Saturday, August 24, 2019

Anti-White Privilege - Bosch Fawstin


by Bosch Fawstin

The only socially acceptable racism today is racism against whites.





Leftists keep saying, like a mantra, that “White Men Are Terrorists”. All white men? What about non-white men and women? This need to make evil things like terrorism appear to be somehow worse, by being “white”, is pathological, and racist, and characteristically leftist. And it also blows up in the faces of these leftist racists when, if we’re going to actually classify terrorism based on “race”, there is NO terrorism like “brown terrorism”, “brown” being the word that racist leftists use when they speak of other human beings, as all they see is color. And that’s why we keep hearing about “white terrorism”, because “brown terrorism” is so prevalent in the world. You can always tell what leftists are hiding and covering up by what they openly say.

If you criticize Islam and jihad, you get death threats and you’re smeared as a “racist Islamophobe”. If you rabidly criticize “white nationalist terrorism”, and talk it up as a “Major Threat”, you get a pat on the back from leftists. So it’s not surprising how many criticize “white nationalism”, and how few criticize Islam and jihad.

The left’s need to make terrorism outside of Islam appear to be far greater than it is, is in exact proportion to how great a threat Islamic terrorism is. It gets to the embarrassing point where leftists, after being presented with massive lists of Islamic terrorist attacks and Islamic terrorist groups, invoke an individual terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, as if he represents a vast terrorist group.

The closest thing we have to Nazis today are Muslims who admire Hitler, and who hate Jews, but they’re ignored by those who place their fear of being called “racist Islamophobes” above the truth, and who spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make the case that there’s a “Nazi” threat in 2019. I expect this from truthless, gutless leftists, not from those who should know better.

With racists always shoving race down our throats, here’s a thought: You can’t bitch and moan about “white privilege” when white people are the only people who can be openly and categorically trashed on the basis of skin color.

The leftist terrorist group, Antifa, which has cells in North America and Europe, is 70 years too late to “fight Nazis”, but since Nazis are still the safest enemy that our entertainment media is willing to “fight” in its stories, then the Nazi-like members of Antifa self-identify their political opponents on the right as “Nazis” (Nazis were leftist, National Socialists), in order to self-identify themselves as “heroes”.  

And how white are “white nationalist” groups who have black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish and gay members? The Proud Boys, the group that Gavin McInnes founded in order to simply get a guy laid for the first time (true story) are made up of all kinds of people, but when there are very few, if any, “white nationalist groups” to point to, then leftists simply call any group that isn’t predominantly non-white “white nationalist”. And what terrorist group is more white than Antifa? You can be as colorblind as you want, but when racists are always shoving race down your throat and accusing you of “racism”, you have to get into the mud, and expose them, and call out their racism.   

To human beings, racism is repugnant. But to racist leftists, racism is not only acceptable, but it is to be understood and even celebrated, but ONLY if it’s held by non-whites, because these racist leftists expect no better of non-white people. Rags like the New York Times bitch and moan about so-called “white privilege”, and about racism, yet they happily publish a racist’s article titled “I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White”, when they’d Never publish “I Broke Up With Her Because She’s Black.” The reason leftists scream “white privilege” as loud as they possibly can, is to drown out the obvious reality that there’s No privilege today like Anti-White Privilege.

When the only socially acceptable racism is racism towards white people, it’s not a mystery why, all of a sudden, and with no proof, that “white supremacy” is spoken of as if it’s the only threat we face, while all other actual threats are ignored or downplayed. The Only reason we know about the very little known white supremacist, Richard Spencer, is because the leftist media promotes him. Despite the hysterical alarmism over it, the “white supremacist movement” is minuscule. Unlike the Islamic threat, which is played down by those who play up the “white supremacist” threat, it is Truly a “small minority of extremists”.

Since blacks can constantly and openly, and with no consequences, bitch about “white privilege” and condemn “whiteness” at large, it’s proof of black privilege. If “white privilege” was a problem, then white people could mention the reality of black privilege without being called racist. White racism/Black racism is the same thing, racism. Racism in America will truly become intolerable when black racism becomes as intolerable as white racism.

Leftists who are always going on about non-Islamic terrorist groups, about how Islamic terrorism is just a “tiny handful of extremists”, and who smear critics of Islamic terrorism as “racists”, while at the same time identifying terrorism by race when they bitch and moan about “white terrorism”: they never name the “many” non-Islamic terrorist groups that they claim we should be more worried about. Hell, they never even name one non-Islamic terrorist group, not even the leftist terrorist group, antifa.

But despite their denial of reality, there are people who do focus on reality and who accumulate information and turn it into lists that disprove leftist myths. There is no terrorism like Islamic terrorism, and those who go out of their way to claim otherwise are callously doing so over the endless dead bodies of non-Muslims who’ve been targeted and murdered and injured by seemingly endless Islamic terrorist groups across the world.

Those who peddle the lie that “white terrorism” (whatever that means, as if “white” were an ideology) is a greater threat than Islamic terrorism, should produce for everyone the equivalent list of “white terrorist groups” (and not actual lone wolf terrorists) to match the very long list of Islamic terrorist groups below:
Al-Shabab (Africa)
Al Murabitun (Africa)
Al-Qeada (Afghanistan)
Al-Qaeda (Islamic Maghreb)
Al-Qaeda (Indian Subcontinent)
Al-Qaeda (Arab Peninsula)
Hamas (Gaza)
“Palestinian” Islamic Jihad (”Palestine”)
Popular Front for the Liberation of “Palestine”
Hezbollah (Lebanon)
Ansar al-Sharia-Benghazi (Lebanon)
Asbat Al-Ansar (Lebanon)
iSiS (Iraq)
iSiS (Syria)
iSiS (Cauacus)
iSiS (Libya)
iSiS (Yemen)
iSiS (Algeria)
iSiS (Philippines)
Jund al-Sham (Syria/Afganistan)
Al-Mourabitoun (Lebanon)
Abdullah Azzam Brigades (Lebanon)
Al-itihaad al-islamiya (Somalia)
Al-Haramain Foundation (Saudi Arabia)
Ansar-Al-Sharia (Moroccon)
Moroccon Mudjadine (Morocco)
Salafia Jihadia (Morocco)
Boko Haram (Africa)
islamic movement of (Uzbekistan)
islamic Jihad Union (Uzbekistan)
islamic Jihad Union (Germany)
DRW True-Religion (Germany)
Fajar Nusantara Movement (Germany)
DiK Hildesheim (Germany)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (Kashmir)
Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (Syria)
Popular Front for the Liberation of “Palestine” (Syria)
Jamaat al Dawa al Quran (Afghanistan)
Jundallah (Iran)
Quds Force (Iran)
Kata’ib Hezbollah (Iraq)
Al-itihaad al-islamiya (Somalia)
Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Egypt)
Jund al-Sham (Jordan)
Fajar Nusantara Movement (Australia)
Society of the Revival of islamic Heritage (Terror
funding, worldwide)
Taliban (Afghanistan)
Taliban (Pakistan)
Tehrik-i-Taliban (Pakistan)
Army of islam (Syria)
islamic Movement (Israel)
Ansar Al Sharia (Tunisia)
Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (Libya)
Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
“Palestinian” Islamic Jihad (”Palestine”)
Tevhid-Selam (Al-Quds Army)
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (Morocco)
Caucasus Emirate (Russia)
Dukhtaran-e-Millat Feminist islamists (India)
indian Mujahideen (India)
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (India)
Ansar al-islam (India)
Students islamic Movement of (India)
Harakat Mujahideen (India)
Hizbul Mujhaideen (India)
Lashkar e islam (India)
Jund al-Khilafah (Algeria)
Turkistan islamic Party
Egyptian islamic Jihad (Egypt)
Great Eastern islamic Raiders’ Front (Turkey)
Harkat-ul-Jihad al-islami (Pakistan)
Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Pakistan)
Lashkar e Toyiba (Pakistan), Lashkar e Jhangvi (Pakistan)
Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (Pakistan)
Jamaat ul-Ahrar (Pakistan)
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (Pakistan)
Jamaat Ul-Furquan (Pakistan)
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (Syria)
Ansar al-Din Front (Syria)
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Syria)
Jamaah Anshorut Daulah (Syria)
Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement (Syria)
Liwa al-Haqq (Syria)
Al-Tawhid Brigade (Syria)
Jund al-Aqsa (Syria)
Al-Tawhid Brigade (Syria)
Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade (Syria)
Khalid ibn al-Walid Army (Syria)
Hezb-e islami Gulbuddin (Afganistan)
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (Afghanistan)
Hizb ut-Tahrir (worldwide caliphate)
Hizbul Mujahideen (Kashmir)
Ansar Allah (Yemen)
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (USA)
Jamaat Mujahideen (india)
Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (indonesia)
Hizbut Tahrir (indonesia)
Fajar Nusantara Movement (indonesia)
Jemaah islamiyah (indonesia)
Jemaah islamiyah (Philippines)
Jemaah islamiyah (Singapore)
Jemaah islamiyah (Thailand)
Jemaah islamiyah (Malaysia)
Ansar Dine (Africa)
Osbat al-Ansar (”Palestine”)
Hizb ut-Tahrir (group connecting islamic Caliphates across the world into one world islamic Caliphate)
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order (iraq)
Al Nusra Front (Syria), 111. Al-Badr (Pakistan)
Islam4UK (UK)
Al Ghurabaa (UK)
Call to Submission (UK) [this is global, and accessible online]
Islamic Path (UK)
London School of Sharia (UK)
Muslims Against Crusades (UK)
Need4Khilafah (UK)
The Shariah Project (UK)
The Islamic Dawah Association (UK) [ALSO iN THE U.S.]
The Saviour Sect (UK)
Jamaat Ul-Furquan (UK) [ALSO iN THE U.S]
Minbar Ansar Deen (UK)
Al-Muhajiroun (UK) (Lee Rigby, London 2017 members)
Islamic Council of Britain (UK) (Not to be confused with Official Muslim Council of Britain) [there are also islamic Councils in the U.S.]
Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah (UK)
Al-Gama’a (Egypt)
Al-islamiyya (Egypt)
Armed Islamic men of (Algeria)
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Algeria)
Ansaru (Algeria), 133.Ansar-Al-Sharia (Libya)
Al ittihad Al Islamia (Somalia), 135.Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)
Al-Shabab (Africa)
al-Aqsa Foundation (Germany)
al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (”Palestine”)
Abu Sayyaf (Philippines)
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (Yemen)
Ajnad Misr (Egypt)
Abu Nidal Organization (”Palestine”)
Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (Indonesia)

This list is courtesy of Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald via Mohammad Tawhidi, and Fitzgerald added CAIR to the list, writing that CAIR “has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, and was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trail.”

In the end, you know something is not a threat when known liars constantly say it is, especially when they habitually deny the reality of actual threats. Leftists tell us that Islamic terrorist groups “aren’t Islamic”, but that individuals and groups who are Not “white nationalist”, are “white nationalist”. They refuse to acknowledge that jihadist attacks are all connected, whether they’re committed by individuals or groups, and are all part of a unified movement that jihadists acknowledge, but then they take it upon themselves to connect disparate shooters into a unified group based on “white” skin. The left has gone from identifying themselves as things they’re not to identifying others as things they’re not. And we’re going to have to identify the left for what it is, for what it accuses its political opponents of being, an existential threat to America.


Bosch Fawstin

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274696/anti-white-privilege-bosch-fawstin

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Is It Trans Discrimination or Legitimate Concern for Women? - A. M. Gwynn


by A. M. Gwynn

What has been buried under the identity politics cacophony are facts of biology, and the indisputable differences between the two sexes.


The landscape of women’s sports has changed drastically in the last few years. Natural-born males who now identify as women can compete athletically against natural-born women simply by stating they identify as a woman. This includes quite masculine males who have long since passed the age of puberty before their purported “transition.” What has been buried under the identity politics cacophony are facts of biology, and the indisputable differences between the two sexes.

Those who have spoken out against the sudden turn of events say they are being censored; some professionals have been fired for not following the trans activist narrative that prevails in public discourse.

The recent case at Connecticut State High School where two biological males, Andraya Yearwood, and Terry Miller, who have taken 15 women’s state championship titles in track and field, is a case which demonstrates the advantage over biological females. Both Yearwood and Miller experienced puberty before their transition to female.



Andrea Yearwood and Terry Miller (YouTube screen grab)

The most glaring case includes MMA fighter Fallon Fox who, despite doctors’ claim of Fox having less testosterone than female opponents, broke the orbital bone of a female opponent during a fight in 2014. Fallon Fox didn’t transition to female until three decades after puberty.

Tamikka Brents, Fox’s opponent in the fight, was transported to the hospital after the 3-minute bout. She told a reporter following the fight:
I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can’t answer whether it’s because she was born a man or not because I’m not a doctor. I can only say, I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right,” she stated. “Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn’t move at all in Fox’s clinch.
Jaycee Cooper is a transgender powerlifter who after only one year competing as a woman against natural-born women, set bench press records in 2018. In Australia, another transgender athlete, Laurel Hubbard, won the Commonwealth Games and set world records. Both of these trans-females went through male puberty long before transitioning, Hubbard not transitioning for four decades.

All of these self-identified women went through male puberty as have all transgender athletes to date who have entered women’s sports competitions. The outcry from women citing trans advantage is not discrimination, it is a deep concern for the protection and agency of women.

According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the suppression of testosterone for self-identified trans-women must reach a level below 10 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L) for one year before competing against females. Biological women do not produce anywhere near that amount of natural testosterone. Women’s natural testosterone levels never reach above 3.1 nmol/L (the highest range) according to all experts.

During male puberty, testosterone drives the increase of bone density and size. Puberty increases calcium retention in the bones. Muscle strength increases, including tensile strength of connective tissues, ligaments, and red blood cells. Lung capacity is also greater in males, and they have larger airways.

We know one of the main elements that differentiate men and women is hormonal milieu. Normal concentrations of testosterone in males is 21 (+-) 1 nmol/L. In Mid-follicular women (menstruating) it is 1.1 (+-) 0.1 nmol/L. The normal estrogen levels for men is 128 (+-) 13 nmol/L and for women 184 (+-) 71 nmol/L. Males also have higher concentrations of both epinephrine and norepinephrine when they physically exert which increases their cardiac output ability. ¹

Female bodies which produce no higher than 3 nmol/L of testosterone do not have this level constantly, the level fluctuates and can be less than 3 noml/L at any given time. Experts across the board state the range of natural testosterone made by women ranges from 0.52 to 2.8 nmol/L. A male who transitions to female and competes against natural-born females has on average two to three times the amount of testosterone than the natural-born woman does, even when hormone replacement therapy is applied.

To date, no study has ever been conducted on male-to-female (MtF) trans athletes compared with biological females in an athletic arena. No study exists which negates nor refutes the MtF trans individual advantage over women. The only study ever conducted was done in a non-athlete population and not conducted using transitioned MtF athletes. Neither has an examination of the effect of cross-sex hormones on athletic ability ever been conducted.

The threat of discrimination lawsuits has caused fear for careers and reputations, social media mobs attack anyone who dares speak out against allowing trans individuals in women's sports. Policies and mandates have been rush-pushed because of political activism.

If the sport transgender athletes compete in is a contact sport, such as MMA, wrestling, boxing or other contact sport, the potential for danger and injury to women is high. The identity politics activism we see today seeks no less than to erase the lines between male and female.

While discrimination against trans individuals is unacceptable, it is women now who are paying the price for inclusivity with their sports and their safe, women-only spaces.

Accusing people who have legitimate concerns for women of “transphobia” is both insulting and misplaced. The latest survey from The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) itself reveals:
Results from a new national survey commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, reveal a significant uptick in the number of Americans who say they personally know or work with someone who is transgender, and a corresponding increase in favorable feelings toward transgender people. —
The legal profession advises trans-identified athletes using the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX of the Education Amendments Act. Though claims must be proven, careers and reputations are ruined by the mere implication of “transphobia.” The climate for speaking honestly and intellectually about the issue in the United States is dangerous.

Access to interscholastic sports is not a constitutionally protected right. The Supreme Court of the United States has consistently held, even access to public education itself is not considered a fundamental right. To date, no court in the United States has ruled on a case involving a trans-restricted student athletic policy under Title IX.

Trans activists claim those who suffer from Gender Dysphoria have a psychological disorder that is inherited or unchangeable, though the 2019 World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPath) Standards of Care, has resisted classifying transgender-ism as a medical disorder.

While it is true trans-gendered people have been victims of harassment, discrimination, and violence, with education and campaign, LGBT individuals, specifically trans-gendered individuals, have never been more accepted nor more advocated for than today.

The Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network (GLSEN) provides a statement on the issue of trans individuals in sport on their website: Reality: 

Trans children display the same variation in size, strength, and athletic ability as other youth.

But that is not entirely true, is it? Boys do not resemble girls physically or biologically. No trans-identified athlete participating on any women’s team in the United States today has undergone replacement hormone therapy before puberty. These trans athletes who are competing against women are not elementary school children but post-pubertal adults, some in their twenties and thirties.


Regardless of who they are, this is neither fair nor acceptable. We must ask if it is fair to women’s sports? Fair to girls and women themselves as autonomous individuals, as a group, as a gender?

Before 1972 and the enactment of Title IX, there was an exclusion of girl’s athletics in favor of an emphasis on boy’s athletics. Female participation in high school athletics jumped from 250,000 in 1972 to 3.25 million in 2011 because of the enactment. ²

Are we not now discriminating against women by placing MtF transgender individuals on the same playing field as women? Author Adam Love has said this to women about sex-segregated sports:
Feminists should be cautious about supporting the sex-segregated model of sport as it works to reproduce an ideology of men’s superiority and women’s inferiority in many ways. ³
A rather frightening statement. If put into real-world practice it would ensure the end of women’s sports.

Reason must prevail. An equitable solution for all can be achieved. Certainly, research of MtF identified athletes in comparison to biological women in sports must be conducted. The current claim that MtF individuals have no advantage over women is a blatantly false narrative.


We can never sacrifice one class of people for another. Is society ready to erase the lines between male and female? How can anything so inarguably unfair and discriminatory against women's agency be so widely appeased?

Notes
1.Devries PhD, Michaela C. "Do Transitioned Athletes Compete at an Advantage or Disadvantage as Compared with Physically Born Men and Women: A Review of the Scientific Literature." Promising Practices: Working with Transitioning/Transitioned Athletes in Sport Project, May 18, 2008.
2.U.S. Dept. of Educ, OCR, Protecting Civil Rights,Advancing Equity 33
3.Love, Adam, and Kimberly Kelly. ""Equity or Essentialism?"Gender & Society 25, no. 2 (2011). doi:10.1177/0891243211398866.



 

A. M. Gwynn

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/is_it_trans_discrimination_or_legitimate_concern_for_women.html

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Motte and Bailey: The Left's Castle - Taylor Day


by Taylor Day

Increasingly, motte and bailey arguments are taking over leftist media...even though they are logically fallacious.


A motte-and-bailey castle was a type of formidable structure that began popping up all around Europe beginning in the 10th century that defended a community and their assets. Easy- and cheap-to-build wood or stone keeps were placed on top of mottes (raised earth mounds) overlooking a bailey, or the courtyard area that was valuable and therefore needed the defense. If the bailey was under attack from an outside force, the community would occupy the motte, which gave them the advantage of a stronghold above the enemy.

The phrase also relates to a prevalent logic fallacy. The motte and bailey doctrine was coined in 2014 by Nicholas Shackel; it refers to individuals who attempt to cheat intellectually in order to defend their positions on policy. The idea is that their arguments rely on an easy-to-defend idea (the motte) to disguise some other argument that relates only on a superficial level — but is controversial (the bailey). When the individual's bailey is challenged, he retreats to the motte.

We see this appear a lot in political ideologies, perhaps most obviously with modern feminism. The motte is the easy to defend stance that "feminism is just about gender equality." It defends the feminist bailey, or more contentious arguments like "all men actively oppress women through the patriarchy." When these statements are challenged, feminists will retreat to the motte and swear the movement is really about equality and not hating men.

Increasingly, these motte and bailey arguments are taking over leftist media. The New York Times even went so far as to launch the "1619 Project," in which its motte is a claim that it is nothing more than a historical look at racism in America. While the new venture originally claimed to focus on the first West African slaves who arrived in America in 1619, there is really a controversial bailey here: everything in America today is racist somehow. What's most disturbing is that the 1619 Project has expanded to envelop all news that will now come from the New York Times. In a joint effort with the Pulitzer Center, the Times is working on the 1619 Project Curriculum to be taught in public schools. Hundreds of thousands of extra copies of its debut project's printing propaganda were given away to government institutions like schools, libraries, and museums.

On Thursday, Bernie Sanders unrolled his update to the Green New Deal with a modest $16 -rillion dollar price tag. When Republicans expressed sticker shock, Sanders sent out this tweet: "Republicans who oppose our #GreenNewDeal should explain why they don't support creating 20 million jobs and averting climate catastrophe, yet will give billions in corporate welfare to fossil fuel companies."

The motte here is the widely accepted concept of combatting climate change. However, Sanders uses it to defend extremely provocative baileys claiming that Republicans seek to destroy the Earth and that's really why they're uncomfortable giving the government control over energy resources, infrastructure, and even health care. When that anti-capitalist idea is challenged, Sanders retreats back to the motte — that he only wants to save the planet!

Even more ridiculous is the case of "Jessica" Yaniv, a man calling himself a woman who launched a human rights complaint claiming that beauty estheticians who refused to wax "her testicles" were discriminating against a protected class of people. When confronted with the utter ridiculousness of the case, Yaniv retreats to the defense of "trans persons deserve equal rights" as a way to defend the government forcing female workers to touch male genitalia.

In the early Middle Ages, if an army wanted to capture a motte and bailey fortress, there were three main strategies. One: They could attack the motte, but that would cause mass casualties on their side. Today, we see conservatives who choose to take on wild liberal baileys have their livelihoods destroyed when the Left cries that the motte is being attacked instead. Some of the largest names on the right are being demonetized from social media platforms on unfounded claims of sexism, bigotry, or white nationalism, leading to a real loss of income. On a larger scale, voicing dissent against liberal doctrines has led to ordinary people losing their jobs or families, like this Google employee who was fired for suggesting that biology plays a role in women being less suited to high-stress careers.

The second military strategy attackers could use is to lay siege to the fortress in an attempt to starve out the bailey. In modern times, this could translate to not letting an opponent retreat to the commonsense argument and instead forcing him to expand on his more radical beliefs. There was a neat example of this recently between Robby Starbuck and Rep. Ilhan Omar. Starbuck asked her if she supported the Palestinian Authority's recent ban on LGBT activities. Omar deflected by claiming that the real problem is Israel's treatment of Palestinians, adding that his question was "deplorable." However, Palestine's own treatment of gay individuals isn't related to Israel; it was just a bait-and-switch argument — a motte and bailey.

The third is the ancient strategy of infiltration, like the story from the Iliad of the Trojan horse. This involves pretending to yield to the opponent as an attempt to destroy them from the inside. This is a strategy often used by the Left with Republicans in name only like Ana Navarro and Mitt Romney. While claiming to be conservative, they gain a base in order to ease them into policies they wouldn't naturally embrace.

Recognizing this argument fallacy is in itself a defense against it. However, the right really needs to strategize on exposing and separating the most harmful policies liberals promote from behind the easily agreeable ones. Donald Trump does this fairly well by shining a spotlight on the Left's most extremist ideas.

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Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/motte_and_bailey_the_lefts_castle.html

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Epstein's Castro Odyssey - Humberto Fontova


by Humberto Fontova

Did Fidel's secret police have something on him?





“Epstein traveled to Cuba at Castro’s invitation, former Colombian president saysAmid journalistic revelations about horrifying and reprehensible sex scandals of financier Jeffrey Epstein, a trip of mine on his plane to Nassau, Bahamas has appeared, to transfer to the final destination of Havana, Cuba, invited by President Fidel Castro [on March 2003],” (Former Colombian Pres. Andres’ Pastrana as recently quoted in the Miami Herald.)

“In Cuba, the link between tourism and prostitution is perhaps more direct than in any other country that hosts sex tourists." (The ECPAT Network – End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism – in a study titled "Child Prostitution and Sex Tourism in Cuba.”)  

“Since she [a Cuban woman or girl] is usually desperate, he [a sex tourist] can usually secure sexual access to her very cheaply. Sex tourists state that it costs them less to spend two weeks indulging themselves in Cuba than it does in other centers of sex tourism such as Thailand. Girls aged 14-15 are even more desperate for dollars and therefore more vulnerable.” (Dr. Julia O’Connell Davidson of Britain’s Univ. of Nottingham in her study titled “The Rights and Wrongs of Prostitution.")

"My job was to bug their hotel rooms. Famous Americans are the priority objectives of Castro's intelligence. When the celebrity visitors arrived at the Hotels Nacional, Meliá Habana and Meliá Cohiba, we already had their rooms completely bugged with sophisticated taping equipment. But not just the rooms, we'd also follow the visitors around, sometimes we covered them 24 hours a day. They had no idea we were tailing them." (High-ranking Cuban intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez.)

In fairness, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein visited the Castro Family Fiefdom before the sex-abuse allegations against him surfaced. And chances are the going rate of desperate child prostitutes per hour (extremely low in Cuba) weren’t a major consideration for this multi-millionaire… but still.

The above quotes describe the desperation of the brutalized and impoverished residents of a nation that prior to the glorious Castro/Che revolution enjoyed a higher per capita income than Japan and half the nations of Europe and who welcomed more immigrants (primarily from Europe) per capita than the U.S. Prior to the glorious Communist liberation, people were as desperate to enter Cuba as they are now to escape.

For many folks who grew up in pre-Castro Cuba an amateur film by Canadian Andrew Lindy titled “The Cuba Prostitution Documentary” proved more heartbreaking than anything they’d seen on their homeland to that date. Lindy, by the way, is a Canadian and winner of the Canadian National Magazine Award—hence no “Cuban exile with an axe to grind"!

“Prostitution is rampant,” he narrates upon his visit to Cuba as a tourist in 2011. Indeed, during his entire stay Lindy was hard-pressed to find a single Cuban woman or girl who wouldn’t offer sex for pay, of some sort. And half the males he encountered were at least part-time pimps.

Oh, I know…I know. That pre-Castro Cuba was “Bordello to the Americas!’ is a Fake News/Fake History mantra. But actually: in 1961 the Castroites rounded up what they determined were all the prostitutes in Cuba and herded them into re-education camps to learn more seemly professions–Milicianas, for instance. The total number of women rounded up in this “brothel of the Americas!” as the Fake News/Hollywood mantra has claimed for over half a century was about 14,000 (out of a Cuban population of 6.7 million at the time).

But a study by the American Journal of Nursing estimates there are 50,000 prostitutes in New York City alone.

Indeed, the blatant fakeness of the KGB-concocted propaganda meme about pre-Castro Cuba as a “big brothel!” was exposed and demolished years ago. In brief, Fredo Corleone would find many, MANY more hookers in Castro’s Havana than he did during The Godfather II.

Interestingly, in a 2003 interview Epstein, who recently committed suicide in his jail cell (or so the official story goes), spoke about the care he took against the risk of blackmail: "My concern is that people can make spurious allegations all the time,” he said. “The idea is if nothing else he’ll buy me off. I’ll attack his reputation and he’ll buy me off.”

So I’m guessing that—unlike so many others among the rich and famous and unscrupulous–Epstein was too cagey for Castro to blackmail or otherwise swindle. Indeed, one of Epstein’s rich and famous friends (he shows up on Epstein’s now-notorious Little Black Book) named Amado Fahkre paid dearly for his visits to the Castro Crime Fiefdom.

The millionaire investor and developer is a Lebanese-born British national who owned Coral Capital and invested heavily in Castro’s Cuba, developing golf courses and hotels. One evening in 2011 Fahkre and his business associate and fellow Brit Stephen Purvis were the back-slapping toasts and celebrated business partners of the Castro Crime Family. The next morning they woke up to find themselves robbed blind by Castro and in a KGB-designed torture chamber, where they languished for two years on charges of corruption. (Actually the Castro Family Crime Syndicate simply wanted to burglarize their hard-won but ill-gotten Cuban assets.) 

“Rabid-Right-Wing-Cuban-Americans-with-an-Axe-to-Grind!” (i.e. people who, owing to direct experience, know exactly how the Castro Crime Syndicate works and try to warn others) had a ball playing the world’s smallest violins with the travails of Fakhre and Purvis, who chose not to heed our warnings.  

Maybe Epstein’s instincts saved him from this earlier humiliation at the hands of Castro? But who really knows what kind of videos Castro’s secret police might have had on him in their little Black Books?


Humberto Fontova

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274680/epsteins-castro-odyssey-humberto-fontova

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Pompeo warns of ‘new turmoil’ if UN lifts arms embargo on Iran - JNS , Israel Hayom Staff


by JNS , Israel Hayom Staff 

“Time is drawing short to continue this activity of restricting Iran’s capacity to foment its terror regime,” Pompeo tells UN Security Council.


Pompeo warns of ‘new turmoil’ if UN lifts arms embargo on Iran
United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the Mideast, Tuesday Aug. 20, 2019 at UN headquarters | Photo: AP/Bebeto Matthews

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Tuesday that Iran will be “unshackled to create new turmoil” when a UN arms embargo on Iran and a travel ban on the leader of the regime’s elite Quds Force is lifted in October 2020.

“Time is drawing short to continue this activity of restricting Iran’s capacity to foment its terror regime,” he said at a UN Security Council meeting about the latest in the Middle East, which also included mention of the situations in Yemen and Libya and the threat from Islamic State. “The international community will have plenty of time to see how long it has until Iran is unshackled to create new turmoil and figure out what it must do to prevent this from happening.”

Pompeo noted that the US State Department’s website has a “Countdown to Terror” clock leading up to the removal of the restrictions in accordance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the United States withdrew from, reimposing sanctions, in addition to enacting new financial penalties against Tehran.

Additionally, the US top diplomat warned against helping the vessel, which is carrying 2 million barrels of oil.

“We have made clear that anyone who touches it, anyone who supports it, anyone who allows a ship to dock is at risk of receiving sanctions from the United States,” he told reporters at the United Nations, where he addressed the UN Security Council about the latest in the Middle East.

“If that ship again heads to Syria, we will take every action we can consistent with those sanctions to prevent that,” said Pompeo, adding that revenues from the oil sold from the tanker would benefit Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “We want to deny them the resources to continue their horrific terror campaign.”

Reprinted from JNS.org.


JNS , Israel Hayom Staff

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/08/22/pompeo-warns-of-new-turmoil-if-un-lifts-arms-embargo-on-iran/

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Enabling China’s Mass Surveillance System - John Glynn


by John Glynn

How an American organization is helping a communist tyranny control its people.





In the 18th century, Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer, introduced the idea of the Panopticon, a disciplinary concept brought to life in the form of a central observation tower placed within a circle of prison cells. Each cell is flooded with light, which creates an environment in which prisoners are under constant watch. Even if no guard is on duty, a prisoner will always feel as if they are being watched. Bentham described it as “[a] new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind.” The Panopticon is the optimal prison; it enables an unprecedented level of surveillance.

When we discuss the concept of surveillance, one country automatically springs to mind.

China’s transition from what Rebecca MacKinnon calls a “networked authoritarianism” to what is now a form of networked totalitarianism is almost complete. The difference is not merely semantic. As John Naughton writes, “An authoritarian regime is relatively limited in its objectives: there may be elections, but they are generally carefully managed; individual freedoms are subordinate to the state; there is no constitutional accountability and no rule of law in any meaningful sense.”

In contrast, according to Naughton, totalitarianism “prohibits opposition parties, restricts opposition to the state and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.” The historian Robert Conquest put it best when he argued that a totalitarian state recognizes no limits to its authority.  Proponents of totalitarianism have no respect for privacy. In a totalitarian state, privacy is but an illusion.

By implementing a fully functional social credit system replete with an inescapable network of surveillance cameras keyed to facial recognition, China has morphed into a technocratic totalitarian state.  For many readers, such reports are nothing new. However, what if I was to tell you that an American organization is currently helping China’s authoritarian government to conduct mass surveillance against its citizens?

In a recent op-ed for the New York Times, Peter Thiel criticized Google for working with Chinese authorities. The billionaire venture capitalist who helped found PayPal criticized the company's decision to forego work with the Pentagon on Project Maven, an initiative that uses AI to improve the analysis of drone footage. Google decided not to renew its contract after its employees protested the project, instead opting to focusing on fostering relations with the Chinese.

Now, according to The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher, “The OpenPower Foundation — a nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation” — has set up a collaboration between IBM, Chinese company Semptian, and U.S. chip manufacturer Xilinx.”

Why? To develop a breed of microprocessors that enable computers to analyze vast amounts of data more efficiently.

What will this technology be used for? Semptian, a company based in the city of Shenzhen, is using the devices to enhance the capabilities of internet surveillance and censorship technology. Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns us that this “technology is being used to covertly monitor the internet activity of 200 million people.” Of course, it is. After all, Semptian works with IBM and Google through a collaborative cloud platform called SuperVessel, which is maintained by an American led research unit in China.

In an interview with The Intercept, Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had this to say: “It’s disturbing to see that China has successfully recruited Western companies and researchers to assist them in their information control efforts.”

The idea that two major American companies now pledge allegiance to Communist China is as baffling as it is worrying. Google and IBM have a professional responsibility to conduct human rights due diligence throughout their operations and supply chains, including through partnerships and collaborations. Obviously, this is no longer the case.

An employee of the aforementioned Semptian recently released documents showing that the company has developed a mass surveillance system named Aegis, which has the capacity to “store and analyze unlimited data.” By providing the Chinese with cutting-edge technology, Google and IBM are actively supporting one of the most oppressive regimes of the 21st century.

Aegis allows government officials to see “the connections of everyone,” including “location information for everyone in the country.” Of course, this invasion of privacy doesn’t just affect the lives of Chinese citizens. Today, there are more than 70,000 Americans currently living in China. One assumes that their online activities are being monitored very closely.

Peter Thiel calls the collaboration between Google, IBM and China “treasonous." Only a fool would argue with the entrepreneur. By sleeping with the enemy, Google and IBM executives are helping one of the most repressive countries in the world operate its very own Panopticon, replete with 24 hour surveillance and a complete disregard for an individual’s right to privacy.


John Glynn is a professor of psychology at American University of Bahrain. Follow him on Twitter: @John_A_Glynn.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274668/enabling-chinas-mass-surveillance-system-john-glynn

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In the Absence of Sovereignty: The Dangers Posed by Attorneys/Terrorists - Shimon Cohen


by Shimon Cohen

The absence of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria leads to an absurd situation where it is not possible to assure that the people representing terrorists, who receive information from imprisoned terrorists, are indeed attorneys.


The decision to leave Judea and Samaria outside the scope of Israeli sovereignty has many costs, in the political, security and Zionist aspects. It now seems that the absence of sovereignty leads to surprising and previously unrecognized security dangers as well.

Former military chief prosecutor Lieutenant-Colonel (res.) Morris Hirsch addresses one of these issues.

Atty. Hirsch, being familiar with the legal sphere in Judea and Samaria and dealing with terrorists’ attorneys, says that under the Oslo Accords, one of the authorities that was transferred to the PA, is the authority to award attorneys’ licenses. Although this permission should deal solely with professional issues, it has extremely serious security ramifications.

“This is a historical arrangement that is based on relating to Judea and Samaria as an area that is not under Israeli sovereignty, and even if it is under our control, we allow the local population to appear before military courts, including the attorneys”.

Hirsch’s comments indicate that the situation where military courts recognize the status of terrorists’ representatives as attorneys, allows them to enter the prisoners’ cells, meet with terrorists and converse with them on matters that do not necessarily relate to their function as representatives, to pass information from the imprisoned terrorists to parties outside of the prison and from parties outside of the prison to the imprisoned terrorists and among the prisoners themselves.

All of this is being done without Israeli supervision and no one from the Israeli authorities checks whether these are indeed attorneys or are parties who are involved with terror, and that the entire purpose of their visits to detention cells and prisons is to promote terrorist goals.

As mentioned, the situation is unsupervised and current mode of oversight is a result of the Oslo Accords, in which Israeli willingly chose to transfer authorities to the leadership of the Arabs of Judea and Samaria, while in the past, the Palestinian Bar Association worked together with the Civil Administration and at least there was some sort of regulation. Currently, there is no way to know if the person to whom the Palestinian Bar Association has granted a license to practice law has actually studied law”.

Atty. Hirsch’s admonitions are consistent with the situation in which it has been discovered that Arab attorneys were supposedly representing terrorists but actually served as couriers for terrorists and as contact people between terror organizations and senior terrorists, and have aided in carrying out terror attacks, attempted terror attacks and in transferring monies to terrorist goals.

Written for the Sovereignty Movement and translated from Hebrew by Sally Zahav


Shimon Cohen

Source: http://ribonut.co.il/BlogPostID.aspx?BlogPostId=336&lang=2

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Prager U Video: What's the Deal with the Green New Deal? - Prager University


by Prager University


Beyond the headlines, what is it really?




There’s been a lot of talk about The Green New Deal. Beyond the headlines, what is it really? Given our energy needs, is it practical? Can we have an abundance of energy and a clean planet? Alex Epstein, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, considers these questions and has thought-provoking answers. Don't miss it!




Prager University

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274709/prager-u-video-whats-deal-green-new-deal-prager-university

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Who’s funding illegal PA settlements in Area C—Nearly 10,000 cases - Edwin Black


by Edwin Black

What makes the Palestinian settlements “illegal” is the thin wisp of Oslo that remains. The rest is dust.


Area C,” which comprises some 60 percent of the 'West Bank', also known as Judea and Samaria, has become highly volatile again. In the past, debate has centered on Jewish settlements. Now, “illegal Palestinian settlements” sprouting across the region, are under the spotlight.

According to Israeli activist watchdog groups such as Regavim, during the last five years, illegal Palestinian settlements and infrastructure have sprawled across more than 9,000 dunams in more than 250 Area C locations, supported by more than 600 kilometers of illegally constructed access roads and more than 112,000 meters of retaining walls and terracing. This massive works project is being conducted in broad daylight, often heralded by tall announcement placards and proud press releases.

Israeli government officials contacted did not dispute the Regavim numbers. In exasperation, one military spokesman close to the Area C files estimated “close to 10,000” illegal construction efforts are now underway—adding they feel “powerless to stop them.” 

In the 1990s, after years of diplomatic wrangling, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords, envisioning a peaceful two-state solution. Under the complex Oslo Accords, the “West Bank” is divided into three separate administrative zones, Areas A, B and C.

Area A is reserved for Palestinian civil and administrative control and seats the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. Area B is governed by Palestinian civil control under a joint Israeli-Palestinian security apparatus.

Area C —also called Judea and Samaria—comprises roughly 60 percent of the 'West Bank'. The majority of Area C residents are Israelis—an estimated 325,000 alongside some 300,000 Arabs. Under the Oslo Accords, only the Israeli Civil Administration can authorize new construction in the zone—for Israeli and Arab alike.

But in 2009, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad introduced the so-calledFayyad Plan, well-described by a 2011 article in the Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture as having “the potential to dramatically transform the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, by extension, the Middle Eastern political landscape.”

The analysis adds, “The essence of the Fayyad plan involves establishing an internationally recognized demilitarized Palestinian state encompassing both the West Bank and Gaza, based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Since August 2009, Fayyad, with the help of the Barack Obama administration and the European Union, has been quietly building national institutions and physical infrastructure … in the West Bank.”

To create a de facto Palestinian State without further negotiation or even diplomatic consultation with the Israelis, European countries, individually and through the EU, have pumped hundreds of millions of euros annually into scores of illegal state-building and related projects—called Area C “interventions.” Just one cluster of the “European Union Area C Development Programme” boasts a €300 million annual commitment, and within three years, is budgeted to reach about €1.5 billion. A single 1650-meter roadnear Jenin in Area C was funded with a €500,000 allocation.

The Area C Palestinian boom advances without any coordination with Israelis about land use, security, environmental impacts, or close proximity to Jewish villages. The PA’s 2014 Roots Project greatly accelerated the entire process. Thus, European governments and the PA have completed the shredding of the already-weakened Oslo agreements.

Most of new Area C settlements are not natural Arab urban growth or urban sprawl. Rather, they are often strategically scattered to effectively carve up Area C, sometimes surround Jewish villages, and sometimes push onto Israeli nature or military reserves.

In many instances, Arab residents from Areas A and B are bused in, encouraged by incentives to relocate or start a second home in the new settlements. Some structures are makeshift festooned with the logo of the European Union. Some are multi-floor office centers. Other times, palatial homes are built. The gamut of construction styles can be seen.

In several cases, the illegal constructions are deliberately established on Israeli military reserves. Since the 1970s, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have maintained military training and firing ranges, such as Firing Zone 918. That zone now has illegal settlements.

One road, dubbed Smuggler’s Routecourses through the hills from the Palestinian city of Yatta all the way to the Arad Valley in the Negev.

In prior years, Israel’s Civil Administration boasted of its many Palestinian construction permits. A glowing report cites 328 projects authorized during 2011 and 2012. That number has drastically diminished because Area C Palestinians no longer apply for permits; they deny Israel’s right to issue them. Now, they just start building.

While the sudden development rush has been percolating into the Jewish and Israeli media, many Jewish leaders worldwide are completely unaware of this phenomenon. Many are incredulous that the Israeli government has not acted to block the illegal projects. But a security spokesman close to the Area C files located in Bet El blames the inaction on Israel’s complex legal system.

“When we discover something,” stated a security spokesman, “we give them a stop order, and if they don’t stop, they are summoned to an [adjudication] panel. But they don’t come. They go to court to enjoin us.”

These court cases are frequently financed and represented by well-funded NGOs, such as the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The Gordian knot of legal principles to parse includes Ottoman land law from a long-dismantled empire, Jordanian law from the withdrawn 1948 illegal occupation, post-Six Day War military administrative law, and a library of international legal codes--all stoked and poked with competing maps, surveys, expert opinions, decrees, chronologies, and historical accounts.

“It can take years to decide, and without a court ruling, we cannot get close,” lamented the spokesman, adding, “Meanwhile, they are still building. We can’t do anything about it.” The spokesman continued, “Court can take half a year -- or four years. There is no specific time. Each case is different. We have some cases that were opened 15 years ago.”

Once the court rules, if Israel takes enforcement action with bulldozers, the international headlines, EU accusations of war crimes, threats of sanctions, close-up photos of weeping people and global uproar makes being legally right a very unappealing political idea. The EU, the NGOs, and the illegal settlers know this process. 

What makes the Palestinian settlements “illegal” is the thin wisp of Oslo that remains. The Accords have now been fractured so many times that what remains is only the preserved corpse of a long-deceased vision.

At the end of July 2019, when the Israeli cabinet voted to authorize an extra 715 permits, the Palestinian response was immediate. PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh declared: “We don’t need permission from the occupying power to build our homes on our lands,” adding, the Oslo classification of land into A, B and C “no longer exists.”

Before year’s end, the PA is expected to issue thousands of new permits further circumventing Oslo. As Palestinian expansion roils across Area C, the prospect looms of Gaza fence-style encounters coming soon to a hill in Judea and Samaria.

As Area C dynamics become clearer, still murky is the source and route of the diverse European funding that enables this confrontation. What’s more, there is widespread fear that millions in funds are continuously funneled through entities openly accused of being affiliated with established terrorist organizations.


Edwin Black is the New York Times best selling investigative author of "IBM and the Holocaust", and his just released book, "Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terrorism (Dialog Press)." He can be reached at www.edwinblack.com. 


Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/24338

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