While the Dutch Foreign Secretary was visiting Turkey, the anti terror police arrested Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink on suspicion of 'terrorism propaganda'. It is now reported that Geerdink is facing charges. Turkey is one of the worst oppressors of the free press.
Europe is justifying picking on Israel by holding its 'own' to a higher standard than say, Third World countries, or the Palestinians.At the core this hypocrisy is the racism of the diminished expectation. It says in fact: the other guys are subhuman so we don't expect them to behave as such.
Dec 12, 2014 The European Stance on Israel Is Racist To the Core: Caroline Glick is demolishing the patronizing racism of European ambassadors during the Europe-Israel panel at The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference. UPDATE: Israel’s story is by no means unblemished; but it is uplifting. It’s a story of how freedom can take root in even the most unpromising conditions. Such a story appeals to optimistic types, but repels the envious, the eternally aggrieved, the gloomsters who see free markets as some kind of racket — the same people, indeed, who tend also to be anti-British and anti-American, whether they be Left Bank intellectuals or Putinite nationalists or Bolivarian revolutionaries.
In a lecture Ayn Rand provides a concretization of the issue of reason vs. emotion via an analysis of two contrasting events of 1969: the glorious achievement of the Apollo 11 moon flight and the mindless mud-wallowing of the Woodstock rock festival
Gimme Shelter 1969 - The Rolling Stones. (Wiki) (Lyrics)
Like Romantic literature is inexplicably great in a period that is essentially horrid, so the 1968 generation created great, inspiring music in the time that was in essence cataclysmic for Western civilization. It was the height of Cultural Marxism that did away with the last vestiges of the rule of reason. From here onwards mad Dionysos took over and tore every last shred of Apollonian reign. The free love and peace on offer by the new generation and their noble aspirations hadn't been unmasked by then, as it is now. The rainbow shibboleth towards the end of the video is now associated with Barack Obama's faux war on ISIL. And we are reminded of the sheer hypocrisy that determines this culture: the Islamic State that is raping and murdering across the Middle East at will without any noticeable objection of the folks that come out in numbers whenever they see a possibility to charge free countries with war crimes. Key is not the evil of "Rape, murder, just a shot away", but rather who can be accused of doing it.
It is an Enlightenment value to separate the Church from the State. It means the freedom of religion. Every human being is free to think and act according to his findings. And it means the Government can't make him act against his morality. But there's a context here.
As a consequence of the separation of Church and State some have come to believe that the public square must be morally neutral and cleansed of all expressions of religion. That's French style laïcité. We have also come to believe that it doesn't matter what a person thinks or believes, what his view is on the universe and man's place in it; what consequently is good or evil and how man gathers knowledge, if any. After all, we're all equal, aren't we?
What happened in the Labour stronghold of Rotherham is a situation that cannot ever be repeated anywhere. In the style of the German Democratic Republic, ideology trumped morality, the course of justice and, well ... everything else. You'd almost think this story is about politically correct progressives with utter contempt for the people they rule over. It's not. It's about Sexual jihad. (Source)
Sep 3, 2014: What is their common purpose?
1400 cases of “appalling” sexual exploitation revealed in UK report. H/t @AncetreIV
UPDATE: A Sky News investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham learns that hundreds of new cases continue to emerge. Rotherham victim says abusers are 'untouchable'. Hundreds of new cases continue to emerge. "It's still going on if not worse, because now they're having to hide it more". In the meantime: Denis MacShane: "I was too much of a 'liberal leftie' and should have done more to investigate child abuse". (Source)
Qatar - Muslim Brotherhood Central - is one of the world's main terror masters. Qatar's broadcaster, Al Jazeera is acting as the Brotherhood's PR arm. Qatar has a hand in every revolution and war in the Middle and Near East, to wit Syria, Egypt, Mali and Libya to name but few. UPDATE:
Astonishingly Obama thought trading a deserter for five top GITMO enemy combatants would be a PR coup. Obama said that he had “absolutely no apologies” to make. What does Obama's pattern of promoting terrorist goals tell us about his ideology and mindset?
May 31, 2014 Obama delivers a statement about the recovery of the deserter Bowe Bergdahl. He is flanked by Bowe's parents, Jani and @BobBergdahl
Russia isn't entitled to any 'buffer states'. Ukraine has the right to control its own destiny. Russia has annexed the Crimea. The eastern part of Ukraine is being destabilized by separatists led by professional Russian subversists in what is known as 'Special War', a hybrid of espionage, terrorism and subversion.
UPDATE: One wonders if Putin is pershaps insinuating that Ukraine is attacking its own cities just to be able to blame Russia? His psy-ops no longer make sense. But Putin is getting away with this farce since the present crop of politicians are mindless Nihilists.
Europe has turned into a war zone with a waive of arrests across the continent, two of which are related to the thwarted attack on Belgium. In all a total of over 25 persons have been arrested in counter Islamist terrorism operations.
Nigel Farage says mass immigration has led to Muslim ghettos in Britain run under Sharia Law.
UPDATE: Mass immigration has led to the growth of Muslim ‘ghettos’ in Britain which are run under Sharia Law, Nigel Farage declared last night. In an interview with US news channel Fox News, Mr Farage said the authorities had turned a ‘blind eye’ to the growth of ghettos where ‘the police and all the normal agents of the law have withdrawn and that is where Sharia law has come in.’ Communities Secretary Eric Pickles accused Mr Farage of ‘pandering to peoples’ worst fears’ and branded his comments ‘irresponsible and wrong’.
