Wir sind das Volk!

PUSHBACK

15,000 gather in Dresden the other day, last week it was 10,000, the week before 6,000, early on it was a few hundred.  PEGIDA or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes) is just one of the signs of of pushback from Europeans fed up with their government's liberal immigration policies.  From the NPD and AfD in Germany, to UKIP in the United Kingdom, to the National Front in France, the far-right is rising in Europe.

In Germany, rather than address their citizens concerns, the government dismisses them out of hand as neo-nazis, pin-striped Nazis, dangerous, unmistakably right-wing extremists, and a disgrace.  It is the government's attitude that is dangerous and a disgrace placing concern for foreign asylum seekers ahead of concern for their own citizens.  It is this indifference that enables the far-right and is the best recruitment tool that they could hope for. 

The 2013 revision of the UN Trends in International Migrant Stock lists Germany as having 11.9% of the population as immigrants, France 10.8%, the UK as 8.9%, the US as 12.8%.  When 1 in 10 people are immigrants is it any wonder that the natives are restless?  

How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm

After they've seen Barrie?

Burger King announces $11.4 billion dollar purchase of Tim Horton's and its move and reincorporation in Canada.

 

Why? 

The nominal corporate tax rate in the US (totaling national, state, and city taxes) is 39.1%, the highest of all OECD nations.  By comparison, France, which you've been hearing so much about lately vis a vis tax refugees, is 34.4%.  Canada in comparison is only 26.3%.  Washington Post

And now a little light entertainment...

FORE!

Photo: 10 Downing St.

An American journalist is beheaded by ISIS and the British PM cancels his vacation...

What more can I say?

So, David, may I call you David? What are you doing in 2016?

#AmessagefromUStoISIS

Supporters of the ISIS terror group tweeted thousands of messages on Friday bearing the hashtag #AmessagefromISIStoUS featuring gruesome photos and threats to U.S. soldiers and citizens after American airstrikes took out terrorist targets in Iraq for the first time.  Daily Mail

#AmessagefromUStoISIS

There are no problems in Iraq that couldn't be solved by one American Peacekeeper

 

The Other Foot

Israel’s aggressive and widespread espionage activity in the US is increasingly angering American government officials and has “crossed red lines,” Newsweek reported Tuesday.  Staffers called the extent of Israeli espionage “sobering” and “shocking,” far exceeding similar activities by any other close US allies. 

Can I stop laughing now?

I would have to ask do the activities of Israeli intelligence "far exceed similar activities" by the United States against its close allies?  I would venture to guess, no.  We're kind of like a prostitute complaining about other people having sex.