that
O'Rourke is famous for, so you get entertained as well as educated. Smith's key
concept is that the prosperity of nations depends on three things: division of
labor, pursuit of self interest and free trade, both external and internal--and
that government often limits prosperity by blocking these. It's as true today
as it was then. Some quotes from the book: ""The desire for power
pushes a man, Smith wrote, to 'the highest degree of arrogance,...to erect his
own judgment into the supreme standard of right and wrong...to fancy himself
the only wise and worthy man in the commonwealth.' Smith managed to describe
not only Barbara Streisand, but everyone in the world of politics." "Smith:
'The man of system...is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so
enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he
cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it...he seems to imagine
that he can arrange the different members of great society with as much ease as
the hand arranges the pieces on a chessboard.' PJ: Barbed wire always seems to
be needed to keep the chessmen on their squares." Smith called
universities, "the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete
prejudices found shelter and protection, after they had been hunted out of
every other corner of the earth." Smith on debt: "When national debts
have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scare, I believe, a
single instance of them having been fairly and completely paid." This is
just a sample. I highly recommend this book.
General News and Comment
Tweet from Brad Thor @BradThor
As liberalism collapses and bankrupts cities, towns, states,
and even the nation - racial politics and class warfare is all they have left.
How the PC Police Threaten
Free Speech. By Nick Gillespie
Excerpt: Today we are all Charlie Hebdo. But what about
tomorrow? And the day after that? That’s when our commitment to free expression
will really be tested, and in ways that are less obvious and prone to easy,
social-media heroics. That’s when the battle lines over “allowable speech” will
really become clear and we’ll see who’s standing where. If the recent past in America is any
indication, we should be worried, as free speech and the marketplace of ideas
it energizes are never really popular for very long. They are always suspended
over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of
snapping.
Elderly Woman Yells
for ‘Help!’ After She is Threatened by Armed Thugs. Then 3 Marines Showed Up.
Excerpt: Outside of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office in
Washington , a
woman was in the process of being robbed by two thugs in a parking lot when she
repeatedly honked her truck’s horn. They’d threatened her and she said they had
a firearm. Three Marines came running from the office, saw the woman who
was yelling for help, intervened, and instantly put an end to the altercation.
Mitt Romney tells donors he is considering 2016
presidential bid. By Seth McLaughlin
Excerpt: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told
donors Friday he is considering another run for the White House — a
move that could further unsettle the emerging GOP presidential
field and create a glut of competitors vying for the backing of establishment
Republicans.
David Petraeus in Justice Department crosshairs for criminal charges. By Eric Tucker
David Petraeus in Justice Department crosshairs for criminal charges. By Eric Tucker
Excerpt: Federal investigators have been looking into
whether Petraeus provided
classified information to his biographer, with whom he admitted having an
affair when he resigned from the CIA in 2012.
Marine Corps Infantry. By Andy Weddington
Marine Corps Infantry. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt: I am sick of the subject but not tired of
addressing it:
http://freebeacon.com/blog/exclusive-two-more-female-marines-dropped-from-infantry-course/ So...As soon as the "standards" of the unpredictable rigors and horrors of ground combat are "lowered" then lower the standards, which are never truly adequate no matter how demanding, for preparatory training. That to which we now bear witness - subjecting women to something they cannot do at the reckless risk of injury or death - is an epic failure of leadership. A Marine Corps unrecognizable to me.
http://freebeacon.com/blog/exclusive-two-more-female-marines-dropped-from-infantry-course/ So...As soon as the "standards" of the unpredictable rigors and horrors of ground combat are "lowered" then lower the standards, which are never truly adequate no matter how demanding, for preparatory training. That to which we now bear witness - subjecting women to something they cannot do at the reckless risk of injury or death - is an epic failure of leadership. A Marine Corps unrecognizable to me.
Two More Female
Marines Dropped from Infantry Course: Twenty-nine
attempts by female officers on the course, with none passing (Updated).
By Aaron MacLean
Excerpt: Two female Marine officers who volunteered to
attempt the Corps’ challenging Infantry Officer Course did not proceed
beyond the first day of the course, a Marine Corps spokesperson confirms
to the Free Beacon. The two were the only female officers attempting the course
in the current cycle, which began Thursday in Quantico , Virginia
7 Ways Liberals Are Just As Bad As The People They Hate
Most. By John Hawkins
Excerpt: Liberals are the mirror image of everything they
claim to hate. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds, their ability to unflinchingly
examine their own beliefs is practically non-existent and they are almost
incapable of objectively examining the policies they advocate. The more fully
people become engulfed by liberalism, the more they embrace political correctness,
groupthink, and close-mindedness until their thought process becomes little
more than simplistic tribalism.
College athletes ran
tax-refund fraud scheme, netted $400K
Excerpt: The card, however, did not belong to Alphonso
"Rico" Valdez .
A scheme to defraud the IRS of $1.1 million began to unravel. After a
months-long investigation, authorities busted up the fraud ring, which netted
about $400,000 over nearly a year. Six people involved in the complicated
scheme were USD football players at the time, and another had once been on the
track and field team and impeached as USD's student government president over
allegations of misused funds.
The movie ‘Selma
Excerpt: What’s wrong with Hollywood ? The makers of the new movie “Selma ” apparently just
couldn’t resist taking dramatic, trumped-up license with a true story that
didn’t need any embellishment to work as a big-screen historical drama. As a
result, the film falsely portrays President Lyndon B. Johnson as being at odds
with Martin Luther King Jr. and even using the FBI to discredit him, as only
reluctantly behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and as opposed to the Selma march itself. In
fact, Selma was LBJ’s idea, he considered the Voting Rights Act his greatest
legislative achievement, he viewed King as an essential partner in getting it
enacted — and he didn’t use the FBI to disparage him. (I'm not a big fan of
Landslide Lyndon, and not because he was the CiC who sent me to Vietnam , but I
hate movies that say they are based on a true story, then embellish it with
lies. The public, which reads little history, comes to believe the lies. ~Bob)
Boehner's embrace of
GOP rebels nudges House caucus to right
Excerpt: Die-hard House conservatives bungled a coup against
House Speaker John Boehner but now look like winners, pushing Republicans
farther right. Rather than punish and isolate those who opposed him as leader,
Boehner surprised many on Friday by embracing an immigration plan
that's tougher than lawmakers had expected. It would block President Barack
Obama's recent limits on deportations and undo protections for immigrants
brought to the United States
illegally as children. (If Boehner really moves a notch or two away from his
"moderate" positions, things could get very interesting in the near
future. --Del )
Excerpt: The first sentence in CNBC’s announcement
read: California broke ground Tuesday on its
$68 billion high-speed rail system, promising to combat global warming while
whisking travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less
than three hours. A far more accurate lede would have been: California
broke ground Tuesday on its publicly-unpopular, federally and state funded,
not-faster-than-the-existing rail system, hoping to combat global warming,
while carrying travelers between the thinly-populated cities of Bakersfield and Merced .
(Well, Progressives want it. High Speed Rail, like Global Warming and White
Privilege, is high on the liberal confession of faith. ~Bob)
Gun News
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when
one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Robert Heinlein
Worth Reading : America’s
Provocateurs Are at the Mercy of the Barbarians. The most
likely targets of Islamist wrath are in the cities with the most restrictive
gun laws. By Charles C. W.
Cooke
Excerpt: To the foreign or uninitiated visitor, it must
appear somewhat peculiar that the most prominent, recognizable, and provocative
public figures in all of these United States spend the majority of their time
in cities that are indifferent toward their security. Taken together, Washington , D.C. , New York City , and Los Angeles
host almost all of the more controversial media personalities in America ; and,
taken together, these cities have some of the worst self-defense laws in the
country. ... Last year, the FBI suggested not
only that media types are likely “targets” of Islamic extremism, but that the
nature of “lone wolf” attacks is such that “law enforcement [has] limited
opportunities to detect and disrupt plots, which frequently involve simple
plotting against targets of opportunity.”
Irony Alert: Anti-Cop Activist Pastor Trains With Maricopa County
http://www.westernjournalism.com/anti-cop-activist-pastor-trains-maricopa-county-sheriffs-office/#FwLDd1xzSZxHG1oJ.97
http://www.westernjournalism.com/anti-cop-activist-pastor-trains-maricopa-county-sheriffs-office/#FwLDd1xzSZxHG1oJ.97
Excerpt: A progressive pastor who has lead protests against
law enforcement said “his attitude has changed” Wednesday after a local law
enforcement agency invited him to a training scenario simulating life
threatening situations. ... He responded to a verbal disturbance between two
males for his next scenario. “What’s going on today gentlemen? What are you doing?”
he asked both men. One of the suspects rushed Maupin, causing him to discharge
his firearm at the suspect’s center mass. When KSAZ asked why he did that, he
replied, “Hey, he rushed me.” ("Shoots" unarmed man! Ha! ~Bob)
Human Reaction of Cop Forced to Kill Man in the Line of Duty is Something Every American Should See
Human Reaction of Cop Forced to Kill Man in the Line of Duty is Something Every American Should See
Excerpt: A Montana
police officer, Grant Morrison, shot and killed 38-year-old Richard Ramirez at
a traffic stop last
April. The incident took place in an area with a high crime rate. Now,
video of the shooting has emerged. During the stop, Ramirez, high on
methamphetamine, reached for his waistband. Morrison, believing Ramirez was
reaching for a gun, repeatedly told the man to put his hands in the air. When
Ramirez failed to comply, Morrison responded by shooting and killing him.
Excerpt: Fearing they may have bad intentions, she readied
her .45 handgun and exited the vehicle. Ainsworth had applied for and received
her concealed
carry permit two years ago. It’s a good thing she trusted her
instincts about the men, as they
suddenly began shooting at her, hitting her three times in her side
and once in her non-shooting hand. Apparently unfazed by the shots (perhaps
because of surge of adrenaline), Ainsworth drew her .45 and returned fire at
the thugs, sending them scrambling.
Shooter cleared in
Dayton Mall shooting
Excerpt: Jawaad Jabbar, 16, was shot and killed outside the
Dayton Mall on Dec. 20 during an attempted robbery. Police said Jabbar
displayed a loaded handgun and attempted to rob an adult male, a valid CC
permit holder, who pulled out his own handgun and shot Jabbar.
Excerpt: A homeowner in Hurst was shot while confronting a robbery
suspect on Thursday night, but was then able to return fire, killing one
suspect and wounding another man.
Interpol: allowing
citizens to carry guns in public is most effective way to prevent terror
attacks. By Nicolai Sennels
How long would the jihadis at Charlie Hebdo, Westgate, Mumbai – and
many other terror attacks to come – be able to continue killing if they
were surrounded by armed citizens? Interpol states that the only way to stop
such attacks is to allow citizens to carry arms (the only alternative to an
armed citizenry is “extraordinary security” surrounding every area where many
people meet – train stations, super markets, schools, etc. – which is of course
completely unrealistic). If guns are illegal, only violent criminals, fanatic
jihadis and our over-worked, understaffed police will have them. In case you
are unsure whether it is a good idea that citizens legally own
firearms: Switzerland
has very liberal
gun laws and one of the lowest percentages of homicide in the world.
Interesting statistics on guns, homicides and firearm related accidents in the US here. From abcNEWS:
Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the
democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last month’s deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi,
Kenya – and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians.
WA Gun Owners Stage
The Largest Felony Civil Disobedience Rally In America
Excerpt: At the end of the rally, gun owners
burned their concealed weapons permits and signed a petition vowing
to refuse to follow the new gun control law. The petition ended
with the text, “We pledge our blood. We will not comply.” This certainly isn’t
the first large scale act of civil disobedience by gun owners in defiance of
gun laws. (Isn't this interesting? We need more of this, a lot more, and
all over. --Del )
3 Idiotic Armed Thugs
Try Robbing the Last Place
Excerpt: A group of armed robbers enter a gun store.
No, this isn’t a joke, but it should be – because that’s probably the last
place a criminal should ever try to rob. According to The Kansas City
Star: “The co-owner of a Shawnee
gun store was fatally shot and three suspects were wounded during an attempted
robbery Friday afternoon. The gunfight broke out after four robbers entered
She’s A Pistol, at 57th Street …according
to Shawnee
police.”
Excerpt: A would-be armed robber who stuck up a Milwaukee barber shop on
Friday received more than a haircut when an armed patron pulled out his own gun
and fatally shot the criminal.
Race Card News
Not verified by me. ~Bob
The real racial bias:
Cops more willing to shoot whites than blacks, research finds: ‘Counter-bias’
rooted in concerns over social and legal consequences
Excerpt: An innovative study published in the Journal of
Experimental Criminology found that participants in realistic simulations felt
more threatened by black suspects yet took longer to pull the trigger on black
men than on white or Hispanic men.
Teenager pleads
guilty in beating death of WW2 veteran
Excerpt: A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in
the beating death of 88-year-old Delbert Belton, a World War II veteran who
survived the battle of Okinawa but was killed in a robbery outside a Washington state bar in
2013. Kenan Adams-Kinard pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for
two lesser charges being dropped. He faces a standard sentence to 20 to 27
years in prison when he is sentenced at a later date. (His victim is dead
forever. No justice here. ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
House passes 40-hour
workweek for Obamacare; just 12 Democrats back change. By tom Wolfgang
Excerpt: Congress took
its first swipes at Obamacare on Thursday with the House approving a bill to
cancel the law’s 30-hour workweek provision, though only a dozen Democrats
bucked President Obama on the vote. Republicans set the showdown as an initial
test of how many Democrats would be willing to defect against a lame-duck
president and after the GOP relentlessly attacked Obamacare in November’s
election campaigns, riding those attacks to big gains.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Obama’s Keystone amnesia: President ignores GOP pipeline
push. By Ben Wolfgang
Excerpt: While the president did tout massive increases in
domestic oil-and-gas drilling, he didn’t mention the Keystone pipeline, which
has dominated debate this week in Washington .
Mr. Obama has delayed a decision on the project for six years, and
lawmakers once again are trying to force his hand.
Court upholds Keystone pipeline route throughNebraska
Court upholds Keystone pipeline route through
Excerpt: Pressure to finally approve or reject the Keystone
XL oil pipeline is squarely on President Obama's shoulders after a
long-awaited court decision Friday upholding the project’s proposed route
through Nebraska .
Religion of Peace News
Two-State Solution
for France
This
is a comment made on the internet following the report of the murder of twelve
individuals in Paris Europe ? --Pat
T.
The Future of France
Source: Terror cells
activated in France
Excerpt: French law enforcement officers have been told to
erase their social media presence and to carry their weapons at all times
because terror sleeper cells have been activated over the last 24 hours in the
country, a French police source who attended a briefing Saturday told CNN
Terror Analyst Samuel Laurent.
Excerpt: The number of French turning out to support slain
staff members of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo — and, by association, protest against violence and support free
speech — could top one million on Saturday, Agence France-Presse reported.
Muslim employee saved
lives in attack on Paris
Excerpt: Quick thinking by a Muslim employee may have saved
the lives of 15 customers in the kosher supermarket in Paris during a deadly terrorist attack on
Friday, Buzzfeed reports.
When the Islamist gunman broke into the store, Lassana
Bathily, a 24-year-old Muslim from the African country of Mali , told customers to hide in the store's basement freezer.
Tweet: Baghdad ,
Abu Nuwas street Paris
Who Is To
Blame for the Paris Slaughter? Yes, the terrorists were the
principal culprits, but there is other guilt to be apportioned. By Andrew C.
McCarthy
Excerpt: If constitutional constraints and Western tradition
won’t abide laws that bar speaking against Islam, then we’ll just have to rely
on extortion. On that, Hillary Clinton and Anjem Choudary could not have been
clearer, or more in sync. Mr. Choudary argued the case as an
Islamic-supremacist imam from Britain — one who makes no bones about his desire
that sharia, Islam’s repressive legal code, be imposed throughout the West,
very much including America. Mrs. Clinton argued the case as America ’s secretary of state.
How Much Zionism is
Acceptable to the BDS-Lite Movement? By Alexander H. Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky
Excerpt: Among the most pernicious consequences of the
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement has been the wedge driven between
Israel
and liberal Americans, including liberal American Jews. The relentless
misappropriation of human rights and anti-racist discourse, the slanderous talk
of Israeli "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide," and the bitter,
ad hominem attacks against Israelis, their international supporters, and
the peace process itself have taken a severe toll on American civil discourse.
Excerpt: While we fight with police actions and holding
elections, Islamists are seizing control of governments by force or by
democratic elections. They are conquering African nations and staging civil
wars in pacific ones. They are importing millions of Muslims to Europe and America as Europe 's
'Palestinians' for a coming European Intifada. They are rewriting history to
claim that Arab explorers originally discovered America
and Australia
giving them claim to the land. They are aggressively evangelizing hundreds of
thousands a year to convert to Islam through misleading claims and marriages of
Western women to Muslim men. What we believe is a war, is merely a minor
skirmish in a global conquest. While we spend billions of dollars and thousands
of lives to stabilize a single Muslim country, dozens of non-Muslim countries
including our own are being destabilized day by day. (It's an interesting idea,
but to be honest, I doubt it will go anywhere. --Del )
More Muslim Mayhem –
One Man Killed another Beaten for “Insulting Islam”
Excerpt: At some point aren’t we all going to have to start
questioning this idea that Islam is “a religion of peace”? I mean, it seems
that each new day brings us more Muslim violence somewhere in the
world. On Wednesday it was Paris …
today, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
The Middle
East is full of ancient, mysterious religious sects. The Islamic
State is wiping them out. By Gerard Russell
Excerpt: I’ve spent the past four years writing a book about
the mystery religions of the Middle East — ancient versions of Judaism,
gnostic sects, breakaway movements within Islam that teach reincarnation and
the manifestation of God in human form. So I wanted to ask him more. But I
couldn’t. Yazidis like Mirza don’t know even the basic tenets of their
faith. These groups’ holy books are carefully hidden from lay people; the
priests who read them must promise never to reveal their contents.
Charlie Hebdo terror
mentor's wife on benefits in Leicester . Sylvie
Beghal, a French citizen, lives rent-free in a four-bedroom house in Leicester having arrived with her children in search of a
more 'Islamic environment'
The West is paying for its own demise. ~Bob
No Surprise: New York Times caught scrubbing details
about Paris
Excerpt: So many people rely on the New York Times are their
only source of news. I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. Die-hard
liberals will change tiny details about stories that are mostly factual to push
their narratives. Here is a before and after from a story about the terrorist
attack in Paris .
They scrubbed a report on the terrorist proselytizing during Charlie Hebdo
attack. (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
--Winston Churchill. Appeasers believe that if you keep throwing steaks to a
tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
Heywood Broun. The hottest places in Hell are reserved for
those who, in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. --Dante, The Inferno. ~Bob)
With the Paris
Excerpt: The colonization of Europe by tens of millions of Muslims
is on a scale unmatched in human history—except by the colonization of North America by Europeans. Most countries in Western Europe today face a large, angry, separatist
population in their midst committed to outfacing, outbreeding, and finally
outvoting their foolishly generous hosts.
The Real Lesson of Charlie Hebdo. By Roger Kimball
Excerpt: As the world endeavors to digest the savage
massacre of 12 innocent people in Paris
by French Muslims, it is worth stepping back to remember that the last week or
so has also seen the publication of two important manifestos by prominent
Muslims. Both manifestos, though in different ways, are remarkable for their
frank recognition of some salient facts about Islam, what a Marxist might call
“really existing Islam,” as distinct from those ideal constructions urged upon
us by the naïve but well-meaning. (Here is a really well done article on the
situation, quoting two very different spokesmen for Islam. The second guy is
the one who is the more important in a way, because while he only represents a
fraction of Muslims, that's the fraction that is the problem, and they will not
be listening at all to the first guy. The reformation of Islam is a wonderful,
fantastic idea, but chances of it happening run slim to none. Chances of that
fraction of young Muslims loving Mr. Choudary are a lock. So much as I would
hope for some other scenario, personally I think nothing less than a massive
effort across all of Europe to find and
somehow neutralize the core of radicals, maybe by expelling them back to Muslim
countries. --Del )
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In Paris ,
slain cop was Muslim. Hero of Kosher supermrkt was Muslim. Commanding officer
in final raid was Muslim. The perps were Muslim.
Child suicide bomber kills at least 16 in Nigeria
Excerpt: A bomb strapped to a girl aged around 10 years old
exploded in a busy market place in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 16
people and injuring more than 20, security sources said. "The explosive
devices were wrapped around her body and the girl looked no more than 10 years
old," a police source said.
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. - Thomas Paine
Excerpt: Rocked by anti-Semitic violence, most recently
when Islamists took hostages at a kosher grocery in Paris Friday,
the half-million Jews of France are leaving in droves, according to a British
journalist.
Sixteen killed by two
car bombs in Aleppo
Excerpt: At least sixteen people were killed Saturday when
two car bombs exploded in the northern outskirts of the Syrian province of Aleppo
This Cartoon
Summarizes Exactly how MSM Sees Islamic Terrorists
Excerpt: For now, it is difficult to think beyond the brutal
slaughter of journalists who would not bow to intimidation even though they
knew the risks their bravery would court. But the long-term consequences
of Wednesday’s events are likely to be just as disastrous. The attack
on Charlie Hebdo will further entrench the terms of a confused European debate
about Muslim immigrants—one in which both the “accusers” and the “defenders” of
Islam are painting in dangerously broad brushstrokes. While the European far
right points to Islamic terrorism to exclude and malign all Muslims, the
European left responds by refusing to recognize how fundamental a challenge
Islamic terrorism represents (or that it is inspired by Islam at all). (I
thought this presents a balanced, reasonable view of the situation. --Del )
A Traitor
In The White House? If The Shoe Fits ...
Exclusive: Pat Boone offers
'hypothetical' scenario of treason in nation's highest office
Excerpt: And, to leave no doubt whatsoever, while our nation
is slipping into all-out war against inhuman killers who behead innocent
people, this pretender in chief makes the personal decision to release known
murderers from a military prison and to send them back to the Mideast, all
expenses paid and with no penalty for their crimes, to supposedly “rehab” – and
then certainly reassume leadership positions with our murderous enemies. No
consultation with, or consent from, Congress. Just his own decision, knowing brave young Americans will face these beasts again in a
battle to the death.
Video shows terrorist
responsible for Paris
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/01/video_shows_terroris.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
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Excerpt: A new video has been posted online showing Amedy
Coulibaly, who killed a French policewoman and attacked a kosher market in
Paris last week, pledging allegiance to the Islamic State and its emir Abu Bakr
al Baghdadi. The video does not appear to have been produced by the Islamic
State, as it does not bear any of the group's usual markings. The video was
first obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group, which notes that it was released
by jihadists "linked" to the Islamic State. Coulibaly is identified
as "Abou Bassir AbdAllah al-Irfiqi" and as a "soldier of the
Caliphate" in the opening screen shots. (So, was this the third guy at the
Charlie killings? A guy the police were looking for surrendered but was
released as he had an alibi. ~Bob)
Hacktivist Group ‘Anonymous’ Confronts
Excerpt: The underground activist group “Anonymous” posted a video on multiple websites on Thursday as a direct
response to the Muslim terror attacks in Paris .
Calling it #OpCharlieHebdo, after the name of the satirical French magazine
that was the focus of the attacks, they also published a statement summarizing
the points made in the video as well:
‘No-Go Zones’ in France
Excerpt: The national motto of France is Liberté, Égalité,
Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood), yet non-Muslim French
citizens are forbidden from entering “no-go zones” throughout France, where
Sharia law rules and radicals recruit new followers openly.
As many new immigrants do, Muslim immigrants have formed
communities in France ,
but with one exception. Often, they aren’t integrating into French society at
all, according to an interview on Fox & Friends Weekend
Saturday with military veteran and journalist Nolan Peterson.
Hayat Boumeddiene:
The jihadist ‘bride’ who trained with al-Qaida
Excerpt: Police are still hunting the girlfriend of Amedy
Coulibaly after the gunman was killed during the violent end of the siege of a
Jewish grocery shop in Paris ,
in which he killed four hostages. The whereabouts of Hayat Boumeddiene are
unknown after police named her as an "armed and dangerous" suspect.
She was reported to be Coulibaly's accomplice during the shooting of a female
police officer on Thursday.
French leader
declares ‘war’ on radical Islam after attacks
Excerpt: Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared Saturday that France was at “war” with radical Islam
after three
days of bloody attacks around Paris
that sparked fears of a tide of violence by militants living in Europe .
Religious Extremism
and the Road to Civilization. By Steve Chapman
Excerpt: In the 21st century, it is a true shock to be
reminded that anyone could regard a cartoon as a legitimate cause to slaughter
human beings. All of us have been confronted with pronouncements and images we
find despicable or unspeakable. But we have overcome the childish impulse to
use violence to punish or silence the offender. We in Western societies almost
always defer to the wisdom of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,
who said the basis of the First Amendment is "not free thought for those
who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
The Real Islam: 'What do you expect if you insult
Islam?' British hate preacher BACKS the Paris
massacres and tells his followers 'Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2905075/Hate-preacher-backs-massacres-says-Britain-enemy-Islam.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2905075/Hate-preacher-backs-massacres-says-Britain-enemy-Islam.html
Excerpt: Cleric Mizanur Rahman, of Palmers Green, north London , defended the
brutal murder of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices, saying ‘insulting
Islam…they can’t expect a different result.’ Experts have warned the sermon,
which backed the jihadists who killed 17 people over three days in the French
capital, could incite further killings. (While they live on the dole. ~Bob)
CNN: “Muslims cannot get a break.” By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: You can be absolutely sure: whenever the mainstream
media raises the question of whether or not Islam is a Religion of Peace, it
will answer that it is, and claim that Muslims are victims of unjust suspicion.
But this CNN piece is particularly grotesque: after Muslims murder twelve
people for transgressing Islam’s blasphemy laws, and four more for being
Jewish, CNN gives us “Muslims cannot get a break.” Can Infidels get a break? Or
will there just be more and more jihad, and then more and more denial, half-truth
and obfuscation from the mainstream media?
Excerpt: Yet another young Coptic Christian girl, Sabrine
Mushir, has been kidnapped in Egypt ,
from the village
of Dalga
“If someone offends
the prophet then there is no problem, we can kill him.” By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: “Whoever curses a
Prophet, kill him. Whoever curses my Companions, beat him.” —Muhammad.
Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah
and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama, answered, “O
Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he
would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e.
to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama
duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Bukhari
5.59.369) “A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage
him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah
(peace_be_upon_him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.”
(Sunan Abu-Dawud 38.4349)
Obama's plan to defeat ISIS: Martin Dempsey: ISIS Will 'Collapse Under its Own Contradictions.'
Excerpt: While the United
States is committed to defeating the Islamic State (ISIS
or ISIL) and other terrorist groups, General Martin Dempsy, current chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said eventually ISIS
will collapse on its own.
'Muslims of the
Excerpt: A senior official of the Muslims of
the Americas/Jamaat ul-Fuqra (MOA), a terror-linked group, said during a
deposition that it has a “community” outside Anchorage , Alaska New
York , California and Michigan that have yet
to be publicly pinpointed.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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