Happy Atlas Shrugged Day Everyone!

Atlas Shrugged, the novel by Ayn Rand was published in 1957. September 2 is the day that Atlas Shrugged begins. The date recurs several times throughout the book.

Happy #AtlasShruggedDay from everyone at ARI! Art by @BoschFawstin. pic.twitter.com/BesCAmrYHq
— AynRand.Org (@AynRandOrg) September 2, 2014

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Terror Group Goes Wild in US Embassy Pool in Tripoli

The Islamist terror group known as Dawn of Libya seized control of Tripoli last week. They stormed the embassy the day after taking the capital and transformed the US Embassy into a Mideast version of "Animal House".

Terrorists of the Dawn of Libya cheering each as they took turns diving off a balcony into a swimming pool.

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European Union Bans Incorrect Kitchen Appliances

The European Union is a postmodern monstrosity oriented towards top down power politics, rules and regulations, collectivism, and ever expanding statism. After the wine lakes and EU compliant cucumbers, the kitchen tyranny.

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the glorious EU, are banning effective kettles, hairdryers and vacuum cleaners. Nero is fiddling. #Ukraine

— Tovarishch Toy (@WelshToy) August 29, 2014

The EU bans high-power vacuum-cleaners, dishwashers, toasters. Never mind the bedroom; I want the government out of my bloody kitchen.

— Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) September 1, 2014

The Cloward-Piven End Game Explained

Obama's foreign policy has been so successful, the Middle East has now been entirely destabilized. Sunni and Shia terror states, Jihadists and a reconstituting Russian Empire are stepping into the vacuum of the retreating Pax Americana. At home the Cloward-Piven strategy is gathering steam



Former Border Patrol agent Zack Taylor says the immigrant surge has all the hallmarks of asymmetrical warfare, which seeks to destroy the infrastructure of a nation from within. (Source)

UPDATE:

The Cloward-Piven End Game http://t.co/hW4pl9mDMj #tcot #ocra pic.twitter.com/Ncbqgky1vf
— Paul Revere (@PaulReverePress) August 30, 2014

Does Anyone Know Obama's Grand Strategy on IS?

Obama's leadership on the Islamic State is in a worse shambles than usual with this administration. Over the weekend the position went from 'IS as a regional menace', to 'an imminent international threat that requires war in Syria', and back again. This is not a strategy for dealing with IS.

Over the weekend Gen. Martin Dempsey did a shocking U-turn, saying ISIS is not currently plotting or planning attacks against the U.S. or Europe.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said last Thursday. 

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated. Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.” (Source) 

But on Monday Dempsey made a U-turn and said IS is no immediate threat. (Source) Actually the idea to attack IS in Syria was a major departure from the awkward contradiction of supporting IS in Syria while fighting it in Iraq. The Obama regime now appears to have returned to that position. So what is going on?

FEMEN, the Caliphate and the Morally Confused

Western, postmodern feminazis have become the decadent appeasers of the worst violators of rights that are presently in existence: Islamic male supremacists. It's a luxury the women who live in their proximity cannot afford. @FEMEN_Turkey is taking the lead with an in your face tweet

Benim bedenim, benim kararım! FEMEN'e katılın! joinfementurkey@gmail.com pic.twitter.com/uFgiRIYBTf
— FEMEN Turkey (@FEMEN_Turkey) August 26, 2014

We received some criticism regarding the FEMEN picture released on Aug. 22. The choice may not have been too clever PR wise, since its 'in your face character' may have prevented some tweeps from RT it. On the other hand, if the FEMEN pic offends you more than IS does, there's something very out of whack with your morality. Eastern Europe and the Middle East are not the postmodern West; here's still mountains of work to be done here towards the equality of the sexes.

Journalists Pissed With IS For Killing Foley

Most journalists today are not traders in news, but self appointed political activists selling the public a far Leftist stance for centrism. They are surprised and dismayed when no one is buying it

@Hugodixon Were journalists supportive of IS before they killed Foley?
— ★Kassandra (@Kassandra_Troy) August 23, 2014

@Hugodixon Great point. How can one possibly be understanding towards an ideology that a child understands is morally evil?
— ★Kassandra (@Kassandra_Troy) August 23, 2014

UPDATE: Sometimes the mask suddenly drops.

@Hugodixon @Kassandra_Troy I would love to cover them close up. But unwise and unlikely.
— Simon Robinson (@iron_emu) August 23, 2014

A Doctrine to Combat the Islamic State IS

The Islamic State IS is raping, pillaging, slaving, crucifying and beheading its way through the Middle East. The savagery seems to attract countless young Muslims from East as well as West. What went wrong? 

Shiraz Maher, an expert in radicalization explains IS and its attraction for Muslims in the West. 

Ghaffar Hussain, Managing Director at the secular Quilliam Foundation (bio) brings up an excellent point in a piece on the Telegraph without actually answering the question he poses:

It's no surprise that James Foley's murderer had an English accent. We need to counter and undermine the narrative which makes the ideology of the Islamic State attractive to some young men in Britain. (Source)

Let's break this down into two basic questions: what makes them reject the most successful philosophy in human history - Liberty - in terms of freedom, prosperity and self realization for the individual? And secondly, how come they look for an answer at the most backward, oppressive and irrational collectivist system presently known to man - the Islamic State under Sharia Law?

Dutch Artist Recreates Removed Art Against IS(IS)

In the face of intimidation and appalling violence, moral courage has become a rare commodity. But a Frisian artist in the north of the Netherlands decided to make a statement against the fascism of terror group IS(IS) 

19 aug. 2014 - GPTV: Grafitti art by L.J. van Tuinen as a protest against IS(IS)

UPDATE: On Aug. 20 the municipality of Leeuwarden removed the art work. The possibility exists that some clerk took it upon himself to remove the grafitti in order to avert controversy, but it appears to have been an honest mistake. The city council has apologized and offered to pay Mr Van Tuinen to redo the art work. He has accepted. (Bron)

How To Deconstruct the Caliphate Within?

The Islamic State is located in the border area of Syria and Iraq, but the Caliphate also lives in the hearts and minds of Muslims in the West. The BBC had a look at a Muslim enclave in the Dutch city of The Hague

Aug 10, 2014: The Battle of the Schilderswijk according to Free Aseer. Read also: "Wilders visits Muslim Enclave The Hague". 

In the video above we are presented with the narrative according to radical Muslims, who see themselves as victims of a racist society. They are in fact so marginalized, two separate Muslim parties are represented in the city council. They are openly or covertly supporting the cause of ISIS (Live Blog Political Islam (Dutch)). Politicians are struggling with the issue, because they are reasoning from the wrong mental frame. It is mind boggling, but even the extreme violence and cruelty of IS hasn't woken them up to the fact that these people are not our fellow citizens, but on the contrary, the enemy within.