All politics are local. All politics are force by other means. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Dr. Ben Franklin, scientist & corporate entrepreneur.
From Global Guerrillas:
"Here's some thinking on how warfare will change over the next twenty years.
Fast forward 20 years (about the age of the WWW). An aging,
schlerotic EU has become the destination for over a hundred million
refugees and migrants fleeing the densely populated killing fields of
Africa and SW Asia.
The rapidity of influx has led the EU to take extreme measures.
Tens of millions of these migrants/refugees are roughly housed in
relocation camps all across Europe." more
John Robb was a SOF pilot flying for our Air Force. He is a Princton graduate. I highly recommend his book "Brave New War: The next stage of terrorism and the end of globalization"
Companies pay him big bucks to predict new technologies and trends.
What he is describing in this article is the artificially intelligent 'Skynet' which is the antagonist of the "Terminator' series of Hollywood films.
ISIL and the other islamo-fascist threats pale by comparison don't they?
Tempus fugit
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Patriots: Organize, Prepare, Train! "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine
Parisians lighting candles for the dead on Sunday after the islamo-fascist attack
From the Boston Globe: (If you want to be good boys and girls you can go to this address and sign up for their junk mail--http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/16/paris-and-fall-rome/ErlRjkQMGXhvDarTIxXpdK/story.html). I could really care less. By Niall Ferguson
I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I
am not going to say that what happened in Paris on Friday night was
unprecedented horror, for it was not. I am not going to say that the
world stands with France, for it is a hollow phrase. Nor am I going to
applaud President Hollande’s pledge of “pitiless” vengeance, for I do
not believe it. I am, instead, going to tell you that this is exactly
how civilizations fall.
Here is how Edward Gibbon described the Goths’ sack of Rome in August 410 AD:
“In the hour of savage license, when every passion was inflamed, and
every restraint was removed . . . a cruel slaughter was made of the
Romans; and . . . the streets of the city were filled with dead bodies
. . . Whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition, they extended
the promiscuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless
. . .”
Now, does that not describe the scenes we witnessed in Paris on Friday night?
True,
Gibbon’s “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’’
represented Rome’s demise as a slow burn over a millennium. But a new
generation of historians, such as Bryan Ward-Perkins and Peter Heather,
has raised the possibility that the process of Roman decline was in fact
sudden — and bloody —rather than smooth: a “violent seizure . . . by
barbarian invaders” that destroyed a complex civilization within the
span of a single generation.
Uncannily similar processes are destroying the European Union today, though few of us want to recognize them for what they are.
Let
us be clear about what is happening. Like the Roman Empire in the early
fifth century, Europe has allowed its defenses to crumble. As its
wealth has grown, so its military prowess has shrunk, along with its
self-belief. It has grown decadent in its shopping malls and sports
stadiums. At the same time, it has opened its gates to outsiders who
have coveted its wealth without renouncing their ancestral faith.
The
distant shock to this weakened edifice has been the Syrian civil war,
though it has been a catalyst as much as a direct cause for the great
Völkerwanderung of 2015. As before, they have come from all over the
imperial periphery — from North Africa, from the Levant, from South Asia
— but this time they have come in their millions.
To be sure, most have come hoping only for a better life.
Things in their own countries have become just good enough economically
for them to afford to leave and just bad enough politically for them to
risk leaving. But they cannot stream northward and westward without some
of that political malaise coming along with them. As Gibbon saw,
convinced monotheists pose a grave threat to a secular empire.
It
is conventional to say that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in
Europe are not violent, and that is doubtless true. But it is also true
that the majority of Muslims in Europe hold views that are not easily
reconciled with the principles of our modern liberal democracies,
including those novel notions we have about equality between the sexes
and tolerance not merely of religious diversity but of nearly all sexual
proclivities. And it is thus remarkably easy for a violent minority to
acquire their weapons and prepare their assaults on civilization within
these avowedly peace-loving communities.
I do not know enough
about the fifth century to be able to quote Romans who described each
new act of barbarism as unprecedented, even when it had happened
multiple times before; or who issued pious calls for solidarity after
the fall of Rome, even when standing together in fact meant falling
together; or who issued empty threats of pitiless revenge, even when all
they intended to do was to strike a melodramatic pose.
I do know
that 21st-century Europe has only itself to blame for the mess it is now
in. For surely nowhere in the world has devoted more resources to the
study of history than modern Europe. When I went up to Oxford more than
30 years ago, it was taken for granted that in the first term of my
first year I would study Gibbon. It did no good. We learned nothing that
mattered. Indeed, we learned a lot of nonsense to the effect that
nationalism was a bad thing, nation-states worse, and empires the worst
things of all.
“Romans before the fall,” wrote Ward-Perkins in his
“Fall of Rome,” “were as certain as we are today that their world would
continue for ever substantially unchanged. They were wrong. We would be
wise not to repeat their complacency.”
Poor, poor Paris. Killed by complacency. Niall Ferguson is professor of history at Harvard
University, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and author of
“Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist.’’
Evidently someone at Harvard has shrugged off 'social correctness' and is willing to stand up and speak 'Truth to Power.' Are you? Tempus fugit
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Patriots: Organize, Prepare, Train! "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine
Piles of bodies outside a cafe in Paris 13 November 2015
From bearingarms: "In light of (last) Friday’s terrorist attacks, it seems only a matter of time
before similar incidents occur in the U.S. The question many people are
asking is “What would I do if suddenly in a situation like Paris??” To
help answer that concern, Bearing Arms will offer a list of ten things
you can do to avoid becoming a casualty in the “War on Terror.”more
It is not hyperbole to state that we are all now islamo-fascism responders
because the avowed goal of Daesh and other such groups is to bring death
and destruction to Mainstreet U.S.A. Are you up for it or will you attempt to hide like a rabbit and have the police find you and your children's bullet-ridden bodies to be 'tagged and bagged'?
Your choice.
Tempus fugit
Free America!
Patriots: Organize, Prepare, Train! "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine
