Thursday, December 03, 2015

San Bernadino Shooting: We should not judge a person by their name but ...

We should no more judge a person's worth by their name than by their looks. Now thar Syed Farook And Tashfeen Malik are identified as being responsible for the latest mass shooting in the USA, at a social centre in San Bernardino, California, there will probably be an outpouring of 'all Muslims are terrorists' sentiments.

To say that however is as silly as saying 'all Christians are young earth creationists' (an accusation thrown at me recently when I challenged some plank who was claiming life on earth was started by 'evolution') such comments are not only unhelpful, they serve to harden attitudes.

I know several Muslim guys here in Lancashire where we have Pakistani and Bangla Deshi communities, they like a drink as the pub with us English lads, follow local football teams, have a bet on the horses and do many unislamic things. People do not have to follow every moral stricture to the letter to be true to their faith.

Many years ago I knew a young woman named Hayat Asafa. One evening, at her flat after we had been to an Ian Dury gig I was teasing about her being an immodest woman because she went out with hair unvovered and face unveiled, wearing a short skirt and high heels (Hayat was very westernised).

"You want modest," she said, skipped off to the bedroom and returned wearing only a hijab and high heels.

"So long as the face and hair are covered the rest doesn't matter in my parent's sect," she told me.

People are different, communities are different.

Having said that, it seems the San Bernadino Shooters had something in common with the perpetrators of last month's attack in Paris, the Charlie Hebdo terrorists and the 9/11 hijackers. They had links with Saudi Arabia.

And Saudi Arabia is a nation the west considers an ally in the middle east. Maybe it is time to rethink our relationship with the Wahabi medievalist kingdom.

Meet Syed Farook And Tashfeen Malik, The Husband And Wife San Bernardino Shooters - artice at Zero Hedge




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Former NATO Boss Explains Why US Did Not Oppose ISIS 'With Extreme Prejudice'



Gen Wesley Clark (image source)

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark, now retired from the US Army opened up in an interview with CNN to reveal that the Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS, ISIL, those crazy ragheads ...) and the Islamic (Sunni) Caliphate they want to establish is strategically imperative to Sunni Muslim regional powers Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as they try to economically isolate Shi’a ruled nations, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. He explained that neither Turkey nor Saudi Arabia want an Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon ‘bridge’ that separate Turkey, from Saudi Arabia and the gulf states.

Let’s be very clear: ISIS is not just a terrorist organization; it is a Sunni terrorist organization. That means it blocks and targets Shi’a. And that means it’s serving the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia — even as it poses a threat to them.” — Retired Gen. Wesley Clark


Asked if Russian President Vladimir Putin’s accusation that Turkey was “aiding ISIS” had any validity, Clark answered:

“All along there’s always been the idea that Turkey was supporting ISIS in some way. We know they’ve funneled people going through Turkey to ISIS. Someone’s buying that oil that ISIS is selling; it’s going through somewhere — it looks to me like it’s probably going through Turkey — but the Turks haven’t acknowledged that.” (Video of the Wesley Clarke interview)

After explaining how Turkey provides a conduit for the Islamic State’s oil, Clark pointed out that Putin’s allegations about Turkey’s support for terrorist organization, ISIS, are somewhat hypocritical. Russia, of course, has been propping up the Assad regime in Syria against rebel groups that were being armed and trained by the U.S. government for which the overthrow of Assad was part of a long term agenda aimed as helping US Ally Saudi Arabia become the main regional power in the middle east. U.S. officials deny that that overthowing Assad has been its primary objective in the region, but leaked emails and information form whistleblowers and intelligence sources in Europe say otherwise.

As Clarke said in his closing remarks, there are no good guys in this conflict.


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Christians Are Not Safe In Europe, European Parliament President Says

by Arthur Foxake


In a meeting on religious tensions in Europe today (3 December, 2015), European Parrliament (EP) President Martin Schulz said that the persecution of Christians in Europe is under - reported and does not receive enough media attention, which has also meant that it "has not been properly addressed".

(It is worth noting that over the past few years schulz has been one of the leading advocates of mass migration of predominantly Muslim economic migrants (presented by the media and authorities as 'refugees and asylum sekers' from African and the middle east to Europe.)

Schulz’s concerns were repeated by EP Vice President Antonio Tajani, who warned that Europe sometimes "falls into the temptation of thinking we can ignore this task," referring to the protection Christians throughout the world who suffer persecution.

The Open Doors report for 2015 found that “Islamic extremism is by far the most significant persecution engine” of Christians in the world today and that “40 of the 50 countries on the World Watch List are affected by this kind of persecution.”

For Islamists, Tajani said, Christians are the new “crusaders” of Europe, and because of Islamic persecution in the Middle East more than 70 percent of Christians have fled Iraq since 2003, with another 700 thousand Christians who have been forced to leave their home in Syria since the outbreak of civil war.

"No religious community is as subject to hatred, violence and systematic aggression as the Christians," he said.

That extremism was confined to the middle east until quite recently but European Union policies that encouraged the mass immigration of undocumented travellers, allowing anybody who turned up at Europe's borders to identify themselves as asylum seekers or refugees has allowed extremists unchecked access to Europe and the attacks on Christians and vandalisation of Churches is happening in Europe, particularly Germany and Sweden where guilt addicted north European self haters have even given immigrants de facto immunity from legal sanction thus turning the streets of Swedish and German cities or towns into mini Syrias or Libyas.

Speakers at the meeting cited the work of Open Doors, a human rights charity that monitors the persecution of Christians, noting that millions Christians worldwide live under regimes which routinely torture, rape and arbitrarily imprison Christians for their beliefs. In Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Pakistan, North Korea and Nigeria, Christians have been stoned, whipped, beheaded, shot, hanged and thrown into rivers or lakes in weighted bags simply for being Christians. And yet in the west, the moral fascists who call themselves progressive tell us we are persecuting Muslins every time we eat a pork chop or bacon sandwich or wish a fiend Merry Christmas.

Time we started perseucting lefties maybe, we need to make these idiots understand that people to kiss the arses of immigrants who hate our culture and way of life goes way beyond 'being fair to minorities' and amounts to persecuting people who refuse to have the values of those 'minorities' forced on them.



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Philanthropic" Mark Zuckerberg Will Place Facebook Shares In A For-Profit LLC


Facebook are stealing your privacy, but that's OK, its for charidee and they DO like to talk about it (Image source)


Sorry to seem the The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but somebody has to blow the whistle on the latest self serving stunt of the self server in chief, Mark Zuckerbugger but the great act of philanthropy with which the Inyaface Datatheft Book chief celebrated the birth of his child is, like everything else billionaire philanthropists do, not quite as straightforward as it has been presented in mainstream media.

Zuckerberg's contempt for those who use Facebook is well known (Zuckerberg admits he called Facebook users dumb f**cks) But all over social media the sheeple are falling over themselves to tell the world how wonderful this third rate little fascist collaborator is.

Yesterday mainstream media and the internet chatterati were unanimously wetting their knickers over Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that he and wife Chan would "give away" ninety nine per cent of their holdings in Facebook shares to philanthropic causes. Most commentators however, missed the devil in the details of how Zuckerbugger decided to safeguard those shares by forming the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as a limited liability company (LLC) to with the shares owned by a charity. It is extremely unusual, if not unique, to use the for-profit LLC structure for a charity as true charities have tax exemption anyway. but LLCs have certain legal advantages denied to charities.

Bloomberg reports:

The decision by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to gradually give away 99 percent of their Facebook fortune is big news not just for the huge sum involved—about $46 billion—but for how the couple chose to achieve their philanthropic goal. Rather than set up a private foundation or charitable trust as Bill and Melinda Gates did, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will be structured as a limited liability corporation.

Jane Wales, vice president of philanthropy and society at the Aspen Institute, commented: "I’ve never seen someone set up an LLC exclusively for a philanthropic purpose before, normally they set up a foundation for the tax advantages of doing so."

Here are some significant ways that LLC status will shape what Zuckerberg and Chan do with their wealth.

There won’t be limits on lobbying

It seems clear the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will put money to work in politics. Facebook, in its official description of its founder’s new LLC, noted that “making private investments and participating in policy debates” will be part of the mission.

In a public letter Zuckerberg wrote to his newborn daughter, Max, he likewise emphasized an appetite for pushing a policy agenda: “We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates.” If the charitable venture had been set up as a traditional tax-exempt foundation—what is called a 501(c)(3)— it wouldn’t have freedom to lobby lawmakers or engage in other political activities. The Internal Revenue Service prohibits tax-exempt groups from “directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office."


So that's the dirty version of the Zuckerberg Initiative . As many would have expected, the move (like the establishment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is less about charity than it is about protecting a silicon valley billionaire's fortune from taxation and ensuring the heirs will have sinecures as directors of the 'charities' for as long as the line continues. And in the case of this limited liability charity, also about ensuring that Zuckerberg the oligarch, is able to influence U.S. government policy in any way that he, and his fellow billionaires, so desire.

As Socrates said 2,500 years ago, nothing is ever what it appears to be.

It appears Zuckerberg has carefully studied the Warren Buffet / Bill Gates playbook to learn how to make stealing from taxpayers look like a pubic spirited act.

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