The Islamic State’s hacking division released a list of names of people around the world including the U.S. and India and called for their immediate deaths.
An Islamic State affiliated group called the Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) released the names, addresses and email addresses of some 4,000 people from around the world on social media in a “kill list” according the International Business Times.
Those marked for death come from countries including the USA, UK, France, Canada and India. Almost half are reportedly from the USA.
The hackers released the list on the encrypted messaging service Telegram, with the directive “O wolves of the Islamic State, [this is a] very important list, kill them immediately.”
The list appears to be random and seems to have been taken from a business networking platform, according to Vocativ.
Previous kill lists released by the Islamic State, such as that of Western Muslim leaders some of whom are aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, have not yet led to killings.
EDITORS NOTE: According to the International Business Times, “The list contains personal information, including names, email and actual addresses of around 8,138 people. Most of the addresses listed are believed to belong to people who reside in the US, Canada and Australia, 7, 848 of whom were found to be US residents. Of those, 1,445 were found to reside in California, 643 in Florida, 341 in Washington, 333 in Texas, 333 in Illinois and 290 in New York.”
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This reminds me of Left-fascist Nick Lowles’ Hope Not Hate petition to ban me from the UK, which gained an extraordinary number of signatures in a very short time, no doubt including many more people than had ever actually heard of my existence — and was never examined by parliamentary authorities. Clearly the European political and media elites are scrambling to maintain their hegemony amid increasing popular discontent with, among other things, their suicidal Muslim immigration policies. Even if they force what is already a shattered dhimmi Britain to remain in the EU, their hegemony is inexorably crumbling.
“Second referendum petition: At least 77,000 ‘fake’ signatures removed hours after inquiry launched,” by Luke Heighton, Telegraph, June 26, 2016 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
Parliamentary authorities have moved swiftly to remove around 77,000 allegedly fake signatures from an online petition which calls for a re-run of the Brexit referendum.
It follows a formal inquiry launched less than three hours earlier, amid claims some of the more than three million signatures it has gained since Friday may be fraudulent.
A statement posted on the House of Commons’ petitions committee Twitter account on Sunday afternoon said: “We are investigating allegations of fraudulent use of the petitions site. Signatures found to be fraudulent will be removed”.
It came as the ‘EU Referendum Rules triggering a 2nd EU Referendum’ petition posted on the UK Government and Parliament Petitions website showed a suspicious number of signatures attributed to places outside the UK – in some cases more than their total population.
Some 39,411 residents of Vatican City, home to Pope Francis, appeared to have signed the petition by Sunday morning, despite the tiny city state having a total population of just 800.
In isolationist North Korea, one of the least internet-connected countries in the world, 23,778 people had apparently gone online to express their frustration at the UK’s decision to quit the EU.
Located 800 miles south east of the Falklands, and with a permanent population of zero, the South Atlantic British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands was responsible for more than 3,000 signatures
That was some 300 more than those coming from the British Antarctic Territory, which though home to some 400 researchers also has no settled population of its own.
Signatories are also recorded in places as far flung as the Caribbean island of Aruba (101), Bermuda (564), China (432), Hong Kong (2,089), Japan (742) Venezuela (24) and the South Pacific Islands of Tuvalu (18), Wallis and Fortuna (8) and Vanuatu (31).
Overall, close to 2.5 million signatures had been added from within the UK by midday on Sunday, making up an overwhelming proportion of the whole….
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“The Obama-appointed U.S. attorney for Idaho has taken the highly unusual step of intervening in a local criminal case involving an alleged sexual assault by juvenile Muslim migrants and threatened the community and media with federal prosecution if they ‘spread false information or inflammatory statements about the perpetrators.’”
In what other sex assault case has the prosecutor shown such solicitude for the perpetrators? This is clear evidence that a coverup is in full swing, and that Idaho and federal authorities are deeply embarrassed about this case for what it reveals about their suicidal policies regarding Muslim migrants.
Wendy J. Olson
“Explosive new twist in Idaho sex assault case,” by Leo Hohmann, WND, June 25, 2016:
The Obama-appointed U.S. attorney for Idaho has taken the highly unusual step of intervening in a local criminal case involving an alleged sexual assault by juvenile Muslim migrants and threatened the community and media with federal prosecution if they “spread false information or inflammatory statements about the perpetrators.”
WND and other news outlets have reported on the case involving three juvenile boys, two from Sudan and one from Iraq, who allegedly sexually assaulted a 5-year-old special-needs girl in the laundry room of the Fawnbrook Apartments in Twin Falls, Idaho.
The incident occurred on June 2, but did not come to light until more than two weeks later when stories began to swirl on social media.
The two older boys from Sudan were arrested on June 17 and released from juvenile detention less than a week later on June 23 pending further court proceedings.
Read WND’s previous stories on the Idaho case here and here.
The following is a news release issued late Friday from the office of United States Attorney Wendy J. Olson.
“BOISE – The United States Attorney’s Office extends its support to the five-year-old victim of assault, and her family, at the Fawnbrook Apartments in Twin Falls.
“The United States Attorney’s Office further encourages community members in Twin Falls and throughout Idaho to remain calm and supportive, to pay close attention to the facts that have been released by law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney, and to avoid spreading false rumors and inaccuracies.
“Grant Loebs is an experienced prosecutor, and Chief Craig Kingsbury is an experienced law enforcement officer. They are moving fairly and thoughtfully in this case,” said Wendy J. Olson, U.S. Attorney for Idaho. “As Mr. Loebs and Chief Kingsbury informed the public, the subjects in this case are juveniles, ages 14, 10 and 7. The criminal justice system, whether at the state or federal level, requires that juveniles be afforded a specific process with significant restrictions on the information that can be released. The fact that the subjects are juveniles in no way lessens the harm to or impact on the victim and her family.”
Olson continued, saying:
“The spread of false information or inflammatory or threatening statements about the perpetrators or the crime itself reduces public safety and may violate federal law. We have seen time and again that the spread of falsehoods about refugees divides our communities. I urge all citizens and residents to allow Mr. Loebs and Chief Kingsbury and their teams to do their jobs.”
As one of 93 U.S. attorneys, Olson represents the federal government in all civil and criminal cases within her state.
Olson was appointed to her post in 2010 by President Obama and has a history of taking strong stands against “anti-Muslim bias.”
Ann Corcoran, the author of the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog and the book “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America,” said Olson’s statement is reminiscent of Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s warning the day after the San Bernardino jihad massacre in which Lynch said she would take “aggressive action” to prosecute “anti-Muslim” rhetoric that “edges toward violence.” Lynch was forced to walk back those comments after outrage from free speech advocates.
“This is threatening free speech,” Corcoran said of Olson’s statement. “It’s the federal government trying to intimidate into silence those citizens who don’t have resources or connections. This must mean we have hit a nerve with this administration.”
WND was the first to report a set of facts about the Twin Falls assault based on the eyewitness account of an 89-year-old grandmother who saw “something funny” going on at the laundry room entrance. It was there, on the afternoon of June 2, that Jolene Payne said she saw a 14-year-old boy filming something through a crack in the laundry room door. She flung open the door and was shocked at what she found. She said she saw two younger boys, ages 10 and 7, both naked, along with the little girl, who the boys had also allegedly stripped of her clothing.
The girl was covered in urine, Payne told WND.
The rest of the details are foggy due to the case being sealed, which is standard in juvenile cases.
A number of bloggers and at least one conservative news website reported erroneously that the girl had been “gang-raped” at “knifepoint” by “Syrian refugees.”
WND’s report clarified exactly what happened, however, and was circulated widely on social media.
Olson has often been at odds with conservative voices in the Idaho community.
She issued a statement on ‘building resilient communities” on July 10, 2015, after meeting with law enforcement, the ACLU and other groups to discuss “anti-refugee” and “anti-Muslim” sentiments in Idaho and across the country that she deemed were “seeking to divide communities.”
Adopting Obama’s ‘violent extremism’ rhetoric
Olson used the language of the United Nations-sanctioned “Strong Cities Network” or SCN, which was announced by Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the U.N. last fall, when she called for building “resilient communities” in the fight against “violent extremism.”
Lynch announced the SCN at the U.N. on Sept. 30, 2015, a program that attempts to globalize law enforcement agencies, connecting U.S. agencies with those overseas to combat violent extremism in all its forms. By eliminating the focus on Islamic terrorism, however, many conservatives viewed the SCN initiative as an attempt to single out and silence conservatives under the guise of branding them “right wing extremists.”
On July 8, 2015, just over two months before Lynch’s U.N. announcement, Olson said her staff met with representatives from the refugee community, refugee support agencies, the Idaho Muslim community, Boise Police Department, FBI, the Intermountain Fair Housing Council, the ACLU and Stand Up America to discuss community responses to recent incidents in Idaho and across the country.
“We are at a critical time in our nation and in our own community – from the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, to anti-refugee and anti-Muslim sentiments expressed by groups and individuals in Idaho, to defiance in parts of some states to the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges,” said Olson in a statement last summer. “There are many currents that seek to divide communities. Instead, we have to come together. We need to stand up and form strategies against those who espouse extremist ideologies and recruit others to engage in violent acts in our communities on their behalf. We want to mentor our young people, educate parents, identify solutions, and form closer relationships between refugees and Idahoans who have been here for generations.”
Protecting Muslims against ‘bias’
Olson said that an immediate objective of the July 8 meeting was to reassure members of the refugee and Muslim communities that with the federal terrorism trial in United States v. Kurbanov scheduled to begin July 13, “law enforcement officers will be vigilant to protecting them against bias crimes.”
Olson called this meeting and issued her statement ahead of the trial that ended up convicting Fazliddin Kurbanov, a Muslim refugee from Uzbekistan, of conspiring to blow up U.S. military installations with homemade bombs being made in his Boise apartment. An Idaho jury convicted Kurbanov on terror charges in August last year following a 20-day trial and two days of deliberation.
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“Everything is under control,” assured Anita Gray, director of the local office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), about the infamous, anti-Semitic assistant professor Joy Karega. “Oberlin’s president is coordinating efforts with us.” Assuming there was nothing more to be done at this point, I asked about their involvement in the immigration process from the Middle East, about hijra, invasion by migration. “There are a few, but not many,” she replied. When I asked for specifics, she answered, “No, but you can check the ADL website.”
I did so that evening, and emailed Gray the next day about the anti-Semitic comments on the site. I asked who replies to them or if they’re just left on the site. She wrote, “You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” OK. I recalled having learned that bit of wisdom as a child, but she used it to evade my question.
Moving on, I mentioned that HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) was lobbying Washington for more funds to bring in more immigrants, and asked of the ADL’s role and the number of migrants expected. “A very small number,” she answered. Was that Muslims from Syria or Christians and Jews from Europe’s terrorism? She said, “The entire refugee process takes two to three years, unlike Europe, where they show up on their shores and cause issues.” Again, this did not answer my question.
I had read that the ADL was created in 1913 to “monitor and combat global anti-Semitism and promote security and well being of Jewish communities around the world,” yet now their interests have changed to “rescuing” those whose Koranic mission was to kill Jews and Christians if they didn’t submit to Allah; to aid and abet those who are beheading and raping en masse; and to work against our Constitution whose purpose it is to protect Americans against invasion. She replied, “I’m sorry you feel that way.” If Gray were the least bit humorous, she could rival the late Henny Youngman, a Borsht Belt comedian who had been dubbed king of the one-liners.
How else could I feel when we are confronted with annihilation in every generation? Why are HIAS, Catholic Charities, World Churches, ADL and other multiculturalists saving the predators instead of the prey? Why are we following in the footsteps of Sweden, Germany, France and Belgium? Why did the Jewish Federation of Cleveland contact its entire mailing list, requesting donations to help the Syrian refugees, using a flyer enhanced with a photograph of a blonde, curly-haired toddler, complete with Teddy bear? In all the photographs and YouTube films of young Syrian men who are ravaging Europe, killing Europeans and Americans, throwing pipe bombs, burning flags and tires, and raping young girls and women, not once did I see a migrant who resembled this little boy with his iconic cuddle toy.
At Gray’s suggestion, I called the Jewish Federation and asked the young woman about the number of Muslim immigrants resettled in Ohio, she said she took offense at my inquiry! “Okay,” I said, “How about the number of Christians and Jews and then a grand total?” She emphatically informed me of two members of her family who had married nice, successful Muslim businessmen. I explained that I was interested in the ones who are sent here by the UN, unvetted and prepared to behead us and establish a caliphate. She suggested I contact Global Cleveland, which does not return calls.
The truth is that the Left designates “receiving communities” according to race and affluence and brings in an Islamic “seedling” community that will not assimilate. These UN-selected “new Americans” must be accepted and sustained by the designated neighborhood with housing, clothing, extensive healthcare, schooling (complete with translators), credit cards, no-interest loans, and food stamps.
Ted Kennedy was the first to change the immigration policy, increase our population with foreigners who replaced hundreds of thousands of Americans in the labor force with those who would vote Democrat. The refugee resettlement agenda was designed during the 1980s and Obama’s Muslim Refugee Resettlement Program is the current UN’s agenda to balkanize and terrorize the West, to redistribute the population, abolish private property of Western civilizations only, overwhelm our society and laws, defeat our exceptionalism, take the jobs from the Americans and put them on welfare, dilute our country and severely damage our United States. As an aside: We settled 4,971 Syrians since January, 2012, and accepted 20 million through a waiver abuse program. Accepting one million refugees per year costs us $118 billion annually, and resettlement costs us $3 billion annually, 12 times the cost of helping them in their own country.
Within a couple of weeks and with no comments, Anita Gray emailed me an impressive speech made by the ADL’s new CEO and national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, during his March, 2016 visit to Jerusalem, wherein he spoke of mainstream bigotry and intolerance affecting Jews. She did not send a copy of his April, 2016 speech made at J Street, the Soros-backed, anti-Israel organization that masquerades as an authentic pro-Israel group, but whose every effort undercuts and betrays Israel. Just as J Street betrayed Israel by accusing her of disproportionate warfare when defending herself against Turkey’s Mavi Marmara flotilla raid (May 2010), advanced border lines that would seriously imperil Israel, and persists in challenging Israel’s strong democracy with accusations of apartheid, so Greenblatt spoke similarly.
He said he wants to see Israel as a Jewish nation that supports religious pluralism, a blatant denunciation when Israel is already a democratic country under whose laws all citizens of all religions are protected equally. He wants to see Israel live in peace and security with her neighbors, never admitting that all the wars were begun by those neighbors. He acknowledged criticizing Israel but does not criticize Hamas, a designated terrorist organization committed to jihad, and refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist. He spoke of shortcomings of the Jewish establishment only, while also condemning Islamophobia and “marginalized Palestinians.” The Palestinians who claim marginalization are not citizens of Israel and have refused citizenship. Above all, he wished for a P Street along with a J Street, while never specifying that the Palestinians have refused peace agreements and want only Israel.
The ADL, supported by naïve Jewish donors, also works to lobby against laws that would obstruct the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS), claiming it suppresses academic freedom and inhibits Islamic speech. BDS endangers Israel and defends Islamists from criticism. The ADL sided with our State Department in prohibiting Geert Wilders, a true hero of democracy and Israel, from entering the US, citing criticism of Islamic doctrines “hate speech.” Greenblatt, once a special assistant to President Obama, subtly approved of borders with Palestinians that put Israel’s security at risk, and continues to place the responsibility of a peaceful solution on Israel, rather than convey Israel’s persistent offers for direct negotiations and the Arabs’ constant rejection. Greenblatt has failed to stress Jewish legitimacy, her historic connections to Israel and Jerusalem and her democracy. By involving and accepting the organizations of J Street, Americans for Peace Now, and Jewish Voice for Peace, he joins forces with the covert enemy of Israel and invites further pressure from Soros and Obama.
The ADL has always been a sham. During World War II, a small group of Zionist activists from Europe and Palestine, led by Peter Bergson (an alias for Rabbi Hillel Kook), formed a Jewish army of stateless and Palestinian Jews to fight alongside the Allies against the Nazis, and eventually became the Jewish Brigade, a military unit that was part of the British Army. The Bergson Group’s Emergency Committee, joined by writer Ben Hecht, cultural celebrities, members of Congress, African-American leaders and others, persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish the War Refugee Board to save escaping Jews from extermination – and did save perhaps as many as 200,000 European Jews, with the help of such as Raoul Wallenberg. The ADL, however, along with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and other reform/progressive Jewish leaders in October, 1943, demonized Bergson, opposed lifting the US quotas, made light of the Nazi carnage and thwarted what might have been a larger rescue success.
In early 2015, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited to address Congress about the serious, imminent danger posed by Iran and its nuclear weapons capabilities to Israel and the world, the ADL and Reform Rabbi Richard Jacobs pressured him to cancel his speech!
It is not possible to explain the motives of the Anti-Defamation League, but surely they may be judged by their past actions, current connections and conduct. We must listen carefully to what they say. But be aware that that they support the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions activities against Israel, and are eager to resettle in America those who want Sharia law to replace our Constitution.
It seemed that Bill Gates’ Common Core push had cooled. As of June 01, 2016, I had seen no grants specific to Common Core listed on Gates’ “awarded grants” website. However, as of June 26, 2016, it seems that the first two Common Core grants for 2016 have indeed appeared on Gates’ site.
The combined amount for the two grants is $6.4 million.
Both are associated with California.
The first is to San Francisco-based WestEd. The Gates goal is to get teachers to buy into Common Core via WestEd’s “establishing local relationships”:
Date: May 2016 Purpose: to support and scale Common Core State Standards implementation and leverage established local relationships and teacher leaders to drive deeper use of high quality, standards-aligned tools and practices Amount: $4,350,875
The second is to Cal State Fullerton for a one-day, statewide teacher pep rally that is supposed to ignite Common Core buy-in:
Date: May 2016 Purpose: to convene large numbers of teachers on a single day in regions across the state of California to generate momentum around the singular impact of teachers on college and career readiness and directly impact teacher networking and collective practice, exposure to materials, resources and strategies for Common Core implementation Amount: $2,000,000
So, it appears that Bill is still hanging in with his Common Core love– at least in California.
Meanwhile, his wife Melinda was in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 24th, 2016, and she apparently worked hard not discussing Gates Foundation involvement in education, which, of course, includes not discussing the Gates role in Common Core.
As for those two May 2016 Common Core grants: It does not seem that Bill Gates and his foundation have learned any lesson about effecting change. They want a grass roots, Common Core buy-in– so they are still trying to purchase it.
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Yesterday, Governor Ige announced that he signed two anti-gun bills, Senate Bill 2954 and House Bill 625, into law. Both bills took effect immediately upon his approval. Apparently the Governor thinks that law-abiding Hawaiians should be entered into a federal criminal database for continuous monitoring because that is exactly what SB 2954 will do. Under SB 2954, the existing registration requirement will be expanded and law-abiding Hawaii gun owners, and visitors, will be entered into the federal “Rap Back” system, which is a biometric database managed by the FBI for continuous monitoring.
The exercise of an individual’s Second Amendment rights is not inherently suspicious and should not require a person to surrender other civil liberties, including unwarranted invasions of privacy or unequal treatment under the law. The lawful acquisition, possession, carrying, or use of a firearm does not justify subjecting citizens to ongoing monitoring.
Governor Ige also signed HB 625, which expands prohibited possessors to include certain misdemeanor crimes. Constitutional rights are generally restricted only upon conviction of a felony. The reasons for this are two-fold. It limits restrictions on constitutional rights to only the most serious offenses, and, perhaps more importantly, felony convictions provide greater procedural protections to the accused, which results in more reliable convictions. The right to keep and bear arms should not be treated as a second-class right and should be restricted only upon conviction of a felony.
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I had to laugh out loud as I thought about Trump looking extremely presidential as he walked across the greens at his Turnberry golf course the day following BREXIT. His timing for being in the United Kingdom the day after the vote is, no doubt, impeccable.
When Trump was questioned about Brexit, he said,
“I really do see a parallel to what is happening in the United States and what is happening here. People want to see borders. They don’t necessarily want people pouring into their country that they don’t know who they are or where they come from.”
And when asked about how his administration would approach the Brexit vote, he replied,
“You just have to embrace it. It is the will of the people. It’s not a question of approaching it. It’s the will of the people. Its always the will of the people. Ultimately that wins out.”
That probably explains why many Americans are pumped up about England reclaiming their sovereignty and independence from the EU, because the majority of Brits spoke, and we are ready to follow suit.
Apparently Trump takes his businesses seriously, especially since the profits from those companies have fueled his campaign, unlike crooked Hillary. She tends to rely on questionable means to fund her political war chest, such as foreign affiliated donations.
Now the media is sure to give you your daily dose of negatively slanted stories about Trump’s business, politics and his generalized tactlessness, but they will continue to miss the mark when trying to predict how his actions will affect his ratings.
A perfect case in point is the media propaganda machine declaring the timing of this trip to Scotland to be a horrible decision of epic proportions. These are the media elite who didn’t see the outcome of Brexit and were stunned.
MSN, ABC, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, and the like were all pooh-poohing Trump’s ill-timed trip to promote his golf company and how that was the wrong thing to do. According to MSN article titled, Trump’s Scottish Trip a bigger mistake than he realizes,
“This may sound like some sort of joke, but it’s quite real. This isn’t a situation in which an American presidential hopeful has scheduled meetings with foreign officials, and he’s checking in on his business interests while he’s there; it’s largely the opposite. Trump’s Scottish sojourn appears to have practically nothing to do with the office he’s seeking.
The Times report added that Trump’s business interests “still drive his behavior, and his schedule. He has planned two days in Scotland, with no meetings with government or political leaders scheduled.” The Republican’s itinerary “reads like a public relations junket crossed with a golf vacation,” complete with “a ceremonial ribbon cutting.”
But I guess Trump can actually text and walk at the same time. He is taking care of business, not just his personal business, but the business of building up international relations with one of our closest allies.
England, our ally that Obama kicked around and belittled from the moment he walked into the office seven long years ago. From the returning of the Winston Churchill bust, to the public spanking he gave the British people as they even considered independence from the haughty EU.
I’m sure Obama and Hillary fit into the stunned camp as well as many other left leaning folks, and they probably are still brooding over the vote. Many on the right could identify with that sick feeling like the morning after Obama won his second election.
Well, it’s nice to have the shoe on the other foot for a change. There is a worldwide movement occurring within countries to reclaim their identity and culture, and England is the first to separate themselves from the multi-cultural pack.
Many feel, as England does, that their nationality is disappearing due to the atmosphere that has been forced upon western civilization through mass immigration and acceptance of refugees from warring Islamic countries.
So instead of all the bad things the liberal media predicted about Trump’s trip, he comes out smelling like a rose, getting more airtime and positive publicity than Hillary could get by spending a large fraction of her campaign funds.
I don’t know about you, but a day like this has been long in the waiting and I just want to savor the victory not only for my British friends who now have a chance to get their country back, but even more the real prospect of America breaking free from this tyrannical administration. It’s our turn…November 2016.
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Progressives talk a lot about the evil of hate. We are told that if we object to Sharia law and jihad, then we are intolerant haters. But what about hating what harms people?
I hate wife-beating, yet the Sharia, Koran and Sunna support it.
I am intolerant of child abuse, including child marriage, but the Sunna and Sharia support it.
I hate the jihadist killings of Christians, Jews, Buddhists and apostates.
I am intolerant of religious leaders, such as the Pope and Dai Lama, who will not condemn the jihadic killing of their groups.
I hate dualistic ethics, which lack integrity.
I am intolerant of face coverings, since it cuts off open communication.
As a society, we have lost the ability to become morally outraged and are incapable of anger about the Islamic harm of innocents. I hate that.
Ненависть может быть добродетелью
Прогрессивные много говорят по поводу зла ненависти. Нам говорят, что если мы возражаем против шариата и джихада, то мы проявляем нетерпимость и ненависть. Однако, что насчет ненависти, которая вредит людям?
Я ненавижу избиение женщин, а шариат, Коран и Сунна его поддерживают.
Я нетерпим к надругательству над детьми, включая детские браки, но Сунна и шариат поддерживают их.
Я ненавижу убийства джихадистами христиан, иудеев, буддистов и вероотступников.
Я нетерпим к религиозным лидерам, таким, как Папа и Далай-лама, которые не осуждают джихадистские убийства своих групп.
Я ненавижу дуалистическую этику, в которой отсутствует целостность.
Я нетерпимо отношусь к закрытию лица, поскольку это исключает открытое общение.
Как общество, мы потеряли способность морального возмущения и неспособны проявить гнев по поводу исламского вреда невинным людям. Я ненавижу это.
EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of the four cardinal virtues: prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice.
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One way to attack Western civilization is to change the learning environment from a quiet, contemplative one to a busy, communal one.
Recently I was horrified to find the latest missive from the U.S. Department of Education in my email inbox. It was the Teachers Edition newsletter, which is usually full of teaching tips, like getting kids interested in “The Old Man and the Sea” by having them reenact a crucifixion during Holy Week.
On April 23, 2016, there was no mention of Shakespeare or Ernest Hemingway. The top item was related to Earth Day: new U.S. Education Secretary John King announced Green Ribbon Schools Districts Sustainability Awards and a blog post by a Minnesota elementary school teacher discussed how teachers integrate “an active, outdoor learning component into existing lessons.”
But what really caught my eye was a photo of children lined up on stationary bikes, reading and pedaling away. It accompanied the article “In This Kinesthetic Classroom, Everyone’s Moving All Day.” It was about the “Active Brains” program at the Charles Pinckney Elementary School in Charleston, South Carolina, where “action-based learning” takes place in a classroom equipped with 15 stations featuring such things as mini basketball and stationary bikes, with each focused on different “academic tasks.”
A linked Washington Post article described another classroom, where 28 fifth-graders “sit at specially outfitted kinesthetic desks” or stand at them swaying, or pedal bikes, or march on climbers, while teacher Stacey Shoecraft delivers instruction from a strider at the front of the room. Shoecraft was keynote speaker at the “Kidsfit’s National Charleston Training” and has written a book, “Teaching Through Movement,” on the cover of which a grinning boy jumps into the air and a smiling girl sits on an exercise ball—like one I used when doing physical therapy for my back.
As if all this activity weren’t enough, an article headlined “Libraries Transforming from Quiet Places to Active Spaces” described the American Library Association’s new campaign to transform libraries from “quiet places of research” into “centers of community.” Instagram photos illustrated the concept with “collaborative work spaces, MakerSpaces, [and] bright displays.” The same day the Washington Post had set ten poems to animation in honor of National Poetry Month.
So When Do We Read Books?
As someone who found refuge in the quiet of the library and the order of the classroom as a child, I am disturbed by all this activity. As someone who taught college English for 20 years and saw students’ attention spans decline, I am saddened. My last year of teaching was in 2013, and by then only a couple students would raise their hands when I asked how many had had the experience of getting “lost in a book.” Only a couple had the patience to read carefully the assigned material by Frederick Douglass and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
I’d been observing the transition in teaching styles away from what I knew in the 1960s, when we sat up straight with both feet planted on the floor at desks in rows. Increasingly, news reports show classrooms with kids sprawled on the carpet, reading or writing, or gathered around tables putting objects together, or gabbling like pip-squeak ambassadors about global politics.
Such active learning has been popularized by teacher-celebrities, like Ron Clark, founder of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. At their annual meeting in 2009, I saw social studies teachers applaud him as he jumped onto a chair to describe how his school encouraged “fun!” with a bungee jump and slides instead of staircases (which teachers also use). We were then treated to a demonstration of students’ understanding of civics—through the performance of a rap song about the election.
At the community college where I was then teaching, the annual “faculty development” day featured a session where a popular biology professor rolled her shoulders and stepped side to side to demonstrate how she used dance moves to motivate students. I knew my efforts to adapt this method to discussions about poetic meter or punctuation would get nothing but laughter. It’s not what I signed up for when I earned my PhD and envisioned myself in the female version of the tweed jacket leading thoughtful discussions about John Donne.
At the Core of All This, an Insult to Children
Behind all this emphasis on movement is the effort to close the racial achievement gap, one of the primary objectives of Common Core, evidenced through emphasis on “speaking and listening skills” and “visual literacy.” It’s also evidenced by the U.S. Department of Education’s promotion of educational video games. Such strategies presumably address different learning styles that are said to cause the gap.
This is not a new theory, but one evolved from New Left teachers who founded “urban schools.” By 1988 the theory had gained so much acceptance that the New York State Board of Regents used it in a booklet about high drop-out rates for black students, according to The New York Times. The article explained that proponents argue that “black children require instructions that deal more with people than with symbols or abstractions.”
These educators asserted that black pupils “need more chances for expressive talking rather than writing” and “more freedom to move around the classroom without being rebuked for misbehavior. . . .” Back then the theory was controversial among educators. Today, the U.S. Department of Education promotes this kind of learning for all students.
Thomas Sowell’s recounting of statistics about the superior performance of some black schools against similarly situated white schools during segregation refutes such ultimately racist ideas. He is ignored. That’s because the evidence Sowell presents undermines the stereotypes the Left uses to achieve its ultimate goal: tearing down or significantly altering Western civilization. One way to do that is to change the learning environment from a quiet, contemplative one to a busy, communal one. This assault on “Eurocentrism,” or Western modes of thinking, was deliberate in the 1960s. It is now in the classroom.
Let’s Walk Our Students Like Dogs
Of course, those promoting the new kinesthetic teaching don’t say that. They talk about physical fitness (a problem, to be sure), “motivated” students, and superior test results.
But I wonder: will such strategies backfire? Will making students perform “academic tasks” on treadmills compel them to hate both exercise and learning? I think it might. Such mechanistic exercises, along with Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” program, remind me of President Kennedy’s “Physical Fitness in Schools” program and having to run around the perimeter of a scruffy fenced-in yard at Carthage School Number 8 in Rochester, New York.
As a first-grader, I thought it was ridiculous and boring—especially after I’d walked the mile to school and would walk home for lunch and then back, and then home. Of course, children don’t just walk. They run, and skip, and chase each other. Changing into our play clothes when we came home marked the transition to play time, full of tag, hopscotch, dodge ball, jumping rope, and riding bikes, and for the boys, the politically incorrect “cowboys and Indians” and “cops and robbers.”
I thought of this when I saw the picture of students on exercise machines. They reminded me of race horses being cooled down on mechanical walkers. “Academic tasks” sounds like dog training.
The decade of the 1960s brought many upheavals: assassinations, demonstrations, riots. My first-grade class was dismissed early on the day of President Kennedy’s assassination. The riots in adjoining neighborhoods brought over vandalism and violence in ensuing years. Children still played in the streets, though. I would become the exception as I assumed the role of caretaker for my younger sisters. Yet I still had the classroom and library as places of refuge. We were not put on machines; the mandatory runs ended.
I could also walk to the library with my cherished yellow library card. That quiet, mote-filled refuge, long disappeared in urban decay, held rows of books beckoning me to get lost in the wonderful stories. It’s sad that children today are deprived of such simple, quiet pleasures.
EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in The Federalist.The featured image of students exercising while reading is courtesy of Walnut Valley Unified.
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A campaign ad that Hillary Clinton used against Barack Obama in 2008 featured images of sleeping children, with a voice asking who would answer the phone ringing in the White House at 3 a.m., “someone who already knows the world leaders . . . the military,” someone “tested and ready to lead”—or (by implication) a first-term U.S. Senator/community organizer?
Hillary Clinton is running for president again, and of course is ignoring her failure as secretary of state to answer the late-night phone call coming from Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Instead, she is advertising how she wants to send federal emissaries into the homes of parents with newborn infants to teach them how to handle 3 a.m. feedings and baby talk. It’s an extension of her agenda as first lady in the Arkansas governor’s mansion and in the White House. Her political career, after graduating and having written a thesis on friend Saul Alinsky, was launched with the Children’s Defense Fund under the direction of Marian Wright Edelman, agitator for increased welfare “for the children,” including federally funded childcare workers.
As president, Hillary Clinton would implement the Edelman/Alinsky domestic vision she put forward, in more palatable terms, in her 1996 book, It Takes a Village to Raise a Child. Of course, it takes someone like Clinton to see the federal government as a “village.”
In that book Clinton wrote, “government is not something outside us—something irrelevant or even alien to us—but is us. To acknowledge this is to acknowledge that government has a responsibility not only to provide essential services but to bring individuals and communities together.” This is the backwards notion of the community organizer.
Recently, in a May 21, 2016, Washington Post op-ed, Clinton revealed her totalizing domestic plans by reiterating her commitment to paid family leave legislation and to the “big idea” of “increasing federal investments and incentivizing states so that no family ever has to pay more than 10 percent of its income for child care.”
She also proposed doubling the investment in programs that she helped develop as first lady: Early Head Start and the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program. Parroting bureaucrats, Clinton claimed, “These programs bring an evidenced-based curriculum to child care and make sure kids get the best possible start in life. . . . .”
She, however, ignores the studies, including one by the agency administering the program, that show that when Head Start does have a positive impact, it is slight and disappears by third grade.
Even so, Clinton wants to expand federal daycare, and also to send government agents into homes, following her efforts as first lady of Arkansas when she introduced the “Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters,” or “HIPPY.” Her campaign website boasts of a more recent feat, “As a leader at the Clinton Foundation,” when she “started a national public awareness campaign called ‘Too Small to Fail’ or ‘Pequeños y Valiosos’ aimed at closing the ‘word gap.’”
The Clinton Foundation, a purported charity (in reality a campaign slush fund with contributions helping friends’ business pursuits), is using the latest “gap” as the basis for the programs she hopes to enact as president. The campaign site explains: “This gap refers to the 30 million fewer words heard by lower-income children by the time they are 4 years old, which leads to disparities in language development and school readiness.” Low-income students already receive free breakfasts and lunches, even in the summer. Under the recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act they can look forward to attending “community schools,” where they will receive homework help, family dinners, and health and dental services.
Under Clinton’s plan, the federal government would provide childcare subsidies to families, raise the wages of childcare workers, and provide “home visiting services”—the latter to teach parents to talk to their children. In It Takes a Village,Clinton celebrated England’s tradition of providing home visits through its national health service. (She also bragged about her work on Goals 2000, the precursor to Common Core.)
Initiatives, like the one to end the “word gap” may sound head-scratching-ly bizarre to people who have been around babies, and made idiots of themselves by cooing and lapsing into inane talk.
But the studies that show that many low-income (i.e., single and government-dependent) parents do not speak to their young children are borne out by observation.
It is an uncomfortable subject for many leftists. Anyone who has taken public transportation in cities like Atlanta, where it is mostly used by those who cannot afford cars, knows this–including one of my leftist friends. In traffic-choked Atlanta it made sense for her to commute to her job downtown via the rail line, a straight shot from her apartment. She would save on time, car wear-and-tear, gas, and parking—not to mention “The Environment.”
But she stopped, explaining in an agonized voice that she couldn’t bear to watch how young mothers treated their children, with slaps and pulls, screaming abuses at them, at the train station.
Of course, no one would dare reprimand such parents.
So my friend retreated. Leftist parents retreat by sending their children to private schools, while arguing for more funding for public schools.
The reaction is to retreat, to one’s car, and to vote for and advocate more government social programs so that “experts” can deal with such parents. Leftists refuse to acknowledge that government programs that incentivize family breakdown and interfere with natural communities are the problem.
Conservatives, frustrated by the inability of political representatives to cut back on detrimental government programs and despairing at the takeover of education by radicals, retreat to far-flung suburbs, where they undertake the dual tasks of parenting and teaching. No one can or should blame them. In fact, they are to be commended. When I taught college I could count on homeschooled students to be better educated and more motivated than students from public schools.
But with the retreat of such parents, public schools suffer. It’s a vicious cycle, but the progressive’s solution (or opportunity) is to use the deterioration as an entrée to more government meddling.
Now, especially in Obama’s final year, we are witnessing the Washington overlords hounding the middle-class citizens into their retreats. They are forcing “individuals and communities together” under Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation of 2015. The suburbs are being forced to build housing for the poor, who will bring their dysfunction to everything from the playground to the shopping mall. As the feds impose their diktats on public spaces and private businesses, the homeschooling family will find fewer and fewer places where they are comfortable. Under Obama’s Department of Education, they have found themselves forced to adhere to crazy Common Core standards if they want to pass GED tests, college entrance exams, and AP exams. They find that many colleges now use Common Core test scores for placement in classes. This overreach inspired many conservatives into activism and made Common Core part of the presidential campaign.
But as the presidential election approaches, many of the same conservatives are retreating–from the voting booth. Morally repulsed by the profligate past, rhetoric, and impure ideology of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, they vow to back a third-party candidate, write in a name, or just stay home and pray. They are impervious to arguments that their retreat makes a Hillary Clinton (Obama.2) presidency likely.
Surprisingly, the anti-Trump super PAC, Our Principles, as part of their attacks on Trump’s sexism, has been using statements about fatherhood that he made on the Howard Stern show in 2005. Like the leftists, these Republicans take umbrage at Trump’s comments about husbands who relent to pressures and “act like the wife.”
Trump expressed traditional sentiments and said he believed in supplying “funds,” but not changing diapers or pushing a stroller through Central Park. In contrast, I am reminded of one of many absurd helpful hints about fatherhood coming from the Obama administration. Early on, a Father’s Day campaign that encouraged fathers’ involvement showed a picture of a burly father with his young daughter. They were both painting their fingernails.
Voters should be asking themselves if they want the Big-Nanny-in-Chief sending government agents into homes. Or do they want to become breadwinners again?
https://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/hillary-at-microphone-e1466945541793.jpg360640Dr. Mary Grabarhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Mary Grabar2016-06-26 08:54:522016-06-26 08:54:52No Retreat from Hillary’s Village: Clinton’s dream of sending federal agents into American homes
The American Left is just plain evil. Not only do they not seek truth, they suppress it. Everything the Left does, including shamefully exploiting the slaughter of Americans in a nightclub, is to further their deception and power to force their unpopular agenda down our throats.
Leftists are the minority. However, they own the federal government, social media, public education, Hollywood and the Democratic party. They use inciting misdirected anger, hate and guilt to bully the public into embracing their anti-American and anti-God agenda. Because the Left controls the media, they get away with falsely portraying their opposition. The Left takes disapproval of them forcing their agenda on us to absurd extremes.
For example: If you say “no” to men using girl’s restrooms, Leftists in the media brand you an insane hatemonger who seeks the murder of all homosexuals. If you disagree with the Left’s illogical obsession with disarming Americans, repealing the second amendment, Leftist media brands you a racist toothless idiot redneck that wants to shoot all people who do not look like you.
The Left used the same take-opposition-to-absurd-extremes tactic to brand the Tea Party racist. The good folks in the Tea Party simply disagreed with Obama’s unlawful overreaches and ignoring of the Constitution. The Congressional Black caucus despicably took their opposition to the absurd extreme claiming that the Tea Party would “love” to see black Americans “hanging on a tree.”
Upon hearing about the Orlando nightclub shooting, I told Mary, my wife, “You watch, the Left will say all who disapprove with men using girl’s restrooms are just as bad as the Orlando shooter.” Sure enough, that was the Left’s outrageous absurd story line reported by numerous news outlets. Summarizing the Left’s media blitz, they said if you do not affirm the LGBT community and the implementation of their agenda, you are equal to the Orlando shooter; a rabid hater, responsible for those killed in the nightclub. I wonder how many Americans are falling for it.
Do you see how the Left’s insidious game is played? All who oppose the Left’s relentless attacks on biblical principles and our constitutional rights are branded stupid, haters and bigots by the media. Then the Left launches a shock and awe campaign to destroy the offender. More and more Americans know the drill; bullied into silence and compliance.
It is sad how the Left has been able to pervert the word “love” into meaning we must embrace deviant and immoral behaviors.
Obama’s Leftist (politically correct) CVE policy tied the hands of the FBI, blocked them from using intel they had on the Islamist terrorist Orlando shooter. Thus, Obama bears some responsibility for the deaths of the homosexuals in the Orlando nightclub. Pure and simple. And yet, Obama and his media buddies are relentlessly trying to blame the massacre on Christians and American gun owners.
Despicably, Obama and his media buddies are hellbent on convincing Americans that the greatest source of evil and threat to Americans is not Islamist terrorists. It is Christians and American gun owners. Again, I wonder how many Americans are being duped by their deception and misdirection from the truth?
Speaking of Obama’s evil efforts to cover for Islam and blame Christians and American gun owners, his DOJ is deleting all references of radical Islamic beliefs from the transcripts of the Orlando shooter’s 911 call.
By the way, America has suffered a terrorist attack every year under Obama. Deaths from terrorism have quadrupled under Obama. And yet, thanks to his media buddies covering for him, Obama approval polling is over 50%.
At times, the Left’s seemingly successful steamrollering of our culture puts me in a bit of a funk. History chronicles that the path America has chosen has destroyed other civilizations; destruction of the traditional family (fatherless households and etc); the graying of the line between right and wrong and rebellion against God’s natural laws. Therefore, I mourn for my country.
However, I do find encouragement to continue fighting the good fight by reminding myself that God is in control and America is worth it.
As she tallied up my groceries, I asked the supermarket cashier, “Are you still working at the bank?” When I moved to Florida 16 years ago, this same Hispanic woman was working as a bank-teller and supermarket cashier. She relied, “Yes.” I said, “You’re amazing.” The elderly woman chuckled and said, “Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. God is good.” Her cheerful demeanor and self-reliance blessed me. Obviously, she does not believe taxpayers owe her a living.
Folks, I realize this anecdotal example of character is not a big deal. And yet, it served as a cool sip of water in my desert of despair regarding the declining character of my country. God is good!
EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh website on The American Left.
https://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/american-left-e1466944876140.jpg345640Lloyd Marcushttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngLloyd Marcus2016-06-26 08:43:472016-06-27 11:13:03Lessons Learned from the Orlando Shooting and the American Left
“You fundamentally can’t change sex… Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists,” said former “transsexual” Alan Finch in 2004. This is a truth; however, it has not stopped the advocates of an invented status from trying to change society,” writes Selwyn Duke in his column Missing the Point on the “Transgender” Bathroom Wars.
Duke warns:
This is about socially reengineering society — about changing hearts and minds —by legitimizing made-up sexual statuses.
Transsexualism is a belief system, a dangerous one to both the individual and to society. President Obama has made it his mission to further Transsexualism and put American women and little girls at risk, both culturally and physically.
The American College of Pediatricians warns educators and legislators that “a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex” is dangerous for children.
In a strongly worded statement issued today, the professional association of pediatricians says “a person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.” It describes such thinking as problem that exists in the mind and not the body and “it should be treated as such.”
The college of pediatricians is joining a heated debate that increasingly pits concerned parents against school teachers, administrators, legislators, and transsexual advocates who are pushing the trans agenda in grade-schools, city governments, state governments, and the federal government.
Heather Clark reported, “A lesbian lawmaker [Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham] in Alabama suggested this week that the real safety threat for children is not men who identify as female using women’s restrooms, but faith leaders in churches and teachers in schools.”
This is Transsexualism writ large.
George Orwell wrote:
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Fr. Paul Scalia is a priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Va. He serves as the Bishop’s Delegate for Clergy.
Three times in his speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Cardinal Sarah described gender ideology [Transsexualism] as “demonic.” More recently, Oklahoma City’s Archbishop Coakley used the same word addressing the issue. So did Bishop Paprocki of Springfield regarding gay marriage. A strong word, to be sure. But most people misunderstand why. Some take “demonic” for mere hyperbole. Something is not just bad, but really, really bad. Others see it as rash judgment of opponents – literally demonizing them. Still others take it as just an overstatement by religious fanatics, who are unhinged anyway.
But “demonic” is a sober and sobering assessment of the thought behind gender ideology. It’s not a judgment of people’s intentions. It doesn’t mean that those who endorse gender ideology are demonic or possessed. It means, rather, that the reasoning and results of that philosophy – no matter how innocently held – line up with the desires, tactics, and resentments of “Old Scratch” himself.
Satan and the damned in The Last Judgment by Giotto (di Bondone), 1306 [Cappella Scrovegni, Padua]
Gender ideology repeats the basic lie of the evil one: “You will be like gods.” (Gen 3:5) Of course, this lie lurks behind every temptation. Every sin comes from that prideful desire to supplant God. But in the arena of human sexuality, it has greater gravity.Read more.
Duke concludes with the following warning:
Unfortunately, the once-closeted is now exalted while the ethereal is closeted. Today we hear that “faith is a private matter,” a profoundly silly statement, while private matters are made public. If one’s faith is a lie, he should dispense with it; if it is the Truth, which is universal, there then is nothing private about it. And as we confuse the public with the private, Christianity is expelled from the public sphere and now even the private one, with businessmen told they can’t live their own faith in their own business.
And that’s what happens when closets aren’t used for the right things.
Is it time to put Transsexualism back into Pandora’s box? It it time to tell the truth?
Winston Churchill wrote, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
One of the great paradoxes of the appeaser is that they actually believe that by fasting with their sworn enemy during Ramadan, they can change their hearts and minds. Take for example the Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne. Wynne is a lesbian.
Kathleen Wynne (center black burka) criticized in social media. Photo: screenshot Facebook
On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne fasted in honour of Ramadan and then took part in an Iftar (fast-breaking meal) at the Sayeda Khadija Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, reported Iqra, a Toronto-based online magazine which provides an ethical perspective with a Muslim focus on current events and contemporary issues.
According to its website, Sayeda Khadija Centre promotes the positive value of Islam for Muslims and non-Muslims alike in Canada and around the world, and offers a separate women’s hall and space.
Dr. Hamid Slimi, Imam & Resident Scholar of Sayeda Khadija Centre, who hosted the iftar Slimi opposes the use of the term “radical Islam” explaining that “there is no such thing ‘radical Islam’; it’s either Islam or no Islam.”
Note that Slimi said there is “either Islam or no Islam.” What that means is that no matter how many times Premier Wynne shares iftar with a Muslim at some point she, and her lesbian spouse, will be on the menu.
Imam Hamid Slimi is listed in the 2009 edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims (page 143) under the category “Development” as follows:
Slimi, Imam Hamid
Slimi is a Toronto imam and chairman of the Canadian Council of Imams. A writer on terrorism and Islam, Slimi is also the founder and executive director of the Faith of Life Network and was asked to help in the rehabilitation of Guantanamo Bay captive Omar Khadr upon his release.
Also listed in the 2009 edition are Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sayyid Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Khaled Mashaal the Leader of Hamas, Mohammad Mahdi Akef, Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood and Seyyed Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah.
A retired American soldier has criticized a Canadian judge’s decision to allow the release a former Guantanamo Bay inmate on bail, saying he’s a dangerous terrorist who poses a threat to the West’s safety.
Toronto-born Omar Khadr was convicted of war crimes, including throwing a grenade when he was 15 years old that killed U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer in Afghanistan during a 2002 firefight.
Canada’s justice minister calls Omar Khadr’s decision to renounce violence a positive sign after he was released from prison Thursday. But Peter MacKay says Canadians should not forget Khadr was involved in terrorism.
Stephen Harper does not appear to have changed his stance on Omar Khadr since the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner was released on bail Thursday. Harper made the comments at a news conference Friday.
Layne Morris, a former 19th Special Forces soldier from Utah who was wounded and lost sight in one eye in the skirmish, said Khadr’s release Thursday was a cause for concern.
“This is a man who has demonstrated a willingness and a capability to do great harm to Canadian society and Western interests in general,” he told the Deseret News newspaper in Salt Lake City.
Remember that Imam Slimi said, it’s either Islam or no Islam.”
RELATED VIDEO:Welcome to the very first Multi-faith Iftar on the Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada on June 16, 2016.
EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Kathleen Wynne (right) with her spouse Jane Rounthwaite at Toronto Pride Parade. Photo: screenshot Facebook.com
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One characteristic of today’s Constitutional/Traditional (not “Conservative”, that useless, now worthless word without specific meaning or useful content) Movement-as Donald Trump accurately characterizes it-is the rejection and voluntary limiting of thought and action of “Small Ball”. This metaphor is similar in comparison to Minor League professional baseball, or any sport using a ball, compared to the professional, more accomplished and intense segment, i.e., Big Ball.
Consider the “Conservative” web sites, the most popular pundits and seers of the “Right”. Charles Krauthammer, George Will? Both work for the Washington Post, formerly owned by a Jewish family, of typical Leftist, Globalist, and relentless hostility to Original Intent of the Constitution and Nativism. It has always been the New York Times’, “little brother”, another Jewish owned Internationalist organ for those Eastern European Ashenazim Jews of Yiddish speak, who were almost completely and uniformly committed Communists before landing on our shores. Krauthammer and Will et al., are bland, token Rightists, writers without a base, a following, or a commitment. They would never address a group of patriots, a Constitutionalist group with concrete and unambiguous goals. Their real purpose is to pacify, numb into complacency those dissatisfied patriots.
They and other false flag “Conservative” operations exist to lull and blunt criticism and those Truths that could precipitate action. Their goal is fixate the Right at a neutered reference point and, as Andrew Breitbart said, “To control the narrative, the meme”. That means drawing limits of what it is “acceptable” to do and react. When Trump appeared as the Action Hero, they all howled. Their Conservatism was never to result in actual concrete action or counter-force. No, “The Right” had to be pure, respectable, measured, and never loud and “obnoxious”. They made their living on words and more words. The worse the country’s condition, the more they calculated their words were needed. They never intended to knock down the wall, but to beat it publicly with their little fists and make noise. They are the Novocaine and morphine sedators of The Right.
To do this, they had to avoid big and sweeping language, which is by necessity Action Language. Read the Founders! They never connected to Action People and Groups, e.g., the Tea Party. They looked down upon them as rabble and common folk. This was subtle and below the surface. They did NOT want half of the country to connect what was really going on, what the REAL antecedents were, WHO Obama and his backers/handlers were and what they had in mind.
And best of all, they were paid handsomely, lived a comfortable life, administering virtual sleeping medication to the Right. And, they could still attend the great parties that Leftists put on, with glitterati, celebrities, Big Money, etc., because they were RESPECTABLE, house broken, muzzled, and rolled over on their back for a tummy rub from the enemies of the Republic, the Constitution, and of that enshrined Right: for the citizen to be left alone, to pursue his happiness and his Rights protected.
The shape shifters kept their readers perceptions and consciousness small and contained, limited and focused on effects, symptoms, and minor side issues. No big picture, no integration, no strong words, just mush, air injected chiffon, in an endless island hopping circular subject matter. When the Action Man appeared on the scene, The General and Commander, Donald Trump, they immediately knew they were exposed, the trance was broken and their true purpose was manifest, their power started to evaporate instantly, and the cash register ringed in reverse.
Donald Trump is a strategic thinker, a big picture genius that sees ALL the parts of the puzzle. Now that the European Union/Politburo-Central Committee is headed for the dumpster, Trump’s negative evaluation of NATO looks very prescient. His stated intention of reaching strategic agreements with Russians-who believe in Blood and Soil, the sacredness of their Land and Culture and People-is visionary. I would not be surprised for Trump to negotiate a tripartite agreement with Russian, China, India, and the United States to destroy radical Islam and deal it a terrible, terrible blow that it would never contemplate its evil intentions in future.
A President Trump will surprise the World-and even his supporters. He is Big Ball, Major League, Big Time, Big Actions. Small Ball is no balls, for suckers, those in denial.
Despite our republic’s current struggles with the after effects of over seven years of Obama, I am still of the opinion that America will arise from her current state of economic, moral, political, military, and educational doldrums. Yes, on the surface and maybe a bit below the surface, it does seem as if America’s best days are permanently behind her. After all, the economy is locked into a mode of stagnation. The Obama military downgrades have literally placed the United States in danger of serious challenges from China, Russia, and Muslims who want to shame our society with sharia law.
Our nation’s southern border is shamefully a far to open highway for hordes of shameless illegal immigrants and never vetted Muslim refugees. Unfortunately, many of those refugees are loyal followers of the tired old instructions found in the Quran.’ One of the directives is to invade non-Muslim nations and kill, rape, behead, or enslave the inhabitants. The duty of the federal government is to protect America from enemies, both foreign and domestic. But when a president, in this case Berry Obama aids our enemies by allowing potential and actual Muslim terrorists into the United States totally un-vetted. That insult to common sense is not only a refusal to protect us, but is high treason as well.
Article 111 Section 3 of the United States Constitution defines treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attained.
If a president, let us say Obama insists on letting in thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants, even after numerous Americans have been assaulted or murdered by illegal immigrants and un-vetted Muslims, to conclude that treason has been committed is quite logical. Unfortunately, the congress has so far proven to be unable or unwilling to fight for our best interests and at least seriously investigate the possibility of presidential treason. The administration is rumored to be working very closely with the United Nations on diabolical plans to disarm law abiding American gun owners.
Of course let us not forget that the Obama administration ordered the Departments of Homeland security and Defense to scrub away information concerning suspected and actual Muslim terrorists has made us more vulnerable to Islamic inspired attacks like the one that occurred in Orlando, Fl.
Now that I have highlighted just a few horrendous government actions that literally place our constitutionally limited republic in possibly the most overall disadvantaged position throughout America’s history, I remain optimistic about our beloved nation’s future. I am fully aware of the full spectrum of the wicked anti America, unconstitutional, and illogical words and actions of the Obama administration and his progressive friends in the congress. For example, those democrats who staged a politically motivated sit in because they would rather snatch guns from law abiding sovereign citizens than declare war on enemies who have sworn to destroy us and have acted on that threat.
Sometimes a parent will warn a wayward child or young adult about the mistakes they are making or considering. They can fuss, beg and reveal true wisdom, but sometimes to no avail. Like America in recent history, the child will forge ahead and make a wrong choice that may cost them hugely. Likewise, despite numerous warning from yours truly in my syndicated commentary The Edwards Notebook and others like Lonnie Poindexter, Matt Bruce, Michael Savage, and Ben Armstrong, just to name a few back in 2006 not to vote Berry Obama into the presidency because his policies could endanger the very existence of the United States as a great and powerful republic.
Despite the warnings, the people chose Obama twice to occupy the oval office. So now America is in a political, economic, military, moral and educational hot mess. Obama and speaker Ryan say, let everyone in despite the murdering Muslims and illegal immigrants who should be limited in their ability to come into or function freely within our republic. Western hating Muslims now occupy key powerful positions in our government. An Obama twenty trillion dollars spending deficit could potentially cause an economic collapse. His military cutbacks and fight to maintain tax funding for very profitable baby killer Planned Parenthood speaks volumes about the heart and priorities of Mr. Barry Obama and the negative results of his philosophically based actions are everywhere.
But the good news is that I am convinced that Obama and others like him will ultimately lose in their progressive effort to fundamentally change America into a dependence based dictatorship. In fact, as I predicted years ago on a page from The Edwards Notebook, Obama would be just bad enough for America, that millions of our sovereign citizens would wake up, arise and respond to the challenges we now face. Founding Father George Washington warned the United States that turning away from our creator would ultimately lead America down a path toward decline and possible destruction. God himself said in 2nd Chronicles 2:14 and if My people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear {them} from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.
I am happy to report that millions of Americans have, like the founding fathers, humbled themselves and have sought forgiveness for not being proper stewards and allowing this republic to slip into such morale disrepair. Before long you will witness signs of improvement that will not be stopped by the progressives who desire to remove your property, self-protection, religious liberty, and even parental rights. Take heart, for the best is yet to come.
God Bless America and May America Bless God.
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