Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front. Additionally, al-Qaeda allegedly did not carry out any military operations until December 2011 and did not announce its establishment until January 2012. However, there is evidence that al-Qaeda affiliated militants were involved in the Syrian conflict much earlier. Saudi intelligence...
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Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the economy of a valuable member of NATO geostrategically. Since the first shots across the bow by the Trump administration at Erdogan’s toying with those powers east of the Bosporus (Russia, China and Iran) the Turkish lira has been the primary mode of attack against Erdogan. Erdogan has pursued what has been deemed unorthodox...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network television. Virtue theory, in contrast, is a teleological approach to normative morality concerned with how actions affect one’s soul or character. Historians of philosophy usually trace virtue theory to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the first extant articulation of ideas such as that habits build character, and virtues...
Cops Kill Man
Well he ran out of gas so they electro-shock tortured him to death. Because it was government employees who did it, it is therefore "reasonable." You have no rights they are bound to respect.
Cop Kills Cop
And gets away with it of course because not even government employees have any rights that another government employee is bound to respect. And you wonder why BLM and the Boogaloo boys raise their fists together half the time: the government is evil.
How Many Times Must It Be Brought Up?
The police are not there to protect you. The courts have ruled on this over and over again. Castle Rock v Gonzalez Lozito v NYC (Interview with Mr Lozito here) Warren v District of Columbia The discussion that continues by the pundits, even "respectable" ones, fails to mention the fact that police have no mandate to protect an individual, or their property. Until that fact enters into the conversation, it is difficult to take any reform talk seriously. ...
Cop Kills Cop
Well he thought he was murdering a protester but it was actually someone with rights he was bound to respect. Oops. Man 1.
TGIF: Replace Your Divots
I am not, nor have I ever been, a golfer. I did golf once, just before the turn of the century, and I disliked it. Nevertheless, I live by a cardinal principle in golfer etiquette: Replace your divots. A divot, of course, is a chunk of turf that is dislodged by a golf shot, leaving a hole on the course. Golfer etiquette requires that you should put the divot back in the hole if that's possible. This is a common-sense act of consideration for other golfers because a ball in a hole is hard to hit. We can readily see that Replace your divots is simply an application of the principle Be...
Court: Of Course Cops May Murder Your Dog, You Dog
No private citizen has any right a government man is bound to respect. #furtive #waistband
Winter Park, Florida Police, Including Jeff Marcum, a Laughingstock
From the Free Thought Project, get a look at these ridiculous "Law Enforcement" clowns. No wonder no one respects them: Cops Break Into Innocent Sleeping Woman’s Home, Shoot Her—Now She Faces Life in Prison