Happy Labor Day!

Silverfiddle Rant!

I figured I'd give people a forum to sound off, in case anyone gets bored.  Me? I'm ready to go back to work.  In this over-crowded state, if you want to do anything on the weekend, you have to fight the traffic and the crowds.  Holiday weekends are even worse.

Anyway, here are some topics of discussion:

After the President's 'V for Vendetta' speech, he issued a clarification:

"I don't consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country."

Glad he cleared that up! What's going on?  

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The Infotainment Media Complex proudly participated in a  conspiracy to 'save' an election for Democrats, cheers on censorship, and has been fanning the flames of civil war for years.  Now this:

Red wave crashing? GOP momentum slips as fall sprint begins.

It's always been an iron law that polling before Labor Day is unreliable and predictive of nothing.  Reporting 'the news,' or propaganda?

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Vlad has finally pinched off Europe's gas pipe.  

What now? Putin knows European 'powers' are weak sisters.  This may be his gambit to end his bumbling Ukraine invasion.  Europe is stocked up, but they will still have to impose severe restrictions and rationing on homes and businesses. 

Our heating bills here in the US will bite hard, and look for worldwide riots and food shortages in poorer countries as Ukraine's war-shrunken harvest cannot export through Russian controlled ports.

What say you?

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

Silverfiddle Rant!

What we’re doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We’re encouraging the Ukrainians to think they will ultimately become part of the West... The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path & the end result is Ukraine is going to get wrecked.”  -- John Mearsheimer in 2016

The West Could Have Prevented The Russo-Ukrainian War, But Chose Not To

"President Biden and our European allies closed every off-ramp for Russia while misleading Ukraine into thinking we would defend it."
-- John Davidson, The Federalist

Russia Directly Threatens Sweden and Finland

As Putin prepares to take Kiev and set up an illegitimate puppet government, his foreign ministry threatened Sweden and Finland (and implicitly, all NATO nations):

Russia threatened “military and political consequences” against Finland and Sweden on Friday if they attempted to join NATO.

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned against other countries attempting to join NATO after Russia started a war with Ukraine Thursday.

“Finland and Sweden should not base their security on damaging the security of other countries and their accession to NATO can have detrimental consequences and face some military and political consequences,” Zakharova said in a viral clip of a press conference. (The Hill)

What Now?

President Biden avers "Putin will be a pariah on the international stage." 

No he won't.  Russia will continue being an influential international player.  And Vlad will fund it all by orienting Russia to the east and becoming China's gas station, removing the last shreds of western leverage over neo-czarist Russia.

Sumantra Maitra wrote an excellent and wide-ranging essay in The National Interest. He repeats the ad nauseum call for European nations to open their wallets and get serious about training serious militaries to seriously take up their own defense.

The era of peace is over. Hard power is in, soft theories are out. Gazillions spent in universities should be rechanneled to research on deterrence and military. If this invasion does not lead to Europeans paying for their own defense and increasing hard power, then the future is going to be dark. America cannot take the security burden of both the Atlantic and Pacific, with a rich continent doing nothing for its own security. 

I agree with the author, but that drum is broken from decades of futile banging.  Anyway, it's too late. Olde Europe is in a demographic death spiral, too turned in on itself and its disorienting cocktail of progressive blue sky dreams and me-first shoulder shrugs to events around them.     

I don't know how much blood and treasure we should be expending on people who won't help themselves, or stated more charitably, who increasingly do not share our values and goals. 

LINKS:

Ukraine Demands a Transatlantic Course Correction

Politico: Putin was playing Biden all along

Russian invasion of Ukraine scrambles Middle East diplomacy

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

- Mike Tyson's comment on his upcoming fight with Evander Holyfield

More Beheadings In France — This Time INSIDE A Cathedral (with addendum)

During morning mass at the largest Roman Catholic Church in the city!

Dateline...Nice France, October 29, 2020: 

Three people are killed - with church warden and woman beheaded - and several others wounded in terror attack at a church in Nice before attacker is shot and arrested while chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ 

Three killed - two of them beheaded - and several more stabbed in a terror attack inside a cathedral in Nice Attack began around 9am before police swarmed the area, where they shot and arrested the attacker 

Mass had just begun inside cathedral - largest Roman Catholic church in Nice - when the attack started 

Comes fortnight after teacher [Samuel Paty] was beheaded near Paris; a month after stabbings near Charlie Hebdo offices

Read the rest HERE.

The marching orders of Allah: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike necks" (Qur'an 27:4)

ADDENDUM: 

Two hours later man armed with a handgun and shouting Allahu Akbar was shot and killed by cops in Avignon 

Meanwhile a guard at the French consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was stabbed and wounded by a knifeman 

Attacks come after Macron sparked fury by defending cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and amid the Mawlid festival when Muslims celebrate the Prophet's birthday

Recommended Reading

See Europe's Childless Leaders Sleepwalking Us to Disaster by Giulio Meotti at Gatestone Institute.

The bullet points in the teaser:

Suicidal Folly

A few months ago, Brussels ran an advertisement which mocked the Idea that terror attacks could occur in the city:


The West, having embraced multiculturalism to a suicidal degree, refuses to recognize the reality of the threat from Islam.

The Islamic threat is a hydra and in our midst.

Related reading:

A new Hitler is in Europe. It is not Donald Trump. It is not the “right-wing.” The new Hitler is very much like the old Hitler: he hates Jews. He has contempt for the historical patrimony of Western civilization. He means to rule by an iron fist and subordinate every other power to his will. He respects only strength, and despises weakness. The new Hitler is not just one man, but millions — millions who believe in an ideology that teaches warfare against and subjugation of free people under its heel.

Read the rest HERE.

Understand this:

Jihad In Brussels

Brussels Airport

Brussels is under attack.

Two explosions at the airport. At least 10 dead and at least 30 wounded.

And now the subway is closed because of explosions there. Maelbeek station reportedly attacked.

Consider this: this week contains holy days for both Christians and Jews. Good Friday and Easter Sunday for Christians; Purim for Jews.

Yahoo! News has live updates HERE.

• Two explosions have ripped through Brussels airport

• As many as 13 people have reportedly died and there are said to be as many as 35 injured

• Belga agency said shots were fired and there were shouts in Arabic shortly before the blasts

• The attack centred on an American Airlines desk in a departure hall

• Footage from inside the building shows a scene of devastation, with smoke rising from the terminal

• An explosion has also reportedly occurred at a Brussels metro station near the European Union headquarters

• Brussels was already on a state of high alert following the arrest of Paris atrocity suspect Salah Abdeslam in the city last week

Fox News is now reporting 5 blasts.

UPDATE

City-wide lockdown in Brussels.

Attacks are now officially being called terror attacks.

Suicide vest(s) have been found.

Shots were fired before the blasts at the airport.

The news media's talking heads keep saying, "Just who is behind these attacks?"

Image of the aftermath of today's Brussels attacks

Yesteryear

A different sort of Valentine's Day blog post:

Article HERE.

Video...ATLANTIC JIHAD: The Untold Story of White Slavery

One of Abraham Lincoln's three favorite books was Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account Of A New England Sea Captain Enslaved By North African Arabs by Captain James Riley. It was long a bestseller and published in 1817.

Something rarely discussed in today's history books, but back when I was in school, we covered much of this information in our World History classes (Apologies for the video's length, but the video is worth your time.  Please watch):

Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints

This blog post stuck here until further notice. Please scroll down for other material.

What Jean Raspail wrote about in 1973 is happening now as Europe is being overrun by "migrants."

Raspail out-Orwells Orwell!

READ THE BOOK ONLINE

One review from Amazon:

The Invading Army Of Migrants (With Addendum)

While heartstrings are being masterfully played, the demographics tell a different story.

Please watch:

Meanwhile in Greece..."All aboard for Europe!":

ADDENDUM:

YouTube blurb for this added video:

Published on Sep 8, 2015

"Those are the "refugees" we receive daily in Europe. They're destroying our islands in greece. They fight every day and terrorize locals and tourists.

They already run the place and police aren't allowed to do anything about. DO NOT listen to liberal media lies.

They will not show you what we see every day here. Almost all of those "refugees" are military-aged men. We're under occupation."

(From a Greek man)

Information, Please!

Where was that Spanish nurse who just tested positive for Ebola vacationing? Can anybody here ferret out that information? Thank you.

This Is Paris In 2014

Please watch this short video, which speaks volumes about the demographic tipping point that Europe has reached (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):


Of all the nations in the EU, France has the highest population of Muslims.

Belgistan Rising?

Worth your time (with thanks to Mustang, who emailed me the link to the video below):



Is the United States on a similar path?

Reading for today: see "Moslem Trends" at A Montpelier View.

Nincompoopery — And Worse

(Weekend roundup post.   For the definition of nincompoop, see THIS in the Urban Dictionary. Commenters are encouraged to post links that tell of more nincompoopery)

Links to read (more possibly added as the weekend progresses):

US Military Bases are ‘Gun Free Zones’ Because Democrats Decreed Them To Be

New report says only one-third of Syrian rebels are "moderates" -- and those "moderates" burn churches

Unregulated dinner parties! The horror!

In Fairfax County, protests over dumping of [250,000] library books...

Your iPhone uses more energy than a refrigerator

A 47-Story High-Rise Has a Tall Problem: They Forgot the Elevators

Obama Says Insurance Will Be 'Significantly Cheaper' Under Obamacare, But That Isn't True

Obama claims gov’t healthcare will cost less than the average monthly cell phone bill

Walgreens Changes Health Care Plan for 160,000 Workers Because of Obamacare

Cleveland Clinic to Reduce Budget by $330 Million Due to ObamaCare, Layoffs Inevitable

Love Your Library Day

The Scottish version:

The Other September 11th

The Siege of Vienna in 1683:


Some reading HERE at Gates of Vienna.

Meanwhile, dated January 26, 2013, Saharan caravans of cocaine help to fund al-Qaeda in terrorists' North African domain

Crime And Punishment In The UK

If the following is accurate, Eurabia is in full bloom in the UK:

Europe Today?

Check out the symbols in the graphic below (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):

Rational Nation USA has more information.

Meanwhile, At The White House

Dated April 2, 2012:

White House To Welcome Former Terror Group Leader And Accused Human Organ Trafficker

The Toulouse Slayings

For two mornings in a row, the lead story on the news has been that of the siege in Toulouse.

The precipitating event was Mohammed Merah's murder of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, the rabbi's two sons — Gabriel, age 3, and Arye, age 6 — and Miriam Monsonego, age 8 (hat tip to Will for the photo below):

All four of the above victims were buried in Israel: