Western Culture Heads Out With a Whimper RL Nov 08 15

End of the West

• Western Culture Heads Out With a Whimper
• Culture Matters
• This Isn’t A Culture War. It’s A War On Culture

• Culture War 2.0 is as inescapable as it is obnoxious.
• The Mind of the Moonbat
• "A Thin-Skinned Minority Is Ruining This Nation": Professor Crushes "Political Correctness" Wave Sweeping America

• From Marxism/Communism to Post-Modern Liberal Fascism
• Nihilism vs. Faith and Hope Armond White

• Rock, Rap, Hip Hop and All That U.S. Jazz Diplomacy
• In Britain, Free Speech Goes Out with a Whimper Charles C. W. Cooke

Trade

TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations

Obamatrade hands over U.S. sovereignty to international panel

the Left

• Check Out Houston Mayor’s ‘Shameful’ Reaction to Criticism in Wake of Failed Transgender Ordinance
• 11Newsom Focuses on Guns Not Water

• 11Yale Students Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email - FIRE
• Yale Student Shrieks at Professor for Not Providing a ‘Safe Place’
• University Cuts Pledge of Allegiance from Veterans’ Chapel Service Because It Makes Some People ‘Uncomfortable’ Katherine Timpf 

• 11Tarantino's Anti-Cop Comments Came at Communist Event
• How the Left Responds to Defeat

Defense

• Defense Secretary: Russia, China Potentially Threaten Global Order
• Now We Have Russians Programming for the Pentagon. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• Legendary US Army Commander Says Russia Would "Annihilate" US In Head-To-Head Battle

• Is Washington Preparing For World War III?
• China's Navy Trolls US Destroyer: "Hope To See You Again"
• US Makes Another Terrifying Friend! This Is Bad, Very Bad!

• Report: United States Increasingly Vulnerable to Potentially Catastrophic EMP Attack
• Is a Defense Renaissance Around the Corner?

Executive

• Obama pushes military frustration to highest level in decades - Washington Times
• White House Responds to Law Enforcement Concerns About Prisoner Releases
• Report: White House Mulls Imminent Executive Action to Close Guantánamo
• Obama Announces Obamacare Competition: ‘This is Reality. This is Healthcare in America.’

BtF:Freedom of, Think, the Mess, media, Gender, Refugee, Immigration, Economic, Foreign, Drugs, 2016, Climate, and the Other

RL Sept. 08 15 (The End of Europe)

The End Of Europe

• Lax Security, Phony IDs Surround Europe’s Migrant Flood
• EU and Oxfam Launch Tax Payer Funded Campaign to Urge West into Taking 60 MILLION Migrants

• Europe's migration crisis- Financial Times
• The Past and Future of the Refugee Crisis

• A few thoughts about the dangerous influx of Muslim “refugees” into Europe
• We won't save refugees by destroying our own country | Daily Mail Online

• Will Europe Still Be European?
• Islam's Conquest of Europe
• Europe’s death knell

"Refugee"

• Netanyahu Says Will Not Allow Israel to be 'submerged' by Refugees
• Cyprus: We Prefer Christians

• Nigel Farage Delivers Address on State of Europe as Migrants Flood In…
• German Police fear clashes between Oktoberfest Revellers, Migrant Masses
• Socialist Hollande To Deny Public Opinion and Open France’s Doors To Mid-East “Refugees”…

• Austria to close borders to refugees again after 12,000 arrive from Hungary in just 48 hours - Europe - World - The Independent
• Raging Horror Confirmed at Austria Italy Border – Mid-East Muslim “Refugees” Go On Rampage….
• …Denmark: ‘Don’t Come Here’

• Guardian: Hungary’s PM is ‘Awful’ For Trying to Control Borders
• Migrants ‘Richer Than Some Hungarians’
• Migrant Crisis: HUNGARY SEALS BORDERS…
• Hungary Prepares Military Deployment to Counter Migrants - Breitbart
• Hungary’s Viktor Orban: Those Crossing Europe Are Immigrants, Not Refugees

• New Evidence Some Migrants Are Dumping Their Documents and Claiming to Be Syrian to Win Asylum
• …Media Pump Up ‘Islamophobia,’ Ignore Higher Anti-Semitic Attacks

Immigration

• 52% of Rapes in Rome Committed by Immigrants, 59% in Milan, 40% in Italy | Frontpage Mag
• Jerry Brown to Sign Bill Increasing Deportation Protection for Illegal Immigrants

• Displaced Disney Cast Member: How They Replaced Me, Other Americans, With Cheap Foreigners On H1B Visas
• TX Employee Allegedly Took Bribes to Give Illegal Aliens Driver Licenses
• Border Crisis Overdrive?: Latin America’s Two Largest Economies Collapsing

Iran

• Rep. Gohmert Introducing Resolution to Declare Iran Deal a Treaty
• Panetta: Iran Deal Is Bad. Pass It and Prepare for War
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked to resign by constituents over Iran decision - Miami Celebrity Headlines | Examiner.com
• Harry Reid Plans To Block Senate Vote On Iran Deal….

• Canada Closes Its Embassy in Iran - The New York Times
• Colin Powell Backs Iran Deal as ‘Israel Lobby’ Crumbles
• Fake Republican Colin Powell Gives an Outrageous Performance on Meet the Press
• Americans Taken Hostage by Iran-Backed Houthis In Yemen

Foreign

• Pakistani Christians Told to Convert to Receive Flood Aid
• Christian Arrested in Pakistan for ‘Derogatory Remarks’ about Mohammed
• Report: Sex Slave Kills ISIS Commander Who Forced Her to Marry Terrorists
• Read the Contract the Islamic State Group Is Forcing Christians to Sign in Syria
• Islamists Gain Ground in Morocco Elections
• American Teacher Hammered to Death on Humantarian Mission to Nepal
• Russia Claims It ‘Never Concealed’ Sending Weapons to Syria
• WATCH: European Farmers Block Brussels Streets in Huge Tractor Protest
• Japan’s Population Shrinks As Bosses Push Women To Get Abortions
• Italian Court: No Proof Knox Was at Murder Scene
• Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment - Telegraph

BtF: Think, The Mess, Ferguson Effect, Freedom Of, Economic, Education, 2016, Clinton, and The Other.

Stopping the Political Fight

Back and forth between the parties. The GOP may find a way back. Right now we would be better for it. In the long run we will end up just where we are now.The economics are the issue now and the GOP is the leader on freedom in that arena. They will fall again when they don't take it far enough or when the freedom of society issues raise up.

EXPLOITING TAXPAYER RAGE NOT THE WAY BACK FOR GOP

"Tapping in to the rage of taxpayers by exploiting their fears then,
would almost certainly result in unanticipated problems for the GOP.
But beyond that, is this the way the Republicans wish to return to
power? The Rovian strategy of using wedge issues to cleave the
electorate over gay marriage, abortion, and other social issues got
Republicans elected but also sowed the seeds of their own destruction.
By the time 2008 rolled around, those wedge issues had lost their
potency and there was ample evidence of a backlash by center-right and
center-left moderates against the GOP and
their perceived intolerance. It was Obama who exploited this backlash
by promising to govern based on not what divides us but by what unites
us."(cont.)

"But if the GOP were to descend to the Democrat’s level – scaring people by screaming about “socialism” and the attendant imagery of economic doom and gloom, the party may indeed make some gains but with what kind of mandate? And would it be as effective as preparing the people for tough choices by playing to their native optimism and saying that as Americans, we are capable of anything if we pull together? Coupled with some new ideas about targeted tax cuts and real “stimulus” spending instead of the porked up monstrosity offered by the Democrats, that rage could turn to optimism and hope which would attract a helluva lot more people than scare tactics."

Optimism is one thing and it is a great thing. The parties tend to sell optimism on there strong suites not as a whole. They can't. You either have more economic less social freedom or less economic more social freedom. Both freedoms are under attack so do we run to the GOP? I am not convinced.

Is there a viable third party now? Are we stuck with a typical but more extreme fight? The consequences of a perpetual collectivist system end the debate out right. Can we have a third party that puts and end to the fight with freedom are do we have to keep the fight going to protect freedom with the GOP? I just hope the GOP doesn't screw it up so bad that they allow the collectivists to take power permanently.

Coin-a-Thought : Vote or Revolt

Some ideas are hard to explain in a post of thirty second sound bite. Like ignorance is bliss. You could give a basic explanation of that but you have to sit with it in your head for any real understanding. In an attempt to allow more ideas so sit in your head longer I am going to chop some thoughts down to little, hard to forget bites. When they apply, you will remember and hopefully see more clearly.

From FT.com's Crookblog via EconLog
Acctualy from a book but this is where it hit me.

"I would sooner take up arms against a government that saw me as a child than vote for it."

Vote Or Revolt. Our redress is when we vote. If the will of the majority is no longer heard then do we Revolt? So when do you stop voting and start revolting. Two more elections as I look at it now. In the times we live, we are all going to have to decide in the next few years:

Vote OR Revolt

Fairness Doctrine Passed in the Stimulus for The Internet.

Update: From American Spectator via Gateway Pundit

"Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. "It's all about diversity in media," says a House Energy staffer, familiar with the meetings. "Does one radio station or one station group control four of the five most powerful outlets in one community? Do four stations in one region carry Rush Limbaugh, and nothing else during the same time slot? Does one heavily trafficked Internet site present one side of an issue and not link to sites that present alternative views? These are some of the questions the chairman is thinking about right now, and we are going to have an FCC that will finally have the people in place to answer them."'

No Right wing hack here, much more a Libertarian. The progressives have only to say go and it is done. We are going to get gotten by strings. Administrative regulation. Net neutrality was slipped in to the stimulus bill. It has been up for debate before. It is some what confusing and went no where.

Hold Off On Net Neutrality

"Network neutrality is supposed to promote continuing Internet innovation by restricting the ability of network owners to give certain traffic priority based on the content or application being carried or on the sender's willingness to pay. The problem is that these restrictions would prohibit practices that could increase the value of the Internet for customer"

When It was talked about I was confused. I didn't come down either way. Didn't look into it at the time. It may be that some priority need to be set a side but should stay relatively neutral. That would be the case if I didn't think that they were up to something very very bad.

Ace Of Spades and a hat tip.

"According to critics, while language in the FCC policy statement is about limiting (or filtering) porn, the way it's written could easily be expanded to limit or regulate opinion and gives the FCC fairly broad powers to do so. And as we all know, the FCC board consists of political appointees and the balance shifts whenever a new administration takes over that's of a different political party than the previous one. "

Beyond the Fairness Doctrine - Reason Online

"Now the bad news. There's a host of other broadcast regulations that Obama has not foresworn. In the worst-case scenario, they suggest a world where the FCC creates intrusive new rules by fiat, meddles more with the content of stations' programs, and uses the pending extensions of broadband access as an opportunity to put its paws on the Internet. At a time when cultural production has been exploding, fueled by increasingly diverse and participatory new media, we would be stepping back toward the days when the broadcast media were a centralized and cozy public-private partnership."

Hot Air

"The basic line of attack described in the quote, i.e. “localism,” is also familiar as a favored lefty strategy for sneaking in Fairness without calling it Fairness. The Center for American Progress hailed it in its 2007 report on how to “reform” talk radio and Boehner sent a letter to the FCC opposing it last year (scroll down to the last update)."

IDB - Fairness Down Your Throat

"A 21st century Fairness Doctrine, however, would have to extend beyond the airwaves to accomplish its purposes of government-regulated "balance" in the opinions available to the public.
After appearing at the Heritage Foundation in Washington earlier this month, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell gave a videotaped interview to the Media Research Center and warned that "whoever is in charge of government is going to determine what is fair, under a so-called Fairness Doctrine, which won't be called that — it'll be called something else."
And McDowell asked: "So, will Web sites (and) bloggers have to give equal time or equal space on their Web site to opposing views, rather than letting the marketplace of ideas determine that?"
According to McDowell, "this election, if it goes one way, we could see a re-imposition of the Fairness Doctrine." But McDowell believed it would be given a different name and "intertwined into the net neutrality debate."'

This is not exactly how it proposed that they would get the Fairness Doctrine in. As Usual they were much bolder than I thought. Reposting the video(for a third time?)



" the bigger concern should for them should be if you have government dictating content policy"

Obama controls the FCC, or will in a month or so. He just has to tell them that the Internet need to be more "fair" and its over. No law needs to be passed. No review. No discussion. It is done.
He won't do it right away. Obama can just wait till all the pieces are in place. Heath Care in place, unions in control, census done, nationalized banks, endless newspeak and so on. Better list here.

If Obama Wins, Damage Likely to Be Permanent

"Four years is more than enough time to inflict permanent damage on this country, given the large majorities the moonbat messiah is likely to have in both houses of Congress. The Wall Street Journal warns that if Dems get BHO in the White House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, we will enter “a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy.”'

Are they moving us in a progressive direction because they think it works better and the rest is just to keep them in power. I don't like conspiracies. Most of the time I think they are complete crap. But what the hell is going on here?

Electronic Financial 9/11/08 Attack?

Update- It may just be a crazy meme. That is mainly why I waited, not long enough i guess.
Kanjorski and the Money Market Funds: The Facts

I have been thinking this over and I really don't know. When did the election turn? Was it the economy? My line of thinking gets darker. I don't believe in massive carefully paned conspiracy. I do however believe that if enough people have the same goal and follow similar tactics they can do bad things before any one or enough people catch on. SO, Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals. Then there is the conspiracy. I am not sure i believe this but the evidence is piling up. Is this part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy? It was all layed out before the election. I have no idea but it is all getting very scary.

From Atlas Shrugs:

"Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains what former Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke told congress during the September 2008 closed door session. During the first third of the video an enraged caller is ranting to Rep. Kanjorski about how wasteful the first $700 billion bailout was. The best part is 2 minutes and 15 seconds into the tape where Rep. Kanjorski reveals what Paulson and Bernanke told congress that shocked them into supporting the first $700 billion bailout.

On Thursday Sept 15, 2008 at roughly 11 AM The Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA to the tune of $550 Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two. Money was being removed electronically.

The Treasury tried to help, opened their window and pumped in $150 Billion but quickly realized they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. So they decided to closed down the accounts.

Had they not closed down the accounts they estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon. Within 3 hours. $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.

Kanjorski also explains why Paulson spent the bailout money differently than he originally proposed."

Here is the video from C-Span

"They say 4 or 5 trillion dollars could have been emptied out of the bank by the end of that business day. Presumably, it could not have gone all to one entity, else that entity just could have gone back when the markets opened, and continued to withdraw funds. So, if it were designed as action to induce a panic, it had to have been done in a way that the new would spread quickly, go "viral" as it were, to others holding funds or control over funds in similar banking institutions/markets. So, the transaction had to be public, or at least traceable, because they had to be noticeable, and they had to instill a panic so that the run would continue, and people would be noticing what was happening and would move to preserve and protect what money they could access."

There are clearly a mountain of more questions than answers. Was it just a panic run? Foreign government? Terrorists? Or Crazy as it is (yes very crazy) some one orchestrating it from in side the US? READ THE Post. It goes even further. What did the Senators know? I am a little sick. Hope this is all just some made up dream.

From Moonbattery

"These days it's not easy to know what to believe, as Democrats attempt to panic the herd into submitting to the socialist power play currently underway in Washington."

From Gateway Pundit

"This is all very interesting-- When President Hussein was campaigning and the "economic crisis" hit, he did not think it pressing enough to leave the campaign trail, but now we should push through a trillion dollars in legislation without oversight because a few weeks later the King deems it urgent?"

It is going around:
Zero Hedge: How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18
Rush Limbaugh

GOP to Lose in a Landslide, No Win, No Wait

I as most I suspect are getting very tired of the campaigning. There seems to be this slow walk of broad issues, minor tweaks to positions, personal changes, and VP speculation. Are we waiting til the summer is over so more people are paying attention. Can we get on with it. Just move the election to to August 5.

I hear Dems say over and over the people are behind them and they will win in a landslide. Really? Republicans are starting to do the same thing. Dems point to the special elections. Republicans ran against conservative Dems with very similar views and they tried to link them to Obama. Obama at the time wasn't the head of the party and most of the party wasn't exactly in lock step with him and won't be going forward. Those election just show the stupidity of those local parts of the Republican party. These races have nothing to do with the overall mood of the country or the Presidential race.

My prediction is no prediction now. Some feel that it is Obama's to lose. Ah No. I am in the camp that it's McCain's not to lose, I think. If people come to the conclusion that they are both completely "full of it", lack vision and vote 1st 3rd i don't think anyone can predict ( thats how I'm voting). The more important question is have people really looked at socialism and decided its okay. If thats the case McCain is done, go home now and save yourself the stress.

Now if people haven't looked hard at socialism and realized how socialist at his core Obama is, it's McCain's to not loose. If Obama says that McCain is Bush's 3rd term then call him a socialist or Marxist. It is just as true. Put a big Obama '08 sign an your bus with the hammer and sickle behind it. Explain what that symbol means , explain the philosophies, compare what he had said to Marx, Stalin, and the like. Point to history and what it has lead to. Take the gloves off and hit him.

As a matter of looking at these things you can never underestimate the stupidity of people and the ability to ignore facts in favor of the way they want the world to work, what the people around them think, or just plane charisma.

Who is going to win? It's McCain's to not lose. It really makes little difference. If you want a Second American Revolution sooner vote Obama, a little later McCain, If you want to head it off vote for the 1st 3rd party on the ballot.