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Afghan Taliban confirm leader Mullah Omar's death
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Prince Charles extends climate doomsday deadline by 33 years
[Wash Times] Prince Charles is warning that there are only 35 years left to save the planet from climate disaster, which represents a 33-year extension of his previous deadline.

In March 2009, the heir to the British throne predicted that the world had 100 months "before we risk catastrophic climate change," as pointed out by Climate Depot's Marc Morano.

"Prince Charles gives world reprieve: Extends '100-Month' climate 'tipping point' to 35 more years," says the Tuesday headline on the Climate Depot website.

The British blog Not A Lot of People Know That announced in a July 19 post, "Charlie Gives Us a Reprieve!"

Prince Charles, who updated his forecast in a July 18 interview with the Western [U.K.] Morning News prior to his visit to the Westcountry, began issuing warnings six years ago about imminent ecological disaster driven by climate change.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/31/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See also RUSSIA TODAY > "POWER LOSS, AVIATION DISRUPTION, + RADIATION [etc.]": UK WARNS SOLAR STORMS COULD WREAK HAVOC.

D *** NG IT, MEN, ITS NOT 2017 YET!

* RELATED DRUDGEREPORT > YAHOO NEWS = EARTH WILL HAVE ONLY TWELVE HOURS TO PREPARE FOR MASSIVE SOLAR STORMS.

As the next Monarch of Britain, CHUCKY needs to also be mindful of the Islamist MilTerr threat to wipe out his family, ESPEC IFF THE BRITS WISH TO PREVENT OR PREEMPT ANY US-BORN, US-RAISED AMERIKAN [Madonna] FROM TAKING OVER THE MONARCHY + WHATS LEFT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE-COMMONWEALTH AS A CONSEQUENCE.

THE TIME IS NOW, CHUCKLES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/31/2015 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Silly Prince. That puts your timeline right in the next Maunder Minimum.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/31/2015 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  In the old days, failed prophets were stoned and not the Colorado type of 'stoned'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/31/2015 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Luckily, in 35 years, Charles will be 101 years old so he will likely be dead.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/31/2015 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't jughead just take a private helicopter to a polo match where Team South America - gear horses et al - played in the UK?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/31/2015 12:26 Comments || Top||

#6  By Imperial Decree.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/31/2015 12:59 Comments || Top||

#7  The lion and the unicorn
Were keen to serve the crown!
The lion in his uniform
Flew Charlie all around.

"We each assist His Majesty
According to our parts --
I pilot all his aeroplanes
And you provide the farts!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/31/2015 14:55 Comments || Top||

#8  ZF, that could be my favorite yet.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/31/2015 15:09 Comments || Top||

#9  When I was a youngster my parents imposed roman catholicism on me. I was taught that sins were ranked into venial and mortal. Mortal and you went to hell. Venial and you did your time in purgatory. But there was time off for good behavior called an indulgence. Indulgences were, of course, dispensed by the clergy. The net of all that was that at the age of 9 or 10 I decided that this whole business was a crock of s#!t but when I said that out loud I was beaten so I laughed silently and stopped listening to the rules put forth by men who liked their wine and mumbled their Latin. 35 yrs right Charles old-boy? Sure, and I'll make a note of that.
Posted by: irishrageboy || 07/31/2015 17:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Guess Who Was Best Man at Kerry's Daughter's Wedding?
There aren't many times you can say that Hanoi John Kerry is just the right man for the job. Carrying out Obama's mission of arming our worst enemy with nuclear weapons is an exception.

Kerry's Iranian counterpart is Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif...

Secretary Kerry and Zarif first met over a decade ago at a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. What a surprise. ...

But it gets even worse. Guess who was the best man at the 2009 wedding between Kerry's daughter Vanessa and Behrouz Vala Nahed? Javad Zarif's son.

John Kerry has been a traitor since Vietnam days. Helping Obama arm Iran with nuclear weapons that may be used to kill millions of us will be his crowning achievemen

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 07/31/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  SO the Ayatollah Khomeini visited Guam back in the 1970's in order to set up the future wedding for Kerry's daughter in 2009, NOT as per overthrowing the Shah or the Iran-Iraq War???

D *** NG IT, IS THERE NO END TO THE SHEER UNADULTERATED EVIL THAT WAS MTV RAP!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/31/2015 0:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
It's Official: US Terror Threat not Islamist, Only 'Extremist' sez Jeh Johnson
[Arutz Sheeva] No longer a private Obama initiative, but rather official US gov't policy: Muslim terrorism is simply 'violent extremism.'

Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson announced the policy this past Friday at Aspen Institute's annual security forum in Washington, D.C. He explained that though it was a Muslim terrorist who shot to death four unarmed Marines in Tennessee two weeks ago, the government will call the attack, and other similar ones, "violent extremism" and not "Islamic terrorism" - out of respect for the Muslim community.

Johnson said it is "critical" to refrain from the "Islamic" label in order to "build trust" among Muslims.

The Tennessee murderer, Mohammad Abdulazeez, is officially a "homegrown violent extremist," according to the government -- even though he blogged about his Islamic religious motivations for the attack. He and his family also attended a local mosque controlled by a terror-tied Islamic trust.

Johnson explained that if officials called Islamic terrorism "Islamic," they'd "get nowhere" in gaining the "cooperation" of the Muslim community.

The moderator of the panel tried to protest: "Isn't [the] government denying the fundamental religious component of this kind of extremism by not using the word Islamic?"

"I could not disagree more," Johnson responded, and explained that Islam "is about peace."

Responses to Johnson's remarks were fast and furious. The Clarion Project advanced two quick objections: "Putting aside the argument that to be able to fight the phenomenon of Islamic terror, one has to be able to name it," wrote Meira Svirsky, editor of ClarionProject.org, "it is plainly a strategy that has failed - primarily because the Muslims whom the government is trying to appease are the very ones supporting the same extremist ideology -- Islamism -- that drives the terrorists."

In addition, an op-ed by Investor's Business Daily accused Johnson of failing to understand that the strategy is simply not working. The article notes that the FBI has warned that it can't keep up with all the homegrown Muslim terrorism cases cropping up now in every single one of the 50 states. The article states that "pandering to local Muslim leaders" has failed to deliver where it is most needed: "U.S. Attorney Bill Killian helped dedicate [the Tennessee terrorist's] mosque at its grand opening in 2012, [and] even befriended its leader. Did [that leader] tip him off about Abdulazeez's radicalization? Did he stop him from driving down the street and opening fire on two military sites?"

Not only that, but in Minneapolis, the local Muslim leaders are "cooperating" by demanding that the FBI release jailed ISIS terrorist suspects. In Boston, congregants of a mosque attended by the Boston marathon bombers are "cooperating" by holding fundraisers and rallies for convicted al-Qaida- and ISIS-tied terrorists.

Investor's Business Daily urges the passage of a law that will allow local authorities to press legal action not just against terrorists but also any of their supporters in the Muslim community.

From the Aspen Institute link in para 2:

One of those day-to-day efforts is “CVE,” or Countering Violent Extremism. To begin with, Johnson noted that the terminology is important. He prefers “violent extremism” over “Islamic extremism” not out of some concern for political correctness, but because “I believe strongly — and I hear this over and over again from Muslim leaders in this country — that to refer to ISIL as ‘Islamic extremism’ concedes too much. It dignifies them as occupying some part of the Islamic faith, which is about peace.”
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/31/2015 10:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Grandpa: In this box is something that is going to get all of us out of the ghetto.
J.J.: What is it? A BOMB.


That's right, JJ.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/31/2015 12:58 Comments || Top||

#2  As long as we fall for the silly assertion that Islam is about peace when the majority of violence in the world is located in Islamic areas and between factions of Islam and against non-Islamic states, we will never stop this crap. Islam is about conquest, the means are the only variable, words, deceit, moral suasion, threats, violence,...those are all tools to accomplish the prophets dicta......to deny that is to be unreasoning!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/31/2015 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  You're missing the subtext here.
A couple of weeks ago Wesley Clark said that 'extremists' may need to be placed in internment camps.
Yesterday Obie said the abortion videos were the product of 'right wing extremists'.
Johnson now says the only terror threat is from 'extremists.
Do you begin to get the drift of this?
Good thing the military isn't out doing the largest covert in-country training mission in history, or I'd be worried.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/31/2015 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  So says the communist redistributionist socialist progressive in the White House. Need to consult the Orwell Newspeak Style Manual(tm)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/31/2015 14:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Hot Swanson's got nothin' on Johnson;
Jeh baby's a regular Bronson.
No man, no Aeneas --
He's happy to see us
Or maybe just printing a Ronson.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/31/2015 14:36 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: || 07/31/2015 15:16 Comments || Top||

#7  JJ prefers tilting at windmills to fighting the enemy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/31/2015 16:25 Comments || Top||

#8  The article notes that the FBI has warned that it can't keep up with all the homegrown Muslim terrorism cases cropping up now in every single one of the 50 states.

Pretty much says it all.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/31/2015 19:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Again, US-WORLD/GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER IS THE PRIORITY OR FOCII, NOT NATIONAL SECURITY.

The more Illegal Migrants, Cartels, + Islamist MilTerrs sneaking over the Border(s), ...@etc. = the more Domestic + International Anarchies-n-Chaoses = THE BETTER FOR "JUSTIFIED" US-WORLD/GLOBAL SOCIALISM + OWG-NWO, + WIDOUT HAVING TO ASK THE ELECTORATE TO VOTE ON IT.

NOT JUST SO-CALLED BIG OR BIG[GER] GOVT, BUT THE "BIG[GEST] GOVT" = NEAR-TOTALITARIAN OR "SOVIET" REGULATORY MARXIST-COMMIE-SOCIALIST
MODELS OF GOVT.

Personally I blame BRUCE WILLIS' "ARMAGEDDON" [Texas-sized Asteroids], + BEN AFFLECK'S "PEARL HARBOR" STARRING THE CAPSIZING USN BB USS OKLAHOMA
= NOT-GUAM-N-PACIFIC-ISLANDS [just yet].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/31/2015 19:52 Comments || Top||



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  Afghan Taliban confirm leader Mullah Omar's death
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