LAT: ‘The U.N. says Rohingya Muslims are facing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. So why is India trying to kick them out too?’

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Luke Ford

Gee, I wonder why. Could it be that they are Muslims and India doesn’t want more Muslims. I’m not exactly sure of any country that wants Muslims, Rohingya or otherwise. What exactly do the Rohingya have to contribute that is special? The news media ignores this angle. Perhaps there are no special skills unique to the Rohingya. Perhaps there is no rational reason to import them. Perhaps there are good reasons why they are not wanted anywhere. Why doesn’t a Muslim nation take them in? If your fellow Muslims don’t want you, how good are you?

Los Angeles Times:

More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have streamed out of Myanmar in recent weeks, fleeing a bloody military crackdown that a top United Nations official described as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

Now the Rohingya are facing expulsion from another country: India, where an estimated 40,000 refugees are scattered amid a population of 1.3 billion.

The Indian government on Monday told the country’s Supreme Court that the Rohingya population posed a threat to national security and that intelligence reports suggested some refugees had links to militant groups based in Pakistan.

India’s Hindu nationalist government made the allegations in an affidavit arguing that the country’s highest court should not block its efforts to deport Rohingya refugees.

“India is already saddled with a very serious problem of illegal migrants and is attempting to address the situation in the larger interest of the nation,” the government said.

For several weeks, officials have said they would like to expel the Rohingya, who they say are in the country illegally. Human rights groups say such a move would violate international laws against sending refugees back to countries where they face persecution.

The Buddhist majority in Myanmar, also known as Burma, has long been accused of oppressing the Rohingya, an ethnic and religious minority of some 1 million people living mostly in the country’s western Rakhine state. The violence has exploded since Aug. 25, when a Rohingya militant group attacked Myanmar police checkpoints, killing a dozen officers.

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The Case For Gladstone

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Luke Ford

In 1989, I was living in Brisbane with my sister before moving to the Gladstone area to live with my brother. My doctor told me to be careful of Gladstone girls. They might give me a disease.

Comment: “Please explain how you intend to make a dirty, polluted industrial town look like an appealing tourist destination?”

Do You Live Near Australia’s Most Polluted Cities? “3. Gladstone has a mix of industries that contributes to its air pollution: coal operations, aluminium smelting and chemical manufacturing. This accumulation of harmful dust particles, in addition to car emissions, has led to an increase in asthma, allergies and similar symptoms.”

Gladstone has a reputation akin to Bakersfield.

MJ posts on the Gladstone Observer:

IS it time to reinvent Gladstone and our ways of thinking about this amazing region?

When I tell the outsiders where I’m working you can hear the disdain in their reply of ‘really why are you there?’, yet these are the same Aussies who have never left the comfort of their own patch to go exploring.

And let me tell you, when you do take the time to explore this region you are rewarded with one of the great wonders of the world. For example where else in Australia can you say you have the unbelievable Great Southern Barrier Reef at your door step?

To our west we have the sandstone region to explore and let’s not forget 1770 and Agnes Water and all beaches in between.

We are blessed with an abundance of parks and walking tracks and the best play area. I’m talking about East Shores and it looks like another bucket of money is about to be spent extending this area for everyone.

Yet it’s that name that seems to make ordinary people cringe and that name is Gladstone.

Do we need to reinvent ourselves with a new image and stop showing the world the vast tracks of coal that is one of our main export drivers, or hide the LNG and coal ships that earn the Queensland Government a bucket of money?

It breaks my heart to think the rest of this state and country think we are living in the pits and why would you want to holiday here – you only come here to make money and then get the hell out.

I say it’s time to make a stand. What we need to do is start using the tools we have to show the rest of Australia and the world that GLADSTONE is a thriving city with amazing facilities.

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From Katy Tur’s New Book – Unbelievable

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Luke Ford

It’s a good read and a quick read (took me less than two hours to finish).

This sounds like it is about Corey Lewandowski:

About a week after my July Trump interview, I went for a drink with a senior staffer. What did he think of Trump’s chances of making it to the convention? I asked. “One in ten,” he said. I told him about the unlikely way I got my assignment. He told me about his family back home. And with that I was ready to get on with my night. I looked at my watch. I had dinner with a friend.
I need to get out of here.
At the door of the restaurant, he had a question for me.
“Where can I go to meet thirty-something single women?”
“You have a wife and kids.”
“So what?”
I laughed the way you laugh when your friend’s grandparent makes a racist joke.
“I don’t know. I’ll see you later.”
I tried to forget the exchange. Nothing I hadn’t heard before. Also: men.
I don’t know what the staffer thought after that. He was nice for a little while. He’d text back quickly, trying to answer my questions. But he wasn’t entirely professional. He’d call at late hours, say disparaging things about women I worked with, comment on people’s looks, claim well-respected female reporters were “fucking” this guy or that one. He’d tell me that he could prove it because he’d seen “text messages.”
When the campaign sent water bottles and Trump towels to “sweaty Marco” Rubio, I texted the staffer to confirm it. His response: “You need some? I’m sure you get all sweaty sometimes too.”
At a campaign stop in Waterloo, Iowa, he bragged to Anthony and me about all the women who would want to sleep with him when he became Trump’s White House chief of staff. (So much for Trump’s chances being “one in ten.”)

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Parasha Haazinu (Deut. 32)

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Luke Ford

Haazinu consists of Deuteronomy Chapter 32 and is read between Rosh Hashanah (which starts Wednesday night) and Yom Kippur. Listen here.

* Det. 32:5-6. Moshe calls the Jews a “perverse and twisted generation” and a “vile and unwise people.” Is that anti-semitic?

* Det. 32:8: When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when He divided all mankind, He set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.

It sounds like God is in favor of national boundaries and distinct peoples rather than all of just being brown.

* Deut: 32:15 “Jeshurun [Israel] grew fat and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned the God who made them
and rejected the Rock their Savior.
They made him jealous with their foreign gods
and angered him with their detestable idols.”

It sounds like God doesn’t like fatties. They disgust him. Their obesity reveals that they lack self control. You can’t trust them.

* “You have a fat wife… A fat woman is inherently untrustworthy as she is a sensualist, she sees no real difference between a pastrami sandwich and a dick in the mouth… The female Jew is particularly vulnerable to the zaftig seduction of the forbidden… So let’s start again. This is not your office and your wife would not be your wife if I came to her in the middle of the with a platter of cold cuts.” The House of Special Purpose, Fargo – Season 3 Episode 5

*Deut: 32:19: The Lord saw this and rejected them
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
20 “I will hide my face from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children who are unfaithful.
21 They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

“28: They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.”

Another word for “discernment” is discrimination. No people that fails to discriminate will last long.

* 40 I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear:
As surely as I live forever,
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”

This doesn’t sound like a message of love and inclusion.

* You are not going to see a fist fight at a Jewish wedding. At an Italian wedding or Irish wedding or latino wedding, you may well see a fist fight.

* We have to make a parnassah (living). What does that mean to you? How much moral flexibility does that give?

* Is the main reason that some minorities are afraid in America is that they subconsciously realize the majority would be better off driving them out?

Is this how they think subconsciously? They realize that the majority would be better off without them? I don’t know many Jews who think this way. Most Jews believe that they are an asset to America.

If minorities behave in a way that gives the majority an incentive to be rid of them, then it would make sense for these minorities to live in great fear of the majority discovering its group interests. Hence the rampant paranoia among minorities living in luxury and peace in America and all the lying by civil rights organizations and the massive gaslighting by MSM.

I suspect that the more convinced you are that the majority would be better off in America without your group, the more paranoid you will be about the majority developing its group interests. The less convinced you are that your group is a drag on the country, the more ease you will feel about whites discovering their group interests.

The more you hate the majority, the more you will fear them, and underlying that will be the fear that the majority would be better off without you and that one day it will wake up to its group interests.

It must be a horrible feeling when you realize that others are better off without you and your group. So naturally you hate them for being better off without you.

Wow, suddenly the behavior of organized minorities against America’s white Christian core make perfect sense.

When you do a Fourth Step inventory, you list off your resentments and fears. When you look at the lists, you notice that the people you resent are the people you fear and for the same reason — you’ve wronged them so you know that they have an incentive to hurt you and so you rationally fear them.

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‘The Secret Fear Plaguing The Unmarried, Untethered Orthodox’

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

Laura E. Adkins writes:

I did not grow up a religious Jew, but for my entire adult life, I’ve been a member of the Orthodox world. As a result, I’ve spent a lot of time in other people’s homes, with other people’s families; Orthodox life is built around the family, and Shabbat and holidays are desolate affairs if you’re by yourself.

Countless families and communities across the world have graciously opened their doors and tables to me. From the homes of close friends in my neighborhood to the home of an eccentric kabbalist-cum krav maga teacher in Israel, through the boisterous Chabad of Panama City and everywhere in between, every Shabbat and every holiday I’ve found a place amongst my generous fellow tribesmen and women.

I’ve never once been made to feel unwelcome. But I have also never forgotten that I am always a guest.

And while I pay my synagogue dues and give what I can to the communal institutions that have made me who I am today, and though I regularly host Shabbat and holiday meals of my own in my tiny apartment, there’s a little part of me that will always feel like a burden, a tiny voice in the back of my head telling me I’ve been given more than I can ever give in return.

It’s not a friendly voice. A child of divorce, I hate to need. I’ve been able to pack a dufflebag by rote in fifteen minutes flat since age eight. I have become a self-sufficient machine; my first word was not “mommy” or “daddy” but “cat.” I’m an introvert by nature, and at the end of the day, I live in my head much more than I do in the presence of others.

But the Orthodox Jewish world is no place for such singularity.

This point was driven home for me during a seminar course in college on religious leadership. Our first assignment was to tell the cohort a 10-minute narrative of our life and religious journey. When it came to her turn, a fellow Orthodox Jew from a wealthy coastal town who I’ll call Beth shared the story of a woman I’ll call Rebekah, a woman from her community who had no nearby Jewish family members of her own. Rebekah would come to Beth’s Orthodox home every Jewish holiday at the behest of her parents, who made room for this unmarried woman in their hearth.

When Beth was a child, she saw Rebekah’s visits as a burden; making space in the house, making space at the table, making space in the family for a virtual interloper during the pinnacle of family time seemed like a grand intrusion. But as Beth grew older, she realized that though it was never truly painless having her home opened to someone so different each and every holiday, she gained as much from Rebekah’s presence and unique persona as Rebekah did from her family’s hospitality.

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