The Philippines launches a “REAL” war on drugs

BLOG: via Daily Mail.

But Duterte warned that he is a leader of a sovereign country and is answerable only to the Filipino people.

‘Who is he to confront me?’ he said, adding that the Philippines had not received an apology for misdeeds committed during its U.S. colonization.

I am a president of a sovereign state and we have long ceased to be a colony. I do not have any master except the Filipino people, nobody but nobody.

‘You must be respectful. Do not just throw questions. Putang ina I will swear at you in that forum,’ he said, using the Tagalog phrase for son of a bitch.

And then this.

‘Until the (last) drug manufacturer is killed we will continue,’ Duterte told reporters before leaving for a regional summit in Laos, where he is due to meet U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
The White House had no immediate reaction to Duterte’s comments. Obama has been attending a meeting of the Group of 20 nations in Hangzhou, China.
Duterte won elections in May and immediately promised a law-and-order crackdown on drugs.
‘These sons of w****s are destroying our children. I warn you, don’t go into that, even if you’re a policeman, because I will really kill you,’ the president told an audience during a speech in the country’s capital, Manila.
Duterte made it clear he would pardon police if they were charged with human rights violations for carrying out his merciless orders.
Nearly 60,000 Filipino drug addicts surrendered themselves last month to the government after President Duterte urged citizens to ‘go ahead and kill’ drug dealers and users.

This is fascinating.

Ignore the demeaning talk directed toward our President (as offensive as it is) and focus on the results. 60K drug addicts have surrendered to authorities.

Drug dealers are being terrorized instead of communities.

Is this the first real deal war on drugs that we’ve seen anywhere on this planet? Is this what happens when a nation decides to directly confront a problem and eradicate it?

There are lessons to be learned here. Duterte might be a mad man but he might be onto something.

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JJ: Jews are not white people, or why Jews support the Left (a response to Dennis Prager)

Jews support the left for many of the same reasons other racial and religious minority groups support the left — because it is the Coalition of the Fringe against the core. In a white America, Jews are more likely to stand out as different. In multicultural America, Jews blend in.

Jews support the left for reasons that have next to nothing to do with Judaism as the most religious Jews, the Orthodox, vote Republican.

Jews, like other Medditteranean peoples, identify as white when that is incentivized and as not-white when that is incentivized. Right now all the incentives are to identify as oppressed people of color.

Tom Teicholz writes for the Jewish Journal:

Jews will always believe Black Lives matter because Jews do not think of themselves as “White People.” You have but to walk down a street in Tel Aviv to see the multiplicity of Jewish skin colors. You have but to live as a Jew in any time in history, in any country including the United States, to recognize we are not the White People – we were not the White People allowed into certain clubs, schools, neighborhoods for most of American history. We are not the people rallying for “white people’s rights.” As Ta-Nehisi Coates has written more eloquently that I ever will, “Our notion of what constitutes “white” and what constitutes “black” is a product of social context.”
Dennis Prager makes much of how the Left has often betrayed Jews. He is not wrong about that. But he is wrong in thinking that means Jews should stop supporting the causes of the Left. Consider the alternative: How have Jews fared under the right? Far worse. In Egypt, or under the Greeks and Romans, in Spain and Portugal under the Inquisition, in Europe during the Reformation, in France at the time of Dreyfus, or in Hitler’s Germany or his Reichlands. Consider the fate of Jewish lives under right wing governments in Hungary or Poland – are they better off than they were under Leftist regimes? One can even ask, as members of the Israeli Knesset have, whether more Israelis have died as a result of the policies of the current right-wing Likud government than in those years when Labor was in power (they have).
Leonard Bernstein was ridiculed for hosting a party for the Black Panthers. But Bernstein’s compassion and sense of Justice led him to lead the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in 1947 and as it became the Israel Philharmonic in Beersheba in November 1948 and almost every year of his life. His heart was large, his passion great and he was not wrong to support the cause of Black Pride and African American self-empowerment, even if its leaders had not so great a heart as his.
Jews will always agitate for and support causes of the Left, because we are commanded to be a beacon unto others and to see social activism and seeking Justice, Tikkun Olam and Tzedaka, as part of the Jewish DNA. We are chosen to do so. Our support is not a two-way street, or an all or nothing proffer. The Torah does not hold others, particularly those we support, to the same standard as it does Jews. If Prager can interpret the Torah to allow for an a la carte approach to keeping kosher then why can’t Jews support just causes, even if their leaders also espouse opinions or platforms we reject. We are not condoning Anti-Israel agitation or Anti-Semitism, we speak out against it.

Comments:

* As a white person I would much rather have complete clarity on this issue. So if jews essentially believe it is their job to be opposed to white interests, or if you will, be anti-white, say it loud say it proud. I will then, I assume, be free let let my anti-semetic flag fly proudly.

* Firstly Jews are NOT commanded at Pesah to feel as if they are slaves in Egypt that is taken out of context and is pure manipulation. We are commanded to remember that we were once slaves in Egypt and to thank G-D for freeing us. Pesah is celebrated for 8 days which was our exodus from Egypt and in remembrance of FREEDOM. Secondly Judaism is a conservative religion not liberal. (there is no middle ground) only in America have they reconstructed the religion into different sects that I had never heard of before coming to USA. Only in America can you pay any rabbi to marry you even if there is no conversion. Thirdly ONLY American Jews feel this way… Jews in the diaspora throughout the world look at American liberal Jews with Disdain. Frankly any Jew that is anti Trump in this election is anti America and anti Israel. No Jew who supports Israel and the Tanah and Torah supports the palestinian cause. Jews are either Ashkenazi or Sephardi depending on our origins… There are many black Jews and Yemenite jews and Moroccan Jews and Iraqi Jews and Ethiopian Jews (thats another whole topic) but we do not refer to Jews as black or white. We are the same. We are just Jews. The only Jews that are a disgrace are these liberal idiots… who are clueless when it comes to Judaism anyway. Tom Teicholz has zero idea what he’s talking about and a disgrace for the Jewish Journal to even publish that but I guess it caters to liberal America. I have just got home from a fantastic event in LA hearing a close friend of mines daughter sing…. probably about 120 Jews (all SA and American friends) ALL conservative !!! mostly supporting Trump. All anti BLM. The assimilation of Jews in this country is the worst in the world. Its a disgrace and most don’t even know the essence of Judaism yet for some bizarre reason are proud to say they’re Jewish. Every family I know has a traditional shabbat every friday night with family and its passed down thru generations… We all light shabbat candles on a Friday and most of us don’t allow shell fish, pork or bacon into our homes. Liberal Jews do not support Netanyahu who is right wing (likud) There is no difference btw these liberal Jewish idiots holding BLM signs supporting palestine and BDS and George Soros who was born a Jew and in charge of Hitlers Youth. Nothing !!! American Jews have lost their sense of Jewish identity so much so that American Jewish life is in danger of disappearing and assimilating out of existence. Jewish education is the key to Jewish survival. The American Jewish community is the largest diaspora community and the most assimilated in the world. American liberal Jews stand out as a horrible example of demographic failure. This article is so distorted and manipulated. I bet none of these so called liberal Jews know how to sing Hatikava nor do they even know what it even means… and very few probably went to private Jewish day schools or were given a Jewish education and they never saw the heritage passed down from generation to generation nor were they taught traditional Jewish values in their homes. An article like this is totally foreign to me…. to my way of life and to every single Jew I’m in contact with and nope none of us would ever stand for BLM coz BLM does not matter. We stand for Israel.

* Jews are Caucasians racially. They are not Mongoloid or Negroid and no, you don’t have to be lily white to be a Caucasian. Just look at the people of Israel, Italy, Greece, Spain, Brazil, etc to see that. There has always been slavery in Africa and it was black Africans who captured members of enemy tribes and sold them to white slave buyers. No black in America has been a slave in 160 years so it is past time to get over it and move on.

* Jews will always be left? That’s so absurd. Leftist Jews aren’t having children, being outbred by the Orthodox 3-1. The Orthodox are largely Republican. Your kind is a dying breed because it ends up nowhere. What it is is you have a conflicted and confused identity, so you express yourself thru stupid causes. We marched for the blacks and what did they give us? Ruined cities, riots, beatings, robberies, muggings, “Eyyoooo, get Goldberg!” They are not our friends and never will be. We’ve thrived under right-wing European governments.

Now you scum want to import millions of brown Nazis because “it’s in your DNA”. Who cares that it will increase anti-Semitism on both ends. The goat lovers don’t like us and the Europeans blame us for bringing the terrorists here. As a rabbi once said, “Trotsky causes the trouble and Bronstein pays the price”

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Why America’s Race Relations Are So Bad

LINK: Great comment from Dana Posey Zimbleman, in response to this NR article:

It is people like Vance who end up being the so-called representatives of the white working poor because they grew up among them and presume they understand them. I encounter these folks in academia all the time. They fled their rural, working class roots for better opportunities and an education, which is commendable, but they became embittered and contemptuous of home. For all their complaints about whites’ lacking empathy, they never seem to demonstrate any compassion or empathy for those they grew up with. They sneer at those people, their religion, their traditions, and tell their new friends they are glad they made it the hell out. I grew up working class and did a lot of sneering myself after graduate school in my twenties and thirties. However, something changed in me when I got older and took a look around academia and saw some of the most unhappy, miserable people I had ever encountered. Then when I’d go home and encounter my relatives who went to church, gardened, produced beautiful quilts, made homemade jams and jellies, and enjoyed playing with their kids, I realized the folks back home possessed a humility and a knowledge about life that my colleagues with all their advanced degrees had missed.

Vance and others delude themselves into believing that Trump supporters are desperate, drug-addled, miserable people. In truth, those who support Trump are the ones who get up and go to work every single day and are sick of seeing their communities rot because the welfare state has, in an odd way, made welfare dependancy a way to gentrify young women and n’er-do-well men who have one child after another. This behavior is condoned–even glorified– as “single motherhood.” Then the progressive, non-judgmental judgmentalists will tell those who object to such dissipation that they are the ones who need to check their “privilege.”

The “young man from West Virginia” doesn’t have to read Breitbart to know that elites hate him. If he enrolls in his local community college and tries to better himself, he’ll likely encounter a slew of essays about white privilege in his English Composition 101 reader. He’ll either agree with that assessment and join the ranks of the self-loathing white-collar classes that have forgotten where they came from or laugh at the utter nonsense of it, move beyond the stereotyping, and make something of himself.

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‘Is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he’s Asian’: Lena Dunham faces a backlash on Twitter after ‘racist’ tweet from five years ago resurfaces

Daily Mail:

Lena Dunham faced a backlash on Twitter after a ‘racist’ tweet she posted five years ago resurfaced this week.
The 30-year-old Girls star was blasted on Friday by Twitter users for the tweet that has been branded as ‘gross’ that she had posted back in July 2011.
‘An uncool thought to have: “is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he’s Asian,”‘ Dunham’s tweet read.
While it is not clear what caused the tweet to circulate on Friday or the context behind it, many were left angered by her thoughts.
‘Wow Lena, way to deny Asian men’s agency,’ one user responded.
‘From an Asian woman: Dear @lenadunham the turds from your a**hole brain are getting boring,’ another wrote.’
One user called her out saying she could not be so lost in her ‘white privilege’ that she thought the remark was funny, adding the hashtags ‘racist, problematic and you know better.’
‘You carry yourself as a shining beacon of feminist smarts, many follow you, then you tweet this,’ another user wrote.

Comment: *Gasp* She acknowledged that an Asian is less likely to rape her than a man of, well, what race exactly?

This means she is ‘ignorant’ apparently. Though what she is ignorant of is never explained. That Asian men are less dangerous? This racist macro-aggression shall not stand!

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Joshua Seidel – Jewish Marksman and Gun Rights Supporter

From the blog Jewish Marksmanship: Today’s post introduces you to Jewish Marksman Joshua Seidel. As loyal readers know, we’re here primarily to promote Jews in the firearms, shooting sports and Second Amendment communities. That includes Olympic champions, famous gun-rights attorneys, and even gun-friendly Jewish celebrities. But we also like to profile hobbyists, and in some ways enjoy profiling the average American Jewish firearms enthusiast more than any of the “famous” folks! Let’s get to it!

Joshua grew up in the small town of Oxford, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. Though he went to law school, he’s now the Director of a Recruiting Firm, working with clients in many industries.

Unlike most American Jews who tend to discover guns later in life, Joshua was introduced to firearms by a family friend when he was just 10 years old. Later he flirted with shooting sports with help from a retired military veteran who Josh describes as “a bit of a gun guru.” Josh’s Jewish family members and friends have been quite supportive. Like most Jews who take up shooting as a hobby, he was was initially surprised at how tolerant and supportive they’ve been. Josh has also introduced Jewish friends to guns, helping to keep the ball rolling! Why does Josh shoot? He says:

“I like the feeling of power you have when you learn how to properly use a firearm. I’d like to become more proficient, and network with other Jewish (and non-Jewish) shooters. Feel free to contact me! I’m looking to network with Jews who understand why we need to be armed.”

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