Bataclan, where the majority of deaths occurred, is literally around the block from my beloved Rue Oberkampf. R. Oberkampf is a rite of passage for the Moderne Boheme aka hipster, who must experience Paris as part of life's experience. My heart is permanently wounded.Originally Posted by XYMOX_4AD_84
I offer my condolences to anyone who was affected by this attack.
A couple of hours ago, a reader in France who's a schoolteacher wrote
to me wondering what he should tell the children on Monday.
I responded thus:
I haven't done so recently, but I used write the following pretty
frequently: Treasure the time you have left, and use it to prepare
yourself, your family, your community and your nation.
So if I were a teacher, then I would tell the children that this is
not the time to be frightened into paralysis. This is a time to
prepare for anything that might come. This is different for every
family. You might want to change the locks on your home, or stock up
on canned food, or volunteer to help other people in your community.
Depending on how much fervor you want to inspire, you might remind
them of La Marseillaise: "Marchons, marchons, qu'un sang impur abreuve
nos sillons."
Incidentally, I'm not so sure that the French people aren't uniting.
I just heard on the news that Sarkozy has promised his full support to
Hollande. A lot of people will understand that Le Pen doesn't have
all the answers.
The methods proposed by Le Pen are the only way to permanently remove the scourge that has caused so many casualties in France today.
14-Nov-15 World View -- Paris and Beirut in shock and anger after massive attacks
*** 14-Nov-15 World View -- Paris and Beirut in shock and anger after massive terrorist attacks
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Lebanon's government in paralysis following Beirut terror attack
- France closes borders in state of emergency after Paris attacks
- Europe's Schengen zone is put at risk by Paris attack
****
**** Lebanon's government in paralysis following Beirut terror attack
****
Site of the twin suicide attack on a suburb of Beirut on Thursday (European Press)
Lebanon on Friday was mourning the deaths of people killed by two
massive suicide bombs in Beirut on Thursday. ( "13-Nov-15 World View -- ISIS claims credit for suicide attack on Hezbollah in Beirut Lebanon"
)
Unlike France, Lebanon cannot declare a state of emergency and close
all its borders. In many ways, Lebanon is the epicenter of the proxy
war in Lebanon, as Hezbollah has supplied thousands of fighters the
last two years to support Syria's Shia/Alawite president Bashar
al-Assad whose objective is to exterminate as many Sunni
Muslims in Syria as possible.
Lebanon's government is almost in a state of paralysis, because
the groups that respectively oppose and support Hezbollah can't
agree on anything. The government can't even agree on a process
for electing a new president, so the country has gone for months
with no president.
In Lebanon, the political situation is so fractured that the country
has been unable to elect a president for months. Hezbollah militias
are fighting in Syria, but that's because Hezbollah leader Sayyed
Hassan Nasrallah is forcing them to, and, ironically, that's because
Nasrallah's puppetmasters in Iran are forcing him to do so.
In Beirut, the paralyzed government has not been able to collect the
garbage for almost four months. Residents are just dumping their
garbage in the streets, since they have no other way to dispose of it.
In the last couple of weeks, the rainy season has begun. Video
showing uncollected garbage swept down a flooded street in Beirut
recently went viral. There's a threat of polluted water, cholera
and other diseases.
The attack was carried out two days before talks were set to begin in
Vienna in a renewed international effort to find a political solution
to the Syria conflict.
Thursday's sectarian bombing in Beirut exacerbates the sectarian
tensions throughout the Mideast. The bombing killed 43 people and
wounded hundreds, but across the Mideast thousands of people are
killed every day in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and other areas of
conflict. Generational Dynamics predicts that the Mideast is headed
for all-out war. CNN and Naharnet (Lebanon) and VOA (6-Nov)
****
**** France closes borders in state of emergency after Paris attacks
****
At least 150 people were killed in a wave of coordinated bomb and gun
attacks around Paris late Friday, continuing into Saturday morning.
This was the deadliest violence to strike France since World
War II.
Gunmen and bombers attacked busy restaurants, bars and a concert hall
at six locations around Paris on Friday evening, killing scores of
people in what a shaken President François Hollande described as an
unprecedented terrorist attack.
Unlike the Beirut attack, which was practically ignored in the West,
the Paris attack is receiving hours of continuous and exclusive
coverage of pretty much every Western news media outlet.
A Reuters witness heard five explosions outside the Bataclan music
hall, where up to 118 people were estimated to be dead and reports
said armed attackers had shot concertgoers one by one before elite
police units stormed the building and killed four attackers.
France's president François Hollande announced a mass mobilization of
security forces and a state of emergency for the entire country:
<QUOTE>"As I speak, terrorist attacks of unprecedented
proportions are underway in the Paris area. There are dozens
killed. There are many injured. It is a horror.
We have, on my decision, mobilized all forces possible to
neutralize the terrorists and make all concerned areas safe. I
have also asked for military reinforcements.
They are currently in the Paris area to ensure that no new attack
can take place.
I have also called a cabinet meeting that will be held in a few
minutes.
Two decisions will be taken: A state of emergency will be
declared, which means some places will be closed, traffic may be
banned and there will also be searches which may be decided
throughout [the Paris area].
A state of emergency will be proclaimed throughout the territory
[of France].
The second decision I have made is to close the borders. We must
ensure that no one enters to commit any crimes and that those who
have committed the crimes that we have unfortunately seen can also
be arrested if they should leave the territory.
This is a terrible ordeal which once again assails us. We know
where it comes from, who these criminals are, who these terrorists
are. ...
Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great and the
state authorities must be firm. We will be."<END QUOTE>
Many people fear that there will be further attacks. After
the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January
of this year. Those attacks were followed additional attacks
on a Jewish supermarket, and a similar situation is feared this time.
Hollande says that the borders are closed so that no one else can
enter France to commit further crimes. It's not clear to me how long
the border closings can be maintained, since there's supposed to be
freedom of travel throughout Europe's Schengen zone, which includes
France. There are something like 6,000 migrants entering the EU every
day, and they can't be stopped any more than you can stop a tsunami.
France 24 and Deutsche Welle and Global News
****
**** Europe's Schengen zone is put at risk by Paris attack
****
Early in the day on Friday, hours before the terror attack occurred in
Paris, Austria announced that it will build a 3.7 kilometer fence
along its border with Slovenia. This is the first time that a fence
will have been erected between two members of Europe's Schengen zone.
France has responded to the attacks by closing all its borders, but it
will be impossible to maintain that closure for long. The Paris
attack is certain to encourage more countries to abandon Europe's
prized open-border Schengen zone. EuroNews
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Lebanon, Beirut,
Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Syria, Bashar al-Assad,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
France, Paris, François Hollande
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15-Nov-15 World View -- Paris attacks: Forces coalesce for greater military action
*** 15-Nov-15 World View -- Paris attacks: Forces coalesce for greater Christian military intervention against ISIS
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- World reacts to Paris attack
****
**** World reacts to Paris attack
****
French people in Seoul, South Korea, light candles to pay tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks (Reuters)
The so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) has claimed
responsibility for Friday's multiple coordinate terror attacks that
killed 129 people.
France's president François Hollande has called it "an act of war,"
and promised a "merciless response to ISIS barbarians."
Britain's prime minister David Cameron has pledged to do "whatever we
can to help." He has indicated that he would like to take further
military action against ISIS, though Commons may not approve.
President Barack Obama spoke of "an outrageous attempt to terrorize
innocent civilians" and called a meeting of his National Security
Council.
Russia's president Vladimir Putin is under pressure to take further
action against ISIS because of the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268
over Sinai in Egypt.
Forces in the Christian world are coalescing to attempt to use
military action to destroy ISIS.
Since this is presumably exactly the reaction that ISIS was hoping
for, one might reasonably ask why world leaders are doing exactly what
ISIS wants.
There are many historical examples that ISIS could be thinking about,
but the one that I always point to is the Great Islamic Revolution of
1979, where a massive, bloody war ended up with a repressive, hardline
Muslim theocracy in power in Iran. That's a Shia theocracy, and as
I've written many times, al-Qaeda has tried in many countries to
repeat that process in other countries, with the objective of creating
a Sunni Muslim theocracy in some other country. Now we see ISIS doing
the same thing.
A lot more people are killed in Chicago on a continuing basis than are
killed in terror attacks in France, but that kind of bloodshed in
Chicago is simply ignored, And yet it's this and the Charlie Hebdo
terror attacks in Paris that may well lead to the all-out sectarian
war in the Middle east that Generational Dynamics has been predicting,
and that I've been writing about for twelve years. France 24 and Telegraph (London) and BBC and Reuters
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Paris, François Hollande,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Britain, David Cameron, Russia, Vladimir Putin
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I don't mean to always be carping over here, John, but I am a little confused by your chronology. In the case of Iran, didn't the massive and bloody war occur AFTER the Islamic revolution?
Well, as I understand it, the Revolution itself was a fairly
bloody civil war, and of course the Iran/Iraq war was also
bloody.
The only point that I want to make is that al-Qaeda and ISIS are using
it as a model.
16-Nov-15 World View -- France launches 'massive attack' on ISIS - 20 bombs
*** 16-Nov-15 World View -- France launches 'massive attack' on ISIS - 20 bombs
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- France launches 'massive attack' on ISIS - 20 bombs
- Beirut wonders why their terror bombing is less important than Paris's
****
**** France launches 'massive attack' on ISIS - 20 bombs
****
International arrest warrant for French citizen Abdeslam Salah, identified by French and Belgian police as a possible perpetrator of the Paris attacks
A day after the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh)
claimed responsibility for Friday's terror attack on Paris and
France's president François Hollande called it an "act of war,"
France's warplanes have launched what officials are calling a "massive
attack" on an ISIS stronghold in Syria.
The "massive attack" consisted of just 20 bombs dropped on a jihadi
recruitment center, training camp and arms depot in Raqqa, the ISIS
center. According to an analyst, "These are extremely precise
airstrikes that are carried out after exhaustive legal processes
required under French and international law."
However, despite thousands of airstrikes on ISIS by the US-led
coalition in the last year, and claims by the Obama administration
that ISIS has been "contained," intelligence analysts say that ISIS is
still expanding and growing in strength. They estimate that ISIS
gains about 1,000 fighters every month, young jihadists coming from
more than 100 countries around the world. It's clear that airstrikes
will not "contain" or stop the expansion of ISIS, which is something
that analysts have been pointing out since the air campaign began.
ISIS has successfully conducted three major terrorist attacks in the
last three weeks -- bombings in Beirut and Paris, and the downing of
Russia's Metrojet Flight 9268. Before that, there was a large ISIS
terror attack in Ankara, Turkey. As we wrote yesterday, political
pressure is growing for
from Europe, America
and Russia.
There are increasing demands for Western ground forces to enter Iraq
and Syria and fight ISIS. We assume that ISIS will be able to carry
out further terrorist attacks, and when the next one comes, the
political pressure for ground troops will only grow. As I heard one
analyst say, "Boots on the ground eventually is going to happen."
Independent (Ireland) and Sky News and Asia Times
****
**** Beirut wonders why their terror bombing is less important than Paris's
****
Two coordinated massive suicide bombings on Thursday struck a neighborhood of southern Beirut,
the
capital city of Lebanon, killing dozens. The neighborhood was a Shia
Muslim stronghold of Hezbollah, which was apparently the target. The
bombs killed dozens and wounded hundreds, and were obviously designed
to inflict as much carnage as possible.
But a day later, the Beirut bombings were completely forgotten
internationally, as soon as the Paris bombings occurred. a bombing in
Beirut was not nearly as newsworthy as a bombing in Paris. The Paris
bombing has been covered in excruciating detail. As I'm typing this,
I'm watching 60 Minutes where someone is describing how someone fell
off a chair to the floor after being shot. There's no similar
coverage for people who fell off chairs in Beirut. (World View
attempted to provide some sort of parallel coverage: See "14-Nov-15 World View -- Paris and Beirut in shock and anger after massive terrorist attacks"
)
Even Facebook is ignoring Beirut. Facebook has a new "Safety Check"
feature, where all you have to do is push a button to notify friends
and family that you're safe after a terror attack. Facebook activated
the feature for Paris, but not for Beirut.
I'm reminded of what happened after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris
in January. There was worldwide minute-by-minute coverage of the
aftermath of the attack, but almost no coverage of huge, horrific
rampage in Nigeria that occurred at exactly the same time. ( "10-Jan-15 World View -- Up to 2000 Nigeria civilians killed in three-day Boko Haram massacre"
.)
The Beirut bombing could turn out to be extremely significant, because
it may cause further destabilization in Lebanon. Lebanon already
hosts about one million Syrian refugees, in a country of less than
four million people. They laugh at the European Union's apoplexy over
receiving a million refugees, but with a population of over 500
million people.
Lebanon security forces have arrested five Syrians and a Palestinian
subject in the Beirut bombings. There may be a backlash against
Syrian refugees in Lebanon, which could have ripple effects throughout
the Mideast.
Even worse, the United Nations World Food Program may have to curtail
its food aid to refugees in Lebanon for lack of money. According to
Rashid Derbas, Lebanon's Minister of Social Affairs, "Do you know what
could result from such a step? This simply means that 1 million people
on Lebanese territory will be pushed to the edge of hunger. Do you
know what that means?'" CS Monitor and Reuters and Time
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Paris, François Hollande,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Raqqa, Beirut, Lebanon, Russia, Metrojet Flight 9268, Ankara, Turkey,
Facebook, Safety Check, Charlie Hebdo, Nigeria, Boko Haram,
United Nations, World Food Program, Rashid Derbas
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17-Nov-15 World View -- Anti-Muslim xenophobia surges in Europe and America
*** 17-Nov-15 World View -- Anti-Muslim xenophobia surges in Europe and America
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- American politics becomes infused with anti-Muslim xenophobia
- Paris attack significantly worsens Europe refugee crisis
****
**** American politics becomes infused with anti-Muslim xenophobia
****
New York's World Trade Center displaying France's colors - blue, white and red
I'm well aware that there are people reading this who will be angry
that the word "xenophobia" is even being used to refer to attitudes
towards Muslims following the Paris attack. But I'm not judging
anyone. I'm just reporting what's happening, based on Generational
Dynamics analyses, and what's happening is a big surge in anti-Muslim
xenophobia.
As we go deeper into this generational Crisis era, and the survivors
of World War II are increasingly dead and gone, ethnic and religious
fault lines are opening rapidly, and xenophobia in general
is growing.
"Black lives matter" activists are furious that suddenly their pet
cause has become irrelevant almost overnight. Positions taken last
week by candidates running for president are becoming irrelevant.
Even the holiest issue of all, climate change, may become irrelevant.
President Obama is planning to accept about 10,000 refugees from Syria
in the next year. However on Monday, at least 23 state Governors, 22
of them Republican, announced that their states will not accept any
Syrian refugees. Wisconsin's Republican governor Scott Walker said,
"There may be those who will try to take advantage of the generosity
of our country and the ability to move freely within our borders
through this federal resettlement program, and we must ensure we are
doing all we can to safeguard the security of Americans."
After years of hysteria over the NSA's collecting people's phone call
lists, it's now becoming fashionable to talk about not only about
collecting data, but every sharing it with other countries. CIA
director John Brennan criticized the "hand-wringing" of the NSA data
collection, and implied that one reason that the Paris attack was not
discovered in advance was because of intelligence cutbacks, such as
those resulting from "whistleblower" David Snowden:
<QUOTE>"I do think this is a time for particularly Europe, as
well as here in the United States, for us to take a look and see
whether or not there have been some inadvertent or intentional
gaps that have been created in the ability of intelligence and
security services to protect the people that they are asked to
serve. ...
And in the past several years, because of a number of unauthorized
disclosures and a lot of hand-wringing over the government’s role
in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been
some policy and legal and other actions that are taken that make
our ability collectively, internationally, to find these
terrorists much more challenging. And I do hope that this is going
to be a wake-up call, particularly in areas of Europe where I
think there has been a misrepresentation of what the intelligence
security services are doing by some quarters that are designed to
undercut those capabilities."<END QUOTE>
On Monday, President Obama's former ambassador to Iraq and Turkey
wrote that American ground forces are necessary:
<QUOTE>"After almost 18 months of the Obama administration’s
half-measures, it’s obvious that defeat of the Islamic State is
not going to happen absent a first-class, mobile ground force
being launched to mate with overwhelming air power. That ground
force does not have to be large — the main U.S. assault force in
the largest battle of the second Iraq war, Fallujah in 2004,
counted only seven to eight battalions, with reinforcement and
support, for a total of 7,000 to 8,000 troops. Nor does it have to
be all American. French and other experienced Western troops could
complement U.S. forces, as could effective Iraqi and Syrian
formations. But without U.S. ground forces, none of this will take
place. The Islamic State will hold together its “state,” and its
counterattacks — as well as Iranian-Russian exploitation of the
Islamic State for their own aggression — will destabilize much of
Eurasia and expose the United States again to mass terrorist
attacks."<END QUOTE>
Sounds easy, doesn't it?
I realize that many people reading this will welcome not only talk of
exterminating the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or
Daesh), but also of going farther, exterminating all jihadists, or
even all Arabs and Muslims. Many people can't tell the difference
between an Arab and a Muslim anyway. If you feel that way, then from
the point of view of Generational Dynamics, I can promise you that by
the time the next war ends, if you even live to survive the war, then
you'll live to regret what you wished for. Breitbart and USA Today and Guardian (London) and US News and Washington Post
****
**** Paris attack significantly worsens Europe refugee crisis
****
Xenophobia is also surging in Europe, especially since it emerged that
one of the perpetrators of the Paris attacks came from Syria among the
thousands of refugees that arrive in Greece every day. Ahmad al
Muhammad entered Greece on October 3. From there he moved to
Macedonia, then Serbia and Croatia, where he registered in the
Opatovac refugee camp. From there, he made his way to Paris, where he
blew himself up on Friday.
Before the Paris attacks, there were many people stating strongly held
fears that one million Muslim refugees would destroy the Christian way
of life for 500 million Europeans. Now however, the fear is that the
refugees would present a severe Paris-like security risk to the 500
million Europeans.
The debate is very sharp in Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia, along the
path that refugees take after entering Greece. Officials in these
countries say that they're on heightened alert about possible
jihadists in the crowds of refugees, though no one seriously believes
that there's any reliable way of detecting them. But some political
leaders and rights campaigners also issued warnings that the Paris
attacks should not be directly linked to the refugee issue or used to
stoke ethnic xenophobic hatred. According to one activist, “We are
already facing serious hate speech, even hatred-driven incidents
towards those who are helping refugees."
In France, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Front National
(FN) political party, has demanded "the immediate halt of all intake
of migrants in France." Le Pen expects to do very well in next
month's regional elections in France.
France's Socialist president, François Hollande, began a speech on
Monday to a a joint session of parliament in the Palace of Versailles
that with the words "France is at war." He promised to exterminate
ISIS and he concluded the 50-minute speech with, “We will eradicate
terrorism." Lawmakers from all parties gave him a standing ovation
and sang “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem.
La Marseillaise is an interesting song, written in 1792 during a generational crisis war,
the
bloody French Revolution. The song itself is extremely bloody:
<QUOTE>"Do you hear in our fields the howling of those
fearsome soldiers? They are coming into our arms, to slit the
throats of your sons and wives. ... Form your battalions! March!
March! And make their impure blood soak into our
fields!"<END QUOTE>
This song fits very well at the conclusion of a speech declaring war
on ISIS. CNN and Daily Mail (London) and Balkan Insight and Irish Times
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Paris, xenophobia,
Scott Walker, NSA, John Brennan, David Snowden,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Ahmad al Muhammad, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia,
Front National, Marine Le Pen, François Hollande,
La Marseillaise, French Revolution
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Muslims have been attacking westerners for nearly 40 years now. We need to close the borders entirely and ban Muslim immigration now. In france, Hollande stands for status quo politics, the current terror attack and any future attacks would therefore strengthen Le Pen's position. Selfish Boomers need to stop trying to shove "human rights" and other hippie-fascist beliefs down everyone's throats and stop being afraid of their kids potential and of their kids ambitions. Boomers need to start allowing strong leaders to come to power rather using checks and balances and technicalities in our systems to lock debate into the "mainstream" both in the US and in Europe and the Anglosphere. Not only would a quick and brutal campaign against the Islamists avenge decades of terror attacks; but a quick campaign would reap other much needed strategic benefits such a bolstering deterrence against other nations like Russia and China and their allies. Regarding other possible wars; a war with Russia would primarily be a land war whose main battleground would be the region from Ukraine in the east to Germany in the west. A war with China would primarily be a naval war whose main battle ground would be the triangle of Taiwan/Okinawa, SCS, to Guam in the east. John X when he talks of Russia and/or China seems to think the battlefield won't be located in the Ukraine or west pacific.
Regarding the elections it really shows the establishment's patheticness if they believe that Hillary would be a "grey champion". Hillary now says take in the refugees even after ISIS infiltrators have been found to have slipped in among them. Yet this same establishment thinks it was a good idea to prevent civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq. The boomer elite never understood the concept of evolution, therefore they refused to acknowledge the proper lesson of the signal of 9/11; that America needed to transform its national character to a mindset more similar to what Rome had.
Last edited by Cynic Hero '86; 11-17-2015 at 06:36 AM.
Oh, John, here's some Nomad realism for ya.
Yes, unholy terror shall be unleashed upon the world once again.I realize that many people reading this will welcome not only talk of
exterminating the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or
Daesh), but also of going farther, exterminating all jihadists, or
even all Arabs and Muslims. Many people can't tell the difference
between an Arab and a Muslim anyway. If you feel that way, then from
the point of view of Generational Dynamics, I can promise you that by
the time the next war ends, if you even live to survive the war, then
you'll live to regret what you wished for. Breitbart and USA Today and Guardian (London) and US News and Washington Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-_...=RD2RLkoAywgJI
Monday to a a joint session of parliament in the Palace of Versailles
that with the words "France is at war." He promised to exterminate
ISIS and he concluded the 50-minute speech with, “We will eradicate
terrorism." Lawmakers from all parties gave him a standing ovation
and sang “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem.
La Marseillaise is an interesting song, written in 1792 during a generational crisis war,
the
bloody French Revolution. The song itself is extremely bloody:
<QUOTE>"Do you hear in our fields the howling of those
fearsome soldiers? They are coming into our arms, to slit the
throats of your sons and wives. ... Form your battalions! March!
March! And make their impure blood soak into our
fields!"<END QUOTE>
This song fits very well at the conclusion of a speech declaring war
on ISIS. CNN and Daily Mail (London) and Balkan Insight and Irish Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_s...=RD2RLkoAywgJI <- we have neutron bombs now.
So, that's where the hate leads to. I've done my Nomadic seacular duty in keeping it real here. We're due for an unholy terror of utter destruction. Just watch the vids.
MBTI step II type : Expressive INTP
There's an annual contest at Bond University, Australia, calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term:
The winning student wrote:
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end."
RE: Bolded / underlined text. In the real world, amongst the A players, there is no doubt that agents of influence either working for or subcontracted arm's length by, such entities as the SVR/FSB/GRU have taken a very active role in helping to facilitate such representations. They keep lists of Western and Western-resident trouble makers and know exactly how to move someone like a Snowden or past similar criminals into action. Westerners who hold up these so called "whistleblowers" as heroes and depict Western intelligence departments as "the enemy within" are incredibly naive and will themselves be shocked and awed when the Enemies of Western Civilization undertake their master stroke. Guess what? It will be the Western troublemakers and not "banksters" etc who will be sent to the Gulag first, upon completion of conquest.*** 17-Nov-15 World View -- Anti-Muslim xenophobia surges in Europe and America
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- American politics becomes infused with anti-Muslim xenophobia
- Paris attack significantly worsens Europe refugee crisis
****
**** American politics becomes infused with anti-Muslim xenophobia
****
New York's World Trade Center displaying France's colors - blue, white and red
I'm well aware that there are people reading this who will be angry
that the word "xenophobia" is even being used to refer to attitudes
towards Muslims following the Paris attack. But I'm not judging
anyone. I'm just reporting what's happening, based on Generational
Dynamics analyses, and what's happening is a big surge in anti-Muslim
xenophobia.
As we go deeper into this generational Crisis era, and the survivors
of World War II are increasingly dead and gone, ethnic and religious
fault lines are opening rapidly, and xenophobia in general
is growing.
"Black lives matter" activists are furious that suddenly their pet
cause has become irrelevant almost overnight. Positions taken last
week by candidates running for president are becoming irrelevant.
Even the holiest issue of all, climate change, may become irrelevant.
President Obama is planning to accept about 10,000 refugees from Syria
in the next year. However on Monday, at least 23 state Governors, 22
of them Republican, announced that their states will not accept any
Syrian refugees. Wisconsin's Republican governor Scott Walker said,
"There may be those who will try to take advantage of the generosity
of our country and the ability to move freely within our borders
through this federal resettlement program, and we must ensure we are
doing all we can to safeguard the security of Americans."
After years of hysteria over the NSA's collecting people's phone call
lists, it's now becoming fashionable to talk about not only about
collecting data, but every sharing it with other countries. CIA
director John Brennan criticized the "hand-wringing" of the NSA data
collection, and implied that one reason that the Paris attack was not
discovered in advance was because of intelligence cutbacks, such as
those resulting from "whistleblower" David Snowden:
<QUOTE>"I do think this is a time for particularly Europe, as
well as here in the United States, for us to take a look and see
whether or not there have been some inadvertent or intentional
gaps that have been created in the ability of intelligence and
security services to protect the people that they are asked to
serve. ...
And in the past several years, because of a number of unauthorized
disclosures and a lot of hand-wringing over the government’s role
in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been
some policy and legal and other actions that are taken that make
our ability collectively, internationally, to find these
terrorists much more challenging. And I do hope that this is going
to be a wake-up call, particularly in areas of Europe where I
think there has been a misrepresentation of what the intelligence
security services are doing by some quarters that are designed to
undercut those capabilities."<END QUOTE>
On Monday, President Obama's former ambassador to Iraq and Turkey
wrote that American ground forces are necessary:
<QUOTE>"After almost 18 months of the Obama administration’s
half-measures, it’s obvious that defeat of the Islamic State is
not going to happen absent a first-class, mobile ground force
being launched to mate with overwhelming air power. That ground
force does not have to be large — the main U.S. assault force in
the largest battle of the second Iraq war, Fallujah in 2004,
counted only seven to eight battalions, with reinforcement and
support, for a total of 7,000 to 8,000 troops. Nor does it have to
be all American. French and other experienced Western troops could
complement U.S. forces, as could effective Iraqi and Syrian
formations. But without U.S. ground forces, none of this will take
place. The Islamic State will hold together its “state,” and its
counterattacks — as well as Iranian-Russian exploitation of the
Islamic State for their own aggression — will destabilize much of
Eurasia and expose the United States again to mass terrorist
attacks."<END QUOTE>
Sounds easy, doesn't it?
I realize that many people reading this will welcome not only talk of
exterminating the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or
Daesh), but also of going farther, exterminating all jihadists, or
even all Arabs and Muslims. Many people can't tell the difference
between an Arab and a Muslim anyway. If you feel that way, then from
the point of view of Generational Dynamics, I can promise you that by
the time the next war ends, if you even live to survive the war, then
you'll live to regret what you wished for. Breitbart and USA Today and Guardian (London) and US News and Washington Post
****
**** Paris attack significantly worsens Europe refugee crisis
****
Xenophobia is also surging in Europe, especially since it emerged that
one of the perpetrators of the Paris attacks came from Syria among the
thousands of refugees that arrive in Greece every day. Ahmad al
Muhammad entered Greece on October 3. From there he moved to
Macedonia, then Serbia and Croatia, where he registered in the
Opatovac refugee camp. From there, he made his way to Paris, where he
blew himself up on Friday.
Before the Paris attacks, there were many people stating strongly held
fears that one million Muslim refugees would destroy the Christian way
of life for 500 million Europeans. Now however, the fear is that the
refugees would present a severe Paris-like security risk to the 500
million Europeans.
The debate is very sharp in Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia, along the
path that refugees take after entering Greece. Officials in these
countries say that they're on heightened alert about possible
jihadists in the crowds of refugees, though no one seriously believes
that there's any reliable way of detecting them. But some political
leaders and rights campaigners also issued warnings that the Paris
attacks should not be directly linked to the refugee issue or used to
stoke ethnic xenophobic hatred. According to one activist, “We are
already facing serious hate speech, even hatred-driven incidents
towards those who are helping refugees."
In France, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Front National
(FN) political party, has demanded "the immediate halt of all intake
of migrants in France." Le Pen expects to do very well in next
month's regional elections in France.
France's Socialist president, François Hollande, began a speech on
Monday to a a joint session of parliament in the Palace of Versailles
that with the words "France is at war." He promised to exterminate
ISIS and he concluded the 50-minute speech with, “We will eradicate
terrorism." Lawmakers from all parties gave him a standing ovation
and sang “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem.
La Marseillaise is an interesting song, written in 1792 during a generational crisis war,
the
bloody French Revolution. The song itself is extremely bloody:
<QUOTE>"Do you hear in our fields the howling of those
fearsome soldiers? They are coming into our arms, to slit the
throats of your sons and wives. ... Form your battalions! March!
March! And make their impure blood soak into our
fields!"<END QUOTE>
This song fits very well at the conclusion of a speech declaring war
on ISIS. CNN and Daily Mail (London) and Balkan Insight and Irish Times
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Paris, xenophobia,
Scott Walker, NSA, John Brennan, David Snowden,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Ahmad al Muhammad, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia,
Front National, Marine Le Pen, François Hollande,
La Marseillaise, French Revolution
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Global Warming Isn't Going Away
Climate change will not become irrelevant. Indeed, as it continues to throw more economics into chaos, things will get uglier. Many point to reduced crop yields as an instigator of the Arab Spring and the civil wars in Libya and Syria.
We ignore climate change at our peril.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
How is that multiculturalism shaping up for you? How is that open society shaping up for the western world? The west needs to return to its traditional values, those that are derived from Greece, Rome, and Christian Europe.
Wasn't the Roman Empire pretty multi-cultural? What about the
Byzantine Empire?
Everyone followed the dominant culture that the nation was spawned from. The political institutions were derived from the rule of law and changes to the law required the consent of the people as late as the Principate. It was very different from the current system here where the government carries out policy based on what the "think is right" without even asking the people first, nor did the government slip through its own agenda when it was opposed by the people or the very least the mass of the governing class. In the US and Europe today the governments simply does whatever it wants and conducts policy without the consent of the governed. The majority of the people do not want refugees admitted into their countries whether in the US or Europe.
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Boomers Shoving Wilsonianism down our throats.
Boomers basically believe either that America should police the world OR that America should return to complete isolationism and has only a home defense force like Japan currently has. They can't conceive and simply won't permit America to embrace the Roman Model of foreign policy, in which wars would be fought simply to conquer enemy states. If the objective is merely to defeat enemy aggression the war would be to force the capitulation of said state simple as that, not impose "regime change" or values that are foreign to their culture. In this model war fought for complete conquest may also occur but for the purpose of permanently annexing and "recalibrating" the composition of the local populations of the enemy region. Otherwise if a war breaks in which we merely want to defeat an enemy's aggression we should seek the defeat and acknowledgment of the enemy's defeat by the enemy regime, not "democratization". This was basically the policy of romans pursued.
Boomers instead shove human rights down our throats and pursue ridiculous rules of engagement, such as in the middle east after 9/11 when Silents and Boomers refused to allow our forces to carry out the nuclear bombardment of Muslim Cities and Population Centers. The very fact that Islamist terror attacks continued after 9/11 is due to such incompetence. The above mentioned measures followed by a ground invasion and wholesale sacking of the Mideast and north Africa would have deterred Islamist aggression for generations to come (we may or may not have decided to colonize and occupy the middle east after the proposed campaign, even if their wasn't any occupation the Muslims would have probably embraced friendly relations with the US now having been impressed with the consequences of a hostile policy toward America).
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18-Nov-15 World View -- Brussels, Belgium, has become the center for European terror
*** 18-Nov-15 World View -- Brussels, Belgium, has become the center for European terror
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Hong Kong 'boos' China with paper signs at soccer match
- Netherlands – Germany football match cancelled after 'concrete threat'
- Brussels, Belgium, has become the center for European terror
****
**** Hong Kong 'boos' China with paper signs at soccer match
****
Hong Kong fans hold signs and banners saying 'BOO' and 'Hong Kong is not China' at Tuesday's match (Reuters)
Hong Kong and China, playing in Hong Kong's Mong Kok stadium on
Tuesday, played to a 0-0 draw in a qualifying round for the FIFA
Football (Soccer) World Cup to be played in Russia in 2018.
But that wasn't the big news.
The big news was that Hong Kong fans, having been ordered by the Hong
Kong Football Association not to boo the Chinese national anthem when
it is played, found a way to defy the order. When China's national
anthem was played, they sat silently, but held up signs reading "BOO".
Other banners declared "Hong Kong is not China.
Ironically, Hong Kong's national anthem is the same as China's
national anthem, ever since Hong Kong was return to China from British
rule in 1997. So Hong Kong fans were actually booing their own
national anthem. And when FIFS fund the Hong Kong Football
Association the last time, they were actually sanctioning Hong Kong
for jeering at their own national anthem.
The stadium is in the dense, working-class Mong Kok district of Hong
Kong, which during the so-called Umbrella Revolution pro-democracy
movement protests last year was the scene of violent clashes between
police, demonstrators, and pro-Beijing counter-protesters. Three key
city intersections were crippled for more than two months. The
protests ended in a clear victory of Beijing over the Hong Kong
protesters, and tensions have continued to simmer since the protests
ended.
The Chinese Football Association added to the resentment when it was
accused of racism for releasing a publicity poster describing Hong
Kong's players as "black-skinned, yellow-skinned and white-skinned" –
a dig at the team's contingent of naturalized foreign-born players.
The 0-0 draw was a stinging defeat for the China team, which needed a
victory to avoid being eliminated from the World Cup. At best, China
will now have to struggle to be among the four best runners-up.
Sydney Morning Herald and WSJ Blogs
****
**** Netherlands – Germany football match cancelled after 'concrete threat'
****
A friendly football (soccer) match between Netherlands and Germany was
canceled on Tuesday, after authorities received a 'concrete threat" of
a terrorist attack during the game. There was "concrete danger for
all Hannover," and "indications" that there were "serious plans to
blow something up," according to the police.
After the stadium was evacuated, it was searched, a no bombs were
found. Dutch News
****
**** Brussels, Belgium, has become the center for European terror
****
The neighborhood of Molenbeek in Brussels, which is both the capital
city of Belgium and the capital of the European Union,
has entered the world spotlight following the jihadist attack
in Paris last week.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind the Paris
attacks, is from the Molenbeek neighborhood, and at least
one further perpetrators came from there.
Other recent terrorist events can be traced back to the Belgian
capital. Mehdi Nemmouche, who in May 2014 killed four people in the
Jewish Museum in Brussels, had been staying in the suburb of
Molenbeek. Early in 2015 in the Belgian town of Verviers the Belgian
police dismantled a terrorist group with links to Molenbeek. Ayoub
el-Khazzani, who in August 2015 was planning to attack the Thalys
train service from Amsterdam to Paris, got on the train in Brussels
after staying in Molenbeek.
The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris last January
didn't come from Molenbeek, but they did have links to Belgium.
Police arrested 13 jihadists in Belgium and two even died in a
shootout at the time.
The greater Brussels area has long been considered to be a hotbed for
radical Islamists. There are several reasons why Brussels
is vulnerable:
- The conflict between the country's two largest populations,
the Dutch-speaking Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons, is
unresolved, and Brussels is at the center of it, resulting in a
chaotic Brussels government.- In fact, Brussels has 19 districts and 19 municipal mayors and dix
different police authorities, creating a tangle of bureaucracy. Even
following the Paris terror attacks, attempts to merge the six police
authorities are unlikely to succeed.- Molenbeek is one of the 19 districts. It has a population of
90,000, about half Muslim, mostly Moroccan immigrants and their
descendants. Unemployment is higher than 25%, with youth unemployment
even higher. Young inhabitants, often with Muslim backgrounds, do not
get the same chances in the labor or housing market, and claim that
they are confronted with racism. They have the perfect profile to be
prone to radicalization.- Belgium has a relatively small security apparatus, despite the
fact that Brussels hosts not only Nato and the EU institutions but
also the World Customs Organization, the European Economic Area, the
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift),
the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation
(Eurocontrol), another 2,500 international agencies, 2,000
international companies and 150 international law firms.- More than 250 Belgians have traveled to Syria to join the
so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). About 75 have
died in combat and 125 have returned. Belgium has the highest rate of
foreign fighters per capita of all Europe.
According to Noureddine Imnadine, a Moroccan-born architect:
<QUOTE>"Many of us studied hard and did well, became
architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, but nobody talks about
that.
Now times are different, there's not so much work around for this
younger generation, so you have these kids hanging around on the
streets, feeling excluded, stigmatized, angry. We need a social
framework for these kids, to get them engaged in work or in some
activities to get them off the street."<END QUOTE>
Many Muslims who have become radicalized or received military training
in Syria, and may even have been traumatized, are returning home from
Syria without anyone checking on them whatsoever. It's a problem that
is bigger in Belgium than anywhere else in Europe. Der Spiegel and Guardian (London) and PRI
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Hong Kong, China, Mong kok, Russia, FIFA,
Hong Kong Football Association, Umbrella Revolution,
Netherlands, Germany, Hannover,
Brussels, Belgium, Molenbeek, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Mehdi Nemmouche,
Paris, Charlie Hebdo, Flemish, Walloons, Morocco, Nato,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Noureddine Imnadine
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Obama, Bush, Clinton and the rest of the political class wants to keep shoving Syrian refugees down our throats. The Selfishness of the boomer establishment knows no bounds as the government seeks trying to impose policies that are contrary to the will of the people. The difference between the government here and those of contemporary Russia and China is that in the latter countries the emotions of the people are being harnessed by the governments rather than being suppressed. WE NEED TRUMP NOW.
Once again, Obama is a Gen-Xer.
Furthermore, his entire staff, with few exceptions, are Gen-Xers.
That's why everything is such a mess.
I'm pretty confident that once upon a time you were even more in love
with Obama then you are now with Trump. I suspect you're very fickle.
Again that is debatable his cohort is very cuspy. Most of the boomer elite has already decided to continue letting in refugees, both Clinton and Bush still wants to admit more refugees. Only trump and Carson say what the people are thinking and demand that the borders be closed.
If you want to call him a "cuspy Gen-Xer" then that's fine with
me. But he's still a Gen-Xer, and he's definitely no Boomer.
19-Nov-15 World View -- Rwanda's Kagame becomes another leader refusing to step down
*** 19-Nov-15 World View -- Rwanda's president Kagame becomes another leader refusing to leave office
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Turkey soccer fans boo during moment of silence for Paris attack
- Rwanda's president Kagame becomes another leader refusing to leave office
****
**** Turkey soccer fans boo during moment of silence for Paris attack
****
Greece’s players, left, and Turkey’s players, right, bow and observe a minute of silence to honor the victims of the Paris attacks on Wednesday (AP)
Turkish soccer fans booed and chanted "Allahu Akbar" [God is Great]
during a moment of silence called in remembrance of last week's Paris
attack. The moment of silence was help prior to a soccer game versus
Greece. Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Greece's Prime
Minister Alexis Tsipras watched the game together as a sign of
reconciliation after centuries of bloody warfare.
It's not clear to me exactly what the Turkish fans were booing. Here
are some possibilities:
- They may have been booing France, since France has been
extremely hostile to Turkey in the last decade, even making it a
national crime to say that the killing of Armenians in 1916 was not a
Turkish genocide. This view is supported by the fact that they also
booed Greece's national anthem, so they may have been booing the two
countries.- They may have booed in support of ISIS's terrorist attacks. This
actually seems a bit far-fetched, since ISIS has been striking at
targets in Turkey, but it's supported by the fact that they also booed
at a game on October 13 during a moment of silence in remembrance of
the brutal terror attack in Ankara just three days earlier, on October
10. The Ankara bombing was the deadliest in Turkey's history, with
102 people killed and hundreds injured.- Maybe they were booing the European Union for the implication that
Turkey was to blame for the Paris attack by allowing too many refugees
to cross over into Greece.- Or maybe they were just a bunch of kids trying to shock their
parents, as when the "Black Lives Matter" kids call for violence
against whites in America.- Or maybe it was all of the above.
Turkey and Greece drew with scores of 0-0 in the game. Today's Zaman (Istanbul) and Washington Post
****
**** Rwanda's president Kagame becomes another leader refusing to leave office
****
Rwanda's senate has unanimously approved a draft constitution that
will allow the Tutsi president, Paul Kagame, to run for a third term,
not permitted under the existing constitution. The new constitution
will have to be approved by a referendum.
We've written in the past how this kind of situation has led to
violence in other countries, in the period following a bloody
generational crisis civil war:
- In Zimbabwe, the savage monster Robert Mugabe conducted a 1984
pacification campaign that was known as "Operation Gukurahundi" (The
rain that washes away the chaff before the spring rain). During that
campaign, accomplished with the help of Mugabe's 5th Brigade, trained
by North Korea, tens of thousands of people, mostly from the Ndebele
tribe, were tortured and slaughtered.- In Syria, genocidal president Bashar al-Assad began in 2011 to
conduct a campaign to exterminate innocent Sunni protesters, using
Sarin gas, Russia's heavy weapons, terror group Hezbollah's militias,
and Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). The result of
al-Assad's genocidal campaign has been the rise of the so-called
Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh), with thousands of young
Sunni jihadists coming from countries all over the world to join.- In Burundi, president Pierre Nkurunziza appears to be following Mugabe's model.
He's violated the
constitution by remaining as president for a third term, and is now
using growing violence against political enemies to stay in
power.
This kind of power grab is typical of leaders who take power after the
end of a bloody generational crisis civil war fought between ethnic
groups. The leader claims that he's the only force preventing the
violence of a new civil war which, from the point of view of
Generational Dynamics, is utter nonsense. To the contrary, the
power-grabbing leader becomes the cause of renewed violence.
Kagame's Hutu political opponents are certain to start protesting his
decision to violate the existing agreement that ended the 1994 war
between Hutus and Tutsis. The next step will be up to Kagame, who may
follow the example of others and begin using violence to eliminate the
peaceful protesters. Reuters and AFP
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Turkey, Greece, France,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Ankara, Black Lives Matter,
Rwanda, Paul Kagame, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Operation Gukurahundi,
Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Iran, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, IRGC,
Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, Hutus, Tutsis
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Boomers are still suppressing the will of the people. As mentioned before compare the governments decisions and the lack of influence of the younger and middle aged generations with their equivalents in Russia and China, especially in Russia. In those countries officials are being appointed who as young as their late 20s and 30s, this was seen in Putin's annexations last year. Here the boomers deliberately slow down the processes of a governmental system that has already been irrationally designed to work as slow as possible as it was constructed over the last couple saeculums. Putin and Xi love having boomers govern America; they get to run diplomatic and military rings around a boomer-led America.
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Here's a picture of Michele Obama with the White House staff -- all
those nasty old Boomers governing the country and making your life
miserable.
