[Breitbart] Gen. Wesley Clark placed part of the blame for the Syrian Civil War on blamed climate change in a discussion on Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time."
After host Bill Maher quoted a report from the Department of Defense saying climate change threatens national security, Clark said "It's what was behind a lot of the violence in Syria, it's happening in East Africa, it's happening in West Africa. Right now." Murderous, death cult religion, no bearing at all, right general ?
He urged the US government to take "real action, we need a carbon tax." He added that climate change-believers were "winning"
For a given value of winning that means every day there are fewer true believers and every day there is more data for the serious scientists to analyze.
and that climate change "impacts the neediest the most." So General, will the new 'carbon tax' be given to ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shaboom, Mooslim Broederbond, Hamas, the Army-Navy Club ?
The money has to come from somewhere for such things, so it might as well be educational for the common hordes.
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A carbon tax which the revenue is given to dar-islaam countries has been floated before, basically jizya which would only encourage the likes of ISJV Shaboob et al as their doctrine plainly suggests.
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Ah yes, La Pomme D’Amour, the edible, often red fruit / berry of the nightshade Solanum lycopersicum family. Yes, TW, I believe you are on to something there ;-), This will be on my mind, as I seek to shuffle off this mortal coil, specifically "Death by Lasagna".
[BLUF]
I think that Greg Jarrett with Fox News put it most succinctly when he stated in his Opinion piece 'Why An Ebola Qurantine Is Legal' that Nuse Hickox’s claiming that her rights are being violated is actually not an argument for her violating the rights of others. Insightful story along with photo of the torturous isolation tent.
[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] European leftists prefer American presidents who are critics of capitalism and fans of redistribution. The same is typically true of other foreigners, according to various surveys that show a Democrat candidate could win in presidential contests where foreigners had a voice at the ballot box. Polls like that are hypothetical, of course, because it is illegal for foreign nationals to vote in federal elections. But a new academic study shows foreign nationals have been in a position to help Democrats steal elections. In fact, the study demonstrates that is likely that President Obama won the presidency thanks to non-citizens illegally voting for him in 2008. On top of that stunning conclusion, the study also concludes that "non-citizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress." That 60th vote being Al Franken, late of Air America.
If this study's results are accurate, the implications are startling: Obama is president as the result of election fraud. You heard it here first, two years ago. I said it several time before that about other elections.
We have Obamacare because of election fraud. We have Dodd-Frank because of election fraud. We have Solyndra because of election fraud.
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JudicialWatch has long maintained, and this study confirms, left-wing opposition to voter ID laws makes perverse sense.
......unless of course you are a democrat, then it makes perfect sense and anything to the contrary is simply racist.
[The] West used to understand that defending other nations, other people against dictatorship was also defending themselves & own way of life. That lesson from Cold War has been forgotten in 25 years. EU will fall divided if it doesn't wake up. US also losing its way & its will. But West does still have a common enemy: those who fight against the values of individual freedom & human life. From ISIS to Putin.
Obama & most of EU have "anti-paranoia". (Is there a word for this?!) Pretending you don't have enemies doesn't mean you don't have enemies!
The false choice between doing nothing & going to war is a distraction. Being strong enough to deter is the balancing act of leadership
This sort of true leadership is decidedly lacking in the Obama administration and the segments of society that support him, e.g. the press and progressives
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Chamberlin and his Predecessors governments set the stage for the European conflict through repeated unwillingness ro make the hard choices and confront the threat. Claimg war weariness and massive economic problems, they relied on the promises of known liars and abandoned others to conquest.
Sound familiar?
never attribute to malice that which can be more easily explained by stupidity.
Further remember what St. Albert the Einstein said:
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
There you have it. We have a bunch of intellectual lightweights posing as brilliant minds. I have a bunch of carrots on the counter that could formulate a more coherent foreign policy than the current administration.
HECK, I am completely ignorant about most foreign policy matters and my dear wife accuses me of having no common sense what so ever BUT I could apply more logic and common sense to our foreign policy in five minutes than this collection of posers and pretenders were able in six years.
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It is difficult to identify an Obama doctrine--probably because there is none. Right from the beginning, Obama had no budget for several years while others were a joke. Obama and those around him won the election (as they were so eager to remind everyone), but they didn't have a clue on what to do next. Unfortunately, this lack of not knowing what to do next will has continued until today and probably will continue through his entire 8 years. Historians, if they are honest, should judge this presidency as a low in presidencies.
[ARABNEWS] Children abused by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS); the Turkish prime minister complaining that his country cannot send troops to defend the besieged city of Kobane; the strained relations between the United States and Israel after a US official called the Israeli prime minister a coward, this past week has been one of extreme dysfunction in a region known for things not going right.
In an article in Foreign Policy, Kate Brannen described how children in Syria are being forced by the Islamic State to witness beheadings and crucifixions in public; to donate blood to the group's fighters; spy on civilians and carry weapons to fight alongside the adults. The shocking thing is that some of them are as young as six years old. Most are teenagers, bored from not being in school because of the civil war in Syria and so desperately impoverished that they are easily attracted to the IS with small amounts of money.
Besides money, the IS manipulates these young boys, telling them to fight with them is a good thing, and that they will be victorious. In any case, they promise the children that if they die in battle they will go straight to paradise. Worryingly, a 22-year-old Syrian, who had fled the Syrian city of Raqqa, the center of power of the IS, told Brannen that he had seen at least 250 to 300 children at a single IS training camp for children below 16 years of age.
But all was not negative in terms of news this week concerning the IS. We had a glimmer of good news with the arrival on Oct. 29 of the Peshmerga forces from Iraq and the Syrian Free Army soldiers, via Turkey, to the besieged city of Kobane bringing with them heavy military equipment. This was the least that the Turks could do for the US and its Gulf allies, to defeat the IS. With these more well-armed forces, equipped with artillery and anti-tank weapons, there is hope that they can put an end to the siege of Kobane by the Islamic State, which has already lasted six weeks and seen more than 800 deaths. If they succeed in pushing back the IS fighters, it will be a huge propaganda victory against them.
And as if the Americans had not already had their plates full of problems in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Oct. 27 that his government would accelerate approval of the construction of 1,060 new apartments for Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem. This provoked international condemnation of the plans, including from the US government who said that this move was not compatible with the pursuit of peace.
As everyone knows, the Paleostinians consider Jerusalem their capital, so any expansion of the Israeli presence in the area is seen as an aggression against a possible future peace agreement between the Paleostinians and Israelis that would see the establishment of an independent Paleostinian state in the West Bank and Gazoo, with Jerusalem as its capital.
This was only the latest of many explosive grenades that hit US-Israeli relations. In an article this week in The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg reports that a US bigwig in Washington said he thinks Netanyahu is a coward, calling him "chickenshit,: a real insult. This shows to what low-level relations between the Netanyahu government and the administration of Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... have sunk. Goldberg says that US government sources have told him that if the Israelis do not return to the negotiating table with the Paleostinians soon, the US will no longer protect Israel at international organizations and that President B.O. is willing to publicly announce, with maps and all, an American plan next year for an independent Paleostinian state within the 1967 borders.
I hope that happens, because it will be the only way the Paleostinians will achieve their long-held dream of having their own country, where they will be the masters of their own destiny.
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In an article this week in The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg reports that a US bigwig in Washington said he thinks Netanyahu is a coward, calling him "chickenshit,: a real insult.
[DAWN] THE magnificent obsession with the female form continues in our hallowed halls of power. This time it was the opposition leader Maulana Lutfur Rehman in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Assembly on Thursday who dredged up the issue of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's women supporters 'dancing' at the dharnas.
He was taking up the cudgels on behalf of his older brother, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... , whose sensibilities have been similarly offended by the sight of the 'daughters of the nation' swaying to catchy music. Pandemonium ensued as PTI representatives in the House demanded that the maulana withdraw his remarks.
It seems that for the JUI-F, and others of its ilk, a perfect world would be one in which women are preferably neither seen nor heard, where they are no more than faceless, nameless repositories of patriarchal concepts of honour.
As far as this paper is concerned, one of the more positive aspects of the dharnas staged by the PTI (and, until recently, the Pakistain Awami Tehrik) has been the huge number of women who participated in them, regardless of whether or not they appreciated the music in a way acceptable to the maulanas.
Given that the public sphere in Pakistain is predicated upon the convenience of men, many women braved immense discomforts for weeks on end by dint of sheer determination.
Here, one could also recall the grit and resolve shown by the Baloch women who traversed 2,000km on foot across the country some months ago to bring attention to the issue of the missing Baloch. For despite the many egregious rights' violations against women in Pakistain, their political participation appears to be increasing.
That is a fact that the JUI-F and other religious parties will, however reluctantly, have to come to terms with. It should really not be that difficult an endeavour, considering the number of issues that require the application of the same level of outrage they muster so easily at the sight of women refusing to conform to their misogynistic notions of propriety.
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Obama's foreign policy was supposed to reboot America's relationship with the rest of the world. Old allies would become people we occasionally talked to. Old enemies would become new allies. Goodbye Queen, hello Vladimir. Trade the Anglosphere for Latin America's Marxist dictatorships. Replace allied governments in the Middle East with Islamists and call it a day for the Caliphate.
Very little of that went according to plan.
Obama is still stuck with Europe. The Middle East and Latin American leftists still hate America. The Arab Spring imploded. Japan, South Korea and India have conservative governments.
And then there's Israel. The original plan was to sideline Israel by focusing on the Muslim world. Instead of directly hammering Israel, the administration would transform the region around it. The American-Israeli relationship would implode not through conflict, but because the Muslim Brotherhood countries would take its place.
That didn't work out too well. Instead of gracefully pivoting away, Obama loudly snubbed Netanyahu. A photo of him poking his finger in Netanyahu's chest captured the atmosphere. Netanyahu delivered a speech that Congress cheered. And Obama came to see him as a domestic political opponent.
The torrent of anti-Israel leaks from the administration is a treatment usually reserved for political opponents. The snide remarks by White House spokesmen and the anonymous personal attacks on Netanyahu in the media echo domestic hate campaigns out of the White House like Operation Rushbo.
Netanyahu wasn't just the leader of a country that the left hated. He had become an honorary Republican. Oh, the shame of it!!!
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It's gone on beyond all that now. People who dislike Netayahu, disagree with him, oppose him: they all at least respect him. Whereas now days, not many people respect Obama, not even his allies. (Witness the run up to the election, if you doubt that.)
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[NYPost] We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war.
If there is a smidgen of a silver lining, it is that the unraveling, complete with Obama's shameless attempts to duck responsibility, is playing out on the eve of the midterm elections. Fortunately, voters seem ready to respond by giving Republicans control of both houses of congress.
I second that emotion, and not just because Obama is a failure. For all his narcissism, he didn't make this mess alone.
He was aided and abetted by every Democrat in Congress. They marched in lockstep with his cockamamie policies, from ObamaCare to open borders. They protected corrupt leaders in numerous federal agencies, from the IRS to the Genera Services Administration. They stymied efforts to find the truth about Benghazi and the Fast and Furious gunrunning debacle.
They ceded their constitutional obligations and allowed Obama to crash the system of checks and balances. The vast majority stood silent while he gutted the military and abandoned our allies, including Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and courted Iran, the most menacing nation on earth.
With painfully few exceptions, Democrats put their loyalty to him above their duty to America.
And now they must be punished. All of them.
A shocking opinion, coming from reliably blue New York City in reliably blue New York State. Go to the link to read the rest -- apparently Bibi Netanyahu isn't the only one being slanged anonymously for publication by favoured columnists. It's looking like rats throwing other rats overboard in an attempt to keep the ship from sinking.
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I had this same assessment of Obama 4 years ago and 2 years ago and assumed the rest of America spotted the obvious as well. I will believe america wised up when it actually happens in the ballot box.
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Would that were true, dear Besoeker. But I wasn't born until 1961 and, as we hadn't a television for most of my childhood, I don't have to remember much of what my age mates experienced. I'm just a "picking up pebbles on the seashore" kind of girl, that's all.
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Even with the peace dividend they couldn't make it work. And now we have a crushing debt to crawl out from under. And suffocating regulations to undo. By the time conservatives get it sorted out and start making progress, both politicians and voters will forget who put them there and why.
TW, I'm an old fart born in NYC. Growing up we got 4 NY papers a day, 3 of them are no longer around, The Journal American, Herald Tribune and Mirror. The WSJ is still around. As those 3 died we were living in NJ and got the Post, Newark News and Elizabeth Daily Journal and sometimes the Daily News.
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I s'pose the modern version of four daily newspapers is the internet... I grew up in a suburb of Buffalo. We got one of the two local daily papers (we switched to the afternoon paper when Daddy noticed we kept missing the schoolbus because we were reading the comics), the weekly Jerusalem Post, and the various general and specific scientific journals my parents subscribed to.
[THEDAILYBEAST] In a spate of comments about Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, the White House unleashed a horrible epithet that reflected America's pervasive ignorance about Asperger's syndrome. Probably nobody picked up on it because nobody knew what the hell they meant. I read the articles and the first time I saw it I had to pause to figure what they were suggesting. Subsequent occurrences merely brought a brief "that's stupid" as I moved on to the next paragraph.
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Is it a slur when applied to people that actually have Asperger's? I know some people and friends who show various degrees of it and they are definitely spergy.
And while I have never met him personally, Netanyahu does not seem aspergery in the least. Nor chicken shit. This are just schoolyard insults from the self-proclaimed smartest guys in the room.
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Why is everyone picking on Asperigus, yeah, ok, it makes your p smell funny, but really it is good for you. I think Michelle has endorsed it for her school lunch menu suggestions, right next to the non gluten bread and water; "GULAG" menu as I like to call it.
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"In many ways, the current blasé attitude towards using 'autistic' or 'Aspergery' as an insult is akin to the way 'gay' was a socially acceptable insult."
Didn't see that one coming. /sarc
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Knowany good mathematician who isn't "Aspergery"?
...like the New York Times only with honest reporting about America...
Slightly more honest, at any rate. But they're about equal about Israel.
That's because it's a toss-up on which country they despise more.
reported Wednesday that "sexual exploitation of vulnerable children has become the social norm in some parts of Greater Manchester," and the denial and obfuscation about what is really causing this problem is thicker than ever.
In the very same sentence in which it broke this terrible news, the Guardian stated that this phenomenon is "fuelled by explicit music videos and quasi-pornographic selfies, an MP has warned." The MP in question, former social worker Ann Coffey, has issued a report on the sexual exploitation of children in Britain that she said would "make painful reading for those who hoped that Rochdale was an isolated case."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] European leftists prefer American presidents who are critics of capitalism and fans of redistribution. The same is typically true of other foreigners, according to various surveys that show a Democrat candidate could win in presidential contests where foreigners had a voice at the ballot box. Polls like that are hypothetical, of course, because it is illegal for foreign nationals to vote in federal elections. But a new academic study shows foreign nationals have been in a position to help Democrats steal elections. In fact, the study demonstrates that is likely that President Obama won the presidency thanks to non-citizens illegally voting for him in 2008. On top of that stunning conclusion, the study also concludes that "non-citizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress."
"Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action."
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
