A Quick Run Around the Web -- October 20, 2015

"USS Shaw (DD-373) exploding during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor." By an unknown photographer, December 7, 1941

• Our leadership is delusional. "When Kroft reminded Obama that Putin was bombing his proxies, Obama countered that he was leading on 'climate change'."--from "Vladimir’s Game" by Richard Fernandez (discussing a 60 Minutes interview between Steve Croft and Pres. Obama). Read the whole article, as it moves on to discussing why the elite are so concerned with "climate change" rather than real problems.
• Our current Middle-East policy, as described by Henry Kissinger: "The U.S. is now opposed to, or at odds in some way or another with, all parties in the region."
• "The ‘Migrant’ Crisis: Merkel’s Folly, Europe’s Peril"--Michael Walsh. From the article:

... Nationalism is not a dirty word in Hungary.

That it is elsewhere – in western Europe and, latterly, in the United States – is not the Hungarians’ problem; defending their language, their culture, their language and their way of life is. And this brings into focus the critical aspect of the “migrant” crisis – what is the end game?  Thanks to the human smugglers and the speed of modern communications, “refugees” from as far away as Afghanistan are washing up on the landlocked shores of central Europe – legions of able-bodied young men from the ummah of Islam advancing nearly unopposed into the Dar al-Harb of Christendom.

And yet this crucial aspect of the crisis has largely gone unremarked, as has the threat to Western values embodied by the “Syrians” and others who have traveled great distances to march with impunity through the undefended internal borders of the European Union and demand – not ask, demand – asylum in the Bundesrepublik as if that were a self-evident right.  That they trek through formerly Islamic lands like Hungary to do so is just another one of history’s little ironies that may eventually be seen as not ironic at all.

• "UNESCO draft resolution: Western Wall is part of al-Aksa mosque"--Jerusalem Post. "Israel is working to thwart a draft UNESCO resolution which declares that the Western Wall in Jerusalem – the most holy site in Judaism – belongs to al-Aksa Mosque compound." This is not going to end well. 
• "The Moderate Rebels: A Growing List of Vetted Groups Fielding BGM-71 TOW Anti-Tank Guided Missiles"--Hasan Mustafas. The article is mostly interesting because it lists and gives a brief description of each of the groups.
• "Friday Fundamentals (Segment 4) Shooting with a flashlight"--Tactical Professor.
• "The Semi-Auto .22LR Carbine: The Right Choice More Often Than You Think"--Jerking the Trigger. An argument for the .22 rifle as a first weapon for someone new to shooting and self-defense.
• "Skills Drills: El Presidente Drill"--Handguns Magazine.
• "Motivator: Gangs Growing In Rural Areas And A Word About LEOs"--The Lizard Farmer. An article from 2012 noting the growth of criminal gangs in rural America, and implications for the retreat.
• "Moving As A Group When the SHTF"--Preparing for SHTF.
• "Instinct and Knife Attack Defense"--Police. Incorporating instinctive reactions into knife defense training. Not particularly detailed, but suggests that you build your individual training based on how you instinctively react to a knife: e.g., if you instinctively attempt to control the weapon/hand, practice on techniques that teach out to control the weapon/hand, but if your instinctive reaction is different, then learn techniques that compliment your instincts.