But no one is paying attention.
GET OUT!
EU nations pull welcome mats…
Hungary Plans Longer Fence…
35 MILLION heading to Europe?
Munich faces collision of refugees and Oktoberfest…
Top Iman: Muslim Migrants Should Breed With Europeans to ‘Conquer Their Countries’…
Does no one think this will matter?
I know she’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but there is no one commenting on politics I like better than her. The ill will that she attracts from the left is directly proportional to her ability to get under their skin, which she is so well able to do because the left is so lacking in irony and sense. If you can’t see what she’s saying here, it’s only because you don’t want to:
“The GOP wastes half these debates on issues on which there is already 100 percent agreement,” she told THR. “The GOP is pro-Israel. I’m pro-Israel. … How, exactly, do these Republicans propose to defend Israel, when no Republican can get elected president anymore because of immigration? How is an endless series of President Obamas going to protect Israel?”
Coulter told THR that the charge that she is anti-Semitic is “laughable.”
“Anyone with a pulse knows I am pro-Israel and against the enemies of the Jewish people. I have a whole chapter in my current book praising Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s the people attacking me who couldn’t care less about Israel or Jews,” she said.
“The hypocrites who are mad at me are the ones who support anti-Israel college professors, who refuse to condemn Islamic barbarism, who supported the overthrow of Mubarak for the Muslim Brotherhood, who spread the deadly libel that Jews in America are only successful because of ‘white privilege.'”
You can disagree with her point if you like, but to even begin to think she is anti-Semitic only shows how dense some people are.
UPDATE: Wow! Someone else agrees with me about Ann Coulter. This is Susan L.M. Goldberg discussing The Lessons Lost in the Aftermath of Ann Coulter’s F-Bomb. Here’s her crucial point:
The problem isn’t Ann, it’s us. Instead of using jabs to make an argument, we’ve traded in arguments for jabs. Ann is not made for those who’ve pandered down the Twitter hole. Nor is she designed for those seeking to worship idols instead of cultivate their own opinions. Conservatives who aren’t afraid to think critically can still pull the meat from the fat of Ann’s arguments. Did Republican candidates pander to the same old tropes in that debate? Yes. Are they ignoring the realities of immigration policies, in particular the impact they have had and will have on American political attitudes towards Israel? Yes. So, what’s your f-ing problem, again?
Despite what my PJ colleague Rick Moran thinks, Ann is far from over. She not only took advantage of the Right’s seedy underbelly of anti-Semitism, she called attention to their faux anti-Israelism to boot, and all while addressing the issue of illegal immigration. And in the world of social media, we would have missed all of that if she hadn’t Tweeted about the “f-ing Jews.” That’s sad commentary, indeed. For the rest of us that is, not for Ann.
The title, for Powerline, is Census: Economy is Going Nowhere. But what may be true for the economy in general is not true for various parts in particular:
The Asian-American population is now approaching 20 million, and their household incomes are now 23% higher than whites’, on the average. This is a rather stunning statistic. Why is so little attention paid to this income “gap”? Is it the result of discrimination against whites? If not, what could the cause possibly be?
I think the reason for the media’s silence on these numbers is that there is no good way to fit them into the narrative.
So just imagine what the stats would be like for the non-Asian parts of the population on their own.
A paper on Psychological Differences between citizens of the West in comparison with other cultures. Here is a sample:
In the eyes of most Westerners it looks immature and childish when people try to use threatening behavior, to mark their dislikes. A Danish saying goes “…Only small dogs bark. Big dogs do not have to.” That saying is deeply rooted in our cultural psychology as a guideline for civilized social behavior. To us, aggressive behavior is a clear sign of weakness. It is a sign of not being in control of oneself and lacking ability to handle a situation. We see peoples’ ability to remain calm as self confidence, allowing them to create a constructive dialogue. Their knowledge of facts, use of common sense and ability in producing valid arguments is seen as a sign of strength.
The contrast follows, and this only relates to dealing with anger. Other issues are discussed as well.
I do have to tell you I am surprised to find the disappearance of our Western civilisation being looked at as an opportunity to show our compassion. We are too stupid to survive, and we will not survive. We are about to have all the diversity anyone could ever have wanted. If you are of the view that open borders work for you, and one culture is equally as worthy as any other, everything will be great. But I am just that tad bit unsure of where all this will go, since if it made no difference, Damascus would look like Stockholm. So we shall see.
In the meantime, the only place I can find where the decline and fall of the West is being charted with any kind of recognition of what is overwhelming our cultural and historic home is at Andrew Bolt. Everywhere else in the media it looks like nothing of much significance is going on. While we still have time to think about things, reading this, also from Andrew, might be worth reflecting on: With more Syrians en route, Sweden struggles to maintain identity as country where refugees are welcome. It is from the Canadian National Post and therefore will inevitably look on the bright side of life:
Another point of division is language — most refugees have trouble mastering Swedish.
That helps explain what has happened in Rosengard, a suburb of Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city 80 kilometres from Astorp: more than 80 per cent of residents speak Arabic.
“I love it here because it feels like the Middle East,” said Taghrid, a young hijab-wearing Palestinian from Syria as she pushed a baby carriage past other women in similar attire. “It’s special. You know, people in the streets, the smell of spices.”
Such segregated enclaves are part of the problem, said Jonczyk, who moves easily between Astorp’s Swedish and Arab communities.
“What they do at home, they want to do in Swedish society and they want Swedish society to accept that,” he said. . . .
With unemployment among refugees well above 40 per cent, finding them work was one of Jonczyk’s major preoccupations. But to reach the point where they were employable was not possible if Sweden did not do a much better job of making them feel part of their new environment.
The job will now be to make Swedes feel part of their new environment.
The reason for the creation of Israel was that Jews needed a haven they could turn to if the countries they were living in became too dangerous for their Jewish inhabitants. Who would have thought that the same refuge would be needed for Christians, and more strangely, that it would be so difficult to find havens for Christians being driven from their homes? Why this is even controversial I do not know, but this is the decision that has been made by the Government today.
Australia’s acceptance of an additional 12,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq is a “generous” response that reflects the nation’s “proud history as a country with a generous heart”, Tony Abbott says. . . .
The government will dispatch officials to the region “shortly” to begin working with the UNHCR to identify potential candidates for resettlement, with a focus on persecuted minorities and, in particular, women, children and families.
I have no idea why this is doing the rounds. Single events are not evidence, just anecdotes. What is the point of the story? Same question again for this:
The note that comes at Youtube says:
He wants better food, aircondition and a TV payed for from your taxes!!
Also note that he is from Ghana , a country which is not at war and is surrounded by other safe countries, yet he came to Europe to claim asylum and live off the European taxpayer. Like him there are thousands more living off our taxes.
It would be a problem if he represented many more, but this is just a single instance.
The picture above comes from here, with the appended question, “Do people leaving a bombed out village in SYRIA usually take their selfie sticks with them?” We are being taken for fools and they are absolutely right to do so. There is no behaviour so self-destructive the left will not engage in to harm the civilisation of the West.
[Via Small Dead Animals]
There are different sorts of refugees, some of which are related to the times in which they were born and raised. We refugees from the 1950s have found ourselves in an alien place, which at first we mistook for the places from which we had come. First this from Peter Hitchens, We won’t save refugees by destroying our own country.
Thanks to a thousand years of uninvaded peace, we have developed astonishing levels of trust, safety and freedom. I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the USSR, Russia and the USA, and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Only in the Anglosphere countries – the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away.
Our advantages depend very much on our shared past, our inherited traditions, habits and memories. Newcomers can learn them, but only if they come in small enough numbers. Mass immigration means we adapt to them, when they should be adapting to us.
So now, on the basis of an emotional spasm, dressed up as civilisation and generosity, are we going to say that we abandon this legacy and decline our obligation to pass it on, like the enfeebled, wastrel heirs of an ancient inheritance letting the great house and the estate go to ruin?
We are now like squatters living in a stately home with no concept of what it took to build or how easy it will be to bring it to ruin. Let us, however, go on a bit further with what Peter had to say:
Having seen more than my share of real corpses, and watched children starving to death in a Somali famine, I am not unmoved by pictures of a dead child on a Turkish beach. But I am not going to pretend to be more upset than anyone else. Nor am I going to suddenly stop thinking, as so many people in the media and politics appear to have done.
The child is not dead because advanced countries have immigration laws. The child is dead because criminal traffickers cynically risked the lives of their victims in pursuit of money.
I’ll go further. The use of words such as ‘desperate’ is quite wrong in this case. The child’s family were safe in Turkey. Turkey (for all its many faults) is a member of Nato, officially classified as free and democratic. Many British people actually pay good money to go on holiday to the very beach where the child’s body was washed up.
It may not be ideal, but the definition of a refugee is that he is fleeing from danger, not fleeing towards a higher standard of living.
It is a higher standard of living for them, but not for the people whose countries are being invaded. They will pay and never stop paying, with their own prosperity, with no doubt at all, torn away by these invasions. And at the end Peter has some sensible things to say about us here in Australia:
Can we stop this transformation of all we have and are? I doubt it. To do so would involve the grim-faced determination of Australia, making it plain in every way that our doors are open only to limited numbers of people, chosen by us, enduring the righteous scorn of the supposedly enlightened.
Of course, if you already get the point, you hardly need it said to you over again. Still, there is this that may be worth keeping in mind, from The Diplomad, The Threat: Is Hungary’s PM the Only One Who Understands?
The so-called “refugee” crisis in Europe is more than alarming. It, of course, is much more than a “refugee” crisis. All across the Old Continent we are seeing massive flouting of law and order as thousands, tens-of-thousands, maybe more, of so-called refugees flood into Europe and then slosh about from one country to another looking for the best deal. The UK has become a particular target as “refugees” try to make their way to Britain’s generous public benefits.
None of us writing about such things have the slightest belief that anything can be done. Australia may hold out for now, but Labor may yet be only a year from government.
It’s clear enough that unprincipled ignorance is the single most defining characteristic of those who consistently attack the PM. His equation of ISIS with the Nazis, with a slight twist towards noting the astonishing pride the Islamic State takes in displaying their barbarity, has called to arms the usual brigade of anti-Abbott hysterics. But there is one difference between the Nazis and ISIS that is of singular importance. The Nazis disappeared in 1945. ISIS is a threat today. To distract from any of this is merely to attack the single most focused enemy of ISIS in Australian politics, and there would be few like him anywhere in the world. Objectively, as Stalin liked to say, attacks on Abbott over this issue transform someone into a defender of ISIS.
Daryl McCann has an excellent article at Quadrant Online: Hold the Front Page! Nazism = ISIS. Here is my choice of its central point, but do read it all.
The bloodcurdling irrationality of the Islamic State expresses itself not only in the annihilation of Christians, secularists, modern women, smokers, archaeologists, Yazidis, Kurds, Druse, Shiites, Alawis, historical landmarks, ancient manuscripts, foreign photographers and aid workers, homosexuals, adulterers, suspected Sunni apostates, but also in its exterminationist anti-Semitism. Thus, the call to “liberate” Jerusalem (al-Quds) refers to the drawing near of Islamic “End Times” and has nothing to do with achieving a two-state solution for the Israeli-Arab conflict (or East Jerusalem as the nascent capital of an Islamic Republic of Palestine). Abbott’s depiction of the Islamic State as an “apocalyptic death cult”, then, appears to be right on the money. Conversely, the accusation by leftist journalists and commentators in Australia that Tony Abbott’s analysis is mere hyperbole, intended only to boost lagging popularity at home, can be dismissed as a combination of ignorance and political point-scoring on the part of the commentariat – the very things, ironically, they accuse the Prime Minister of doing.
If I quibble about this, there is something about the wording at the start that does not come to grips with the intensity or the nature of the problems we face. ISIS are mass murderers who will murder many more if they can. I do not know where their drive for power and dominance comes from but it is not “irrational”. And “bloodcurdling” is too weak a word to do the job. With ISIS we are dealing with very rational people who are seeking power, first in the Middle East but also anywhere else they can. It is a global operation spreading with fantastic success. It is also not difficult to set up a franchise operation anywhere, which is why no country in the West is immune, where there is a large scale risk of much greater insurgency over the coming decades. ISIS is unlikely to have reached anything like the dominance it will one day have. If this doesn’t worry you, you lack political imagination and have almost no historical sense worth discussing. You are, whatever else you may think, helping to open the road to further incursions of ISIS barbarities into every part of the world.
Robert Groot, the President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, made this statement absolving the PM of missing the point.
OK, I get it. But side by side with that, I would like to see the Executive Council’s words on Obama’s agreement freeing Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Here’s my advice, Robert. You should back this Prime Minister to the hilt because whoever may be the next one is unlikely to take ISIS as seriously as Tony Abbott, and it will not matter which side of politics forms the next government for this to be true.
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