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I WAS THINKING of writing an article about the infuriating cleverness of orthodox Muslims, and I was wondering what I could use to illustrate what they're doing. And then it came to me in a flash: The movie, What About Bob?
In the movie, Bill Murray plays a psychiatric patient who drives his psychiatrist crazy (Dr. Leo Marvin, played by Richard Dreyfus).
I just watched it again and the parallels to orthodox Islam's dealings with the West are amazing. Bob uses the same techniques on Dr. Marvin that orthodox Muslims use against the United States and Europe, and with similar results: Bob successfully fools everyone except Dr. Marvin, and Dr. Marvin becomes infuriated and helpless, but unable to stop it.
Bob is able to cleverly insert himself into Dr. Marvin's life without his consent, and able to turn Dr. Marvin's friends and family against him.
As I watched, I kept stopping to write notes every time I saw a parallel. Here are my notes:
1. Bob's stand is: I am suffering. Islam's stand is: We are an oppressed people, we are under attack, we are the underdog, and we are suffering. Bob manages to make normal events in life cause him to suffer. Orthodox Muslims take anything their enemies do and turns it into "oppression." And if their enemies do nothing offensive, they create opportunities to be affronted.
Read any mainstream Muslim publication, like the Muslim Public Affairs Committee newsletter, and you will see a strong theme running through almost every article: Muslims are oppressed and persecuted (and therefore must "defend" themselves).
I subscribe to several pro-Muslim e-mail newsletters, and this is an extremely common theme. Every little "hate-crime" they can come up with proves that Muslims are an oppressed minority. I recently read this: In the year 2007, the number of hate-crimes in the U.S. committed against someone because of their religion was 1400. Here's how the hate-crimes break down by religion:
Anti-Jewish 969
Anti-Other Religion 130
Anti-Islamic 115
Anti-Multiple Religions 62
Anti-Catholic 61
Anti-Protestant 57
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 6
(Source: FBI Hate-Crime Statistics)
Over the course of a year, and with 300 million people in this country, that's a pretty low incidence of hate-crimes against Muslims. But their perpetual position is that they are an oppressed minority. Here's why.
2. Bob uses every technique he can find to keep pushing for what he wants. And he uses the one tool that gives him the most leverage with normal people: Pity. Evoke genuine pity, and you can pretty much gain any concession you want. Read more about this.
The stealth jihad uses this principle constantly. Jihadis try to portray themselves — just as their leader Mohammad did — as innocent victims of wrongdoing. Then, having aroused pity, they seek a concession of some kind.
They continue gaining concessions and giving none. Islam is a ratchet: It only goes one way.
3. Bob uses deceit masterfully. Bob hires a hooker to portray Dr. Marvin's sister to get through on the phone (when Dr. Marvin is on vacation and is not taking calls). Bob impersonates a detective and lies to the operator to get information about where Dr. Marvin is vacationing.
Islam has a principle called taqiyya, which means "religious deception." They can and do lie to non-Muslims and they have Allah's permission to do so as long as it serves the cause of Islam.
In the movie, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, there are several good examples, captured on film, of a Muslim leader speaking to Western media, saying one thing, and then it shows the same leader speaking to their fellow Muslims saying just the opposite. You see them speaking peace and tolerance to Westerners and two days later vigorously preaching jihad against the West to their fellow Muslims. This is taqiyya.
Probably the single most important reason orthodox Muslims have gotten away with so much is because they use deceit masterfully.
4. Bob pushes for concessions because he is special, unique, weird. And Bob captures everyone's attention and doesn't let them go about their normal lives.
Muslims do the same thing. In Norway, for example, Muslims were agitating for a law that would make it illegal to serve alcohol in discos on certain nights (because they are uncomfortable around alcohol). Hege Storhaug, the co-founder of Human Rights Service, rejects such a proposal. "All the time they have special rules," says Storhaug, "and we reject special requirements. We get a split-up society and Islam gets more presence in the public sphere. People force religious opinions on others. In the most extreme consequence it leads to the Islamization of society...All the time it's Muslims who come with special requirements. We never hear a peep from Catholics, Jews, Hindus, etc."
One way to try to gain a concession is to simply ask. Another way (and far more effective) is to ask while providing a good reason why an exception should be made for you that would not be made for others. Bob had "special needs" because he was agoraphobic or afraid of sailing or deathly afraid of germs, and people went out of their way to accommodate him, conceding things to him they would never concede to a normal person.
Islam does the same thing. And they often succeed (read more about what kinds of concessions they have gained). They press for concessions because they are oppressed or because they are unique (they have particular needs because of their unique religion), or because they've been wronged or persecuted or whatever.
5. Bob seems really nice to everyone but his enemy. People usually recognize Bob is unusual, but they think he is innocent. But Dr. Marvin sees what he's doing and how deliberately and insidiously he's doing it.
By the skillful use of taqiyya, Muslims — even Muslims we know to be bloodthirsty killers — are considered "really nice people" by those who don't know better. (Read a good example of that here.)
Islamic countries are often very friendly to Western countries while at the same time whipping up national hatred against those same Western countries on Islamic television stations, and funding global jihad against those same countries.
6. Bob uses public embarrassment to force concessions. When he arrives in the small town where the well-respected Dr. Marvin spends his summer vacation, Bob starts yelling at the top of his lungs in the middle of the street, "Dr. Marvin! Doctor Leo Marvin!" He keeps yelling until he has everyone's attention and Dr. Marvin can't simply ignore him and get away, which is what he was planning on doing.
Orthodox Muslims try to embarrass organizations into doing what they want. They will go to court even though they know they will lose, they will get the press involved. They'll do whatever it takes to embarrass people or companies or governments into conceding. Radio stations have fired good people because the station didn't want to deal with the public embarrassment of a lawsuit. Politicians restrain themselves and go out of their way not to say anything honest that might be offensive to the super-sensitive Muslim-advocacy organizations, because those organizations will do what they can to embarrass the politicians.
Orthodox Muslims have wormed their way into training programs for police and intelligence agencies and intimidated them into not saying anything that might lead to public embarrassment, demonstrating again and again that the Muslim organizations will use public embarrassment to silence critics of Islam.
7. Bob uses Dr. Marvin's enemies against him. There is a husband and wife in town who are angry because the rich city doctor came and bought their dream home out from under them. Bob gets these people to help him, and they do it to help ruin Dr. Marvin's life.
Orthodox Muslims are actively converting and recruiting disgruntled convicts in prison — people who are already enemies of the society. Iran sends soldiers into Iraq in order to kill U.S. soldiers, but Iran also supplies Russia and China with oil, so if the U.S. wants to do something about Iran, we will have our two biggest enemies to contend with. In essence, Iran uses our enemies against us.
Closer to home, those of us who are in the process of alerting our fellow citizens to the danger of Islam's prime directive have enemies among our own fellow non-Muslim citizens. The blind multiculturalists in the media actively fight against us, trying to discredit anyone who criticizes Islam, and the orthodox Muslims use those enemies against us.
I get a newsletter from CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) that brags in almost every issue about how they are bringing this suit against this person or sending press releases out about this or that grievance, and you can see from their wording that they are hitting every hot-button they can think of to gain sympathy from our fellow non-Muslim "enemies."
8. Bob exploits all of Dr. Marvin's weaknesses — his egotism, his desire to win his family's love and approval, his failures and embarrassments, his family's kindness and innocence, his family's resentment against Dr. Marvin's pomposity — Bob exploits it all to get what he wants.
Orthodox Muslims exploit Westerners' weaknesses, too. One of our "weaknesses" is our reverence for life. Jihadis will hide behind civilians during a battle, knowing Western soldiers will not open fire.
Here's another example of this principle, from DhimmiWatch:
"Palestinian jihad fighters have even used Christian sites and people as shields against the Israelis. In Spring 2002 they appropriated Bethlehem's Manger Square as a base of operations, knowing that Israeli forces would not attack them there and would face international opprobrium if they did. This activity precipitated the siege of the Church of the Nativity in April and May of that year. After launching attacks against the Israelis from Manger Square, a group of jihadists fled into the church, where they remained for 39 days — secure in the knowledge that Israel would not attack a Christian holy site. Meanwhile, they desecrated the church."
Orthodox Muslims are masters of exploiting their enemy's weaknesses. They immigrate into free countries and then use the democratic process and rights of free speech to agitate against those freedoms and seek to subvert the democracy, as illustrated in the ironic picture here.
They also exploit the multicultural beliefs of the resident population in order to wage jihad by gaining concessions.
9. Bob is absolutely relentless. He doesn't let up ever. Neither do orthodox Muslims. They keep infiltrating, they keep immigrating, they keep agitating, they keep killing, they keep intimidating, and they will never stop on their own. They've been doing it for 1400 years, and they are determined to keep it up until the whole world acknowledges there is no god but Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger.
10. Bob makes sure every response Dr. Marvin makes will backfire. He ensures that no matter what Dr. Marvin does to return to his normal life or solve his problem, it will not work. In the documentary, Target America, you can see each successive American president through the seventies, eighties, and nineties try many different ways of dealing with orthodox Muslims, and every attempt backfired.
The orthodox Muslims made sure they set up a situation where no matter what the U.S. did, it would go badly.
The same infuriating frustration Dr. Marvin feels is what I saw on the faces of all the presidents in Target America as they tried and failed to deal successfully with hijackings and captured hostages and bombings.
11. No matter what he does, Bob makes Dr. Marvin look like the mean one and Bob look like the innocent, underdog victim of Dr. Marvin's apparently bad-tempered selfishness. Osama bin Laden's plan was to run planes into the Twin Towers in the hopes that the U.S. would overreact, counting on the fact that the violent overreaction would cause Muslims around the world to unite against the West.
Many people think that's exactly what happened. Muslims flew planes into the Twin Towers, killing thousands of office workers, and in the end, the U.S. looks like the mean one to a lot of people, and Muslims look like the underdog victims who only need potable water and a little compassion from big, bad America.
12. Bob causes Dr. Marvin's wife and kids to sympathize with Bob and to resent and reject Dr. Marvin. They all try to look out for poor Bob. They push for Bob to get what he wants. This is analogous to orthodox Muslims causing multiculturalist Westerners to sympathize with Muslims and turn against their fellow countrymen who are trying to protect us all from further harm.
So we have one group of people in the U.S. who want to make sure we're no longer vulnerable to attack by orthodox Muslims. And we have another segment of the U.S. who wants "stop the hate," wants to "give peace a chance," and wants to stop "racial profiling."
In other words, orthodox Muslims have successfully turned some of our own people against each other. They have manipulated the situation so some non-Muslims are pushing for the orthodox Muslims to get what they want.
This is not just happening in America, it is happening in free countries all over the world.
13. Bob keeps provoking a hostile overreaction from Dr. Marvin and then appears to be the innocent victim of Dr. Marvin's cruel insensitivity, and then he leverages that to gain concessions. If Dr. Marvin doesn't respond, Bob escalates or persists in his provocation until Dr. Marvin can't take it any more and bursts out in anger.
One memorable example from the movie is the dinner scene. Bob moaned with pleasure while he was eating. He kept moaning and saying, "This is so delicious!" And he kept it up until Dr. Marvin suddenly yells at him to shut up. All of Dr. Marvin's family looks at him with anger and embarrassment. Bob looks like the innocent victim of Dr. Marvin's irrational rage.
Here's a good example from William Bennett's Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism:
"From the beginning, the Palestinian strategy was, and still is, to provoke outrages to which Israel has had no choice but to respond with stringent countermeasures, thereby supplying endless footage of Palestinian casualties and eliciting fresh pressure by the West to accommodate ever-escalating Palestinian demands. Israel's commitment to peace stimulated in the Palestinians not a spirit of reciprocal amicableness but an appetite for more..."
14. Bob knows full well what he's doing, but successfully appears innocent to everyone but Dr. Marvin, who sees right through him but can't get anyone else to see it. Those of us who have been trying to alert our fellow Westerners to Islam's relentless encroachment are having a very difficult time.
Islam appears innocent to many people, and to them, we are suspect. We must be racists or bigots or Islamophobes. This assessment effectively shuts their ears to accurate information about something real enough to cause over seventeen thousand deadly attacks since 9/11.
15. Dr. Marvin clearly expects the problem (Bob) to go away, but he will never go. He keeps insinuating himself more and more thoroughly into Dr. Marvin's life. Almost every non-Muslim I talk to about Islam's relentless encroachment expects someone to take care of it and expects the problem to go away. But it isn't going away. It's getting worse. Islamic supremacists are insinuating themselves more and more thoroughly into Western societies.
16. Bob is skillful, but conceals it. Dr. Marvin comes up with a brilliant scheme to admit Bob into a mental institution, but the institution can only legally hold Bob for 24 hours before they let him go. They can keep him there only if the staff agrees Bob needs to be institutionalized. Dr. Marvin is sure everyone will see Bob is crazy, but they don't. Within a few hours, they release Bob. Bob completely charmed the staff, telling jokes and cracking everyone up.
Like Bob, Islam is skillful, but conceals it. The more I learn about the clever infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into mainstream American life, the more impressed I am at the long-range planning and the skillful, sophisticated understanding of the American mind. (Read more about that here.)
One branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. They have successfully fooled most people in America that they represent moderate, peace-loving Muslim Americans. Read about what they are really up to.
17. Bob is in it for the long haul. Eventually, Dr. Marvin loses his mind, goes off the deep end, and he becomes violent and irrational, mainly because nobody else sees what Bob is really doing except Dr. Marvin.
Orthodox Muslims find every crack in the wall they can find and work their way in. And they twist every event and utterance to their purpose. They will not stop, they will not tire, and they have nothing else to live for. This is it. This is the meaning of their existence: Islam must win. Islam must dominate all other cultures, all other religions, all other governments. Allah wills it.
They have infiltrated our schools by giving donations to colleges and then using their seat on the board to exert influence (creating a campus culture of Islam-loving, America-hating students). Orthodox Muslims offered the British government and banks on Wall Street money to help them through the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but with strings attached — the money is "Shari'a compliant" which means, among other things, that there is a built-in written agreement that a certain portion of the money goes to particular charities — charities that support jihad against the West.
Orthodox Muslims have created "legitimate," mainstream organizations that lobby Washington and "represent the Muslim community" to governments and to the media, and yet have a secret agenda, revealed at the recent Holy Land Foundation Trial, of conquering America from within.
The list goes on and on. They are in it for the long haul, and they absolutely will not stop, ever. They won't grow tired or give up. If they are going to be stopped, we must stop them. And we had better do it with more success than Dr. Marvin had with Bob.
To get rid of Bob, out of mad frustration, Dr. Marvin tries to blow him up, but Bob ends up "accidentally" blowing Dr. Marvin's vacation home to smithereens, and then marries Dr. Marvin's sister!
Bob won. Dr. Marvin lost. We've got to do better.
Would you like to entertain yourself while watching a demonstration of Jihadi techniques? Watch What About Bob?
And while you're watching, see if you can come up with ideas we can use. What would you do if you were Dr. Marvin?
Come back here and leave your ideas in the comments. This is serious business and we need all the smart ideas we can get.
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Labels: barriers to defeating the third jihad
The Tennessee Freedom Coalition
WHEN THE United States is in a tough fight, Tennessee always comes through. When the War of 1812 broke out between the United States and Britain, 2,000 Tennesseans volunteered to fight under General Andrew Jackson. The Tennesseans made up the main part of Jackson's army that defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.
In the Mexican war, Tennessee was asked to call up 2,800 men. But 30,000 volunteered. Tennessee is known as the "volunteer state" for good reason. And they're still earning that moniker today. All over the world, people are yielding to Islam's relentless encroachment. But Tennesseans aren't having it.
Orthodox Muslims have come to Tennessee to push their agenda, but they've come to the wrong place.
Leading the fight is the Tennessee Freedom Coalition (TFC), a non-partisan grassroots movement led by executive director Lou Ann Zelenik and chairman Andy Miller.
Among TFC's goals is to "educate citizens on the realities of Sharia and stop the growth of radical Islam." They create events that inform people with educational forums and expert speakers, and by conducting political workshops.
They've only been in existence for a few months, and already TFC has accomplished two remarkable things: They partnered with Americans for Peace and Tolerance to make a professional documentary that exposed radical Islamist preachers in Nashville — preachers who had been accepted by the city leadership and the media as "moderates," but who were indoctrinating students at both Vanderbilt and Tennessee State University (as well as their mosque members in Nashville) with extremist, anti-American views.
You can see their first-rate 16-minute video on YouTube here: Losing Our Community. This video had a significant part to play in alerting legislators to what needed to be done, and they recently voted overwhelmingly to approve an anti-terrorism bill in a 26-3 landslide in Tennessee's Senate. The vote passed in the House a few days earlier, 76-16. The bill allows Tennessee to prosecute anyone who provides material support for terrorism of any kind.
The other important thing TFC has accomplished is the inaugural Signature Series event on May 12, 2011. The main speakers were Geert Wilders, Sam Solomon, and Bill Warner. This event also had a major educational influence on Tennessee politicians and helped the anti-terrorism bill pass. Many state legislators had a chance to meet with and listen to Geert Wilders at this event, and the very next day, the bill had 14 new co-sponsors!
You can read an excellent first-hand account of the event by Baron Bodissey here: Tennessee the Model. But I'd like to quote Bodissey briefly here, just to give you an idea of what kind of event it was:
Last week's events in Nashville can provide inspiration for the rest of the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and anywhere else in world where grassroots groups are resisting Islamization. Tennessee can also serve as a model for future actions all across the American heartland.
This was the largest and most effective event of its type that I have ever attended, and one of the main reasons for its success was the mega-church environment. I realize that this doesn't sit well with some of our atheist or secular readers, but it's hard to argue with effectiveness.
The plans to bring in Mr. Wilders gained TFC some media attention a day or two ahead of the event, but most of the advance publicity was by word-of-mouth through churches, civic organizations, and the local Republican party. The venue was ideal for a large crowd, since it could seat as many people as a convention hall, and had enough parking to accommodate all their vehicles. The church already had the expertise and personnel to direct traffic, deal with crowd control, and provide security. With the local police cooperating, the setup was orderly and secure.
There was no entry fee.
The audience response to the speeches was uniformly positive and enthusiastic — Geert Wilders was interrupted by applause over and over again. One could tell that people had been desperate to hear these things actually spoken out loud. These were opinions which they had thought were forbidden, but which they now understood to be held in common with thousands of other Tennesseans. Mr. Wilders reminded them of their rights under the First Amendment — as he said, "here I can say what I want to say without having to fear that I will be dragged to court upon leaving this church."
Thousands of people who had never heard of Geert Wilders have now listened to him and understood his message.
TFC has a DVD of the inaugural Signature Series event, which you can purchase here: Geert Wilders' Warning to America. The Nashville event was Wilders' only United States appearance during his last visit. You can see Bill Warner's speech, which is included on the DVD, here.
The DVD is perfect for sharing with people who have not yet fully "embraced the horror" (people who haven't yet accepted the idea that Islam is not a religion of peace). They will see and hear with their own eyes that there are a lot of people who appreciate this information. From the applause you can hear on the DVD, you can tell the audience is enormous. It isn't a few crackpot conspiracy theorists in a dingy basement. This is a mainstream, well-attended, openly-publicized event, and this lends a tremendous feeling of legitimacy to the whole affair that will have a positive influence on your skeptical friends and family.
A couple of days before the inaugural Signature Series event, TFC had a smaller event which included a barbecue and a lecture by Sam Solomon. Twenty-five legislators attended this event. When Solomon first stood up to speak, he wasn't getting much attention. Many people in the audience were texting or doing something with their phones. But as soon as Solomon began speaking, they could not look away.
Solomon speaks with authority. He is a not only a former Muslim, he is a former Middle Eastern Muslim scholar and professor of Sharia law who can still easily recite the Koran from memory. He speaks fluent Arabic. He's now a senior lecturer and research coordinator, a human rights activist and an advisor to British as well as European parliamentarians.
At the TFC barbecue event, Solomon took the room under his spell and many of the legislators afterwards remarked about how much Solomon's talk had advanced their understanding of the very real threat Sharia law poses to the West.
Beforehand the legislators were told they wouldn't have to endure more than 30 minutes of lecture time. But they asked so many questions, the session was stopped after an hour and 20 minutes. This doubtless had a strong influence on the anti-terrorism bill landslide I mentioned above.
This fall TFC is planning an event centering around "jihad hotels" and illegal immigration.
The Tennessee Freedom Coalition is a new and formidable force in the counterjihad movement. I encourage you to sign up for the TFC email updates, to "like" TFC on Facebook, and to follow TFC on Twitter. You can contact them at tnfreedomcoalition@gmail.com.
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The Betrayal of the Christians of Bradford UK
The following was written by Babs Barron, originally published on FaithFreedom.org and republished with permission:
I have just read an account of wilful dhimmitude in an online article in the UK Daily Telegraph. It exemplifies so much of what endangers UK society in the face of the tide of Islam which threatens to engulf it, and such wilful and irresponsible blindness to that danger, that I could hardly believe what I was reading. I invite readers to try to make sense of it alongside me:
It concerns a statement by the Church of England Bishop of Bradford, the Right Reverend Nick Baines, to the General Synod in York, in which he says that some parishes in his diocese were 95% Muslim but that this should not be seen as a problem. Were he talking about a predominance any other ideological belief system then he might have a valid point — I cannot imagine Sikhs or Hindus or Jews or Rastafarians or Zoroastrians or any ideology other than Islam causing problems for their neighbours in such numbers — but the Bishop is talking about Islam which, as we know and so should he, is constitutionally incapable of coexisting peacefully alongside any other ideology when it is in the majority.
The Bishop's statement is an indication of wilful ignorance, yes, but it is also a slap in the face to the Christians who are under threat from Islamic supremacism all over the world (see also here and here). Baines' ignoring the threat to the Christians of Bradford has betrayed his brothers and sisters in Christ there and has given Islam yet more purchase in the UK. The UK government has not the courage to curb the immigration from Muslim countries which has resulted in this state of affairs, or to stand firm against the sort of tensions which arise when Muslims form a majority in any geographical area.
A charitable explanation for all this might be that Baines is simply afraid to name the dangers of the encroachment of Islam for what they are and to speak out against the Muslim predominance in Bradford. Perhaps he believes that if he had the temerity to speak as plainly as the former Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir Ali, about no-go areas for kufar in parts of the UK he would receive the same death threats. Baines, however, seems blissfully ignorant that Nazir Ali's warnings have been borne out in Tower Hamlets in London. If the Synod speech arose out of fear it was motivated in equal measure by Baines making a virtue out of a necessity when he dressed his dhimmitude in the false clothing of Christian humility. From the Telegraph article:
"This is a fantastic opportunity," he [Baines] told the General Synod, the Church of England's national assembly, in York.
"It is a challenge, yes, but it's an opportunity to rethink what it means to be a Christian community. We often ask Muslims to learn what it is to be a Muslim as a minority culture.
"Maybe we could benefit from learning some of the same lessons in some of our cities."
Really? The poor, mystified fool! He makes the mistake of assuming that just because Christianity would treat minorities with respect, an Islamised Bradford will respect his Church! At base level he must recognise that it will not otherwise he would not be trying so hard to talk up the idea, but, chillingly, he seems not to grasp that Islam will not be satisfied with a finger, or a hand, or even an arm, but that it will not be content until it has consumed him and his kind entirely. Before very long there may not be a Christian community worthy of the name in Bradford!
As Paul Weston writes in The Multi-Layered Betrayal of Britain on the Gates of Vienna:
"But at the top of the pile sits Islam. Imported and appeased by politicians of all parties, Islam is the real winner here and is promoted as the religion of peace when it is clearly no such thing. Polygamy laws are ignored in order that Muslims may demographically destroy us, laws are introduced to curtail any criticism on pain of exhibiting "Islamophobia", and money is directed toward them in order that they need not work to house their multiple wives and children even as they plan to overthrow us.
"The rest of us, however — the war veterans, the elderly, the young, the new-born, the indigenous population, the non-Islamic immigrants, the middle-class, the working-class and the Christians — have been betrayed in our entirety."
And the Rt Rev Nick Baines is complicit in that betrayal.
Comparing Totalitarian Systems
A hearty thank you to Fobo 7 for the image below. It's something everyone should see. (Click on the picture to see it larger.)
Not So Long Ago...
The following is an excerpt from the excellent book, The New Concise History of the Crusades:
After Orkhan's death in 1360, the Ottomans began their European conquests in earnest. In 1361, they captured most of Thrace, including Adrianople, which became their capital in the West. By the end of the fourteenth century, they controlled all of Bulgaria and most of Greece. Constantinople itself was completely surrounded — a citizen could leave the empire simply by walking outside the city gates.
The rise of the Ottoman Turks and their successful campaigns to the West dramatically changed the stakes in the crusading movement. It was no longer faraway Palestine that was in danger but western Europe itself. Crusaders had always seen themselves as fighting a defensive war, defending the Christians in the East, Jerusalem, or the faith. Now they were called on to defend themselves. Henceforth, crusades were no longer wars to expand Christendom (to reinstate its existence after Christendom had been largely overrun by Islamic hordes) but desperate attempts to slow the advance of Islam (into Europe). Crusading had become a matter of simple survival.
The destruction of the Crusade of Nicopolis was a devastating defeat for western Europe. Hungary lay virtually defenseless before the sultan's armies, and beyond that was the German Empire. For the first time, Europeans began to consider seriously what life would be like under Turkish occupation, in a world in which there were no Christian states.
Read more about the Crusades.
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The following is an email we received from a former Muslim. We are reprinting it with his permission:
I was born and raised as Muslim. My name is Abdul Rahman. My whole family is still Muslim. I know the Islamic brain very well. I have lived and breathed with them. I am an insider. I left Islam when I understood Islam is a sick and evil religion. Muslims can fool the gullible West but can't fool us, the ex-Muslims. On this basis I write the following.
Fighting terrorism is easier than fighting the evil teachings of Islam. These evil teachings are already inside the West. Muslims do not need Osama Bin Laden or Zarqawi to lead them. Their inspiration for violence comes directly from the Quran and from Islamic history. One small independent group of Muslims in the West can create havoc.
Ali Sina, of FaithFreedom.org, thinks he can bring down this 1400 years old religion in his lifetime. Is he dreaming? How can you defeat an enemy who has the following agenda? Also remember that the greatest strength of Muslims is that they do not read any site or books that talk against Islam. Most Muslims do not even read the Quran in their own language.
Who will tell you the truth about Islam? Muslims? Of course not. Muslims can't even see the evil in Islam. The West? The gullible West has no clue. Then who? Ex-Muslims and ex-Muslims only can expose Islam to the West.
Muslims believe Islam will rule the world, very soon. They are committed to it. The constitution for the new Islamic Republic of EU and USA is under construction. Welcome to the 21st Century Islamic Warfare. To the infidels of the West, Muslims say: We will fight the infidel to death. And they mean it.
Meanwhile, Muslims are able to say with complete confidence:
American laws will protect us.
Democrats and Leftist will support us.
The UNO will legitimize us.
CAIR and MAB will incubate us.
The ACLU will support us.
Western Universities will educate us.
Mosques in the West will shelter us.
OPEC will finance us.
Moderate Muslims will fertilize us.
Hollywood will love us.
Koffi Annan will publish the politically correct sympathetic statements for Jihadists.
We will use your (West) welfare system.
We will take advantage of American kindness, gullibility, and compassion. When time comes, we will stab America in the back as we did on 9/11 and 7/7, the Islamic way. We will say one thing on the camera (Islam is the religion of peace) and teach another thing (Quran 8:12 Terrorize and behead the infidels wherever you find them) to our children at home.
We will teach our children Islamic supremacy from their earliest childhood. We will take over Europe first and then the U.S. will be the next. We already have a solid ground in the UK, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Germany, and now in the U.S.
Who are we? We are the "sleeper cells" next door.
At the time of the real fight we will hold our own children as our armor – this is the Islamic way. When American or Israeli troops shoot at us the world will be watching. Imagine, just imagine the news in the world: "Death of Muslim babies by infidels".
We say to the West: Keep your Nukes in your curio cabinets. Keep your aircraft carriers and high-tech weaponry in the showcase. You can't use them against us because of your own higher moral standard. We will take the advantage of your (Western) higher moral standard and use it against you. We won't hesitate to use our children as suicide bombers against you.
The West manufactures their tanks in the factory. We Muslims will manufacture our military force by natural means — by producing more babies. It is cheaper that way. You infidels cannot defeat us. We are 1.2 billion strong and we will double our population again.
Using the Western legal system we will assert our Sharia Laws, slowly but surely.
Moderate Muslims will say there is no link between Islam and terrorism and the West will believe it because the West is so gullible. Moderate Muslims all over the world will inadvertently incubate Jihadists by defending Islam as a religion of peace, by telling this to their children and the world.
There will be more 9/11s in Europe and in America. We will say, "We do not support terrorism but America got what it deserved."
We will recite the Quran and say Allah-Hu-Akbar before beheading infidels, as we have been doing it. We will videotape those and send them to infidels to watch. The infidels will surrender — ISLAM means surrender.
Islam is the fastest growing religion among convicts in prison all over the word. 30% of French prison inmates are already converted to Islam.
We will use your (Western) own values of kindness against you. You (the West) are destined to lose.
Must be very depressing for you (the West). Isn't it?
Allah-Hu-Akbar (as we like to say just before beheading you; it means God is Great).
The rules of war and intelligence-gathering that the world has evolved over the last 100 years count on some fundamental laws of humanity. For example there is some Geneva conventions even for the battlefield. For example, even in the battlefield you give enemy a chance to surrender. You do not take random hostages, behead them, videorecord it, and post it on the internet. Generally, a mother will try to save her babies and children — they won't sacrifice her own babies for her religion. These are basics of morality for the human race and have been for a very long time, even before religions came along.
Modern Islamic warfare did away with all of the above morality. The equation of war has changed. One major mistake the West has made is to believe terrorists need a structural hiarchical power structure to fight an enemy. Islamic teachings prepare Muslims from childhood to act on their own wherever they can — even without the authorization from his/her superiors. No wonder you are seeing so many independent Muslim terrorists all over the world. These are entrepreneur terrorists.
These sleeper cells go beyond national origin, language, race, or citizenship. Terrorists could be British born-and-raised citizens, or American Taliban. There is only one thread that binds them together that is "ISLAM."
My, our (ex-Muslims'), message to the West is until the West identifies, names, and warns the public who the real enemy is, the West won't have chance to win this war. The real enemy is "Islam." As long as Mr. Bush, Blair, and the other world leaders are afraid to call a spade a spade, and as long as they keep saying in public the blatant lie that "Islam is a religion of peace" — we run the risk losing our freedom.
Our freedom already is curtailed. No major newspapers, magazines, or TV reproduced the Mohammad cartoons in America. They were afraid. So, in effect, 6 million Muslims in America and 1.2 billion Muslims around the globe severely restricted our freedom of expression without officially legislating their Sharia laws that prohibits Mohammad's caricature. We now have unwritten partial Sharia laws in practice in the USA.
Remember ex-Muslims like me are the insiders. We are exposing Islam to the West so we can enjoy Western freedom. Our websites are: FaithFreedom.org, and ApostatesOfIslam.com.
Qur'an 8:67 "It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land."
Qur'an 8:12 "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle."
The author of the above is Abdul Rahman, who goes by an alias to protect himself from Islamic extremists. The Quran is very explicit in its treatment of apostates (people who leave the Muslim faith). The penalty for leaving Islam is death. Once you're in, you're in for good. Read what other apostates have written.
Read more: The Terrifying Brilliance of the Islamic Memeplex
Read still more: The Life Of Muhammad
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Robert Durst, actual property tycoon convicted of homicide, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, the rich New York actual property inheritor and failed fugitive dogged for many years with suspicion within the disappearance and deaths of these round him earlier than he was convicted final yr of killing his finest buddy, has died. He was 78.
Durst died of pure causes Monday in a hospital exterior the California jail the place he was serving a life sentence, in keeping with the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Durst had been held in a hospital lockup in Stockton as a result of a litany of illnesses.
Durst was convicted in September of capturing Susan Berman at point-blank vary at her Los Angeles residence in 2000. He was sentenced Oct. 14 to life in jail with out parole.
Durst had lengthy been suspected of killing his spouse, Kathie, who went lacking in New York 1982 and was declared legally useless a long time later.
However solely after Los Angeles prosecutors proved he silenced Berman to forestall her from telling police she helped cowl up Kathie's killing was Durst indicted by a New York grand jury in November for second-degree homicide in his spouse's demise.
Westchester County prosecutors, who had been attempting to get Durst transferred there to face the cost, stated they deliberate to disclose new particulars in regards to the case in coming days.
"After 40 years spent searching for justice for her demise, I understand how upsetting this information should be for Kathleen Durst's household," District Legal professional Miriam Rocah stated in a press release. "We had hoped to permit them the chance to see Mr. Durst lastly face expenses for Kathleen's homicide as a result of we all know that every one households by no means cease wanting closure, justice and accountability."
Los Angeles prosecutors advised jurors Durst additionally obtained away with homicide in Texas after capturing a person who found his id when he was hiding out in Galveston in 2001. Durst was acquitted of homicide in that case in 2003, after testifying he shot the person as they struggled for a gun.
Deputy District Legal professional John Lewin stated Los Angeles jurors advised him after the decision that they believed Durst had killed his spouse and murdered Morris Black in Texas.
Durst's undoing was largely as a result of his hubris.
After beating the cost in Texas, in a bid to rehabilitate his picture, he reached out to filmmakers who had portrayed his life — not favorably — within the 2010 massive display function, "All Good Issues," starring Ryan Gosling as Durst. He provided to sit down down for a sequence of prolonged interviews about his life.
It was a call he advised jurors he deeply regretted.
Durst, who later stated he was utilizing methamphetamine in the course of the interviews, made a number of damning statements together with a surprising confession throughout an unguarded second within the six-part HBO documentary sequence "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst."
The present made his identify recognized to a brand new era and introduced renewed scrutiny and suspicion from authorities.
The night time earlier than the ultimate episode aired, Durst was arrested in Berman's killing whereas hiding out below an alias in a New Orleans resort, the place he was caught with a gun, greater than $40,000 money and a head-to-shoulders latex masks for a presumed getaway.
The finale's climax got here with him mumbling to himself in a toilet whereas nonetheless sporting sizzling mic saying: "You're caught! What the hell did I do? Killed all of them, after all."
The quotes have been later revealed to have been manipulated for dramatic impact however the manufacturing — carried out in opposition to the recommendation of Durst's attorneys and associates — dredged up new proof together with an envelope that related him to the scene of Berman's killing in addition to incriminating statements he made.
Police had obtained a be aware directing them to Berman's residence with solely the phrase "CADAVER" written in block letters.
In interviews given between 2010 and 2015, Durst advised the makers of the "The Jinx" that he didn't write the be aware, however whoever did had killed her.
"You're writing a be aware to the police that solely the killer might have written," Durst stated.
His protection attorneys conceded within the run-up to trial that Durst had written the be aware, and prosecutors stated it amounted to a confession.
Clips from "The Jinx," and "All Good Issues" had starring roles at trial.
As did Durst himself. He took the chance of once more taking the stand for what turned out to be about three weeks of testimony. It didn't work because it had in Texas.
Underneath devastating cross-examination by prosecutor Lewin, Durst admitted he lied below oath prior to now and would do it once more to dodge hassle.
"'Did you kill Susan Berman?' is strictly a hypothetical," Durst stated from the stand. "I didn't kill Susan Berman. But when I had, I might lie about it."
The jury promptly returned a responsible verdict.
It lengthy appeared he would keep away from any convictions.
Durst went on the run in late 2000 after New York authorities reopened an investigation into his spouse's disappearance, renting a modest condominium in Galveston and disguising himself as a mute lady.
In 2001, the physique elements of a neighbor, Black, started washing up in Galveston Bay.
Arrested within the killing, Durst jumped bail. He was caught shoplifting a sandwich six weeks later in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the place he had gone to school. Police discovered $37,000 money and two handguns in his automotive.
He later quipped that he was "the worst fugitive the world has ever met."
He would testify that Black had pulled a gun on him and died when the weapon went off throughout a battle.
He advised jurors intimately how he purchased instruments and downed a bottle of Jack Daniels earlier than dismembering Black's physique and tossing it out to sea. Whereas he was cleared of homicide, he pleaded responsible to violating his bail, and to proof tampering for the dismemberment. He served three years in jail.
Durst had bladder most cancers and his well being deteriorated in the course of the Berman trial. He was escorted into court docket in a wheelchair sporting jail apparel every day as a result of his attorneys stated he was unable to vary right into a swimsuit. However the choose declined additional delays after a 14-month pause in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
At his sentencing, Durst entered the courtroom with a wide-eyed vacant stare. Legal professional Dick DeGuerin stated he was "very, very sick" — the worst he seemed within the 20 years he spent representing him.
Close to the top of the listening to after Berman's family members advised the choose that her demise upended their lives, Durst coughed onerous and appeared to battle to breathe. His chest heaved and he pulled his masks down under his mouth to gulp for air.
He was hospitalized two days later with COVID-19 and DeGuerin stated he was on a ventilator. However Durst apparently recovered and was transferred to state jail the place mug pictures confirmed no signal of a ventilator.
The son of actual property magnate Seymour Durst, Robert Durst was born April 12, 1943, and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. He would later say that at age 7, he witnessed his mom's demise in a fall from their residence.
He graduated with an economics diploma in 1965 from Lehigh College, the place he performed lacrosse. He entered a doctoral program on the College of California, Los Angeles, the place he met Berman, however dropped out and returned to New York in 1969.
He grew to become a developer within the household enterprise, however his father handed him over to make his youthful brother, and rival, Douglas the top of the Durst Group in 1992.
Durst broke ties together with his household, reaching a settlement with a household belief. He was estimated to have a fortune of about $100 million.
Douglas Durst testified at trial that he feared his brother needed to kill him.
"Bob lived a tragic, painful and tragic life," he stated in a press release Monday. "We hope his demise brings some closure to these he harm."
In 1971, Robert Durst met Kathie McCormack, and the 2 married on his thirtieth birthday in 1973.
In January 1982, his spouse was a pupil in her last yr at medical faculty when she disappeared. She had proven up unexpectedly at a buddy's feast in Newtown, Connecticut, then left after a name from her husband to return to their residence in South Salem, New York.
Robert Durst advised police he final noticed her when he put her on a practice to remain at their condominium in Manhattan as a result of she had lessons the following day.
Prosecutors stated Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, posed as Kathie Durst to name Albert Einstein School of Drugs the following morning to say she was sick and would not be at her hospital rotation. The decision offered an alibi for Robert Durst as a result of it made it seem his spouse made it safely to Manhattan after he noticed her.
He would divorce her eight years later, claiming spousal abandonment, and in 2017, at her household's request, she was declared legally useless.
Kathie McCormack Durst's household stated they plan to offer an replace on Jan. 31 — the fortieth anniversary of her disappearance — into an investigation of others who helped cowl up her killing, lawyer Robert Abrams stated.
Robert Durst is survived by his second spouse Debrah Charatan, whom he married in 2000. He had no kids.
Underneath California legislation, a conviction is vacated if a defendant dies whereas the case is below enchantment, stated Laurie Levenson, a legislation professor at Loyola Regulation College.
Legal professional Chip Lewis stated Durst had appealed.
Related Press author Michelle A. Monroe in Phoenix contributed.
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Secret Societies & Ancient Thought
Date Sunday - September 17, 2006
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In a 90-minute conversation author Philip Gardiner shared his research into secret societies, both modern and ancient, and how history, mythology, and symbolism intertwine with religious thought. "History is the biggest lie on the planet," he said, arguing that propaganda often informs the way events are recorded. Among the secret societies he has investigated include the Holy Vehm, known in the past for conducting "judgments" i.e. killing people out in the woods. They exist today as a kind of Neo Nazi group, he said.
Gardiner described his indoctrination into a secret society called "The Knights of the Temple," which involved a ritual with a goat's head and a naked woman that was conducted in a bunker. Yet once he was in the organization, their meetings/teachings offered basic psychology lessons for self-improvement rather than anything sinister, he reported.
The cult of the serpent goes back to earliest times, he said. Interestingly, he shared that new research has shown that a certain mixture of snake venom and blood can be an immune booster for the body, and may increase longevity. He related this to the Holy Grail-- which he interprets as referring to a "mixing bowl" rather than Royal Blood. He also touched on how quantum entanglement may explain some types of paranormal and spiritual phenomena.
The last 90-minutes of the show was devoted to Open Lines, with many of the callers reacting to the guest's ideas.
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Some Central Banks Reportedly Looking to Issue a CBDC Within 10 Years
Generally, 35% of central banks were more inclined to issue a CBDC despite recent events in crypto, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum said in a report surveying 18 entities.
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Crypto is in the depths of a winter recently spurred by bankruptcy filings from some of the most prominent companies, including exchange FTX and crypto lender Celsius Network but these market conditions have only convinced countries to develop central bank digital currencies (CBDC), and no later than within 10 years, according to a Thursday report by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF).
A CBDC is a digital currency issued by a central bank. Two-thirds of the central banks OMFIF surveyed said they would issue a CBDC within 10 years and none said they would issue one later than that, according to OMFIF's annual report, "Future of Payments".
OMFIF is an independent think tank that focuses on global policy and investment issues involving central banking, economic policy and public investment, according to its website.
According to the report, generally 35% of central banks were more inclined to issue a CBDC despite recent events in crypto, while none were less inclined to issue one, the survey of 18 central banks found.
Central banks have been ramping up their efforts to look into CBDCs. The Atlantic Council said that 105 countries are exploring a CBDC, representing 95% of the global gross domestic product, up from 35 countries in May 2020. The Bahamas, Nigeria, Eastern Caribbean and Jamaica have already issued a CBDC, the report said, while China is further along than most other nations in its CBDC trials.
"Overall, if central banks decide to issue a CBDC, they expect deployment to come sooner rather than later," the report said.
The main reasons that central banks gave in the report for wanting to issue a CBDC were that they wanted to preserve the central banks role and boost financial inclusion. However, many central banks have suggested that the crash of FTX only showed the need for a CBDC as a safe alternative solution. Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe echoed those very words recently and suggested the U.K. may need to issue a CBDC.
Also, Fabio Panetta, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, said on Monday that a digital euro could be a more "risk free and dependable" digital settlement asset than crypto.
Read more: ECB Official Says Energy-Intensive Crypto Should Be Banned
However, CBDCs are not without their risks and challenges. They could expose economies to "greater systematic financial risk brought on by volatility and sudden foreign exchange fluctuations," the report said. Plus, central banks will have to workout how they can use a CBDC to ensure inclusion if not everyone has access to digital technology, the report said.
UPDATE (Dec. 8 17:30 UTC): Provides background information on OMFIF.
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Now that you've brought up money, what about money anyway?
And you were the one who brought it up.
What are your thought on money? Why does it hold so much power, have so much control?
You gave money power and you gave money control over you.
Which is pretty interesting don't you think?
Because money is a concept – now more so than ever.
Money is a belief you hold and you have come to an agreement on what that belief is among many of you.
And for those who don't have money you want to find ways to bring it to them.
Do you not find this very similar to what you call religion – especially those who do mission work to spread "the word"?
You have changed one god for another.
And the more people you have believing in your god the more power you have – over others and everything else.
You will live whether or not you have money. There are millions of people on your planet doing this every day.
But they live a hard life. Maybe on the brink of death every day.
That may be true but you should take a good look – an objective look – at what is really going on.
Have you created their dire circumstances for them?
Have you set up the situation so they cannot win?
What were their lives like before your money and your businesses came along?
Take a very clear look at what has gone on and your hand in creating that.
Take a good look at your hand in creating the life you now lead.
Your money is merely a reflection of you because you are your money.
If you give your power away would you not expect your money to go away too?
Perhaps. But we still need money to live.
Only because you have set up your system that way.
If your system falls apart all your money will lose its power. You say it will have no value.
It has no value now save the value you give it.
Your games around money area as big as the games you play around me – your religions.
There is no game to play.
Do not take yourself at face value.


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Lecture: The Moral Basis of Capitalism
Join us Tuesday, August 30, 2016 for a lecture by Professor Andrew Bernstein on The Moral Basis of Capitalism in lecture hall at the Harry C. Moore Library at College of The Bahamas starting at 6:30pm.
This talk opens by doing what is rarely done in political discourse: It provides rigorous definitions of such key concepts as "capitalism," socialism," "mixed economy," and others. On this foundation, it shows that capitalism, the system of individual rights, protects an individual's right to his/her own life and, consequently, to his/her own mind. Because of this, it liberates human brain power to make life-giving advances in every field. Numerous examples are provided from America's freest period, the late-19th century, the period I dubbed, in my book, The Capitalist Manifesto, the "Inventive Period." Under full socialism, conversely, a person's life is socialized; it belongs not to him/her but to society. It stands to reason that if an individual's life belongs to the state, so does his/her mind—and the only "thinking" he/she can do is that permitted by the state; all else is banned. Cultural stagnation and collapse are thereby assured. (This talk was given, in academic 2013-14, at Wayne State University and—under the auspices of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism (CISC) and the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS)— at Clemson University. It is based on material from my book, The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire [University Press of America, 2005].)
The event is free of charge. Donations welcome.
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Andrew Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has taught Philosophy at the State University of New York at Purchase, Marist College, Hunter College, the State University of New York at New Paltz, and other New York-area universities. He was selected as "Teacher of the Year" at both SUNY Purchase—and at Marymount College.
He lectures regularly on college campuses, including at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, Columbia University, UCLA, Georgia Tech, Northwestern University, and numerous others. He speaks at many other venues, including—but not limited to—Tea Parties, Objectivist conferences, and events sponsored by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism (CISC), and the Bastiat Society. Internationally, he has lectured in England, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Norway, Bulgaria, Canada, Israel, Guatemala, and additional countries. His areas of expertise include Objectivism, Ayn Rand's novels, the nature of heroism, the history of capitalism and its moral superiority to other systems, and application of the principle of individual rights to a broad array of topical issues, including health care, abortion, gun ownership, immigration, and the war on drugs. He also lectures at high schools, both in the New York area and nationally, regarding Ayn Rand's novels and philosophy.
He is the author of The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire (University Press of America, 2005), Objectivism in One Lesson: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ayn Rand (Hamilton Books, 2008), Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights (University Press of America, 2010), and Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas (Transaction Publishers, 2011). Additionally, he has published numerous essays, many in The Objective Standard, for which he is a contributing editor, and many in other publications, including op-ed essays for Forbes.com. His op-eds have appeared in—among other newspapers— the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press. In 2013-14, he was the Hayek Research Fellow at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism at Clemson University, where he taught courses in Economics and in Political Science and, principally, researched and wrote the first draft of his forthcoming book, Heroes and Hero Worship: An Examination of the Nature and Importance of Heroism.
Dr. Bernstein is co-host of a weekly blogtalk radio program, Objectively Speaking.


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Q: Unique values across ManyToMany fields on Django I need some assistance with a quite simple problem (simple to explain, but not to solve for me)
I have the following model in Django:
class ClassGroup(models.Model):
    group = models.CharField(_('group'), max_length=3)
    course = models.ForeignKey(Course,
                               related_name='classgroups',
                               related_query_name='classgroup',
                               verbose_name=_('course'))
    students = models.ManyToManyField(Actor,
                                      related_name='student_classgroups',
                                      related_query_name='student_classgroup',
                                      verbose_name=_('student'))
    lecturers = models.ManyToManyField(Actor,
                                       related_name='lecturer_classgroups',
                                       related_query_name='lecturer_classgroup',
                                       verbose_name=_('lecturer'))

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = _('class group')
        verbose_name_plural = _('class groups')
        unique_together = ('group', 'course')

I need to add a constraint that prevents an Actor to be a student and a lecturer at the same time in each ClassGroup. Is it possible to add such a constraint at the model level? I'd like to avoid if possible an upper level form/view-based solution.
Thank you so much!

A: I don't think there's any way to specify this at the database level in Django. You could check for this in your model's clean() or validate_unique() methods, but those methods are only called in certain circumstances.
One approach would be to restructure your database so that you use a single table for students and lecturers, distinguishing them with a role column.
class ClassGroup(models.Model):
    group = models.CharField(_('group'), max_length=3)
    course = models.ForeignKey(Course, related_name='classgroups',
                                       related_query_name='classgroup',
                                       verbose_name=_('course'))
    actors = models.ManyToManyField(Actor, related_name='classgroups',
                                           through='ClassRole')

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = _('class group')
        verbose_name_plural = _('class groups')
        unique_together = ('group', 'course')

class ClassRole(models.Model):
    class_group = models.ForeignKey(ClassGroup, related_name='roles')
    actor = models.ForeignKey(Actor, related_name='roles')

    STUDENT_ROLE = 10
    LECTURER_ROLE = 20
    ROLE_CHOICES = (
        (STUDENT_ROLE, _('student role')),
        (LECTURER_ROLE, _('lecturer role')),
    )
    role = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(choices=ROLE_CHOICES)

In this structure there is of course only role per actor. You can also write custom Managers and model methods to make it easy to get at just the students or lecturers.

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Nokia Philippines joins the 7th Lazada Birthday Sale on March 27, 2019 by offering big discounts for the Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 8 smartphones.
The Nokia 7 Plus will be available for ₱11,990 from its current regular price of ₱15,990 while the Nokia 8 will be on sale for ₱12,990 instead of its current SRP of ₱29,990!
The Nokia 7 Plus has a 6-inch FHD+ display in a metal unibody design, 12 + 13 Megapixel dual rear cameras with ZEISS optics and a 16 Megapixel selfie camera which also flaunt a ZEISS lens.
It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chipset with 4GB of RAM, 3800mAh battery and an operating system that can be upgraded to Android 9.0 Pie. There's also a fingerprint sensor, high quality audio, USB Type-C, 4G LTE connectivity and fast charging.
The Nokia 8 smartphone has the same unibody design, dual cameras, 4GB RAM and ZEISS optics but with a more powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset.
However, it has a smaller 5.3-inch display which is more pixel dense at 1440 x 2560 pixels or 554 pixels per inch.
A 3090mAh battery powers the device with Quick Charge 3.0.
Average rating of 3.6 stars from 12 users.


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What is it? It is all garbled ASCII when I open it in Dreamweaver. Is it meant to go to something on WDF?Because I get a download prompt when I click that link.
Works for me - the stats are a nice touch!
Ah, I see. What is all this stuff? Threads, Posts, Users, O?
Don't worry, I will remove it in a minute.
Posts, threads, users, online number of users.
filburt, why not rename it into wdfsig.jpg file and use forcetype (.htacess) to force it as php. That'll remove any confusion.


I thought Ulysses would be the best. It has a beautiful appearance, is full-featured, gets many positive reviews, and I already have ownership (or at least subscription access) of it thanks to being a subscriber to Setapp.
I've been using Ulysses to draft the text of work reports that I ultimately layout in Word for traditional print publication, and it has performed that task admirably with a hefty library of words built-up within its overall library.
With its support for Markdown and a direct connect service for publishing via Wordpress, I figured Ulysses would work well for blogging. I have persisted with it for some time, but the obfuscated Markdown finally lost me. When writing for the web, markup matters. Links matter. Getting these integrated with the text quickly and easily matters. I was finding that Ulysses just made this too hard. Finally, when I tried to leverage Brett Terpstra's SearchLink service, Ulysses would mangle the link entirely. That was the last straw; I had to search for alternatives.
I own Byword on macOS and iOS and tried going back to that; but for whatever reason it just feels old and unloved. There's no joy in using that app, I'm afraid.
I was recommended to have a look at Typora for the Mac, which looks beautiful. I think it could be my preferred option on macOS. There's no iOS version though.
I have long known that the other 'famous' option in the realm of Markdown editors is iA Writer. I've watched it from afar over the years, but I gave up on them when they developed that terrible 'workflow' approach to the app. I figured they had jumped the shark and stopped following the app's development.
Recent research, however, brought me back to have a new look at iA Writer. It seemed to tick all the boxes — not the least of which was that Markdown code elements were not obfuscated when drafting text.
My research encouraged me to purchase iA Writer and try it for myself, so I have bought the iOS version. Writing this piece is my first trial-run with the app. So far, colour me impressed. It is simple and elegant. As I type it feels as though the words are just pouring out from the caret in a very satisfying way.
In drafting this text, I have been impressed with the keyboard shortcuts of iA Writer, especially in getting Markdown links into the app. I can even just put the cursor within a word - not actually select it - and with a Cmd-K it wraps that word and pastes the URL from my clipboard. Being on iOS I can't use the SearchLink service, but this at least makes the copy/paste dance bearable.
Unfortunately, despite this great first impression on iOS, I'm not so excited about is paying AU$8 for the iOS version and then looking over and seeing they are charging AU$48 for the equivalent iA Writer for Mac. That is a heck of a price differential for the same app just residing on a different platform. I think any text editing I do with iA Writer will be limited to iOS. This will negate some of the iCloud sync benefits, which is a bummer because having the same library of text anywhere, on any device, is basically table stakes at this point.
Furthermore, with Dropbox access being through the iOS Files app - albeit integrated into iA Writer, I just had a heck of a time trying to move this very file from iCloud to Dropbox. I ultimately had to do it from the Files app in iOS. Maybe I'm missing something? To publish to this blog on Blot.im, though, I just need to place a file in Dropbox. It's a shame that there is not more direct integration with Dropbox, but I understand it is an API deprecation issue, so I can't really blame iA Writer for this — but it does make things more cumbersome.
Where to from here? I'm not sure. Of course, the greatest thing about writing in Markdown is that it is just plain text. I can write it with any app. So I can continue to bounce around to my heart's content, trying and experimenting to find the best app and the most efficient workflow. And if that isn't hobbyist computing at its finest, then what is?


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'Rocket League' is a historic first step toward PlayStation vs. Xbox games
Image: Psyonix
If you're excited about Microsoft's freshly announced support for cross-platform play — which could even allow Xbox and PlayStation users to clash, eventually — thank Rocket League developer Psyonix.
"We were prodding everyone all the time," Jeremy Dunham, the studio's vice president, told Mashable.
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Psyonix pushed hard for cross-platform play, a feature that fans have requested for some time.
"We know it's a feature our community's been asking for since we announced on Xbox One," Dunham said. "Just the fact that we know at the very least that we can give that to them on the PC front ... is pretty great news, and we were really happy about it."
Lots of concerns bubble to the surface as soon as a game lets players using different online services — such as Xbox Live, PlayStation Network or Steam — compete with one another. It's especially complicated because each gatekeeper for those services has the same (or similar) concerns.
"The good news about Rocket League is that we're set up to either handle or prevent a lot of the concerns that a lot of the publishers usually have, which is why Sony already allowed us PS4/PC cross-play and why Microsoft is allowing us to do it as well," Dunham said.
"They've recognized that we've taken all the steps necessary to try to prevent people from harming other people's experiences. You can't even voice chat against another player on another platform."
It's not just voice chat. Each service has its own approach to keeping the player experience safe and positive. There are measures in place for reporting abusive players, preventing "griefing" and basic security.
"The good news about Rocket League is that we're set up to either handle or prevent a lot of the concerns that a lot of the publishers usually have," Dunham explained.
Indeed, Rocket League was originally built with cross-platform play in mind. It's something Psyonix considered, attempting to answer questions that platform gatekeepers might have if the feature ever became a reality.
"[That's] why Sony already allowed us PS4/PC cross-play and why Microsoft is allowing us to do it as well."
While it isn't outright stated in the announcement, Microsoft's expanded developer support opens the door for Sony to allow PlayStation users to compete with folks on Xbox. The simple question on most players' minds at this point is: When?
Dunham knows this isn't the answer that people want to hear, but it's hard to say right now.
"Today is the first day that anyone outside of Psyonix and Microsoft is aware of this."
"Today is the first day that anyone outside of Psyonix and Microsoft is aware of this," he said. "So obviously Sony is still getting as much information as they can and understanding the situation before they can really talk about it."
Dunham — and the rest of Psyonix — remains optimistic. He spoke glowingly of how Sony's always been a "good partner." There are just questions that need to be answered.
"The main process is now we have to talk about it," Dunham said.
"We have to discuss what [cross-platform play] means, what the implications are for PlayStation Network users and what the implications are in terms of the existing security protocols. Very similar to what happened with Microsoft and our long discussions with them."
Now, those discussions need to happen all over again, with Sony.
"We understand that Sony's got to evaluate everything that this means for them," Dunham said. "This is the first time in history that this is even a legitimate possibility for anybody. So we understand that it's going to take some discussion, but we're also really optimistic."
For all the uncertainty in the air, Dunham had a hard time containing his excitement. Especially with the recently announced Rocket League Championship Series, which marks the game's first entry into the esports scene.
"If Sony were to allow this to happen and we were to be on all three platforms, the implication would be that our league could then simultaneously happen across all platforms at once," he said. "There would be no need to divide them up into separate leagues, and you truly could find the best player in the world, period.
"That's something that has never really happened on an esports level for a game that's on multiple platforms without some kind of very complicated setup. So just the fact that that's also a possibility really excites us."
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.
Topics: cross-platform play, Entertainment, Gaming, PlayStation 4, psyonix, rocket league, xbox one


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Naari Sport
Coverage Women Deserve
Equal pay for England and Brazil's men and women football teams
The two countries join a select group consisting of Australia, Norway and New Zealand that pay their men and women footballers the same money.
Brazil's Neymar [pictured playing for PSG] and Marta [R], the women's football captain will earn the same pay while representing the national team.
Reports have recently emerged of a parity in payment to the men and women representing England and Brazil's national football team.
For all it's mishappenings, the year 2020 has been socially progressive too. CBF President Rogerio Cabolco has said that the men and women have been receiving the same pay since March, 2020.
National team players are paid match allowances rather than weekly wages. Last year, the CBF authorized Brazil's competitive league to pay the same prize money to men and women.
"The men's players earn the same as the women's players during their call-ups. What they receive daily, the women also receive," Cabolco said at a news conference.
"What the men will gain by winning or advancing at the Olympics next year will be the same as the women will have.
"There is no more gender difference, as the CBF is treating men and women equally."
The move puts Brazil's veteran women players Marta, Formiga and Cristiane in the same pay bracket as global superstars Neymar, Alisson Becker, Philippe Coutinho and Willian.
The measure will apply on 2021 Tokyo Olympics, FIFA World Cup in 2022 and the Women's World Cup in 2023.
Brazillian football has flourished over the years with their unique Joga Bonito and Samba style of football.
The men's football team are record five-time World Cup winners. They're also nine-time winners of their continental championship, the Copa America.
The women's team has been successful too. They reached the World Cup 2007 final and won the olympic Silver medal in 2004 and 2008.
England doing the same
Soon after Brazil's announcement, England's FA revealed that they had been doing the same since January.
A statement read, "The FA pays its women's players exactly the same as their male counterparts for representing England, both in terms of match fees and match bonuses."
"This parity has been in place since January 2020."
Ellen White celebrates a goal in the 2019 Women's World Cup. The England women will be entitled to the same allowances as the men's national team.
USWNT- Federation feud
In March 2019 – months before winning the World Cup in France, the US Women's National Team [USWNT] had sued their federation for discriminatory pay.
The judge had dismissed their case but the team, led by Megan Rapinoe, had appealed. The long running dispute has since gone public but the team hopes to recover $66 million in damages under the Equal Pay Act.
FIFA Best Player of the Year 2019, Rapinoe has repeatedly sought Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to join her appeal for equal pay.
Differences in pay still prevail in club football. Analysts say that the inability to sell a stadium is where the women players are losing out.
As a result, women footballers are valued far less than the males. Transfer fees for women footballers dwarf in comparison to men.
To put things in perspective, Neymar Jr. became the most expensive footballer when he joined PSG from Barcelona in 2017. The fee was believed to be £200 million. Pernille Harder became a record signing in women's football when she joined Chelsea Women for £300,000.
Top women footballers are paid six-figure salaries per annum, at the most. Include sponsorship deals and social media earnings, the best men footballers earn close to 100 times that amount.
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UEFA Women's Euro 2021 finals postponed to 2022
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