Friday, September 12, 2014

The Islamic State's Real Goal

By Claude Salhani


For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to set its sights on the ultimate prize: the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

It is in that direction that the battle for control of the world's largest oil fields is currently heading.

Islamic State -- which has its origins in al-Qaeda – knows fully well that in order to sustain itself as a viable and lasting religious, political, economic and military entity in the region, it has to follow the same objectives established by al-Qaeda when Osama bin Laden broke off his relations with the Saudi monarchy and vowed to bring down the House of Saud.

Bin Laden's ire at the Saudi monarchy stemmed from the fact that Saudi King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud invited the American military to use Saudi Arabia as a staging area to build up forces to take on the then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein after Iraqi troops occupied Kuwait in August of 1990. Bin Laden objected to the presence of "infidels" in the land of the two holy mosques, and asked the king to allow his outfit to tackle Saddam Hussein's troops.

Similarly, IS knows that it will only feel secure once Saudi Arabia is part of the Caliphate, and its oil fields are under IS control -- which is why the group has two logical next steps.

First, to capture and secure the most important country in the Muslim world: Saudi Arabia.

If the battle for Syria and Iraq attracted tens of hundreds, (some say tens of thousands) of young Muslims, the battle for control of Islam's two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, are very likely to attract many more fighters into the ranks of the Islamic State.

Larwyn's Linx: A President Surrenders

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Nation

A President Surrenders: Walter Russell Mead
Presidential Malpractice: Mona Charen
Obama Agency Won't Certify Boston Marathon Bombing a Terror Attack: MB

Ted Cruz Stands Up to ‘Hatred and Bigotry’ of Middle Eastern Christians: WFB
‘If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you’: Moe Lane
Karl Rove is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Jen Kuznicki

Luis Gutierrez Demands Executive Amnesty by Thanksgiving: Tea Party
John Kerry warns Americans not get war fever over this non-war: Ace
Health Care Law is Obama’s Gift to GOP for 2016: Scott Rasmussen

Is the Islamic State really un-Islamic?: Jonah Goldberg
Post-9/11: Protect the Freedom To Warn: Michelle Malkin
Everyone Who Works For Obama is Scared to Say "War": Glob

Economy

250K Virginians to Lose Health Care Due to Obamacare: WS
Surprise: Post-Obamacare Deductibles Going Through The Roof: SAB
Obamacare Officials Once Recognized the Falsity of Their Current Argument: CEI

Scandal Central

CIA Emails Show Benghazi Attackers Had Man Inside: GotNews
Obama Plans To Fight ISIS By... Giving More Weapons To ISIS?: ZH
Michele Bachmann: FBI Told Me Americans Who Fight with ISIS Will Be Allowed to Return: Breitbart

Obama Propaganda Can't Keep Up With America's Economic Reality: AmSpec
Obama regime told James Foley’s mother ‘not to go to the media’: FAM
James Foley’s Mother: “Embarrassed And Appalled” By Obama Admin Efforts To Free Her Son: Surge

Climate & Energy

Michael E Mann Repudiates His Own Hockey Stick: Mark Steyn
A Government-subsidized Desert Death Ray: Norman Rogers
List of excuses for ‘the pause’ in global warming is now up to 52: WUWT

Media

Krauthammer: I Didn't Know Obama Was A Islamic Scholar: RCP
ISIS CELEBRATED the 9/11 Attack on Twitter Yesterday: John Hawkins
Lib Bill Maher Crushes Charlie Rose’s Claim Christians Are As Intolerant And Violent As Muslims: WZ

The Democrats' (and Media's) Obama Problem: Monty Pelerin
Awful. Democrats Ignore 9-11 Anniversary – Attack Republicans Instead: GWP
Obama's "not Islamic" Islamic State Claim Ridiculed: IPT

Obama Marks 9/11 Anniversary With A Picture Of . . . Barack Obama: WZ
Major Garrett to Obama’s spokesman: No, really, why should anyone watch his ISIS speech?: Hot Air
Newest Trick in War Against Israel: The Anti-Semitic Attack on Mark Levin: Thomas Rose

World

U.S. Confirms ISIL Planning Infiltration of U.S. Southern Border: WFB
Obama’s Three Fatal ISIS Delusions: Keith Koffler
Dems split on Obama's plans for ISIS: Alexandra Jaffe

ISIS Is Not Islamic?: Daniel Pipes
Kerry: U.S. not at war with ISIS: FAM
Wow! Look at all the cities controlled by ISIS-ISIL: FAM

Obama’s Iraq strategy unraveling: RS
The ‘No Strategy’ Strategy: Erick Erickson
Living in a Sharia Enclave in America: FPM

Islam and the Face of Evil (Caution: Graphic): Alan Caruba
While Obama Snoozes, Russia Is Preparing For Nuclear War With The United States: Michael Snyder
9/11 Raw Video Footage: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

U.S. threatened Yahoo with big fines for not divulging user data: LAT
The Ozone Layer Is On The Mend: Emily Gertz
California Regulator Says Commercial Carpooling — Like What Uber and Lyft Are Doing — Isn’t Legal: Liz Gannes

Cornucopia

I Wonder What the Half-Life of ISIL is?: MOTUS
Drudge Report Finds Something Devilish In Obama Pic: WJ
Goodell pulled an Obama instead of dealing with reality: Jeff Schultz

Image: Mars rover Curiosity reaches key destination; 'new science ahead!'
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QOTD: "Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians. If those in this room will not recognize that, then my heart weeps. If you hate the Jewish people you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ. And the very same people who persecute and murder Christians right now, who crucify Christians, who behead children, are the very same people who target Jews for their faith, for the same reason.

...If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. Good night, and God bless.” --Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Thursday, September 11, 2014

SESSIONS: If Democrats Really Cared About "Paycheck Fairness", They Would Fight Illegal Immigration

By Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

Earlier this week I spoke about the president’s promise that he would issue an executive amnesty to 5 or 6 million people. The planned amnesty would include work permits, photo IDs, and Social Security numbers for millions of people who illegally entered the U.S., illegally overstayed their visas, or defrauded U.S. immigration authorities.

The Senate Democratic conference has supported and enabled the president’s unlawful actions and blocked every effort to stop them. Not even one of our Democratic colleagues has backed the House legislation that would stop this planned executive amnesty or demanded that Senator Reid bring it up for a vote. Every Senate Democrat is therefore the president’s partner in his planned lawless acts.

Tonight I would like to talk about the influence of special interests on our nation’s immigration system. How did we get to the point where elected officials, activist groups, the ACLU, and global CEOs are openly working to deny American workers the immigration protections to which they are legally entitled? How did we get to the point where the Democratic party is prepared to nullify and wipe away the immigration laws of the United States of America?

Just yesterday Majority Leader Reid wrote in a tweet something that was shocking. He said: “Since House Republicans have failed to act on immigration, I know the President will. When he does, I hope he goes Real Big.”

Let this sink in for a moment. The majority leader of the Senate is bragging that he knows the president will circumvent Congress to issue executive amnesty to millions, and he is encouraging the president to ensure this amnesty includes as many people as possible. And the White House has acknowledged that 5 to 6 million is the number they are looking at.

Has one Senate Democrat stepped forward to reject Mr. Reid’s statement? Has one Senate Democrat stepped forward to say: I support the legislation passed by the House of Representatives that would secure the border and block this executive amnesty? Have they ever said they support that? Have they ever said: I will do everything in my power to see that the House legislation gets a vote in the Senate so the American people can know what is going on? No. All we hear is silence.

This body is not run by one man. We don’t have a dictator in the great Senate. Every member has a vote. And the only way Senator Reid can succeed in blocking this Senate from voting to stop the president’s executive actions is for members to stop supporting him.

Every senator needs to stand up and represent their constituents — not big business, not the ACLU, not activist groups, not political interests, but the American interests, the workers’ interests. That is what we need to expect from them, and we don’t have but a few weeks, it looks like, to get it done.

In effect, the entire Senate Democratic conference has surrendered the jobs, wages, and livelihoods of their constituents to a group of special interests meeting in secret at the White House. They are surrendering them to executive actions that will foist on the nation what Congress has refused to pass and the American people have rejected. They are plotting at the White House to move forward with executive action no matter what the people think and no matter what Congress — through the people’s House — has decided.

WARMAL COLDING STRIKES BACK: ‘Shocking’ damage from massive summer snowstorm says Calgary Mayor

Was Al Gore looking for a new mansion to purchase in Calgary?

Commuters needed hours to get to work, snow-laden tree branches groaned and snapped and thousands of people were without power Wednesday after a second major taste of winter hit Calgary with 10 days to go before summer’s end...

Trees were uprooted and roads clogged with broken branches.

The power outages, which at one point affected up to 30,000 homes and businesses, also caused traffic lights to go out.

According to Enmax, 26,000 customers are currently without power, with outages concentrated in western Calgary.


...“We are going to see some real damage and that is an extraordinary shame,” said Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who spoke at the city’s emergency operations centre... “Rush hour will be brutal, so help us spread it out by leaving work earlier or later than normal. Maybe catch a post-work movie?” he wrote on Twitter.

The amount of damage has not been assessed, he said, but he warned the cleanup wasn’t going to happen overnight.

“We don’t have a sense of it yet, but certainly, depending on the part of the city you’re in … I was shocked at the damage,” he said.

Michael "Liar, Cheat, Falsifier and Fraud" Mann (which is the nickname he prefers, I hear) could not be reached for comment at press time.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

FORMER PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY: Why, Yes, Hillary Will Run On Obama's Foreign Policy

Hey, who's up for an Obama third term?

In an interview with CNN, former Press Secretary Jay Carney says that Hillary was a “big part” of Obama’s foreign policy.

CNN: We're starting to see blind quotes from Hillary Clinton "aides" expressing criticism of Obama's handling of Syria and Iraq. If she runs for president, how does Hillary balance the thornier parts of Obama's record with her time in the administration?

Carney: Obviously that's something that she will figure out if she decides to run. She was Secretary of State for President Obama for four years and she understands that that record that will be part of what she runs on. Her time as Secretary of State is something she should be proud of, and the president's record on foreign policy is something she is more likely to embrace than anything because she was a big part of it.

We agree with Carney!

Hillary "should be proud of" her foreign policy record and should "embrace" and "run on" Obama's magnificent accomplishments.


Hat tips: BadBlue News and the Masked Avenger.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Leading On ISIS? LOL

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Nation

Obama Leading On ISIS? LOL: Just One Minute
Didn’t Barack Obama Declare the War on Terror Over?: Erick Erickson
And now, a word from Dick Cheney: Power Line

Obama’s ISIS plan: Outsourcing national security in a chaotic world: Allen West
The Nowhere Man Goes to War: Roger L. Simon
American Muslim Leaders Insist Islamic State Not Islamic: IPT

Hordes of Illegal Aliens Are Sinking Boston Suburb: MB
Schools Ordered To Waive Health, Immunization Rules For Illegals: TR
Get Angry Now: Ann Coulter

Ted Cruz’s Chief of Staff Move to Campaign Team a Hopeful Sign: Erick Erickson
Demographics and the GOP: Peter Wehner
The Thrill Is Gone… Obama Rejected from Top NY Golf Courses: GWP

Economy

Most Unemployed Demographic Hit Hardest by Illegal Immigration: RebelPundit
Top Five Reasons to Oppose the "Paycheck Fairness Act": FW
Doubling Down on Inflation: Peter Schiff

Scandal Central

Gut-Busting Hilarity: IRS Thug Koskinen Says ‘Whenever we can, we follow the law’: JWF
Former prosecutor: Wisconsin investigation fueled by “hyper-partisan” DA and union activist wife: Hot Air
Partisanship in Milwaukee DA Office Rampant: MediaTrackers

Study Shows ISIS Fighting with U.S. Military Weapons Supplied to Syrian “Rebels”: RWN
Landrieu Misses Deadline For Taxpayer-Funded Private Flights Internal Investigation: HayRide
Cruz Letter: Why is the IRS Auditing Breitbart News?: RWN

Climate & Energy

Another Porky from Mann, Williams and Fontaine: Climate Audit
Oops: First Species Wiped Out By Climate Change Lives: Cove
EPA Proposed Regulation Would Significantly Hurt Access to Electricity: RS

Media

NYT Chief: Obama Ignored Iraq Problems, and Even Denied Their Reality, for Political Reasons: Ace
Hume: Obama's Speech an Acknowledgement He's Been Completely Wrong: RightPundit
Downtown Chicago: Only 20 people show up for anti-war protest; Oktoberfest drowns them out: Marathon

CAIR Wants Obama to Distinguish Islamic State From Islam: CNS
Obama: ISIS is not Islamic: Scoop
Some people noticed something peculiar about Obama’s American flag pin; Symbolic?: Twitchy

World

‘If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.’ – Ted Cruz: Moe Lane
Never Forget: Qatar’s Role in the September 11 Attacks: Mister Chambers
ISIS Giving Nigeria's Boko Haram Advice on Establishing African Caliphate: Christian Post

Abbas turns down Egypt offer of “Palestinian” state in Sinai Peninsula five times larger than Gaza: JihadWatch
Are the Orcs Winning?: Victor Davis Hanson
Did NYT Just Provide Proof of Muslim Brotherhood Influence Operations in the United States?: Breitbart

When Defense Cuts Go Too Far: WeaponsMan
Russia Test Fires Bulava Intercontinental Nuclear Missile: GWP
Solzhenitsyn & The Return of the False Dimitris: Peter Strzelecki

55 years a slave: The new Cuba-Brazil human traffic: Fausta
A coalition of the unwilling to defeat the Islamic State: Commentator
Islamophobia?: Lauri B. Regan

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Net Neutrality: You Never Know What You Have 'til It's Gone: Noreen Seebacher, CMS Wire
Why Banks Are Buying In to Apple Pay: American Banker
Drone's eye view of Burning Man 2014: Cory Doctorow

Cornucopia

This is the kind of s***...: Feral Irishman
Obama Is Giving A Speech Tonight...: 90 Miles
‘Tranny’ Michelle and 2 others BANNED from Joan Rivers’ funeral service: RWN

Image: HUNDREDS Of Ferguson Protesters Stop Traffic – Clash With Police on Hanley Road – Bricks Tossed
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QOTD: "Pity Barack Obama. Our hapless chief executive must be suffering from a cognitive disorder the size of Alpha Centauri. The poor guy grew up on the anti-imperialist mouthings of lefty poet Frank Marshall Davis, schoolboy revolutionary Bill Ayers and later anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, not to mention the well-known anti-American excrescences of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and now he has to go to war — as an imperialist — against the very Third World people he was told again and again we colonized and destroyed. His head must be about to explode.

No wonder he insisted in his Wednesday night speech that the Islamic State is not Islamic — what is it? Hindu? Zoroastrian? A lost tribe of Hasidic Jews? — and that we are fighting an amorphous “terrorist group” (the Irish Republican Army? Basque separatists perhaps?), not the jihadism whose violent ideology has so obviously metastasized across several continents under many guises during his administration with no end remotely in sight. He dares not name our enemy, although it’s almost impossible to imagine how we could win without doing so. He cannot say anything that’s true because he doesn’t know what is true or, perhaps more likely, is terrified to know and then have to admit it. If he did, everything would unravel, not just the jejune Marxism of Frank Marshall Davis. Everything.

But he does know what his poll numbers are and they aren’t good. So we are where we are. Half way in and half way out. Forget Winston Churchill. Forget Douglas MacArthur. The USA is going to war with a nowhere man who no longer knows what he stands for — and who originally stood for very little more than widely discredited and tired left-wing drivel masquerading as hope and change. Now even that’s gone, a distant memory." --Roger L. Simon

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Government Anti-WMD Teams on the Move?

Well, it was spotted in /r/conspiracy, so take it with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, these snippets seem, uhm, interesting. The rest of these sentences are from the thread. As always, keep your head on a swivel.

What do they know that we don't know?


These guys were spotted on I-95 South in Wakefield, MA this morning. 4 separate convoys. They are CERFP teams whose ONLY mission is responded to a WMD attack in the US. They are not simply medical teams (as some have suggested on other sites referring to the enterovirus stuff).

All of the NSA Revelations in a Single Chart

The farther northeast the program gets, the more every liberty-minded American should care.

Click to enbiggify.



Via Western Rifle Shooters Assocation

ONLY ONE BENGHAZI SCANDAL QUESTION REMAINS: Who Gave the Stand Down Order, Hillary or Obama?

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: Despite the administration's claim, the CIA operatives who fought for their lives and others' from a rooftop say that a stand-down order may have cost four Americans their lives while their ignoring it saved others.

Kris Paronto, Mark Geist and John Tiegen, three CIA contractors who on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, battled with terrorists from the roof of the CIA's Benghazi annex building, would beg to differ with the Obama administration, the CIA and several congressional committees. They say there was an order to stand down that delayed their response and possibly cost the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

In a bombshell interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier aired last week, the three members of the annex security team, whose credibility was etched in blood on that rooftop that fateful night, say they had a team assembled and were ready to proceed to the besieged consulate within five minutes of notice of the attack. They were held back by the top CIA security officer in Benghazi, they say, an officer identified only as "Bob."

"It had probably been 15 minutes, I think, and ... I just said 'Hey, you know, we gotta — we need to get over there, we're losing the initiative,'" Tiegen told Baier in the interview. "And Bob just looks at me and said, 'Stand down, you need to wait.'"

Larwyn's Linx: Obama's "Iraqization" of America

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Nation

Obama's "Iraqization" of America: Daniel Greenfield
House GOP Prepares for Massive Crony Paybacks After Midterms: Erick Erickson
Cruz: Dems Want To Give Congress The Power To Ban Books: WFB

Favors and Loot for Sale: Walter Williams
Republican Strategy May Prevent Landslide Election: Erick Erickson
ABC News Poll: Obama Pretty Much a Failure at Everything: JWF

Megyn Kelly exposes Minnesota mosque that may be recruiting for ISIS: Scoop
Gang members choose wrong victim: LI
Shannon Watts of @Everytown Is a Left-Wing Fraud: GotNews

Marilinda Garcia wins NH-02 GOP primary: FAM
Cheap Politicians: Thomas Sowell
Places With More Guns Don't Have More Homicides: Robert VerBruggen

Economy

It's Tuesday, Do You Know Where Your Money Is?: Woodpile Report
Lowering the Bar: Tom Blumer
The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats Spelled Out Clearly: Elelphant

Scandal Central

Daily Caller exposes nuclear power plant highly vulnerable to terrorist attack…near Washington DC!: DC
Holder Stooge Trying to Arrange IRS Coverup Accidentally Calls Issa’s Office, Hilarity Ensues: JWF
Breitbart News Says It's Targeted by IRS Audit: Fox

Democrats in Michigan and Georgia Engage in Elaborate Scheme to Steal the Election: Erick Erickson
This Just-Reported Information About Intense ISIS Recruitment Inside The US Is Really Disturbing: WJ
REPORT: Benghazi security contractors HARASSED by House Intel committee and here’s why: Scoop

Climate & Energy

NY Times Moron Tom Friedman Says ISIS and Putin Can Be Stopped With... a Carbon Tax: JWF
Admit It, The Science Is Settled: Nuking
House passes bill to halt EPA water rule: Cristina Marcos, The Hill

Media

'Poison Pill': How Republicans Could Nullify Obama's Executive Action on Immigration: FNI
James Woods on a mission, issues #Holderchallenge, asks followers for help: BPR
US Soldier Interrupts Muslim “Prayer Time” With National Anthem on Electric Guitar : ConTrib

Here’s the Benghazi Report Hillary Does NOT Want You to Read: ConTrib
Party of Weakness: Fears of Terror Attack Soar Under Obama, Democrats: AmPower
Urban Shield: after Ferguson, police and suppliers consider fate of military-grade tactical gear: Guardian

World

Danger Under Our Noses: Betsy McCaughey
The JV President: Power Line
Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald, and Their War on Israel: AmInt

Arab Bank Mounts Its Defense in Landmark Terrorist Financing Case: Sharyl Attkisson
Upholding America’s honor in a dangerous world: Jonah Goldberg
'Jewish Schindler' reaches goal of saving more than 1,200 Muslim and Christian refugees: JPost

The Jihadists’ Eternal Plan: Michelle Malkin
14 Million Refugees Make the Levant Unmanageable: David P. Goldman
They Keep Saying That islamic Scripture Doesn’t Mean What It Says: Zilla

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Meet Apple Watch, the new Apple smartwatch with a clever new navigation scheme: PC World
'Anti-router' stops drones, cameras, and Google Glass from connecting to Wi-Fi networks: Verge
The Apple Watch Compared to the Smartwatch Competition: Mashable

Cornucopia

Chess Champ Reveals Soviet Union Version of The Apple Watch: Sooper
Looking At It Through A Different Filter: Patterico
“Reach Higher!” Hell, Why Not Go For The White House?: MOTUS

Image: Apple Brings It
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QOTD: The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it." --Adam Smith

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

10 Cool Facts About the New Apple Watch


10. Apple designed a custom typeface for the Apple Watch, just like Google did for Android

9. The Apple Watch integrates a pressure sensor that can determine when someone changes elevation, runs up a hill, or climbs a flight of stairs

8. Apple uses a "taptic" actuator to actually touch the user, rather than simply vibrate

7. The watch also includes a microphone based upon a microelectromechanical system (MEMS)

6. For exercise buffs, it will track steps, heart rate, mileage, calories and sleep

5. And its GPS system will sync up with an iPhone

4. Users can choose from six swappable bands including a moisture-wicking sports band

3. Apple's "activity" app keeps track of any movement you do throughout the day while the "workout" app tracks the more intense movement of workouts and sports

2. There will be 34 combinations of models and wristbands from which to choose


1. Prices start at $349, but Apple hasn't specified what each model will cost

As for battery life, no one's saying, but it may be a once-a-day-charge kinda beast.

Apple's new watch also includes "Apple Pay" a new mobile payment system, which has some interesting ramifications:

"...Apple Pay is a full mobile payments solution that works with American Express, Visa and MasterCard. Apple has signed up a number of major retailers including Walgreens, Macy’s, Bloomingdales, Subway, Staples, McDonald’s, Whole Foods and Apple retail locations. We also note that Apple Pay will be available to conduct secure transactions on mobile websites/apps, which we believe should make mobile commerce significantly more compelling for consumers..." --Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray

"...Apple Pay is backed by the iTunes account card, so Apple is working on top of the traditional credit card infrastructure as we expected. Although financial terms were not disclosed, we don’t expect a substantial new revenue stream as much as differentiation of the ecosystem..." --Steve Milunovich, USB

"...By partnering with the leading merchants across retail, grocery, drugstore, and dining, consumers can use Apple Pay with merchants they shop every day — which will accelerate the growth of mobile payments in the US..." --Denée Carrington, Senior Analyst


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News

REPORTS CONFIRMED: Golfer-in-Chief Ignored Warnings of Growing ISIS Threat For an Entire Year

By Investor's Business Daily

War On Terror: Reports that Barack Obama received detailed information on the virulent Islamic State terror group in his daily briefings for over a year and did nothing makes him officially our "being there" president.

Leading from behind once again, as he flew to Estonia to draw a red line that Russia shouldn't cross after it finishes gobbling up Ukraine, President Obama told reporters, "We will not be intimidated" by the second beheading of an American journalist and warned that we would "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State.

Degrade? Degrading has been the foreign policy of a president who recently said that he didn't have a strategy yet for dealing with the Islamic State's butchery after watching it train and prepare for a year in its Syrian base before its "sudden" expansion into Iraq.

A former Pentagon official told Fox News that Obama received specific intelligence in daily briefings about the Islamic State's rise. The information was said to be "granular" in detail, laying out IS' intentions and capabilities for at least a year before it seized big chunks of Iraqi territory and started beheading Americans.

Obama's indifference to the briefings was an issue during the 2012 campaign, when former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen observed that Obama personally attended only 44% of them. Obama's perceived lack of interest in a terror war, which he claimed was won prior to the Benghazi attack, mirrors his reported lack of interest in the rise of the Islamic State.

At the time, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Thiessen that Obama's attendance at the briefings was "not particularly interesting or useful." Later, when questioned about the lead-up to the Benghazi fiasco, Vietor said: "Dude, this was two years ago. We're still talking about the most mundane thing."

BORDER BREAKDOWN: Tuberculosis Outbreak Feared in Massachusetts After Obama Ships Hundreds of Illegals There

What, you think even Kreskin could have predicted this?

SHOT: Lynn officials: Illegal immigrant children are stressing city services
12 July 2014: Lynn is a municipality on the brink. Key department officials say a recent influx of illegal immigrant children and families in the city is stressing almost every service from trash collection to healthcare.

"We have been aware of the unaccompanied children issue for quite a while, and we were able to absorb a lot of these children early on," said Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. "But now it's gotten to the point where the school system is overwhelmed, our health department is overwhelmed, the city's budget is being sustainably altered in order of accommodate all of these admissions in the school department."

...The amount of new foreign born student admissions has nearly doubled in the last two years. This school year alone saw more than 600 new admissions. Among those students, 248 were from Guatemala. Flanagan Kennedy says of those 248 children, 126 were illegal, undocumented minors.

"They are not literate in any language, so they do need some skills. And I assume they are enrolling in school to receive those skills," said Catherine Latham, Lynn's superintendent of schools...

CHASER: Hundreds in Lynn Tested for Tuberculosis
9 September 2014: More than 30 Lynn Community Health Center employees and 800 patients are being tested to determine if they were exposed to tuberculosis after center doctors confirmed a case.

Center Director Lori Berry says after confirming the single positive test for tuberculosis in a male health care worker around Labor Day, center medical workers contacted and tested employees as well as patients ‘‘having sufficient exposure to warrant testing.’’

City Health Director MaryAnn O'Connor tells The Daily Item the identified case at the center is ‘‘not a reason to panic’’ and said people should not stay away from clinic...

Crime, disease, racial strife, terrorism, violence, and war.

Yep, we've got a Democrat President, alright.


Hat tip: Drudge Report.

Larwyn's Linx: Texas rancher confirms that Islamic terrorists were caught crossing into U.S.

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Nation

Texas rancher: Islamic terrorists were caught crossing into U.S.: GWP
Obama Fails to Warn Americans of Possible 9-11 Attack This Week: RWN
It's the Border Security, Stupid: Roger L. Simon

Hispanics get the shaft from Obama on immigration: Allen West
Long Island’s 2,300 Illegal Alien Children Pose a Challenge: Sara Noble
President Obama's Thoroughly Tawdry Executive Action Delay on Immigration: CIS

Success or Failure: Thomas Sowell
Self- Defense Shooting Outside a Kroger Guts Argument To Ban Guns: Bob Owens
Obamacare’s Tax Troubles Just Got Worse: GotNews

Nate Silver: Almost 2-to-1 Chance Republicans Win Senate Majority: R.S. McCain
Bruce Braley (D-Candidate #IASen): loves fundraisers, ignores veterans: Moe Lane
Aaron Woolf’s (D-Candidate, NY-21) cruel exploitation of his backers: Moe Lane

Economy

Black Americans Continue to Face Double Digit Unemployment: FW
One in Ten California Workers are Illegal Immigrants: Publius
HHS Announces Another $60 Million for Obamacare Navigators: WS

Scandal Central

IRS Investigation Getting Dangerous For Senate Dem Carl Levin: CHQ
Fox News’ Special Re-ignites the Benghazi Scandal: AIM
House Benghazi panel to hold first hearing next week: Sean Lengell

Why Ferguson Could Lead To Federal Takeovers Of Local Police: D.C. McAllister
Generals: Constitutional Crisis Could Force Military To Remove Obama: NoisyRm
The McDonnell Verdict: Cal Thomas

Climate & Energy

Are greenhouse gas emissions a reason to keep Africa starving?: WUWT
Fracking, New Energy Production, Spurs Rust Belt Economic and Industrial Rebound: AmPower
UN says CO2 "pollution" at annual record high: CNS

Media

The GOP’s Missing Electoral Link: Daniel Horowitz
It’s Hard to be Saints in the City: Steven Malanga
Fox’s Wallace on Obama: You’ve Got a Problem ‘When Elizabeth Warren’s to Your Right’: Mediaite

Neighborliness in Obama's Post-Racial America: MB
NY Times "Outs" Anti-Israel Negotiator: Stormin' Norman
ABC Ignores Start of Ray Nagin's Prison Term; NBC Gives Story Only 15 Seconds: MRC

You're Out, Barack: Stephen Green
Wendy Davis: “The Most Loving Thing” I Could Do Was Aborting My Daughter: Jerome Hudson
Ward Churchill Still Crazy After All These Years: Nice Deb

World

Some Lessons From The War With Hamas: Steven Plaut
Federal Grand Jury Probing Suspected Terrorist Pipeline in MN: FNI
Mexico Is the New Detroit; Forbes Credits NAFTA: NewAm

A Shock to the Heart and a Sad Message for the Brain: Brussels Journal
1,400 English Girls Raped by Multiculturalism: Dennis Prager
ISIS fighter 'John' was reportedly known to British intelligence for over a year: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Plankton Pundit: Miriam Goldstein, Deep Sea News
Twitter Begins 'Buy Button' Test: DM News
Highest-profile Democrat in Congress comes out in full force for net neutrality: VenBeat

Cornucopia

Media Bias: This May Be the Best Joke I've Heard All Year...: Breitbart
Everyone stop what you're doing and say a quick prayer for @Liberty_Chick, Mandy Nagy: LI
On the Matter of Bob Costas’ Hair: Jon Gabriel

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QOTD: "Mr. Obama’s misjudgment on ISIS was extraordinarily costly. It was a complete misreading of the situation, long after others were warning about the nature of the ISIS threat. This mistake ranks among the worst errors of the Obama presidency, which is saying quite a lot. President Obama knows this, which is why he’s frantically trying to pretend he didn’t say what he so clearly said.

The problem is in this whole process the president of the United States is distorting the truth. He’s doing so willfully. But this deception will not only fail; it will further undermine his credibility, which is already at a low ebb. As Mr. Obama said in 2008, “I mean, words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.”

Mr. Obama is at war with reality, and reality is winning." --Peter Wehner

Monday, September 08, 2014

SMART POWER: "Americans no longer command the ability to shape trends in the Middle East"

By Alan Caruba


The U.S. and Iran have been adversaries since 1979 when it seized our diplomats and held them for 444 days. In the wake of the Cold War, Russia has assisted Iran develop its nuclear program and has joined its war on the Islamic State. The U.S. has joined the conflict, making Iran, Syria and Russia our allies in a world where such relationships are changing so fast it is hard to keep up with them.

A September 5th Debka File report regarding recent air strikes by Syria on two meetings of Islamic State officers noted that “The twin Syrian air offensive coincided with the opening of the two-day NATO Summit... "The information about the two Al Qaeda meetings at Raqqa and Abu Kamal could have come from only two sources: U.S. surveillance satellites and aircraft, or Iranian agents embedded at strategic points across Syria.”

The Israeli news agency concluded that the success of the air strikes reflected “the widening military and intelligence cooperation between the United States and Iran in Iraq and Syria.” So maybe there has been a bonus of sorts from the U.S. negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear program? The other component is the fact that Iran does not want a hostile Sunni Islamic State emerging in Iraq on its borders. It is more likely this is a short-term alliance.

Meanwhile, at the NATO meeting in Wales, Secretary of State John Kerry identified what he called a “core coalition” of ten nations that could help the U.S. go after the Islamic State (ISIL) terrorists. The seven he named were Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Italy, and Poland. Of these, only Turkey is Islamic. There was no mention of Iran or Syria, both of whom are playing a significant role in the fight against ISIS.

“There is no containment policy for ISIS,” said Kerry. I suppose that’s better than wanting the ISIS threat to be “manageable” as the President recently said at the same time he said he had “no strategy” at present to deal with ISIS. Meanwhile, on Labor Day Vice President Biden, was saying the U.S. was going to follow ISIS “to the gates of hell” to destroy them.

If there is some confusion in the minds of Americans about what the White House is actually doing or not doing, its mixed messages suggest they have as little idea as the rest of us.

JUST IN TIME FOR 9/11: ISIS calls for assassinations of Twitter employees in San Francisco and Europe

Watch your six, folks.

An ISIS-related Twitter account has issued the group’s first direct call for attacks on specific American targets, but it’s not going after political or national icons. It wants Twitter employees assassinated. The call for retribution against the online platform was first announced Sunday night in a series of tweets asking “lone wolves” in the U.S. and Europe to make Twitter employees the focus of their attacks.

Twitter has been engaged in a prolonged game of whack-a-mole with ISIS, closing its accounts and those of similar organizations as they come to prominence, in an attempt to stifle their extremist propaganda and exhortations to violence. ISIS and other groups have consistently thwarted these efforts, now they’re going one step further, urging “lone wolf” actors to target Twitter employees.

The series of ISIS tweets are below, translated one by one.


You can read the entire piece here.

And, by all means, if you Twitter employees are legally able to carry concealed, do so. Though this being the People's Republik of California we're talking about, I suspect said licenses are harder to find than Michael Moore at a Gold's Gym.


MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER: Why, President Obama Never Referred to ISIS as the "JV" Team

The new Obama meme on ISIS: the President never referred to it as the "JV" team.

Todd, Sept. 7: Long way, long way from when you described them as a JV team.

Obama: Well, I –

Todd: Was that bad intelligence or your misjudgment?

Obama: Keep — keep — keep in mind I wasn’t specifically referring to ISIL. I’ve said that, regionally, there were a whole series of organizations that were focused primarily locally.

In fact, that's another entry in Obama's impressive database of fabrications, though not nearly as significant as "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" or "The average family will see their health care premiums drop by $2,500 a year".

In reality, Obama clearly made such a claim during an interview with David Remnick of The New Yorker that occurred immediately after ISIS had captured Fallujah.

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Nation

Democrats: Immigration reform will kill us in the 2014 elections: RS
Obama to Voters: You Are So Stupid: Power Line
Mexican Military, Drug Cartels Routinely Fire on Border Patrol: Sara Noble

Illegal Alien Families Caught Entering US Has Skyrocketed 412%: GWP
Obama finally unveils a border security plan... for Nigeria: Publius
Obama blames press for criticisms of his post-beheading golf outing: Hot Air

Howard Fuller Has the Answer for Ferguson: Star Parker
Dem Rep: Latinos 'Pissed Off' at 'Disgusting' Republican Party: Breitbart
Liberal Fascism laid bare in one @DonnaBrazile tweet: Public Secrets

About those lightweight Team Obama spokespersons: Power Line
Which is the bigger threat to the United States?: ZH
Proof That the Left Is Ready for a Clinton Presidential Run: Ben Geman

Economy

The Competitive Disadvantage of Principle: Erick Erickson
Failing at Life: Erick Erickson
JPM: "The Current Episode Of Excess Liquidity Is The Most Extreme Ever": ZH

Scandal Central

Holder DOJ ‘Handcuffed’ the FBI From Investigating Islamic Extremism In US: Nice Deb
Five More IRS Employees’ Emails “Lost” – It Is Time For An IRS Special Prosecutor: Aaron Gardner
70% Of Border Agents Forced to Aid, Abet, Facilitate Cartel Smugglers: Sara Noble

Climate & Energy

GOPs Charge Environmental Lobby Getting ‘Unprecedented Access’ to EPA Officials: Bill Straub
EPA puts climate target on airlines: Timothy Cama, The Hill
EPA sets emissions cut order: Six Arizona industrial facilities told to reduce their pollution output: Mohave

Media

Perfect: Liberals FREAK OUT over Immigration Stall, Obama Goes GOLFING!: Sooper
Psaki Makes Me Psick: Power Line
ABC Hits Obama From Left on Immigration, Hypes ‘Anger This Morning’ Among Hispanics: MRC

Shapiro Rips Obama: “Who, Exactly, Has Veto Power Over American National Security Interests?”: TR
This, Shannon Watts, Is Why We Need Guns To Go Grocery Shopping: Bob Owens
Bruce Levenson will sell Atlanta Hawks after releasing racist e-mail: USA Today

Saturday Tab Clearing: Ushanka
Was A Girl On #MichaelBrown’s Mind The Day He Was Killed?: GotNews
The Problems With Meet The Press Are Not Unique To Meet The Press: Derek Hunter

World

DEVASTATING REPORT: Islamic Society Of Boston Linked To ISIS AND Muslim Brotherhood: GWP
Al Qaeda Wasn’t ‘on the Run’: Stephen F. Hayes
Obama assembles Coalition of the Useless to fight ISIS: RS

Putin takes a slap at Obama in Estonia: RS
Russian Strategic Bombers Near Canada Practice Cruise Missile Strikes on US: WFB
China: Very Dangerous Thinking.: StrategyPage

Cuba Trolls America’s Left For Spies: NoisyRm
Flashback: In 2007 President Bush Warned What Would Happen if We Left Iraq too Soon: RWN
Marxism Strikes Again: Venezuela Set To Import Oil: Walter Russell Mead

Last Ditch Attempt To Rescue Hostages From ISIS Was Crippled By ‘Dithering’ Obama: Clash
ISIS/ISIL’s Male On Male Gang Rape “Marriage” Jihad Blackmail: Ironic
White House reportedly planning years-long campaign to destroy ISIS: Fox

Religion Of Peace: Children Play With Severed Heads In The Islamic State’s Caliphate: WZ
Brussels shooter’s Syrian past raises alarms in Europe: Times of Israel
Israeli politicians praise Sisi plan to give Palestinians land for a state in Sinai: JPost

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Stephen Hawking: God particle could wipe out the universe: Chris Matyszczyk, CNet
Diseased illegals spreading lung virus in Midwest: FAM
Home Depot Hit By Same Malware as Target: Brian Krebs

Cornucopia

US ‘Deeply Concerned’ After Chinese Jets Sink Navy Aircraft Carrier: DuffelBlog
Promises Made; Promises Unkept.: MOTUS
Colorado town becomes Bud Light commercial set: AP

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QOTD: "Steven Hawking worried that the Higgs Boson might become unstable... [writing]: "The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn gigaelectronvolts (GeV)."

What might this lead to? Hawkins explained: "This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming."

Before you prepare your loved ones for an evacuation to some distant star, Hawking did offer some hope with, it seems, a wry smile: "A particle accelerator that reaches 100bn GeV would be larger than Earth, and is unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate."

In essence, then, his fears might be theoretically valid, but their likelihood of actually coming to pass is somewhat smaller than that of the New York Jets winning the next Super Bowl." --Chris Matyszczyk

Sunday, September 07, 2014

BUBBLE: It Doesn't Take a Genius to See What's Coming

By Michael Snyder

People have such short memories. Even though we are repeating so many of the same patterns that we witnessed in 2000-2001 and 2007-2008, most people do not think that another financial crash is coming. In fact, with the stock market setting record high after record high lately, I have been taking quite a bit of criticism for my relentless warnings about the coming financial storm. Many of the comments go something like this: "Snyder you are a moron! Nothing you say ever comes true. The stock market is going to keep on rocking and Obama is going to lead this country back to greatness. I hope that you choke on all of your doom and gloom." Of course these critics never offer any hard evidence that I have been wrong about anything. They just assume that since the stock market has soared to unprecedented heights that all of us "bears" must have been wrong.

But the truth is that what we are observing right now is classic bubble behavior. The stock market crashes of 1929, 1987 and 2008 were all preceded by irrational market rallies in the spring or summer. The financial markets have become completely divorced from economic reality, and such a state of affairs never lasts forever. It is just a matter of time before a correction comes.

But every time there is a bubble, most people end up getting caught up in all of the euphoria. And it is happening again. In fact, CNBC has just reported that bearishness among market newsletter writers is the lowest that it has been since 1987. But of course we all remember what happened back in 1987...

IT'S YOUR FAULT: Federal Reserve Blames Americans Who “Hoard Money” For Obama's Economic Trainwreck

By Mac Slavo

Despite arguments to the contrary from the Obama administration, mounting evidence suggests that the U.S. economy is rapidly falling back into negative growth territory. More Americans are out of the workforce than ever before, median household incomes are at levels not seen since 1967, and consumer spending is coming to a veritable standstill. The crisis is apparently so significant that a Federal Reserve governor recently said U.S. policymakers are crafting regulations that will force bank depositors to cover any losses should their financial institutions fail.

The question that many are asking is, how did this happen? How, after six years of recovery efforts and trillions of dollars printed, is it possible that the economy is not booming again?

This week the Federal Reserve published a report that claims to have figured it out and it turns out that the renewed economic downturn has nothing to do with foreign outsourcing, high taxation, increased health care costs for business or rising consumer prices for food and energy.

No, according to the Fed it is your fault. Apparently, you are not spending enough money. In order for the economy to recover you need to stop hoarding cash now and get out there and start buying more homes, cars, vacations, and electronics. Otherwise, you’ll only have yourself to blame when the system comes unhinged.

From the St. Louis Federal Reserve: