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Laser weapons system that can shoot down two drones at a distance of over a mile

A laser weapons system that can shoot down two drones at a distance of over a mile has been demonstrated by Rheinmetall Defence.

The German defence firm used the high-energy laser equipment to shoot fast-moving drones at a distance.

The system, which uses two laser weapons, was also used to cut through a steel girder a kilometre away.

The company plans to make the laser weapons system mobile and to integrate automatic cannon.

The 50kW laser weapons system used radar and optical systems to detect and track two incoming drones, the company said. The nose-diving drones were flying at 50 metres per second, and were shot down when they reached a programmed fire sector.  (continue at BBC)

Attempt to Ban Bestiality in Germany

Now Germany wants to ban sex with animals, but zoophiles are objecting.  If you are wondering what the law is in the United States, see below.

(Daily Telegraph UK)  Newspaper die Tageszeitung reports that the governing coalition are soon to amend the country's Animal Welfare Act to make sex with animals punishable with a fine of up to 25,000 euros ($31,000).

Bestiality was legalised in Germany in 1969, the same year that gay sex was also removed from the criminal code. After that, sex with animals was only punishable if the animal was severely injured.

However animal welfare groups have pushed for the ban to be reinstated, in an advertising campaign that used dramatic examples of "animal rape".

Agriculture minister Ilse Aigner has agreed to change the law to make it illegal for people to "use (animals) for their own sexual activities or sexual acts of third parties" - which also bans the 'pimping' of animals to others.

However the move has aroused the ire of zoophile group ZETA.

Lobbyist Michael Kiok, who lives with his dog Cassie, told the newspaper there were more than 100,000 zoophiles in Germany.

"Mere morals have no place in law," he said.

Mr Kiok said he was worried that if the law took effect the authorities would try to take away his dog.

The amendment to the law will be debated in the German parliament in mid-December. (Daily Telegraph UK,  hat tip Frederick William Dame)

 

In the United States, on December 1, 2011, CNS News noted:

The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals--or bestiality.

Also see Wikipedia (I know) for various US State and world countries and their laws.

 

Middle East - In Photos: Muslims Around The Globe Rage

Go look at these amazing images out of the Middle East and around the world.  Scroll all the way down, don't miss one image, especially the ones toward the end of the page.  Look at the faces of the Muslims.  Look closely at their actions, their signs, and feel the rage.  Then come back and leave your impression in the comment section.

My first impression was the pure hatred these people have, they are pure evil, and how that hatred goes directly from zero to "Kill Terry and Sam.  Slit their throats.  Spill their blood".  Also evil is how they use their children as props, how they train them from birth to hate and to see killing as a good thing.  Below is one image.  Don't just look at the child, look at the background.  The black flags of Islamic jihad, the flag of al-Qaeda:

A boy holds a toy gun during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh near Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS)

http://www.vosizneias.com/113609/2012/09/14/middle-east-in-photos-muslims-around-the-globe-rage-over-anti-islam-film ,  (hat tip Michael)

 

Just a reminder as to where these riots are taking place, here is an embeded map, which I believe automatically updates:

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View Muslim Protests in a larger map.

 

1972 Olympics Massacre - Germany's Secret Contacts to Palestinian Terrorists

Via Spiegel Online, By Felix Bohr, Gunther Latsch and Klaus Wiegrefe:

Eleven Israelis and one German police officer died in the Munich massacre of 1972, when Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympics. Now, government documents suggest that Germany maintained secret contacts with the organizers of the attack for years afterward and appeased the Palestinians to prevent further bloodshed on German soil.

In the busy streets of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, hardly anyone noticed the three Buick sedans that came to a stop just before the corner of Rue Verdun. Several couples got out of the cars. They were dressed casually and looked like tourists. Some of the people were in fact wearing blonde wigs and women's clothing, which wasn't recognizable from a distance.

In fact, the couples were all men, members of an Israeli special forces unit operating in enemy territory.

 At about 1:30 a.m., they entered an apartment building. They rushed up the stairs to the upper floors, pulled Uzi submachine guns and explosives out from under their baggy clothing and received a radio message from their commander ordering them to blow open the doors to several apartments. They immediately opened fire, shooting and killing Abu Youssef, Kamal Nasser and Kamal Adwan, three senior officials with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Youssef's wife and a female neighbor were also killed.

At the time, Operation Spring of Youth, carried out by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and the Israeli army in the early morning hours of April 10, 1973, was probably the most spectacular counterterrorism operation in the history of the Jewish state. After the attack, the men fled in their Buicks to the Beirut sea front, where they boarded inflatable boats and were taken back out to a waiting speedboat. The episode was vividly portrayed as a high-speed escape in the dead of night in director Steven Spielberg's film "Munich."

'New Basis of Trust'  (continue reading at Spiegel Online, hat tip Marcus Wilder) 

 

Recognizing Muslim Religious Holidays

Spiegel Online reports:

The German city-state of Hamburg plans to officially recognize Muslim holidays and improve Islam courses in schools. Many of the measures are already standard practice, but the agreement with Muslim groups is still viewed as a positive signal. Other states may soon follow suit.

It may be just a symbolic gesture, but the German city-state of Hamburg has garnered widespread praise for signing an official agreement with its Muslim community that guarantees Islamic holidays, religion courses in schools and burial ritual rights.

 The deal, which must still be approved by the city's parliament, is the first of its kind in Germany. It was agreed to by representatives of Hamburg's Muslim and Alevi communities, whose holidays will gain the same status as non-statutory Christian holidays. On these days, people who wish to observe the holiday have the right to either use a vacation day or make it up another time. (continue reading)

 

DOCUMENTARY: “180″

 

hat tip The Lefty Report

 

Faithless?

With Christmas celebrations over for 2011 the subject of religion, or more accurately faith, has been the topic of much discussion.  I scratched the surface of the current situation with religious faith last week. I would like to touch on the continuing lack o faith in politicians and where that can lead a nation.    AWR Hawkins at the Brussels Journal takes a look back in history at faith and Christmas and believes the West Has Lost The Ties That Bind - Faith.  Siting the Christmas Truce that took place in the trenches of World War One during the Christmas of 1914 as the words of “Silent Night” being sung by the British soldiers pierced the night and the German soldiers responded with signs in English indicating they too wanted to celebrate Christmas.

When Christmas morning broke, no shots were fired, no hostilities exchanged. Rather, on the land that that lay between the German and British trenches—“no man’s land”—the soldiers met and sang carols and exchanged gifts (cigarettes, sweets, etc.), and even engaged in sports (soccer). Although they were enemies on the battlefield, they shared a common denominator which greater than their aggression, and that denominator was their faith, which was intrinsic to their Western heritage.

Fast forward to this past Christmas (2011), and think of how far we’ve fallen. Over the course of decades court systems, educational curriculum, and the relentless encroachment of political correctness have all been used to rid Westerners of their faith, and as consequence, of their reason for Christmas. We have traded our faith, rich in heritage and transcendent in meaning, for a secularization which literally sucks the life not only out of the West, but out of the West’s holidays as well. 

Ask yourself, if under some strange circumstance Britain and Germany were to find themselves at war, “What would happen to a soldier today, were he to lay down his gun in order to sing of the babe in the manger or the silent night on which that babe was born?” My guess is that the soldier would be reprimanded, forced to take “sensitivity training,” or maybe even worse. Moreover, I would venture to say that if the soldier tried to emerge from his trench and walk toward his enemy to celebrate Christmas, he would probably be shot dead the moment his enemy had him in their sites. 

Simply put, we Westerners have lost the ties that bind. And now, in a manner completely antithetical to that witnessed in the winter of 1914, we are more apt to exchange hostilities between ourselves instead of gifts.

 Political correctness and efforts from the truly faithless -- progressives, atheists -- and from those in religions like Islam that wish to dominate the world, have ideed done damage that I fear may not be reversable.

Faith, the religious kind, has been under attack around the world.  While faith in God does not seem to be declining to the extent some would like us to believe, formal worship or church attendance, is on the decline -  92% of Americans say they believe in God - 55% of Americans said religion is very important in their lives.  As I noted previously 78% of American adults identify with some form of Christian religion.

Faith in Politics.

Faith in politics, or more specifically faith in politicians and government, is on the decline.  Whether it is Europe with their financial problems and loss of faith that the politicians can turn things around;  Or whether it is the United States where The One, Democrat President Barack Obama, has failed to provide the hope and change he promised and his followers are rapidly turning on him;  Or whether it is the Republican nominees for president;   there doesn't seem to be any real faith in any of them to provide the leadership needed in 2012.

I won't go as far as Dominick Sandbrook in the Daily Mail who in his article "The spectre of 1932: How a loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory", makes a comparison with the situation in 2011 and 2012 to 80 years ago, to the cold wintry days when 1931 gave way to 1932, when few people saw much to mourn in the passing of the old year...  the prospect of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany,  ... 

Feeling betrayed by mainstream politicians, many sought more extreme alternatives. Then as now, Britain was rocked by marches and demonstrations... 

And while Left-wing intellectuals were drawn to the supposedly utopian promise of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin...

And as the experience of 80 years ago suggests, the political and social ramifications would be too terrible to contemplate. For in many ways, the 12 months between the end of 1931 and the beginning of 1933 were the tipping point between democracy and tyranny, the moment when the world plunged from an uneasy peace towards hatred and bloodshed.

In the East, new powers were already on the rise. At the end of 1931, Imperial Japan had already launched a staggeringly brutal invasion of China, the Japanese armies pouring into the disputed province of Manchuria in search of raw materials.

Today the boot is on the other foot, with China ploughing billions into its defence programme and establishing de facto economic colonies across Africa, bringing copper, cobalt and zinc back to the mother country.

Indeed, future historians may well look back and see the first years of the 2010s as the moment when the Chinese Empire began to strengthen its global grip. [snip]

Today, Barack Obama cuts a similarly impotent, indecisive and isolationist figure. The difference is that in 1932, one of the greatest statesmen of the century, the Democratic politician Franklin D. Roosevelt, was waiting in the wings.

Today, American voters looking for alternatives are confronted only with a bizarre gaggle of has-beens, inadequates and weirdos, otherwise known as the Republican presidential field. And to anybody who cares about the future of the Western world, the prospect of President Ron Paul or President Newt Gingrich is frankly spine-chilling.  (The Daily Mail, hat tip Marcus Wilder, via Drudge)

Comparing Ron Paul to Newt Gingrich is going a little far, but four more years of Obama is indeed spine-chilling.  Voters are frustrated.  Our candidates are chosen for us before we cast a vote, before our voice is heard.  Votes are bought and sold.  Politicians are created out of vapor by unseen forces (Obama comes to mind).

It is no wonder our faith, especially here in the United States, is fading fast.

2012 will indeed be a turning point, one way or the other, for this country, for Israel, and for the world.

God help us all.

Faithless?  No, not yet.

 

Beginning of the end for the euro zone

Today President Barack Obama said the United States stands ready to do its part to help the continent, even as the White House ruled out any financial contributions from U.S. taxpayers. (video Washington Post) 

But Wait!  Obama would be in favor of more aid to Europe from the International Monetary Fund, where the United States is the biggest shareholder.  (potato, potato, -- tomato, tomato)  The money still comes for US taxpayers.

Instead, the Obama administration has focused on offering advice on rescue programs and how to make tough political decisions drawn from its experience during the U.S. financial crisis of 2008.  Bwahahahahah!  

Obama urged the European Union officials to act quickly and decisively to resolve their sovereign debt crisis, in another "pot-meet-kettle" moment.  

No need to worry, Barack Obama and little Timmy Geithner (U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner) are on the job.

 The Euro Area Is Coming to an End, by Peter Boone and Simon Johnson:

Investors sent Europe’s politicians a painful message last week when Germany had a seriously disappointing government bond auction. It was unable to sell more than a third of the benchmark 10-year bonds it had sought to auction off on Nov. 23, and interest rates on 30-year German debt rose from 2.61 percent to 2.83 percent. The message? Germany is no longer a safe haven.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, investors have focused on credit risk and rewarded Germany with low interest rates for its perceived frugality. But now markets will focus on currency risk. Inflation will accelerate and the euro may break up in a way that calls into question all euro-denominated obligations. This is the beginning of the end for the euro zone.

Here’s why. Until 2008, investors assumed that all euro- zone sovereign bonds, as well as bank debt, were risk-free and would never default. This made for a wonderfully profitable trade: European banks could buy government debt, finance it at less expensive rates through funding provided by the European Central Bank, and pocket the spread.  (continue reading at Bloomberg, hat tip Marcus Wilder)

 

Heaven help us all.

 

Letter to Angela Merkel re Durban III

To Chancellor Angela Merkel from Tabitha Korol re "Germany pulls out of Durban III anti-racism conference"

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Dear Chancellor Merkel:

Almost from the first moment you took office and started to voice your opinions to the world, I admired you for your position against Nazism and anti-Semitism.  Again today, I was please to read the following statement:   Germany “cannot rule out that the Durban commemoration event in New York will be misused for anti-Semitic statements, as was the case in previous conferences.” The spokesman continued that “therefore Germany will not participate. This is an expression of our special responsibility toward Israel." (image via Reuters)

Yet, something else happened this week that is particularly troublesome, perhaps even a form of betrayal of that special responsibility.  Germany is donating $2.8 million to UNRWA’s “school feeding program” for Palestinian children, the same children who are taught to vehemently hate Jews, the same children who will march, wearing belts of explosives, and the same children who will one day volunteer to commit suicide among a crowd of Jewish children.  Since the Palestinians earned the designation of 8th most overweight people on earth, it is highly likely that the surplus money won't be used for food, but for Hamas and additional weapons for killing Israelis. 

Has Germany truly investigated the appeal for $36 million and the alleged shortfall claims?  Isn't it likely that if the money for terrorists and weapons were redirected to the children's fund, there would be no humanitarian need?  And, if Germany truly has acknowledged the special responsibility toward Israel, are there funds being directed to also care for Israel's bomb victims, the reconstruction of damaged buildings and infrastructure, and Israel’s medical care given not only to Israelis, but to people within the Middle East and Africa who also benefit from her generosity and compassion, such as the Save A Child’s Heart for all children?

Do Germany and those at UNRWA who provide psycho-social support to 25,000 children in Gaza also concern themselves with the same psycho-social care for the children and citizens of Sderot, who have been victims of an ongoing target of Qassam rocket attacks from Gaza?  According to MSNBC, nearly everyone has been traumatized by the frequent air-raid sirens (that give 15 seconds’ warning to reach shelter) and explosions of the incoming projectiles; playgrounds must have shelters and schools have had to be fortified.  From mid-June, 2007 to mid-February, 2008, 661 rockets and 857 mortar bombs hit Sderot, an average of three to four each day.  Since the Palestinian Second Intifada of October, 2000, the city has been under constant rocket fire from Qassams launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, causing deaths, injuries, significant damage to homes and property, psychological distress and emigration from the city. Thousands of Qassams were launched since Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005.  From May to November, 2007, 6,311 rockets fell on Sderot, with more than 20 landing in a single day. 

Chancellor Merckel, the financial aid sent to Palestinian children will free up money for even more rockets fired on Israeli children.  Please reconsider your philanthropy.  Is this the expression of compassion and special responsibility that Germany intended?     

Ms. Tabitha Korol

(see other articles and letters by Tabitha Korol at Right Truth here)

Left-Wing Radical Violence vs Right-Wing

According to a new classified German Intelligence Report by Spiegel,  Left-wing extremism is on the rise in Germany, the number of violent militants has risen by a fifth since 2005 and offenses rose sharply in the first quarter of 2011. It is interesting to read about the Left-wing radicalism, extremism, and violence in Germany and other European countries in relation to the United States.  Here the Left-wing plasters the name Right-wing radicals or Right-wing terrorists to those who are simply tired of supporting one-half of the population and having a government that sympathizes with those who live off the 'government' while working against the rest of the population.

One definition of Left-wing terrorism is:  Left-wing terrorism, sometimes called Marxist-Lennist terrorism or revolutionary/left-wing terrorism  is a tactic used to overthrow capitalism and replace it with Marxist-Leninist or socialist government.  Another definition is advocating a liberal or radical position.   

The definition of Right-wing terrorism, a label wrongly attached to the recent TEA party movement in the U.S. and a definition that is completely erroneous:  Right-wing terrorism draws its inspiration from a variety of ideologies and beliefs, including neo-fascism, neo-Nazism, racism and opposition to foreigners and immigration.   The Department of Homeland Security issued an alert in 2009 saying that right-wing extremism is on the rise throughout the country but also said  said there was no specific information about an attack from right-wing extremists in the works.    

Looking at the United States and the recent demostrations in Wisconsin and other states, where government-paid people protested at the very thought of having to pay something for their own healthcare.  Heaven forbid one should actually pay for something one's self, rather than expecting government, a/k/a taxpayers, to foot the bill.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned that a militant left-wing movement is on the rise in the country. An arson attack on cables that caused severe disruption to the Berlin rail network last month has thrown a spotlight on left-wing extremism, and official figures reveal a steep rise in violence this year.

"The security situation has markedly worsened," says a confidential report on the radical left-wing scene compiled by regional and national intelligence agencies. The number of left-wing activists deemed prone to violence increased by more than 20 percent from 2005 to 2010, reaching an all-time high of 6,800, the report says.

The number of offenses committed by extremists in the first quarter of 2011 was significantly higher than in same period last year, it adds.

Authorities are pointing to the protests against the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany in 2007 as the start of an escalation in left-wing violence. The anti-globalization demonstrations, joined by tens of thousands of people, were a "turning point in the development of German left-wing extremism," the report says.

Authorities are worried that the militant left is attracting support from young people who had hitherto been outside the core left-wing scene. It has started to appeal to a violent, thrill-seeking and less ideological youth culture.  (continue reading at Spiegel, hat tip Marcus Wilder)

U.S. President Barack Obama met today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today.  After a grand arrival ceremony, they met privately then answered questions from the press.  Obama and Merkel have had their disagreements in the past, but today they exchanged compliments -- it was almost dripping in sweet syrup.  A White House dinner with entertainment and all the trimmings was planned for Merkel (no such greeting, dinner or press for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu).

According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, for the first time, voters feel the agenda of congressional Republicans is nearly as extreme as that of Democrats in Congress according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. 

...  survey shows that 39% of Likely U.S. Voters say it is more accurate to describe the agenda of Republican members of Congress as mainstream. Slightly more voters (43%), however, believe it’s more accurate to label the GOP agenda as extreme. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided.  (To see survey question wording, click here.)  [snip]

Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters view the agenda of congressional Democrats as extreme, up two points from last month. Thirty-seven percent (37%) see the Democrats’ agenda as mainstream. Sixteen percent (16%) are undecided.   (continue reading)

Extreme Left-wing vs extreme Right-wing.  I'll leave it to you to decide which side you believe is the most extreme, what extreme actually means, and to determine which wing has been more violent.  

As Robert Spencer points out in his article Germany on the Brink,  the Left generally sides with the Islamists (real terrorists) in the United States and Germany:

In Stuttgart, Germany, last week, violent Leftist and Islamic supremacist demonstrators violently menaced anti-jihad activists – giving a sobering picture of where Germany, Europe, and the U.S. as well are headed if we don’t stand up and resolutely defend our freedom now. [big snip]

It’s time for the White Rose to flower again in Germany. And as Islamic supremacism continues to advance in the U.S. also, we are not far behind. (hat tip Marcus Wilder)

There is no doubt in my mind that the media pushes the agenda, that the Left-wing media is more likely to miss-represent or even make up instances of Right-wing radicalism, and that the Right has done a poor job of fighting back.  When it comes to violent and extreme acts by the Left, the media either ignore it or sugar-coat it. (Image via Republican Redefined)

The same thing happens in Germany with the media and the Left:

Each week the neo-fascist paper Junge Freiheit complains that the media and politicians in Germany do not take left-wing violence seriously,... [snip]

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung examined the public's apparent greater acceptance of left-wing violence, which is usually directed against property rather than human beings: Nehmen wir linke Gewalt nicht ernst genug? / Should we be more concerned with left-wing violence?

Over the last few weeks here in the United States, we have actually seen quite a bit of young, black violence toward both property and persons.  Vince at Ace of Spades says, "...the violence and mayhem being displayed was the result of people who had an entitlement mentality where they felt they could do whatever they wanted, could take whatever they wanted, regardless of the consequences on anyone else, simply because they could. One asks how do people end up with this type of mentality. The answer was obvious: the government’s nanny state."

As the economy remains critical, with no improvement in sight, and with a President who is clearly on the side of unions and government relief programs and against business and individual private workers, we may be in for some real problems in the United States.  Time to turn things around, elect true Conservatives, allow businesses and individual citizens to be responsible for themselves.  We certainly do not want to see rioting in the streets, destruction of property, or even loss of life as we have seen in Germany.