Dutch Police Arrest Suspect in Hague Stabbings.

-Nieuws.NL

On Saturday, Dutch police detained a 35-year-old man in Friday's stabbings in the Hague. There are no identifying details about the man other than his age and that he has no fixed place of abode.  The victims of the attack are listed as two 15-year-old girls and one 13-year-old boy. Police report that the victims did not know each other.

We will translate the below link from De Telegraaf and post as soon as it is available.

https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1799955683/man-35-aangehouden-voor-steekpartij-den-haag

Here it is:

Man (35) held in stabbing in the Hague

The Hague- A 35- year-old man has been arrested by police in the stabbings in the center of the Hague (that occurred) Friday evening. The man was arrested by police at the end of the afternoon in the center of the capital.

According to the police, the man has no fixed residence or place of abode. "He was taken to a police station where he will be questioned." How the man was found is as yet unclear. He is suspected of stabbing three teens on Black Friday in front of Hudson's Bay on the Great Market Street. According to the police, the children do not know each other. The victims, a 13-year-old boy from the Hague, and two 15-year-old girls from Alphen aan den Rhin and Leiderdorp had to go to the hospital for treatment, but afterward were able to go home.

Since the stabbing on Friday evening around 19:45, there was  a manhunt ongoing for the man. The police used all resources, visible and invisible, in order to find the man  It is, according to the police, yet unclear what the exact situation is for the incident. The man himself has to tell more what his motive was.

Police tweet:

As a result of the stabbing incident on the Grote Marktstraat, a 35-year-old man has been arrested in the center of the Hague. The man has no fixed residence or place of abode. He was taken to a police station where he will be questioned.

London Stabber Identified- Previous Arrest for Terrorist Offense- Had Been Released

-Daily Mail

The name of the London stabber has been released. His name is Usman Khan, 28. He had been convicted on prior terror offenses and jailed foir 8 years. He was released last December and ordered to wear an ankle bracelet. He was reportedly wearing the bracelet when he was shot to death by British police after killing two people with a knife.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7740295/Knife-attacker-shot-dead-London-Bridge-known-police-security-sources-reveal.html

"Khan was in London yesterday to attend a Cambridge University course for helping offenders reintegrate into society."  

  

Candace Owens Meets Burgess Owens

Hat tip Frontpage Magazine


No, they are not related but conservative black activist Candace Owens interviewed former NFL player Burgess Owens on her show. Burgess is also a black conservative and together, the two discussed why libralism has failed black Americans.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2956&v=N7Le2SbFM4w&feature=emb_logo




I have said it many times before, and I will repaeat it here. Black conservatives are the most intellectually stimulating people in our society. They deserve our support. Instead, the left portrays them as "Uncle Toms". It is despicable.

London Update

London police confirmed today that two innocent people are dead from Friday's knife attack. The attacker is also dead, and authorities have not released his name. Fox News (TV) reported today that according to police sources (unoffical), the attacker is of Middle Eastern background.

Knife Attack in the Hague

Friday evening in the Hague, hours after the knife attack in London, a man went on  a stabbing spree in a busy shopping district. At least three have been stabbed and police are looking for a suspect  believed to be in his 40-50s. It is not known at this point if this attack is related to the one in London.

The conservative German web site Politik Stube is reporting that the suspect was believed to be North African.


-Politik Stube

https://politikstube.com/messer-attacke-in-den-haag-mehrere-menschen-in-einkaufsstrasse-niedergestochen-taeter-vermutlich-nordafrikaner/


De Telegraaf (Netherlands) reports that police initially described the attacker as a "slightly tinted" man in his 40s-50s. They have backed off from that report and say they are trying to come up with a more detailed  description. The three stabbing victims are described as children, ages not given.

Breaking: Attack in London

-Daily Mail


-Daily Mail


This is still unfolding as to exactly what happened. In London today, police have shot a man who apparently attacked others with a knife. Police responded to London Bridge, where a group of bystanders were struggling with a man with a knife. Police separated the bystanders and grappled with the man befiore shooting him. One person is reported dead and others wounded. As of now, this is being treated as a terrorist incident. (It is not clear if the dead person is a victim or the suspect.)

The Daily Mail (UK) has reports, photos and video.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7739057/Gun-shots-heard-London-Bridge-police-confirm-incident-area.html

*Update: The below Daily Mail update has a video showing the suspect being held on the ground by bystanders until the police arrive and take over. You can see one bystander holding the knife apparently taken away from the suspect.Warning: This clip shows the actual shooting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7739353/Brave-bystanders-bundled-terror-attack-knifeman-ground.html

Another video (viewer warning) showing the final moments. Police fire twice.



*Update: Daily Mail reports that the suspect was wearing a fake suicide vest and was killed by police. While five people are reported wounded, it is still not clear wheteher there is an innocent victim killed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7739057/Gun-shots-heard-London-Bridge-police-confirm-incident-area.html

*Update (11:50 am PST):  Fox News reports that at least one innocent victim is dead.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/london-bridge-closed-by-british-police-amid-reports-of-gunshots

UK: Anti-Jewish Attack on City Bus

Hat tip LBC News

Three Jews were attacked by a man on a bus in the London neighborhood of Clapton-Common. There is video of the incident though it is hard to see what transpires inside the bus.

https://www.lbcnews.co.uk/crime/uk/jewish-children-had-anti-semitic-abuse-hurled-at-t/

In other coverage, a Muslim woman in hijab, who can be seen in the video, reportedly reproached the man for his actions and was thanked by the Jews. Kudos to her.

This is being investigated as a hate crime, and hopefully, the perpetrator will be apprehended.

ISIS Terrorists Face Execution in Syria

It looks like ISIS terrorists captured and in custody of the Syrians are going to face some harsh justice. The Daily Mail reports that Syrian leader Bashar Assad is setting up special terror courts to deal with them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7733041/Jihadis-face-execution-without-trial-Syrian-jails-Assad-says-ISIS-members-hanged.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top

I am no supporter of the Assad regime, and I would hope that no innocent people are caught up in this. That said, I will shed no tears for those ISIS members who wind up on a Syrian gallows. At least we won't have to worry about those savages making their way back to Europe or the US and presenting a danger to our societies.

Berkeley Survey Proves What We've Known All Along: They're All Dopes

 Hat tip Algemeiner

“Only 16% of students who ‘care deeply’ about the Palestinian issue provided the correct decade for the Six Day War and only 17% were able to guess that the population of Israel was somewhere between 8 and 12 million people,” Hassner shared. “The others offered guesses ranging from as low as 100,000 persons to as high as 150 million persons.”


Ron Hassner, who is the departmental chair in Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, has released the results of a survey he conducted at the university among students who identify themselves as being "passionate" about the issue of the "Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories". Basically speaking, they are basically uninterested in other Middle East conflicts and woefully ignorant about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/11/27/in-survey-uc-berkeley-prof-finds-most-students-passionate-about-israeli-occupation-cant-find-palestinian-territories-on-map/

And the timing could not have been worse since the campus is still recovering from the latest disturbances surrounding Ann Coulter's speaking appearance there on November 20.

Of course, this ignorance is not limited to UC Berkeley, but it just goes to prove my "peer-reviewed" thesis: A degree from UC Berkeley prepares you for nothing more than to join the street people on Telegraph Avenue.


"Uhhh......yeaaaah."

Italy Deporting Child Abusing Imam

Editing by Gates of Vienna, sub-titling by Vlad Tepes. Translation by Fousesquawk.


In October, we reported on an imam from an Islamic school in Padua, Italy under investigation for physically and psychologically abusing children from ages 5-10 under his tutelage.

That imam, Hossain Shahadat, has now been taken to a detention center for purposes of deportation back to his native Bangladesh.

Video link

Ho Hum: Another Palestinian "Day of Rage"

-Fox News


Well, our friends, the people who call themselves "Palestinians", have launched another day of rage to go with the other 364 days of the year. Now they are upset about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement last week that the US is recognizing the Israeli settlements. So they do what they do best- engage in violence and destruction, throwing rocks, and screaming themselves hoarse.

Who cares?

The fact is that the above photo shows exactly what they are all about. While Israelis build a democracy in the swamp known as the Middle East, while they invent technology, and improve science, the so-called Palestinians throw rocks. While the Israelis grant equal protections to their gay population, the Palestinians throw them off rooftops. I could go on and on, but you get the point. Not even the rest of the Arab world wants these mopes around other than to use them as pawns. Another 100 years will pass, and the "Palestinians" will still be eternal refugees cared for by the feckless UN.

It is all so annoying.

My question is what are they going to do when they run out of rocks?

Netherlands: Dutch Police Thwart Planned Terror Attack

Hat tip Ben


Zoetermeer, Netherlands


The Dutch police have arrested two men, one of whom is from Iran, for planning to carry out a jihadist attack in the Netherlands. Below is the NU.nl article. Translation by Fousesquawk.


https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6013652/twee-aanhoudingen-wegens-voorbereiden-aanslag-met-bomvesten.html?redirect=1
26 November 2019

Two arrests for preparing a terror attack with bomb vests

On Monday police arrested two men from Zoetermeer between the ages of 20 and 34 who are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in the Netherlands. The attack, with bomb vests and one or more car bombs, would likely have been carried out at  the end of this year in the Netherlands.


The 20-year-old man is a Dutchman, and the 34-year-old man comes from Iran, a spokesman from the Public Prosecutor's office confirmed Tuesday evening to NU.nl. It is not yet clear what the target would have been, said the Public Prosecutor. No weapons or explosives were found with the men. According to a spokesman, they probably did not yet have them at their disposal.  


In a hidden space above a ceiling in the residence of one of the men, a throwing ax, a dagger and a mobile phone with several SIM cards were found.

The General Intelligence and Security Service  (AIVD) tipped off the State unit after receiving information that the men intended to carry out a jihadist attack. "They wanted to make use of explosives and obtain training," reports the Public Prosecutor.

 Subsequently, the police deployed infiltrators. "They were indispensable for gaining insight into the suspects and their plans for carrying out an attack," said the Public Prosecutor. One of the men was arrested in his home, the other on the street in The Hague.

The men have been interrogated, and will be brought before the examining magistrate on Thursday. This will determine the extension of their custody.

 Politie pakt 'man die aanslag voorbereidde' op in Zoetermeer

The Latest Disgrace at Oberlin College

Hat tip Vlad Tepes




Tiny Oberlin College in Ohio has had more than its share of anti-Semitic outrages in recent years. Here is the latest. Pro-Palestinian students have erected a makeshift memorial on campus to Palestinian terrorists killed recently by Israeli forces.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7724617/Oberlin-students-erect-memorial-Ohio-campus-commemorate-deaths-Palestinian-terrorists.html

What's next-a statue of Hitler?

FBI Thwarts Florida College Attack

Hat tip Vlad Tepes, Amy Mek and RAIR Foundatiuon


Federal authorities have arrested 23-year-old Salman Rashid, a naturalized immigrant from Bangladesh, who was allegedly plotting Islamic terror attacks against two S Florida colleges and their deans. The arrest was carried out this week.

https://rairfoundation.com/jihad-in-florida-bangladesh-immigrant-plotted-isis-attack-to-kill-deans-at-miami-dade-college-and-broward-college/



The above photo was apparently taken at a Palestinian rally. Note the Palestinian flag and white and black headscarf in the background.

Sweden: Violence and Hand-Wringing Continue in Malmö

Hat tip Gates of Vienna for editing, Vlad Tepes for sub-titling, and translation by Kronans Martell and Ullis News

Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, with a population made up of some 25% Muslim immigrants, is the most violent, most anti-Semitic city in the country, possibly all of Europe. The latest wave of shootings and bombings had led to little more than words from the politicians. Here are two videos, which are notable for the utter lack of content as to what the leadership intends to do about the problem. If you can figure out what measures are being taken, you know more than I do.

It gets worse. In the below link, the TV news media interviews a cop. His operational plan sounds like a trigonometry solution, but what stands out is his statement that the police plan to dialogue with the criminals.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/IfDrHjgTjjoJ/

Hat tip to Gates of Vienna for editng, Vlad Tepes for sub-titling, and C. for translation.


The below link from Gates of Vienna has five videos from the Netherlands (with English sub-titles). The article concerns a growing trend in the Netherlands, Dutch youths being attacked and beaten by gangs of other youths, mostly immigrant gangs (Moroccans and Turks). The first two videos are Dutch news broadcasts. The third is a collection of videos of the beatings themselves. The fourth and fifth are the reactions of conservative Dutch politicians Thierry Baudet and Geert Wilders, who demand that the government take action to stop these outrages. The videos speak for themselves.


https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/11/dont-hurt-me-im-dutch/

How Do You Get 52 Illegals Into a Van?

Easy. That's what happened during the past week at the Spanish-Moroccan border at Ceuta (which is actually a Spanish enclave located at the northen edge of Morocco. A driver plowed a  van right through the border gate and kept going a short distance until it stopped, and out ran 52 African migrants. The below Spanish news report was translated by Fousesquawk, edited by Gates of Vienna, and sub-titled by Vlad Tepes.

Video link

The Madness in Sweden

Hat tip Nyheter Idag and Kronans Martell


There seems to be no end to the madness in Sweden, which, thanks to its insane asylum policies, has become not only the rape capitral of Europe, but the bomb capital as well. This is the nation that not only allows its ISIS fighters to return from the killing fields of Iraq and Syria, but gives them new IDs, job training, and relocation to new homes in Sweden-all without prosecution or even letting the cops know where they are!

I mean, what's next, putting Iraqi government ministers on Swedish welfare?

Oh wait! What's this?


https://nyheteridag.se/iraqi-defense-minister-is-receiving-welfare-in-sweden-investigated-by-police/

One Fine Day on a Dutch Bus

Hat tip Vlad Tepes

The Dutch village of Ter Apel is experimenting with using special buses for the local asylum-seekers-with security personnel on board. That's because they are having so many problems with the newcomers, who apparently try to board with invalid tickets.

Berkeley Being Berkeley

Hat tip The College Fix

National Lawyers Guild legal observer in green cap
-The College Fix


I remember several years ago when Ann Coulter came to speak at UC Irvine and everything went off without a hitch (other than her being late due to the heavy traffic from LA-Orange County).

But, Irvine (though it has its moments) is hardly Berkeley. So when Coulter spoke at UC Berkeley this week, everybody went nuts-or maybe I should say remained in place.


https://www.thecollegefix.com/5-arrests-1-injury-amid-aggressive-left-wing-protest-against-ann-coulter-speech-at-uc-berkeley/

In the third video (and photo above) you see a green cap that reads, "National Lawyers Guild legal observer". The NLG is a Marxist organization founded in the 1930s as a legal arm of the Communist Party USA. They haven't changed much since. For the past few years, they have made it a practice to accompany protesters like these in order to ENSURE THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED.

I can assure you that they were not there to protect the rights of Ann Coulter or her audience.

And to think that UC Berkeley was the much-heralded birthplace of the free speech movement.

Remembering November 22, 1963

Dealey Plaza

Today marks the 56th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas. It just so happens that I was in Dallas a couple of weeks ago and visited Dealey Plaza. I had been there many years earlier, but on this occasion (last Tuesday), my wife and I were able to visit the 6th floor of the former Texas Schoolbook Depository, which is now a museum, as well as take an hour-long trolley tour past the notable landmarks of that day in 1963.

The Schoolbook Depository Museum on the 6th floor contains displays and exhibits from President Kennedy's political career as well as from the assassination itself. There is a model of Dealey Plaza created by the FBI as part of their investigation. The actual suit worn by the Dallas police officer handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald at the moment he was shot by Jack Ruby, the handcuffs, as well as the hat Ruby wore are on display.




One can stand along the windows facing Dealey Plaza and see where Oswald fired the shots and then ditched the rifle. Below on Elm Street is an X which marks the spot where Kennedy was fatally struck.

Even more interesting to me was the tour of the other sites connected to the assassination, mostly retracing the route Oswald took after he fled the Schoolbook Depository. The first stop was the rooming house on N. Beckley in the Oak Cliff area, where Oswald was living, which was his first stop during his flight. It is located in a drab, working class neighborhood outside the downtown area.



Oswald then proceeded on foot through the neighborhood before being confronted by Dallas police officer, JD Tippit on W 10th Street where Tippit was fatally shot. That was our second stop.




Oswald then proceeded to Jackson Blvd. around the corner and ducked into the Texas Theater, which still stands. That is where he was located and arrested thanks to citizens who notified the police.



Then we returned downtown following the final route on Main Street-Houston-Elm where the Kennedy motorcade traveled. We also stopped in front of the old city jail by the ramp where Ruby walked down into the garage and shot Oswald as he was being transferred to the county jail.

One thing that is very striking to the visitor is the fact that most of the sites associated with the assassination look today just as they did in 1963. Dealey Plaza is still a city thoroughfare, and I keep thinking how eery it must be to drive through there at night.

If you are visiting Dallas, especially if you lived through that day, I encourage you to take the tours I described above. For our generation, November 22, 1963 was our (first) 9-11. It's a day we will never forget.

The Sad State of Swedish Schools

Hat tip Samhällsnytt and Gates of Vienna

Here is an article from the Swedish site, Samhällsnytt, in which a teacher, writing anonymously, describes what it is like dealing with the large influx of immigrant (mostly Arabic speaking) children in their classrooms. Not only are they unable to speak Swedish, many are illiterate, and finally, behavior is a constant problem. The article was published last April. Translation by Fousesquawk.


https://samnytt.se/larare-svenska-skolan-i-fritt-fall/


Teacher: Swedish schools in free fall


In all the years I have had the benefit to teach young people, I have felt that I have a task to fulfill. A child who learns to read, write, and count, discovers the world, and I  have the possibility to open up the world for them. Today the world has unfortunately been opened up for Swedish school children in a more brutal way.

In the middle and thousands of other classrooms in Sweden, we have received newly-arrived children and young people. Children and young people who cannot read, write or count. These children and young people are placed in classes with Swedish pupils who can read, write and count.

Of course, I as teacher have to prioritize and help the newly-arrived to learn the language. Many are completely illiterate and  have never had the possibility to go to school. Anyone can figure out that this affects the Swedish pupils who don't get my help and knowledge to develop their education.Unfortunately, Swedish parents do not understand that this affects down their children.

There are some newly arrived young people who struggle and invest everything to be able to learn and go further with education and might become doctors, lawyers or programmers. To teach these ambitious newly arrived young people is a joy for me as teacher and educator.

Then there is a large mass of newly-arrived. They ignore school, that ignore the teaching, that are unpleasant and rude. Some are even threatening. From feeling happy when I go to my work, now I go with pain in my stomach.

I know I will be called a "damn whore, "damned pussy", and I know I will hear, "You don't decide on me." There will be a mess and noise in the classroom, hallways, school yard and dining room. Changing rooms where classes change for physical education classes will, as usual, (be places) where girls don't dare change since boys will show up and sneakily film/photograph the girls.

Showering is not on the world map for girls and even for some boys in school. It is enough that one or two pupils refuses to follow the instruction and screams "shut up" to me every time I am going to say something, thus the lesson is destroyed for 28 other pupils who want to learn something.

When I call parents for a conversation, I hear that I don't have the  right to tell their children, that I should be careful so that I won't be reported to the principal or school inspectors. They know where I and my family live, what car I drive and I know that the risk is great that my car gets scratched destroyed in some other way. I know that certain pupils threaten other pupils, but I don't dare get in the middle because I risk getting beaten.

I know that it is no idea to talk to my boss, who is the  principal, because I will hear that we teachers  are required to accept these newly-arrived and we cannot treat any pupil differently by sending the pupil out of the classroom. The (National ) School Agency has said that we will include pupils, this has gone so far that many  principals completely refuse to remove pupils from the classroom.

Now in the spring that the national tests are starting, I have sadly sat and corrected my classes' tests and see the results collapse. This, the  principal says, he wants to change - by "correcting positively". This means, for example, that if the student answers incorrectly, one can think that this is just a careless mistake or "the person in question actually meant this way so it is almost right". I have been present when the correctional teacher went into the classroom and asked the pupil what he really meant, and you can correct (the error) by thinking that the student does not have the words to explain the answer in Swedish.

The  principal has also said that unauthorized teachers will correct the national tests. Soon the spring term will end and the grades will be recorded, and  these grades will also be recorded by unauthorized teachers and the  principal signs off (on them), which he has the right to do.

If I, as a teacher, believe that a pupil has not been active in the lessons and shown his knowledge, but should receive an F grade, then I know the parents will nag and threaten me. But the  principal will also see to it that the pupil gets an E, or better, an A.

For most of the newly arrived parents, there is only an A for their child. For one to even suggest that their child should get anything else generates complaints and harassment. The politicians who sit in the municipalities state that, as a teacher, you should go to your immediate supervisor if you are threatened or harassed. But nothing is done.

In the worst case, one can be referred to make a work environment report and in the case of threats and harassment between pupils, then one should make an incident report. These incident reports may not contain anything allegedlyy "racist". For example, one may write, "student A called me" whore and pussy "- but not that he did it in Arabic.  Then it becomes clear that it is a newly-arrived (pupil) who said this.

If I, as a teacher, write an incident report, then it goes to the  principal who fixes it, so that when it goes to the municipality, it is beautified. The  principals are frightened of (having) a bad reputation. A bad reputation means that parents don't put their children in the school, and leads to no funding. The schools depend on funding, and therefore, they do everything to see between the fingers of abuse, threat and harassment.

In one school there was a pupil who choked  and beat another student so badly that he ended up in the hospital with a concussion. The police report was made and the student was terminated - we thought. On Monday the following week, the pupil came to school and was just as threatening as before. The effort the principal made was that he hired a 19-year-old boy as a resource for the pupil.

Now it has been decided that 9,000 newcomers will be able to go to high school and they must finish school to be able to stay. As a result, we teachers now have the power, in the eyes of the students, to decide whether they can  stay in Sweden. They demand approved grades, threaten, and harass. They ignore attendance of the lessons and then, when they risk more than 20% absence, they come with various excuses, such as they don't feel well, the (support money) had not come for SL  (bus/metro) tickets, or something else. They want people to help them with housing applications, / CSN / (student loan agency) support payments during the homework hours. I have less and less time to be a teacher and to teach.

Anyone can figure out that this affects Swedish pupils who don't get my help and knowledge to develop their education. But unfortunately, Swedish parents don't understand that this affects their children also.

There is much more to say, but the conclusion (based on) my long experience is that Swedish schools are in free fall and it will get worse.

Frustrated teacher The writer has worked as a teacher since the 1990s in various schools in the Stockholm District at all levels, elementary schools, secondary school and adult education and has taught Swedish children, young people, and newly-arrived (immigrants).

York University (Canada) What Happens When You Try to Have a Pro-Israel Event on Campus

Hat tip Vlad Tepes


On Wednesday, Reservists on Duty, a group of Israeli army vets appeared at York University in  Toronto. As occurs on US campuses, the result was predicatble. The thugs of the pro-Palestinian forces, including some useful stooges on the radical left, showed up to disrupt the event. Violence broke out and there were some arrests (Good!).

Vlad Tepes has video.











Has this gotton tiresome yet or what? It is long past time that North American campuses install a zero-tolerance policy. If you want to disrupt and take away the rights of others to be heard with your silly, Jew-hating tactics, expect to be arrested, prosecuted, and expelled. For those who are not citizens, they need to learn the hard way that we don't allow you to import your fascist ways from the old country into our country. Deport their asses.

This is nothing more than unbridled Jew hatred masquerading as human rights. It is time we stopped importing Jew hatred into Europe, Canada and the US.

*Update: Jerusalem Post is reporting that some protesters were chanting, "Intifada, intifada!   Back to the ovens."

Chris Cuomo, Say Hello to Chris Darden

Hat tip to  The Federalist and Charleton


Remember back in the 90s when we had the OJ Simpson trial and that incompetent prosecutor, Chris Darden, decided he would have OJ try on the gloves (that he wore the night he murdered his ex-wife and Ron Goldman)?




Of course, Darden never took into account that the gloves had been laying outside in the rain then put into an evidence bag where they sat until the trial. They shrunk. Darden and the entire prosecution team looked like fools when the gloves didn't fit because they had become too small for Simpson's hand-not to mention the plastic gloves he had on underneath.

So now we fast forward to today, when CNN's Chris Cuomo (who is trying to rid himself of that Fredo nickname) decided he would do a demonstration on live tv to support today's impeachment witness, David Holmes, who testified that he overheard President Trump on the other end of Gordon Sondland's cell phone. And guess what happened.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/21/watch-cnns-chris-cuomo-accidentally-prove-trump-right-about-overheard-phone-call/



"Hey Mom, say Hi to Dana Bash Chris Darden."

What If There Was a Quid Pro Quo?

Hat tip The Hill


Yesterday, Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland testified in his opening statement that there was a quid pro quo as to a presidential call with President Trump and a White House visit in exchange for Ukrainian President Zelenskyy committing to investigating Ukraine's alleged involvement in the 2016 US election and investigating the Bidens. He also presumed that military aid was tied to the above commitment by Zelenskyy. The testimony went back and forth with Democrats and Republicans making their own arguments about Sondland's presumptions and the one thing that Trump said directly to him over the phone. "I want nothing. No quid pro quo".

To the media, Sondland's testimony was a "bombshell" Last night on ABC Evening News, David Muir and his correspondents highlighted Sondland's presumptions while explaining away what Trump actually said to Sondland, pointing out that this conversation occurred after the White House had become aware of the whistle blower's complaint. The media concluded that Trump was covering his backside. Meanwhilke, the headline caption on the TV screen was "Bombshell testimony". It was anything but.

At this point, it is pretty clear that the House will vote to impeach Trump, and the Senate will vote not to remove him. The Democrats seem to be pinning their hopes on some smoking gun that will show up proving there was a quid pro quo.  So what if this is true? So what?

My own common sense tells me that in all likelihood, there was a quid pro quo. Trump did want Ukraine to investigate that country's alleged involvement in the 2016 election and he did want them to investigate the entire Burisma scandal, which includes having an unqualified Hunter Biden on its board of directors and Joe Biden's successful demand that the prosecutor investigating Burisma be fired if Ukraine wanted one billion dollars in aid.

In the case of Trump, Republicans point out that Ukraine got the aid, the phone call from Trump, and the meeting with Trump (at the UN) while no investigation was launched.

But let us assume that there was a quid pro quo. Is this not a common part of international diplomacy? For example, is there a quid pro quo when Trump conducts his diplomacy with North Korea? If Norea Korea halts its nuclear weapon program, the US will do this or that. Of course.

But Gary, you say: Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, who is a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Biden is his political rival.

True. But does that change things?

US foreign aid is hinged to the receiving country not being engaged in corruption, however vague that condition is. Ukraine is corrupt, as are many other countries receiving US aid. In return for our aid, they are supposed to at least demonstrate they are taking steps to fight corruption in order that they may be "certified". Often, that is a sham because it is deemed in our interest to continue aid to a particular country. When I worked with DEA in Thailand in the 1970s, that country was riddled with corruption-and still is. They get plenty of US aid. I could go on and on.

Part of the corruption angle in Ukraine is that they allegedly improperly engaged in meddling in out 2016 election. The controversy over Crowdstrike and DNC hacking, and whether it was done by Ukraine or Russia is a matter of dispute. It is not a matter of dispute that during the election, the Ukrainian ambassador to the US wrote an op-ed criticizing then candidate Trump. The Ukrainian embassy in Washington has confirmed that they were approached by a DNC operative during the campaign who tried to enlist their help in digging up dirt on Trump and Paul Manafort. Rightfully or wrongfully, Trump likely feels that he was the victim of a lot of dirty tricks during the election, and that Ukraine had a role. After all, a Ukrainian court issued a statement that there had been meddling by their country. So is Trump justified in asking Ukraine to investigate that matter? I think he is.

As to the more important matter of the Bidens, that is also a legitimate issue, and if Joe Boden gets the nomination, expect to hear much more about it in those campaign ads. Then-Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine and demanded that the president fire the chief prosecutor-who was investigating Burisma, a company accused of corruption, which had put Hunter Biden on its board of directors though he had no qualifications for the post. Biden told the president that if the prosecutor wasn't fired within 6 hours, Ukraine would not get the aid it had been promised-some one billion dollars. Within 6 hours, the prosecutor was fired. How do we know all this? Biden bragged about it on tape while speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations. Of course, he left out the information about his son being on the board of Burisma and that Burisma was under investigation.

Quid pro quo.

So let us assume the worst: Suppose Trump did have a quid pro quo that included an investigation of the Bidens, and let's assume he did it for purely political reasons. What is worse, the action of Trump in his phone call to Zelenskyy or Biden's demand to the previous Ukrainian president?

And here is another point: If Trump cannot ask for an investigation of Biden because he is a potential opponent in a future election, doesn't that give Biden-or anyone else in a similar position, literally, a license to steal? Is Biden immune from an investigation into his action simply because he is running for Trump's job? No.

Interview With Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

Hat tip Vlad Tepes


Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is an Austrian activist who is active in the movement to stop the Islamization of Europe. For that, she has not only put her physical safety at risk; she has been the target of her own govenment for so-called "hate speech".

Wolff has just recently come out with a book describing her experiences, The Truth Is no Defense. Yesterday in Montreal, she sat for an interview with the RAIR Foundation.

Germany: Gang Rape Trial in Krefeld

Hat tip Gates of Vienna and Vlad Tepes for editing and sub-titling. Translation by Miss Piggy.


Angela Merkel's "guests" are at it again. In the German town of Krefeld, 5 men are on trial for luring women to their residences, drugging them, and raping them. It's a recurring problem since Merkel opened the flood gates to asylum-seekers in 2015.

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Sweden: Islamic Education and More Explosions

Hat tip Gates of Vienna for editing, Vlad Tepes for sub-titling, and Kronans Martell for translation


I am cross-posting two videos out of Sweden with English translation by Kronans Martell. The first, linked below by Gates of Vienna, is a short report on Islamic schools in Sweden. The second concerns an explosive device thrown through a window at a Swedish school this week in Helsingborg by person(s) unknown. Fortunately, nobody suffered serious injuries, but explosions are becoming a common occurrence in Swedish cities these days. They are routinely attributed to immigrant gangs.

https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/11/education-swedish-style/

Lt. Colonel Vindman and the Whistle Blower

Hat tip Red State


"I do not know who the whistleblower is, that is correct,"


I listened to much of the testimony today of Lt Colonel Alexander Vindman and State Department official Jennifer Williams. Unlike some, I will not question Vindman's military service or his devotion to the United States. I do have questions about his judgment in taking the actions that he did.

However, there is something else that  troubles me about Vindman, something in his testimony that I am not sure squares. It has to do with the "anonymous whistle blower". Vindman testified today that he does not know the identity of the whistle blower. Indeed, Adam Schiff short circuited that line of questioning in the interest of not revealing the identity of the whistle blower, who even he (Schiff) claims not to know his identity. Of course, we know that the name is out there and all over the Internet. It has also been widely reported that the whistle blower has no direct knowledge of the call and that he went to Schiff's office to spill the beans. That complicates matters greatly for Schiff, who, in spite of this conflict of interest, continues to chair the impeachment hearings.

In his testimony today, Vindman stated the names of those he told about the July 25 conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In addition to those named, Vindman said that he told one other member of the intelligence community, whom he refused to name. When the Republican questioning seemed to suggest that the person Vindman relayed his concerns about the phone call to was, in fact, the whistle blower, Schiff jumped in. That seems to me to indicate that there is, indeed, a connection between Vindman and the whistle blower-not just that they know each other and work(ed) together, but that Vindman is the whistle blower's source. Red State came to the same conclusion earlier this month after a transcript of Vindman's closed door testimony was released.

So here is my question: Is the whistle blower (leaker) the unnamed person Vindman told about the call, and if so, how does that square with his testimony that he doesn't know who the whistle blower is? Was Vindman the source of the whistle blower's second-hand knowledge?

This leads to the question as to why Schiff will not bring the whistle blower in to testify since he is the one who started this mess in the first place and his identity is out there anyway? The answer seems to me that this would open the door for the Republicans to question the whistle blower about his contacts with Adam Schiff's staff or even, possibly, Schiff himself. How can a man who had a role in orchestrating the whistle blowers actions be chairing the impeachment committee?

Adam Schiff and Lt Colonel Vindman are walking on thin ice.

Sweden: Welcome to Gothenburg

Gothenburg is Sweden's second largest city. In recent years, it has seen a huge spike in crimes and drug dealing that corresponds to the dramatic influx of migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers from Middle Eastern and North African regions. The above is a report on the problems.

Hat tip Joakim Lamotte and Vlad Tepes

Academic Hypocrisy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

This article first appeared in the Times of Israel Blogs.

Like many US universities, New York University is having to deal with anti-Semitism on its campus, thanks as always, to the actions of the pro-Palestinian forces and their academic enablers. It has just been announced that there will be a federal investigation into allegations of campus anti-Semitism at NYU. Recently, a university department sponsored a speech at NYU by Noura Erakat, a well-known anti-Israel activist. In response, some Jewish students asked the department of Asian American Studies when they would host a speaker with pro-Israel views in order to balance the discussion. The answer was “Never”. I am cross-posting an article on the issue by United with Israel.

This, of course, reminds me of similar experiences I have had in attending such events, which are all the rage on American university campuses. Not only groups like the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine routinely sponsor speakers like Erakat, they are often invited by university departments lending their imprimatur to the Palestinian narrative. As a part-time teacher at the UC Irvine Extension from 1998-2016, I became involved in following such events on that campus as well as others.

In September of this year, I attended an event at UC Irvine in which the featured speaker was Lila Adib Sharif of the University of Illinois. Her apperance was sponsored by the Department of International and Global Studies, School of Social Sciences. You can read above what happened during the q and a when I asked the sponosors when and if they might hold an event featuring a pro-Israel speaker.

This was also similar to an event I attended at UC Riverside in 2014 sponsored by the Humanities Department and Ethnic Studies featuring BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti. I asked the same question. Only this time, departmental chair David Lloyd, a prominent BDS activist, told me my question was “preposterous”.

This points to an important point. If pro-Israel speakers expect to be invited to a university campus to defend the Jewish state, it pretty much has to be at the invitation of student groups like Students Supporting Israel or the College Republicans. Even then they can expect to be disrupted by SJP/MSA students or off-campus radicals. University departments prefer to expose their students and the public to anti-Israel speakers like Erakat and Barghouti.

In fairness, I should point out that in 2010, the UC Irvine Law School and Political Science Department joined with Jewish groups to host Michael Oren, the then-Israeli ambassador to the US. The results were disasterous as the speech was repeatedly disrupted by the campus Muslim Student Union. Eleven arrests were made. I was present and reported on it.

Perhaps that incident set the template for universities all over the nation as to why they think they should avoid pro-Israel events since they are going to be disrupted. If that is even part of the rationale, then universities are guilty of cowardice in caving in to the mobs. I suspect, however, that the real reason is that these departments tend to be sympathetic to the Palestinian narrative. That means they are guilty of betraying the fundamental purpose of the university-to expose students to differing points of view on topics. New York University has failed the test. Putting together an event dedicated to the study of anti-Semitism (and Islamophobia) hardly corrects the problem. Perhaps, they might look at their own role in helping to create an atmosphere of anti-Semitism on their own campus.

Whistle Blower Won't Testify: Hitler Reacts

This is a restoration of a video I had to take down for technical reasons.

The New Netherlands

Editing by Gates of Vienna. Sub-titling by Vlad Tepes. Translation by C.


Just another day in the new Europe. Two days, in the Netherlands, actually, as reported by Dutch news and the police who are seeking the public's help in locating violent attackers. Here are two recent videos.

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Sex Education in Spain

Viewer warning: Explicit sexual (cartoon) images.

Editing by Gates of Vienna, sub-titling by Vlad Tepes, and translation by Fousesquawk.


Apparently, sex education in Spain is getting out of hand, and many parents are up in arms. The below video was posted on Twitter by an angry parent in the Catalonian town of Sabatell when he discovered sexually graphic cartoon images on a sex education poster on a door in a local secondary school.

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Note: The terms, colegio and instituto, used by the speaker to refer to the school in question, are used somewhat interchangeably in Spain. In the overall Spanish-speaking world, a colegio is a secondary school with a range of children's ages depending on the country.

The video was picked up by a Polish site that says they are fighting to keep this kind of display out of their own schools. Some readers chimed in from Brazil that they are fighting the same battles in that country and that President Bolsonaro is on their side.

Marie Yovanovitch's Testimony

This article first appeared in New English Review.





I  did not watch all of Marie Yovanovitch's testimony Friday, but I watched much of it. In what I saw, she was an excellent and credible witness. (Being retired from law enforcement, it is something I pay attention to.) It is not my purpose to attack her or her political bent, but the important thing today is that she had no direct information as to the central question: That was President Trump's July 25 phone conversation with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

It appears that the Republicans did not confront her with allegations that have been made about a couple of things she might have done politically while serving as ambassador to Ukraine. For all I know, it is possible these allegations have been debunked, so I won't bring them up here. As for Trump's tweet attacking her today, I think it was uncalled for, but it doesn't change the issue of whether he deserves to be impeached for his actions in Ukraine.

There was much discussion as to the reasons for her dismissal. As stated many times today, a president can change ambassadors at any time for virtually any reason. Ambassadorships are political positions, rightfully or wrongfully. If a president had a friend, political ally, or big contributor, they could be given an ambassadorship. And this brings up another point, which I learned serving overseas in Thailand and Italy with DEA. Certain posts tend to be filled by political appointees, and certain posts tend to be filled by career foreign service officers of the State Department. Obviously, the more desirable ones, like Paris, Rome, Tokyo, London, and others go to the political appointees. By and large, they are not interested in going to places like Africa and other places where life is not so plush. Kiev is one of those posts. I know because I went there twice in 1994 with DEA International training.  Kiev is anything but a desirable post-though it is an important post.

Another lesser known reason why the disparity in ambassadorships is the representational costs. Life as a foreign service officer and ambassador is filled with official events, dinners, and cocktail parties. Places like Paris, Rome and others literally require someone who has the money. I don't know how it is now, but when I was in DEA and involved in similar events, we were not allowed to spend US taxpayer money on things like booze for parties and such. I'm not sure what the State regs were or are now, but I think they had similar restrictions. They literally needed an ambassador who could do some of that out of pocket. Thus, the lesser and more undesirable ambassadorial posts could and can be filled by career State employees as was the case in Ukraine with Yovanovitch.

But what is important is that a president can remove an ambassador at any time. In fact, when administrations change, especially with a president of a different party, ambassadors expect to be replaced. If a president deems that a current ambassador is not in agreement with administration policy, a change can be expected. It is important to underline that US foreign police at any time is not the policy of the State Department; it is the policy of the current administration, and the State Department is expected to carry it out. If Trump deemed that Yovanovitch was working contrary to his foreign policy, he had every right to replace her. It has been reported that there was a problem between her and President Zelenskyy. It should also be recalled that her replacement was none other than William Taylor, a career State employee who testified earlier this week. That somewhat undercuts the argument that Trump was acting personally so he could pursue the Biden investigation.

As to the issue of Rudy Giuliani, whose role in Yovanovitch's replacement is under scrutiny; Giuliani is Trump's personal lawyer and has no official portfolio in government, and much is being made of that. The fact is that the president can send a person of trust to another country to carry out some aspect of policy even if that person has no official portfolio in government. Perhaps, a famous example is Harry Hopkins, a very influential figure during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. While Hopkins held various domestic posts during FDR's presidency, Roosevelt made him an important part of our liaison with Britain and Soviet Union during World War II. He was also instrumental in the Lend Lease Act. During those years, Hopkins virtually lived in the White House. Hopkins was not secretary of State, Defense, national security advisor, or anything of the sort. FDR chose to use him in foreign policy areas during the war, and that was his prerogative.

So is Yovanovitch a victim because she was replaced? I don't think so. She is still in the State Department teaching at Georgetown University. She was not demoted, at least in terms of salary. Maybe she was treated unfairly, but when it comes to government employment, sometimes that's what happens in terms of one's career path, promotions etc.

Kurdish-Turkish Love Fest in the Hague

Hat tip Jeroen, Gates of Vienna, Vlad Tepes and C. for translation


-Kurds in white, Turks in brown


Well, it wasn't as good as the end of last night's Browns-Steelers game, but here is a Dutch video report of what happened last month in the Hague when a group of Turkish counter-protesters showed up at a Kurdish demonstration. Needless to say, things got out of hand. The video appeared in De Telegraaf.

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Juan Cole and the "Landmark" Decision by the European Court of Justice

Hold on to your hats because the European Court of Justice, which is the latest version of the Soviet Supreme Court, has come out with a "landmark" ruling that Israeli products produced in the West Bank must be labeled as such before being imported into the EU as opposed to being labeled "Made in Israel".

According to University of Michigan comedian Juan Cole, this is the biggest thing since Roe v Wade. 

https://www.juancole.com/2019/11/european-squatter-palestinian.html

Where to begin? One would think that the EU Court would have better things to do, like deciding the size of beer glasses used in EU restaurants or how cucumbers must be sliced before being sold in European markets. (Don't laugfh.)

For Cole, who is, as always, a stooge for the Arab world against Israel, this is a historic step for human rights, which it is really isn't.


"The Court of Justice is made up of a justice from each of the countries in the European Union (28 until Britain leaves) plus 11 advocates general. It strives to ensure that European laws are applied equally throughout the EU. It represents the aspirations for a rule of law and social justice of 500 million people. It is arguably a more important, a far less corrupt, and a much more representative body than the US Supreme Court."

What a laughable statement. One court makes rules that apply to 28 countries, and Cole thinks that it represents the aspirations of 500 million people. It is more like a court in Moscow making decisions that apply to the people of Azerbaijan in the old  USSR. A sizable chunk of those 500 million people Cole refers to are sick and tired of having their lives ruled by the bureaucrats of the EU, in this case, 28 judges sitting in Luxembourg of all places.

Naturally, Cole drags out his usual rhetoric about "squatters" and "occupation" forgetting that the West Bank is not a country called Palestine illegally occupied by Israelis. In all of recorded history, there never has been a nation called Palestine. The so-called "Palestinian people" only began referring to themselves by that name in the 1960s. The land  is actually disputed territory yet to be decided by that long hoped for peace treaty between Israelis and Palestinians.

"The ruling is unlikely to deter ongoing Israeli dispossession of Palestinians, which is enabled by strong US support for virtually any violation of human rights or international law the far right wing Israeli government wishes to undertake."

Such as Israel responding against Gaza after rockets were (yet again) launched into Israel this week?