One was filmed being decapitated
(she was in her underwear as they sawed her head off; they don't do it
in the old-time classic fashion with a heavy, long scimitar, sharp as a
razor):
An excerpt:
The bodies of Louisa Vesterager
Jespersen, 24, from Denmark and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were discovered
at their camp site on Monday near Imlal, a small village on a hiking route to
Mount Toubkal -- the highest peak in North Africa.
The women, who were studying outdoor
life, culture, and eco-philosophy at the University of South-Eastern Norway,
were on a month-long trip through North Africa.
From Measure for Measure:
"If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
And hug it in mine arms."
(Act III, Scene I, Line 82)
Islamic Death brought darkness to these two,
in classic Islamic fashion -- hugging them about the neck. (And I'm
seeing that photos of the girl being murdered keep getting sent to her
mother.)
A cynic -- which I am in many ways
-- would say they "won" the "Darwin Award". What young woman in her
right mind would "hike" in any Islamic country? Any of them?
Insane. (If they hadn't murdered them, they'd been raped and suffered to
endure "female circumcision". Or perhaps, such happened. We probably
won't find out.)
Meanwhile:
The details are just astounding -- and sickening. George Orwell's 1984
sort of stuff. Talk about propaganda and so on...I expect serious
Internet restrictions soon in many Western nations. The Net gets the
news out and around the mainstream media watchers.
Tolkien knew about such 'watchers', such 'gate-keepers':
An excerpt:
In yet another act of
anti-Conservative bias by Twitter, Breck Worsham, a popular Conservative woman
with nearly 83,000 Twitter followers has been permanently suspended by Twitter.
Worsham’s account was banned on
Christmas Eve after she posted tweets critical of pedophiles and Twitter’s
decision to allow for pro-pedophile accounts to still remain active while
deeming Conservative accounts to be “violations of terms of service”.
The author who was banned quoted the old saying "Kill them all
and let God sort them out" but of course the Twitter people have no clue
to where that came from, etc. (It was actually made up by a Medieval
historian; it was never actually said.)
Then there's this: http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/21/the-tucker-carlson-boycott-is-bad-for-everyone/
"The left really seems to want corporations to play speech police. That’s
the logical conclusion of the boycott campaign aimed at Tucker Carlson."
Free
speech for me, not for thee. The Powers-that-Be just have to control
the information flow. They had a plan in place but the Internet opened
up many new ways of getting information out. They're still fighting
that. Desperately.
The Big News in
the U.S. (which has massive international implications) is Trump's
pullout of Syria (and draw-down in Afghanistan) and Jim Mattis
resignation relating thereto, on the one hand, and the partial
government shut down over the border wall (actually a ridiculous fence),
as well as a court case in which the Supreme Court lets stand a lower
court injunction of Trump's trying to reform "asylum" for hose who cross
the borders illegally. Closely related to this is the Republicans in
the U.S. Senate have "shown their colors", globalist colors. See: https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/22/obstructionist-republicans-vs-trump/
An excerpt (great article! The author actually quotes Sun Tzu!:):
Thanks to the ongoing shutdown
theater, two things are now obvious.
First, Republican leadership in
Congress had no intention of even trying to fund Trump’s wall, much less
actually doing it, despite repeatedly promising to do so.
And second, Trump is being exactly
who he said he was, and doing exactly what he said he’d do, and all of greater
Washington is still shocked—shocked!—by it.
…
Establishment Washington has believed for years that it can
run on platform issues like repealing Obamacare, defunding Planned Parenthood,
and reforming the immigration system, but then provide dozens of excuses as to
why these objectives can’t be met.
First, Republicans said, they needed the House. Then the
Senate. Then the White House. But of course, once all of those were delivered,
it still wasn’t enough. Now they need 60 votes in the Senate or nothing can
happen! They believe that voters are, in fact, dumb enough to keep buying what
they’re selling.
(That's a great pun, BTW, the "bloom is off the ruse" -- chuckle.) An except:
Think
carefully about what Mitch McConnell is doing here. It’s not President
Trump’s job to write legislation. McConnell is desperately trying to
retain a UniParty ruse, by passing the buck to the White House.
McConnell doesn’t want the American people to see republican senators
supporting a bill against voter interests.
Wall
Street, corporate and special interest lobbyists own the legislative process.
Lobbyists actually write the laws. Lobbyists pay congress to sell laws
they write. Lobbyists funding both left and right wings of the UniParty do not
want border security. This is ultimately what McConnell is trying to hide.
Look
at what he’s doing. Senate Leader McConnell is telling the executive
branch (President Trump) if they want an appropriations bill, the President
must write the legislation with his democrat colleagues. Please –
Think About This.
An Préachán again: I read a very interesting comment in one of the blogs
somewhere that Trump could send in to the Senate his Vice-President, who
is, under the Constitution, supposed to be the leader of the
Senate. That's why Mitch McConnell is only "majority leader" of the
Senate: Mike Pence is actual president of the Senate; so Trump could
send in Pence and have him do the needful. Now, that would be SO cool!
Disraeli would rise from his grave to applaud that one! Cicero, too. And
it would so humiliate McConnell that he'd resign in disgrace.
So the domestic U.S. system is a mess. Trump and the MAGA Repubicans are opposed by the Uni-Party/Globalists. Nasty.
In the Mideast, Syria is a total mess, as is Libya and Afghanistan. Iraq is a borderline mess, essentially, as well.
- I want to point out that in the entire of the U.S. history, until the Globalist Bush family got into the White House, the only war any Republican administration got us in was the "glorious little war" of 1898, the Spanish-American War. All the others, starting with the "War of 1812" on down, until the Bushes,
were Democrat wars. Including the Civil War, which started when the
unruly Democrats started a war rather than accept the 1860 election (and
they'll start a war again to get rid of Trump too, if they can't get
rid of him some other way; they simply refuse to accept his election --
1860 has come again).
- Remember the old saying: “Democrats
want a small army, and they want to send it everywhere; Republicans
want a BIG army, and they don’t want to send it ANYWHERE.”
Trump on Syria:
An excerpt:
“Trump
Criticized For Breaking With Longstanding American Tradition Of Remaining In
Middle Eastern Countries Indefinitely,” joked the Babylon Bee upon the news President Donald Trump is
bringing troops home from Syria, but the joke wasn’t far from the truth at all.
The
news deeply angered the Washington foreign policy consensus, which argues that
troops should stay in the region indefinitely even though the stated mission of
defeating ISIS has been accomplished.
This is a Mollie Hemingway essay and quite good
reporting. Highly recommended. Lots of facts you might not have heard
of. It is amazing how the "neo-conservatives" get us into a war for one
reason, and before long, that reason morphs into others.
"Mission-creep." Take the time to read through Hemingway's article.
An excerpt:
Today Trump is behaving with the
shrewdness and self-awareness of a civilian commander-in-chief who knows, with
Clemenceau, that war is too important to be left to the generals. Trump
recognizes too, with another French leader, Charles de Gaulle, that the
cemeteries are full of indispensable men.
(General James) Mattis, it must not be denied, is a
patriot and a man of learning and intellectual discipline. But he’s not
infallible. Military and civilian leaders with comparable qualities have
disagreed and will disagree with him.
As the Trump Administration
implements the president’s promises to get troops out of Syria and Afghanistan,
the wisdom of one of the great Cold War scholar-generals should be a major
policy guide.
Army Lt. General William E. Odom
(1932-2008) was one of the bravest and most brilliant military intelligence
officers of his generation. An expert on the Soviet Union with a doctorate in
political science from Columbia, he was President Ronald Reagan’s director of
the National Security Agency, the electronic spying outfit. A thinking man as
well as a fighting man, he was one of the architects of what Margaret Thatcher
remembered as Reagan’s winning the Cold War “without firing a shot.”
Odom taught at Yale for two decades
following his retirement, and his warnings about U.S. military deployments in
the Middle East were wise and prophetic.
…
In August 2005, Odom wrote “What’s
Wrong with Cutting and Running?”—an article that made him persona non grata in
the George W. Bush administration.
“If I were a journalist,” Odom
began, “I would list all the arguments that you hear against
pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, the horrible things that people
say would happen, and then ask: Aren’t they happening already? Would a pullout
really make things worse? Maybe it would make things better.”
This is an interesting "Paleo-Conservative" piece of Gen'ral Mattis:
The
raw drive to insta-hate
everything Trump does is misleading otherwise thoughtful people. So let’s try a
new lens: during the campaign Trump outspokenly denounced
the waste of America’s wars. Pro-Trump sentiment in rural areas was driven
by people who agreed with his critique, by people who’d served in these wars,
whose sons and daughters had served, or, given the length of all this, both.
Since taking office, the president has pulled U.S. troops back from pointless
conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Congress may yet rise to do the same
for American involvement in Yemen. No new wars have been started. Though the
results are far from certain, for the first time in nearly 20 years, negotiations
are open again with North Korea. Mattis’s ending was clumsy, but it was a long
time coming. It is time for some old ideas to move on.
Ron again: And let us remember that old
Douglas MacArthur, before he died, told JFK not to get involved in a
land war in Asia. Jack might have listened. Lyndon Johnson was far too
stupid, unfortunately.
There are
those less tactful who point out Mattis had his faults, too, especially
that disaster, the F-35 and his "slow-walking" the removal of sex-change
people from the military: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/mattis_was_no_good.html
The "No Dood" title is a disaster but the essay is quite enlightening.
One has to remember something I've been seeing in a lot of comments,
that for an individual to reach high rank in the U.S. military, one has
to kowtow to the Democrats. Again, incredibly, this is also reflected in
the U.S. military in the pre-Civil War years. Robert E. Lee, a staff
officer in the Mexican War (a very Democrat war, btw) ended up
commandant of West Point whereas U.S. Grant, who performed heroically
under fire in that war, was forced out of the army. Jefferson Davis,
president of the traitorous Confederacy, had graduated from West Point,
served in the Mexican War, and been Secretary of the Army at one point, 1853 to 1857, just before the Civil War erupted!
Some things just never change.
His advice wasn't always correct:
Funny that the
liberal media did not mention that Mattis warned Trump of security concerns if
he moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as he promised.
Mattis was wrong
and Trump was right.
Wow.
How stupid are modern people? I remember it widely commented on at the
time that "mainstreaming" homosexuality in the Scouts would lead to
precisely this. It has! Absolutely, totally, completely. unmitigatedly
insane. Of course, apparently most of the abuse occurred before making
"Gay Okay" in the Scouts. So if they couldn't control this before, how
are they going to control it after?
It's as stupid as two European women "hiking" in Morocco, in fact.
This
New Year's, I just despair of "Modernism", in all its forms,
ecclesiastical, civil, moral, whatever. No doubt Modernism/Political
Correctness cost the lives lives of those two young women. They didn't
want to be 'judgmental'. It is flooding Europe with angry young Muslim
males of military age. It's wrecking the Catholic Church, too, of
course.
and
The "problem" of the Vatican II Church will be solved by law enforcement -- arresting its leaders and liquidating its assets.
Every
week on this blog, somebody in a comments thread writes about the mass falling
away from the Catholic faith that they’re seeing in their family or community.
At the very beginning of the scandal, my wife and I were in the Netherlands,
one of Europe’s most secular countries, and met a family at mass. They were the
only others there besides us who didn’t have grey heads. We introduced
ourselves, and found ourselves invited to dinner.
Turns
out the father of the family was one of 11 kids in his family — and the only
one left still practicing the Catholic faith in which they were raised. Can you
imagine that? The Catholic faith had been handed down through that family’s
line over many centuries, but in a single generation, it died (except for our
host and his wife and kids). Those siblings and their children still live, but
they are lost to the faith — and depending on God’s mercy, perhaps lost to
eternity.
In general, Modernism's understanding of Man and its reading of "the signs of the times" are incredibly defective. For example:
General Mattis, in his resignation letter, noted: " It
is clear that China and Russia, for example, want to shape a world
consistent with their authoritarian model gaining veto authority over
other nations’ economic, diplomatic, and security decisions to promote
their own interests at the expense of their neighbors, America and our
allies."
Well, yes, Gen'ral. That's
true. Every bit of it. They want a "world consistent with their
authoritarian model" and so has just about EVERY GOVERNMENT IN WORLD HISTORY. Dar Crom! Why should Russia and China be different? And we, here in the U.S. and Europe, also submit to the authoritarians among us,
whether the Globalists and "Neo-Conservatives" or the university campus
thought police. (The notorious "Gaystapo" is a force unto itself.)
Looking at the the social, political and cultural trends in "The West"
as 2019 dawns, one can easily say the indicators are clear: "liberal"
western-style governance is on the ropes and will probably succumb to
some sort of Authoritarianism. Authoritarianism certain already reigns
on U.S. university campuses, throughout the Arts, and in the Democrats,
so....
Gen'ral Mattis, you yourself are part of this Modernist matrix in flux.
It's
an old story. The Athenians wanted democracy for themselves but
wouldn't tolerate it in subject city states of their short-lived empire.
Same with the Spartans. Same with the Romans and hyper-true of Ancient
Persia and all the rest. China, for all the high IQ of the Chinese, has
never, ever in its fabulous 5,000-year history ever produced anything
remotely like Periclean Athens or Republican Rome, let alone the
Republic of Venice, Florence in its heyday, or for that matter,
Switzerland. If China does take over the world, it won't be fun.
and
Cyberspace
is considered the fifth strategic domain of warfare, along with land,
sea, air, and space. And the Chinese are on the verge of dominating this
domain. The Chinese government is heavily investing in 5G networks
and significant state subsidiesare part of the communist
regime’s comprehensive industrial blueprint to beat competition and cement
global dominance in the 5G race.
Declan
Ganley, an Irish telecommunications entrepreneur and founder of Rivada
Networks, likens China’s threat to Pearl Harbor. Seventy-seven years ago, the
Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the
United States into World War II.
“We’re
at one of those moments in history where you need to know what’s right in front
of you,” Ganley said.
Consider:
- Medieval
Italian city states, exiling Dante and endlessly fighting each other,
were freer than our "cultural elites" are today. Dante was light-years
freer than any modern poet or playwright who wants his works to see the
light of day. So was Aristophanes. Only, perhaps, Will Shagspeare (as he
spelled it) might sympathize with a modern playwright, as he had to
walk a tightrope when writing his plays in murderous Elizabethan
England.
- Mattis concluded that paragraph up above with, "That is why we must use all the tools of American power to provide for the common defense."
Whoa, Gen'ral, whoa!! Europe is about as rich as the U.S., or would be
if they adopted better economic and civil polices. Brazil could be one
of the major players in the world scene if they, too, adopted better
economic and civil policies, which under their new president, they might
-- and as for China, Japan and India between them have the potential to
stand up to China. And Russia. If they truly side with the Chinese,
they'll be signing their death warrant -- for it was from the East that
total obliteration came to the Rus in the form of the Mongol Hordes.
China could take Siberia tomorrow if they wanted to. Russia couldn't
stop them except with nukes.
- And today's China has to be
one of the most unstable social and cultural powerkegs in all of wold
history. Literally 100s of millions of young men without any hope
whatsoever of finding wives? Barking mad.
Saudi Arabia!
An excerpt:
Now let’s consider the brilliance of
this move.
First, remember Turkish President
Recep Erdogan was the antagonist in the Kashoggi matter and Erdogan
orchestrated the blame toward Saudi Crown Prince MbS. There is no
better motivated mid-east ally to protect the Kurds against any military action
by Turkey other than MbS. No doubt MbS and UAE will send their best
forces.
Secondly, what military equipment
will MbS and the UAE be shipping along with their military troops? Those would be military purchases directly from the U.S.
Third, who stood up against
international pressure and refused to condemn MbS over the Kashoggi
matter? That would be a strategic U.S. President Trump. MbS owes a
favor; see how that works?
Fourth, what leverage does U.S
President Trump have toward Turkey in order to further facilitate no hostile
action? That would be the economic leverage of current sanctions against
Iran; and the option of controlling/punishing any economic engagement therein.
So to summarize: President
Trump withdraws U.S. troops from Syria, and leverages his relationship with MbS
to step up to replace them, thereby eliminating any concern that Turkey might
take hostile action toward our Kurdish allies in Northern Syria.
Our troops come home; and a stable
transition is ensured by a regional ally.
How do you like them apples !
Interesting take on it, and I hope it works out.
Lovely Machiavellian maneuver-counter maneuver. Talleyrand and Richelieu
(and Bismarck and Disraeli and...) would be fascinated. From before the
murder of Kashoggi on to the latest development, all this really is a
complex play between Qatar and the Saudis, their fellow Salafis. N.B.
Only Bahrain is a majority Shia country on the Arab side of the
Persian Gulf -- it used to be a center of Nestorian Christianity, and in
general, where you find Shia, they were originally Nestorians. 70
percent are Shia in Bahrain but the ruling family and most of the elites
are Sunni. However, Shia even exist (20 percent) in Saudi Arabia in
different areas, mostly in the eastern oil provinces but in interesting
pockets in the Hijaz down to Yemen, and the whole story is quite
fascinating for a historian -- but of course I shamelessly digress here.
- Anyway,
no Mideast policy will have much success until Erdogan is overthrown
(and thrown out of) Turkey, or Turkey is thrown out of NATO, A, and B, the Twelver Shia (Ithnā'ashariyyah) cult regime in Iran is overthrown, and let's not forget C: an independent Kurdistan. "The Three Necessaries." Simple as that.
The Unhappy Fate of Islam
As
for Islam in the longer term, sooner or later, they'll be nuked. I've
said that for years. (For years I've said Bergoglio will be declared an
anti-pope, too; it'll happen probably after he dies and a pope of a Trad
Church in schism with the Progressive Church will so declare it -- the
Prog Church will be to busy at their gay orgies to notice). But sooner
or later, some power with nukes will do the deed regarding Islam. I
expect China. The Middle Kingdom doesn't suffer fools gladly and they've
never been Christian and persecute Christians shamelessly today. The
"Chi-com" regime is pitiless. Ming the Merciless in a highly tailored
three-piece ensemble. But it will happen. Islam is just too dangerous
for the world. Authoritarian regimes envy and fear it and will
eventually crush it.
- There's an old
saying that "You can't kill an idea" but you can; as the counter-saying
puts it: "You can kill an idea if you kill everyone who holds it."
Whatever.
Gen'ral
Mattis, Nine out of ten Americans -- average, everyday folks -- don't
give a damn about the rest of the world and Trump's disengagement (to
the extent he does that) will NOT cost him any votes. Building the wall
will not cost him any either. And how in the name of God can we "defend
freedom" in Afghanistan when we can't even defend our own borders? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/us/politics/supreme-court-asylum-trump.html
Notice how John Roberts voted with the Leftists. That was widely
foreseen in the blogs, that Roberts would become the "swing vote".
Something else we can thank a Bush president for. (BTW, I saw a headline
that former Democrat Big Cheese Howard Dean says now that the U.S. has
to stay in Afghanistan in order to "spread feminism." I'm not making
that up!)
So, this is a small take the world. New Year's, 2019.
An Préachán
