Blog Heap of Links for the day 16 June 2016

…No Mr. President, once again you’ve got it dead wrong. Defining an enemy and understanding its goals and objectives enables you to defeat it. … What you’ve done is enable a proliferation of the most vile and savage enemy we have seen since Nazi Germany. … Ideologies matter, and defining them enables one to defeat the enemy’s strategic objective. Now, here’s the problem you fail to realize: your reticence and recalcitrance in confronting this enemy leads many to certain speculations. Folks begin to wonder, on whose side are you?…

…University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder says his political and ideological conversion away from socialism and Marxism occurred when he actually witnessed these systems in action.

After traveling to more than 110 countries to pursue various forms of research, notably cultural anthropology, Stauder described his conversion from Marxism as a process of disillusionment.…

A report filed by North Korean state media earlier today announced that Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Worker’s Party of Korea and supreme leader of the DPRK, was killed in an explosion in Pyongyang which was believed to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber.…

I have had several requests from friends to review the self-rescue gear we carry in our Get Back Home (GBH) bags…

After Orlando: What America Can Learn from Israel's Culture of Preparedness…
Rush: Democrats Despise me More Than They Despise Militant Islam…
China’s imperialism on the South China Sea…

CNN: EgyptAir Flight 804: Cockpit voice recorder found damaged…
North Korea reduces rations again for malnourished population…
Nearly 12,000 pregnant women in Colombia have Zika…

An “Australian” man named Imran Hakimi was sentenced to three years in prison for attacking motorists with a machete in Canberra last year. The defense maintained that Mr. Hakimi, who was born in Afghanistan, was experiencing psychological difficulties due his years in immigrant detention camps. His conditions were said to include depression and possible post-traumatic stress disorder.

In other news, a teenaged girl was killed and three other people were wounded in a gun battle in Oakland last night that took place near a vigil for two teenagers who drowned in a reservoir on Memorial Day weekend. The shooting victims are thought to have been caught in a crossfire that may have resulted from an argument over a dice game.…

Top six jihadi killers in US since 9/11: All vetted or under FBI surveillance…
Senate Votes To Force Women Into The Military Draft…
Syrian Immigrant Who Said 9/11 ‘Changed The World For Good’ Is A Homeland Security Adviser…