9/11 Revisited

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/we-are-all-hostages-of-9-11/

Regardless of what you think of Pepe Escobar this article is interesting and raises many salient points. I found myself hooked at the beginning when he started talking about Ahmad Shah Massoud. I remember very well where I was on 9 September 2001 when the news came over the radio that he had been killed. We had just bought an old fixer-upper schoolhouse turned domicile and I was poking around on that Sunday afternoon thinking about the repairs that needed to be done. The radio was tuned to NPR and the story of Massoud's death broke leaving me startled. I had been following Afghanistan for some time and his death was a pretty big deal. You definitely felt like something was going to happen, something would change.

The RICO Dragnet and its Dangers

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/what-we-need-to-know-about-rico

RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was developed in the early 1970's and was used to take down large sections of the Mafia and other criminal organisations.

Bakker, Barton and the Americanist Baal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX72-RpShTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izd-qBxKfLI

It seems highly appropriate that career heretics and charlatans Jim Bakker and David Barton have decided to collaborate and promote their lies about the United States and its history.

Disease Ridden Cures: Anti-Social Justice Warriors and Deceit

https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/2019/08/24/prominent-conservative-pastor-calls-out-tim-keller-for-promoting-socialist-economic-platform/

There's plenty to criticise about Tim Keller, New Calvinism and the modern Social Justice/Woke movement. These are neither mutually exclusive nor are they synonymous. The landscape is complicated but it's further complicated by the spectrum of criticisms and the critics themselves... some of which deserve equal condemnation.

Far Right AfD Makes Electoral Gains in Germany... Eighty Years After the Start of WWII

The Alternative für Deutschland or AfD has made significant gains in German state elections and this comes after gains in the European Parliament made earlier this year. And people are talking about it. It's shocking to them that 80 years after the start of WWII, a Far-Right party (that by many estimations harbours a Neo-Nazi element) is becoming a significant player in German politics.