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Brexit, Euro 2016 & Islamic Terror: A Black Swan
It seems like sheer arrogant folly to have decided to hold a referendum on continued British membership of the E.U. in the middle of a European soccer tournament. Regardless of the results and final positions the English & Welsh teams during this summer’s Euro 2106 in France, to hold a vote on membership during a time of heightened nationalist identity was surely a poorly conceived idea.
It is worth pointing out that this is the first time in 58 years that Wales have qualified for an international football tournament, and together with England whilst both face a vote for continued membership of the E.U.
The Remain campaign is essentially asking the people of Britain to surrender their national sovereignty for something considered progressively better: membership of a European Superstate with little to no control over borders or laws, but a greater good of shared benefits in return.
Add to this potentially fatal cocktail for the Remain campaign, the spectre of Islamic violence that threatens a now perpetually unstable France, and you have the socio-political makings of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls a Black Swan – an event or occurrence that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and is extremely difficult to predict. Black swan events are typically random and are unexpected. Read More & Black Swans for 2016
Islamic terrorists are known to be planning attacks during the Euro 2016 tournaments in France which starts on June 10th. Read More The threat is so imminent that the U.S. government has issued a travel waring to its citizens thinking of attending the tournament to stay away. Read More
Top of the list on their target must be the England Vs Russia game on Sat 11th in Marseilles – which offers no shortage of local population with Islamic affiliations and sympathies. Read More
Any attack on England fans during the tournament would provide no favours to the Remain campaign, as Britons start to view countries like France as failed states in waiting due to the pursuit of reckless E.U. immigration policies.
Together, these disparate elements have all the properties necessary to create a black swan event that could drive the E.U. referendum vote firmly in Britain firmly into the Leave camp, and in doing so trigger the collapse of the greater European project as other countries see it as a green light for their own referendum and exit from a dysfunctional coercive system of bureaucratic elitism employed and personified by the likes of commissioner, Jean-Claude Junker.
Brexit: Everything You Need To Know
Paul Joseph Watson & Stefan Molyneux get into the fine details of the looming Brexit vote in Britain on 23rd June. A MUST SEE.
Trudeau’s Creeping Sharia
Federal liberals are considering moves to outlaw Islamophobia, which will essentially make criticism of Islam illegal with no doubt the same sort of legal weight behind it that was recently bestowed on Transgender issue – ultimately jail time. Read More & More from The Rebel
As in Europe, Trudeau’s Liberal party are rapidly exchanging progressive soft-shelled fascism – the coercive silencing of critics by bullying & shaming, for the more full-blown variety – financially destroying & jailing critics.
Within the European Union, the tyranny of progressive decency is now so rampant that countries like Hungary, who after looking at what has happened in France, have the temerity to say: thanks, but no thanks to immigration quotas, are being told by the E.U. that they will take them or face hundreds of millions of euros in fines.
No doubt the same medium (Facebook) that Islamic purists like ISIS are currently using to sell sex slaves at $8000 a go, will be used here to monitor and ensure that Canadians are not criticizing groups like ISIS or Islamic practices like selling sex slaves; child rape; ethnic genocide or the execution of homosexuals.
What should worry conscious Canadians is that under Trudeau’s tenure, all of this can be achieved with be a smile; a press-up and a mic drop for his ideologically insane audience who will eagerly lap up every ounce of the mandatory decency he can produce.
Trudeau falls into a category of progressive liberal world leaders who claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that ‘terrorism has nothing to do with Islam’ – Hillary Clinton.
There are only two available conclusions to a statement like that: either they are lying, or they are stupid. Sorry, it’s one or the other. All the information is out there and the Islamists themselves are quite open about this reality; the prophet Mohammed himself oversaw the execution 600-900 men and boys. Islam is built upon deception, violence & subjugation.
As Ezra Levant stated during the Rebel event in Vancouver last weekend, rather than the rare occasion of a spectacular terror attack here in Canada, what Canadians should fear is a ‘creeping Sharia’, the grounds for which Trudeau’s current government is actively laying.
The move to silence critics is part of a pattern already established In Europe, and which is providing rich fallow earth for a creeping Sharia here in Canada.
This is a progressive model that for the past 25 years in Europe has taken the form of bullying and shaming, with labels of racism and xenophobia for anyone who took issue with the direction society was heading.
In doing so, the engineers of these policies have set the spring for a nasty visceral backlash, that is only now just starting to gain momentum, and which has manifest itself in the rise of nationalist right wing parties in Europe.
However, instead of addressing those concerns and the growing resentment at policies that do not serve the people or their best interests, progressives like Trudeau, Merkel, Hollande & Clinton are doubling down on the rhetoric and seeking to implement laws which strike at the very heart of freedom of speech.
Hillary Clinton To Be Charged With Racketeering
Over the weekend, the Huffington Post published an article claiming that Hillary Clinton will be charged by the FBI with racketeering, then promptly removed the article. This from ZeroHedge:
As Breitbart first reported, HuffPo freelance contributor Frank Huguenard, a scientist and public speaker, posted an article on the site’s blog entitled “Hillary Clinton to be Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges.” Huguenard wrote:
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a United States Federal Law passed in 1970 that was designed to provide a tool for law enforcement agencies to fight organized crime. RICO allows prosecution and punishment for alleged racketeering activity that has been executed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
James Comey and The FBI will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice, that includes a cogent argument that the Clinton Foundation is an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic.
All we can say is Please Santa, we will never ask for anything ever again.
How to Start a War in Europe
The progressive elites of Europe have a new recipe for war, and they want everyone to try it. Gone are the days of wars inspired by territory or national interests. The new recipe is a brilliantly simple ideological model that works something like this:
Introduce policies based on ideology; ignore effects created by those policies; vilify dissenters & continue with fingers in ears = war
The President of the unelected executive arm of the European Union (EU) has vowed to block all right wing populists from power across the continent, shortly after acquiring the power to exert “far-reaching sanctions” on elected governments.
“There will be no debate or dialogue with the far-right,” the liberal bureaucrat told AFP. Read More
For the past twenty five years the narrative on ever closer ties with the European Union & mass immigration has been controlled by the progressive left. Anyone who had a problem with this narrative was branded a racist or a xenophobe and told to go away.
However those people don’t go away. As the effects of those policies increase, they find another way of making their voice heard, as we can see in the predictable rise of nationalist parties across Europe – it’s fairly simple how the current situation came about if you are willing to be objective about it.
The political spring has been set for a nasty visceral backlash that is only just starting to build momentum. However, rather than address the issue and face the gathering storm, the elites in their arrogance & folly, have decided that they will simple ignore it and continue on as planned.
This will go down as the perilous pitfall of progressive thought: that ideology trumps reality.
Pope 2.0 Abandoning Europe to Islam
Yet further evidence that we live in an upside down world of reversed meanings & values has emerged. And rather than a progressive politician, it is Pope Francis who increasingly epitomizes this. Ask anybody what the Pope’s one job is, and top of that list would probably be ‘defending the faith.’ Especially in the European homeland.
But after calling for a one world government – the one thing you cannot do as Pope unless you are seeking to emulate the false prophet of Revelations – Pope 2.0 has now welcomed the Islamization of Europe. Read More
In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI said what no Pope had ever dared to say – that there is a link between violence and Islam. Ten years later, Pope Francis never calls those responsible for anti-Christian violence by name and never mentions the word “Islam.”
Pope Francis does not even try to re-evangelize or reconquer Europe. He seems deeply to believe that the future of Christianity is in the Philippines, in Brazil and in Africa.
Probably for the same reason, the Pope is spending less time denouncing the terrible fate of Christians in the Middle East. Sandro Magister, Italy’s most important Vatican observer, sheds light on the Pope’s silences:
“He remained silent on the hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram. He remained silent on the young Sudanese mother Meriam, sentenced to death solely for being Christian and finally liberated by the intervention of others. He remains silent on the Pakistani mother Asia Bibi, who has been on death row for five years, because she too is an ‘infidel’, and [He] does not even reply to the two heartrending letters she has written to him this year, before and after the reconfirmation of the sentence.”
The Battle For Europe
Sources are suggesting that the Queen has spoken out in favour of a British exit (Brexit) from the E.U. during a lunch. Read More
Just in case there is any truth to the matter, the progressive knives came out in the federalist Independent whilst the Guardian denied the story had any credibility.
With four weeks to go before voters go to the poles, if this campaign has served one purpose, it is to highlight the rapidly polarizing nature of politics in Britain.
The Leave campaign boasts a bevy of heavy hitters from business and politics, whilst the Remain campaign has relied heavily on fear tactics; painting an apocalyptic picture of life outside of the E.U.
Life for Britain outside the E.U.
E.U. Commission President, Jean-Claude Junker lent a sober hand by threatening Britain with repercussions if they leave. Read More
As life inside the Union is increasingly looks like this:
European Union: Dead Man Walking
The E.U. is facing a perfect storm of its own making. Its failure to manage either the economic or migrant crises, means that opting to remain within the E.U. at this stage would be akin to throwing your lot in with the Ottoman empire at the end of the 19th Century.
Polls also suggest that any country opting out of the Euro experiment via a referendum, could act as a catalyst for others seeking to follow suit. Read More
When things get tough, as they did during the economic crisis and again during the immigration crisis, we get to see the true face of E.U. rule behind the benign facade.
Those countries who mismanaged their budgets had their leaders replaced with E.U. appointed technocrats; those countries who were not comfortable taking large numbers of migrants were informed they would take the quota allocated to them or face a fines of 239,000 Euros per person. So much for for countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Poland & the Czech Republic deciding such things for themselves.
And this week President of the Commission, Jean-Claude Junker warned British voters that they would be treated as ‘deserters’ if they voted to leave the union.
Junker, the former leader of Luxembourg must appreciate the effect his choice of words convey: that ‘deserters’ are traditionally shot. It is highly inflammatory and displays the sort of autocratic arrogance we have come to associate with E.U. ministers. Read More
Rather than avoid the spectre of war in Europe and secure economic harmony – the two objectives the E.U. was primarily set up to achieve – it has, through a progressive policy of forcing ideological pegs into cultural holes, ensured the servitude of those countries who cannot live up to economic expectations, and sown the seeds of future ethnic wars continent wide.
“I believe that the European Union is in the process of collapsing on itself for one simple reason. The two pillars on which it’s founded – Schengen and the euro – are in the process of crumbling,” Marine Le Pen, Leader of the French National Front. Read More
In February, Hungary announced a referendum on migrant quotas imposed by the E.U.
In an unprecedented challenge to Brussels’ authority over national law, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Oban announced the country would hold a referendum on the question. States are legally bound by decisions made in the Council of Ministers, and there is no precedent for a state putting such a decision to popular vote.
“The Hungarian government believes that neither the union nor Brussels nor the European leaders nor any European body has the authority to do this,” Mr Orban said. “We feel that introducing a settlement quota without the consent of the people is nothing but abuse of power.”
Donald Tusk, the European Council president, warned that countries rejecting refugee measures would push Britain to leave the EU, saying the crises are “strictly interconnected.”
“We have entered a most dangerous time in the European history.” Donald Tusk, European Council President
Sowing the Seeds of Ethnic War
In France, half of their armed forces are deployed on French streets to police the final stages of an experiment which, even by the more generous interpretations, has failed. What we are seeing in France is the start of an ethnic war. People returning from Belgium after years of living in the country describe it as “fucked.”
These are the startling realities that supporters of continued Islamic immigration won’t acknowledge; continuing with the same policies and hoping for a wind change is criminally naive. It would be one thing if Islamist attacks only killed those who apologize for and excuse Islamic violence, but unfortunately they don’t.
As political philosopher, Roger Scruton points out in The Uses of Pessimism,
“Since the sixties Western countries have adopted policies in the matter of immigration that no person schooled in the elementary truths of pessimism would have endorsed. Anybody who has studied the fate of empires, and the difficulties of establishing territorial jurisdiction over communities that differ in religion, language & marital customs, knows that the task is all but impossible, and threatens constantly to break down into fragmentation, tribalism or civil war. Take the lid off multi-ethnic and multicultural empires – such as the Ottoman or communist Yugoslavia – and bloodshed and destruction ensue.”
The failure to see culture and race as considerations by those driving policy, has ensured that the conditions that developed over a thousand years in Yugoslavia, have been recreated in less than two generations in modern Europe. A European ethnic civil war is a almost a certainty at this stage, it’s now merely how big that war is.
On June 23rd people in Britain have the opportunity to set course and escape the inevitable scramble for life jackets by voting to leave the E.U.
With Federalist Friends Like These
The Remain campaign in the upcoming British referendum on continued E.U. membership must be wishing that allies like Jean-Claude Junker would resist the urge to help.
The President of the E.U. Commission’s idea of assistance is to threaten British voters going to the polls that they will be treated as ‘deserters’ if they decide to leave the E.U.
In his greatest intervention in the referendum contest, the President of the European Commission said that the UK would face “consquences” and be treated as a “third country” following a break with the EU.
Historically threats go down really well in Britain, and are almost certain to activate the deeply embedded cultural oppositional defiance inherent in so much of the national character; especially when they come from the former leader of Luxembourg – a country that barely exists without the E.U. and which the German army didn’t even consider worthy of a stop for lunch in 1940.
The President finished off being helpful to the Remain campaign by suggesting that the package of concessions British Prime Minister David Cameron secured in order to persuade voters to remain in Europe will “not be easy” to deliver.
With Federalist friends like these who needs a counter campaign?
However, the Leave campaign faced a similar issue recently, when French National Front leader Marine Le Pen offered to come to the U.K. to help Nigel Farage persuade people that membership of a federal Europe is not in the national interest, which he politely declined.
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