The Washington Post reported on the death of Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with a headline describing him as the “austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State”. There’s no word on how the venerable WaPo reconciled that description with its earlier coverage depicting ISIS as purveyors of a distorted and “extremist” interpretation of Islam.
In other news, demonstrators in Hong Kong hurled Molotov cocktails after police used water cannons and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at them to disperse the protesters.
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Caroline Glick: Trump, Israel and the Democratic Crack-Up
Nearly every week, the Democrats reach new heights of radicalism. Israel has good reason to be deeply worried.
Until 2000, the peaceful transition of power in the wake of elections was a feature of American democracy that everyone took for granted. In 2000, the Democrats shifted. They refused to accept the election results in Florida that gave Bush his victory in the state, and through it, in the electoral college, until the Supreme Court ruled that the results were legitimate. Even afterwards, many Democrats considered Bush’s victory and his presidency illegitimate.
In retrospect, the Democrats’ refusal to accept the legitimacy of the 2000 election results marked the beginning of the party’s radicalization.
Since Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, the speed and depth of the party’s radical transformation has gone into overdrive.
The day after the election, Democrats coined a new term in American politics, “resistance.” Until then, the side that lost a presidential election was the “opposition.” But the Democrats don’t simply “oppose” Trump, they “resist” him.
The distinction is profound. An opponent recognizes the basic legitimacy of the person he opposes. A resister does not. The purpose of the anti-Trump resistance is not to offer an alternative path for governing. It is to nullify Trump’sis presidency by among other things delegitimizing and dehumanizing Trump his family,
associates and supporters. The resistance seeks to paralyze Trump’s presidency to prevent him from wielding the power of office and oust him from that office as quickly as possible.
To this end, for instance, the Democratic minority in the Senate has used procedural rules to slow-roll Trump’s appointments to senior positions in the executive branch and impede his ability to govern.
The resistance is not limited to the partisan arena. During the 2016 elections, and to an even greater degree in their aftermath, Democrats in the US media and in the federal government — particularly in the intelligence, law enforcement and diplomatic arms of government — joined Democratic politicians in their efforts to nullify the Trump candidacy and later presidency. Like the politicians, they have used the power of their positions to undermine and subvert Trump’s presidency to foment his departure from office…
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Climate Alarmists Propose Feeding Cows Seaweed to Reduce Methane in Farts
Environmentalists intent on finding new ways to reduce so-called greenhouse gas emissions to curb climate change have proposed a novel method: feed cows seaweed to diminish methane in flatulence, belches, and manure.
Ermias Kebreab, an zoology professor at the University of California—Davis, led a team in producing a bovine meal regimen containing varying levels of Asparagopsis armata, a strain of red seaweed, and fed it to 12 dairy cows over a two-month period. In a mix containing just 1 percent seaweed, the cows’ methane emissions went down by a stunning 60 percent.
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Jeffrey Epstein Used High-Society Connections to Advance Sick Schemes: New Documentary
One of the greatest unsolved riddles of the sordid saga of convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is how he managed to get away so many many vile crimes for so many years.
“A man of complete mystery. The more we study him, the more we report on him, the more questions we have about him,” Fox News contributor and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Judith Miller told Fox Nation in the new documentary “The Twisted World of Jeffrey Epstein.”
Fox Nation delved into how Epstein used his connections to the rich and famous and some of America’s most trusted institutions to shape and build his reputation.
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‘Joker, ‘ the Top-Grossing R-Rated Movie Ever, Regains No. 1 Spot at Box Office
NEW YORK — Put on a happy face. “Joker” is No. 1 again.
Todd Phillip’s R-rated comic-book hit regained the top spot at the weekend box office in its fourth week of release, narrowly besting “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.” The Warner Bros.’ sensation, starring Joaquin Phoenix, took in $18.9 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
That came in just above the $18.6 million haul for the Walt Disney Co.’s DIS, +0.49% “Maleficent” sequel, which slid to second after a disappointing No. 1 debut last weekend of $36 million. “Mistress of Evil,” starring Angelina Jolie, is performing better overseas, where it grossed $64.3 million over the weekend.
With such a close race at the top between “Joker” and “Mistress of Evil,” the order could switch when final figures are released Monday.
But ticket sales have continued to surge well past expectations for “Joker.” With a modest budget of $60 million, it’s been extraordinarily profitable for AT&T’s T, +0.24% Warner Bros. — although the studio, to mitigate risk, shared costs with Bron Studios and Village Roadshow Pictures.
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Rep. Katie Hill Resigns Amid Ethics Probe Into Reported Affair With Staffer
Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., announced her resignation Sunday after a string of reports shining a negative light on her personal life, including a reported affair with her legislative director that sparked a House Ethics Committee investigation.
Hill tweeted on Sunday evening, “It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community, and our country.” She is expected to step down by the end of this week.
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UW Regents Green-Light Creation of Policy Punishing Speech Disruption
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved a “scope statement,” which permits the university to establish a policy to punish students who disrupt free speech.
The policy was passed in 2017, but hasn’t been able to take effect yet since the system rules have not been updated, according to The Star Tribune. The move by the board solidifies the 2017 free speech policy, and gives the university system permission to begin formally writing the rule.
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Canadian Government Funded ‘Muslim Voting Guide’
The Canadian government has funded the publication of a Muslim voting guide by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project.
The “Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019” was released roughly three days before the federal election, on October 18th.
The guide’s preparation page shows its funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), a federal agency.
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Jordan Peterson and Daughter Plagued by Fraudulent Books on Amazon
Mikhaila Peterson and her father Dr. Jordan Peterson have a bestselling book on Amazon about the carnivore diet. The only problem, it’s not their book.
While Mikhaila has been vocal about her support for a thoroughly carnivorous diet, this book transcribes comments, interviews, and YouTube videos of the two Petersons and puts it together as a collection. It had no approval from either of the listed authors, no proceeds are heading their way, and fans have been fooled into buying the fake book with a horrendous, amateur photoshopped cover.
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Ontario Weed Company Destroys $77 Million Worth of Cannabis
An Ontario based cannabis producer, CannTrust Holdings Inc, has announced their intention to destroy $77 million worth of cannabis, according to the CBC.
Since the legalization of cannabis, CannTrust has been plagued with scandals. The most notable incident occurred on September 17th where the company had its license revoked by Health Canada for producing unlicensed pot.
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Catalonia Divided: Barcelona Hosts Unionist Rally a Day After Separatist March
BARCELONA (Reuters) — Huge crowds of Catalans supporting continued union with Spain marched through Barcelona on Sunday, a day after the city hosted two pro-independence protests — highlighting deep political faultlines within the region.
Police said Sunday’s peaceful rally drew 80,000 while organizers Societat Civil Catalana, a pro-unity umbrella group, put the turnout at 400,000.
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Germany’s Left Party Tops Thuringia Election, AfD Surges to Second — Projections
The Left party is set for victory in the German state of Thuringia, exit polls showed for the regional assembly. The far-right AfD also marked a successful night, doubling its score from five years ago.
Voters in the eastern German state of Thuringia boosted the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the regional elections on Sunday, according to ARD projections, but it is the Left party that will remain the dominant political force in the state.
The Left party is forecast to win 30.6% of votes in the state that was once part of the communist former East Germany. The far-right AfD party is predicted to take nearly 24% of the vote, making it the second-largest party in the assembly — and pushing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party into third place.
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Germany: Merkel Disaster: CDU Beaten Into Third Place in Humiliating Regional Election Result
ANGELA MERKEL has suffered fresh humiliation after her Christian Democrats (CDU) were beaten into third place in Sunday’s regional election in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to exit polls.
The incumbent far-left Linke topped the polls, winning 29.7 percent of the vote, the results forecast by broadcaster ARD showed. The AfD won 23.8 percent — beating the German Chancellor’s Christian Democrats (CDU) into third place (22.5 percent). They were followed by Angela Merkel’s Government coalition partner, the Social Democrats Social Democrats (SPD), on 8.5 percent, with the Greens on 5.4 percent and the Free Democrats on five percent trailing behind.
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UK: End of Full-Time Mums? Over 75 Per Cent of Mothers Now Have to Work
The era of the single breadwinner able to support his household on a family wage appears to be truly over in Britain, with Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures indicating that over 75 per cent of mothers now have to work.
“The number of mothers in the labour market has grown substantially over the last 20 years,” the ONS bulletin explains, with the number of women with dependent children in the workplace from an already high 66.2 per cent in 2000 to 75.1 per cent by April to June 2019.
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UK: Khan’s London: BBC Anchor Has Home Invaded While at Home With Wife
BBC News anchor Huw Edwards was woken by a break-in at his home in the British capital of London at 5:30 a.m., according to reports.
“Huw bravely ran down after the burglar, but he was a whisker too late. He saw the criminal driving off in [his] car and trudged back to the house,” a source told The Sun.
“He put it down to one of those things which happen when you live in a city,” they added — an echo of city mayor Sadiq Khan’s infamous declaration that being prepared for major crimes such as terror attacks is “Part and parcel of living in a great global city”.
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And anyone who raised any suspicion about Abdul Hussain would have been excoriated as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe,” and suffered professional and possibly personal ruin.
“Curry house boss, 41, ‘hoarded ISIS execution videos in his Spice Island restaurant and kept terror manual on how to become a sleeper agent living double life in the West,’“ by Danyal Hussain, Mailonline, October 22, 2019.
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Al-Baghdadi Kill: How the Daring Military Operation Went Down
The suicide of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was preceded by a largescale U.S. Special Operations forces raid on a compound in northern Syria’s Idlib Province, where the terrorist leader was thought to be hiding.
In an address to the nation on Sunday, President Trump said that planning for the raid on al-Baghdadi’s compound began two weeks ago when the U.S. gained unspecified intelligence on al-Baghdadi’s whereabouts.
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Al-Baghdadi Takedown Catches Dems Flat-Footed, Blunts Criticism of Trump’s Syria Pullback
President Trump’s successful operation to take out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sent Democrats scrambling on Sunday, as several top party leaders had complained publicly in recent days that the White House had no “real plan” to combat the terror group following the U.S. pullout in Syria.
In a dramatic sign of how Democrats’ messaging apparently backfired, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” ran an ill-timed sketch suggesting that Trump had created “jobs” for ISIS — just hours before the president held a news conference announcing al-Baghdadi’s demise. The sketch aired around the time the two-hour late-night raid in northwest Syria was underway.
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And Then There’s the Reaction to Al-Baghdadi’s Death
Lindsey Graham says “This is a moment where President Trump’s worst critics should say, ‘Well done, Mr. President.’“
That Lindsey Graham, always making with the jokes.
Because obviously that’s not going to happen.
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Defying Crackdown, Thousands of Iraqis Keep Protesting
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Thousands of Iraqi protesters stood fast in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square on Sunday, defying a bloody crackdown that killed scores over the weekend and an overnight raid by security forces seeking to disperse them.
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French Woman Arrested for Insulting Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 23: A French woman of Tunisian origin has been referred to the Public Prosecution for insulting Kuwait in an audio clip spread on the WhatsApp social media, reports Al-Rai daily.
The arrest came after the Cybercrime department affiliated to the Criminal Investigations Department got a warrant issued from the Public Prosecution and took the woman in custody who initially denied the charge but later admitted to it.
She works on sponsorship of a press institution as she carries a French passport . She added, it was a message meant only for a friend. However, she is being interrogated.
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Iraq: Indigenous Christians Latest in Battle for Better Society, New Government
Iraq’s security forces recently were joined by Iran-backed militias in a violent crackdown on anti-government protests. These protests have been taking place, since October 1, throughout much of the country as well as in Baghdad.
The mass demonstrations were sparked by widespread fury on the part of Iraqi youths at Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and what they view as his corrupt government’s failure to rehabilitate Iraq after its battle against ISIS and provide basic necessities, such as electricity, clean water and jobs. According to Amnesty International, activists and journalists have been brutally intimidated by Iraqi authorities and gunned down in the streets by snipers. The death toll has passed 180, with figures in the thousands for those wounded.
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Lebanon Protests: People Form a Human Chain
Tens of thousands of Lebanese protesters joined hands in an attempt to form a human chain across the country from Tripoli in the north to Tyre in the south.
Organisers have said the attempt to create a chain 170km (105 miles) long was successful.
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The Washington Post published a gasp-inducing headline for the ages Sunday, describing ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar.”
The obituary, written by The Post’s National Security reporter Joby Warrick, followed confirmation of al-Baghdadi’s death in a U.S. military operation in Syria on Saturday night. It detailed al-Baghdadi’s rise to the terrorist group’s shadow leader from what the paper described as his origins as a “religious scholar with wireframe glasses.”
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Russia Rejects Climate Change Plan After Business Uproar
The Russian government has drastically watered-down its new package of climate change legislation after push-back from the country’s leading businesses, the Kommersant business daily reported.
Plans for quotas on carbon emissions at Russia’s largest companies, a new national carbon trading system and penalties for the biggest polluters have now been scrapped.
Instead, Russia will only go ahead with proposals to measure and collect data on emissions as part of a five-year green audit.
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Vladimir Bukovsky (1942 — 2019)
by Diana West
The news I have been dreading comes out of England tonight: Vladimir Bukovsky has died. He was 76.
Now that Bukovsky is no more on this earth with the rest of us mortals, the obituaries, like so many doves, will be released to mark his passage out of our lives and into our memories.
I think I have always known that no matter how “prepared” one might be, this moment would be overwhelming. How do we mark the consequence and courage of such an extraordinary man who chose to lead his life in outspoken opposition to evil, who chose to sacrifice years of his life in Soviet labor camps and psychiatric hospitals rather than submit to communist slavery? The unflinching heroism, the giant scale of battle, the enormity of achievment was for Vladimir Bukovsky life’s routine, and thus defies the normal sort of reckoning at life’s end. The quandary lies in the colossal metaphysical sense of him that must be conveyed only in words.
Certainly, at this time there can be no better words than his own. I find myself thinking about a line that recurs in both of his memoirs, To Build a Castle (1979) and Judgment in Moscow (2019): “I did all that I could.”
Here in To Build a Castle, Bukovsky is describing the Soviet dissident movement, of which he was a co-founder…
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Hong Kong Protesters Hurl Petrol Bombs After Police Fire Tear Gas to Clear Rally
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong anti-government protesters set fire to shops and hurled petrol bombs on Sunday, police said, after riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse thousands in the Tsim Sha Tsui harbor-front hotel district.
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“Why Are You So Silent?”: Persecution of Christians, August 2019
Hate for and Violence against Christians
Cameroon: Militant Muslims, allegedly affiliated with the Nigerian-based Islamic terror group Boko Haram, “reached new heights” of depravity. Boko Haram, after devastating the Christian village of Kalagari in a raid and kidnapping eight women, later released them but some had their ears “chopped off” (image here). The report adds that Boko Haram “has terrorised Christian communities in Nigeria for the last decade and has now splintered and spread its violent ideology into Cameroon, Niger and Chad.”
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Chile’s President Promises to Reshuffle Cabinet After Massive Protests in Santiago
Chilean President Sebastian Piñera announced a major reshuffle of his cabinet the day after a massive demonstration in the streets of the capital in the latest anti-government protests over economic inequality.
“We have all heard and understood the message of Chileans. I have asked all ministers to make their positions available. We’re working to form a new team that represents change,” Piñera tweeted on Saturday, in an effort to assuage the anger of protesters.
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Denmark Can Withdraw Foreign Fighters’ Citizenship More Easily
The Danish government now has the authority to withdraw the citizenship of jihadists who’ve traveled abroad to fight for militant jihadist groups.
The new law gives the country’s immigration minister the authority to revoke the passports of citizens who’ve joined foreign terrorist organizations by simply informing the terrorist of the decision via the internet, Danish newspaper Extra Bladet reports.
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Eight Hypothermic Afghan Migrants Rescued From Refrigerated UK-Bound Lorry
Two Romanian lorry drivers were arrested at the port of Calais this morning after the discovery of the migrants by British border force guards
Eight hypothermic Afghans were rescued from the back of a UK-bound refrigerated lorry this morning.
Half of the group were children with two described as ‘tiny infants’ by an investigating source.
Two Romanian truckers have been arrested after the discovery of the migrants in Calais at roughly 5am.
[Comment: Article dated Oct 27, 2019.]
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A man suspected of driving the container filled with migrants to Zeebrugge ahead of its doomed trip across the Channel has appeared in court in Ireland on unrelated charges.
The 23-year-old was held at Dublin Port when he arrived on a ferry from France after his details were circulated by Belgian authorities. His blue Scania truck was impounded.
Essex police say they are ‘liaising’ with their Irish counterparts over the case.
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Sweden: Nigerian Occult Mafia Spreading Across the Country, Police Say
A West African criminal network that’s known for human trafficking, drug running, fraud, and using bizarre occult rituals and torture to brainwash prostitutes is spreading throughout Sweden.
Police fear that Black Ax, an international criminal organization based out of Nigeria, is beginning to gain a foothold in Uppsala after already establishing itself in cities like Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö, SVT Nyheter reports.
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UK: ‘Extremely Violent’ Ethiopian Migrant Rapist Jailed for Life
An ‘extremely violent’ Ethiopian migrant and rapist who forced his way into multiple victims homes before assaulting them and tying them up, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Earlier this year, 32-year-old Temesgen Desta, an Ethiopian national who arrived in the UK in 2017, carried out two brutal attacks against women in a span of just a few hours, the Sun reports.
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UK: Essex Lorry Latest: Top Security Boss Warned of Zeebrugge Crossing Risks Two Years Ago
THE top border security watchdog warned more than two years ago about the dangers of being smuggled in a container via Zeebrugge.
David Bolt, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, said in his July 2017 report that in the first half of 2016 Belgium stopped 736 people leaving the port in containers. He said since those in the loads “are unable to release themselves, the risks are high and there have been numerous recorded deaths”. He recalled: “On the east coast, in August 2014, 35 people, including 13 children, were discovered locked in a container at Tilbury docks.
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Two men who appear to be migrants have been photographed peeking through a hole in the side of a lorry’s canopy as it travelled on the M25.
The photograph, taken in the same week 39 migrants from China and Vietnam died in the back of a lorry entering the UK, appears to show the extent of the crisis facing British border officials.
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Jessica Yaniv Says Tribunal Ruling Against Her Was ‘Total Misunderstanding’
Jessica “Jonathan” Yaniv has given comment to The Post Millennial in wake of the disastrous, and widely celebrated, loss of her highly controversial B.C Human Rights Tribunal discrimination suits against a number of Vancouver-area estheticians.
“The tribunal member misunderstood the complaint, and misunderstood the dynamics.” Yaniv claims, asserting the ruling had a “ton of inaccurate information” and was a “total misunderstanding.”
In late 2018, Yaniv brought 16 separate suits against primarily non-white, non-native English speaking estheticians in the Vancouver area. While the case was slow to gain media traction due to a publication ban that prevented media from knowing or publishing Yaniv’s name or many useful details about the cases, the tribunal eventually lifted the ban due to Yaniv’s own public comments about her cases.
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Pope Francis Asks Pardon for Theft of ‘Pachamama’ Fertility Statues
ROME — Pope Francis said Friday that he may have statues of the Pachamama fertility goddess placed in Saint Peter’s Basilica for the final Mass of the Amazon synod.
Speaking off the cuff in the synod hall, the pope confirmed that the statues represent Pachamama, an Andean fertility goddess also known as Mother Earth, but that they had been installed in the Catholic church of Santa Maria in Traspontina “without idolatrous intentions.”
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With all of the multiculti drug gangs already competing for Swedish business, and now the new entry into a crowded market by nigerian purveyors of blow and horizontal refreshments, Swedes can celebrate the cheapest narcotics in Europe as another positive benefit of cultural enrichment.
I find it very difficult to believe there are any Swedes that would pay a single kroner for what so many female Swedish feminists freely give away, or can be taken by force from them with impunity in the new, multiculti Swedenistan.
You are correct. There’s no word to describe how WaPo can reconcile one description as being the same as its’ polar opposite. Unless you subscribe to their tolerant moral and religious relativism to which all members of WaPo are all indoctrinated and brainwashed into. Such as the type to which all Cultural Marxists use to destroy the society they hate the most; their own Western Culture. WaPo as it is today is a Fifth Column party of treason against our most beloved Constitutional Republic.
“WaPo as it is today is a Fifth Column party of treason against our most beloved Constitutional Republic”.
Yes. Not just “relativism” – it is a willful subversion of our Republic. Wapo is not alone – hundreds if not thousands of other “journos” are helping: every day, every hour.
Adolf Hitler, avant garde artist, activist, and ethnic theorist, dies with his wife at his side.
Josef Stalin, agricultural reformer and World War II ally, dies at 74.
Idi Amin, anti-colonialist and foodie, dies at 78.
John Wayne Gacy, childrens party clown, dead at age 52.
Vladimir Lenin, community organizer, dead at 53.
Pol Pot, agricultural reform advocate, dead at 73.
Ted Bundy, who touched the lives of hundreds of women, dead at 42.
Benito Mussolini, amateur railway enthusiast, dead at 62.
Osama Bin Laden, spiritual leader and architect of lower Manhattan urban revitalization projects, dead at 54.
Lee Harvey Oswald, Communist fan boy and political activist, dead at 24.
From AoSHQ commenters
Osama Bin Laden, spiritual leader and architect of lower Manhattan urban revitalization projects, dead at 54.
That actually made me laugh out loud!
I live in the NY metropolitan area and attended 5 funerals after 9-11…
About the Washington Post description of Al Baghdadi.
This comment is from France.
The WP wasn’t always so bad. I remember it was quite a good newspaper in the 70s eand 80s. ( Yes I am quite old …) Today itis beyond bad.
That a WaPo staffer could describe Al Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar” is beyond understanding and quite sickening. That such a calling could be used for a man guilty of so many crimes, a man xho had the poor Kayla Muller so horribly tortured ,raped and killed,among other atrocities, is more than shameful. That this could pass the rewriter’s and chief editor’s desks with no problem shows how putrefied this newspaper is now.
In Europe we have this controversial Muslim preacher Tariq Ramadan who has been in jail for a while– he is out now– accused of rape by several momen. He is an out and out Islamist who has once publicly refused to condemn lapidation today for adulterous women as demanded by Shariah law.He is also the grandson of The Muslim Brothers founder.
But because he hold a Swiss passport and had for a while a teaching jod at Oxford University, I recall he was oncedescribed in ither the Washington Post or the New York Times ( I don’t remember which) as a ” religious Swiss scholar” !!
you expect better from a paper owned by jeff bezos?
Not so long ago, an elderly man wrote to me: “Elena, war is the work of the young,”
But the old man from France thinks differently.
He already has nothing to lose.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/28/france-mosque-shooting-man-arrested-two-shot-bayonne/
Vladimir Bukovsky a Russian dissident, that remained true,and spoke out.
Born, 30 December 1942 in Russia – Died on 27 October 2019 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire after a period of ill-health at the age of 76
Diana West wrote:- …. a line that recurs in both of his memoirs, “To Build a Castle” (1979) and Judgment in Moscow (2019): “I did all that I could.”
I took the wapo’s description as a veiled slap on religion. after all jeff bezos believes it is the opiate of the people.