Who is Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi?

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With Egyptian presidential elections coming up next week, Ashraf Ramelah takes a look at the man who is almost certain to be the next president of Egypt.

Egyptian hero Al-Sisi: A game-changer or mirage?

by Ashraf Ramelah

Heading into this month’s presidential elections set for May 26 and 27, Egyptians discuss the candidate most likely to win at the polls. Retired Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi — favored by pro-democracy freedom-fighters because of his split from the former Morsi regime to carry out the will of the people and end its reign of terror — has garnered more than one million endorsements, 50 times the amount needed to run for president. Overrun by emotion and gratitude for what Al-Sisi has done for Egypt in the past 10 months, Egyptians speculate about the kind of president the former General will make.

Al-Sisi supporters see him as their hero, and yet not all see him as their ideal president. Former President Mohammed Morsi appointed Al-Sisi as his Defense Minister upon firing Mohammed Hussein Tantawy, who was the former SCAF head instrumental in getting Morsi elected — a fatal miscalculation for the Morsi regime. The former President installed a man who would understand the moment and seize it for the people. Today, Egyptians have no choice but to settle for a man to whom they are indebted and to place their faith in him to handle Islamist insiders, a fundamental imperative for real change.

Al-Sisi is their only option. Besides, the success of the freedom movement’s overthrow of the dreaded Brotherhood-backed regime proves that mass uprisings do work and could succeed again if necessary — despite the fact that Morsi’s fall is widely viewed as a “miracle.” Nonetheless, it has inspired confidence in a nation now willful and hopeful for the first time in modern history so that Egyptians wait to see who Al-Sisi will be for them.

The 59 year-old Al-Sisi has one opponent in the presidential race, Hamdeen Sabahay. He has 200,000 endorsements with a campaign platform that mainly speaks to the amelioration of the Muslim Brotherhood’s plight. Because of the disparity in power and popularity of the two figures, some see the forthcoming election as more of a referendum. It will be difficult for any opposition to question or challenge Al-Sisi’s win. But whether Al-Sisi will be a transformer of Egypt or another Mubarak who began with great promise, it is hard to tell. This question occupies Egyptians in the final weeks before the election. Will the man responsible for halting the rise of Sharia law by arresting President Morsi and locking up his backers (and following through with much more) continue to be an asset to the pro-democracy, secular, freedom movement once he is elected?

Freedom-fighters, including Copts, have seen Al-Sisi for some time as an agent of human rights and equality in Egypt. The Field Marshall, who exchanged his uniform for a suit just one month ago, has the trust of Egyptians who watched him roll back Morsi’s backward, pro-terror initiatives (think religion police). Al-Sisi applied the pre-Morsi suspended constitution to install the head of the High Constitutional Court as the head of Egypt’s interim government, removed the MB and weaponry from its 45-day sit-in implementing a comprehensive plan to stop the MB from damaging progress, and demolished the smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza. Was this all for Egypt’s benefit and the rights of the ordinary citizen in the long run, or is it, as some suggest, evidence of a personal power struggle and Al-Sisi’s final takeover?

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/23/2014

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One in five Spanish job-seekers has not worked in five years, and 500,000 Spaniards have given up looking for work. In other economic news, in the past year Italian wages increased at the lowest rate since 1982.

In other news, José Barroso, the President of the European Commission, told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he must not allow Gazprom to interrupt the flow of natural gas to Europe.

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Do “Anti-Racists” Protest Too Much?

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Our Canadian correspondent Rembrandt Clancy has translated a recent essay by the German Islam-critic Marc Doll, and includes his own brief introduction.

Racism in the Middle of the Society?

Introduction by Rembrandt Clancy

Marc Doll, the author of this essay, is a founding member of Citizens’ Rights Party DIE FREIHEIT (28 October 2012) and is one of its leaders. He is also one of the eight or so Islam-critics who revived the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance movement of 1942 to 43 (Gates of Vienna reported).

“Racism in the Middle of the Society” — the idea that racism is endemic to society — was commonplace among the New Left of the 1960s. Older readers will know that for sure. Nor will the silencing of critics with the argument from potential consequences (argumentum ad consequentiam) be foreign to most. The inflation of numbers to create the impression of an epidemic and the exaggeration of a minuscule minority to forge a massive presence (homosexualism), are also commonplace everywhere, not just in Germany.

But Marc Doll’s treatment of the reproach of racism using psychoanalysis, combined with his announcement of intent to “return the accusation [of racism] to the senders” begs the question as to the identity of the original “senders”. Might they have been the psychoanalytically oriented “critical theorists” of the so-called Frankfurt School? They may have established the ideological prototype for endemic “racism” in the unprovable claim that anti-Semitism, fascism and their depth-psychological infrastructure, the so-called “authoritarian personality”, have their paramount source in the paternalistic structure of the family. They even developed a personality questionnaire, the F-Scale, to identify the “potentially” fascistic individual (Adorno et al. “The Authoritarian Personality” (1950)).

Racism in the Middle of the Society?

by Marc Doll (translation by Rembrandt Clancy)

Source: journalistenwatch.com.

14 May 2014

An article [“White is always guilty”] by Michael Paulwitz in Junge Freiheit describes how the German opinion cartel and all its opportunistic bandwagon freeloaders use the term “racism” as a weapon so they can maintain their immigration quotas with the goal of establishing a “multicultural society” behind which is the simple principle of divide et impera; that is, a society which is internally divided by internecine struggles among minorities is not in a position to overthrow a regime (cf. Manfred Kleine-Hartlage), and it is also considerably easier to translate such a society into a dictatorial EU. I would like to shed a little light not only on the underlying mechanisms, but also return the accusation to the senders.

To accuse someone of racism is a crushing indictment, especially in Germany. Therefore it is all the more important to verify such a charge in a deliberately responsible manner, and if it is substantiated, then only to bring it forward if there is very compelling evidence. A racist is someone who believes that his race is biologically superior to other races. The number of those who believe in this long since discredited nonsense may fall within the 0.00X percent margin, and those same people admit that openly. It is a marginal manifestation which is found in every society.

In view of these numbers, one might wonder why racism is still an issue today at all and why it attracts so much interest. At any rate, no one has yet come to grief based on the above mentioned attitude, and doubtless it would be far from a full-time job for anti-racists to have to wait for the 0.X percent out of the already noted 0.00X percent to start committing racially motivated offences.

Therefore the cart is put before the horse: what COULD lead by way of pure POTENTIAL to the same results as violence-prone racism is explained as racism which has already occurred and is punished accordingly. Let us put it this way: the practice of Islam-criticism, by way of pure potential, could lead to people proceeding to kill Muslims. That this line of argument does not stand the test of experienced reality or that it is not confirmed by the facts is irrelevant, for it is at least superficially comprehensible; which is to say, the argument is fully sufficient to permit application of the term racism, indeed to employ it as a weapon, for it provides a chain of causality, which although it has the above mentioned surface comprehensibility, it still remains for it to be subject to reasoned and confirmatory justification. For as is the case with all loaded terminology, with a single word and without any basis, I can otherwise reproach my opponent with an entire library of moral failings which cannot be refuted with only a single word, and also not with a single sentence, not to mention that one finds himself at this point already in a defensive position.

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Sticks & Stones: Another MSM Monstrosity

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Well! If Time magazine has finally noticed, then the increasing worldwide slaughter of Christians must be true.

Oops. Wrong. The author of this piece uses Pope Francis’ up-coming visit to Israel as the backdrop for his own agenda. This piece is so slanted it falls over, but then again the fellow who wrote it “helped lead national Catholic outreach for President Obama’s re-election campaign” so we know his blatant bias already.

This mercifully brief essay is a travesty; it tramples on the real suffering of persecuted Christians in order to do some JOOO-bashing. After noting the “increasing violence against the dwindling Christian population in the region” (i.e., the Middle East) — but never saying who might be responsible for that dwindle — this fellow quickly offers the Jews as a scapegoat. Jewish extremists are to blame… one supposes that it’s either Bush or the Jews when the need to point a finger arises. In this case, Jewish extremists are to blame. Who else could it be??

There are even growing concerns for the pope’s safety himself after news emerged earlier this month that Jewish extremists graffitied Vatican-owned property with vitriolic taunts, including “Death to Arabs and Christians and all those who hate Israel!”

Graffitied?? Obviously Time is still leading the lexicon charge for change, just like the old days.

So what is this fellow’s first link in his bent fairy tale about the slaughter of Christians? It’s a 2012 essay from an extremist leftist rag, The National Catholic Reporter about the violence against Christians by — wait for it — more rabid JOOOS. In that one, there was an attack against the door of a Trappist monastery, with Hebrew writing claiming “Jesus is a monkey”… the use of Hebrew proving this is the work of Zionists for sure.

That 2012 story uses the word “Muslim” once; “Islam” never appears as a possible suspect. Nothing to do with JIM! Again, the whole focus is on Jewish persecution of Christians. The attacks against Catholics are chilling to read:

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ESW Speaks About Dhimmitude at the Roundtable in Orlando

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On May 16 2014 Burning Bush Ministries held a roundtable discussion on “Current Christian Persecution — A Global Problem” at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Orlando.

Speaking on behalf of Burgerbewegung Pax Europa, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff discussed the topic of Dhimmitude. She was introduced by the Rev. Bruce Lieske, who then followed up with his own remarks.

Many thanks to Alan Kornman for recording this video, to Henrik Ræder Clausen for the audio, and to Vlad Tepes for editing and uploading it:

Previous posts about the Prayer March for Persecuted Christians, Orlando, May 2014:
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Optimism or Carelessness?

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Optimism or Carelessness?
by Fjordman

One of the claims presented against Islam-critical writers is that they suffer from paranoia about a secret Islamic conspiracy to Islamize Europe and the Western world. This is of course not true. Nobody ever sad that it was secret, at least not entirely so. The long-term goal of Islamic theology is for Islam to be triumphant across the entire world, including Europe and the Western world. This is simply mainstream Islam, as it has existed for centuries; it is not a recent innovation by a few radicals.

Besides, the truth is that far from exaggerating, even critics of Islam can be taken by surprise at the sheer speed of events, and by how quickly many Western leaders are caving in to Islamic pressures.

In Denmark, the writers Helle Merete Brix, Torben Hansen and Lars Hedegaard in 2003 published the book I krigens hus: Islams kolonisering af Vesten (“In the House of War: Islam’s Colonization of the West”). According to them, we are now experiencing a third great wave of Jihad, yet another attempt to conquer, colonize and Islamize Europe after Arabs and Turks spent centuries trying to do so before. Predictably, these courageous authors were ridiculed for their warnings, most aggressively by individuals from the political Left.

For instance, Michael Jarlner in the left-wing newspaper Politiken in his review from 2003 dismissed the book as “spiteful.” He claimed that the “ravings” of those sounding the alarm against an ongoing Islamization of Europe were “delusions” and “prejudiced paranoia of the worst order.”

The conservative columnist Mikael Jalving some years later admitted that he didn’t take such allegations about Islamization entirely seriously at first, either. However, he later came to realize that these warnings might be on to something real after all. Many of the problems related to political violence, the burning of schools, kindergartens or cars and rising Islamic threats against free speech were problems that only a brave few warned against some years ago. These problems have now become a daily reality in a number of cities.

In fact, even some allegedly delusional pessimists have underestimated how bad things truly are. Lars Hedegaard, one of the co-authors of I krigens hus, was attacked and nearly killed in his own home in 2013. Moreover, in 2003 these authors did not foresee that because of Islam, Denmark would merely a couple of years later be involved in one if its greatest foreign policy crises since the Second World War.

The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis took place after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published some relatively innocent cartoons of Islam’s founder Mohammed on September 30, 2005. I was one of the first people outside of Denmark to write about this case in English. Already in October 2005, I was campaigning in support of the paper and free speech on my old blog.

Did I understand at this point in time that this was a significant story? Yes. Did I foresee that it would become a big international incident that would cause many deaths, planned terror attacks, assassination attempts and the burning of embassies a few months later? No. What this means is that even a notorious so-called Islamophobe like myself actually underestimated the scale of events.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/22/2014

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A terrorist bomb attack at a marketplace in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province in China, left 31 people dead and upwards of 100 wounded. Witnesses say the attackers threw bombs from the windows of a car at elderly people gathered outside a restaurant for breakfast. Meanwhile, the Islamic Party of Turkestan claimed responsibility for an earlier bomb attack in Urumqi that killed three people.

In other news, another “Danish” mujahid has been killed in Iraq, reportedly blowing himself up in a suicide bombing.

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ESW at the Prayer Rally for Persecuted Christians

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Below is the speech given by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff at the Prayer Rally for Persecuted Christians on May 17, 2014. The event was organized by Burning Bush Ministries and held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Orlando. Elisabeth was introduced by the Rev. Bruce Lieske.

Many thanks to Alan Kornman of The United West for recording and uploading this video:

Below is the prepared text for Elisabeth’s speech:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I bring you warm greetings from my country, Austria, and from my city, Vienna.

It was in Vienna, on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the “United Nations Charter of Human Rights,” that an awesome idea was born: Why not use the date of the signing — the 10th of December — to advocate for persecuted Christians around the world, to call attention to their plight, and to push for action to be taken against oppression, torment and discrimination?

Although some fundamental human rights — such as freedom of religion, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly — are still available for many Christians in the world, other rights are restricted or non-existent. In some places Christians cannot own property, and Christian householders have no rights. And even worse: Christians in numerous countries are tortured, raped and murdered. Every year 200,000 of them are killed because of their religious beliefs.

The greatest suffering endured by Christians occurs in Islamic countries. According to the index of global persecution published by the respected organization Open Doors, of the ten countries in which Christians are intimidated and persecuted most aggressively, nine of them are Islamic by government or culture. It must be stressed that the persecution and suppression of Christians is encouraged — and even mandated — by Islamic law, or sharia, which is based on Islamic scriptures.

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“Without a Strong Army, There is no Sovereign State”

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The following editorial from a Swiss newspaper discusses a referendum on the procurement of a fighter jet for the Swiss military. After it appeared, the measure was defeated at the polls.

JLH, who translated the piece, includes these observations:

I cannot help noticing the parallel to our own recent decision to dismantle our armed forces in the face of the opposite in Russia and China, to say nothing of Iran, and considering the evidence of our own gormless behavior vis-à-vis Ukraine.

It is also interesting that this one Swiss, at least, takes a Reaganite attitude toward his “peaceful” neighbors of the EU and prefers “trust but verify.”

The translated editorial from Die Weltwoche:

The Gripen [Saab fighter plane]

With no credible army, there is no independent Switzerland. Clever Federal Councilor Ueli-Maurer and his fortunately down-to-earth Army chief, André Blattmann are spot on.

by Roger Koppel

Every country has an army — its own or a foreign one. Up to now there is no other idea that allows a sovereign territorial state to defend itself against aggressors. Every state that is and wants to remain independent needs an army. Every army has ground troops and an air force — and if necessary, warships. No regular army in the world does without fighter planes, which must be replaced from time to time. Thus, there is no reasonable ground for objection to the purchase of new machines of the type Gripen E in the referendum on May 18th.

For anyone who has forgotten or suppressed it, or not yet figured it out, the situation in Ukraine shows it clearly. Whoever has no real army is easy prey. He is neither respected nor taken seriously. He becomes the plaything of foreign interests. The function of an army is to frighten off the potential aggressor with the highest possible price of admission. Every country must at some time or another be able to defend its terrain and air space. The one who can secure order — or destroy it — will be sovereign. Without a strong army, there is no sovereign state.

Opponents of the Gripen argue that Switzerland is surrounded exclusively by friends. Such perceptions miss the essential point. They do not recognize the attacks on Swiss prosperity already in progress; the envy which engenders greed and aggression. They overlook the most basic thing: Any government is only as stable as the army it can call to its defense in an emergency. That is true in peacetime as well as in time of war. Do not bring a knife to a gunfight. Switzerland is only as strong and self-confident as its ability to stand up for itself in a military conflict. The military is the prerequisite for the very existence of this state.

The Swiss army has been systematically dismantled since the end of the Cold War. Representatives of the civil establishment have been just as bemused by the illusory likelihood of a prospective perpetual peace as have leftist utopians and proponents of eliminating the army. Switzerland should just surrender itself to the Nirvana of foreign military alliances. On the gravestone of the old Swiss army are the names of prominent civic assistants to the mercy killing: Kaspar Villiger (FDP), Adolf Ogi (SVP), Samuel Schmid (SVP).*

The way Switzerland is treated by other nations is also a product of its readiness to defend itself. On November 20, 1951, the National Security Council of the United States published a highly secret report. Under the file designation NSC 119, the Americans praised Switzerland as the country with the “greatest defensive capability in Europe.” Especially formidable was its determination to defend itself.

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The Plight of Christians in Syria

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The audio track in the following video is a phone conversation with a Syrian Christian that was aired on French television. The woman on the phone describes the horrific brutality of the Syrian “rebels” — who, incidentally, are supported by the USA and the EU — against the rapidly dwindling Christian community in Syria.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

WARNING: The photos shown in this video are graphic. Readers who are sensitive to images of brutality and violent death may want to simply listen to the audio track, or read the transcript:

Transcript:

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Sister Hatune at ACT! For America in Orlando

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After Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff spoke at the ACT! For America meeting in Orlando last Thursday, Sister Hatune Dogan was introduced to the audience and asked to say a few words about her mission and describe the work she does for persecuted Christians.

Sister Hatune is more fluent in German than English, so the following video has been transcribed and subtitled to make it clearer. The transcript is also available in .stl format in case anyone wants to modify it to produce subtitles in another language.

Many thanks to Henrik Ræder Clausen for recording this clip, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff for the transcript, and to Vlad Tepes for timing, subtitling, and uploading it:

Transcript:

Good evening my dear sisters and brothers. I am glad and thankful today that I could stand here in front of you. Thanks for ACT! For America, thanks for Brigitte Gabriel and all who are helping her to bring an awareness of what is going on in the world.

I am Sister Hatune. I was born and raised in southeast Turkey. Until I was fourteen years old, under hard persecution because I am a Christian and Aramaic, my mother tongue is still Aramaic, Jesus’ language, not the English language. Under this persecution we had to flee from the country, from our homeland.

My village became Christian. Before that we were Jews, from Adine and Andraos in Jesus’ time. We became Christians. But now we don’t have any more of them there.

The Turkish government pretends to be liberal, because they would like to unite with Europe, but this is the most fanatical government on earth. I have my own own experience that when I talk — I went to the Turkish school, grammar school, five years. Even on Sundays, since Ataturk’s time, school was free of charge, but my village, I don’t. I went to a Christian school named Zaz, all of us, we were Christians. Because a Christian there has no right to hold a government job, our teacher was automatically a Muslim. Even on Sunday he didn’t let us go to the church. It was forbidden. If some of us went to the church, he warned us: “If you go, I will beat you!” And he sent either his son or some of the teacher’s children, and it was like biting our nail. If we went to the church on Monday, we got hit on the hand with a metal stick Can you imagine?

For five years I could not go to church But my father — thank God he was a good preacher — copied the preaching of the priest and told all of us, “Come, come children, before we make breakfast, first of all you have to hear the word of God, and then we will eat.” So we were strong Christians, but under the hard persecution of Muslims. Until the 9th century Turkey was completely Christian. Today it is 0.03% Christian Where are these Christians?

In the 6th and 7th century, in the Syrian Orthodox church, which I belong to, there were nearly 62 million people. Now we are reduced to half a million. Where are these people? Not because they became Muslims of their own free will — no, no, no! From the 10th to the 12th centuries these Christians — because the Muslims can slaughter, Elisabeth talked about this, and it was in the film — if they get a majority percentage, any Christian regardless of how much of a believer he is, will give in because it is hard to live under Muslim laws. And so the Christians in that time — 10th to 12th century — they had to carry a big wooden cross in the field, for 200 years. And the Christians said, “To be freed of this cross on our back, only with our mouth, not with our heart, we will say we are Muslim.” And so they did that, but automatically the second generation grew up as Muslim. And so complete cities in Turkey converted to Islam.

Where I stay today, it was Tor Abdin, in southeast Turkey. In this Tor Abdin, there were 352 villages, plain Christian because they said, “It was not worth it,” they call it Mount Hermite, this area. They [the Muslims] didn’t go there, because it was not worth going there. That is why there are still half a million there, but there used to be more, of course.

These villages were fully Christian. At the same time as the Armenian massacre in 1915, almost all of them were killed. There were some 700 families in the villages. None were left alive. And 3 million people, Christian Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, they killed them all, with the Armenians. They called it Armenian genocide. It was not [Armenian only]. They delegated the Armenian bishop to Lausanne. That is why they speak only of Armenians. But we, the Syrian Orthodox church, suffered the same way as the Armenians. Three million people.

Until today, Erdogan and the Turkish government say it didn’t happen. Whoever says it did has to appear before a judge, even a court or face jail, who says it was genocide. Even now, Erdogan says to our patriarch, if you don’t shut the mouth of your children, and continue to speak of genocide, there will be consequences. Even today our fighters are silent.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/21/2014

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A UKIP candidate for the local council in Blackburn, Lancashire was stabbed in the face by a neighbor who supports the Labour Party. Some reports say that the victim’s critic also punched him. In other election-related news, British police will deploy special patrols tomorrow at more than 100 polling stations in sixteen different areas where voter intimidation and violence are considered most likely.

In other news, Russia has signed a thirty-year contract to supply China with natural gas.

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Earthquake in Amelia County

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We just had another earthquake. This one was about the same distance from us as the last one, but not as powerful — magnitude 3.2. See this report from WTVR Richmond.

I felt it distinctly about 9:45 pm here in the eyrie of Schloss Bodissey. It felt like a giant hand took hold of the house and shook it gently for a few seconds. Not alarming, but noticeable.

The USGS lists the epicenter as eight miles southwest of Powhatan, which would put it across the Appomattox River in Amelia County. The epicenter of the 2003 earthquake, if I recall correctly, was under Provost on the Cartersville Road, which would be about the same distance to the northwest of Powhatan. The big earthquake in 2011 was further away, near Mineral, north of the James River.

That’s all the seismic news from Central Virginia. Stay tuned for the aftershocks…