Category: Religion Of Submission

Zero Sympathy for PDX

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Newly re-elected Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler now admits that his policies dealing with Antifa have failed:

“My good-faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists,” Wheeler said in a New Year’s Day press conference. “In response, it will be necessary to use additional tools and to push the limits of the tools we already have to bring the criminal destruction and violence to an end.”

“It’s time to push back harder against those who are set on destroying our community and to take more risks in fighting lawlessness,” the Portland mayor continued.

“We should be clear what this was last night, it was about violence and criminal destruction, period,” Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said during the press conference.

 

More Pavilions At Folkfest

More Pavilions At Folkfest Terrorism 13 Comments

Thread — There was reluctance in the past to undertake ops in Western countries. The alleged killings (imp. to remember that these are just allegations) in Sweden & Canada of Baloch dissidents is a shift in modus operandi (even if the capabilities existed, they were not exercised).

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

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“We fell in love with the fact that we had gotten a member of ISIS who would describe his life in the caliphate and would describe his crimes,” New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet tells NPR in an interview on Thursday. “I think we were so in love with it that when when we saw evidence that maybe he was a fabulist, when we saw evidence that he was making some of it up, we didn’t listen hard enough.”

“Father Of The Iranian Bomb” Assassinated Near Tehran

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Timing is everything;

Iran’s most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran, the country’s defence ministry has confirmed.
 
Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after being attacked in Damavand county.
 
Iranian news agencies said assailants targeted his car with a bomb before shooting at him.
 
Western intelligence agencies view him as the mastermind behind Iran’s secret nuclear weapons programme.
 
He was reportedly been described as the “father of the Iranian bomb” by diplomats.

I mean, maybe it’s just coincidence, or maybe it’s cleaning up odds and ends.

Speaking of cleaning up odds and ends, I believe this is unrelated: The directive, which the Pentagon’s White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.

Sign of the Times: Karen Culture on Steroids

Baiting The Left nannystate Religion Of Submission Wuhan Flu 18 Comments

The Kansas City Star editorial board has found their inner Woke Karen and smeared on the guilt & fear very heavily:

But this fact is inescapable: Gatherings of almost any size this Thanksgiving are still dangerous and should be avoided.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is more blunt. “Please, change your plans,” he said. “I’ve had 35 Thanksgiving turkeys in my lifetime. I can wait until next year for turkey 36.”

This isn’t getting through to everyone. An estimated 180,000 people are expected to travel through Kansas City International Airport during the Thanksgiving holiday, a scary number. There is anecdotal evidence that front-porch parties and weekend bar-hopping remain a thing.

But remember: While Thanksgiving is a holiday on the calendar, it’s also an idea. Gratitude and grace will survive a canceled dinner, or a missed slice of pie. There’s always next Thanksgiving, if we take care of ourselves now.

Next year? You honestly think the same voices won’t be screaming the same, or worse, next year? Maybe they won’t have to when the larger state has imposed Communist China like restrictions on everyone who can only travel with a digital vaccination passport. Come to think of it, if Biden & comrades attempt to impose is national lockdown, aided with guns pointed at citizens who don’t comply, then the test against a once free people will come much sooner.

P.S. You’ll notice that this post has been tagged with “Religion of Submission”. This used to exclusively refer to Islamic Terrorism. There’s now a new competitor for this moniker.

More Beheadings At Folkfest

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AP “explains” — Why does France incite anger in the Muslim world? Its brutal colonial past, staunch secular policies and tough-talking president who is seen as insensitive toward the Muslim faith all play a role.

Diversité Is Their Strength

More Pavilions At Folkfest Religion Of Submission 39 Comments

BBC;

Three people have died in a knife attack at a church in Nice, in what French President Emmanuel Macron said was an “Islamist terrorist attack”.
 
He said France would not surrender its core values after visiting the Notre-Dame basilica in the southern city. More troops are being deployed to protect churches and schools.
 
In Nice, one elderly victim was “virtually beheaded”, officials said. Another woman and a man also died.
 
A male suspect was shot and detained.
 
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi spoke of “Islamo-fascism” and said the suspect had “repeated endlessly ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greatest)”.

More Akbar! Police initially deployed non-lethal munitions to stop the assailant but were forced to open fire with live rounds after he charged at the cops.

Who-Whom

Art Of The Deal Terrorism 37 Comments

Michael Doran;

The Middle East experts got the region consistently wrong, egregiously wrong, and Trump got it right. How could this be? After all, Trump has no hidden personal reserves of learning and expertise on which to draw. By all accounts, and there is no reason to disbelieve them, he has no patience for long intelligence briefings or for detailed policy discussions, either. And yet his judgments on the region have been far better than those of impeccably credentialed experts with decades of experience at the highest levels of American statecraft. What does Trump know that they don’t?

Read it all.

“A Special Forces Soldier’s Case For Leaving Afghanistan.”

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Via Instapundit;

Former White House war czar and three-star general Douglas Lute is quoted as saying, “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” and, “We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” This was not the message conveyed by either the Bush or Obama administrations.
 
Even more alarming are revelations that false metrics were purposely cited to support the narrative that the war was proceeding effectively. Army Col. Bob Crowley relays, “Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible … surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.” High-ranking members of two administrations and senior military commanders were aware of a clear lack of purpose in Afghanistan, yet lied to the American people to justify the continuing conflict.

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