Category Archives: Fail!

Führer Trump To Register All Muslims In Amerikkka: Gothamist

Donald Trump, the talking slice of cheesecake served atop an expensive suit who moonlights as an esteemed Terrorism Whisperer, has come up with a solution to keep America safe from Islamic terrorists. In fact, one might call it a Final Solution of sorts, since it involves requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a database system so they can be “manag[ed].” Sound a little familiar? Hey, the Sudetenland could really use a classy casino!

Source: Führer Trump To Register All Muslims In Amerikkka: Gothamist

40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities | Pew Research Center

American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data on free speech and media across the globe.

Source: 40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities | Pew Research Center

Understand the intent but risks freedom of speech, I believe. If speech is equivalent to causing violence or yelling fire in a room full of people that causes panic – limit it and make illegal otherwise just speak up to let haters know to not use that speech in your presence.

Raad Rahman: Will I Die a Muslim? – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

I wonder how I will die, because none of this is my Islam. I’ve spent the better part of the years since 9/11 instinctively apologizing for the acts of extremist Muslims who have absolutely nothing to do with me, and everything to do with a brand of Islam that is despicable to all Muslims. I am exorbitantly angry with these extremists for continuing to try to tie my identity with their damnable actions.One look at my mini-skirts, tube-tops, and swimsuits, and if you’re even the most conservative of Americans, you end up asking me, “But you look so ‘normal.’ What causes you guys to take the step to go over the other side?” This actually happened with a well-meaning white woman from the Midwest on a flight to Chicago, who was shocked to hear there is no other side for us moderates and liberals. Such ignorant Islamophobia is pervasive to many of the encounters I have had over the last decade.

Source: Raad Rahman: Will I Die a Muslim? – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

Terror a Means to an End for Islamic State – SPIEGEL ONLINE

IS strategists look several moves into the future. To defeat the terror group, the West must do the same. It must bring together pro-regime Syrians with the rebels, a project that will not succeed so long as Assad remains in power and which is made all the more difficult by Russia’s intervention. In Iraq, Sunni and Shiite factions divided by fear and hate must be brought together again — though the West can only help, it is the Iraqis themselves that must achieve this. In short, the West — together with Russia, Iran and the Arab Gulf states — must create the conditions that could make a ground offensive against the jihadists possible in the first place.But as long as that doesn’t happen, the world will allow a monster to continue growing. It is a monster that is today applying its battle-tested “Syria Model” of power expansion to Libya. And it is a monster that may even cease launching terror attacks were it left alone to continue expanding its foothold in the Middle East. Because terror, in the final analysis, is but the means to an end for Islamic State.

Source: Terror a Means to an End for Islamic State – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Roadless – Colorado Roadless Rule – Forest Service working for us or Mr. Coal!?!

On April 7, 2015, the Forest Service published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to reinstate the North Fork Coal Mining Area exception of the Colorado Roadless Rule. On November 20, 2015 the Forest Service published a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register explaining that the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) , and Civil Rights Impact Analysis (CRIA) are now available for review and public comment.

Source: Roadless – Colorado Roadless Rule

Netanyahu: Muslims are “dangerous animals” | PNN

During the international conference in Occupied Jerusalem with the French Ambassador, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu described Muslims as “animals”  who need to be defeated. According to Israel Hayom daily, Netanyahu made this statement during the foreign diplomats conference, tackling last week’s attacks on France.Referring to Muslims as “dangerous animals,” Netanyahu also said that there were a lot of them in [Israel], adding that the world needs to understand the seriousness of the problem, indicating the need to “defeat these animals.”“The beasts increasingly have a name — it is radical Islam. That is what is doing the killing, the murder, the rape, the burning, the beheading.A day before, the Israeli minister of Education, MK Naftali Bennett said that “[Israel] should have killed more [Arabs] because anyone who lifts a hand against Israel must die.”

Source: Netanyahu: Muslims are “dangerous animals” | PNN

Scientists discover new antibiotic-resistant gene MCR-1 in China | News | DW.COM | 19.11.2015

A new gene rendering bacteria immune to an antibiotic has been found in China by a Lancet research team. Doctors worry that it could roll back decades of medical progress, as bacteria adapt to resist antibiotics.

Source: Scientists discover new antibiotic-resistant gene MCR-1 in China | News | DW.COM | 19.11.2015

Rights group urges justice for Nepali maids allegedly gang raped by Saudi diplomat | News | DW.COM | 19.11.2015

India and Saudi Arabia should bring justice to two Nepali maids allegedly gang raped and tortured by a Saudi diplomat, Amnesty International has said. The case is one of many reported abuses of domestic workers.

Source: Rights group urges justice for Nepali maids allegedly gang raped by Saudi diplomat | News | DW.COM | 19.11.2015

Avian Flu Diary: Oklahoma Rattled By Biggest Quake Since 2011

Prior to 2009, earthquakes in Oklahoma were rare events, averaging 2 to 5 small >3.0 quakes per year.   In 2009, there were 10 such quakes, followed by 40 in 2010, and then 60 in 2011.   The number broke 100 in 2013, and has been climbing substantially every year since. Now, Oklahoma residents can easily see 100+ quakes a month.   In the past 24 hours, there have been 8 quakes >2.5 reported by the USGS, and of those 1 was 4.0 and another 4.7 – the largest in Oklahoma since the 5.6 quake of 2011.  Although not strong enough to cause any serious damage, last night’s 4.7 quake near Crescent, OK was enough of a jolt to send a flock of radar-detectable birds into flight.   And no doubt more than a few residents into flight from their beds.

Source: Avian Flu Diary: Oklahoma Rattled By Biggest Quake Since 2011

www.german-foreign-policy.com – Portugal still not safe yet!

It is still unclear how this will develop in Portugal. On November 10, a vote of no-confidence by the center-left parliamentary majority defeated Passos Coelho’s second attempt to form a government. The plan to maintain Passos Coelho in power – with the help of renegade PS parliamentarians – has failed. In accordance with democratic traditions, Cavaco Silva would have at least handed government power over to the left majority by now, which he persistently refusing to do. If he continues to persist, Passos Coelho will remain in office until new elections can be held, which, according to Portuguese law, can take place in June 2016, at the earliest. Passos Coelho could therefore continue governing without democratic legitimacy, for more than six months, in spite of a functional democratic parliamentary majority.No Room for DemocracyWithin the EU, over the past few years, democratic majorities have repeatedly been nullified, if they would not guarantee the implementation of a German-dictated austerity policy imposed on the entire Eurozone. In Italy for example, Mario Monti’s “cabinet of experts” ruled from November 16, 2011 until April 28, 2013. Prime Minister Monti did not rise to power through democratic elections. He was installed under pressure from Brussels. The “Troika” comprised of representatives of the EU, ECB and IMF – without democratic legitimacy – decides varying degrees of national policies in Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Cyprus. Last July – under German pressure – the EU even disregarded the Greek population’s clear rejection of a continuation of the austerity policy, imposed by Berlin and Brussels. A three-fifths majority had voted “No” in a referendum on the question. Greece was then punished with the imposition of even harsher austerity measures.[4] A leading German daily considered the de facto suspension of democracy in indebted countries to be an appropriate measure, by seeking to apply private law conditions to interstate relations, which are entirely different. “There are a few things in the world, where there is no room for democracy,” the daily wrote, “for example, debts.”[5]The Only WayIn Portugal, Cavaco Silva has repeatedly reiterated over the past few days that he will take his time in deciding on the next government. At the beginning of the week, he ostentatiously made a two day visit to Madeira for business talks, in spite of considerable indignation in Lisbon. Today, he will discuss the situation with board members of several Portuguese banks. Carlos Costa, head of the Central Bank, has already stated his opposition to a possible center-left government, warning that the country will have to “pay for all the mistakes made today,” meaning the sovereign decisions taken by an elected government.[6] The results of Cavaco Silva’s talks today with leading Portuguese bankers will also depend on the concessions the PS candidate for prime minister, António Costa, has made to leading bankers, with whom he negotiated on Monday.[7] Relinquishing all positions critical of the EU and its German-inspired austerity policy is usually the only way to win the acceptance by the EU-oriented establishment.

Source: www.german-foreign-policy.com