{"id":87264,"date":"2019-05-21T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87264"},"modified":"2019-05-21T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:29:24","slug":"87264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87264","title":{"rendered":"Wars and rumors of wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. &#8211; Matthew 24:3<\/p>\n<p>The Oldham area near Greater Manchester, where this confrontation took place, was waiting for an appearance by far-right candidate Tommy Robinson, when the local constabulary escorted 300++ members of the MDL \u2013 <em>all with covered faces<\/em> \u2013 to the same area, who began throwing rocks, eggs and broken bricks at the residents, with no restraints from the constables. Car windows were smashed, and one of the pieces thrown, if it had hit a live mark, was large enough to cause some serious damage to a human target.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, a\/k\/a Stephen Paxley-Lennon, is running as a candidate for a seat in the European Parliament, representing the North West region of Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a local newsfeed about the same thing, more complete:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/05\/18\/eggs-bricks-thrown-clash-tommy-robinson-rally-9597908\/\">https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/05\/18\/eggs-bricks-thrown-clash-tommy-robinson-rally-9597908\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It gets more and more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a video posted online by someone who lives in the Oldham area who was attending the rally: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wEaSG_k4xCM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wEaSG_k4xCM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I&#8221;m not defending Tommy Robinson.\u00a0 Just providing this information as it appears to me, from these and other videos available, that the MDL people were the perpetrators in this. The intimidation by throwing blunt objects started with them.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that there is a real clash building in the UK and Europe as the more right-wing or conservative people, or even just middle-of-the road, come to the fore in all those countries. The conflicts are generated by resentments that have been buried since Merkel opened the gates to that flood, probably even before that.<\/p>\n<p>The protests by les Gilets Jaunes are paying off. The French government was forced to drop the rise in fuel taxes back in December as the protesters refused to give up the ship.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/05\/france-wealth-tax-changes-gilets-jaunes-protests-president-macron\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/05\/france-wealth-tax-changes-gilets-jaunes-protests-president-macron<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rise of the far-right in Germany has been underway for some months now, and shows no sign of letting up. Two far-right candidates were elected to the AfD, shoving aside Merkel&#8217;s own party, which caused her to lose her majority. They are growing stronger by the month, and I blame Merkel for it. All she saw was votes, like others of her ilk, with no regard to the effects to be inflicted on the populace in general.<\/p>\n<p>Keep all of this in mind when elections come around again.<\/p>\n<p>Having watched London burning during three days of rioting in 2011, I am more than aware how something small can nearly destroy an entire city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: &hellip; <a title=\"Wars and rumors of wars\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87264\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wars and rumors of wars<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87265,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264\/revisions\/87265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}