I recently started to post on a daily basis, a review of the news, with my own particular slant on it.
Observant readers will notice I haven't managed to do this for a few days. Don't worry, it is a specially heavy workload that has got to me, not the forces of evil!
Also, there really hasn't been that much 'new' in the news.
We continue to hear weasel words from politicians that talk tough but in reality do little.
President Obama likes to think he is exceptional. Certainly his description of the horrors perpetrated in Paris, by Islamic extremists, as a 'setback' puts him into a particularly 'exceptional' class. He is unable to even call the terrorists, Islamic. He did the same when describing the Fort Hood massacre, carried out by a Muslim, who claimed to be a jihadi, as an incident of 'workplace violence'.
President Obama, is very largely alone in his denial and refusal to call these terrorists, Islamic. The 'twitterati' insist that is because he is of the Muslim faith. Certainly he has spent a great deal of time with Muslims - spending part of his youth in Muslim Indonesia, could well have guided him on his faith path - but I think that it goes deeper than that. In my view his upbringing, which was centered on the Communist way, embedded in him, a deep hatred of the West and America in particular and he cannot bring himself to berate people who share his views. I know that may sound extreme but listen to his speeches and he regularly talks about what he sees as 'the ills of America' and the West. His words are not too far dissimilar from those of the leaders of Daesh and Al Qaeda and Boko Haram and the Shining Path and other anti-West terrorists organisation.
Paris is starting to return to normal, or at least the new normal. A state of emergency is in place and French troops patrol the streets and landmark properties.
Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the principal seat of the European Parliament, has been in lock-down for days.
The British shamefully dither about whether or not to extend bombing to Daesh targets, in Syria, while at the same time, thinking that getting Islamists, who are returning from fighting for Daesh, to attend 'de-radicalisation' classes, will somehow solve the fifth column problem.
Ultra-Liberal Sweden is now enjoying the fruits of its ever-open door for immigrants while becoming the 'rape' capital of Europe. Maybe, inviting in all of those unaccompanied men, who vastly predominate in the 'refugee' population, it is not entirely a surprise that Sweden has a new 'achievement'.
Meanwhile, very belatedly, fences are starting to go up and the Schengen agreement is falling to pieces. It is impossible to justify open borders, when their very openness invites in people who have no qualms about murdering their hosts. And these people who are often aided and abetted by local co-religionists.
For Belgians it must be particularly galling that having opened their country to wave after wave of immigrants and turning a blind eye, while within these hordes some used Belgium as an operational base, they are now experiencing the effects of their laissez faire policies being visited upon their own doorsteps.
The same could be said of Sweden. This is a country that has always been very open to 'refugees' and now the local population are finding themselves swamped. Not widely reported in the media, it seems that some (many?) Swedes have had enough and there are signs of rising resentment with refugee centres being fire-bombed and so on.
All the while, the European Union goes on its merry, expensive and ineffectual way. Germany's Angela Merkel is quieter these days as she is reeling from the backlash unleashed by her idiotic 'we will take you all in' invitation. So into the breach, steps the unelected Jean-Claude Juncker. For non-European readers, he is the non-entity that is the President of the European Commission, who was selected by EU leaders. He is a former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, so you have an adequate sense of his experience on the world stage!
Meanwhile, in the background, Greece is still teetering on the economic brink and Portugal is dallying with a government that has a plurality and is anti-austerity and very much opposed to the EU/IMF/World Bank austerity.
Maybe there is some new news, after all!
To Americans, have a safe and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday.
Observant readers will notice I haven't managed to do this for a few days. Don't worry, it is a specially heavy workload that has got to me, not the forces of evil!
Also, there really hasn't been that much 'new' in the news.
We continue to hear weasel words from politicians that talk tough but in reality do little.
President Obama likes to think he is exceptional. Certainly his description of the horrors perpetrated in Paris, by Islamic extremists, as a 'setback' puts him into a particularly 'exceptional' class. He is unable to even call the terrorists, Islamic. He did the same when describing the Fort Hood massacre, carried out by a Muslim, who claimed to be a jihadi, as an incident of 'workplace violence'.
President Obama, is very largely alone in his denial and refusal to call these terrorists, Islamic. The 'twitterati' insist that is because he is of the Muslim faith. Certainly he has spent a great deal of time with Muslims - spending part of his youth in Muslim Indonesia, could well have guided him on his faith path - but I think that it goes deeper than that. In my view his upbringing, which was centered on the Communist way, embedded in him, a deep hatred of the West and America in particular and he cannot bring himself to berate people who share his views. I know that may sound extreme but listen to his speeches and he regularly talks about what he sees as 'the ills of America' and the West. His words are not too far dissimilar from those of the leaders of Daesh and Al Qaeda and Boko Haram and the Shining Path and other anti-West terrorists organisation.
Paris is starting to return to normal, or at least the new normal. A state of emergency is in place and French troops patrol the streets and landmark properties.
Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the principal seat of the European Parliament, has been in lock-down for days.
The British shamefully dither about whether or not to extend bombing to Daesh targets, in Syria, while at the same time, thinking that getting Islamists, who are returning from fighting for Daesh, to attend 'de-radicalisation' classes, will somehow solve the fifth column problem.
Ultra-Liberal Sweden is now enjoying the fruits of its ever-open door for immigrants while becoming the 'rape' capital of Europe. Maybe, inviting in all of those unaccompanied men, who vastly predominate in the 'refugee' population, it is not entirely a surprise that Sweden has a new 'achievement'.
Meanwhile, very belatedly, fences are starting to go up and the Schengen agreement is falling to pieces. It is impossible to justify open borders, when their very openness invites in people who have no qualms about murdering their hosts. And these people who are often aided and abetted by local co-religionists.
For Belgians it must be particularly galling that having opened their country to wave after wave of immigrants and turning a blind eye, while within these hordes some used Belgium as an operational base, they are now experiencing the effects of their laissez faire policies being visited upon their own doorsteps.
The same could be said of Sweden. This is a country that has always been very open to 'refugees' and now the local population are finding themselves swamped. Not widely reported in the media, it seems that some (many?) Swedes have had enough and there are signs of rising resentment with refugee centres being fire-bombed and so on.
All the while, the European Union goes on its merry, expensive and ineffectual way. Germany's Angela Merkel is quieter these days as she is reeling from the backlash unleashed by her idiotic 'we will take you all in' invitation. So into the breach, steps the unelected Jean-Claude Juncker. For non-European readers, he is the non-entity that is the President of the European Commission, who was selected by EU leaders. He is a former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, so you have an adequate sense of his experience on the world stage!
Meanwhile, in the background, Greece is still teetering on the economic brink and Portugal is dallying with a government that has a plurality and is anti-austerity and very much opposed to the EU/IMF/World Bank austerity.
Maybe there is some new news, after all!
To Americans, have a safe and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday.
