Comment: Wow, we knew it would be difficult for Euro-leaders to learn how to walk the walk, but we didn't suspect there would be ZERO actions to match their fightin' words about reining in the US...

Comment: More from Southern here.

Comment: Also see:

• Florida Governor sues 2 Democratic strongholds over election 'theft' as recount looms
• 'Protect our democracy': Trump slams Dems for trying to steal elections in Florida & Arizona
• Florida judge orders voter records inspection, siding with Republican candidates as recount looms

Comment: The 'liberation' of Raqqa by the US military and their Kurdish allies was an indiscriminate slaughter. Russia has been pointing this out for the last year, but no one has listened. While US politicians and media virtue signalled by decrying the (actual) liberation of cities like Aleppo and Damascus by the Syrians and Russians, they were totally silent about their own slaughter in Raqqa. Even worse, the Russians at least put in the effort of surveilling potential targets for civilians. The Americans bombed anything and everything without a second thought. And after the liberation of Syrian towns and cities, the Russians help clean up and rebuild. The Americans simply left Raqqa to rot. Who are the barbarians here?

Comment: Is this a liberal German establishment putting the worst possible face on whatever it is they actually uncovered... or is this as nuts as it sounds?

We can't help but wonder if and/or how this is connected to the discovery last year that German soldiers are embedded as 'refugees' throughout Germany with a view to carrying out terror attacks to be blamed on Muslims...


See also:

• Russian TV report: US intelligence may be behind ultra-right 'monarchist' group in Germany
• German right-wing politician quits over scandalous tour of Nazi sites
• 'Not kosher'? Germany's right-wing AfD raises concerns now that it has a Jewish group of members

Comment: Trump's is a healthy reaction to Macron's paramoralism (an insincere or deceptive moral argument or line of reasoning).

The King of Morocco's was another healthy reaction:


Here's the relevant clip from Macrons' speech:


The dictionary definition of patriotism, in English, is:

the quality of being patriotic; vigorous support for one's country.
synonyms: nationalism, patriotic sentiment, allegiance/loyalty to one's country, loyalism

And vice versa for nationalism:

patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts."an early consciousness of nationalism and pride"
synonyms: patriotism, patriotic sentiment, allegiance/loyalty to one's country, loyalism, nationality

Which means that the two terms, as commonly understood, are synonymous and thus interchangeable.

Macron's sophistry merely accentuates the fact that we're going through a 'great global culture war' - arguably the World War of our time - and that the primary faultline is that separating the globalist worldview from the nationalist worldview.

That he feels it imperative to reach for and claim 'monopoly of the moral good' on such a public stage speaks to the insecurity his 'side' feels in the face of their nationalist challengers...

Comment: He thus follows his brother, who resigned from govt in July over Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, for now, is sticking to 'Brexit means Brexit', saying "We can't stop it. The referendum took place. Article 50 has been triggered."

It'll be an interesting day if the Conservative govt finds itself initiating a second referendum, and backing it, while a Labour opposition government campaigns for leaving the EU...

See also:

• Britain will remain in the EU: Why 'Brexit' outcome is a foregone conclusion
• Brexit's main goals: Oust Jeremy Corbyn and expand predatory capitalism in Europe
• Ireland, UK and Brussels reach Brexit agreement: No hard border for Northern Ireland, which effectively remains in EU

Comment: UPDATE 8 November

RT reports that local police have named the gunman as 28-year-old former US marine Ian David Long, an Afghanistan war veteran.

The Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, is known for its live country music and was packed that night with college students.

Long is reported to have opened fire there Wednesday night with a Glock 21 .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun.

The victims include a security guard outside the bar and a sheriff's deputy who was among the first to respond to the shooting. Long was also found dead at the scene, so it's assumed he killed himself before SWAT entered the building.


Police report that Long's firearm was legally purchased in Ventura County, although he "used an illegal extended magazine clip in order to carry more ammunition."

Law enforcement had several interactions with Long, most recently in April this year when police responded to a disturbance at his residence (which appears to be his mother's house).

Describing him as "somewhat irate," and "acting a little irrationally" at the time, the local sheriff said a mental health team was called to assess Long's mental health, but he was cleared and no further action was taken.

Previous incidents had included a minor traffic collision and in 2015, while Long was the victim of battery in earlier bar incident in Thousand Oaks.

UPDATES 9 November

There are contradictory reports about the use of smoke bombs/flash grenades. The authorities have dismissed such reports twice now, though eyewitnesses continue reporting that such were used...

John Hedge, who was standing at the front door with his stepdad at the time, said he saw the shooter "throwing smoke grenades all over the place."

Footage of the actual shooting:


A number of those in attendance were also in attendance at last year's mass shooting at the Route 91 country music festival in Las Vegas:


As with so many other mass shootings in the USA, there's still no apparent motive, though it could have something to do with this: