All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
Two homosexual men were chased by a bunch of migrants at the Kottbusser Tor. Two days ago, the Tagesspiegel did report about the escalating situation at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin, but they left out essential details.
Only now it’s been discovered through a single remark in the Tagesspiegel, that three weeks ago at the Kottbusser Tor in Berlin Kreuzberg two gay men were chased and beaten with belts by an angry mob of arabic speaking men. On the video one can hear how the two men scream in panic.
In the Tagesspiegel it was reported that, “in the past months it has become a daily occurrence that people are being surrounded, during which wallets, cell phones and hand bags are being stolen. If that won’t work, people are being beaten, sprayed with irritant gas, or knives are brandished. Several women are groped on their private parts, or beaten in the face – as happened two weeks ago. Or the victims would be chased hundreds of meters – as happened three weeks ago as an angry mob chased and beat two gay men with belts and kicking them as the two men were screaming in panic. There is a video of the incident.”
The voices in the video of the person filming are commenting the event in turkish and they’re speaking of arabic men participating in the incident. That is why one can assume the offenders all have a migrant background.
Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended to detonate Northwest Airlines Flight 253, but the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned and brave passengers subdued him until he could be arrested.
The graphic and traumatic defeat they planned for the United States failed, that time.
Following the attempted attack, President Obama threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to “connect the dots.”
He said, “this was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.”
Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused.
His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material—the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots.
The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.
After leaving my 15 year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack.
Federal authorities are accusing a Dearborn Heights man of supporting Islamic State extremists and planning to “shoot up” a Detroit church.
Khalil Abu-Rayyan, 21, hasn’t been charged with terrorism-related crimes but faces federal charges of illegally having a firearm while using a controlled substance.
But a complaint unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court reveals the FBI has been investigating him since May “regarding increasingly violent threats he has made to others about committing acts of terror and martyrdom — including brutal acts against police officers, churchgoers and others — on behalf of the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.”
Besides allegedly using Twitter to express support for the terror group — often referred to as ISIS or ISIL — Abu-Rayyan reportedly told an undercover FBI employee about a plot to target a church.
“I tried to shoot up a church one day,”
Abu-Rayyan is quoted as saying in court records. “I don’t know the name of it, but it’s close to my job. It’s one of the biggest ones in Detroit. Ya, I had it planned out. I bought a bunch of bullets. I practiced a lot with it. I practiced reloading and unloading. But my dad searched my car one day, and he found everything. He found the gun and the bullets and a mask I was going to wear.”
Investigators didn’t name the church Abu-Rayyan allegedly eyed, but claim the property covers about two blocks less than half a mile from his work and can accommodate up to 6,000 members. He allegedly purchased a gun and told an undercover FBI employee that attacking a church would be “easy.”
Only
the most EXTREME need of the public should justify the CONSIDERATION of
using the public good as a reason for compelling the FORCED sale of
private property.
Homes. Way of life. Dreams.
There is NO qualifying justification for the use of eminent domain in order to transfer the property to another private owner.
None. Zero. Forget it. Never. Find another parcel of land elsewhere.
There is VERY LITTLE justification for the use of eminent domain in order to transfer the property to the public.
None and very little.
Last night I heard Mr. Trump blithely explain the use of a eminent domain as just another tool of govt for the public good.
Then he said he had no position, or didn’t want to talk about it on Kelso v. New London to Fox after the debate when questioned.
AYFKM?
This is a big one.
Here,
in Maine, this issue is so serious that a small group of homeowners ‘in
the way’ appear to have stopped cold the expansion of an interstate
highway, and the public is backing them because everyone understands the
issue.
It’s simple.
YOU’RE NEXT
For the first time, Trump sounded JUST like a member of the political class. This election season is horrific, so far.
The Rolling Stones
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LIRS is lobbying (with your money!) as we speak for 100,000 Syrians to be admitted to the US before Obama leaves office.
Prepare to be shocked! Since August 2008, this one ‘religious’ non-profit received $296 MILLION dollars from you in 143 transactions with federal agencies. (And, I will bet you LIRS is not the wealthiest!)
When you watch MSNBC you don’t expect to see people confronted by
their reporters over the fact that the darling, Bernie is running a
campaign against billionaires whose events are being supported by other
billionaires.
Soros
Lewis
Steyer
Frankly
that’s ok, the billionaires have the same right we do, and we all know
MSNBC is not about to make their viewers uncomfortable. FINE.
Likewise to Fox.
So here is their NON COVER. Again please remember I am UNDECIDED.
TOTALLY UNDECIDED.
Today
all I hear in a positive fashion at Fox is RUBIORUBIORUBIO. Ok. HE came
in a solid 3rd in Iowa. There is a LITTLE evidence he is rising in NH
and there is a debate, and then the vote on Tues, so it’s news.
SO IS THIS:
SCHLAFLY UNLOADS ON RUBIO: ‘HE BETRAYED US ALL’Conservative icon calls media favorite 'lackey for the establishment’“Once
he got elected, he betrayed us all,” she told WND. “He said he was
against amnesty and against the establishment. And once he got in, right
away, he became an agent of the establishment. And now, of course, he’s
big for amnesty and letting all the illegal immigrants in. He betrayed
us a number of times on that issue.” Schlafly said she was startled at the magnitude of Rubio’s “betrayal” on amnesty. “It was so public,” she said. “He’s
a lackey for the establishment now,” she said. “There’s no question
they’re picking up as Plan B – or maybe Plan C in this election cycle,
or whatever we’re on now – but he certainly is an establishment agent.” Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/schlafly-unloads-on-rubio-he-betrayed-us-all/#5ib055Z0KERj5kpC.99
Fox is covering the endorsements Rubio is getting but not these blasts.
Just now they headlined the ‘new competition Trump is getting in NH’.
I have gone over my GREAT reservations about Rubio on TPP/TAA and his McConnell position on that.
I
like some things about Rubio especially considering the negatives of
the others, but Fox’s INCESSANT Rubio cheer-leading is a huge turn off.
Roger
do I have to turn on CNN to see if I get a more FAIR AND BALANCED look
at the republicans (who they might hold in equal contempt?)
This is a sample of the advances in the last 30-45 days of NEW
INTRODUCTIONS to the military forces of China. This is the direct output
of funds generated by the manufacturing we sent to the lowest cost
labor American manufacturing could find.
How Marco Rubio can talk
about reinvigorating and expanding out military WITHOUT a GROWING,
ROBUST American industrial base, with R&D, engineering and hard
manufacturing seems either IGNORANT or disingenuous. Despite any
ideological motives by conservatives over the PRINCIPLE of free trade,
it has been in PRACTICAL OPERATION ****a disaster**** which has greatly
exacerbated the imbalance in our national budget, and created a military
shortfall given our responsibilities which is now all too obvious.
When
you peruse these items below remember .. Our land based ICBM force is
from the 1970′s, the Minuteman III,and we DESTROYED and discontinued by
treaty more modern missiles.
Our Trident/Ohio class Missile subs
are 30+/- years old, and we were built for that life span, but now we
want them to reach 42 years because we can’t AFFORD to bring the
replacement class into deployment sooner.
We still use the Trident missile of the 1980′s in those subs.
The premier air strike weapon of the Navy is the FA-18. 1980′s, non stealth
The
main attack sub of the Navy, the Virginia class, is a $ compromise base
on the sub the Navy wanted, the Seawolf and the main class we have is
the LA 688 class. 70′s and 80′s design and production start.
The premier strike weapon of the Air Force the, B-2 is a product of the 1980′s
The new 3000 Ton Troopship is ready for commission for South China Sea Missions
PLAN commission of the day: Gaoyaohu Type 903 Replenishment Tanker
The
PLAN commissioned its fourth Type 903A Replenishment Tanker.
Gaoyaohu weighting in at 23,00 tons marks the sixth overall Type 903
class currently available for overseas missions.
Manufactured Island with Fighter/Bomber capable BASE, and TWO anchorages completed
A close up photo of China’s new ZTQ 105mm light tank
The second J-20 initial production copy, 2012, analogous to the US F-22 Raptor
China Coast Guard commission of the day: 3901, the 2nd “10,000 ton” cutter.
Here is a 10,000 ton American Ship:
Get it?
Haibing 722 Icebreaker launches
PLAN Commission of the day: Type054A FFG532 Jing Zhou
China offers latest FT-series precision-guided bombs for export
With
the release of the improved FT-3A, FT-6A, and FT-7 variants earlier
this year, Aerospace Long-March International Trade Co Ltd (ALIT), an
intermediary subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science & Technology
Corporation (CASC), is now promoting the complete Fei Teng (FT) series
of precision-guided bombs (PGBs) to the international market.
CHINA BUILDS POWER PROJECTION FOUNDATIONS WITH NEW CARGO PLANE AND WARSHIP
Y-20 CARGO AIRCRAFT AND TYPE 901 SHIP ENTERING SERVICE
The Type 901, at 45,000 tons, will be one of the world’s largest naval
supply ships, capable of rearming, resupply and refueling Chinese
warships on the high seas.
CHINESE SOLDIERS HAVE LASER GUNS
BE CAREFUL, YOU’LL BURN SOMEONE’S EYES OUT
AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ARMS RACE HAS BEGUN: CHINA IS MAKING RAILGUNS TOO
Wuhan EMALS
This satellite photo shows a test facility at the Chinese
naval research facility in Wuhan. Speculation is that it is the
prototype for the Chinese EMALS catapult system, which would be equipped
on future Chinese carriers (Type 002?).
China Type 1130 CIWS Gatling Cannon at China Defense Forum
Type 1130 CIWS
The
Type 1130 CIWS, with 11 30mm barrels, is the largest Gatling cannon in
the world, firing up to 11,000 rounds a minute (that’s nearly 200 rounds
a second). Its designers say that it can shoot down 90% of incoming
supersonic missiles. But it could be replaced by shipborne railguns,
which would protect Chinese warships against future hypersonic threats.
Type 055
The
second batch of Chinese Type 055 destroyers will likely feature
railguns, starting in the 2020-2025 timeframe. A 32 megajoule railgun on
the Type 055 destroyer would be able to launch a ten kilogram
projectile over a 100 nautical miles away, with the impact energy of
medium artillery. Railgun ammunition can be guided, and programmed to
explode over a target, destroying soft targets like parked aircraft and
missile launchers.
AND I HAVEN’T MENTIONED ANY OF THEIR NEW MISSILES?
Marco Rubio, RECANT YOUR TPP/TAA VOTE which benefits ONLY the bottom line of huge corporations, and NOT THIS NATION.
God reached his hand down from the sky He flooded the land and he set it afire He said fear me again and know I'm your father And remember that no one can breathe underwater
So bend your knees and bow your heads Save your babies, here's your future Yeah here's your future!
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Bloomberg:
The Chicago Stock Exchange said a Chinese
investor group agreed to acquire it, giving the buyer entry into the
intensely competitive U.S. equity market.
Chongqing Casin Enterprise
Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the company,
according to a statement Friday, which didn’t give financial terms. The
exchange said the deal is expected to close in the second half of the
year, though that will require regulatory approval.
“We’re a good
fit. Our strategy is something they like and is consistent with theirs,”
Chicago Stock Exchange Chief Executive Officer John Kerin said in a
phone interview. “We provide technology and we’re a standalone,
full-service exchange that they can grow in a manner that suits their
needs.”
The Chicago Stock Exchange – a subsidiary of CHX Holdings
Inc. – is minority-owned by a group including E*Trade Financial Corp.,
Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase &
Co., according to the company. The minority shareholders are also
selling their stake, Kerin said.
The acquisition would be the first
of a U.S. exchange by a Chinese company. The 134-year-old bourse, which
handles about 0.5 percent of U.S. stock trading, would give the buyer a
beachhead in the $22 trillion American equity market, where regulations
require trades to be routed to whichever exchange has the best price for
a stock at a given moment.
Conservatives WAKE UP and do what Obama could never do.
Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E)
HOTAIR:
Digging
deeper into the actual report, the F-35’s problems are extensive and
span across all three variants of the aircraft: the “A” model for the
Air Force, the “B” for the Marines (it can take off and land vertically,
like the AV-8 Harrier), and the “C” for the Navy (carrier-capable).
Particularly troubling are the admissions that weapons delivery accuracy
(WDA) – can you fire or drop a weapon and have it hit what you’re
aiming at – tests had to have their constraints altered to allow the
aircraft to pass. (Emphases mine)
Eleven of the 12 [WDA] events
required intervention by the developmental test control team to overcome
system deficiencies and ensure a successful event (i.e., acquire and
identify the target and engage it with a weapon). The program altered
the event scenario for three of these events, as well as the twelfth
event, specifically to work around F-35 system deficiencies (e.g.,
changing target spacing or restricting target maneuvers and
countermeasures).
In plain language: they cheated. The report continues:
The
performance of the Block 2B-configured F-35, if used in combat, will
depend in part on the degree to which the enemy’s capabilities exceed
the constraints of these narrow scenarios and the operational utility of
the workarounds necessary for successful weapons employment.
Would
you want to fly into battle piloting an aircraft that depends on enemy
cooperation for you to complete your mission? The Marine Corps has
declared their F-35 variant operational, and it seems like that’s what
they’re asking their aviators to do. I’m sure our enemies will be
completely cooperative as a spit-and-bailing-wire F-35 engages them.
Jazz’s previous posts discussed the F-35’s poor performance in
air-to-air combat, and the DOT&E report details those problems in
the “flight sciences assessment” for the Air Force’s “A” version:
Testing
of operational “dog-fighting” maneuvers showed that the F-35A lacked
sufficient energy maneuverability to sustain an energy advantage over
fourth generation fighter aircraft. Test pilots flew 17 engagements
between an F-35A and an F-16D, which was configured with external fuel
tanks that limited the F-16D envelope to 7.0 g’s. The F-35A remained at a
distinct energy disadvantage on every engagement. Pitch rates were also
problematic, where full aft stick maneuvers would result in less than
full permissible g loading (i.e., reaching 6.5 g when limit was 9.0 g),
and subsequent rapid loss of energy. The slow pitch rates were observed
at slower speeds—in a gun engagement, for example—that restricted the
ability of an F-35A pilot to track a target for an engagement.
This
time, they tried to cheat, and even when handicapping the F-16 test
adversary by loading it down with external fuel tanks, the F-35 flying
clean still couldn’t wax the older plane’s tail. To make things worse,
there’s a fuel system problem that affects the F-35 in any form and
restricts the aircraft’s operating parameters to not exceed 3.0 g
maneuvers – the plane’s design specification is for 9.0 g – until it
burns off almost half of its fuel load! Sounds like the men and women
who will be flying the F-35 should have faith in their ejection seats
and bail out procedures. Well…
The program conducted two sled
tests on the pilot escape system in July and August of 2015 that
resulted in failures of the system to successfully eject a manikin
without exceeding load/stress limits on the manikin…[T]he system failed
to meet neck injury criteria.
These tests were performed with
103-pound (July) and 136-pound (August) manikins with sled traveling at
160 knots (184 mph). Consider for a second: the F-35 is a supersonic
aircraft. Its testing scenarios – to say nothing of potential combat
flights – are conducted at speeds much faster than 160 knots. How is
this being addressed?
[T]he Program Office and Services decided to
restrict pilots weighing less than 136 pounds from flying any F-35
variant…Pilots weighing between 136 and 165 pounds are considered less
at risk than lighter weight pilots, but still at increased risk
(compared to heavier pilots). The level of risk was labeled as “serious”
by the Program Office based on the probability of death being 23
percent, and the probability of neck extension (which will result in
some level of injury) being 100 percent. Currently the Program Office
and the Services have decided to accept this level of risk to pilots in
this weight range, although the basis for the decision to accept these
risks is unknown.
For the slight of stature – including otherwise
combat-qualified female pilots – tough, you can’t fly an F-35. What of
heavier pilots? What of faster speeds? Both? The report is silent on
those questions, but how can one not have doubts about any pilot’s
survivability if they have to bail out?
The report contains
damning result after damning result: software issues, maintenance
issues, problems with the shoes necessary to be worn to protect the
F-35’s low-observable coatings during servicing being too slippery and
becoming a safety issue, Navy shipboard integration issues, and so on.
There’s several on each and every page.
Regardless, the current
plan is to move ahead with accelerated production of the F-35 – a “block
buy” of up to 270 aircraft – before operational testing is completed
and all the problems have been resolved. Oh, by the way, the DOT&E
Annual Report also projects that most if not all of the current testing
milestones won’t be reached by their already delayed dates and that
testing is currently identifying new problems at a faster rate than the
known ones are being fixed.
The F-35, and the potential “block
buy”, isn’t just of questionable fiscal sanity: it may also be illegal
(and the DOT&E annual report cautions as such). 10 USC §2306b reads
as follows:
(a) In General.—To the extent that funds are otherwise
available for obligation, the head of an agency (e.g., the Secretary of
Defense, Secretary of the Air Force, et al.) may enter into multiyear
contracts for the purchase of property whenever the head of that agency
finds each of the following…
(4) That there is a stable design for
the property to be acquired and that the technical risks associated
with such property are not excessive.
The entire F-35 program, as it currently stands, is an excessive technical risk.
Every
Republican candidate running right now has championed rebuilding our
military and spending more on defense. With respect to the F-35, only
Donald Trump has come right out and said the program should be
cancelled.
I
don’t know if that’s the proper remedy, nor am I a Trump supporter, but
more people in office and not had better start taking a serious look at
this aircraft, its shortcomings, and what we’re spending on it. Most of
the others in the GOP field haven’t brought up the F-35, but just over
two years ago, newly-minted Iowa caucus victor Senator Ted Cruz visited
the Lockheed Martin factory in Fort Worth, Texas where the F-35 is built
and tweeted:
Lockheed Martin employs 13,700 of Senator Cruz’s
constituents in Fort Worth, with a yearly payroll of $1.4 billion. The
facility also claims $795 million per year in goods and services
purchased from suppliers in Texas. Was the Senator referring to the F-35
program as a whole when he challenged, “Come and take it!”? I’ll leave
that for you to evaluate.
Authorities in the German city of Cologne are to set up a “safe zone” for women during the annual carnival which begins next week, to avoid a repeat of the New Year sex attacks on women.
The move comes after it emerged two asylum-seekers from Algeria are being held as suspects in the sex assaults.
The Cologne carnival is one of the largest street festivals in Europe, and attracts more than 1m people to its main parade each year.
There are concerns the large crowds could leave women vulnerable to the sort of attacks seen on New Year’s Eve, when police were havily outnumbered.
The authorities plan to provide extra street lighting and set up a “safe zone” for women in the city centre, staffed with social workers.
“We are aware these carnival days are a challenge for us to show that we have learned from the terrible events of New Year’s Eve,” Guido Kahlen, a city councillor, said.
The authorities are pretending this is "doing something about the problem".
In fact, it is kicking the can down the road.
Women will still get raped, but maybe they won't get raped at Carnivale, this year, Maybe they won't get raped in such a high public profile manner.
That's the true goal of the authorities. Not to end rape, but to sweep it under the rug.
The German authorities are rape pimps to German women, serving them up to the "migrants".
