Thursday, July 23, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Lawmaker: Kerry doesn't know what's in the Iran side deal

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Nation

Lawmaker: Kerry doesn't know what's in the Iran side deal: Charles Hoskinson
House Rep.: Obama Won’t Release Full Iran Deal to Congress: Joel Gehrke
Obama allows Iran and UN to see secret deal, but not Congress: Pamela Geller

He Lied: Obamacare To Be Opened Up To Illegal Immigrants In California: LI
UN Security Council lifts ballistic missile embargo on Iran: RS
Surprise! The States Can Reject the Iran Deal: Joel B. Pollak

Obama’s Disastrous Iran Deal: Richard A. Epstein
Watch Ted Cruz Obliterate ICE DIrector on her Bogus Claim: RS
No Crackdown On ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Until After Amnesty?: S&L

(Despite Everything) Why Trump Is Winning: Daniel Greenfield
Swing State Polls: Bernie Just As Strong As Hillary: Michael Warren
Jeb Bush Calls Southerners and the Confederate Flag ‘Racist’: Publius

Economy

Coca-Cola and Verizon Subsidizing the Brutal Killing of Animals: Erick Erickson
Thanks Obama: More Children Living in Poverty Now Than During Recession: RWN
Seattle sees fallout from $15 minimum wage, because, wait for it...: Fox

Scandal Central

New Documents Show IRS Used Donor Lists to Target Audits: JW
A bit foggy on that IRS scandal, Mr. President?: Chris Woodward
New Citizenship Oath drops requirement to defend the United States: RWN

Media

The Knees Have It: Mark Steyn
Trump to Anderson Cooper During Interview: "The People Don't Trust You And The Media": RCP
Yes, I Would Vote for Donald Trump For President: Erick Erickson

Blake Hounshell and the Fake Objectivity of the Modern Press: Leon H. Wolf
“SHOOT REPUBLICANS” Says Former Carter Staffer: Michael Strickland
Hillary’s New Poll Numbers Are So AWFUL, Chris Cuomo Thinks Biden Could Save The Dems!: Sooper

POTUS On Jon Stewart Show: Our Liar-in-Chief Strikes Again: Tammy Bruce
Blonde Bombshell Rips Obama to Shreds, Says What We've All Been Thinking: BuzzPo
Ben Shapiro files battery charges against transgender reporter for on-air threat: Joe Newby

World

Army Chief Ray Odierno: U.S. Military Could Have ‘Prevented’ Rise of Islamic State: Morgan Chalfant
Saudi Press: We Must Have A Military Nuclear Program Within A Decade: MEMRI
Italy: Muslims Arrested in Plot to Attack US Military Base: Pamela Geller

So, where are all these British Muslim moderates?: Richard Ferrer
A Leftist Celebrates the Extinction of the German Race: Baron Bodissey
China Pushing ‘Build Now, Pay Later’ Model to Emerging World: Alicia García-Herrero, Brink News

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

You Can Have A Mimic Of The Marine Corps New Infantry Automatic Rifle, Now: Bob Owens
Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online: Google Online Security Blog
Why The Open Organization speaks to me: DeLisa Alexander

Cornucopia

On Resisting The Despots And The Call To Arms of @MarkLevinShow: Camp o' the Saints
Bernie Sanders’ Horrible, Awful Recording Released: Kim Quade
MUST WATCH: Actor Ashton Kutcher Goes NUCLEAR on Liberal NYC Mayor: John Brodigan

Image: Army Chief Ray Odierno: U.S. Military Could Have ‘Prevented’ Rise of Islamic State
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QOTD: "Weeks away from retirement, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno believes that the U.S. military could have thwarted the rise of the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL) had the Obama administration left troops in Iraq beyond 2011.

...the top Army officer, who has spent 39 years in the military and spent more time in Iraq than any other U.S. general, labeled the rise of IS “frustrating to watch,” suggesting that it was a mistake for the United States to pull out of the region at the end of 2011.

I go back to the work we did in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 and we got it to a place that was really good,” Odierno detailed. “Violence was low, the economy was growing, politics looked like it was heading in the right direction.”

If we had stayed a little more engaged, I think maybe it might have been prevented,” he supposed, adding later that “it would have been good for us to stay” after the end of 2011. Though he had recommended in 2009 that the United States keep 30,000-35,000 troops in Iraq beyond 2011, his recommendation was rejected." --Morgan Chalfant

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

FAILURE THEATER REDUX: Corker, McConnell completely outraged that Obama hid Iran nuclear documents from Congress

The apogee of Republican Failure Theater -- the act of pretending to oppose radical Left policies while secretly supporting them -- was the surrender of the Senate's treaty review rights with respect to Barack Obama's secret Iran nuclear agreement. This complete abdication of Congressional power was orchestrated by the usual suspects -- John Boehner and Mitch McConnell -- along with their henchman, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN).

Iran is already in violation of the agreement. While their negotiators were busy in Munich Vienna, they were busting arms control sanctions in search of nuclear material and technology.

Corker is the man that let this happen. Corker is the man that set up the deal so Obama could do whatever he wants. Corker is the gutless puke who decided that courage was something he did not possess and allowed US alliances in the Middle East to be held hostage to Iranian threats and ensured that any future war with Iran will be nuclear.

You can see that Corker and McConnell are already using their Obamacare playbook in service of the Iran nuclear deal. They are talking about how tough they are going to be and what they are going to do but, in fact, they will do nothing. They have colluded with Obama to create a deal that CANNOT be unraveled by a future president and it will happen without a majority vote of the Congress.

Well, it turns out that Obama screwed the GOP by hiding key elements of the "Give Iran Nuclear Weapons and Set the Middle East Afire" bill (my memory could be off, but I think that's the name of the legislation). In other words, Corker and McConnell were willing to get shafted consensually, but Obama took it to next level altogether. He went medieval on their asses.

Larwyn's Linx: The Hell That is the Obama White House

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Nation

The Hell That is the Obama White House: David Horowitz
The Iran debate is over. The world lost and Iran won.: RS
Iran’s Supreme Leader taunts U.S. and Israel on Social Media: Kemberlee Kaye

State Dept. Just Can't Stop Lying About Caving on Lifting Iran Arms Embargo: Lid
John Kerry Is Very Disturbed: EIB
Israel: Why Offer Increased Military Aid if Iran Deal is so Great?: Eliyahu Berkowitz

Medical Monsters vs. Life-Giving Angels: Michelle Malkin
Planned Parenthood: Hillary Clinton’s Ongoing Silence Is Alarming: Marybeth Glenn
A Reality Check on Donald Trump: Erick Erickson

Should The Marines In Chattanooga Have Been Armed?: Herschel Smith
The Fact-Free Left: Thomas Sowell
Exclusive Interview: 2016 Contender Gov Scott Walker: Dana Loesch

Economy

Dodd-Frank at 5 -- helping big banks get bigger: Washington Examiner
Official City Of St Louis Vehicle Spotted Sporting Anti-RTW Propaganda: Dana Loesch
The SEIU's fast-food gamble: Glenn Spencer

Scandal Central

Kate Steinle's Dad: 'Take These Undocumented Immigrant Felons Off Our Streets for Good': Trey Sanchez
Mark Levin: Marxist in the White House Has Us Living in a Police State: Sara Noble
Took Him Long Enough: Gat Patriot

Media

The Whores of Moloch Preside Over the American Press Corps: Eirck Erickson
Horrific! MSNBC Panel Defends Smashing Baby Skulls, Selling Fetus Parts for Profit: DownTrend
New Iowa Poll – Trump Leads GOP Field, No Slump After Attacks on McCain: Treehouse

Evil with salad and a nice red wine: John Kass
ESPN host is being CRUCIFIED by Black Twitter for not towing the line on ‘All Lives Matter’: Scoop
Ann Coulter: Is Jeb Bush Going To Apologize To Kate Steinle’s Parents?: DownTrend

World

The Chattanooga Shooter’s “Muslim Brotherhood” Uncle Has Been Detained in Jordan: Treehouse
Kerry to visit Gulf Arab states, vows to 'push back' against Iran: Reuters
“They Cannot Stay in Italy Because There is no Work”: Baron Bodissey

Hanoi’s Capitalist Revolution: Michael J. Totten
Pope Francis trying to ignite a violent Communist revolution: Paul B. Farrell
China’s Last ‘Immortal’ Dies: Gordon G. Chang

Cuba: “Mojito diplomacy”: Fausta
The U.S.’s Math Olympiad Win Breaks China’s Dominance: Leah Libresco
Texans threaten to cover land with pigs’ blood to block Muslim cemetery: Mark Frauenfelder

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hackers Remotely Kill A Jeep On The Highway—With Me In It: Andy Greenberg
California turns to jamming tech to disable pesky drones: Tim Hornyak
FTC sues identity protection service LifeLock again: Jeremy Kirk

Cornucopia

Historical Ignorance II: Walter Williams
Your Hand is Black, Thin and Weak; Time to Play Your Trump Card?: MOTUS
Obama Takes Swipe at AIPAC in Appealing to Base on Iran Deal: Jacob Kornbluh

Image: Dodd-Frank at 5 -- helping big banks get bigger
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QOTD: "It [Trump's comment on John McCain] was a flip remark... He has made it very clear John McCain is a war hero. This is the other thing he’s being attacked for. And this enormous hysteria over a flip remark, that was a mistake, by Donald Trump.

I think it’s a mistake that Jeb Bush called illegal immigration an ‘act of love'. Is he going to apologize to Kate Steinle’s parents for that? That’s a much bigger mistake. How about giving driver’s licenses to 13 of 19 9/11 hijackers?”" --Ann Coulter

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: 6 Reasons to Support Ted Cruz. Reason 1 - "Moderate Candidates are Losers"

Spotted in a presentation from a conservative PAC that supports my preferred candidate, Ted Cruz.

SELF-DELUSION: The Chamberlain-Obama Comparison is Apt

By Thane Rosenbaum

There’s been a lot of talk lately proclaiming Barack Obama the second coming of Neville Chamberlain. The analogy may be facile, but it is not far-fetched. The accord just reached in Vienna, at best, only temporarily cools off Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The Iran deal will be remembered either as a masterful display of diplomacy or as a hopelessly naïve delusion.

Wishful thinking is not a sound basis for foreign policy. When it comes to Iran, the stakes are too high to gamble on good faith. Israel and Saudi Arabia have good reasons to worry. And when before have these two nations had anything in common?

Congress now readies itself for 60 days of peeking underneath the Persian carpet of this Iranian deal, while the President threatens to test his veto powers over congressional action.

Americans should be skeptical. Iran is not just a regional menace. Long-range missiles can erase complacency in an instant. The seeming vast distance on a map between Iran and the United States, in the modern world, can resemble a commuter stop. The days of trench warfare are over because there isn’t enough time to dig any of those trenches. Iran may end up convincing the United States that it needs its very own Iron Dome.

You won’t believe the letter this fifth-grader just wrote to the government

It's stuff like this that makes me hopeful for the next generation. Brian writes, "A friend from work's daughter penned this, and she just had to show me. Thought you might enjoy."


We have a budding little capitalist and liberty-loving young lady, I think.


Related: Plunder and Deceit, by Mark Levin.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Obama’s Iran Deal Sounds a Lot Like Clinton’s Failed North Korea Deal

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Nation

Obama’s Iran Deal Sounds a Lot Like Clinton’s Failed North Korea Deal: Blake Seitz
Lies, Damned Lies, and John Kerry: RS
McFarland on Kerry’s Iran Inspections Claim: ‘It’s A Lie’: Blake Seitz

A Historic Catastrophe: Thomas Sowell
Obama Praises Move To Recognize Eid As An Official Holiday: WZ
Obama Orders Military to Stop Wearing Uniforms, Hide from Terrorists: RWN

Some Lives Matter: The Bizarre Politics of the Modern Democratic Party: Jon Gabriel
Fear And Loathing At Netroots Nation: David Marcus
1938 and 2015: Only the Names Are Different: Dennis Prager

For Planned Parenthood Black Livers Matter: David Catron
7 Questions for J.D. Winteregg, the Man Running Against John Boehner: Jodi Giddings
Why Trump Is Leading: “Because He’s Not On His Knees To Mexico”: VDARE

Economy

Dodd-Frank; Total Fail: Jef Carter
Median income falls to a 20-year low: RS
Immense Prosperity At Stake: Paul, Cruz Focus On Trillions Of Your Dollars: Ralph Benko

Scandal Central

Democrats criticize government audit of Healthcare.gov: RS
Big Brother Barack has a secret town by town, block by block racial database: WyBlog
Report: 2.5 million illegal immigrants under Obama, 400,000 yearly: Paul Bedard

Media

The Gay Mafia Wants to Stop You From Doing This: Erick Erickson
Conservative TV host Tomi Lahren spells it out for Obama, the worst president in history: Scoop
Politico: Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz Bring Iowa Christians to Their Feet: Breitbart

Mark Steyn And “Senseless Violence”: HayRide
The Superbowl of Superholes: Mark Steyn
Cruz wants to change Fox’s debate standards: LI

World

Speaking of the Iran Deal (1): Scott Johnson
Speaking of the Iran Deal (2): Scott Johnson
Speaking of the Iran Deal (3): Scott Johnson

150 ISIS Sex Slaves Commit Suicide, Some Fed to Dogs: Clarion
Iran Deal: Europe's Chief Negotiator Sympathized with Iran: George Igler
The Frankfurt School, the far left, and the destruction of a people and a culture.: Vlad Tepes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Usermontu: Why the Discovery of 2,600-Year-Old Knee Screw Left Experts Dumbfounded: April Holloway
A Case Study In How Media Protect Hillary Clinton: Mollie Hemingway
A Spectacular View of Earth Unlike Any Seen Since 1972: By Tom Yulsman

Cornucopia

Feminism; It’s come to this…: MOTUS
Scott Walker signs bill banning abortions after 20 weeks: JSonline
John Kerry to travel to Cuba on Aug. 14: Kelly Cohen

Image: A Spectacular View of Earth Unlike Any Seen Since 1972
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QOTD: "People look at government with an anger and a frustration which Washington does not understand.

In a span of a few days last week, Americans witnessed Washington's glaring failure with disbelief.

First, the government admitted that Social Security numbers, fingerprints, passwords and other personal information of more than 22 million federal workers, all used to conduct background screenings, were hacked on the Obama administration's watch.

Then a whistleblower leaked an internal Department of Veterans Affairs document to the Huffington Post, showing that more than 238,000 of the 847,000 military veterans with pending applications for health care through the VA had already died.

Finally, the FBI admitted that flaws in paperwork and communications between a federal background-check worker and state law enforcement allowed Dylann Roof to buy a handgun in South Carolina, weeks before he allegedly killed black churchgoers.

No accountability, no transparency — just a pattern of bureaucratic failure that has cost lives and has fueled anger against government." --Salena Zito

Monday, July 20, 2015

“You were given a choice between war and dishonor, Mr. Obama. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”

By Sara Noble

The U.N. Security Council endorsed the nuclear deal Monday morning. The statists in the U.N. have been given the power to decide the fate of the nuclear deal with no intervention by the American people thanks to the unilateral president and the Corker bill. The Corker bill allows international law to supersede our Congress and our Constitution.

The negotiations began when the President engaged in secret correspondence with the Ayatollah and his minions. Valerie Jarrett made secret trip(s) to Iran. The Logan Act suggests that this is not within his rights to engage in secret correspondence with the enemy.

The negotiations of the P5+1 were always a sham because they were always between the U.S. and Iran. China and Russia? Russia wants the U.S. to be harassed by Iran and they want to sell arms to the Iranians. China is already preparing for war against the United States with cyber as the first front. The U.K., France, Germany depend on Russia for their oil.

Lawyers involved in the negotiations and an Iranian reporter who sought asylum in the U.K. claimed that the U.S. acted as Iran’s agents throughout the negotiations.

PASS THE POPCORN, NAHANNI: Federal judge warns State Dept. it will “have to answer for” any missing Hillary emails

Our friends at Judicial Watch have been indefatigable advocates for liberty and the pursuit of the Obama administration's many high crimes and misdemeanors (a list that exhausts one simply to read it).

In any event, using tools like Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, JW has been doggedly seeking answers with respect to Hillary Clinton's secret email server. And, as Inspectors General throughout the massive government bureaucracy have publicly stated, the least transparent administration in history is covering up everything germane to the investigation.

Namely, what exactly did Hillary Clinton promise foreign entities, international corporations, and others who were contributing to her family's foundation under the aegis of her official role as Secretary of State?

...a federal judge warned the State Department that it will “have to answer for” any destruction of Hillary Clinton email records. U. S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras made the statement at a July 9, 2015 status conference concerning a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for records about the State Department vetting of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s potential conflicts of interest (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00688)). The transcript of the July 9 court hearing is available here.

At the hearing, attorney Chris Fedeli pressed Judicial Watch’s concerns about the preservation of records, especially email records that were not part of the 55,000 pages of records turned over by Mrs. Clinton to the State Department late last year.

In response, Judge Contreras said he was also “concerned” about the preservation of these records:

Why I find it hard to give a f***

By Karl Denninger

It's very hard for me to give a **** these days.

In fact, it's becoming nearly impossible.  The reasons are many, with the most-serious being your refusal to give a ****.

You don't give a **** that the entire medical industry rips everyone off to the tune of 200, 300, 400, 500% or more of what virtually everything should cost.  This is why you "need" health insurance.  It is why we "need" Medicare.  The practices of this "industry" in virtually every other line of business would result in the people involved going to prison for decades, yet you tolerate this daily despite the fact that it is the largest cause of bankruptcy in the United States.  You cannot take your car in for an oil change or have the furnace guy come and fix your heating system in your home without being quoted a price before work begins, and were two gas stations to collude on prices the owners of both would be charged with felonies.

You don't give a **** that pharmaceutical companies literally price drugs at a half-million dollars a year -- and if you need it, you'll need it effectively forever.  There are so few people who have that sort of money that this kind of pricing is by definition theft, as the only way to "afford' such a drug is to steal the money from someone else (through legal means or otherwise.)  What's worse is that you let them get away with having most of the development cost of these "wonder drugs" be born through publicly-funded research; it's not even their money at risk (for the most part) when such a new drug is tested, it's yours and mine.  We then wonder why so-called "health insurance" is as expensive as it is and why the stock of firms in that business such as Aetna (NYSE: AET) are up more than 500% since 2009, roughly doubling in the two years since the Obamacare "mandates, er, taxes" kicked in and stock in company that makes the drug in this example (ALXN) is up 1,000% since 2009.  You, on the other hand, will be flirting with bankruptcy (if not rendered penniless, insurance or no) if you get sick.

Larwyn's Linx: A Horrible Week for the Free World–And a Glimmer of Hope

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Nation

A Horrible Week for the Free World–And a Glimmer of Hope: Erick Stakelbeck
Chattanooga: Stop Crying, Start Getting Angry: Kim Quade
Terror USA: Ft. Hood Victim Says Obama Needs to Get his 'Head Out of His A**': RWN

Obama's rationale implodes: Prof. Abraham Ben-Zvi
Appeasement in Our Time: Jack Kelly
Here, Tell These People Something They Don't Know About Me: SDA

Chattanooga Shooter’s Mosque Fundraised on Behalf of Jihad in 2009: Kyle Shideler
Chattanooga’s Lone Wolf: Judith Miller
Suspects Wanted For Paintball Shootings On Staten Island Arrested: Mark Hirshberg

Millions and Millions of Mohammeds: Daniel Greenfield
More Than Half of New California Driver's Licenses Go to Illegal Aliens: Breitbart
Boehner and McConnell must go: David Bozell

'Proven Fundraiser' Ted Cruz Can Defeat Clinton in 2016: Breitbart
Trump campaign implodes after McCain war hero insult: JWF
Hillary So Controlling She’s Silencing Her Own Supporters: Robert Gehl

Economy

Rubio: Clinton’s Uber Criticisms Show Someone ‘Trapped In The Past’: Andrew Kugle
Walker ‘impressive’ during manufactured confrontation with illegals in Iowa: Twitchy
Two Business Owners Fight the IRS to Get Their Seized Money Back: Melissa Quinn

Scandal Central

Obama Stole His Latest Idea of Forced Housing Redistribution Straight from Marxist Handbook: Jim Hoft
Obama Has Not Ordered Flag Flown at Half-Staff for Servicemen Killed in TN Terror Attack: GWP
But Voted for Governor in 2010: Mummified MI woman Pia Farrenkopf died 6 years ago: Dan Riehl

Tyrants and Snowflakes: Clarice Feldman
Obama’s Diversity Police State and Government Mandated Racism: NoisyRm
Obama’s awesome new race database even more awesome than you imagined: Jazz Shaw

Climate & Energy

California Water Wars Escalate: State Changes Law, Orders Farmers To Stop Pumping: Tyler Durden
20 Years Without Global Warming: MB
Your Future with Smart Meters: City Power pleads with residents not to panic: fin24

Media

Paul Krugman on the minimum wage: 1998 vs. 2015: Mark J. Perry
National Swimmer's Day: iOTWreport
Terror Wins: French Magazine Attacked by Terrorists Vow ‘No More Muhammad Cartoons’: RWN

‘Rape Culture’ or ‘Libel Culture’? Lawyers for Rolling Stone Blame the Victim: R.S. McCain
Trump twist: Chris Rock said almost exact same thing about McCain in 2008 stand-up joke: BPR
John McCain was a War Hero, but he’s also a Loser and an attacker of fellow Republicans: RWN

NY Times: Now That We’ve Surrendered To Iran, Perhaps Other Issues Can Now Be Discussed: Cove
Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain: Sharyl Attkisson
An Open Secret or Hollywood’s Other Cosby Shoe: DTG

World

The prophetic video that predicted what Obama would do to Israel: Matzav
Acid Attack in Iran Targets Girls, Young Woman: Clarion
National Suicide: Yes, It Happens—Look At The Xhosas: John Derbyshire

Five Reasons Why Islam Is A Cult: Colleen Conley
Islamic State Group Releases One of Its Most Sickening Videos Yet: Sharona Schwartz
ISIS PR: ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Tells Islamic State To Stop Showing Execution Videos: Treehouse

Obama Lights Firestorm on Capitol Hill: Walter Russell Mead
Why It’s Okay to Talk about Chamberlain Right Now: Thane Rosenbaum
Barack Obama plagiarizes the Onion.: Moe Lane

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What .01820 Bitcoin can buy today and how this trend is going to change the world: Greg Garneau
US company gives glimpse into future of government surveillance: News.com.au
Trustwave shows the business breakdown of professional hackers: Insider

Cornucopia

Netroots Nation: Where Some Lives Matter and Some Don’t: MOTUS
Video: Jewish Torah vs Muslim Quran: Torah Anytime
Huma Abedin is paid highest in US presidential campaign: Asian Age

Image: Muslim Terrorist Slips Back Into Britain After Release From US Prison
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QOTD: "If you had asked me ten years ago if there was any chance of Greece becoming a failed state within a decade, I would have said ‘No, no chance.’ But here we are. In ten years, I suspect, we’ll be marveling over all the other failed states as the rot proceeds from the outside in...

...There’s simply too much debt and too little cheap oil for there to be any other trajectory to this story. Boneheadedly, our leadership is so out-of-touch that their best response to this set of predicaments is to sacrifice the populace of an entire developed nation (for generations to come) just to keep the status quo stumbling along for a bit longer.

We need to all prepare for the inevitability that, as the rot proceeds, the people of Greece will not be the only casualties of the banks' attempts at self-preservation. They'll try to throw all of us under the bus before taking any losses themselves." --Chris Martenson

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Iran Deal Infographic

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I’ve Read the Nuclear Deal, Mr. President, and It’s Atrocious

By David Gerstman

Deal rewrites history: Iran committed no violations in the past

In his combative press conference last week to defend the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama issued the following challenge:

So to go back to Congress, I challenge those who are objecting to this agreement, number one, to read the agreement before they comment on it; number two, to explain specifically where it is that they think this agreement does not prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and why they’re right and people like Ernie Moniz, who is an MIT nuclear physicist and an expert in these issues, is wrong, why the rest of the world is wrong, and then present an alternative.

First off it’s worth noting that Energy Secretary and MIT nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz said back in April that to be effective the deal would have to include “anytime, anywhere,” inspections, so Obama’s explanation about why 24 days notice is now good enough fails to convince me.

I want Moniz to explain why he changed his position on this AND why 24 days is now acceptable. I would like Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes to explain why he walked back his comments on requiring “anytime, anywhere” inspections.

And I want a more convincing explanation than negotiator Wendy Sherman’s excuse that the term was just a “rhetorical flourish.” (If that was a rhetorical flourish, I’m curious how many other administration comments about the nuclear deal were rhetorical flourishes.)

But in that paragraph, Obama limits the grounds of questioning the deal to whether the language of the deal is insufficient to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear breakout over the course of the deal.

Here’s where I have problem. Even if the agreement was airtight, and I doubt that it is, there’s a matter of the administration’s behavior during the Joint Plan of Action, which was agreed to in November 2013. The problem is that the Obama administration has acted as “Iran’s attorney” covering for Iran’s violations of the previous agreement.

In a notable episode last month, administration officials attacked The New York Times for reporting that Iran would likely fail to reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by the June 30 deadline. In the end Iran did reduce its stockpile but not by the method prescribed and not to the form that it was required to.

The nonproliferation think tank, the Institute for Science and International Security, earlier this month, explained why the administration’s behavior in this case was troubling:

What "Smart Meters" are really all about

"Smart meters" aren't about saving power; they're about government control. Witness the latest from Johannesburg, South Africa where authorities are pleading with residents "not to panic" when power is shut off to households that are consuming more than their fair share of electricity.

Load Limiting is a technology that enables City Power to accurately identify and ascertain household consumption in real time in relation to the available generating capacity.

The deployment of load limiting will enable City Power to remotely disconnect households that don’t comply with requests to reduce consumption, remotely using smart meters.

Households that have an excessive consumption would experience repetitive disconnections at five minute intervals for a period of 30 seconds until they have reduced their consumption to required levels.

Should they fail to abide by instructions to reduce consumption, non-compliant residents will be disconnected remotely via smart meters.

I would encourage every American to reject smart meters, no matter how tempting the incentive from your local power company.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
 

THE DEMOCRAT CRIME WAVE: 8,100 Criminal Illegal Aliens Released in 276 "Sanctuary Cities"

By Numbers USA

As more attention is placed on sanctuary cities and how the policy affects those communities, a new report out from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that thousands of criminal aliens sought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been released by state and local jurisdictions with sanctuary policies.

According to the report, the 276 jurisdictions in 43 states and the District of Columbia (See map here) released 8,145 criminal aliens with detainers from ICE. Of these, 63% had prior criminal histories or were labeled a public safety concern at the time of their release. Nearly 1,900 of the released criminal aliens were arrested fro another crime within the eight month period the study looked at, from January 1, 2014, to August 31, 2014.

The report went on to document that a majority, 63%, of the criminal aliens released from state and local custody had serious prior criminal records with a quarter of them being convicted of a felony.

SCANDAL: White House Welcomes Terror Immigration to America

By Daniel Greenfield

Tennessee is to Muslim refugees as New York is to Muslim hijacked planes. Chattanooga, the site of the latest Muslim terror attack against America, is a “preferred community” for resettlement along with Knoxville and Nashville.

Nashville was designated a “Gateway City” for Iraqis. Hundreds of Somali Muslims were dumped in Shelbyville and the Murfreesboro Mega-Mosque became national news because of its terror ties.

Over the last decade, middle Tennessee’s Muslim population tripled.  The rise of Islam in Tennessee as Muslims from terror zones like Iraq and Somalia flooded its towns and cities brought hate and violence.

In Memphis, Imam Yasir Qadhi was caught on tape calling Jews and Christians filthy and declaring that Muslims can take their lives and property.  Last year the FBI warned of an ISIS threat in Memphis.

This year it was Chattanooga’s turn.

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the son of a Palestinian man and a Kuwaiti woman living in the United States, killed four marines. One of his targets, a recruiting center, was a gun-free zone. Those inside had no way to defend themselves. Their government had welcomed in the enemy and left them unarmed and helpless against his Jihad.

Obama refused to use the word “Terrorism”. Hillary Clinton claimed that the attack was “senseless violence.” But there was nothing senseless about it. It was an act of war, one of many, in a conflict that stretches back to the founding of the United States of America.

All Hail Our Banking Overlords!

By Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity

You really have to be paying attention to see what’s truly going on these days. The keepers of the system, that is the banking elites, now openly control everything -- though you'd never know that by listening to the media.

Consider this:

Eurozone backs €7bn bridging loan

Jul 16, 2105

Eurozone ministers have agreed to give Greece a €7bn (£5bn) bridging loan from an EU-wide fund to keep its finances afloat until a bailout is approved.

The loan is expected to be confirmed on Friday by all EU member states.

In another development, the European Central Bank (ECB) agreed to increase emergency funding to Greece for the first time since it was frozen in June.

The decisions were made after Greek MPs passed tough reforms as part of a eurozone bailout deal.

How generous of the finance ministers of all those EU member states to agree to a “bridge loan” that will help Greece "keep its finances afloat". This should provide the people of Greece with a bit of breathing room, right? Maybe access to their bank accounts (finally!), perhaps?

No, not at all. Here’s what the entirety of the “”loan”” will go towards instead:

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Released Top Iranian Scientist as Part of Nuke Deal; Left Americans to Rot

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Nation

Obama Freed Top Iranian Scientist as Part of Nuke Deal; Left Americans to Rot: GWP
President Obama Has a Banner Burn the Constitution Week: Sara Noble
Cruz: TN gunman 'Lone Wolf' like Ft. Hood was 'Workplace Violence': Breitbart

Exploding Muslim immigration overwhelms FBI: Leo Hohmann
How many Black babies are aborted each day?: Clenard Childress
While Obama Vacations in New York City, GOP Governors Act to Protect Troops: GWP

Top Five Warning Signs That TN Shooter Was Radicalized: Jennifer Davis
BREAKING: American official says something both true, and relevant!: Vlad Tepes
#BlackLivesMatter Takes Over Netroots Nation, Confronts O’Malley: Josh Feldman

Unicorns And Skittles and Nuclear Weapons: Iran...Post The American Surrender: Ace
Ted Cruz Outraising Jeb Bush: Matthew Patane, Des Moines Register
Trumps Gonna Trump: Ace

Economy

All Hail Our Banking Overlords!: Chris Martenson
Disrupting Government: P&F
Will the White House disappoint on H-1B displacements?: Patrick Thibodeau

Scandal Central

Apologist for Islamic terrorism to lead Chattanooga investigation: RS
Organ dealer with connections to Planned Parenthood has quietly altered its website: Unyielding
Planned Parenthood's Deborah Nucatola Works for Ex-White House Staffer: Lisa Carr

Obama collecting personal data for a secret racial database: Paul Sperry
Obama Administration’s Racial Database Contains Your Personal Information: Rick Moran
Gun Banning Group Proposes Gov’t Use its Gun Buying ‘Power’ To End Run the Constitution: Publius

Media

Donald Trump Is No Conservative: Conor Friedersdorf
The Accidental Gawker: Gavin McInnes
The New Manhood: SDA

Gawker Smears Feces On Itself, Boards a Schoolbus Loaded With Gasoline and Napalm...: Ace
Overlooked in the Cruz path to the White House: Bobby Cervantes
That Time Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz Visited The Field Of Dreams: KMBZ

World

Ayatollah Khamenei and New York Times - the art of headlines: Simply Jews
Ted Cruz on Iran Deal: There Will Be Blood: Matthew Fleming
Report on Islamic gangs forcing British children into sex-slavery: Vlad Tepes

Chattanooga Shooter Was Spotted at Shooting Range With 3 Men Before Massacre: Sooper
ISIS hits Egyptian patrol boat; Chattanooga part of widespread attack plan?: J.E. Dyer
Chattanooga Gunman Sent Out A Text The Night Before, Quoting Islamic Text, Declaring ‘War’: WZ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Its First Minor Injury Accident: Jay Barmann
4,000-Year-Old Tablets Reveal Bronze Age Rights for Women Discovered in Turkey: Alicia McDermott
Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security: WaPo

Cornucopia

The Comfortable Class Now Producing Strange New Gods: Ace
Is this the most dangerous roller coaster in America?: Tim Donnelly
Trump Surfaces Long-Rumored HateFact That McCain Was Not A Hero, But A Collaborator?: Peter Brimelow

Image: While Obama Vacations in New York City, GOP Governors Act to Protect Troops
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: ARE YOU READY? TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "I can’t go through an airport without getting pulled aside for pre-check scans and searches. And while they’re doing that to a guy in law enforcement they can let a guy like Mohammad Abdulazeez spend seven months traveling the Middle East … are you kidding me?

That’s a red flag. Just like the Boston bombing, the older guy was traveling through Chechnya before the attack. That’s a hotbed of terrorism, Chechnya, so you see why I say we suck at intelligence? We don’t have a strategy.

We have got to force this issue. That’s why I’m glad Donald Trump is in the race. He’s probably not going to win, but he’s going to make this Republican field talk about some issues they would rather not discuss.

Our immigration policy is a disaster. Multiculturalism is a disaster, and it failed miserably when European countries all opened their borders and now they’re all tightening up. France demands assimilation now. So now, yes, we do have to look at immigration as a national security threat." --Sheriff David Clarke Jr. of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Saturday, July 18, 2015

CRUZ: Obama May Not Believe We are at War With Islamism, but Islamism is at War With Us

By Sen. Ted Cruz

Yesterday, members of our armed services in Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to work in the service of our nation. Some went to a recruiting center to assist the young people who, like so many before them, would walk through the door on any given Thursday morning and volunteer to defend the United States of America. Four brave Marines went to a Naval Reserve Center to perform their duties to the Tennessee National Guard.

But one of the young people who visited two of those facilities was not like the others. He was there not to volunteer to serve America, but to attack America. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez was there to carry out jihad, an act of radical Islamic terrorism. An act of war, in which those four brave Marines lost their lives, while at least two others were wounded.

In the wake of this vicious attack on our nation we need to rid ourselves of two dangerous delusions, first and foremost that a ‘lone gunman’–as President Obama described the shooter–is somehow isolated from the larger threat of radical Islamic terrorism. In the modern world, no one acts in isolation. Through social media ISIS, al Qaida, and other groups are infiltrating our nation with impunity while our government will not even admit that radical Islamic terrorism is a problem.

The second delusion is that this attack is somehow isolated from previous episodes, notably those in Little Rock, Arkansas and Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009—both of which were attacks on American military facilities. The Obama administration was woefully reluctant to call either an act of radical Islamic terrorism, instead suggesting ‘workplace violence’ as a justification for the killings. Finally, after years of effort, the victims of Fort Hood were properly recognized as victims of attacks by foreign terrorists when they received Purple Hearts on April 15, 2015. Likewise, the victim of the Little Rock attack received a Purple Heart on July 1, 2015.

“We cannot afford to wait six years to recognize what happened in Chattanooga for what it was. We need to see with clarity right now what has happened. We can immediately hold hearings in the Senate Armed Services Committee on the need for our enlisted men and women to have the right to be armed in military facilities. Congress can pass the Expatriate Terrorist Act that would allow our government to stop Americans who travel overseas to train with terrorist groups from coming back to attack us at home. We can thoroughly overhaul our broken immigration system that is allowing this type of individual to gain citizenship. And we can accept the reality that while we might wish it otherwise, the forces of radical Islam are at war with us.

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AND AGAIN: Illegal Alien Accused of Brutal CT Murder Was Spared Deportation by Democrats

How many more crimes -- on top of the thousands of killings, rapes, abductions and child abuse already suffered -- will Americans tolerate before demanding that Democrats and Republican Crony Crapitalists finally seal the border? Surprisingly, CBS News deigns to report:

A Haitian immigrant who was released from prison in January after serving a 17-year prison sentence for attempted murder is back in custody on a murder charge in the death of a Connecticut woman last month.

The Bulletin reports that Jean Jacques's prison file was marked "Detainer: Immigration" and that Connecticut officials say he was released in January to the custody of the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but was never deported.

...On Monday, the 40-year-old Jacques was in a Connecticut court to answer to murder and drug charges, stemming from the June 15 stabbing death of Casey Chadwick in Norwich, the city where Jacques lived before he went to prison. The 25-year-old woman's body was found stuffed in a closet.

According to the Bulletin, in January 2014, Connecticut made history by becoming the first state to enact legislation that prohibited law enforcement agencies from holding people simply because they had a civil immigration detainer put on them... The measure was touted as a way to strengthen immigrant families, the newspaper reports, but the law was clear on who was exempt from its protection: Convicted felons and people with a "final order" of deportation from the federal government were chief among them.

Haitian national Jacques fit both categories when he was paroled from prison in January of this year, the Bulletin reported. He had served 17 years in prison for attempted murder, a crime committed in Norwich. But he wasn't deported, or held for deportation.

...And, the ICE spokesman added, a 2001 Supreme Court case required the agency to release him in January -- six months before the brutal stabbing death of Chadwick in her Norwich apartment.

Enough. Enough.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.