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Showing posts with label arab spring. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Obama's personal touch on Israeli security
From the art studios of A.F. (Tony) Branco and featured on Comically Incorrect.com
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Star of democracy waves over the Middle East
From the art studios of Dan Youra at Utoons.com
Dan Youra is one of the outstanding conservative cartoonists in the trade today who follows in the footsteps of the great political cartoon masters, whose quotes inspire a new generation of followers.
"As long as there are politicians who continue to try and fool the voters, there is no chance of ever running out of material to work with because they create it themselves and about themselves," says Dan Youra.
Dan is the small business owner and operator of the Youra Studios located in the State of Washington.
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Dan Youra is one of the outstanding conservative cartoonists in the trade today who follows in the footsteps of the great political cartoon masters, whose quotes inspire a new generation of followers.
"Outside of basic intelligence, there is nothing more important to a good political cartoonist than ill will." ~ Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist.
"Too many of today's artists regard editorial cartooning as a trade instead of a profession. They try not to be too offensive. The hell with that. We need more stirrer-uppers." ~ Bill Mauldin.Youra was one of the first recipients of a Fulbright Scholarship and worked in Latin America. He served as an editor of Current Thought on Peace and War at the United Nations in New York.
"As long as there are politicians who continue to try and fool the voters, there is no chance of ever running out of material to work with because they create it themselves and about themselves," says Dan Youra.
Dan is the small business owner and operator of the Youra Studios located in the State of Washington.
Visit the Youra Studios at Utoons.com
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
ISIS butchers: Serial killers on steroids
ISIS butchers: A medieval serial killer on steroids by Valerie Ogden
Islamic State recalls Bluebeard, the French knight who tortured and murdered children
ISIS butchers wantonly rape, enslave, burn, crucify and slaughter thousands of adults and children – including 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded in the latest outrage – without apparent qualms or remorse. They are all too reminiscent of Bluebeard, the notorious fifteenth century serial killer of children.
Gilles de Rais had been the paragon of the high medieval prince, almost Renaissance in his talents and accomplishments. He fought alongside Joan of Arc in the Hundred Years’ War and was honored by the King for his service to the crown. But he became crazed, a psychopath nicknamed Bluebeard, because his perfectly groomed horse sometimes glowed blue in the sun, who took demonic pleasure in torturing, raping and viciously murdering innocent boys and girls in France.
In the hellish modern day Middle East, ISIS grew out of the Sunni terrorist organization formed by al Qaeda, specifically the Iraq group, al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
Until an America airstrike killed him in 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi headed AQI, with the experienced Iraqi fighter known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi succeeding him. But for awhile a US-backed alliance of Iraqi Sunni tribes effectively battled against this jihadist force, with AQI losing its influence in Iraq.
Then in 2011 AQI recognized that it could regain some of its power and increase its ranks as the Syrian conflict developed, by moving its troops to that war-torn country. By 2013 it returned to Iraq where al-Baghdadi changed the group name to ISIS, reflecting its greater regional aspirations.
The brutality of war can turn soldiers into monsters, during or after combat. Bluebeard appears to have killed because of a mental illness, possibly precipitated by his experiences on the battlefield. He killed many men in vicious hand-to-hand combat, and saw many others mangled and dismembered.
He was Joan of Arc’s protector, yet he was powerless to save her from the enemy. She was burned as a witch with instructions from the English command that she be kept far enough from the flames to suffer a slow, gruesome death. Bluebeard’s inability to save this heroine possibly caused him to suffer from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), which triggered his latent psychopathic tendencies and led him to commit hundreds of murders.
The psycho-political connection of ISIS to slaughter is simpler. Islamic State happily recruits the most depraved, hate-filled, remorseless servants of extremist Islam from all corners of our planet. It gleefully eradicates all who will not agree with its primitive ideology, killing children and adults savagely for that single reason. Its game plan includes violence to instill fear and conversion, and violence for its own sake.
It has extended its caliphate in Iraq and Syria by and while taunting, torturing and executing thousands of unarmed prisoners. Men and boys who stayed in their villages were compelled to convert and join the ISIS army, or were summarily shot, crucified, beheaded, dismembered, or buried or burned alive.
During the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453), English soldiers and brigands roamed France, torturing and murdering citizens with the same perverse predation. ISIS’s burning captured Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasasbeh alive in a cage is similar to the fate suffered by some prisoners in Bluebeard’s time. But death by fire as legal punishment is unprecedented in the modern era, even in the war-torn Middle East, and is considered heinous and barbaric.
ISIS extremist machinations began stunning the world in August 2014, when it proudly released its video showing American journalist James Foley being horrifically beheaded. His executioner, hiding behind a black mask and speaking perfect English with a British accent, threatened the US and its allies with more beheadings, unless they discontinued airstrikes against ISIS troops and the regions it held.
When they beheaded another U.S. freelance journalist and British and American aid workers, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron accurately called them monsters, underscoring how brutality and derangement are often complimentary in war. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, described the online video of the recent beheading of journalist Kenji Goto as terrorist propaganda.
These bloodthirsty executions have elevated ISIS’s status in the extremist world, with thousands of disoriented, hot-headed freaks rushing to join its forces – including at least 100 from the United States and 3,000 from other Western countries.
Learning quickly from the “evil” West, it has effectively used social media, beheading videos and shocking images of Lieutenant al-Kasasbeh burning in agony, to recruit more savage butchers, terrify anyone who might think of resisting it, and frighten civilized society into denouncing ISIS, wringing its collective hands … and doing little or nothing of substance.
Blood money has poured in from bank robberies, pillaging, and revenue from stolen oil and selling victims’ organs. Using its military expertise and seized and purchased weapons, ISIS has rapidly taken over of a third of Iraq and Syria, and now proclaims this land to be a transnational Muslim caliphate.
Bluebeard, a military hero who witnessed Joan of Arc’s treatment at the hands of his sworn enemies, emerged as a cruel, deranged demon who represented the worst in humankind. He lived in a time when people believed in battles between the forces of good and evil, and was hanged for his evil deeds in 1440.
Those forces are now colliding again, as ISIS steamrolls over people and countries, its atrocious actions overwhelming almost anyone in its path. It seems clear that these fanatics are intent on continuing their relentless drive to destroy modern civilization and bring the world back to Bluebeard’s medieval era of sadism and submission, 570 years ago.
ISIS under al-Baghdadi publically fought with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Osama bin Laden successor of al Qaeda, over the future of another al Qaeda front, al-Nusra in Syria. The al Qaeda faction became so angry with al-Baghdadi that it cut off connections with him. Then, by declaring himself caliph of the Islamic State, al-Baghdadi challenged al Qaeda leadership directly for the allegiance of all Muslim extremists.
It would be ironic if Islamic extremists in al Qaeda found ISIS too bestial and powerful to tolerate – and devised a plan to dismantle it as a threat to civilization. From his grave, Bluebeard would chortle an insane laugh, as evil battles worse evil, and civilization watches and waits from the sidelines.
Valerie Ogden is author of Bluebeard: Brave Warrior; Brutal Psychopath - History Publishing Company,
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Islamic State recalls Bluebeard, the French knight who tortured and murdered children
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Gilles de Rais had been the paragon of the high medieval prince, almost Renaissance in his talents and accomplishments. He fought alongside Joan of Arc in the Hundred Years’ War and was honored by the King for his service to the crown. But he became crazed, a psychopath nicknamed Bluebeard, because his perfectly groomed horse sometimes glowed blue in the sun, who took demonic pleasure in torturing, raping and viciously murdering innocent boys and girls in France.
In the hellish modern day Middle East, ISIS grew out of the Sunni terrorist organization formed by al Qaeda, specifically the Iraq group, al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
Until an America airstrike killed him in 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi headed AQI, with the experienced Iraqi fighter known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi succeeding him. But for awhile a US-backed alliance of Iraqi Sunni tribes effectively battled against this jihadist force, with AQI losing its influence in Iraq.
Then in 2011 AQI recognized that it could regain some of its power and increase its ranks as the Syrian conflict developed, by moving its troops to that war-torn country. By 2013 it returned to Iraq where al-Baghdadi changed the group name to ISIS, reflecting its greater regional aspirations.
The brutality of war can turn soldiers into monsters, during or after combat. Bluebeard appears to have killed because of a mental illness, possibly precipitated by his experiences on the battlefield. He killed many men in vicious hand-to-hand combat, and saw many others mangled and dismembered.
He was Joan of Arc’s protector, yet he was powerless to save her from the enemy. She was burned as a witch with instructions from the English command that she be kept far enough from the flames to suffer a slow, gruesome death. Bluebeard’s inability to save this heroine possibly caused him to suffer from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), which triggered his latent psychopathic tendencies and led him to commit hundreds of murders.
The psycho-political connection of ISIS to slaughter is simpler. Islamic State happily recruits the most depraved, hate-filled, remorseless servants of extremist Islam from all corners of our planet. It gleefully eradicates all who will not agree with its primitive ideology, killing children and adults savagely for that single reason. Its game plan includes violence to instill fear and conversion, and violence for its own sake.
It has extended its caliphate in Iraq and Syria by and while taunting, torturing and executing thousands of unarmed prisoners. Men and boys who stayed in their villages were compelled to convert and join the ISIS army, or were summarily shot, crucified, beheaded, dismembered, or buried or burned alive.
During the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453), English soldiers and brigands roamed France, torturing and murdering citizens with the same perverse predation. ISIS’s burning captured Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasasbeh alive in a cage is similar to the fate suffered by some prisoners in Bluebeard’s time. But death by fire as legal punishment is unprecedented in the modern era, even in the war-torn Middle East, and is considered heinous and barbaric.
ISIS extremist machinations began stunning the world in August 2014, when it proudly released its video showing American journalist James Foley being horrifically beheaded. His executioner, hiding behind a black mask and speaking perfect English with a British accent, threatened the US and its allies with more beheadings, unless they discontinued airstrikes against ISIS troops and the regions it held.
When they beheaded another U.S. freelance journalist and British and American aid workers, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron accurately called them monsters, underscoring how brutality and derangement are often complimentary in war. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, described the online video of the recent beheading of journalist Kenji Goto as terrorist propaganda.
These bloodthirsty executions have elevated ISIS’s status in the extremist world, with thousands of disoriented, hot-headed freaks rushing to join its forces – including at least 100 from the United States and 3,000 from other Western countries.
Learning quickly from the “evil” West, it has effectively used social media, beheading videos and shocking images of Lieutenant al-Kasasbeh burning in agony, to recruit more savage butchers, terrify anyone who might think of resisting it, and frighten civilized society into denouncing ISIS, wringing its collective hands … and doing little or nothing of substance.
Blood money has poured in from bank robberies, pillaging, and revenue from stolen oil and selling victims’ organs. Using its military expertise and seized and purchased weapons, ISIS has rapidly taken over of a third of Iraq and Syria, and now proclaims this land to be a transnational Muslim caliphate.
Bluebeard, a military hero who witnessed Joan of Arc’s treatment at the hands of his sworn enemies, emerged as a cruel, deranged demon who represented the worst in humankind. He lived in a time when people believed in battles between the forces of good and evil, and was hanged for his evil deeds in 1440.
Those forces are now colliding again, as ISIS steamrolls over people and countries, its atrocious actions overwhelming almost anyone in its path. It seems clear that these fanatics are intent on continuing their relentless drive to destroy modern civilization and bring the world back to Bluebeard’s medieval era of sadism and submission, 570 years ago.
ISIS under al-Baghdadi publically fought with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Osama bin Laden successor of al Qaeda, over the future of another al Qaeda front, al-Nusra in Syria. The al Qaeda faction became so angry with al-Baghdadi that it cut off connections with him. Then, by declaring himself caliph of the Islamic State, al-Baghdadi challenged al Qaeda leadership directly for the allegiance of all Muslim extremists.
It would be ironic if Islamic extremists in al Qaeda found ISIS too bestial and powerful to tolerate – and devised a plan to dismantle it as a threat to civilization. From his grave, Bluebeard would chortle an insane laugh, as evil battles worse evil, and civilization watches and waits from the sidelines.
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Valerie Ogden is author of Bluebeard: Brave Warrior; Brutal Psychopath - History Publishing Company,
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Obama rides his high horse Middle East policy
Obama Continues to Ride His High Horse Radical Islam Middle East Policy from A.F. (Tony) Branco at Comically Incorrect.com
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Peace on earth? I don't think so
Peace on earth? I dont think so from the Warning Signs of Alan Caruba at Facts-not-Fantasy
Around the world millions of Christians joined together to celebrate the birth of Jesus and to pray for “peace on Earth, good will toward men.”
The 2015 World Almanac puts the number of Christians in the world at 2,347,171,000, by far the largest group sharing the same spiritual beliefs. It puts the number of Muslims at 1,633,173,000.
Of the seven billion residents of planet Earth, more than six billion identify themselves as part of one of the many different faiths, to include Hindu, Buddhist, and others.
As it has for 1,400 years, Islam continues to pose the greatest threat to peace on Earth and is not displaying much good will even toward other Muslims.
A website, TheReligionofPeace.com maintains an on-going, virtually daily record of those slaughtered around the world in the name of Islam and Allah.
The killing is daily, but earlier this month, Canon Andrew White, a clergyman known as the ‘vicar of Baghdad’, reported that Islamic State militant Islamists had beheaded four Iraqi Christian children, all under the age of 15, for refusing to convert to Islam. The barbarity of the ISIS killings and the numbers of others by Islamists add up to a record of atrocities that rival any in history.
The silence from Muslims condemns this so-called religion.
The Jewish genocide of the last century is being matched by the Christian genocide that is continuing in this century.
The human price paid for the Islamic fascism currently adds up to more than 57 million displaced refugees in 22 countries, a humanitarian disaster equal to the entire population of Great Britain. The UN’s emergency aid chief is asking for $16 billion in funding to address the crisis of the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and South Sudan, in addition to places like the Central African Republic, Somalia, and Ukraine.
There are other events that undermine the prospect of peace. One need only watch as Western nations attempt to negotiate a deal to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons. It is an exercise in futility. Iran is tempting an attack from those nations that understand the enormity of the threat that represents. The Obama administration seems oblivious to it.
Europe is concerned about the threat that the Russian Federation poses with its intent to split eastern Ukraine off from its western half. Former Soviet satellite nations are also concerned about Russian nationalism and the desire to reclaim its former empire. While not overtly aggressive, the West and Asian nations in China’s sphere of influence worry about its intentions too and, as always, North Korea continues to threaten its neighbors.
All this is happening as the residents of planet Earth are gaining the increasing ability to communicate with one another via the Internet, to learn about the events affecting their lives and others, and, as in the case of the “Arab Spring”, to come together to overthrow dictators in an effort to establish governments that provide more freedom and justice.
It transformed Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia to name just three nations affected by it. In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood was ousted from power, outlawed, and is under attack these days in the Sinai.
In the United States there has been a dramatic political shift from the progressive policies of the Obama administration to a growing conservatism opposing ObamaCare, amnesty, and attacks on the nation’s energy sector.
When right-wing Republican and left-wing Democrats joined together to oppose elements of the $1.1 budget, something significant is occurring. As 2015 dawns, a Congress controlled by the Republican Party will have to demonstrate that it reflects the will of the people who put it in power.
What has caught many Americans by surprise is the utter contempt with which they were held by the Obama administration and its leaders, from the President on down, who deliberately lied to voters and regarded them as “stupid.”
Politics in America does not generate peace even within the two parties, but this exercise in democracy is a worldwide phenomenon except in nations still rule by despots and monarchs. It is a healthy republic in which issues are vigorously debated.
Peace on Earth is a noble aspiration and one for which I suspect the vast population of the Earth yearns. It is threatened by the vanity, greed, and desire for power that too often defines the leaders of large bodies of people who are themselves threatened by such men.
Peace needs to be pursued because the alternative is Hell on Earth.
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The 2015 World Almanac puts the number of Christians in the world at 2,347,171,000, by far the largest group sharing the same spiritual beliefs. It puts the number of Muslims at 1,633,173,000.
Of the seven billion residents of planet Earth, more than six billion identify themselves as part of one of the many different faiths, to include Hindu, Buddhist, and others.
As it has for 1,400 years, Islam continues to pose the greatest threat to peace on Earth and is not displaying much good will even toward other Muslims.
A website, TheReligionofPeace.com maintains an on-going, virtually daily record of those slaughtered around the world in the name of Islam and Allah.
The killing is daily, but earlier this month, Canon Andrew White, a clergyman known as the ‘vicar of Baghdad’, reported that Islamic State militant Islamists had beheaded four Iraqi Christian children, all under the age of 15, for refusing to convert to Islam. The barbarity of the ISIS killings and the numbers of others by Islamists add up to a record of atrocities that rival any in history.
The silence from Muslims condemns this so-called religion.
The Jewish genocide of the last century is being matched by the Christian genocide that is continuing in this century.
The human price paid for the Islamic fascism currently adds up to more than 57 million displaced refugees in 22 countries, a humanitarian disaster equal to the entire population of Great Britain. The UN’s emergency aid chief is asking for $16 billion in funding to address the crisis of the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and South Sudan, in addition to places like the Central African Republic, Somalia, and Ukraine.
There are other events that undermine the prospect of peace. One need only watch as Western nations attempt to negotiate a deal to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons. It is an exercise in futility. Iran is tempting an attack from those nations that understand the enormity of the threat that represents. The Obama administration seems oblivious to it.
Europe is concerned about the threat that the Russian Federation poses with its intent to split eastern Ukraine off from its western half. Former Soviet satellite nations are also concerned about Russian nationalism and the desire to reclaim its former empire. While not overtly aggressive, the West and Asian nations in China’s sphere of influence worry about its intentions too and, as always, North Korea continues to threaten its neighbors.
All this is happening as the residents of planet Earth are gaining the increasing ability to communicate with one another via the Internet, to learn about the events affecting their lives and others, and, as in the case of the “Arab Spring”, to come together to overthrow dictators in an effort to establish governments that provide more freedom and justice.
It transformed Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia to name just three nations affected by it. In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood was ousted from power, outlawed, and is under attack these days in the Sinai.
In the United States there has been a dramatic political shift from the progressive policies of the Obama administration to a growing conservatism opposing ObamaCare, amnesty, and attacks on the nation’s energy sector.
When right-wing Republican and left-wing Democrats joined together to oppose elements of the $1.1 budget, something significant is occurring. As 2015 dawns, a Congress controlled by the Republican Party will have to demonstrate that it reflects the will of the people who put it in power.
What has caught many Americans by surprise is the utter contempt with which they were held by the Obama administration and its leaders, from the President on down, who deliberately lied to voters and regarded them as “stupid.”
Politics in America does not generate peace even within the two parties, but this exercise in democracy is a worldwide phenomenon except in nations still rule by despots and monarchs. It is a healthy republic in which issues are vigorously debated.
Peace on Earth is a noble aspiration and one for which I suspect the vast population of the Earth yearns. It is threatened by the vanity, greed, and desire for power that too often defines the leaders of large bodies of people who are themselves threatened by such men.
Peace needs to be pursued because the alternative is Hell on Earth.
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