For a Friday

Just in time for the week-end ...



Sweden - the same country that mocked Trump's comments on uncontrolled immigration,  where the Muslim Brotherhood has set up shop, where sexual assaults take place almost anywhere, and where feminists flee to less rape-filled climes - is now in a state of alert after a "lone wolf" plowed a truck into a shopping area and killed four people:

A truck plowed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

Swedish police said they had arrested one person after earlier circulating a picture of a man wearing a grey hoodie. They did not rule out the possibility other attackers were involved.

"We have a person who is arrested who may have connections to the event in Stockholm earlier today," police spokesperson Towe Hagg said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

"I turned around and saw a big truck coming toward me. It swerved from side to side. It didn't look out of control, it was trying to hit people," Glen Foran, an Australian tourist in his 40s, told Reuters.

"It hit people, it was terrible. It hit a pram with a kid in it, demolished it," he said.

 
The standard apologies on behalf of the Swedish people and candlelight services are forthcoming.

Some liquid courage for you to face the rest of the day, Sweden.

Livid that Trump destroyed a Syrian base (where Obama would have drawn red lines, perhaps in crayon), despite being warned, Putin unleashes his measured post-Soviet wrath:

Russia condemned the U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base in response to this week’s chemical attack as “aggression” and suspended crucial co-ordination with Washington in Syria’s congested skies. The country’s ministry of defence also announced plans to send a warship to the eastern Mediterranean, according to the Telegraph.

“To protect key Syrian infrastructure a range of measures will be taken reinforce and improve the effectiveness of the Syrian armed forces air defence,” the ministry said in a statement.

The overnight missile attack, which marked the first time the U.S. has directly targeted Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces, was condemned by his allies in Russia and Iran but welcomed by the Syrian opposition and its supporters, who expressed hope it signalled a turning point in the devastating six-year-old civil war.

The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin believes the U.S. strike is an “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law.” Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin believes the U.S. launched the strikes under a “far-fetched pretext.”

(Sidebar: says the Supreme Annexer.)

Had Assad poisoned his own people, it was - perhaps - to avoid what he sees as further treachery. He, Putin and Iran can pick the carcass that was Syria clean whenever they like.


What is Canada doing? Throwing more money at that carcass. Trudeau already has a big enough voters block.

Imagine the money as parkas, Syria.


Also:

U.S. intelligence officials also believe North Korea has links to the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, which the New York Times calls Syria’s “main research center for work on biological and chemical weapons.”

Although North Korea’s support for Syria’s chemical weapons programs predates the Syrian Civil war, Bruce Bechtol has described how it increased during the war. Other reports have alleged that North Koreans have been present in Syria during the civil war, where they have advised Assad’s army in a number of ways, including by helping it operate vacuum dryers used to dry liquid chemical agents and the SCUD missiles that are sometimes used to deliver those agents.

In Idlib, the murder weapon was probably sarin, another nerve agent North Korea is believed to possess in quantity, but which Syria most likely produced domestically with North Korean technical assistance. If Assad was the murderer of Idlib, then, Kim Jong-un was likely an accessory.

 
It's past due for a coup in North Korea.


(Kamsahamnida)




A woman who jumped into the Thames to avoid being killed by Khalid Masood has died:

A 31-year-old woman who fell into the River Thames during the London terror attack has died, London police said Friday.

Andreea Cristea and her boyfriend Andrei Burnaz were crossing Westminster Bridge on March 22 when the British attacker Khalid Masood plowed his rental car through a throng of terrified pedestrians.

Her death brings the number of victims who died from the attack to five. Masood was fatally shot by officers outside of the Houses of Parliament.

Cristea, an architect who was visiting London from her native Romania, fell into the Thames during the deadly rampage that saw Masood’s vehicle mount the sidewalk and reach speeds of 100 km/h. 

She was pulled out of the river alive and rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with a blood clot on the brain. She died Thursday afternoon after her life support was withdrawn.

A leftist think-tank attempts to sum up Canadians' attitude towards Trump as antipathetic:

Half of Canadians think Justin Trudeau isn’t doing so well dealing with Donald Trump, says a Broadbent Institute poll released Friday.

Four out of five Canadians feel income inequality is growing, and most are unhappy with policy ideas that would likely align Canada with Trump’s prospective policies, results say.

“The notion that the federal government would align policy or chicken out from the best possible policy because they’re worried that somehow that would run afoul of Trump’s agenda — that’s just not on with Canadians,” said executive director Rick Smith, who is heading up the institute’s Progress Summit, a gathering of about 1,000 progressives in Ottawa this week.

A large majority of Canadians, 77 per cent, have negative opinions of the U.S. president. On issues that “affect Canada and the global community,” only 15 per cent of Canadians think he’s doing a good or excellent job.

A full two-thirds characterized Trump as “a perpetual liar” and 75 per cent report being “pessimistic and worried” about his four-year term.

Only 49 per cent of Canadians surveyed think Trudeau is doing a “good” or “excellent” job dealing with Trump so far, the remainder saying his performance has been “only fair,” “poor” or “terrible.” 

Still, about 60 per cent say they’re either very or moderately confident that the Canadian government can “effectively represent Canada’s interests in future dealings with the Trump administration.”

You don't speak for anyone, leftist hydra.

"We know what's best for you."

A moral case for tax reform? How about term limits for the money-grubbing, inept thieves in Parliament and a referendum on how low politicians' pensions can go?

At the Fraser Institute and among others seeking lower tax rates, the argument is framed as an economic one. Lower rates, especially top marginal rates, would produce more growth and better jobs. Lower taxes and other reforms will help the economy. “A tax reform plan that improves incentives to work, save, invest and undertake entrepreneurial activities can help enhance economic growth,” write Fraser’s Charles Lammam and Niels Veldhuis in the 100^th anniversary booklet.

Studies show that to be true, but economic arguments alone seem to wash over the heads of most people. Taxes, especially income taxes, should be a moral issue.

William Watson, in one of his Fraser essays, noted that the income tax was introduced in part as a moral equivalent of conscription. In 1917, to fight World War I, the federal government began conscripting thousands of young Canadian men into the military to send to Europe. The policy was rightly seen by many as unfair and morally abhorrent, but rather than stop conscription, the government brought in what Watson calls the conscription of wealth. “If young men were to be conscripted, wealth should be too.”

The government, to fix one wrong, brought in another wrong. Later, however, when military conscription was ended, the other wealth conscription continued and expanded in all directions.

The economic case for lower taxes and less wealth conscription may be strong. But that case will remain a hard sell so long as the moral case is not even being made.

Why should someone else get their hands dirty for "dignity"?

Bill 84 is the Ontario government’s proposed legislation designed to implement Ottawa’s law on medically assisted dying.

It ignores the conscience rights of doctors like myself, who oppose euthanasia on ethical grounds and, in its current form, will decrease public access to palliative care.

In 2015, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario changed its human rights policy to say doctors who oppose euthanasia must refer their patients who want to be considered for it to another doctor to carry out.

Doctors like myself argue this provision — known as effective referral — involves us in the euthanasia process against our will.

This despite the fact the federal law encourages provincial legislation to uphold the conscience rights of doctors.

Every other jurisdiction in the world that offers euthanasia to patients — including the other Canadian provinces — protects the conscience rights of doctors.

Every major religion and even secular humanist organizations have denounced effective referrals.

The Canadian, American, and Ontario Medical Associations all say they are unnecessary.

And yet one Ontario university medical school is already screening candidates’ views on euthanasia in their interview process — a discriminatory filtering practice.

Isn’t freedom of conscience enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

(Sidebar: it's the stupid Charter.)




THANK YOU!

I have had as much as I can take for a while of the belligerent atheists who come crackling through the Internet assuming the airs of prosecutors, declaring ex cathedra that any suggestion of the existence of a supernatural force or that anything is not explicable by applied human ingenuity is medieval superstition. They have a trite little formula that they don’t have to prove the existence of anything and so have the high ground in any argument and then lapse into Hitchensesque infantilistic mockery about pink-winged little men in the clouds. They are repetitive and obnoxious and their fervour betrays the vacuity of their position. I am declaring a moratorium for a month or so on trying to reason with these self-exalted champions of reason.

Because there was so much misunderstanding and overwrought, misplaced hysteria from some readers, I will wind this up by restating key points with mind-numbing simplicity. We have no idea how the universe, or any version of the life and context we know, originated. We have no idea of the infinite, of what was before the beginning or is beyond any spatial limits we can imagine, even with the great exploratory progress of science. Miracles sometime occur and people do sometimes have completely inexplicable insights that are generally described as spiritual. No sane and somewhat experienced person disputes any of this. But there is a cyber-vigilante squad of atheist banshees that swarm like bats over such comments and are hyperactive philistines better responded to with pest control measures than logical argument. ...

As atheists renounce the roots of our civilization, they are troublesome passengers, and are apt to be less integral defenders of the West in time of challenge. They often dissent so uniformly and strenuously from any theistic notions that they have effectively established a third force that enjoys the society Judeo-Christianity has created while despising Judeo-Christianity and also purporting, generally, to despise the succession of dangerous adversaries that have threatened Judeo-Christianity, including Nazism, international Communism, and radical Islam.

There is nothing more arrogant than some militant faceless handle whose online smug can be felt kilometres away.

You are not clever, you are not insightful, you have no answers and no one thanks you for getting rid of Christmas.

Add to the debate or bugger off.




His name is Sir Michael Caine and he doesn't owe anyone a damn thing:

Esteemed British actor Michael Caine revealed this week that he voted for the controversial Brexit late last year for “freedom.”

In an interview with Sky News, the actor said, “I voted for Brexit. What it is with me, I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant. It wasn’t about the racism, immigrants or anything, it was about freedom.”

“Politics is always chaotic,” he added. “In politics, you’re always going into areas you’ve never been before, so you’re going to get lost and then you’re going to find your way, and then it’ll be all right.”

And now, things you might not have known about Billie Holiday:

In 1999, Time Magazine named Holiday’s original studio recording of “Strange Fruit,” a 1939 protest song against lynching that was originally written as a poem by Abel Meeropol, the “song of the century.” The song is also part of The Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry and has been covered by various other artists, including Herbie Hancock and Nina Simone.

Rainy Day Post

Gloomy day...



An American man was detained after a false bomb was found in his luggage:

An American man was arrested and charged with mischief after airport officials found a "mock improvised explosive device" in a suitcase on a United Airlines flight bound from Toronto to Chicago, Canadian police said on Thursday.


The suspect, identified as Joseph Galaska, 58, was held for a bail hearing. Police did not reveal details on his residence.

Police checked the device for explosives and determined it was not a threat, a Peel Regional police spokesman said. The Chicago O'Hare-bound flight was delayed for hours from its scheduled 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) departure and all other passengers and their luggage were rescreened.

 
Watch the airport bum-touchers claim this as a win for the good guys.




Explosives were discovered in Saint Petersburg:

Explosives found in a residential building in St Petersburg are similar to the unexploded bomb in the city's metro, found on the day of the bombing that killed 14 people on Monday, Russian security sources said on Thursday.

"Explosives were in a similar amount that was used at Vosstaniya (metro station)," a security source told Reuters.

I have yet to see any government take a hard line with China. I doubt Trump will be an exception:

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met face-to-face for the first time on Thursday, spending some social time together with their wives before digging in to the thorny trade and security issues that bedevil the relationship between the world's two largest economies.

Trump said he wants to raise concerns about China's trade practices and urge Xi to do more to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions in the talks, though no major deals on either issue were expected.

China will never disarm its vassal state. North Korea is like a very distracting attack dog for it.




He can stay there:

Abderrahmane Ghanem, a 30-year-old Canadian from Calgary, has been held for nearly a year in the El-Harrach prison in Algeria. 

Ghanem, who also holds Algerian citizenship, is charged with being a member of a terrorist group outside Algeria. His trial is set to begin next month. If found guilty he likely faces up to 20 years in jail.

A Toronto man has been charged with wanting to join ISIS:

The RCMP says they've charged a man for allegedly leaving Canada to join Islamic State militants.

The Mounties say they began investigating in January 2016 after hearing allegations that Pamir Hakimzadah had travelled to Turkey during the fall of 2014 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

They say Hakimzadah was returned to Canada after being detained by Turkish authorities.

The RCMP says Hakimzadah was charged Wednesday afternoon with leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group.

The senator who stated that some good came out of residential schools -


this one:

After hearing testimony about the atrocities committed in residential schools, Senator Lynn Beyak asked survivors at the Senate's Aboriginal peoples committee Wednesday what they thought about her plan for a national audit on all First Nations spending.

Beyak asked John Morrisseau and Doris Young, two elderly Indigenous people who faced abuse in school, if they thought it was appropriate to be spending money on renaming buildings, like Ottawa's Langevin Block, named after one of the architects of the residential schools, when there are children on reserve without clean drinking water.

 
- has been removed from the senate committee overlooking aboriginal affairs:

Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak, who famously declared "some good" came out of Canada's residential schools, has been kicked off the Senate's committee on Aboriginal Peoples.

The truth can be a terrible monkey wrench.




The Canadian dollar is going to take a nose-dive:

The Canadian dollar will weaken over the coming months, pressured by an uncertain economic outlook and the prospect of higher interest rates in the United States even as the Bank of Canada stays on the sidelines, a Reuters poll showed.

While the loonie may gain a little in the short term on expectations of stronger first-quarter economic growth in Canada, the survey of close to 50 foreign exchange strategists showed it will weaken to C$1.35 per U.S. dollar in three months and close the year at the same level.

It is already 3 percent lower than at this time last year.

Remember - budgets balance themselves. 

So people are being informed that it is dignified to die for a hospital bed?

A crowdfunded map of Canada, published on the Dying With Dignity website, shows there are several facilities across the country that will provide the procedure, while others explicitly will not. The map also illustrates the information gaps and potential access issues that exist across the country, particularly in rural areas like Atlantic Canada and the north.

And:

Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035, a new study has found.

What could go wrong? Abortion and euthanasia will save so much money by killing off potential tax-payers who will then be replaced by those who flock here for the tax-funded benefits we've come to expect.

Win-win!




Because the left is nuts:

It especially galls me that the left, having seized the commanding heights of culture including academia, should not merely quash diversity but blithely deny doing so. Peterson is so obviously being made an example of. Can’t they person up and admit it?

One might conclude that Russian Orthodoxy is the official religion in Russia. One would be half right. The true state religion is fascism:

Russia's Supreme Court has refused to recognize the country's Jehovah's Witnesses as victims of political repression.

The religious group appealed to the court as part of an ongoing case which could see the organization banned in Russia as “extremist.” 

The ruling would leave Russia's 175,000 Jehovah's Witnesses unable to meet or distribute literature legally, classifying the group alongside organizations like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

One may find the precepts of the Jehovah's Witnesses arcane or foolish but on par with ISIS?

Way to stretch credulity there, Russia.


And - oh, would these be the MPPs who unanimously voted to elevate Islamism over all else? Those MPPs?

Secularism and feminism are all well and good, but the New Democrats are unlikely to align with the Qur’an-stompers. The Liberals think religious accommodations are the Pope’s pyjamas. And after John Tory’s faith-based schools debacle and Patrick Brown’s sex-ed switcheroo, the Progressive Conservatives are scared stiff of this stuff. (Opposing prayer in public school isn’t exactly home-run conservative policy, anyway.)

Nevertheless, it’s not Ontario’s educators you should be bothering — it’s Ontario’s legislators. They made this world. The schools are just living in it.

Oh, give it a rest. Schools don't take cues from the government but they do put the useless cretins in power.




Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Don Rickles:

Mid-Week Post

 

Syrian families killed in their sleep during chemical attack:

Scores of Syrians, many of them women and young children, were killed Tuesday in one of the deadliest chemical attacks of the country’s six-year war, according to doctors, rescue workers and witnesses.

Airstrikes on the northwestern town of Khan Sheikhoun began just after daybreak, delivering an unidentified chemical agent that killed at least 58 people and filled clinics across the area with patients foaming at the mouth or struggling to breathe.

President Donald Trump blamed the attack, which he said was carried out by the Syrian government, on former president Barack Obama, calling it a “consequence” of Obama’s “weakness and irresolution.” The reference was to Obama’s decision not to follow through with a threat to use military force against Syrian President Bashar Assad after a 2013 chemical attack.

Trump has a point. A real leader wouldn't draw red lines but actually do something. Instead of spying on Israelis or starting up a virtual Ponzi scheme for a failed healthcare plan,  Obama - had he any intestinal fortitude or scruples - would have done something to prevent a chemical attack.

But that would just be nutty.




The suspected terrorist who killed fourteen people in Saint Petersburg had been renting an apartment a month prior to the attack:

The main suspect in a suicide bombing on the St Petersburg metro that killed 14 people had rented an apartment in the city a month before the blast, neighbors and a building maintenance worker told Reuters on Wednesday.

A day after Monday's attack, security officials raided the apartment and ordered other residents to leave -- a precaution often undertaken when police believe there may be explosives or bomb-making equipment inside.

Thirty-five former captives of ISIS have been released in Libya:

Libyan authorities released on Wednesday 28 Eritreans and seven Nigerians who were captured and enslaved by Islamic State in Sirte and had been held in detention since the jihadist group lost the city in December.

The group, all but two of whom are women and children, escaped from Sirte, a former Islamic State stronghold in central Libya, while forces from the nearby city of Misrata battled to oust the militants late last year.

Some of the women were on their way to Europe when Islamic State fighters kidnapped and held them as sex slaves.

After they escaped from Sirte, they were investigated for possible ties to the group and held for several months in a Misrata prison.

Reuters has documented how Islamic State used enslaved refugee women to reward its fighters in Libya. In stories published last year, the women recounted how the group forced them to convert to Islam and sold them as sex slaves.

In November, a Reuters reporter visited some of the captives at a military post in Misrata. Their new captors, the women said then, starved and humiliated them. At least one woman, a 16-year-old, was pregnant and in need of urgent care.

The Libyan attorney-general's office announced that it had cleared the women of any wrongdoing in mid-February, but their release was delayed for several more weeks, with no explanation.

(Sidebar: to see, I imagine, if they had PTSD or had turned as Boko Haram turns.)




Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in agreement with Trump over North Korean missile launches:

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a telephone call that North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch was "a dangerous provocation and a serious threat."

Abe also told reporters at his official residence that he was watching to see how China would respond to Pyongyang after President Xi Jinping meets with Trump at the U.S. leader's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

In his brief, nationally televised remarks, Abe said Trump had told him that all options were on the table regarding how to handle North Korea.

 
It's time for Japan et al to nuclearise.




Normal people would call this "grooming":

So what practical effects will the addition of the Human Rights Code list have? Bill 89 itself is exceedingly vague on details, but would give the Minister extensive power to make regulations “governing how service providers, in making decisions in respect of any child, are to take into account the child’s race … sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression”. In short, the Minister gets to decide on the details, without consulting the legislature.  That fact alone should make you uncomfortable. The Minister of Children and Youth Services, Michael Coteau (also the bill’s sponsor) – the one who would have this regulatory power – has given some insight on how he perceives the application of these new and far reaching powers.

Ontario Liberal voters, however, do not.




Laziness ensure Liberal voters, hence the Maritime dependency on hand-outs:

Nat Richard, director of corporate affairs at Westmorland Fisheries, said his company would happily avoid participating in the temporary foreign worker program if it could. “It’s costly and complicated. We are always hiring — we spend a lot of money on radio and print ads — and we have significantly increased wages by 12 per cent on base salaries. We would prefer to hire locally but the reality is it’s tough work and we are forced to supplement our workforce with people from Mexico and elsewhere.”

If Richard is correct, the problem is not foreign workers taking the bread from the mouths of unemployed Canadians, it’s that local people with prior experience in the fish processing industry decide they’d prefer to get by on employment insurance.

On this, the Liberals are culpable. In budget 2016, the new government followed through on the electoral bribe that delivered it every single seat in Atlantic Canada.

Dogs prove once again that they are the better species:

Officials say a dog at a Nigerian wedding party grappled with a suicide bomber until her explosives detonated, killing the animal as well.

Buba Ahmed of Belbelo village, near the northeastern city of Maiduguri, says guests are grateful that the dog sacrificed itself to save their lives.

Terrorists are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible...

Also (RE: better species):

The floor looks clean in this high-rise apartment, seven stories above Kuwait City traffic. Not a smudge in sight on the picture window. On the other side of the glass, the maid is hanging on by one knuckle, screaming.

“Oh crazy, come here,” a woman says casually in Arabic, holding a camera up to the maid.

“Hold on to me! Hold on to me!” the maid yells.

Instead, the woman steps back. The maid’s grip finally slips, and she lands in a cloud of dust, many stories below.

The maid – an Ethiopian who had been working in the country for several years, according to the Kuwait Times – survived the fall. The videographer, her employer, was arrested last week on a charge of failing to help the worker.

To reinforce the point, a list of dogs who saved lives.




And now, wisteria in the spring:

For Today

The story so far...



The RCMP and CSIS have launched investigations into spying and tracking cell phones on Parliament Hill:

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the RCMP and CSIS have launched investigations in response to a CBC News/Radio-Canada report, which revealed that someone is using devices that track and spy on cellphones in the area around Parliament Hill. ...

The devices work by mimicking a cellphone tower to interact with nearby phones and read the unique ID associated with a phone.

 Anything like this?

Why would anyone want to spy on the government?




The death toll in Saint Petersburg has risen to fourteen:

A 22-year old suicide bomber born in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan was behind a blast on the St. Petersburg subway that killed 14 people, Russian investigators said Tuesday.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Monday afternoon attack, which came while President Vladimir Putin was visiting the city, Russia’s second biggest and Putin’s hometown.

Russia’s health minister on Tuesday raised the death toll from 11 to 14 and said 49 people are still hospitalized. Authorities did not say whether the suicide attacker was included in the death toll. The City Hall said there were several foreign nationals among those killed and injured, but would not offer detail. The foreign ministry of the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan said one of its citizens has been killed in the attack.

Had this been France, Britain or Germany, there would be cement barriers erected and the Muslim community would be worried about backlash that never seems to come.

The perpetual appeasers in the West surely must offer some kind of advice for the good citizens of Saint Petersburg.

If they don't, they'll have people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali filling their heads with what actually goes in mad theocratic states:

As someone once said, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is everything the identity-group fetishists profess to dig: female, atheist, black, immigrant. But, because she does not toe the party line on Islam, her blackness washes off her like a bad dye job on a telly anchorman - and so do her femaleness and godlessness and immigrant status. And in the end she is Charles Murray, or Geert Wilders - or even David Duke. A black Somali woman is, it turns out, a "white supremacist".

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is someone who fled genital mutilation and arranged marriage in a backward, barbarous society to come to the west and live in freedom. Her first stop was the Netherlands. But the director of the film she wrote, Theo van Gogh, was murdered in the street, and the man who shot him then drove two knives through what was left of his chest pinning to it a five-page death-threat promising to do the same to Ayaan. So she was forced to leave the Netherlands, and has lived with round-the-clock security ever since. Now she has to cross Australia off the list, too. Where's next? Can she speak in Sweden? Or Canada? Ireland or Germany? She left Somalia to live as a western woman, only to watch the west turn itself into Somalia, incrementally but remorselessly, at least as far as free speech is concerned.

Speaking of Sweden, that nation-state corpse east of Norway ...

Sweden is all over this:

Imam says unveiled women go to hell

 


As one can tell, Swedes are very open to people like this imam:

Feminists in Stockholm are leaving areas like the notorious migrant-heavy no-go zones of Husby and Tensta because they say religious fundamentalists now rule those suburbs.

Damn Islamophobes!


I thought Iqra Khalid's Nazism Motion 103 was supposed to get rid of all of this.

Otherwise, stories like this ....

The case of a British Jewish child forced to leave his Berlin school after being subjected to anti-Semitic violence has provoked outrage and soul-searching in Germany.

The 14-year-old, who cannot be named under child protection laws, was beaten, kicked and threatened with a replica gun after he revealed to fellow pupils that he was Jewish.

He endured a campaign of intimidation by Muslim pupils who told him “Muslims hate Jews. All Jews are murderers.”

His British mother, who asked not to be named to protect the identity of her son, told the The Daily Telegraph the school had done little to stop the bullying.

“They told us this is normal for adolescents from this background, that they’re just trying to find their identity,” she said. “But it shouldn’t be normal. I’ve never experienced such direct anti-Semitism before in all the years I’ve lived in Germany.”

The case, which follows several incidents in which people wearing skullcaps or other outward signs of Jewishness have been beaten on the streets of Berlin, has prompted concern over the extent of anti-Semitic feeling in the Muslim community.

“In some German mosques, anti-Semitism is being actively encouraged,” said Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

... will give others the impression that Islamists are bunch of Jew-hating, woman-hounding savages.

What to do?


And:

Social media users have slammed a Muslim teen activist who was accepted into Stanford University after writing “Black Lives Matter” 100 times in his application, with some saying a black applicant wouldn’t have been accepted.

On Monday, Mic.com published an article about Ziad Ahmed, a Muslim teenager who replied to a question “What matters to you, and why?” on his college application by writing “Black Lives Matter” exactly 100 times.

Ahmed was accepted into the university. “Everyone who reviewed your application was inspired by your passion, determination, accomplishments and heart,” read a letter from Stanford posted on his Twitter.

The student, who claims also to have been accepted at Princeton and Yale, explained to Mic why he wrote the slogan so many times on his application: “My unapologetic progressivism is a central part of my identity, and I wanted that to be represented adequately in my application.”

He added: “To me, to be Muslim is to be a BLM ally, and I honestly can’t imagine it being any other way for me. “Furthermore, it’s critical to realize that one-fourth to one-third of the Muslim community in America are (sic) black … and to separate justice for Muslims from justices for the black community is to erase the realities of the plurality of our community.”

But not everyone was touched by such a virtue-signaling move from Ahmed—with some people suggesting that an actual black student would never be able to get away with writing that on their application to an elite university.

“Yeah I’m not sure I find this cute or heartwarming, no way a black kid could get rewarded for doing the same thing,” wrote Zoe Samudzi on Twitter. “When I/we talk about black struggle being used by non-black folks for social capital and material gain, this is what’s meant by it.”

Sit back and watch the train wreck.




Moving on...




You know it's bad when even the CBC won't absorb your gut-punch:

There were no seat changes in Monday's federal byelections, but the governing Liberals took a hit in all five of the contested ridings — marking their worst byelection performances so far under Justin Trudeau.

The Conservatives saw gains in three of the five ridings while the New Democrats took hits of their own in all but one, leaving the Conservatives as the winners of the night.

Ontarians will always vote for the Liberals (which is why Kathleen Wynne can joke about polls that would make normal people nervous). Unions and emotional retardation have made cockroaches of the Liberals all, but clearly not everyone feels that the Liberals represent them. Some really think that the best things in life are free, hence their support for the NDP, and others are sh-- scared that their grandchildren will never be able to retire.

Well, you let it happen, Canada. Own it.


Also in "Liberals are so corrupt that banana republics sing folk songs about their sleaze":

Some of the money taxpayers paid as a result of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial Bahamas vacation went to a billionaire Trudeau has described as a close family friend.

Money listed in documents tabled in the House of Commons as "per diems" for a tour technician who accompanied the prime minister was actually paid to the Aga Khan who owns Bell Island.

"The $1,604 is the total amount paid to the owner of Bell Island for the technician's 12 day stay ($100 US x 12 days)," wrote Privy Council spokesman Raymond Rivet following questions from CBC News.

The $1,604 was part of the $127,000 that Trudeau's vacation ended up costing the government.

Good:

The State Department said on Monday it was ending U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund, the international body's agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries.

The latter is not as big a concern as the former.




I have yet to see any plan that results in Putin being truly accountable for his actions:

Barring travel, denying visas, and seizing assets are just a few proper steps in that direction that Canada has already taken. The American and British governments have already gone further. A Magnitsky Act has passed in the United Kingdom and the United States, where it was championed by Arizona’s Sen. John McCain, who has been very active and outspoken on Russia and the threat they pose to world order (he once memorably described the country as “a mafia-run gas station masquerading as a country”). He and others in Congress have led the charge to demand personal and political accountability.

This won't end well:

The online ad reads like something only a metallurgist could love: an offer to sell 22 pounds of highly pure lithium 6 every month, set for delivery from the port of Dandong, China.

But it caught the attention of intelligence agencies around the world for a simple reason: Lithium 6 offers a fast way to turn an ordinary atom bomb into a hydrogen bomb, magnifying its destructive power by up to 1,000 times. The seller listed in the ad — who even provided his cellphone number — was identified in a recent U.N. report as the third secretary in the North Korean Embassy in Beijing.

When President Donald Trump meets with President Xi Jinping in Florida this week, administration officials say, his top agenda item will be pressing China to sign on to the most powerful set of economic sanctions ever imposed on North Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Trump has repeatedly vowed to stop the North’s nuclear efforts, telling The Financial Times in an interview published Sunday: “If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all that I am telling you.”

But experts say the offer to sell excess lithium is evidence that North Korea has produced so much of the precious material that it is too late to prevent the nation from becoming an advanced nuclear power.

Also:

So is the danger of a power struggle erupting if Kim is ousted, by American action or Chinese subversion. Nobody knows what the internal dynamics of Pyongyang politics are, if it even has any and isn’t just an amorphous heap of demoralized terrified courtiers trying not to get fed to dogs. But it’s almost impossible to imagine any new regime worse than the present one, or less concerned about reasonable relations with its Chinese neighbour. In any case, it’s one more worry for China, not us.

China needs North Korea as a buffer state, mad leader or no. Should the North Korean military leadership man up and oust Kim themselves, that might save any bad feelings of American or Chinese intervention.

This will get worse before it gets better.




See - this is why Andrew Lincoln needs to stay in England:

Hundreds of years ago, in North Yorkshire, England, there was a small village called Wharram Percy. There were two rows of houses, one shorter than the other, and church, with a churchyard, but they’ve long since disappeared. By the 16th century, the village was abandoned.

In the 1960s, when archaeologists worked to excavate the village, they found a strange group of human bones. These bones were buried outside the churchyard, near the end of one row of buildings. There were 137 bones in the excavated pit, belonging to at least 10 people, ranging in age from 2 or 3 to 50.

For many years, no one knew exactly what to make of these bones, but now a team of archaeologists from Historic England and the University of Southampton have published a new theory about them: these bodies were burned and mutilated after death to keep them from becoming reanimated corpses.

(Merci beaucoup)