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Forward to the past 11
What does a conservative in the US most want to conserve? We would say: A commitment to liberty, the founding principle of his country. American conservatives may differ from each other on questions of religion, foreign affairs, entitlements and the economic "safety-net", homosexual marriage and abortion, even on defense, but if they are not loyal to the Constitution and the idea of individual freedom that it enshrines, they are not true conservatives.
In Britain too, conservatives are dedicated to the defense of the traditional and hard-won liberties of the people.
In Russia, being a conservative means something different. The very opposite. What Russian conservatives want to conserve is their long and almost completely unbroken tradition of tyranny. The quarrel within their ranks would now, in post-Soviet times, be chiefly over whether they want a return to the Red Tyranny of Bolshevism, or the older tradition of Tsarist oppression, where cause for national pride may more confidently be found.
Owen Matthews, author of Stalin's Children, writes in the Spectator (UK) about a conservative Russian military leader:
Strange times throw up strange heroes — and in Russia's proxy war with Ukraine, none is more enigmatic than the Donetsk rebel leader Igor Girkin, better known by his nom de guerre of Igor Strelkov.
In a few short months, Strelkov has gone from being an obscure military re-enactor to the highest-profile rebel leader in eastern Ukraine. But at the same time Strelkov's fame and outspoken criticism of Vladimir Putin for failing to sufficiently support the rebels has earned him the enmity of the Kremlin. Moreover, Strelkov's brand of sentimental ultra-nationalism, extreme Orthodoxy and Russian Imperial nostalgia offer a frightening glimpse into one of Russia's possible futures.
In the West, we are used to seeing Putin cast as a dangerous adventurer and nationalist. But to Strelkov, and to the millions of Russians who have come to admire him, Putin isn't nearly nationalist enough.
Within weeks of his arrival in eastern Ukraine in May this year, apparently on his own initiative, Strelkov quickly became the highest-profile rebel leader thanks to his discipline and military bearing. A veteran of wars in Bosnia, Transnistria and Chechnya, Strelkov is a reserve colonel in the Russian army and a former (and possibly current) officer in Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU. With his clipped moustache, pressed fatigues and careful charm, Strelkov styles himself on a pre–revolutionary Tsarist officer. In May he mustered a 2,000-strong local defence force in Slavyansk, banned his troops from swearing and ordered two of his own men to be summarily executed for looting.
He wrote a manifesto calling his troops "an Orthodox army who are proud that we serve not the golden calf but our Lord Jesus Christ" and declared that "swearing is blasphemy, and a Russian warrior cannot use the language of the enemy. It demeans us spiritually, and will lead the army to defeat".
Russian state television built Strelkov up as a hero. The nationalist writer Egor Prosvirnin praised him as the "Russian God of War" who "rinks the blood of foreign mercenaries to the last drop, and then asks for more". …
And then, in mid-August, Strelkov mysteriously resigned his post as "defence minister" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic — along with two other Russian citizens who had been the civilian heads of the rebel Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. All three rebel leaders were replaced by Ukrainian citizens.
The most obvious explanation for the reshuffle is that Moscow is preparing a negotiated settlement where the Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine — or Novo-Rossiya, "New Russia", in Russian nationalist parlance — will be given some degree of autonomy within Ukraine. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary — from young soldiers' Instagram selfies tagged to locations inside Ukraine to the Russian regular soldiers taken prisoners of war on Monday by Kiev's troops — Moscow has also continued to insist that it is not a combatant in Ukraine. Clearly, having Russian citizens at the helm of supposedly autonomous rebel republics and their armed forces was a diplomatic inconvenience to the Kremlin which needed to be fixed — and pressure was put on Strelkov and his cronies to quit.
But there's another, deeper meaning to Strelkov's fall from favour. Though he's often portrayed as a stooge of Moscow, Strelkov has in fact been consistently critical of the Kremlin's failure to act decisively to annex eastern Ukraine as it annexed Crimea in spring. "Having taken Crimea, Putin began a revolution from the top," Strelkov wrote in June. "But if we do not support [this revolution] now, its failure will sweep aside both him and the country."
Strelkov's close associate Igor Ivanov, the head of the rebel army's political department, has also furiously denounced the "Chekist-oligarchic regime" of Vladimir Putin and has also predicted that Putin will soon fall, leaving only the army and the church to save Russia from chaos.
This mix of militarism, religion and a mystical faith in Holy Russia's imperial destiny to rule over lesser nations has deep roots. Ivanov was until recently head of the Russian All-Military Union, or ROVS, an organisation originally founded by the White Russian General Baron Pyotr Wrangel in 1924 after the victory of the Bolsheviks in the civil war. Its guiding motive was to preserve the Tsarist ideals of God, Tsar and Fatherland. For much of the 20th century, ROVS was the preserve of elderly emigré fantasists — before a new generation of post-Soviet nationalists like Ivanov breathed new life into the organisation as a home for Russian ultra-nationalists who hate Putin's brand of crony capitalism.
A similar outfit is the Narodny Sobor, or People's Assembly, which describes itself as an "Orthodox-Patriotic organisation devoted to fighting 'liberasts' and western values, to promoting Orthodoxy, and to preserving the traditional family", according to a recent study by Professor Paul Robinson of the University of Ottawa. In Russia, the Narodny Sobor has, along with the Russian Orthodox church, successfully campaigned for a tsunami of conservative legislation to be passed by the Duma, from banning swearing on television and in films to prohibiting the spreading of "homosexual propaganda". The head of the Narodny Sobor's Ukrainian branch is Igor Druz — a senior political advisor to Strelkov who has denounced the Kiev government as "pederasts and drug addicts".
On the face of it, Strelkov and his ilk and Putin should be on the same side. They share a nostalgia for a lost Russian greatness — indeed Strelkov has a degree in history and was until recently an enthusiastic military re-enactor, playing White Guard and second world war officers. And this year, in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis, Putin has abandoned years of hard-edged pragmatism and economic prudence and moved towards the kind of mystical, Orthodox nationalism so beloved of the ROVS and Narodny Sobor crowd.
Yet as Putin prepares to sign off on some kind of compromise peace deal with the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, there will be millions of Russians brainwashed by months of state television's patriotic propaganda who will agree with Strelkov that Moscow is selling the rebels down the river.
Strelkov himself has little chance of becoming a serious opposition figure to Putin; he is too stiff and too weird for public politics. But Putin's main challenger, when he comes, will be someone of Strelkov's stamp.
We tend to think of Vladimir Putin as being most politically vulnerable from the left — from the liberal, western-orientated professionals who came out in their hundreds of thousands on the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg three years ago to protest at Putin's third term. But in truth Putin's real vulnerability is from the right — from the racist football fans who rioted unchecked through central Moscow in 2010; from prophets of a Russian-led Eurasian empire such as Alexander Dugin, who was in the radical nationalist opposition to Putin before falling temporarily into step with the Kremlin in the wake of the Crimea campaign; and from militaristic ultra-conservatives on the Russian religious right.
So for the countries of Eastern Europe emancipated from Russian servitude barely a quarter of a century ago, there is not only the growing threat of re-subjugation, but the probability that it will be applied according to the whims of a madman, a religious fanatic living out fantasies of Tsardom and limitless imperial expansion by military means.
No difference between Islam and Islamism 3
… a Turkish atheist from a Muslim background writes in an article denouncing Islam.
We have taken it from Jihad Watch. The writer is Serkan Engin, who has asked for it to be published although it endangers him in Turkey. (He is a socialist, but is not advocating socialism in this article.)
Why Islam is Worse than Nazism
I am an atheist author and poet, who had lived as a Sunni Muslim for 23 years from birth, and I am still living in a Muslim country, Turkey. Also, my parents and all of my relatives are still Muslim. So, my critics about Islam can be easily consider this an inside view.
I know that the title of this essay seems assertive, but I will explain the rightness of this title step-by-step in this essay.
First of all, you have to learn about Islam that if you are an "outsider", a non-Muslim, for example, a Christian, an atheist, a Buddhist, a Jew or whatever else, all Muslims have the "right" of killing and raping you, grabbing all your properties, your country, land, money and anything else. They take this "right" from the book of their belief, the Quran. In other words, they take this "right" from their belief's core, the theology of Islam.
Here are some examples of this in verses from Quran.
This verse of Quran is about "all non-Muslims", all "heretics"! — Christians, Buddhists, atheists, Jews, etc. — describing them "who wage war against Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad)"
Surat Al-Ma'idah (5.33):
Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.
And this verse of the Quran is about the order to kill the humans who left Islam, the apostates:
Surat An-Nisa' (4.89):
They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper..
… You have heard many times that "Islam is a tolerant religion". That is the biggest lie that you can hear all over the World, and this lie is used as a mask to hide the terrible face of Islam. There is NO difference between Islam and Islamism. This is the main error that the modern world make about Islam. There are not different forms as Islam and Islamism, they are the same thing, and they have the same content. This separation is just only an illusion, and it is used by Muslims to hide the brutal, hateful, oppressive,murderous, genocidal face of Islam.
Islamic theology is based on the verses of the Quran and Hadith. Hadiths are the words and actions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and all Muslims must follow these words and actions in addition to the orders of Quran. For example, you have to defecate as Muhammad did, and you have to clean yourself as he did, or you can rape and enslave a "heretic" woman in a war as a sex slave as Muhammad did, or you can torture your enemy in a war to learn the place of his hidden money, as Muhammad did.
You "must" cut the hand of a thief as Muhammad did, not give him any prison sentence as do the modern laws.
You must stone a woman to death as Muhammad did, because she had sex outside of the rules of Islam (but you must only whip her partner a hundred times). If you are a Muslim, you can never set them free while considering that their sexual actions are about their own personal relations and freedom, in accord with modern laws. You must definitely apply the punishments of Muhammad such as stoning the woman to the death and whipping her partner a hundred times if you want to be a good Muslim.
You must kill the man who left the belief of Islam, as Muhammad did. You can't say "This is his own choice and he has the freedom of thought and belief", because it is an order of the Quran that you "must" kill the persons who were Muslim before and then left the Islamic religion.
You must kill all homosexuals according to the orders of Islam. No Muslims can say according to Islam that their sexual orientation is their own natural right, in accord with the human rights norms of our age.
You have the "right" to marry a little girl at 9 years old, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape a little child legally in Islam and make her a sex slave, and also a domestic slave till the end of her life.
You can lie alongside of your dead wife for 6 hours, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape the dead body of your wife for 6 hours after her death.
Here is Islam … Here is the "tolerant religion" … Here is the right way to the heaven … Here are the orders of Allah … Here are the actions of Muhammad…
You can easily see how civilized the Muslim countries of the world are because of Islam, such as Afghanistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran, Sudan and the others. You can see how much they have contributed to the history of philosophy, the history of art, and the history of science of the whole world. You can see how respectful they are to human rights, women's rights, children's rights, the freedom of expression and thought, the freedom of the press, the freedom of belief, etc.
The first genocide wave of 20th century, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide and the Pontic Greek Genocide, was perpetrated by Turkish and Kurdish people of the Ottoman Empire and the new Turkish Republic, getting motivation from the "rights" that they had because of Islam: the "rights" of killing and raping the non-Muslims, enslaving their women and little girls as sex slaves and also domestic slaves, and grabbing their money, houses and lands. However, "The Committee of Union and Progress" … was based on Turkish nationalism; they used Turkish and Kurdish people easily for these genocides because of the Islamic religion's content about non-Muslims. All the Turkish and Kurdish Muslims believed that they would go to the heaven if they killed more non-Muslims, as do today's Islamist terrorists.
The owners of the second genocide wave of 20th century were Nazis, as you know. They took the genocides of the Turks as a sample. It is know that Adolf Hitler said to his military commanders, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?," while they were talking about the reaction of the world about the genocides that they were planning to perpetrate.
Nazism was considered a legal and respectable ideology at the beginning of the 1930s, and then the world saw how dangerous Nazism was. Millions of people died because of Nazism, and today it is illegal to support Nazism in any civilized country. You can never make propaganda about Nazism legally. Today, Nazism is not considered as a genuine thought alternative, and it is not included in the freedom of thought and expression.
Serkan Engin is wrong there. Western countries do not (and rightly do not) forbid the promotion of Nazism. Plenty of praise for it can be found in the "social media". Neo-Nazi groups are proliferating and enlarging in many European countries. It is still, however, generally abhorred in the court of public opinion. As the ideology of Islam should be.
In Europe, you are more likely to be punished under the law for telling the truth about Islam, even in private, than for spreading Nazi or Islamic race hatred – and hatred of free speech!
As I have detailed above, Islam is against the human rights norms of our age, and it has more dangerous content than Nazism. Islam is not a belief alternative, it is just a crime against humanity, and any crime shouldn't have freedom in our modern world. So, Islam must be declared illegal all over the world, as is Nazism, because of its vandal content and commands that are against human rights. All actions about Islam must be forbidden and the propagandists of Islam must be judged because of instigating to the crimes of murder, rape, [property] grab and crimes against humanity. Otherwise, the world will meet with a big tragedy when the Islamists will get more power, as the world suffered because of Nazism.
If the article doesn't demonstrate that Islam is worse than Nazism, it confirms that it's quite as evil.
Declaring an ideology illegal will not eliminate it. But Islam could be anathematized by public opinion if the Western governments, the media, and the schools and academies were to tell the truth about it continuously and consistently.
There's no sign that that's likely to happen. Which is why articles like this need to be widely circulated.
For the glory of Allah: slavery, massacre, torture, organ theft 1
These pictures and the text are from The Muslim Issue.
We have written the captions, basing them on the author's and adding some information. Further comment would be superfluous.
The author of the text is an anonymous Ethiopian. He writes:
There are more than 100,000 known black Sudanese slaves under the Arabized Islamic Sudanese government, and the government encourages this by arming the Arab militias to ride on black villages. To the extent that these villages defend themselves, the government sends airplanes to bomb them. Thousands have died at the hands of the army of Sudan, and this is not good enough to cause demonstrations for the black community. Shame shame!!!!
The black Darfur people of Sudan had traditionally been Animist until the late 1800s, but since then have been under heavy pressure from the Islamic sword to convert, and they have complied. This is not enough for the barbarians, and to this day the Arab tribes have been riding them like cattle for slaves, and the Islamic government of Sudan has committed crimes against humanity. There are more than 2 million people displaced and half a million dead as a result of these barbaric acts. Up to this minute, many are dying at the hands of the government and its Arab militias, yet where are the demonstrations to protest against these barbaric acts? Shame shame!!!
Human trafficking in Sinai Egypt/Sudan:
Since 2009 up to this minute, the barbaric Arabs have kidnapped thousands of Eritreans and Ethiopians from the borders between Eritrea and Sudan and Ethiopia and Sudan. These barbaric Arabs from Sudan and Egypt, and their latest customers, the smugglers of weapons for Hamas in the Sinai, have tortured Eritreans and Ethiopians for ransom in the Sinai Peninsula, subjecting them to rape, burning, and mutilation. …
Thousands have died, and thousand are still in captive. Where are Human Rights Watch, the UN, the black empowering institutions, the black Muslims, and the moderate Arab Muslims protesting these barbaric acts? There is no such protest. It is in their holy book: a non-Muslim deserves nothing …
These are pictures of a massacre: the aftermath of an air bombardment of civilians by the Sudanese Islamic government in May 2014
And these are pictures of human trafficking victims taken after they were dropped over the Sinai border into Israel. One has been ripped open for the removal of organs, and then roughly stitched up again.
Your tiny home is frozen 1
Believe it! There really is such a thing – and has been for nigh on 20 years – called the Commission on Global Governance. It is of course a bureau within the headquarters of evil, the United Nations.
This is from Canada Free Press, by Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, an authority on the UN's baleful Agenda 21:
The UN Commission on Global Governance reported in 1995, "The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation." (United Nations, Our Global Neighborhood, The Commission on Global Governance, 1995, Oxford University Press).
It seems that our national sovereignty is yielding quite fast on the southern border without Congressional input, under the guise of a socially engineered humanitarian crisis. They could not erase national sovereignty fast enough in the name of "environmental cooperation".
The progressives' social engineering projects implemented around the world are not limited to just destroying national sovereignty, language, and cultural identity. Those who grew up under communism are familiar with the Soviet style, mass movement of entire villages to high density urban areas.
Social engineers had decided that land was better used in co-operative farms owned by the communist government. Private homes located on farm land were bulldozed and people were moved into densely populated cities with grey concrete apartments of 400-500 square feet, mushrooming practically overnight. They could not build them fast enough. Often it necessitated moving two families into a 600 square feet apartment, sharing the kitchen and the bathroom. …
In this country, city planners who oppose urban sprawl and begrudge the average 2,300 square foot homes as environmental destroyers of the planet, have designed and built living units of 140-200 square feet, called aPodments in Sammamish, Washington. Resident Judy Green "shares the kitchen with seven other tenants on the second floor." To get to her loft cubicle, she must climb six flights of stairs. Because of non-existent global warming, cars and elevators are not allowed. The "micro-units" are smaller than a hotel room and rent for $600-900 per month. I checked with my favorite hotel chain – their average hotel room is 375 square feet. The average jail cell is 6 feet by 8 feet.
The "eco-progressives" use local government zoning to impose their ideas of "sustainable urbanism", "sustainable communities", and "equitable communities", by changing the counties' desired low density character and scale to high-density crime-ridden slums.
In Fairfax County, Virginia, the Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission are crafting a plan to place Lilliputian slum dwellings in every area of the county. The Residential Studio Units (RSUs) will have a total surface of 220-320 square feet. Each high-rise will contain 75 such units and one parking space per unit. Locals object to the plan because it will reduce property values, change neighborhoods, increase population density, exacerbate the existing traffic congestion, and increase crime under the guise of "affordable housing" for the poor, low wage workers, and "diversity." …
Reality television is now indoctrinating Americans into accepting the idea of micro-dwellings with the July 2014 debut of "Tiny House Nation" on the FYI channel. According to their website, "renovation experts and hosts, John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin, travel across America to show off ingenious small spaces and the inventive people who live in them, as well as help new families design and construct their own mini-dream home in a space no larger than 500 square feet. From a micro-apartment in New York City to a caboose car turned home in Montana to a micro-sized mobile home for road tripping – this is a series that celebrates the exploding movement of tiny homes".
Perhaps "extreme downsizing" is the dream of retired people or the reality of young Americans who live with several roommates or in the basement of their parents because they cannot afford to buy a normal home on low wages driven by a mismanaged economy. What I do know for sure, this not an "exploding movement of tiny homes" and it has nothing to do with "financial independence". Most Americans have never heard of such tiny dwellings, love their spacious homes, and are not remotely aware that they are an intricate part of a larger plan of social engineering [to take] people off the land, out of suburbia, and into inner cities.
It is certainly not the new American dream; it is the new forced reality as envisioned and carefully planned by the elite's UN Agenda 21.
A book titled Utopias Elsewhere (in America, The Wilder Shores of Marx in Britain), by the wise and witty writer Anthony Daniels, chronicles his travels in five communist countries shortly before the Iron Curtain came down in 1991 – the year the book was published. One chapter is about Romania, the land of Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh's birth, where she lived under totalitarian oppression. It is a book which should be read by anyone who doubts that life under communism is unimaginably poor and miserable. We guarantee it as a cure for those afflicted with leftist ideology. A decent education in the West would include it as a permanently prescribed text.
In the chapter on Romania, Anthony Daniels notes that in villages that were "systematized" (ie where the villagers had been evicted from their houses and the houses swept away) –
Uniform blocks of apartments – of the same design throughout the country – had been built, in earnest of the Ceausescu dream of a nation living in bugged, ill-lit, cold, waterless yet damp cells, in total dependence on the state for everything they consumed.
As the UN's Agenda 21 dream for the world continues to be realized, the cells in America will not be quite as bad as that. Though they will be bugged, and not very well-lit or well-heated, they will almost certainly have some (rationed) water and they might not be damp.
But if the dream agenda is fully implemented, the tenants will be dependent on the World Government for everything they consume.
For women, against feminists 2
Chloé Valdary, a student leader at the University of New Orleans, speaks for justice, for Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the oppressed women she champions, against the savagery of Islam, and against the narrow-mindedness, dogmatism, and heartlessness of political correctness in general and certain academic feminists at Brandeis University in particular.
Islam IS a savage ideology.
Feminism IS nugatory.
Political correctness IS bigotry.
Most non-Western peoples ARE culturally backward.
Bye-bye freedom 5
Free peoples are losing the habits of free speech, and thereby will lose their freedom.
So Mark Steyn writes.
In Australia, they're trying to get rid of Section 18c, which is … [a] thought-crime law. … The Aussie campaign is not going well."There is a danger that the Coalition resolve to repeal Section 18C will weaken further," warns The Independent Australian, saying [to the Australian public) there's an "urgent need to submit your views on 18C amendments by April 30th". …
What's going on? In the western world today, there are far more lobby groups for censorship – under polite euphemisms such as "diversity", "human rights", "hate speech" – than there are for freedom of expression. …
That's the hard political arithmetic of defending free speech in western chancelleries today: There aren't a lot of takers for it, and the opposition to it is very organized. A government minister with an eye to his press clippings has to believe in it an awful lot for it to be worth taking on.
[In Britain] on Saturday, Paul Weston of Liberty GB, a candidate in next month's European elections, was speaking on the steps of Winchester Guildhall and quoting Winston Churchill on the matter of Muslims (from The River War, young Winston's book on the Sudanese campaign).
Winston Churchill did not write favorably of Islam.*
[Paul Weston] was, in short order, arrested by half-a-dozen police officers, shoved in the back of a van and taken away to be charged … with a "Racially Aggravated Crime" – in other words, he's being charged explicitly for the content of that Churchill passage, and the penalty could be two years in jail.
This is remarkable, and not just because Islam is not a race, as its ever more numerous pasty Anglo-Saxon "reverts" will gladly tell you. For one thing, the police have effectively just criminalized Liberty GB's political platform. There are words for regimes that use state power to criminalize their opponents and they're not "mother of parliaments" or "land of hope and glory".
More to the point, if Mr Weston is found guilty of a "racially aggravated crime" for reading Churchill's words, then why is the publisher of the book not also guilty and liable to two years in jail? Why is Churchill himself not guilty? …
Civilized societies … lose their liberties incrementally. … Sir Winston's River War will simply disappear from print, but so discreetly you won't even notice it's gone. Personally, while we're criminalizing Churchill, I'm in favor of banning that "Fight on the beaches" speech, on the grounds that all that "we will never surrender" stuff is … increasingly risible. …
[In America] fifty-five percent (55%) of Likely U.S. Voters believe the government should be allowed to review political ads and candidates' campaign comments for their accuracy and punish those that it decides are making false statements about other candidates. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 31% oppose such government oversight. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.
Or to put it another way: fewer than a third of those polled give a hoot about the First Amendment. …
Two generations of Americans have been raised in an educational milieu that thinks, to pluck a current example at random, that using the phrase "Man up!" ought to be banned. If you've been marinated in this world from kindergarten, why would you emerge into the adult world with any attachment to the value of freedom of speech?
As I say, free peoples are losing the habits of free speech, and thereby will lose their freedom.
*Here is the passage from Churchill's book The River War that may not be read aloud in public in Britain:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
We hate to disagree with Winston Churchill on any point, and we love to quote this passage for most of what he says in it, but of course we cannot agree that "Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science". Since the Enlightenment put a stop to the power of the Churches, science has been slowly burying Christianity – we're happy to say.
The civilization of modern Europe is falling, "as fell the civilization of ancient Rome".
Christianity brought down the night on the Roman Empire. Islam is doing the same to modern Europe. Churchill saw the danger. He did not foresee that it would start happening just a few decades after he led the West to victory over Islam's twin and ally, Nazism.
Britain – a pussy nation? 4
"Conscience does make cowards of us all,"
– says Hamlet.
Is it conscience – deriving from the wrong belief that Britain was bad for the nations it ruled under its imperium until the middle of the twentieth century – that has transformed the British bulldog into a pussycat?
These days British officials are so afraid of being called nasty names, they would rather destroy themselves and their country than risk provoking some name-calling by their enemies. (As a result their friends have cause to call them such names as cowards, fools, pussycats.)
British authorities enforcing political correctness have allowed Muslim paedophile gangs to sexually abuse children with impunity for more than two decades, according to a comprehensive new study that examines the harrowing epidemic of child grooming in towns and cities across Britain.
The meticulously documented report, entitled, Easy Meat: Multiculturalism, Islam and Child Sex Slavery, shows how officials in England and Wales were aware of rampant child grooming — the process by which sexual predators befriend and build trust with children in order to prepare them for abuse — by Muslim gangs since at least 1988.
Rather than taking steps to protect British children, however, police, social workers, teachers, neighbors, politicians and the media deliberately downplayed the severity of the crimes perpetrated by the grooming gangs in order to avoid being accused of "Islamophobia" or racism.
The conspiracy of silence was not broken until November 2010, when it was leaked that police in Derbyshire had carried out an undercover investigation — dubbed Operation Retriever — and arrested 13 members of a Muslim gang for grooming up to 100 underage girls for sex.
So there are still strong Britons who know right from wrong. Something happened in Derbyshire, among the police, that could restore an iota of national pride.
Some journalists on the Times were inspired (perhaps) by the Derbyshire police to do their job of reporting what was happening in their country.
Shortly thereafter, the Times of London published the results of a groundbreaking investigation into the sexual exploitation and internal trafficking of girls in the Midlands and the north of England. In January 2011, the newspaper reported that in 17 court cases since 1997 in which groups of men were prosecuted for grooming 11 to 16 year old girls, 3 of the 56 men found guilty were Asian, 50 of them Muslim, and three were white.
In September 2012, the Times published another exposé that revealed the hidden truth about the sale and extensive use of British children for sex.
The article showed that organized groups of Muslim men were able to groom, pimp and traffic girls across the country with virtual impunity. Although offenders were identified to police, they were not prosecuted. A child welfare expert interviewed by the newspaper said the government's reluctance to tackle such street grooming networks represented "the biggest child protection scandal of our time."
So Soeren Kern reports and comments at Gatestone. We are quoting him, and his quotations, at length.
He goes on:
But the latest study — which avoids sensational details and confines itself to exposing where officialdom has failed — demonstrates that even the coverage in the Times has understated the scale of the problem:
There is far more to this story than has come out so far. The population are already outraged by what they have learned in the last year or two, but know only a fraction of the scandal … This massive over-representation of Muslim men in this crime spree has been borne out by the prosecutions of the last three to four years, but it is clear that it must have been known long ago and should have been made public.
Because the predators were Muslims, the agencies responsible for child-protection have almost entirely failed in their job to protect vulnerable children. From a fear of being called 'racist,' police forces across the country have buried the evidence.
On the rare occasion when the phenomenon [of child grooming] would be discussed in more than the briefest details, political activists and the authorities would come together to stop the public from knowing more. Political correctness would be used to make sure that people did not speak about this phenomenon, enabling the perpetrators free rein to sexually abuse schoolgirls for decades.Yes, decades. We know that in an age where parents are not allowed to smack their children, this sounds unbelievable.
The report shows that even documents that supposedly address the problem of child grooming have gone out of their way to avoid discussing why some "ethnic groups" are massively over-represented as perpetrators—the study calculates that Muslims are 154 times more likely to be perpetrators of these crimes than non-Muslims—while the schoolgirl victims are overwhelmingly of a different ethnic group.
The perpetrators have been overwhelmingly men from Muslim communities, and the victims have been overwhelmingly girls from non-Muslim communities (Sikhs, Christians and Atheists). Yet the professionals never deemed it important to declare this, or even denied the pattern existed.
Atheists ? With a capital A? Atheist girl prostitutes? Intellectual, thinking girl prostitutes? We appreciate the article, but we suggest that Soeren Kern is wrong here and simply means "non-religious".
Now comes a quoted piece of uproariously stupid, cowardly, official claptrap à la mode:
Despite government agencies in Rotherham knowing about (and privately discussing) the Muslim grooming gangs from 1996, a 2010 document by Rotherham Safeguarding Children Board stated that "great care will be taken in drafting … this report to ensure that its findings embrace Rotherham's qualities of diversity. It is imperative that suggestions of a wider cultural phenomenon are avoided".
Rotherham's "qualities of diversity"! Of which it is proud. "Diversity": the euphemisim for "not being racist".
Full translation: "We Rotherhamites don't look down on people just because they're child sex-slavers and pimps and criminals – not anyway if they're Muslim – because we want to prove that we don't think of ourselves as superior. We're sorry that we used to think of ourselves like that. But now, to achieve your forgiveness, O Muslims, watch us sacrifice our values, our law, our pride, and grovel in the dirt before you like good Socialists (and Christians)."
One of the defining features of child grooming is the ethnic/cultural homogeneity of the gang members, and the refusal of other members of their community to speak out about them or to condemn their behavior. According to the report, the gangs are often made up of brothers and members of their extended family, many from Pakistan, who take part in the grooming and/or rape of the schoolgirls.
The report states that grooming gangs target young girls, aged between 11 and 16, because the gang members want virgins and girls who are free of sexual diseases. "Most of the men buying sex with the girls have Muslim wives and they don't want to risk infection," the report states. "The younger you look, the more saleable you are."
The schoolgirls they target are overwhelmingly non-Muslim, while the gangs are overwhelmingly Muslim. The girls are often lured into the clutches of the gang using a young Muslim man who befriends/seduces the girl. None of this is accidental; here we are not talking about cross-cultural romantic relationships. What is so unusual about this disparity in ethnicity, is that most Muslims in Britain have little or no interaction with the indigenous population.
Yes, well – isn't that how multiculturalism is supposed to work?
The scale of the problem is truly horrifying. According to Parents against Child Sexual Exploitation (PACE), a national charity focused on working with the victims of child grooming and their families, at least 10,000 British children are in the clutches of the gangs at any one time, and at least 1,000 new girls are being groomed by gangs each year.
But this is "just the tip of the iceberg," according to a document published by the House of Commons, which estimates that at least 20,000 British children are at risk of sexual exploitation by grooming gangs.
Meanwhile, prosecutions are few and far between. …
Finally, the authors of the report examine the links between Islamic culture and doctrine and the crime of child grooming. They note:
The notion that Islam could be the basis for this criminality is always ruled out of the question, with no investigation of Islamic theology, the history of Islam, or the rulings of Sharia law.
The authors then provide a thorough examination of Islamic sacred texts, and conclude, inter alia, that: Muslim men are taught in mosques that women are little more than chattels or possessions over whom they have absolute authority; Islam instructs Muslim men that they can have sex with their slaves, are permitted legally and morally to rape them, and may turn a slave girl into a prostitute; and Islam looks down on non-Muslims.
At the same time, British judges are increasingly using Islamic Sharia law to justify light sentences for Muslims who rape underage girls:
As late as May 2013, the media were reporting that a Muslim man in Nottingham who had raped an underage girl, was spared a prison term after the judge heard that the naïve 18-year-old attended an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless. Rashid told psychologists he had no idea that having sex with a willing 13-year-old was against the law; besides, his education had taught him to believe that "women are no more worthy than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground".
And that belief of his was enough to get him an acquittal? There was a time when ignorance of the law was no excuse for breaking it, and British law declared that raping a child was a crime. But sharia sees it differently, and tolerance requires the descendants of imperialists to concede superiority to Third World ideas conceived in the dark ages.
The report is emphatic in blaming the doctrine of multiculturalism for Britain's lack of resolve in confronting the grooming gangs:
Multiculturalism is a fundamentally incoherent doctrine, invented to conceal the serious conflicts which have arisen when peoples from vastly different cultures, with different values, are forced to live together. Political correctness and the doctrine of multiculturalism meant that the professionals whose job it was to help the vulnerable were consciously commanding that these diverse cultural values could not be discussed. Multiculturalism came about in order to deny that there is any significance to cultures having different values and to conceal that there will be conflict when these incompatible values come together. Political correctness is the means by which such denial is enforced.
Those who propound and defend multiculturalism say that people from different cultural backgrounds have different values, and that we must all accept these values as being of equal validity. But when it comes to examining what those different values are, multiculturalists suddenly lose interest in the details of these differences and lose interest in the consequences that follow from these different values. …
Islamic society is a totalitarian society, all other values are to be subordinated to Islamic values. But if anyone in Britain dares to criticize Islam, they will be denounced and told they live in a multicultural society, and must accept these totalitarian values.
Finally the report, written by brave, sensible Britons, reminds the cowards that the Muslim population of Britain is doubling with each generation.
All too soon the non-Muslims will be the minority and lose the power their democratic system allows them – and of which the undemocratic Muslims will take full advantage – to make and enforce their own laws.
Other European countries should take note of that reminder too.
To adapt an expression that probably began with Muslims: The camel's nose of sharia is in the tent. And your rulers let it get there rather than risk being called "intolerant", "racist" "imperialist", "colonialist", "Islamophobic".
If that's what contemporary European civilization has become, it will be no great loss when the Muslims destroy it. Only it will be replaced by something far worse – the barbarism of Islam.
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The institution of marriage throughout the civilized (ie Western) world is on a steep decline from which there is probably no recovery.
"The custom of one man and one woman remaining faithful to each other all through their lives is called monotony." So goes the schoolboy howler. And we suspect the boy was on to something.
Google "marriage in decline" and you'll find a multitude of theories as to why fewer people are getting married these days than say fifty years ago. (None of them includes that kid's sharp diagnosis.)
But is the decline a good or a bad thing for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Here is an article by Professor Walter Williams, who thinks the destruction of the black family has sad consequences. He blames the welfare state, not only for that but for the spoiling of black culture generally.
Criticism of the welfare state is music to our ears, so we quote him at length.
He writes:
People in the media and academia are mostly leftists hellbent on growing government and controlling our lives. Black people, their politicians and civil rights organizations have become unwitting accomplices. The leftist pretense of concern for the well-being of black people confers upon them an aura of moral superiority and, as such, gives more credibility to their calls for increasing government control over our lives.
Ordinary black people have been sold on the importance of electing blacks to high public office. After centuries of black people having been barred from high elected office, no decent American can have anything against their wider participation in our political system. For several decades, blacks have held significant political power, in the form of being mayors and dominant forces on city councils in major cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington, Memphis, Tenn., Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, Oakland, Calif., Newark, N.J., and Cincinnati. In these cities, blacks have held administrative offices such as school superintendent, school principal and chief of police. Plus, there's the precedent-setting fact of there being 44 black members of Congress and a black president.
What has this political power meant for the significant socio-economic problems faced by a large segment of the black community? Clearly, it has done little or nothing for academic achievement; the number of black students scoring proficient is far below the national average. It is a disgrace — and ought to be a source of shame — to know that the average white seventh- or eighth-grader can run circles around the average black 12th-grader in most academic subjects. The political and education establishment tells us that the solution lies in higher budgets, but the fact of business is that some of the worst public school districts have the highest spending per student. Washington, D.C., for example, spends more than $29,000 per student and scores at nearly the bottom in academic achievement.
Each year, roughly 7,000 — and as high as 9,000 — blacks are murdered.
Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Contrast this with the fact that black fatalities during the Korean War (3,075), Vietnam War (7,243) and wars since 1980 (about 8,200) total about 18,500. Young black males have a greater chance of reaching maturity on the battlefields than on the streets of Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Newark and other cities. Black political power and massive city budgets have done absolutely nothing to ameliorate this problem of black insecurity.
Most of the problems faced by the black community have their roots in a black culture that differs significantly from the black culture of yesteryear. Today only 35 percent of black children are raised in two-parent households, but as far back as 1880, in Philadelphia, 75 percent of black children were raised in two-parent households — and it was as high as 85 percent in other places. Even during slavery, in which marriage was forbidden, most black children were raised with two biological parents.
The black family managed to survive several centuries of slavery and generations of the harshest racism and Jim Crow, to ultimately become destroyed by the welfare state. The black family has fallen victim to the vision fostered by some intellectuals that, in the words of a sociology professor in the 1960s, "it has yet to be shown that the absence of a father was directly responsible for any of the supposed deficiencies of broken homes." The real issue to these intellectuals "is not the lack of male presence but the lack of male income." That suggests that fathers can be replaced by a welfare check. The weakened black family gives rise to problems such has high crime, predation and other forms of anti-social behavior.
The cultural problems that affect many black people are challenging and not pleasant to talk about, but incorrectly attributing those problems to racism and racial discrimination, a need for more political power, and a need for greater public spending condemns millions of blacks to the degradation and despair of the welfare state.
Religious Muslim eunuch for sale by religious Muslim 1
We cannot vouch for this advertisement being genuine and "not a joke" as it claims.
But Saudis do keep and traffic in slaves, so it is highly likely to be genuine.
It comes from Theodore Shoebat's website here:
A Saudi Muslim man has tried to sell a castrated slave on Facebook, with this horrifying advertisement:
Peace be upon you …
I have a [male] slave I bought from an African country and arranged for his visa and stay till I got him to Saudi [Arabia]
His description:
1 – Black skin. Tall 172 sm. Weight 60 kilos.
2 – Castrated (excellent for working with a family) you can check him with a doctor yourself if you have experience in the matter.
3 – [His] health is quite undamaged and has no imperfections.
4 – Age 26 years.
5 – Religion muslim and [he is] obedient and will not disobey you except in what displeases God. Please, the matter is very serious and is not a joke.
This video comes from here. The men whipping the young woman hung from a hook must have filmed it themselves. Because they were proud of what they did?
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Religious practices often do the most harm where they are intended to do the most good.
This – somewhat surprisingly – is from the BBC News Magazine:
For many Pakistani Muslims, visiting a shrine and donating money to beggars go hand in hand. But their generosity has encouraged the creation of a "begging mafia" which forces thousands of children into a life of slavery.
Shrines dedicated to holy men are dotted across most cities and towns in Pakistan. In the folk Islam of the region, they are regarded as saints, and can attract huge numbers of worshippers, eager to pray for their blessings.
The shrines have always been a magnet for beggars, especially children, as many of the pilgrims believe giving money to the poor will increase the chance of their prayers being heard.
The result? Children are being kidnapped and traded between begging gangs, says Mohammed Ali, founder of the Roshni Helpline charity.
"In 2010, 3,000 children went missing in Karachi alone," says Ali.
It was also "common [for parents] to leave a child at a shrine".
"Many of these children will be moved around shrines in Pakistan. They will have their heads shaved. They will be tattooed. They will be made unrecognizable … The culture of begging at shrines is so prevalent that the police will rarely intervene or ask children how they got to a shrine."
A few hours spent at any shrine in Pakistan will reveal that the beggars with the most pronounced disabilities attract the most attention and … the most money. …
So "children with existing disabilities are sought after by kidnappers", and –
"If a child isn't disabled, a disability can be inflicted [on him]," says Ali.
"We have dealt with cases where children have a limb cut off," he says. "An eye can be removed. The intention is for the child to attract sympathy and money." …
An hour outside Karachi, in the town of Hyderabad, lives taxi driver Mir Mohammed, with his wife and three children.
His eldest son, Mumtaz, recently went missing.
"He is disabled. I used to do everything for him. He was in his wheelchair just down the road but then we couldn't find him," says Mohammed. "Some people say they saw him being forced into a rickshaw. It must have been the begging gangs. A boy like Mumtaz is precious to the gangs. We have been searching all the shrines, but we can't find him. We want him home. We are desperate."
Roshni Helpline workers are circulating Mumtaz's photograph at shrines and the police will be asked to look for him. But the scale of the problem and the sheer number of shrines across Pakistan means that many missing children will never be found.
One of the best-known shrines is home to the tomb of Saint Doley Shah in Gujrat.
It is the town's focal point and attracts visitors from across the Punjab, especially women praying for fertility. It is also the historical home to the Doley Shah's "chooay" or "mice" – people with a genetic defect which causes a shrunken skull.
They were believed to be blessed, and attracted donations from almost every visitor, though now there is only one left, a woman who is fed, clothed and looked after by the shrine committee …
Everyone who visits the tomb is familiar with the shrine's legend. "If you are barren and you pray at the shrine, the Saint will grant you a child, but it could look like a mouse," one visitor told me. "You have to donate that child to the shrine or all your future children will look like mice too."
According to geneticist Dr Qasim Mehdi, Pakistan has a high rate of genetic disease, resulting from "an extremely high percentage of cousin marriage". …
And hence deformities. The Third World really is super-horrible.
Mohammed Ali at the Roshni Helpline is eager to set [a] culture shift in motion, by stimulating public discussion.
"Criminal gangs need to be tackled by the police but the biggest problem is superstition," he says.
A true statement which he spoils with the next:
"We need to teach people that there is nothing Islamic about leaving your child at a shrine or donating money to a child who is being forced to stand in front of a shrine."
Still, it's not something you'll see in a secular country.


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An expanded FAA NextGen ATC technologies testbed at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Daytona Beach, Fla. campus officially opened this week.
Volusia County, Florida
A business jet captain pursuing a master's degree at Embry-Riddle is asking pilots at Part 91 turbine operators to take a survey to help with her degree capstone project.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) and Honda Aircraft have announced the development of the industry's first certification for aerospace coatings applicators. Jason O'Neal, Michael Garza, Eliot Ewald and Jeffrey Varner, all Honda Aircraft employees, are the first four recipients of the new certification.
The University of Illinois is currently hosting an online survey to collect data on maintenance technician work practices and operational conditions related to work and duty patterns across the industry. It should take about 15 minutes to complete, and all maintenance technicians are encouraged to participate. "The idea for the survey came out of the FAA's aviation fatigue working group.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is developing a course on FBO management and is seeking industry feedback in the form of a survey on what aspects and skills the class should cover. "If we know what they want from an employee who walks in the door, then we'll give it to them." said Gary Witt, ERAU's director of academics, who expects the school to offer the course next year.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has taken delivery of a Mentor advanced aircraft training device built by Frasca. The trainer will be used in studies of hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, in the university's Normobaric lab. The Mentor replicates a Cessna 172 cockpit complete with Garmin G1000 avionics and a Truvision visual system.
The University of North Dakota (UND) Flying Team won the 2010 Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference (SAFECON) national collegiate aviation competition, which was held at Indiana State University-Terre Haute from May 17 to 22. The win marked UND's 16th SAFECON championship in the 25 years that the university has participated in this competition.
Customers of JSSI's hourly-cost maintenance services can now have work done at Duncan Aviation facilities on favorable terms through a new agreement between the two companies.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is opening an International Center for Aviation and Wildlife Risk Mitigation at its Prescott, Ariz. campus. The new center will bring together top aviation wildlife experts to share and develop new research and management solutions to reduce the dangers that animals pose to aircraft and serve as a resource to airports around the world.
The aerospace industry needs to make a concerted effort to attract young people to aviation careers, according to presenters at this year's New Jersey State Aviation Conference, the theme of which was "Challenges in Aviation Education."
The need to attract new talent becomes increasingly important as industry professionals age. "The whole aviation industry
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THE BLUES LOSES AN ELDER, AND A YOUNG'UN. Last month, the Blues world mourned the passing of two vital bluesmen, one an elder statesman, and the other a younger bluesman in the prime of his life. They will both be missed by their many fans throughout the world.
JIMMIE LEE ROBINSON 1931-2002 (Excerpt from Charles Cowdery's Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition News Update page: http://cowdery.home.netcom.com/maxnews.html )
"Jimmie Lee Robinson died Saturday, July 6, 2002. He was 71.
A prominent blues musician, Jimmie Lee Robinson was one of the most stalwart supporters of the struggle to save the historic Maxwell Street neighborhood, where he was born and raised. His earliest musical performances were in the 1940s as a skinny, teen-aged street musician performing at the Maxwell Street Market with veterans such as Floyd and Moody Jones, Snooky Pryor, Eddie "Porkchop" Hines and others.
Robinson gained national attention for his protest of the destruction of Maxwell Street. In 2000-2001 he fasted for 81 days to draw attention to the devastation of the neighborhood known as the birthplace of Chicago blues. His hunger strike reached the front page of the New York Times. In addition to his fasts, Robinson appeared frequently at demonstrations and other Maxwell Street events, often performing his original composition, "The Maxwell Street Teardown Blues."
Jimmie Lee Robinson was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken man who loved to talk about spirituality, natural foods and health. He enjoyed meeting and talking with his many fans. He will be remembered as a talented artist and committed activist with a deep, loving spirit."
(Blues News Courtesy of Rounder Records. ( http://www.rounder.com )
"Memphis, TN - Manuel Gales, known to the music world as "Little" Jimmy King, passed away in his home on Friday, July 21, 2002. The exact cause of death has yet to be determined. His scorching style of playing echoed the work of what he called his personal trinity: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, and his mentor and adopted Grandfather, the late Albert King. Gales was known best on the Memphis scene for his live performances at B.B. King's Blues Club on Beale Street."
At this year's Mississippi Valley Blue Festival, I was introduced to a very unique and vital organization, dedicated to the task of helping true blue performers "of Southern musical traditions gain recognition and meet their day-to-day needs." This fine organization helps promote and support such artists as this year's fest performers Cora Mae Bryant, George Higgs and Little Pink Anderson, as well as John Dee Holman, Cootie Stark, Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Frank Edwards, John Jackson and many more. Music Maker programs include life maintenance, instrument acquisition, tour support, emergency relief, and visiting artist programming. Please visit their web site at www.musicmaker.org , and support their efforts with a donation if possible. Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. is tax exempt, public charity under IRS code 50l (c) 3.
THE JOANNA CONNOR BAND - JOANNA CONNOR (M. C. Records) Ms. Connor's debut on the M. C. label blends R&B, rock and blues into a hot 'n spicy blues stew. With her fiery slide work and soul-drenched voice, Joanna delivers ten originals, along with unique covers of songs by War, Grandmaster Flash and Sam Cooke. Red hot stuff from one of the most passionate ladies in the biz today. (see www.mc-records.com for more on the web)
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE CHUBBY - POPA CHUBBY (Blind Pig Records) Popa Chubby is back with a smolderin' new collection, expressing solid sentiments and emotions rooted in the tragedy and aftermath of September 11th. Popa is " a post-modern bluesman," to quote Billboard, and his brand of new blues is anchored in contemporary relevance and his firm beliefs. Angry at times, but never, ever to where it detracts from the musicianship or material, "Somebody Let The Devil Out" is a prime example of how Popa Chubby expresses himself through his innovative new blues. (for more on the web, visit: www.blindpigrecords.com )
HEADS UP! - LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS (Alligator Records) Veteran Chicago bluesman Lil' Ed and his band are back with his fifth release on the 'Gator label, carrying on a tradition of pure houserockin'. Percolatin' rhythms and spontaneous delivery are the trademarks of this Chicago blues ensemble, and the end result is straight-up, 150-proof blues 'n boogie. (for more on Lil' Ed and other Alligator artists, visit: www.alligator.com )
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"That's My Boy" is terrible, awful and way funnier than it has any right to be. It's also a little bit like "Midnight In Paris," which is the type of crazy comparison you could only make on the internet.


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Hate Your Enemy?
- Friday, December 05, 2008
When Jesus said, "Love your enemies," exactly how broadly did he intend that command to apply?
Don't know if you saw it online recently, but Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the fiery, opinionated Orthodox Jewish rabbi who frequently makes the rounds on cable opinion shows, wrote an article in response to last week's attacks in Mumbai, India. In that article, Boteach argues that people of goodwill ought to hate--passionately and actively hate--people who commit acts like those in Mumbai. Here's how he deals with Jesus' command to love our enemies:
As for my Christian brethren who regularly quote to me Jesus' famous saying, "Love your enemies," my response is that our enemies and God's enemies are different parties altogether. Jesus meant to love those who steal your girlfriend, cut you off on the road or swindle you in a business deal. But to love those who indiscriminately murder God's children is an abomination against all that is sacred. Is there a man who is human whose heart is not filled with moral revulsion against terrorists who target a rabbi who feeds the hungry? Would God or Jesus ask me to extend even one morsel of my limited capacity for compassion to fiends rather than saving every last particle for their victims instead?
Could God really be so unreasonable, could Jesus be so cruel, as to ask me to love baby-killers? And would such a God be moral if He did? Could I pray to a God who loves terrorists? Could I find comfort in Him knowing that He offers them comfort as well? No, such a god would be my enemy. He would abide in Hades rather than heaven. And I would be damned before I would worship him. I will accept an eternity in purgatory rather than a moment of celestial bliss shared with these beasts.
I've seen these paragraphs excerpted all over the internet in the last few days, even on some sites done by Christians. And most of those sites are linking to it as if the rabbi's words here are really useful in thinking through all this, as if he's nicely threaded the needle on who deserves to be loved and whom we can safely hate.
I think that's wrong. And I think Rabbi Boteach is wrong, both in his prescription and in his understanding of Christian teaching--and even Old Testament teaching. It's true that if you caricature Jesus' command there as a happy-sappy, kumbaya love that can't see the difference between the terrorist and the terrorized, Boteach's approach looks reasonable and even nicely realistic in comparison. But that's just a caricature. Actually there's a whole lot more going on in Christian thought about all this. Here's how I think through it:
1) First of all, I think Boteach is wrong to limit Jesus' command just to minor personal offenses. Jesus says, "Love your enemies and do good to those who hate you. Bless those who persecute you." Persecution isn't just stealing your girlfriend. For the early Christians, it was killing them--and/or their families--in often brutal ways. Those are the enemies Jesus is telling them to love, not just a punk who cuts you off in traffic. Besides, isn't Rabbi Boteach espousing here precisely the mentality that Jesus rejects? "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you . . ."
2) Loving our enemies does not mean that we should work or hope or pray against justice. On the contrary, we should work, pray, and hope for justice--even human justice. Of course, there is a day coming when God himself will exact perfect justice and put everything to rights. Thus the Bible tells us not to take revenge, but to remember that vengeance belongs to the Lord. But even before that day, Romans 13 gives the state the power of "the sword," that is, the right and authority to execute justice--if necessary by executing those who commit the most heinous crimes. There is an important distinction to be held between justice exacted by an individual, which is vengeful and wrong, and justice exacted by the state, which is retributive and right.
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Integrating the K1000 with Dell OME
At a high level, these steps are as follows:
Install and configure Dell OpenManage™ Essentials, including device discovery.
Configure Service queue in KACE
Create an E-mail Alert action in OME
Test E-mail Alert action in OME
Install and Configure Dell OpenManage™ Essentials.
Dell OpenManage™ Essentials is a Windows-based systems management console that replaces Dell IT Assistant. A physical or virtual server running Windows Server 2008 will be required to run OME. This installation is quite simple and largely self-contained. The one exception is if you plan to manage a large environment. OME includes Microsoft SQL Server Express for small deployments, but supports use of Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise if you plan to manage a larger deployment. The software may be downloaded here. You'll find installation instructions and other documentation here.
Once you have OME installed, launch the OME console and select Manage -> Discovery and Inventory.
In the left pane, select Discovery Ranges-> Add Discovery Ranges to define an IP range for discovering your servers.
Enter the IP address / range or a list of DNS hostnames for the machines you want to monitor and click [Finish].
Configure Service desk and Service queue in KACE
The next step is to create your K1000 service desk queue so it can receive emails from OME. We'll set this up before configuring the email alert in OME since we need the email address for the service desk queue to complete the OME configuration. To simplify this task you can download a sample queue as a kpkg here and upload it to your K1000 as follows:
Connect to the clientdrop network share on your K1000. On Windows, do this by going to \\< your K1000 host >\clientdrop and logging into the share using the password you have configured for the share within the K1000.
Copy the downloaded Queue-110.kpkg file to you clientdrop share.
Log into your K1000 and go to Settings-> Resources-> Import K1000 Resources.
From the dropdown on the left, select Choose Action ->Import Resources(s) from SAMBA Share.
Pick Queue-110.kpkg from the list of files and select [Import Resources].
You'll now see a Queue resource listed called OME that is imported into your K1000.
Now go to Service Desk-> Configuration-> Queues. You'll see the OME queue listed there. Select the queue by clicking on the name.
Note the email address of the queue. This is the email address that will be recognized within the K1000 as the queue to receive email tickets from OME. If you wish to use a different email address that is externally defined in your email environment, and then forwarded to this address, you may specify that in the Alt. Email Address. For the purposes of this article, we'll assume that the queue's Email Address is being used. When you configure the email alert in OME, this email address will be the TO: address in the OME Email alert action.
Also note that there is no specification for Ticket Owners by Label. This is simply because user labels and the assigned users will be specific to your environment and cannot be assumed for the imported queue. Everything within the imported queue may be customized to meet your requirements.
To define custom fields, from within this Service Desk Configuration page select the Customize Fields and Layout link. Notice that the Category Values have the same set of default values supplied in the initial installation of OME. These category values may be used to manage ticket routing to different owners or to other queues depending on how to want to process incoming alert tickets. If you change or add categories within the OME console, you will want to make a corresponding change here to reflect the new category value by selecting the + button to create a new value, or the edit icon (pencil) next to a particular value if that value has changed.
Also note that the Priority Values have been modified to match the Severity values provided by OME. Now when these values get mapped from the OME alert action we'll create next, we'll get the same values in the service desk ticket that were generated from OME.
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Anyway you can make the sample queue - Queue-110.kpkg - available again? The download link in this article does not work :-(
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Hi Bryan.
That is a great how to. I was wondering about that myself... I am trying to implement the OMES as you describe above. I received an error installing the OM Essentials on 2 different servers, both which are T610's using Windows 2008 R2 Server (X64). Both servers already have Server Administrator installed so I am wondering if that might be the issue. The actual error is:
'This Operating System or service pack is not supported. Please see the Dell OpenManage Installation and Security Users' Guide for more details.'
According to the compatibility notes on the Dell site, both the server hardware and OS version are supported. Would you have any suggestions I might try in an effort to get this working?
Thanks in advance Bryan.
I apologize for not responding sooner. Are you still seeing this issue when attempting to install OME? Have you posted the error message to the user forum on the OME page at http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/f/default.aspx? The OpenManage team can probably help you better than I can.
I hope this helps,


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Knights football drills home summer with 7-on-7's
KANELAND—There's no rest for KHS football, even in the summer. With official practices now underway, the Knights got busy in the time off from school by participating with rival area schools in 7-on-7 gatherings that ended July...
- Posted August 15, 2013
McCastland sees all sides of volleyball
New hire inherits program on rise, eager to be involved KANELAND—Approved for the job two weeks ago, new Kaneland varsity volleyball head coach Kerri McCastland says, "It's been a great two weeks." Followers of Kaneland volleyball, on...
- Posted August 15, 2013
Weimer says goodbye to KHS volleyball
Eight years and an improved program later, Weimer tends to other responsibilities KANELAND—For the first time since the 2004 season, Kaneland volleyball will have a new face patrolling the sidelines this fall. The resignation of eight-year head...
- Posted August 1, 2013
Former Knight champs boost CSBL Joliet squad in postseason
Photo: Former KHS baseball player Brian Dixon (left) helped the Joliet Dirtbags baseball team beat the Crestwood Pantheers 14-4 in seven innings on Thursday in Midlothian, Ill. The Dirtbags qualified to compete in the NABF Major Regional...
- Posted August 1, 2013
Summer close-out
Boylan Catholic ends Knight baseball's summer season KANELAND—After the events of Monday in Maple Park, it seems like the lineup from Boylan Catholic of Rockford was a little better than the No. 13 seed. Boylan traveled to...
- Posted July 18, 2013
What a 'dirtbag'
Former Knight Dixon finds role with Joliet Dirtbags men's team KANELAND—For countless players of high school baseball, playing for your school is all you can hope for, much less be on a field celebrating a State championship....
- Posted July 18, 2013
O'Herron recognized as one of Illinois' elite
Lady Knight shortstop earns 2nd-team ICA, 3 others get 3rd team KANELAND—Winona State University in Minnesota already knew it was gaining a talented ballplayer on its softball team for the 2013-14 season. The honor bestowed upon Kaneland...
- Posted July 11, 2013
Taking summer stock
Photo: Tyler Carlson contributed a couple RBI, but it wasn't enough as the Knights fell short in their Summer League comeback bid against Sycamore 7-6 on Monday. File Photo Sycamore bests Kaneland in summer league action SYCAMORE—It's...
- Posted July 11, 2013
Lady Knight hoops solidifies core with summer play
Photo: Vanessa Gould handles the rock with care against Morris. File Photo SUGAR GROVE—Cracking open a textbook can wait until the summer ends, but breaking through a defensive scheme on the court can't, if you're a KHS...
- Posted June 27, 2013
Kaneland keeps ball rolling with summer basketball
File Photo: Drew David Knights participate in weekend's Tiger Shootout in Joliet KANELAND—In the sixth tournament final, it was Benet Academy laying the roundball skills to Rich East on Saturday to capture championship glory. Benet beat Homewood-Flossmoor,...
- Posted June 27, 2013
Late surge leads to Kucera win
Trio of KHS track athletes compete in elite meet; Kucera wins the 800-meter KANELAND—Kaneland High School track state champion Nathaniel Kucera continued his dominating year by setting a school record in the 800m run on Saturday. Kucera was one of...
- Posted June 13, 2013
Trophy case closed
Kaneland emerges with NIB-12 All-Sports Trophy by Mike Slodki KANELAND—You'd be hard pressed to argue with the facts. The facts say Kaneland High School athletics had an exemplary year in athletics for the 2012-13 calendar. As a...
- Posted June 7, 2013
Boys track going the Midwest Distance
Two Kaneland runners compete at Benedictine by Mike Slodki KANELAND—Not content with the productive goings-on at Eastern Illinois University two weekends ago, Kaneland High School track members Kyle Carter and Nathaniel Kucera, junior State medalists, have more...
- Posted June 7, 2013
A weekend to remember
4x800m Relay nabs State title, boys track takes sixth in Class 2A KANELAND—Kaneland boys track has a long and storied history, and the 2013 team added to it this weekend. The 4x800m relay team of Conor Johnson,...
- Posted May 30, 2013
Valiant comeback falls short
Softball eliminated despite six-run flurry in seventh inning AURORA—The end of Saturday's Class 3A Rosary Regional final is something Kaneland fans will remember for quite awhile. Kaneland softball wishes there was more to the season than mere...
- Posted May 30, 2013
Baseball spiked by Spartans
Knights nab first postseason win in 2 years, but loses in regional final KANELAND—After getting upended by DeKalb in the regional semifinal in 2012, to play for a regional plaque in 2013 was a welcome sight for...
- Posted May 30, 2013
Fine finish
Girls track concludes season at state finals KANELAND—It was a weekend well spent in Charleston, Ill. With a select few events able to go down to Eastern Illinois University for the Class 2A girls track State meet,...
- Posted May 24, 2013
Just short
Soccer falls in overtime to Rosary in regional ROCHELLE—They have to stop meeting like this. For the third time in the past five seasons, the Kaneland Lady Knights were eliminated in a regional final by the rival...
- Posted May 24, 2013
Rise of the Knights
Photo: Three-time state qualifier Corey Harner will be joined by numerous members of the boys track team at the IHSA State Track and Field meet this weekend. The Knights won the Sectional title, easily outdistancing second-place Winnebago...
- Posted May 24, 2013
Taking care of business
KHS begins regional with rout over Sandwich KANELAND—Lady Knights softball continues to roll. In the case of DeKalb, Rosary and Sandwich, it was over the opponents. Kaneland clinched the outright claim of Northern Illinois Big XII champions...
- Posted May 24, 2013
Hello, old friend
KHS faces Batavia in Midwest League setting in tail-end of regular season KANELAND—What's one more postponement for Kaneland baseball? In a 2013 campaign rife with cancellations, 19 to be exact, Kaneland baseball wanted to make up its...
- Posted May 24, 2013
Conference Champs
KHS boys track team takes top spot at NIB-12 KANELAND—Northern Illinois Big XII conference boys track certainly has its share of talented teams. Kaneland made certain it was included in that discussion, netting a conference championship as...
- Posted May 16, 2013
Leading the way at Burlington Sectional
Lady Knights qualify for state in seven events KANELAND—Friday's Class 2A Burlington Central Sectional had many good teams, but only one collective winner. That would end up being the local outfit from Maple Park. With 73 points...
- Posted May 16, 2013
Pitching, defense lead to win over Cary-Grove
Baseball beats Streator, falls to Marengo, Sycamore, in big week KANELAND—Knights baseball may have had a rougher go of it in 2013, but that doesn't mean the boys can't put together a stellar performance. Behind junior Curtis...
- Posted May 16, 2013
Battle for the top
Lady Knights' conference race goes down to the wire KANELAND—With the end of the regular season in sight, the Kaneland High School softball team finds itself battling for the top spot in the Northern Illinois Big 12...
- Posted May 16, 2013
Zick Shines at NIB-12 meet
KHS sprinter takes 3 conference crowns KANELAND—Friday's Northern Illinois Big XII girls track meet in DeKalb gave many individuals an opportunity to see how they measure up conference-wide. For Kaneland sprinter Lauren Zick, it became clear that...
- Posted May 9, 2013
Barrage of offense
Firepower dovetails with regular season KANELAND—KHS coach Scott Parillo believes his team is playing great in this current stretch of the 2013 season. His current lineup is making it quite hard to argue such a claim. Kaneland...
- Posted May 9, 2013
Lengthy layoff ends
Photos by Patti Wilk KHS baseball team faces full conference schedule by Mike Slodki KANELAND—It was familiar territory for Kaneland baseball, trying to tee off against Sycamore, DeKalb and Yorkville pitching. The Knights had varying degrees of...
- Posted May 2, 2013
Kaneland boys track talent on display
KANELAND—Boys track's landscape in the area had best watch out for KHS, as it stands to mow most teams down in its tracks. With the weather largely improving, Kaneland's roster took to the track at Marmion Academy...
- Posted May 2, 2013
Kane and gain
Castellanos wins triple jump, team takes 3rd at Kane County Invite by Mike Slodki GENEVA—For the first time since 2005, the girls version of the Kane County Invite was hosted by Geneva. You'd have to go back...
- Posted May 2, 2013
Defense rules the field
KHS soccer earns shutouts in all 3 games of strong week Kaneland–Withstanding challenges from conference rivals, Kaneland girls soccer is holding up nicely with just two weeks left in regular season play. Traveling to Morris on April...
- Posted May 2, 2013
Familiar face fills coaching vacancy
KANELAND—As seems par for the course, the Knights wrestling program will have a familiar face leading the matmen. Beginning this fall, the Knights will be steered by new head coach and Class of 2004 alum Jeremy Kenny,...
- Posted May 2, 2013


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