Another New Nation, South Sudan = Another Nation Created Because Muslims Can Not Play Well With Others

South Sudan becomes world's newest nation

 “Enmity and hatred will reign between us until ye believe in Allah alone.”
- The Qur’an (60:4)

Muslims can not get along with their neighbors. Instead, they like to kill their neighbors, if their neighbors are any variety of "Infidel", be it gay, apostate, adulterer, Christian, Hindu, Jew, Animist, Pagan, Atheist, Agnostic, or whatever.

A partial list of "nations" created because Muslims could not get along with non-Muslims would include:

Pakistan
"Palestine"
Mindanao (ARMM Region)

From the Associated Press:

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese citizens, international dignitaries and the world's newest president are convening in the new country capital of Juba to celebrate the birth of a nation.

South Sudan became the world's newest country Saturday with a raucous street celebration at midnight.

Dignitaries including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will watch under a blazing sun as South Sudan President Salva Kiir hosts a noon-hour ceremony.

South and north Sudan battled two civil wars over more than five decades, culminating in a 2005 peace deal that led to Saturday's independence declaration.

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, the former leader of the south, is also to attend Saturday's ceremony.

What other nations have been created specifically because Muslims can not get along with their neighbors?

This ought to be interesting.

Jeppo adds:

Kosovo.

Bosnia, though Muslims are only a plurality there, not a majority, they dominate because the rest of the population is divided between mutually hostile Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats.

Eritrea, though it is majority Christian (for now), its separation from Ethiopia was supported by neighbouring Muslims who want to eventually incorporate it into the Arab League and the OIC.

Singapore, this non-Muslim enclave was essentially expelled from majority Muslim Malaysia in the 1960s.

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Turkey, it has been de facto independent since the 1970s.

GREED VERSUS FEAR

There's a lot of money on the sidelines - maybe 3 trillion - waiting for something to change before the folks who control it think it's a good time to invest. Corporate money, personal money.

• Liberals think that rich people are GREEDY and are holding on to their money - and not hiring people - out of GREED.

• Conservatives think that it's out of FEAR - fear that we're headed for another crash, one even worse than the 2008 crash. Fear that taxes will go up, that regulations will proliferate and that these changes might make what seems like a good investment now turn into a bad investment in the near future.

ONE SIDE IS RIGHT AND THE OTHER IS WRONG.

AND I CAN PROVE IT.

Greed CANNOT be motivating rich people and corporations whose profits have gone up through productivity gains of the last few years because .... GREED DOESN'T MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO STAND STILL OR HOLD ON TO THEIR MONEY; GREED MOTIVATES PEOPLE TO TAKE RISKS.

Rich people and corporations don't want to hold on to their money so they can listen to the sounds the coins make as they jingle in their pockets. They don't think dollar bills smell better than perfume. And they don't like money so they cane stare at a bunch of zeros on their bank statements.

Rick people want and need to get the best return on their stakes - one commensurate with the amount of risk they're willing to take.

When the risks are too high for the level of potential returns, then they hold on to what they have and pray that inflation won't erode its worth.

IT'S FEAR.

People are afraid and NOTHING Obama has done since his swearing in has reduced people's fears.

In fact, they have increased people's anxieties.

He's been a awful POTUS: sometimes rudderless; sometimes steering to the port-side so much he has himself going in circles.

He has failed his voting base and seemed to exclusively serve the powerful factions of the Chicago Machine: the unions.

He has not made America more positive or optimistic or secure or rich or educated or more anything EXCEPT more afraid.

And as long as this atmosphere of fear remains, the economy will either stagnate or decline.

Only OPTIMISM can change things.

And class warfare is not an optimistic policy; it is fundamentally DIVISIVE and DESTRUCTIVE.

As long as Obama is Obama, then FEAR will dominate the economy and it won't grow. For the economy to grow it needs investors to confident enough to risk MORE INVESTING!

Obama must reverse himself on the economy and taxes - the way he has on GITMO and Afghanistan and Iraq and so many other issues related to the GWOT - if we are to get out of the ditch.

This is not likely as Obama is more committed to SOCIALISM than he is to anything else. And that means CLASS WARFARE.

SIGH.

MORE PROOF THAT THE REAL PHILISTINES WERE GREEK, NOT ARAB

TRUTH:

THE ROMANS RENAMED ISRAEL "PALESTINE" AFTER THE ANCIENT ENEMY OF THE JEWS (THE PHILISTINES) IN ORDER TO TAUNT THE JEWS.

THE NAME IS A LATINIZED VERSION OF THE GREEK. THE PHILISTINES WERE NOT AN ARAB OR EVEN A SEMITIC PEOPLE; THE WERE FROM THE AEGEAN.

SO ARABS IN THIS REGION (WHO HAVE CALLED THEMSELVES PALESTINIANS ONLY SINCE 1967!) ARE IN EFFECT TAKING A ROMAN/BRITISH COLONIALIST NAME FOR THEMSELVES, ONE WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ARAB OR ISLAMIC CULTURE.

MSNBC:

Close to three millennia ago, Gath was on the frontier between the Philistines, who occupied the Mediterranean coastal plain, and the Israelites, who controlled the inland hills. The city's most famous resident, according to the Book of Samuel, was Goliath — the giant warrior improbably felled by the young shepherd David and his sling.

The Philistines "are the ultimate other, almost, in the biblical story," said Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University, the archaeologist in charge of the excavation.

The latest summer excavation season began this past week, with 100 diggers from Canada, South Korea, the United States and elsewhere, adding to the wealth of relics found at the site since Maier's project began in 1996.

Greek roots

In a square hole, several Philistine jugs nearly 3,000 years old were emerging from the soil. One painted shard just unearthed had a rust-red frame and a black spiral: a decoration common in ancient Greek art and a hint to the Philistines' origins in the Aegean.

The Philistines arrived by sea from the area of modern-day Greece around 1200 B.C. They went on to rule major ports at Ashkelon and Ashdod, now cities in Israel, and at Gaza, now part of the Palestinian territory known as the Gaza Strip.

At Gath, they settled on a site that had been inhabited since prehistoric times. Digs like this one have shown that though they adopted aspects of local culture, they did not forget their roots. Even five centuries after their arrival, for example, they were still worshipping gods with Greek names.

PLEASE RTWT.

THE ENTIRE "PALESTINIAN PEOPLE" MEME IS TOTAL UNADULTERATED BULLSHIT.

A LIE.

GIVING GENOCIDALLY VIOLENT, MISOGYNISTIC, IGNORANT, IN-BRED ARABS ANOTHER NATION - ONE BASED ON 2 BIG LIES -- (THAT THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A "PALESTINIAN PEOPLE" AND THAT JERUSALEM IS WHERE THE AL AKSA MOSQUE WAS LOCATED) -- IS INSANE.

AND WON'T LEAD TO PEACE.

THE AUDACITY OF TURKISH ISLAMO-HYPOCRISY

JPOST:

Erdogan: Israel must apologize to normalize relations

OKAY.

LEMME GET THIS STRAIGHT:

ISRAEL SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR LEGALLY REPEALING A DELIBERATELY PROVOCATIVE ATTEMPT TO BREAK A LEGAL BLOCKADE...

BUT...

TURKS WON'T APPLOGIZE FOR THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE.

I GET IT:

THIS PERFECTLY ILLUSTRATES THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF ISLAMISM.

IS THE EURO ABOUT TO COLLAPSE? MAYBE...

SIGNS AND PORTENTS:

The cost of borrowing for debt-laden Portugal, the Irish Republic and Italy hit new highs on Friday.

Greek debts also sold off, reversing a recent rally on hopes of a new rescue.

Financial markets were reacting to the European Central Bank's decision to raise interest rates, as well as political developments in Italy.

Italian economy minister Giulio Tremonti, a key figure in shoring up the country's finances, has been drawn into a corruption scandal.

... Greece, the Republic of Ireland and particularly Portugal have seen the value of their debts in financial markets plummet further.

Their implied costs of borrowing in markets for three years now stand at 28%, 16.3% and 18.6% respectively.

The latest sell-off comes as it became increasingly clear that the European Central Bank was more concerned with fighting inflation - which required an interest rate rise from 1.25% to 1.5% on Thursday - than in holding down borrowing costs for embattled governments.

It follows what had been a short-lived respite in the market.

THE EURO'S COLLAPSE WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF "CREATIVE DESTRUCTION" AND WOULD ACTUALLY BE GOOD FOR GREECE, PORTUGAL, SPAIN AND ITALY - AND ALL EUROPEANS WHO LOVE LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC SELF-DETERMINATION.

THE EU AND THE EURO ARE BAD FOR DEMOCRFACY AND A ROOT CAUSE OF EUROPE'S ECONOMIC PROBLEM.

THE SOONER THE EURO DISAPPEARS THE SOONER THE GLOBAL ECONOMY RECOVERS.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WARNING US ALL ABOUT THIS FOR A LONG TIME:

MORE PROOF THAT OBAMANOMICS SUCKS: UNEMPLOYMENT UP... AGAIN

Job Growth Falters Badly, Clouding Hope for Recovery

The United States economy added a meager 18,000 jobs in June, up from a gain of a revised 25,000 jobs in May, the Department of Labor said on Friday. The unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent in June from 9.1 percent in May, the department said.

OBAMANOMICS IS HURTING THE ECONOMY.

IT'S TIME TO CHANGE DIRECTION.

MORE HERE.

PAKISTAN: THE WORLD'S FASTEST GROWING NUKE STOCKPILE

THIS IS BAD NEWS.

WE SHOULD TREAT THEM NO DIFFERENTLY THAN WE SHOULD TREAT IRAN:

AS HOSTILE ENEMIES WHO ENSLAVE 50% OF THEIR PEOPLE - (THEY ENSLAVE THEIR WOMEN TO ISLAMO-MISOGYNY).

THE LONGER WE WAIT THE WORSE THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT WILL BE.

FLOTILLA FLOP?

The authorities have been on alert in Israel to bar the entrance of left-wing activists allegedly on "peace missions" to Gaza who could in actuality be intent on committing acts of violence and provocations. But it looks like any of these activists are losing interest, as even the "flytilla" appears to have fizzled. And the only real demonstration came from the opposite side:

Police at the airport had only one demonstration to deal with overnight – an outpouring of pro-Israel exuberance from a group of recently arrived immigrants from France. The young immigrants came to hold a counter-demonstration against the planned anti-Israel demonstration.

What can this tell us? That some of these leftists hopefully are beginning to realize that there's much better things to do with their time than try to help an evil ideology that's even committed acts of sexual harrassment, rape and other violence. There are much better things to do with their time, like go to a sports game, for example.

CASEY ANTHONY AND THE MISTRANSLATION OF THE 6TH COMMANDMENT

I posted earlier that one reason the jurors on the Anthony murder trial failed to convict the mother was because they were cowardly: they didn't want to execute her - because it's a tough thing to have on one's shoulders - and so sought they refuge in denial: their verdict (convicting her for lying, but not for murder) was contradictory: if she felt she had to lie, then she was basically admitting guilt. The jurors had to deny that the lies were covering up a murder. This is absurd.

Another reason that they didn't want to convict is that most people today have been brainwashed by the postmodern left to conflate state-sanctioned executions after due process with murder - as if all killing was the same.

They do this in part because they have been brainwashed to believe that the Ten Commandments includes one that says THOU SHALT NIT KILL, but in fact that's not what it says:

Why Most People Believe the Bible is Against the Death Penalty

The Sixth Commandment - mistranslated as "Thou Shall Not Kill (Ratsach, Murder)"

The Death Penalty: What God (The Bible) has to say about it

The death penalty is an integral part of the Old Testament Law. It is in all five books of Moses (Genesis-Deuteronomy), and in other books of the Old Testament as well. Furthermore, the New Testament supports it.

The most common reason why people believe the Bible does not support the death penalty is because the King James Version and the versions of the Bible read by most Roman Catholics (including the Douay Version, The New Jerusalem Bible, and the New American Bible) give the Sixth Commandment in Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17 as, “Thou shalt not kill.” The Hebrew word translated “kill” in the Sixth Commandment is ratsach, and it can mean “kill” or “slay,” either on purpose or accidentally.

Ratsach, like many other words, has a wide range of meaning, and thus its meaning in a particular verse must be determined from both the immediate and remoter contexts.

Thankfully, the Bible has a lot to say about murder, manslaughter, the execution of criminals and killing in war, and it is easy to tell by studying all the verses on the subject that the Sixth Commandment means not to take a life unjustly. Bible commentators are not confused by the commandment, “You shall not kill.” Maxie Dunnam wrote about the Sixth Commandment in the Mastering the Old Testament commentary on Exodus:

According to Genesis 9:6, this commandment did not prohibit the death penalty. It is obvious in the Old Testament that this [Sixth Commandment] was not a prohibition against all killing, only unauthorized killing. [1]

... saying, “You shall not kill,” confuses people about killing in self-defense, in war and the execution of criminals,

PACIFISTS TREAT ALL KILLING AS EQUALLY BAD - AND THINK THEMSELVES MORALLY SUPERIOR BECAUSE OF THIS, BUT THIS POSITION IS AMORAL AT BEST.

A COP WHO KILLS A CHILD MURDERER WHO IS RESISTING ARREST WITH A GUN IS NOT A MURDERER.

A US SOLDIER WHO KILLS AN SS SOLDIER IN WW2 WAS NO MURDERER.

THESE KILLINGS ARE NOT IMMORAL, THEY ARE JUSTIFIED AND MORAL.

CONVICTING CASEY ANTHONY AND EXECUTING HER WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MORAL THING TO DO.

THE JURORS WERE NOT ONLY COWARDS; THEY WERE IMMORAL ONES.

ACCORDING TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS, IRAN HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE USA. WHEN WILL WE FIGHT BACK!?!

WSJ:

The top U.S. military officer accused Iran on Thursday of shipping new supplies of deadly weapons to its militia allies in Iraq, in what he described as Tehran's bid to take credit for forcing American troops to go home.

Adm. Mike Mullen testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington on March 31.

Adm. Michael Mullen, speaking to the Pentagon Press Association, said Iran had curtailed weapons shipments, including powerful rockets and roadside bombs, in 2008 but resumed them recently. Top-level officials in Tehran know about the weapons shipments, he said.

"Iran is very directly supporting extremist Shiite groups which are killing our troops," said Adm. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "There is no question they are shipping high-tech weapons in there…that are killing our people. And the forensics prove that."

IF IRAN IS ARMING MILITIAS THAT ARE KILLING OUR TROOPS, THEN THEY ARE AT WAR WITH US.

IF THEY ARE AT WAR WITH US - KINETICALLY - THEN WE SHOULD FIGHT BACK, KINETICALLY.

AND BEFORE THEY GET NUKES.

IF OBAMA WAS A COURAGEOUS PATRIOT - AND NOT AM EVIL-APPEASING POSTMODERN LEFTIST - THEN HE WOULD ASK CONGRESS FOR AN AUMF TO ATTACK IRAN.

OUR TROOPS AND OUR ALLIES DESERVE NO LESS.

OBAMA'S FATHER - A PROVEN BIGAMIST, PHILANDERER AND LIAR - TOLD IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL HIS SON WOULD BE PUT UP FOR ADOPTION

WHAT AN AWFUL PERSON.

NYTIMES:

Before Barack Obama was born, his parents may have considered putting him up for adoption, according to documents obtained by a reporter for The Boston Globe.

Barack Obama with his mother, Ann Dunham. She talked of a future with their child.

Mr. Obama’s father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., told immigration officials that Ann Dunham, whom he had recently married, would make “arrangements with the Salvation Army to give the baby away,” one document said.

The revelation came from 1961 immigration forms obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Sally Jacobs, a reporter who has written a book called “The Other Barack, The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father.” An excerpt from the book, which will be released next week, appeared Thursday in The Globe.

President Obama’s father, then a student at the University of Hawaii, was questioned about his marital status by immigration officials when he applied for an extension of his visa, which he had to do each year.

An immigration official had become leery of his “playboy ways” and thought Mr. Obama might have more than one wife, which can be grounds for deportation. Mr. Obama said at the time — falsely — that he had divorced his Kenyan wife, with whom he had two children.

IF BARACK SENIOR IS BARACK JUNIOR'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER, THEN NOW WE KNOW WHERE OUR PRESIDENT GETS HIS FANTASTIC ABILITY TO LIE WITH SUCH AUDACITY.

UK government Speaker to Trade Places with Afghan counterpart!

Many Conservative MPs, including David Cameron, are probably hoping it will be permanent move.
Controversial Commons Speaker John Bercow is packing his bags and his body armour bound for Afghanistan to keep check on parliamentary proceedings in political front line in Kabul.
He is trading places temporarily with his counterpart Abdul Raud Ibrahimi in an exchange scheme between the two countries designed to foster good relations. 
He will not only have to negotiate flaring tempers inside the parliamentary chambers, but also the raging insurgency in Kabul's streets, which has seen several attacks, including the storming of the five-star Intercontinental hotel last week by eight suicide bombers, killing eleven.
The exchange scheme - for which Mr Bercow seems first on the list - will be open to other British and Afghan MPs and peers and senators could also take part in the Parliamentary Support Programme.

Mr Cameron apparently has a strong dislike for Mr Bercow - he once told a joke comparing him to one of the Seven Dwarfs.

The UK parliament can now have some insight into what it is like to have a mozlem speaker of the house. It won't be long now before a mozlem is a permanent fixture there!!
Read the rest here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011754/Commons-Speaker-John-Bercow-trade-places-counterpart-AFGHANISTAN.html#ixzz1RRnuloUc

AN AUSTRALIAN ACHIEVEMENT

Now, after the embarrassment from a few weeks ago, it looks like Australia's legislation in NSW has taken the steps needed to ensure authorities can remove a Muslim woman's veil without concern over ludicrous "cultural/religious sensitivity" (Hat tip: The Blaze):

Muslim women can be forced to remove their face veils during routine car stops under new powers granted to NSW police.

Premier Barry O'Farrell said cabinet had approved the move on Monday so police could properly identify motorists or any other people suspected of committing a crime.

"I don't care whether a person is wearing a motor cycle helmet, a burqa, niqab, face veil or anything else, the police should be allowed to require those people to make their identification clear," he said in a statement.

Another amazing thing in this whole affair is that the Islamic Council in Australia did not oppose the move:

Mr O'Farrell later defended the move, saying the state's Islamic Council has said the wearing of face veils is not compulsory.

"The good news is that the Islamic Council of NSW has made the point that it's not compulsory in relation to their religion," Mr O'Farrell told reporters in Sydney on Monday night.

In the USA, it's possible CAIR, by contrast, would take the opposite stance. Kudos to the NSW legislation for having the guts it took to ensure the police can work properly.

New York Times Says, China Is In Trouble

We've been telling you this for years now here at Astute Bloggers.

From NYT:

Building Boom in China Stirs Fears of Debt Overload
Endangered Dragon
A Lurking Liability

This is the first in a series of articles examining China’s system of government-managed capitalism, and the potential weaknesses that could threaten the nation’s remarkable economic growth.

... there are growing signs that China’s long-running economic boom could be undermined by these building binges, which are financed through heavy borrowing by local governments and clever accounting that masks the true size of the debt.

The danger, experts say, is that China’s municipal governments could already be sitting on huge mountains of hidden debt — a lurking liability that threatens to stunt the nation’s economic growth for years or even decades to come.

For the last decade, as economists have sought to explain China’s rise, a popular image has emerged of Beijing technocrats continually and cannily fine-tuning the nation’s communist-capitalist hybrid. But in fact, city governments often work at odds with Beijing’s aims. And some of Beijing’s own goals and policies can be contradictory.

As a result, China’s state capitalism is much messier, and the economy more vulnerable, than it might look to the outside world.

In the case of Wuhan, a close look at its finances reveals that the city has borrowed tens of billions of dollars from state-run banks. But the loans seldom go directly to the local government. Instead, the borrowing is done by special investment corporations set up by the city — business entities whose debt shows up nowhere on Wuhan’s official financial balance sheet.

Adding to the risk, the collateral for many loans is local land valued at lofty prices that could collapse if China’s real estate bubble burst. Wuhan’s land prices have tripled in the last decade.

The biggest of the separate investment companies set up by the municipal government here is an entity known as Wuhan Urban Construction Investment and Development, created to help finance billions of dollars’ worth of projects, including roadways, bridges and sewage treatment plants.

According to city records, Wuhan U.C.I.D. has 16,000 employees, 25 subsidiaries and $15 billion in assets — including the possibly inflated value of the land itself. But it owes nearly as much, about $14 billion.

“U.C.I.D. is heavily in debt,” a company spokesman, Sun Zhengrong, conceded in an interview. “This may lead to potential problems. So we are trying to make some adjustments.” He declined to elaborate, saying the state company’s finances were “our core secret.”

Dozens of other cities are following a similarly risky script: creating off balance-sheet corporations that are going deeply into debt for showpiece projects, new subway systems, high-speed rail lines and extravagant government office complexes. And they are doing it despite efforts by the central government in Beijing to rein in the excess.

Because all that cash is protected by government restrictions on money flowing in and out of the country, a global run on China’s banks would be unlikely.

The real problem, analysts say, is that municipal government debt in China has begun casting a large shadow over the nation’s growth picture. If instead of investing in growth, China had to start spending money to gird the banks against municipal defaults, some experts see a possibility of China eventually lapsing into a long period of Japan-like stagnation.

A Recession Peril
Kenneth S. Rogoff, a Harvard economics professor and co-author of “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” has studied China’s boom. He predicts that within a decade China’s lofty property bubble and its mounting debts could cause a regional recession in Asia and stifle growth in the rest of the world.

“With China, you have the ultimate ‘this time is different’ syndrome,” Professor Rogoff said. “Economists say they have huge reserves, they have savings, they’re hard-working people. It’s naïve. You can’t beat the odds forever.”

By Beijing’s estimate, total local government debt amounted to $2.2 trillion last year — a staggering figure, equal to one-third of the nation’s gross domestic product.

Note that the New York Times here is telling us that China's system of "government-managed capitalism" has potential weaknesses which could threaten China's economy, "collapse" the real estate market, and cause a run on Chinese banks. This could cause a decade's long recession like that which has happened to Japan, since the peak of the "Rising Sun" economy in the 1980's.

Ironically, "Government-managed capitalism" is exactly what Left-leaning Liberals, like those at the New York Times, are always calling for here in the United States.

Why would we want to adopt, as a permanent strategy, the same policies which threaten to topple China's economy?

What a farce.

A "Government-managed" capitalist system is simply another word for a coporate/governmental oligarchy, which gives unearned power to entrenched large corporations, locking out innovators, strangling social/economic mobility, and ultimately inhibiting the freedom of individuals.

As much invective as Liberals hurl at the notion of corporate/governmental oligarchy, the truth is, this is exactly what they want, even as they know it is exactly what will destroy our nation.

In the case of China, I say, good riddance. The sooner China's economic power collapses, the better. A government which crushes dissent, tortures people for their religious and political beliefs, and dictates people's reproductive choices, resulting in 50 million "missing females" (according to a year 1997 report from the World Health Organization) is a government which can not disappear soon enough in my book.

UNREAL: THOUSANDS OF BABIES STOLEN IN SPAIN BETWEEN 1950-1990

HORRIFYING:

Prodded by grieving parents, Spanish judges are investigating hundreds of charges that infants were abducted and sold for adoption over a 40-year period. What may have begun as political retaliation for leftist families during the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco appears to have mutated into a trafficking business in which doctors, nurses and even nuns colluded with criminal networks.

Dolores Díaz Cerpa said she was carrying twins in 1973, but the hospital said she delivered only a girl. Lawsuits have been filed to learn the truth.

The cases, which could eventually run into the thousands, are jolting a country still shaken by the spoken and unspoken terrors of Spain’s 1936-39 Civil War and Franco’s rule. Last week, 78-year-old Concepción Rodrigo Romero joined the rapidly growing ranks of Spanish parents who are turning to the courts to uncover the fates of their babies.

AWFUL.

THERE IS SO MUCH EVIL IN THE WORLD...

SIGH.

RTWT.

MORE PROOF THAT PAKISTAN IS PART OF THE AXIS OF EVIL

NYTIMES:

The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology.

Abdul Qadeer Khan has given a United States-based expert documents that appear to show North Korea's government paid more than $3.5 million to two Pakistani military officials as part of the deal, the expert told The Associated Press Wednesday.

To back up his claim, Khan released what he said was a copy of a North Korean official's 1998 letter to him, written in English, that purports to describe the secret deal.

Khan gave the documents to Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an authority on Pakistan's weapons program. He did so because he has been accused by his government of running a covert nuclear smuggling operation without official knowledge or consent.

IT'S TIME WE STARTED TREATING PAKISTAN AS A HOSTILE ENEMY STATE, AND NOT AN ALLY.

ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN YOU WERE $4TRILLION DOLLARS AGO?

THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION



ELECTS A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT OF THE USA.

PIA TOSCANO SIGNS WITH INTERSCOPE; SINGLE TO BE RELEASED 7/15

I THINK SHE'S GREAT, NOW SHE'S GOT A DEAL.




MORE HERE.

OBAMANOMICS HAS MADE THE US ECONOMY SO BAD, THE MEXICANS ARE NO LONGER COMING TO EL NORTE

OR - IF YOU'RE PART OF THE MSM, THINGS IN MEXICO IS SO ROSY THEY WANT TO STAY PUT:

The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause: unheralded changes in Mexico that have made staying home more attractive.

A growing body of evidence suggests that a mix of developments — expanding economic and educational opportunities, rising border crime and shrinking families — are suppressing illegal traffic as much as economic slowdowns or immigrant crackdowns in the United States.

THINK ABOUT IT:

THEY'D RATHER STAY THERE THEN COME HERE.

THAT MEANS THEY THINK IT'S BETTER THERE THAN HERE.

MAYBE THIS WAS BARACK'S SECRET IMMIGRATION PLAN ALL ALONG: MAKE THINGS SO BAD HERE NOBODY WOULD WANT TO COME - LEGALLY OR OTHERWISE!

IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S A FEATURE, NOT A BUG!

THANKS OBAMA!

WHAT THE FOLKS OBAMA WANTS TO CHAT WITH ARE UP TO: TALIBAN MURDER DOZENS MORE IN AFGHANISTAN

WHAT THE FOLKS OBAMA WANTS TO CHAT WITH ARE UP TO:

Taliban fighters mounted an attack Wednesday on several Afghan border police check posts, overrunning them and killing nearly two dozen police officers in a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan, according to the provincial governor.

THESE ARE THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT. THE WEAKER YOU LOOK, THE MORE AGGRESSIVE BECOMES THE ENEMY.

WE SHOULD BE BOMBING THE CRAP OUT OF EVERY TALIBAN STRONGHOLD - WITH NO CONCERN FOR CIVILIAN COLLATERAL CASUALTIES.

ONLY THIS WILL CURB SOME OF THE LOCALS FROM ALLOWING TALIBAN INTO THEIR MIDST.

AND THE ONES WHO WON;T STOP THE TALIBAN FROM MIXING IN DON'T DESERVE PROTECTION; THEY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

MASSIVE STORM ON SATURN - CAUSED BY THE SUN

WAS IT CAUSED BY BUSH OR CO2 ???

Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth.

On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini first detected the storm that has been raging ever since. It appears approximately 35 degrees north latitude of Saturn. Pictures from Cassini's imaging cameras show the storm wrapping around the entire planet covering approximately 2 billion square miles (4 billion square kilometers).

THEY CAN'T BLAME BUSH OR CO2 FOR THIS FOR THIS, CAN THEY? NOPE. IT'S THE SUN STUPID:

"This storm is thrilling because it shows how shifting seasons and solar illumination can dramatically stir up the weather on Saturn," said Georg Fischer, the paper's lead author and a radio and plasma wave science team member at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz.

ER... UM, IF THE SUN CAN DO THIS ON SDATURN, THEN DO YOU THINK IT MIGHT EFFECT WEATHER AND CLIMATE HEE ON EARTH!?

YUP.

WHAT CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE HERE ON EARTH? IT'S THE SUN (AND OCEAN OSCILLATIONS) , NOT THE CO2, STUPID.

MALIK NIDAL HASAN WILL FACE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR THE MURDERS HE COMMITTED

According to the latest news, the Fort Hood jihadist murderer will be sentenced to death if convicted:

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood rampage will be tried in a military court and face the death penalty if convicted, the commanding general for the Texas military post announced Wednesday.

Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 shooting spree. [...]

Two Army colonels who reviewed the case previously recommended that Hasan, 40, should be court-martialed and face the death penalty. [...]

Witnesses testified that a gunman wearing an Army combat uniform shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — which is Arabic for “God is great!” — and started shooting in a small but crowded medical building where deploying soldiers are vaccinated and undergo other tests. The gunman fired rapidly, pausing only to reload, even shooting some people as they hid under tables or fled the building, witnesses said. He fatally shot two people who tried to stop him by throwing chairs, and killed three soldiers who were protecting civilian nurses, according to testimony.

The gunman was identified as Hasan, an American-born Muslim who was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan the following month. Before the attack, Hasan bought a laser-equipped semiautomatic handgun and repeatedly visited a firing range, where he honed his skills by shooting at the heads on silhouette targets, witnesses testified during the hearing.

Hasan must receive the death penalty for his savage crimes, and the military tribunal in charge of the case must hand it to him if they're to be taken seriously.

SO-CALLED REPRESENTATIVE AT UC IRVINE

Stella Paul at The American Thinker writes about Mark Yudof, the UC president, who's refused to help Jews on campus who were assaulted by anti-semitic thugs, and is now facing a lawsuit:

Since we live in a craven age, let's salute our few heroes. Meet Jessica Felber, a 21-year-old Lioness of Judah, who's suing the University of California for failing to protect her civil rights.

Felber is a student activist at Berkeley who simply asserts her right to stand on campus and hold a sign saying, "Israel Wants Peace," without subsequently needing urgent medical attention. What Jew can count on that right on a UC campus these days?

In March 2010, Felber was violently assaulted by Husam Zakharia, the leader of Students for Justice in Palestine, as she peacefully held her sign at a pro-Israel event. UC authorities "were fully aware that Zakharia, the SJP and similar student groups had been involved in other incidents on campus to incite violence against and intimidate Jewish and other students," says her renowned lawyer, Neal Sher. Nevertheless, "[d]efendants took no reasonable steps to protect Ms. Felber and others."

Felber names UC President Mark Yudof in her lawsuit and therein lies a tale. Yudof took office in 2008 amidst a blaze of schmaltzy headlines like, "New University President Keeps Kosher, Loves Israel." Yudof boasted about his wife, Judy, the first woman to serve as international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and proclaimed, "I am a very strong advocate of Israel."

Well, if you say so, sir. If by "very strong advocate of Israel," you mean using your powers as UC President to ignore 63 faculty members who wrote you, "We, faculty at the University of California-Irvine, are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis... Some community members, students, and faculty indeed feel intimidated, and at times even unsafe."

Or maybe your "strong advocacy" includes empowering lunatic anti-Semitic professors that ride herd over whole departments, corrupt academic integrity, and punish students who disagree with their "Israel is a Nazi state" harangues.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, has filed suit against UC, claiming that the Santa Cruz campus constitutes a hostile environment for Jews. Benjamin maintains that university-sponsored, faculty-generated events have "crossed the line from anti-Israel to anti-Semitic." Federal authorities are now investigating whether Santa Cruz's treatment of Jews violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

This is "strong advocacy," Mr. Yudof? What does complete abdication of responsibility look like?

Here's the unsettling question that now bedevils us: how did a self-proclaimed committed Jew and lover of Israel find himself at the business end of two lawsuits accusing him of anti-Semitism?

Just lucky, I guess.

I find his credentials as a Conservative Judaist questionable too. He clearly isn't very honest, and does not deserve his position as a university bigwig. If he ends up having to pay a hefty sum, it'll be richly deserved.

REAL CLIMATE CHANGE: LA NINA ENDS; LA NADA BEGINS???

AND LA NADA BRINGS UNCERTAINTY:

“La Nada” – that puzzling period between cycles of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean when sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific are near average.

EL NINO AND LA NINA HAVE MORE EFFECT ON OUR CLIMATE THAN CO2.

RTWT AND... STAY TUNED.

MORE SIGNS THE CHINESE BUBBLE MAY BURST: THEY RAISE RATES AGAIN, TO FIGHT PERSISTENT AND HIGH INFLATION

China raised a key interest rate Wednesday for a third time this year as it tries to cool surging inflation.

The benchmark rate for one-year loans will be raised 0.25 percentage points to 6.56 percent, effective Thursday, the central bank announced. The rate paid on deposits will rise by a similar margin to 3.5 percent.

Inflation hit a 34-month high of 5.5 percent in May and is believed to have risen further in June even as an overheated economy cools gradually under the pressure of investment curbs and other controls.

The slowdown in some industries has prompted fears more interest rate hikes might trigger a sharp slump. But most analysts say the government should be able to avoid that.

THIS WILL TRIGGER A SLUMP AS SURE AS QE2 IS TRIGGERING INFLATION HERE.

WHEN THE CHINESE BUBBLE BURSTS, THE WORLD WILL GO INTO ANOTHER RECESSION. SOME SAY THIS MIGHT NOT HAPPEN UNTIL 2013.

I SAY IT WILL HAPPEN SOONER, PERHAPS TRIGGERED BY THE EURO COLLAPSE, OR A BAD US DEBT DEAL.

STAY TUNED.

MORE PROOF THAT PEAK OIL IS BS: HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF BARRELS OF SHALE OIL BEING FOUND ALL OVER THE GLOBE

NYTIMES:

In May, the Argentine oil company YPF announced that it had found 150 million barrels of oil in the Patagonian field, and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner rushed onto national television to praise the discovery as something that could give new impetus to the country’s long-stagnant economy.

“The importance of this discovery goes well beyond the volume,” said Sebastián Eskenazi, YPF’s chief executive, as he announced the find. “The important thing is it is something new: new energy, a new future, new expectations.”

Although there are significant hurdles, geologists say that the Vaca Muerta is a harbinger of a possible major expansion of global petroleum supplies over the next two decades as the industry uses advanced techniques to extract oil from shale and other tightly packed rocks.

Exploration of similar shale fields has already begun in Australia, Canada, Poland and France. Indian and Chinese oil companies are investing in pilot projects that, if successful, could make their countries significant oil producers, possibly reshaping energy geopolitics and stemming future price rises. Ukraine and Russia are also thought to have sizable shale fields of oil and gas, as do many North African and Middle Eastern countries.

“The potential is huge, on the order of hundreds of billions of barrels of recoverable reserves,” said Michael C. Lynch, president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research, a consulting firm, who is preparing a report on global shale oil.

Similar fields in North Dakota and Texas are already beginning to gush oil. The techniques used to extract it include hydraulic fracturing, in which high-pressure fluids are used to break up shale rock to release the oil, and horizontal drilling, which allows drillers to tap thin layers of oil-filled shale that are sandwiched between layers of other rock.

PEAK OIL IS PART OF THE "GREEN ECONOMY" SCAM.

DON'T BE DUPED BY CO2PHOBIA AND THE CALL FOR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR RENEWABLES AND THEIR DEMAND FOR CARBON TAXES.

CO2 IS HARMLESS AT WORST, AND PROBABLY BENEFICIAL.

SO-CALLED FOSSIL FUELS - INCLUDING COAL - WHICH CAN BE BURNED CLEANLY AND ONLY EMIT SOME CO2 ARE PERFECTLY HEALTHY AND GOOD FOR PLANT LIFE AND AGRICULTURE.

LEFT-WING GOVERNMENT SCHEMES TO LIMIT THEIR USE HURTS THE POOR AND THE THIRD WORLD THE MOST.

THAT'S WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY WE NEED TO MAKE THE LEFT HISTORY.

ISLAMISTS CALL FOR SHARIA IN 3 PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIM TOWNS IN ENGLAND

THIS IS SEDITION:

UK: Islamic group calls for Sharia in three Muslim areas

... And independence from British law. It is likely that this is already to a great degree the de facto situation in these areas; Muslims Against the Crusades is just being forthright about it.

"Dewsbury, Bradford and Tower Hamlets ... where Islamic extremists want to establish independent states with sharia law," from the Daily Mail, July 5

THOSE WHO PROPOSE THIS SEDITIOUS ACT SHOULD BE JAILED FOR LIFE IF THEY ARE CITIZENS, AND IF THEY ARE NOT CITIZENS THEY SHOULD BE DEPORTED/EXPELLED.

NEARLY ALL MUSLIM IMMIGRATION IS INTENDED AS COLONIZATION AND CREEPING ISLAMIFICATION.

IT'S AN INVASION.

IT'S HOW THEY HAVE PLANNED TO CONQUER VAST PARTS OF THE WEST.

AND THE POSTMODERN LEFT AND THEIR MULTICULTURALISM IS WHAT ENABLED THEM.

THIS IS WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT WE NEED TO DEFEAT THE LEFT AT HOME IF WE WANT TO DEFEAT THE ISLAMISTS GLOBALLY.

MORE PROOF CO2 REGS ARE A SCAM: EPA EXEMPTS BIOMASS BURNING PLANTS FROM CO2 REGS

NYTIMES:

As proposed earlier this year, biomass-burning facilities will be spared from new federal curbs on gases that help cause climate change.

The final plan (pdf) released Friday by U.S. EPA will give biomass a three-year pass while the agency studies the effect of plant emissions on climate change. During that time, industrial plants that burn woody biomass and landfills that release the greenhouse gases from decomposing biomass won't need permits before starting construction and won't need Title V operating permits.

The exemption was proposed in January based on fears that the rules could chill development of what Administrator Lisa Jackson described as "renewable, homegrown power sources" (Greenwire, Jan. 12).

ON THE ONE HAND, IF CO2 IS DANGEROUS, THEN CO2 FROM FAVORED SOURCES IS NO LESS DANGEROUS THAN CO2 FROM COAL PLANTS - AND THESE EXEMPTIONS ARE DANGEROUS.

IF ON THE OTHER HAND, IT'S ALL A SCAM TO MAKE MONEY FOR YOUR CHUMS, THEN THIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

UPDATE: MORE PROOF THAT CO2 AND TEMPS ARE UNRELATED.

THE CASEY ANTHONY VERDICT AND THE FLIGHT FROM REALITY

• JURORS WHO CONVICTED CASEY ANTHONY FOR LYING ABOUT HER MISSING DAUGHTER,

• BUT WHO FAILED TO CONVICT HER FOR KILLING HER DAUGHTER,

• ARE LIKE PEOPLE WHO SEE ALL THE ISLAMO-TERROR AND ISLAMO-MISOGYNY GOING ON THE WORLD,

• BUT WHO THEN SAY ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE.

AN INNOCENT MOM AND AN PEACEFUL ISLAM ARE PRETTIER THOUGHTS TO HOLD THAN THE MORE TRUTHFUL ALTERNATIVE.

AND THEY REQUIRE DOING TERRIBLE THINGS WE'D RATHER NOT DO.

• EXECUTE A MOTHER WHO MURDERED HER CHILD.

• FIGHT A GLOBAL WAR WITH NO HOLDS BARRED.

THE JURORS ARE ILLOGICAL COWARDS IN DENIAL AND ON A FLIGHT FROM REALITY.

LIKE THOSE WHO SAY ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE.

MORE PROOF AGW IS BS: STUDY: ONLY THE RUBES BELIEVE AN ARGUMENT BASED ON AN APPEAL TO AUTHORITY

THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE LESS LIKELY YOU ARE TO BELIEVE IN AGW.

ONLY RUBES BELIEVE IN ARGUMENTS THAT BASICALLY SAY, "MOST SCIENTISTS AGREE IT'S SETTLED SCIENCE..."

OBAMA WON'T HELP GILAD SHALIT, BUT HE'S HELPING A CONVICTED CHILD RAPIST/MURDERER/ILLEGAL ALIEN

THE CONVICT - ON DEATH ROW IN TEXAS - IS PURE EVIL, YET OBAMA WANTS HIM SPARED.

MEANWHILE HE DOESN'T DO A DANG THING TO GET SHALIT RELEASED FROM GAZA.

OR LIFT A FINGER TO HELP SYRIANS OVERTHROW THEIR TYRANT.

WHAT DO THESE CAMPARISONS TELL US ABOUT OBAMA'S MORALS?

HE HAS NONE.

IN INDIA, GAYS ARE CALLED THE MSM - MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN

NO FURTHER COMMENT AT THIS TIME.

HEH: INSTAPUNDIT WOULD CALL THIS "THE FILM SCHOOL BUBBLE"

UPDATED: BWAHAHAHAHAHA! 2 AND 1/2 HOURS AFTER I POSTED THIS, AND - PREDICTABLY - GLENN REYNOLDS HAS ALSO POSTED ON THIS AND.... HE DID CALL IT A BUBBLE!

HOW PREDICTABLE! HOW WRONG! SEE WHY BELOW, AND HERE.

NYTIMES:

As home-entertainment revenue declined in the last five years, studios reduced spending on scripts from new writers, cut junior staff positions and severely curtailed deals with producers who once provided entry-level positions for film school graduates. Yet applications to university film, television and digital media programs surged in the last few years as students sought refuge from the weak economy in graduate schools and some colleges opened new programs.

“It’s becoming an increasingly flooded marketplace,” said Andrew Dahm, who in May graduated from the Peter Stark producing program at U.S.C. with a master’s degree and an expectation that he would work for two or three years as a low-paid assistant in lieu of the junior executive jobs that were once common.

THIS AIN'T GOOD FOR FILM GRADUATES, BUT IT AIN'T NO BUBBLE.

AND THE EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS THOSE GRADUATING WITH LAW DEGREES AIN'T 'CAUSE THERE'S A LAW SCHOOL BUBBLE, EITHER - NO MATTER HOW MANY TIME GLENN REYNOLDS POSTS THAT THERE IS.

AS LINCOLN SAID, CALLING A DOGS LEG A TAIL - AND THEN SAYING DOGS HAVE FIVE LEGS IS BULLSHIT, BECAUSE CALLING A LEG A TAIL DOESN'T MAKE IT A TAIL.

OKAY, I MADE UP THE BULLSHIT PART; LINCOLN DIDN'T SAY THAT. BUT HE SAID THE REST.

INSTAPUNDIT IS WRONG TO LABEL EVERY MISMATCH IN THE MARKETPLACE A BUBBLE. (HE'S DONE LIKE A GAZILLION ILL-CONCEIVED POSTS ON IT. SHEESH.)

BUBBLES ARE SPECIFIC THINGS: A HUGE AND RELATIVELY FAST AND IRRATIONAL RUN-UP IN THE VALUE OF A THING.

LAW DEGREES AND FILM DEGREES HAVE HAD NO SUCH RUN-UP - AND NEITHER HAVE MOST HIGHER EDUCATION DEGREES, DESPITE THE FACT THAT MANY GRADUATES ARE HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING JOBS NOW AND DIDN'T IN EARLIER YEARS.

THEY WERE GOOD DEGREES FOR A LONG TIME AND NOW THEY ARE LESS GOOD. DESPITE BEING MORE EXPENSIVE.

AND THOSE CAUGHT BEHIND THE CURVE GET SCREWED.

THAT'S SAD, BUT THAT'S LIFE. AND NOT A BUBBLE THAT'S BURST.

THE BEST BUGGY WHIP DESIGNER WHO GRADUATED FIRST IN HIS CLASS AT BUGGY WHIP UNIVERSITY WAS NOT A VICTIM OF A BUBBLE IN BUGGY WHIPS.

HE WAS A VICTIM OF REGULAR OL' GARDEN VARIETY PROGRESS IN THE MARKETPLACE.

WAKE UP GLENN, AND SMELL THE TRUTH. WITH THIS INCESSANT AND INCORRECT BUBBLE BLOGGING, YOU'VE BECOME A PARODY OF YOURSELF!

IDF INTEL CHIEF: IRAN MEDDLING IN SYRIA AND EGYPT AND...

THIS IS WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT THE ROAD TO PEACE GOES THROUGH TEHRAN:

Head of IDF Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi warned of Iranian intervention in Egyptian elections, speaking regime in a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Tuesday.

“Iraq is attempting to influence the political process in Egypt through efforts to connect with the Muslim Brotherhood,” Kochavi said.

“Iran is taking advantage of the upheaval in the Middle East to deepen their infiltration into states and organizations in the region,” he added, saying that the Islamic Republic is working in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq and Gaza.

Kochavi also said that Iran was active in planning the “Nakba” and “Naksa” day demonstrations and border crossings from Lebanon.

“Iran is making efforts to ensure that such events will continue,” he explained.

"Iran and Hezbollah are actively helping the Syrian regime in oppressing protesters," Kochavi said. "They are transferring means for dispersing demonstrations, knowledge and technical aid."

TOO BAD WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO'D RATHER PUT PRESSURE ON ISRAEL THAN IRAN, AND CHAT WITH AHMADINEJAD THAN THE GOP.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE IRANIAN ISLAMO-TERROR TYRANNY HISTORY THEN YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HISTORY.

RUMOR MILL: OBAMA TO DUMP BIDEN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS THE DAILY CALLER BY 3 WEEKS

THE DAILY CALLER TODAY.

TAB 3 WEEKS AGO.

I PREDICT IT IS SENATOR BILL NELSON OF FLORIDA - OR BIDEN AND HILLARY SWITCH ROLES, (AS THE DC MENTIONED).

THE DC ARTICLE ALSO MENTIOMED NY GUV CUOMO AS A POSSIBLE SUB.

NAH.

ANDY CUOMO SHOULDN'T RUN YET. AGAINST OR WITH OBAMA. AND HE WON'T. HE'S SMART.

AND... HE'S LIVING WITH A WOMAN HE AIN'T MARRIED TO (YET) - SANDRA LEE, A HOTTIE. THEY NUST GET MARRIED BEFORE HE CAN SEEK NATIONAL OFFICE.

OBAMA NEEDS HELP IN THE SOUTH AND MID WEST. HIS BEST BET IS NELSON OR... BAYH AFTER BAYH CHALLENGES OBAMA AND LOSES.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST.

INDEPENDENCE DAY 2011

God bless and preserve America!

Australian authorities need proper protection to deal with cases involving veils

A leading policeman in Australia has demanded some changes to the law to ensure that officers can deal with cases like the recent case of a Muslim woman who filed false charges and recently got away with it will not have to worry about removing in order to record identity:

One of the most senior policemen in Australia on Sunday said authorities must have clear legal powers to require people to remove face coverings, including veils, if they are do their job properly.

The comments by New South Wales state Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione follow the case of Carnita Matthews, who in November 2010 was sentenced to six months jail for falsely accusing police of forcibly trying to remove her burqa.

It followed the woman being pulled over for a traffic offence.

Her sentence was quashed last month when a magistrate said he could not be 100 percent sure it was Matthews who made the complaint because officers were not able to see the face of the accuser.

Scipione told the Sydney Sunday Telegraph there must be one law for everyone -- regardless of their race or religion.

"This is not about disrespect; this has got nothing to do with religion," he said.

"It wouldn't matter whether it was a full-face motorcycle helmet or a balaclava at the snowfield: People have to do what they're required to (by police).

"Whether you're wearing a veil, whether you're wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet, a ski balaclava in the snowfields -- if there is a lawful reason, if there is a need for police to actually identify the person, then this should not be in the grey.

"It should be something everyone clearly understands."

Scipione said he had held talks with senior politicians who had indicated that if there was a loophole, then they would work to close it.

"This is not something we can just allow to continue," he said, adding that frontline police officers had to be protected from vindictive complaints, which could ruin careers.

"I get absolutely filthy when people want to make complaints that are clearly false," he said. "If you do that, and I catch you, we will charge you."

I get a bad taste in my mouth too from such victimology. It needs to be defeated, and asap.

Update: well how about that: it looks like a positive step may have been taken sooner than thought (via Atlas Shrugs):

WOMEN wearing the burqa or other full-face veils will be forced to show their face when stopped by police under proposed changes to the law, Attorney-General Greg Smith said yesterday.

Mr Smith said there was a duty on all citizens to identify themselves when asked by police and the law should reflect that.

"The law is not that specific at the moment and that is what we are leading towards," Mr Smith said.

He said he could understand the "public outcry" over "cases like that" of Muslim woman Carnita Matthews, 47, who had her jail sentence and conviction for knowingly making a false complaint about racism by police overturned on appeal in the District Court last week. Ms Matthews, who wears a full-face niqab, had denied she was the person who signed the complaint or delivered it to police after she was booked for not properly displaying a P-plate.

She shouldn't even be driving while wearing a veil; it can limit one's eyesight range, and overall make one look really, REALLY stupid.

A RARE ANTI-NAZI LEAFLET

the British Holocaust Center has obtained some rare anti-nazi materials:

One of the few surviving anti-Nazi leaflets from Munich University in World War II is to be presented by Britain to the British Holocaust Center this week.

The “White Rose Movement” in Germany secretly printed thousands of leaflets describing the horrors of the Holocaust while most of the world hid or ignored the genocide against the Jews.

The six core members of the White Rose Movement included Sophie and Hans Scholl, whom the Nazis executed in 1943 and who now are regarded as heroes for their support of democracy and freedom. Allied aircraft forces dropped the leaflets in 1943.

Collector William Kaczynski is donating one of the leaflets to the Holocaust Center in Nottinghamshire, Britain, the London Daily Mail reported.

The Center is dedicated to Holocaust education and remembrance in Britain, and it described itself as having been “born of one non-Jewish family’s unique response to the destruction of Europe’s Jews.”

The Center houses two permanent exhibitions on the Holocaust, hosts regular talks by Holocaust survivors and is visited by more than 20,000 students each year. Its memorial gardens include more than 1,000 fragrant white roses dedicated by survivors and others in memory of loved ones murdered in the Holocaust.

When will they arrive at Yad Vashem too?