GLOBAL: Turkey is lost to Islamo fascist terrorists

Sunday, July 24, 2016

https://formerspook.blogspot.com/2016/07/ataturks-last-stand-todays-reading.html

In From the Cold
Random thoughts on almost anything and everything, with an emphasis on defense, intelligence, politics and national security matters..providing insight for the non-cleared world since 2005.

Monday, July 18, 2016
Ataturk’s Last Stand (Today’s Reading Assignment)

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If you read just two articles this week, may we suggest this opinion piece from Fox News strategic analyst Ralph Peters, and the latest column from former NSA senior spook John Schindler?  Both offer important insight into the failed “coup” in Turkey, and what it means for Ankara and the West.

While we’ve had minor differences with Lt Col Peters in the past, his analysis of the abortive military revolt in Turkey is spot-on.  When the coup fizzled on the streets of Istanbul and other major Turkish cities, so did Ataturk’s lasting vision of a modern, secular state firmly oriented towards Europe and western values.  As Peters writes: Friday night’s failed coup was Turkey’s last hope to stop the Islamization of its government and the degradation of its society.  Reflexively, Western leaders rushed to condemn a coup attempt they refused to understand. Their reward will be a toxic Islamist regime at the gates of Europe.

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Sorry to say, but another domino has fallen.

Hopefully Trump will follow thru and end NATO. That would force Turkey to stand on its own. And the USA’s foreign policy to pull back from the Global adventurism and perpetual war we find ourselves in.

One can only hope that the world survives this new “Dark Age”!

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Walter E. Williams proposes a thought experiment

Saturday, July 23, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/walter-e-williams/crime-infested-neighborhoods/

Challenges for Black People: Part II
By Walter E. Williams
July 20, 2016

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Here’s an experiment. Meet with black people such as Reps. John Conyers (age 87), Charles Rangel (86), Eddie Bernice Johnson (80), Alcee Hastings (79) and Maxine Waters (77). Ask them whether their parents would have tolerated their assaulting and cursing teachers or any other adult. I bet you the rent money that their parents — or any other parents they knew when they were growing up — would not have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen today among many black youngsters, using foul language and racial epithets. Older blacks will tell you that had they behaved that way, they would have felt serious pain in their hind parts. If blacks of past generations would not accept such self-destructive behavior, why should today’s blacks accept it?

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Pretty easy to know what the parents of yesteryear would or would not tolerate.

The problem is the socialism of the “Secular Progressive” movement.

Welfare destroys communities and the incentive to do better.

We, as a society, can not afford the lost human creativity.

With almost a third of the population not working, the current “boom” is doomed!

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CLOUD: Backup your work ALWAYS

Friday, July 22, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/07/19/google-takes-down-mans-blog-erasing-14-years-work.html

GOOGLE
Google takes down man’s blog, erasing 14 years of work
By Michael Harthorne  Published July 19, 2016  Newser

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An acclaimed artist says he lost 14 years of work when Google took down his blog last month.

Artist Dennis Cooper made a horrifying discovery June 27: His 14-year-old blog—the sole home of his experimental writing, research, photographs, and more—was gone, Art Forum reports.

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Backup, backup, backup.

“Two is one; one is none.” (Old military preparedness adage.)

There really is no excuse for getting caught short like this.

Take this as your OFFICIAL warning.

(Despite the illusion, only BAD stuff stays on the inet forever!)

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Was it done to stick one in the eye of the ordinary viewer who looks at the hijab as a sign of the slavery of Muslim women by a male- dominated and clearly violent religion?

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RANT: Required DNA testing

Thursday, July 21, 2016

After hearing so many “false father” claims, I think that Courts should REQUIRE DNA proof of parenthood before ordering child support. After all isn’t that the “best evidence” available. DNA parental testing is available in any drugstore for about 100$. And, all we have for a “birth certificate” is the memorialization of what two people think is the truth. Need real evidence before society places a lifetime burden on men. (A woman physically having the baby is prima facie evidence, but look how many switched at birth case we heard about.

So mandatory DNA testing for all hearings about children!

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GOVERNACIDE: The Gooferment kills its citizens!

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

http://listverse.com/2016/07/15/top-10-little-known-facts-about-alcohol/

Top 10 Little-Known Facts About Alcohol
ADAM R. RAMOS JULY 15, 2016

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1. The Federal Poisoning Plan

Between December 25 and 27, 1926, the city of New York saw 31 alcohol-related deaths and countless others desperately ill. What was originally speculated as your typical alcohol poisoning turned out to be far more disturbing given that the deaths were courtesy of the US government.

When Prohibition took effect in 1920, law enforcement began denaturing industrial alcohol by adding toxic chemicals. This plan was conducted with the hopes of deterring people from re-purifying the liquid so that it could be consumed. As time passed and the speakeasies and underground bars flourished, the anti-drinking forces in the government developed a new denaturing process that would make industrial-grade alcohol twice as poisonous.

TIME magazine noted in a 1927 article that three ordinary drinks of this concoction created by the government would cause blindness. Government officials stated that the individuals who consumed the alcohol did it under their own free will, and the act was therefore nothing short of a deliberate suicide. The government insisted that they held no responsibility. Prohibition came to an end five years later, and by that time, the actions of the United States government had claimed the lives of at least 10,000 people.

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Why do we trust the Government in any way?

They should be disbelieved on principle.

They should be kept barefoot, weak, and starved for resources.

They should be restricted to their proper role (i.e., nightwatchman; referee; minimalistic powers).

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Drinking age?

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

http://listverse.com/2016/07/15/top-10-little-known-facts-about-alcohol/

Top 10 Little-Known Facts About Alcohol
ADAM R. RAMOS JULY 15, 2016 

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The drinking age in the United States has varied between 18 to its current state of 21. Such an age would be absurd in 10 percent of the world, given that a total of 19 countries have no minimum drinking age at all, such as Sierra Leone and Cambodia. Fortunately, Antigua, Barbuda, and the Central African Republic are a little stricter when it comes to alcohol consumption—their minimum drinking ages are between 10 and 15 years old.

However, no laws are more stringent than the 16 countries where alcohol is illegal to consume at any age, such as Afghanistan, Somalia, and Pakistan. Iran, whose ban on alcohol was instituted after the 1979 revolution, displayed just how serious a criminal offence drinking was in 2012, when two men were sentenced to death for drinking alcohol. The men had two prior convictions for which they each received 80 lashes.

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I remember a time in my youth when in Nevada there was no speed limits, no drinking age, and prostitution was legal. The Mob ran the state and it was all very nice and peaceful.

Then, at the time, the drinking age in Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk was 18. But I had my first beer at 14 in bar with my Dad. I drank there frequently and was never “carded” (i.e., asked for proof of age) until my 18th birthday. After that, the price of beer was half what it was when I was under age. (Guess that was the bar’s ‘risk premium’?)

SO why to we need the Gooferment telling us what we can do or put into our bodies. Are we their “human cattle”?

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Sanders sold out — anyone surprised?

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/of-course-bernie-sanders-sold-out-why-are-you-surprised_072016

OF COURSE BERNIE SANDERS SOLD OUT — WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED?
JULY 14, 2016 | DISINFO

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In a move that shocked faux-socialists everywhere Chairman Sanders went out on stage and officially endorsed none other than the Lizard Queen herself.

It was a sight to see, Sanders led in chains and forced to beg not only for his life but the lives of his devoted followers as Hillary watched from a chair made almost exclusively of Syrian children. “I have come here to make it as clear as possible why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president,” Sanders uttered under armed guard, “Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nomination and I congratulate her for that.” Sanders would spend the next 45 minutes slowly assuring his armed party cadres around the country that this was exactly what he wanted, that all his talk of healthcare and socialism had been “window dressing,” simply too much to ask in these “dangerous times.”

The worst was yet to come however. As Hillary’s forked tongue began sniffing the air and tasting the tears of millions Sanders brokenly said “I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.” Democratic Socialism, a new ideology that might have left a lasting impression on the political machinery of the United States, disappeared in an instant.

The political revolution was over.

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Anyone surprised?

He’s a politician that has never had a real job.

And a closet communist besides.

He was a political cover for HRC that distracted the liberal left from repudiating HRC.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: Krugman is Obama / Clinton cheerleader

Monday, July 18, 2016

http://contrakrugman.com/ep-43-krugman-says-investors-have-given-up-hope-so-what-happened-to-that-obama-recovery-paul/

Ep. 43 Krugman Says Investors Have Given Up Hope…So, What Happened to that Obama Recovery, Paul?
16 July 2016     |     Tom Woods  

This week, Krugman considers several possible explanations for why long-term interest rates are so low around the world. The one he settles on: investors have concluded that the weak economy is the new normal, so to speak, so they’re willing to accept low yields. But this explanation contradicts Krugman’s repeated insistence that the Obama recovery is stronger than ignorant right-wingers give it credit for. Which is it?

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If “economics” is a natural science — which I believe it is, then how can it’s “laws” be ignored without consequences.

Imagine physics if the speed of light was not a constant?

Imagine chemistry if elements’ characteristics were ignored.

Imagine math if π was published as 3.14 exactly. 

Chaos!

Economics’ supply and demand is an observed logically consistent “law” (i.e., lower your price and people can buy more; raise your price and the opposite happens).

Interest rates are a reflection of people’s time preference. Not what the Gooferment says it is.

Argh!

When the FED just “prints” money, people make terrible decisions!

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MONEY: A Gold Bull Market?

Sunday, July 17, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/no_author/day-reckoning/

Peter Schiff: We’ve Entered a New Leg of a Gold Bull Market
By Samuel Bryan 
SchiffGold.com
July 16, 2016

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We still have a tremendous price that needs to be paid for the mistakes of the past. Even if we correct those mistakes in the future, we still are going to have a day of reckoning. And that day of reckoning is going to evolve a much lower US dollar and a much higher gold price.”

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I think the WORST part of fiat currency is that we have lost is the objective standard of value!

“Money is a matter of functions four, a medium, a measure, a standard, a store.” He repeated that four times like poetry. “Six Characters in Money: Portable – Durable – Divisible – Uniformity – Limited Supply – Acceptability.” — CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 110

The paper produced by the FED ——

 The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

— — fails three of the four functions — a measure, a standard, a store. 

So when we hear numbers kicked around they lose all sense of reality.

I’ve griped about the three silver dimes for a gallon of gas many times on this blog before. But it still states an essential truth. Silver hasn’t really changes and the gas is actually “better” gas. So what accounts for the delta (i.e., a gallon of lesser quality gas in the Sixties versus two plus gallons of today’s better gas)?

It’s the value of the money stupid.

The dollar 1960 value has been “inflated” away by the politicians and bureaucrats who put the difference in their pockets.

In the old days, it’d just be called what it is — theft.

Can’t you see it?

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RANT: The wrong questions — always the wrong questions

Saturday, July 16, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/butler-shaffer/thought-control-2/

The Unasked Questions
By Butler Shaffer
July 16, 2016

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
 – Thomas Pynchon

Human understanding is premised upon a continuing refinement in the quality of questions we bring to any subject matter. If our distant ancestors knew little more about their physical world than the proposition that “some things fall and hurt us,” their ability to safely function in the world might have been insufficient to sustain their lives. After centuries of trying to explain such occurrences by reciting such maxims as that things fall to their natural level in the world, our ancestors became better informed by Newton’s understanding of gravity and principles of motion. His views – like the more sophisticated opinions that followed from other scientists – emerged not from the recitation of other men’s answers, but from the formulation of more complex questions.

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Argh!

How do we get society asking the RIGHT questions?

What is right question?

It’s the all about the proper role of Gooferment versus government!

If you’re a little L libertarian, government is “your nightwatchman”. Anything else, it’s someplace between the national “mother” and “father”.

Argh!

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