It's Time to ''Snowden'' Vladimir Putin !

Ronald Reagan once said, “The difference between a republic and a people's republic is a lot like the difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.”

The same can be said about lethal aid vis-à-vis non-lethal aid. When Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressed Congress and referred to Obama's meagre offer of aid to his country he said, “Blankets and night-vision goggles are important, but one cannot win a war with blankets!”

Ukraine’s military cannot defeat Russia militarily. It is quite likely that any “lethal” military aid sent will be enough to antagonize Putin, but not enough to make a difference.

We cannot treat Ukrainians (or Russians) like chess pieces. Both economies have been battered by this war. In 2014, Russia lost $100 billion from lower oil prices, and another $40 billion from sanctions. While the average Russian is hurting, Vladimir Putin is not.

America’s policy toward Tsar Vladimir is reminiscent of Prince Horace in “The Whipping Boy.” It is the story of a spoiled prince, who is never punished when he misbehaves, because Jemmy, his whipping boy, is beaten in his place. Even Third Graders can understand the moral of the story: When a prince cannot be punished, he will never grow up.

Putin is not suffering and he doesn’t care how many Ukrainians and Russians suffer. Five thousand people have already died. Putin will only change course when his approval rating drops.

Right now it is above 80 percent, despite the fact oil prices are at less than $50 a barrel and the ruble has lost half its value since the war began.

Before Putin seized Crimea, his approval rating was gradually declining from 78 per cent in 2010 to 61 per cent in 2013. The patriotic feeling in Russia in 2014 was stoked by his adventuring in Ukraine. Since returning to the presidency in 2012, Putin has used the anti-American card to bolster his image as Russia’s protector. Without East-West tension, the Russian public would shift back to domestic concerns and Putin would be in trouble.

For this to work, we need to “Snowden” Putin. Whether you think Snowden’s actions were

misguided or deliberate treason, he sparked a big debate. Even with hindsight, it is, at best, naïve of him to think America was not free enough and then flee to China, and later Russia, for his “freedom.” Unlike the NSA, the KGB really is an evil organization and could use a Snowden.

Ukraine can trigger this by declassifying the 800,000 volumes of Soviet-era KGB documents in its possession. These documents are labelled “secret” and “top secret” because they contain a list of all the KGB informers in Ukraine.

Putin knows that a secret police force cannot function without a network of informers. In the past, declassifying the identities of these informers was resisted because of the fear of potential reprisals. For that reason, access to a victim’s file has been limited to relatives.

Since there are numerous marriages between Russians and Ukrainians, it is likely that Russians can learn about the fate of their relatives from the Ukrainian files. It might encourage them to end the war because it could be their only chance to know what really happened to those relatives. Reading these KGB files could also encourage some Russian speakers in Crimea, and the Ukraine’s Donbass region, to rejoin a federated Ukraine.

Once the KGB documents are declassified, the Ukrainians can launch a website where anyone can have unfettered access to any file. Instead of watching a soap opera on television, people can read true stories about how the KGB made others spy on their friends and relatives.

This could encourage files to be also declassified in the Baltic States and other former Soviet republics. This might even stir a real opposition movement among Russians who think the Soviet collapse was a “catastrophe.” For this war to end, and for Russia to move forward, we need to “Snowden” the KGB.

The reality is that when Putin invaded Ukraine, he had no idea how fragile the Russian economy was. The combined effect of Western sanctions and the crashing oil prices -- along with what has been estimated to at least a $1 trillion theft from the state by Putin's cronies -- has resulted in an economic crisis that's worse than 1998's.

In the past year the Ruble has devalued by almost 50%. This is particularly pernicious in a country that imports more than half its consumer goods. Imagine that half the things you buy have just

doubled in price . What would you do? Get mad at your leader, that's what.

Putin is not a man who deals well with other people's negative emotions toward him. His only reflex in these situations is to crack down. That, in turn, only incentivizes people to take more money out of the country, which further devalues the Ruble. This appears to be an unstoppable doom loop. Putin's KGB playbook of oppression works on individuals, not on markets. This bully-boy will never be able to bend the markets to his will.

The Way I See it.....this won't end well for anyone involved. There will be full-scale currency and capital controls in the future. When there's still not enough money, Putin will start expropriating and nationalizing companies just as that leftist idiot Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. And when that doesn't work, he will start printing money, creating hyperinflation. The only thing that can save him is $100-a-barrel oil.

Ultimately, Putin's days are numbered. It may be a year, two years, or more, but his brand of dictatorship is incapable of dealing with such a grave economic crisis in such a big and unmanageable country. Meanwhile the human rights abuses, corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin's Russia will continue a while longer until the Russian people cry out; ENOUGH !
 

Beware Australia's Malevolent Mufti !

Our Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has finally taken aim at Islam with his statement that “no more benefit of the doubt” be given to Muslim leaders who lie about their intentions. Last year he was assured of “inclusive cooperation” from Islamic clerics who promised to reign in their radical youth. Of course they lied... and the grand master of lying is the self-styled grand mufti of Australia,

Ibrahim Abu Mohammed (photo right).

Mr Abu Mohammed (he calls himself doctor) is an active supporter of the terrorist group Hizb ‘ut Tarir and has lashed out (via an interpreter of course) at Tony Abbott’s intention to ban it. Abu Mohammed has close ties with Hamas and has recently visited its leaders in Gaza, to promote the destruction of Israel.

He met with Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyeh, who is on record as praising Osama Bin Laden. “I came here in order to learn from Gaza,” Mr Abu Mohammed said. “As I said in my speech, we will make the stones, trees, and people of Gaza talk, in order to learn steadfastness, sacrifice, and the defence of one’s rights from them. I am pleased to stand on the land of jihad to learn from its sons and I have the honour to be among the people of Gaza where the weakness always becomes strength, the few becomes many and the humiliation turns into pride”, he told local news agencies.

He also said of Australian troops in Afghanistan, “It is the nature of mankind that if there is any oppression upon any nation that our passions are inflamed and our emotions start to move and react.”
Hizb ‘ut Tarir has inexplicably been allowed to actively recruit “Muslims for the Islamic State” from within Australia. It has cleverly tried to avoid global scrutiny while spreading its vile ideology throughout South-East Asia and Pakistan with a huge influence among India’s 172 million Muslim population (2011 census).

While the Islamic State runs amok in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and now Libya, demanding media attention through acts of barbarism, Hizb ‘ut Tarir has been quietly building a huge global infrastructure of support for the ISIS using radicalised youth in preparation for their proposed global caliphate.
The armed wing of Hizb ‘ut Tarir is known as “Har-akat ul-Muhojirinfi Britaniya” and is currently training its Islamic State recruits in bacteriological and biological warfare, including Australians, in northern Syria.

Let’s get one thing clear, so-called “grand muftis” are the final arbiters and administrators of Shariah Law, that’s their role in life, so why would Abbott expect this little piece of dog shit to tell the truth about anything? He has now learnt he can’t as Mr Abu Mohammed publicly rails against the decision to rid Australia of the Hizb ‘ut Tarir terrorist recruitment agency.

Who elects these so-called grand muftis who advocate our demise? Mosque clerics elect them and the previous appointee, Sheik Hilaly, (photo left), branded Australian women as available (the “fresh meat” leading to a rash of Muslim rapes on Australian girls).

Yet Tony Abbott expected “inclusive cooperation” from these ratbags?

The radicalisation of Muslim youth is clearly occurring at cleric level. The evil is at the top. If violent atrocities follow Friday prayers, what more proof is needed? And the Left is baffled by the growing public objection to the proliferation of mosques?

Sooner or later governments will realise that 90 per cent of Australians' anguish is perpetuated by two per cent of its population. I wrote 6 years ago that if the Islamic scourge is not met head on we should buy our kids a copy of the Koran and enrol them in the nearest madrasah.

Mr Abu Mohammed  has joined with the Australian National Imams Council calling for the offence of “advocating terrorism” to be removed from the Foreign Fighters Bill, currently before Parliament. Golly, now why would that be?

When asked what advice he would give to Tony Abbott he said, via an interpreter, “The advice our Prophet Mohammed would give to our beleaguered Prime Minister is to quit politics!”

A typical Academic Leftist Elitist, Clive Williams, (photo right) a Professor at Macquarie University and supposed terrorism expert, wrote in the Fairfax press recently: “It seems that the government’s kite-flying about proscribing Hizb ‘ut Tarir is largely a political exercise serving no useful practical purpose. It may also be intended to distract from the Abbott government's inappropriate and costly military reaction to the unwinnable war in Syria and Iraq – which is now having a community blowback effect in Australia.” Hmmm, well you can’t expect any better from Fairfax and an anti-government academic.

The Way I See It.....anyway, keep a copy of this article on your knee while watching a sanitised, politically correct version of the grand mufti’s activities to be aired on the ABC’s “Australian Story” next Monday.  It should be a ripper.

ISIS Actions are Prescribed and Outlined in the Koran !

Obama, Kerry, Biden, David Cameron and the rest — they couldn’t be lying to us, could they? Inconceivable!
 

“Ex-Muslim Imam Pens Open Letter, Giving Obama A History Lesson About Islam,” Mad World News, February 9, 2015:

President Barack Obama sparked outrage when he compared medieval Christian wars to modern-day Islamic terrorism at the  National Prayer Breakfast Thursday. He spouted that terrorist groups like ISIS “professed to stand up for Islam, but, in fact, are betraying it,” chastising the opposition from getting on “our high horse” when “people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ” during the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition.
 

Dr. Mark Christian, founder of Global Faith Institute, knows Islamic history too well, being an apostate from the Muslim faith himself. Having experienced the true nature of Islam firsthand as a devout Imam, Dr. Christian penned a fiery open letter to the American leader, which he graciously provided to Mad World News, that includes a
blunt history lesson in the unchanging goal of ancient Islam:

Dr Mark Christian

''President Obama… I realize you thought you were brave and courageous when you defamed Christianity by equating the Crusades and the Inquisition with the present-day barbarism of Islam, but I wonder if your “courage” goes so far as to blame Muslims for the Islamic conquests? Do you have the guts to tell them that in the name of Allah, they invaded nations, practiced ethnic and cultural cleansing, going so far as to erase the very history of conquered lands. Can you tell them that they changed languages and names, enslaved millions and killed an unknowable number of innocent souls simply because they worshiped God, and not “Allah?”. I think not. You know Christians will bow their heads and pray for you whereas Muslims will simply take your head and celebrate.''

ISIS is not animated by the usual “reaction to oppression” narrative the Left trots out as an excuse for every instance of horrible behavior, whether that behavior is rioting in Ferguson, Missouri or the systematic slaughter of all those opposed to your ideology.

ISIS is animated entirely by Islam. The manner in which they kill – prescribed and outlined in the Koran. The way they make war – prescribed and outlined in the Koran. The way they treat prisoners – also prescribed and outlined in the Koran.

ISIS does nothing that Mohammed didn’t first do 14 centuries ago.

You see, the problem isn’t a “radical interpretation of Islam,” the problem is the belief in Islam that Mohammed was the “perfect man,” and as such, worthy of emulation in all things.

Until Islam can recognize that their “perfect man” wasn’t perfect (he was a paedophile of the first order), and both did and ordered horrible things to be done – certainly things that have no place in a modern world – then there will always be an ISIS. There will always be those who dedicate their lives to imitating the man who spawned the greatest killing machine in known history…Islam.

Mike Konrad, the pen name of a colleague at American Thinker, has done the math for us in a remarkably cogent piece that deserved far more attention than it received when first published in early 2014.

The President drew a moral equivalence argument at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast between the predation of Islam and the actions of Christians during the Crusades and the Inquisition. The President is not uneducated. He is surely aware of the speciousness of that argument, yet still proffered it as a back-handed justification of the profane brutality of ISIS and other Islamic supremacist groups.

When we think of genocide, the names that spring to mind are Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Of course Mao and his utopian fantasies deserve a place alongside the other luminaries of human devastation; millions suffered and died because of these men.

But, when one looks a bit deeper we discover that when it comes to dealing death, the aforementioned dictators are mere peddlers compared to Islam. People forget that the Islamic conquests began 400 years before the Crusades, which were largely a response to Islamic aggression and the attacks against Christian pilgrims. Pope Urban (picture left) in November of 1095 ordered the First Crusade to reclaim the Holy Land back from the heathens.

      NOTE:  Beginning in the year 1000 and lasting for another 500 years, Islam attempted to depopulate India. They did a remarkably good job of it, as the overall population of the Indian subcontinent (despite very high birth rates) dropped by an estimated 80 million in that period.

Don’t forget that Islam has always been a leader in the trafficking of humans – from the slave trade to present-day prostitution – Muslims have excelled in the sale of their fellows.

Just under 30 million slaves from Africa were held in the Middle East and considering the death rate of slaves in transport (an estimated 80%!) Arab Muslim traders would’ve needed more than a 100 million to have provided the number of slaves we know survived.

While Christianity is forever maligned for forced conversions and bad behavior in Africa, in truth, Muslims performed these atrocities on a scale many orders of magnitude greater, and continued to do so for more than a thousand years.

Of course, we shan’t forget the Islamic slaughter in Sudan, the methodical murder and sexual slavery ongoing in Nigeria or the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by Muslim Turks at the turn of the 20th century.

When Mohammed began his spread of Islam, most of North Africa and all of Europe was Christian. Where are they now? According to the Catholic Education Resource Center, there are no remaining communities of Christians that can trace their roots back to antiquity. Over the span of centuries, this number adds up to millions more dead, at the hands of Islam.

According to Mr. Konrad,

“Possibly one-third to one-half or more of all those killed by war or slavery in history can be traced to Islam.”

The totals boggle the mind. By a conservative estimate, Islam is directly responsible for a quarter of a BILLION dead. Indirectly, hundreds of millions more.

To quote Mr. Konrad,

“Unlike the 20th-century totalitarians whose killing fury consumed themselves, reducing their longevity, Islam paces itself. In the end, though slower, Islam has killed and tortured far more than any other creed – religious or secular. Unlike secular tyranny, Islam, by virtue of its polygamy and sexual predation, reproduces itself and increases.”

Other tyrannies are furious infections, which burn hot, but are soon overcome. Islam is a slow terminal cancer, which metastasizes, and takes over. It never retreats. Its methods are more insidious, often imperceptible at first, driven by demographics. Like cancer, excision may be the only cure.

Mohammed is the “perfect man” of Islam, and as such is the role model for every Muslim. Looking at the horrors perpetrated by Mohammed, it becomes crystal clear that the more devout the Muslim, the more depraved and regressive their behavior.

There is no justification, no moral equivalence to be drawn between the behavior of Christians a thousand years ago, and the behavior of Muslims today. The more salient point is that while the predation of Christianity died away, the worst of Islamic practices are on the rise.

So Mr. President, please focus your attention toward a real problem – Islamic supremacism – the rest of us have the Crusades and the Inquisition under control.

The Way I See It.......Dr. Christian’s anger is righteous and warranted, and if elected leaders in the U.S. do not heed his word, America will become another conquest of an Islamic Caliphate revived.

Because of Muhammad’s example, Muslims have justifiably wiped out 270 million non-Muslims in their endeavors to establish the world Islamic government their prophet viciously commands.
 

ISIS is more than an Ottoman army reborn; it is the last attempt at bringing about the apocalyptic rule written in the Quran, which, like all communistic regimes, comes at the price of millions of innocent lives. In fact, it’s as if ISIS’s every decision is made by carefully consulting the Quran and Hadith beforehand, cautiously avoiding straying from the path of Islam.

Never before has Islam been so successful in jihad than to force Western nations to bow to Sharia law, and that has been and is the goal of Islam’s political ideology since the time of Muhammad. If the greatest Christian nation on earth cannot even call it by name, there is little chance of preventing it from infiltrating our homeland.

 

I Expose the Audacity of Obama's Treasonous Muslim Allegiance !

In the latter stages of his tenure and when he cannot be re-elected anyway, Obama has begun revealing his true anti-American, pro-Islamic colours and boy are they revealing....................

“Christians did some terrible things, too”, he said at this week’s prayer breakfast. “Just look at the Crusades”, he said, when he again tried to defend Islamic atrocities as mere workplace incidents.
If Christianity can be blamed for the Crusades why shouldn’t Islam be blamed for terrorism?
Of course Christianity was responsible for atrocities equal to Islam’s, but Christianity moved into a modern world centuries ago while Islam still practises and promotes its abhorrent past as though scores still need to be settled.

In his prayer breakfast speech, Obama bent over backward to avoid using the word “Islamic” in reference to the terrorists. He will not even call it the “Islamic State,” the name that virtually every U.S. news organization uses. He said that “ISIL” killed in the name of religion. So the Islamic State kills “in the name of religion,” but Christians killed “in the name of Christ”? 

Forget the conspiracy theories, there is now no doubt where Barack Hussein Obama’s faith allegiance lies: “There is no sweeter sound on Earth than the Muslim call to prayer.” “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.” “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.” “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”, he said.

In his book, ‘The Audacity of Hope’, he wrote, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

In childlike denial, he still refuses to identify terrorism with Islam. Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher deli store killings were, according to Obama, “random acts of violence” and “we should not over-react”. 

Within six minutes of being notified of James Foley’s graphic beheading, he was back on the golf course. Yet within minutes of being notified of his beloved Saudi King Abdullah’s death he had cut short his Indian visit so he could be present at his wake. (Saudi Wahhabists were the original creators of the Islamic State, Al Queda and the “student” Taliban.)

Obama gave our enemies the dates and times American troops were to be withdrawn. He is now defining for the enemy where exactly American bombing raids will and won’t be carried out.
Among others he has freed five high-value Afghani terrorists in exchange for one American deserter, Bowe Bergdahl,  who has converted to Islam and is about to face a Court Martial.

He has clearly signalled to the Islamic State that capturing Americans will ensure the release of more Gitmo detainees.

Two million Christians lived in peace under Syria’s Bashar Assad. But Obama sent the CIA to train and arm Sunni Al Qaeda fighters to slaughter those Christians. Obama says he is arming “moderates” but, just like the “moderates” he armed in Benghazi, he knows it is the terrorists who get the arms and they continue to proceed with their genocide of Christians.

NOTE: Obama has recently made arrangements to train and equip those same Syrian rebels in Saudi camps on Saudi soil.

Obama’s so-called “moderate” allies shoot and cannibalise captured American soldiers in cold blood, but this doesn’t stop Obama. He refuses to arm and train Kurdish Peshmergers, the only fighting force with the stomach to put boots on the ground to defeat the ISIS.

He has an overt hatred of Israel and is actively providing vast sums of money in an attempt to destabilise Netanyahu in the upcoming elections. Lately, he has no qualms about openly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood who supports Al Queda. When will Americans make an effort bring him to face charges of treason, starting with impeachment proceedings.

The timetable for American withdrawal from Afghanistan is the same timetable for the Islamic State to join with the Taliban to further it’s caliphate across the Levant. They just wait and watch. While the Benghazi massacre, was "only a reaction to a silly video” said Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The pleas for help from the murdered Americans were ignored as the White House watched a live feed for seven hours while Embassy staff battled for their lives. The order that stopped all rescue efforts (a stand down order) could only have been given by Obama.

Over a year later, Obama has not attempted to find one of those Sunni terrorists.

WHY ?  Well, the reality is that Obama is a Sunni Muslim of the Luo tribe who feigned conversion to electorally palatable Christianity in order fight the good fight from the White House.

Malik Obama, Barack’s brother (photo left) and filthy rich Islamic activist, was best man at Obama and Michelle’s 1992 wedding.

In 2011, Malik’s “Barack H. Obama Foundation,” received quick approval as a charitable foundation. It was illegally backdated to 2008 and personally signed by Lois Lerner, the IRS chief who, under questioning, took the 5th (a legal refusal to answer on the basis it may incriminate the accused). This is the same bitch that was exposed as using IRS to intimidate Tea Party members.

Funds from this “charitable foundation” now support Obama’s brother, Malik's 12 wives in luxury. Malik also owns and manages Sudan’s Islamic "Da’wa Organisation", which finances terrorism throughout northern and central Africa.

According to Judge Tahani al-Gebali of Egypt’s Supreme Court, Malik Obama also oversees the Muslim Brotherhood’s international investments. Judge Gebali claims Obama, through his Egyptian Embassy, bribed Muslim Brotherhood leaders with over $850,000 per year and it claims that Barack Obama himself is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the same mob that slaughtered thousands of Coptic Christians and burned their churches.  Barack Obama uttered not a word in protest. (See my posting exposing M.B. members in the White House - 13 January, 2014 - ''Muslim Brotherhood's Inside the Obama Administration'')

Obama’s close relationship with his brother has continued to this day; completely concealed from the American public. I have about how he was raised in the Muslim faith by his father and attended a Madrass in Indonesia.

He has never denounced Islam therefore he is not an apostate but still an adherent to the Islamic faith. 

Now, we should be prepared to give this bloke the benefit of the doubt when it comes to such serious charges as treason and sedition but the evidence is too stark to ignore anymore. President Barack Obama has even called the terror attack on Jews in a kosher supermarket in Paris last month an act of random violence, rather than a terror attack or an antisemitic attack. His deliberate excuses for any and all Islamic attacks is wearing thin and exposing him to closer scrutiny by the media at last.

In six short years Barack Hussein Obama has extended America’s debt from $8 trillion to $19 trillion (soon to be $21 trillion) has crippled American exports and has opened America’s borders to all comers with promises of fat welfare cheques and citizenship and home-grown jihadist open-season on Americans.

The Way I See It.....it was revealing of the President to give us a biased lopsided history lesson at the Prayer breakfast…  however, the issue right in front of his treasonous nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for rampaging Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today, the Western World needs leadership. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please put your misguided faith aside and deal with the Radical Islamic threat today. Americans demand it!

There's a Dangerous Banality to Obama's Response to EVIL !

On Tuesday the Islamic State released a 22-minute video showing Flight Lieutenant Muath al-Kasasbeh of the Royal Jordanian Air Force being doused in petrol and burned to death. It is an horrific way to die, and Flt Lt al-Kasasbeh showed uncommon bravery, standing stiff and dignified as the flames consumed him. And then he toppled, and the ISIS cameras rolled on, until what was left was charred and shapeless and unrecognizable as human…

President Obama’s response was to go to the National Prayer Breakfast and condescendingly advise us - as if it’s some dazzlingly original observation rather than the lamest faculty-lounge relativist bromide - to “remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ"…

... the President could barely conceal his boredom at having to discuss the immolation of Flt Lt al-Kasasbeh:

"Aaand it, I think, will redouble [pause] the vigilance aaand determination on the part of our global coalition to, uh, make sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated. Ummmm. [Adopting a whimsical look] It also just indicates the degree to which whatever ideology they’re operating off of, it’s bankrupt. [Suppressing a smirk, pivoting to a much more important subject.] We’re here to talk about how to make people healthier and make their lives better.''

The lack of passion - the bloodlessness - of Obama’s reaction to atrocity is always striking. He can’t even be bothered pretending that he means it…

Obama ... declares action, and then does nothing. His war against ISIS was supposed to be one in which the US would not put “boots on the ground”, but instead leave that to our allies. The allies have the boots, but they could use some weapons, too. Obama has failed to supply the Kurds or anybody else with what they need to defeat our enemies. It’s becoming what they call a pattern of behavior. Elliott Abrams draws attention to this passage in a New York Times story about Ukraine:

''The Russians have sent modern T-80 tanks, whose armour cannot be penetrated by Ukraine’s aging and largely inoperative antitank weapons, along with Grad rockets and other heavy weapons. Russian forces have also used electronic jamming equipment to interfere with the Ukrainians’ communications…....it list goes on. 
Ukraine has requested arms and equipment, including ammunition, sniper rifles, mortars, grenade launchers, antitank missiles, armoured personnel carriers, mobile field hospitals, counterbattery radars and reconnaissance drones.''

Hmm. So how much of that shopping list have we responded to? Obama won’t write Ukraine a blank check, but he will write them a blanket check:

The $16.4 million in aid that Mr. Kerry will announce in Kiev is intended to help people trapped by the fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk. The aid will be used to buy basic items like blankets and clothing, along with counseling for traumatized civilians. When Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (left) addressed Congress he said, “Blankets and night-vision goggles are important, but one cannot win a war with blankets!”

With at least another two years of Obama's civilizational retreat to go, we’re gonna need a lot more security blankets, which is good news for whichever Chinese factory makes them.

The West is in retreat, no longer sure if there’s anything worth defending to the death.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich brought this up in a  speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit drew widespread applause as he declared that the battle against radical Islam is about "American survival." Gingrich said he had come to the summit to talk about a subject that is "enormously serious and not political in any normal sense. It's about American survival.''


"Nearly 14 years after 9/11, the United States is losing the war against radical Islamists. And we have to have the courage to confront how badly we are doing in this war."
Noting that the struggle against radical Islam is a "global war," Gingrich told the gathering: "There is one common pattern occurring everywhere across the planet, and this is radical Islamists who hate our civilization are prepared to cut off our heads and are determined to impose their religion by force." Gingrich got a standing ovation when he said to those Islamists: "I have a desire to kill you before you cut off my head."

He went on: "This is a campaign that should be fought with the largest possible number of allies. This is a campaign that should be fought wherever possible by surgically and methodically hunting down these people." The Georgia Republican likened the battle against radical Islamists to the
struggle against communism and the Soviet Union.

One strategy to use in the battle is to drive the radical jihadists off the Internet, he said. He also demanded that Americans who leave the country to wage jihad should lose their passports and be barred from returning to America.

Gingrich again drew enthusiastic applause when he said: "I believe our government lies to us every day about this. We demand the right to defend our civilization."

And looking ahead to the early caucus in Iowa in next year's presidential election, he told Iowans they should demand that "every candidate who comes through here has to answer what they are prepared to do to help defeat radical Islamists."

The Way I See It.....then you hear the interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, and President Obama claiming that 99.9% of Muslims reject radical Islam.

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''But it is absolutely true that I reject a notion that somehow that creates a religious war because the overwhelming majority of Muslims reject that interpretation of Islam. They don't even recognize it as being Islam, and I think that for us to be successful in fighting this scourge, it's very important for us to align ourselves with the 99.9 per cent of Muslims who are looking for the same thing we're looking for--order, peace, prosperity.''

This IDIOT, this Leader of the Free World and smug Islam-Lover obviously hasn't read the facts! Pew Research Center estimates there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world comprising 23% of the global population. It won't be long before 1 out of every 4 people in the entire world is Muslim. Let us for argument's sake take the conservative estimate of 10 - 15% who are Islamists that subscribe to radical Islam. That's 160 million Muslims who believe Sharia law should rule the world and good many of those 160 million are willing to bring this about by force. That is more than the population of the U.K. and France combined and more than of half the U.S. population. It's a critical mass. Those numbers are simply too large for President Obama to dismiss so casually. He's a dangerous Idiot! God Help America !!!

Treason Will Be Obama's Vile Legacy and Impeachment Will Start It !

It would be a mistake to underestimate just how important the Bergdahl story is to the remaining tenure of Barack Obama. The media here didn’t touch the story but early last year I gave it a run suggesting it could in future break Obama in what could fairly be deemed a matter of treason. The time has now come.

Bowe Bergdahl deserted his post and fled to a Taliban encampment. Troops who went to find him were mown down and killed. Photos later emerged (photo right) with Bergdahl and Taliban Leader, Batar' Udin.

The Taliban needed the US to believe Bergdahl was an abused captive because the plan was to use him as a swap for five of the most important Taliban operatives in US custody.

Bergdahl’s father Bob, had converted to Islam and had been tweeting anti-American material and openly promoting Taliban interests. He was clearly instrumental in arranging the swap.
Had Obama asked the military about the status of the five Taliban captives, he would have been told they were marked as, “never to be released”. The five were responsible for no fewer than 1,000 dead American soldiers. But he didn’t ask. He simply used yet another "executive order" to instruct they be released.

The first indication that a traitorous scam was unfolding was that the US had been told Bowe Bergdahl had been kept in an underground cell. He had arrived for the swap rubbing his eyes and continually blinking unconvincingly.

But it was over an hour’s drive to the changeover point, plenty of time for his eyes to have already adjusted to the light. The ruse was becoming clear.

Obama had arranged for the Taliban leaders to be released from Gitmo to Qatar, which supports the Muslim Brotherhood, with assurances Qatari officials would "monitor" them for one year.
The military was furious and flew Bergdahl to a German holding point to interrogate him, denying him any collaborative contact with his father. Incredibly, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, was appearing on various news shows claiming that Bergdahl had served with, “honour and distinction.”

Meanwhile Bowe’s father and Obama were bear hugging each other in the White House Rose Garden in front of curious media, iterating how the US military, “never leaves a soldier behind”. The father was speaking phrases in fluent Arabic and Pashto (the official language of Afghanistan). Still Obama hadn’t realised he was part of the scam.

Or had he?

The Military took months to finalise a report into the incident and sent it to the White House, it has been on Obama’s desk for three months, untouched. The Military knew Obama would object to its findings and would refuse to act on them. So, early this week the Military moved to Court Martial Bergdahl without forewarning Obama who was busy honouring a decomposing Saudi king. But yesterday the Pentagon denied reports that the Military was preparing to Court Martial Bergdahl, stressing the top commander reviewing the case had made no decision yet. Hmmmm.

Other reports suggest the process is already in train and the excreta is about to hit the fan in an open Court disclosing Obama’s and Bob and Bowe Bergdahl’s complicity in a treasonous plot to undermine the security of the United States to the advantage of its enemy, the Taliban .
Intriguing reports you will not read elsewhere from early last year are here:

President Barack Hussein Obama has truly betrayed the American people for the last time and, as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, he has betrayed every dead and serving US soldier.
When greeting the parents of deserter Bowe Bergdahl in the Rose Garden even the Left Press were astonished when Obama smiled knowingly at the father, Robert (he had changed his name to (Abdullah).  Bergdahl’s opening remark: “In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate”.

It was remarkable not so much for what he said, but that he said it in Arabic: “Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim.”

This deadshit tweeted, “I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners. God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, amen!” He tweeted that in Pashto, the principal language of the Taliban.  Obama had again bypassed Congress to release the five Taliban prisoners he described as “low level” in exchange for Abdullah Bergdahl’s son Bowe. But he lied, the five were anything but “low level”.

They were senior Taliban operatives whose files were marked, “should never be released”. 

They included Norullah Noori, the ex-governor of the northern province of Balkh who is accused of taking part in the 1998 massacre of thousands of people and also wanted by the United Nations for war crimes.

The others include Khairullah Khairkhwa, the Taliban Interior Minister, Mohammad Fazl, a former military commander with a ruthless reputation for beheadings, Abdul Haq Wasiq, deputy head of the Taliban intelligence service, and chief operator Mohammad Nabi who, with two others, is a 1994 founder of the Sharia imbued Taliban movement.

According to Gitmo files, all five were originally targeted by the Military as “high value” operatives who were responsible, either indirectly or directly, for the deaths of at least one thousand US soldiers.

Bahara Jan Bahar, a Kabul woman who actively resists the Taliban said yesterday, “The release of the five has dealt a severe psychological blow to my people after years of fighting the Taliban.”

Jan Bahar may well spare a thought for the US soldiers who risked their lives to capture those five terrorists and for those six (some say 14) soldiers who were mown down trying to find Bergdahl.
Parents of the six dead soldiers received a pro-forma letter of condolence from Obama. But you can only imagine how those parents felt watching Obama’s White House reception for the parents of the man their sons died trying to "rescue".

In the embracing arms of Obama they left the Rose Garden knowing full well their son had deserted to the other side to assist the Taliban and then feigned capture to cleverly gain the release of
the Gitmo Five, now known as the Taliban's Dream Team. Thank God those six dead soldiers didn’t live to see Bowe Bergdahl feted as a returned captive hero by the Obama Administration.

Bowe, who said he was ashamed to be an American, had left his firearm and deserted his post taking only a water bottle and a compass. It had taken him a reported three hours to find the Taliban encampment he was searching for.

Children of the Taliban had rushed to greet him indicating a pre-arranged meeting. (Bowe’s father Abdullah is in constant touch with the Taliban speaking, typing and tweeting in Arabic.)
The Taliban then waited for six of Bowe’s platoon members who had set out to “rescue” him. They

promptly killed all six while Bowe watched.

Bowe immediately converted to Islam and regularly took part in Taliban training exercises firing his own gun given him by his “captors”. American deaths from Taliban IEDs soon doubled... Bowe had disclosed information the Taliban wanted. After three years of fun and games with the “enemy” Bowe agreed to play the role of captive to enable negotiations to begin for the release of the Taliban heroes from Gitmo.

The US Defence Intelligence Agency could have provided Obama with details of who was sleeping with the enemy, but they weren’t asked. If they had been, it would have ruined Obama’s plans.

The five terrorists are now in the “safe keeping” of Qatar for one year before they can recommence killing Americans. But few trust Qatar, particularly after its involvement with FIFA and its fraudulent acquisition of the 2022 World Cup.

The Way I See It.....there is little doubt Bowe Bergdahl and his Islamic father acted in concert with the Taliban to obtain the release of five "high level" terrorists. There is no doubt that Bowe was a Taliban collaborator.

Obama is bathing in the glory of “never leaving a soldier behind” but that false claim is about to backfire as the Military, the Democrats, the Republicans and most Americans start to see their Islam-sympathising President in a different light. What were formerly fluid conspiracy theories are starting to gel. Let's hope it comes sooner than later.

France is at the Coalface of a Developing Eurarabia !

The American cable television channel Fox News has been profusely apologising for referring to Muslim areas in Europe as “no-go zones'' after radical Left Paris Mayor, Anne Hidalgo, (pictured) threatened to sue the network. Who's kidding who here Ms Hidalgo ???

US journalists rarely research stuff outside America, preferring to rely on foreign news feeds, but this is one time they got it right... it’s the apology that is all wrong.

Muslim “no-go zones” are a well-known fact of life in many parts of Europe and the Charlie Hebdo killings accidentally cast a global spotlight on these no-go zones in France and other European countries. Even Sweden has had it's Welcome Mat shit on by Muslim filth taking over Malmo and has the despicable distinction of having the 2nd highest number of rapes (mainly Swedish girls) after Nigeria by Muslim immigrants!

These zones are indeed “off limits” to non-Muslims. Host-country authorities have effectively lost control over most no-go zones and are unable or unwilling to provide even basic public services, such as police, fire fighting and ambulances out of fear of being attacked by Muslim youths.

And if Australians think this is not on the Islamic agenda here in Australia, then they must be paid-up members of the Green Party and are proud of having shit-for-brains!

Of course the Left vehemently denies that these zones exist. Some are now engaged in a concerted campaign to discredit and even silence those who draw attention to the worsening issue.

Literally thousands of researched references and videos showing French no-go zones where Police hastily retreat from in fear for their lives, leave no doubt that the treasonous problem exists and persists. And there are plenty of French networks Mayor Hidalgo could sue rather than bother with Fox News. Here are a few shocking examples:

Fabrice Balanche, a well-known French Islamic scholar who teaches at the University of Lyon, recently told Radio Télévision Suisse: "We have territories in France such as Roubaix, such as northern Marseille, where Police will not step foot, where the authority of the State is completely absent and where mini Islamic states have been formed."

French writer and political journalist Éric Zemmour (photo below left) recently told BFM TV: "There are places in France today, especially in the suburbs, where it is not really in France. “Salafi” (the PC word for ratbag Jihadist) Islamists are Islamising neighbourhoods and many suburbs. In these neighbourhoods, it's not France, it's an Islamic republic."

French politician Franck Guiot wrote that parts of Évry, a township in the southern suburbs of Paris, are no-go zones where police forces cannot go for fear of being attacked. He said that politicians seeking to maintain "social peace" were prohibiting the police from carrying weapons to defend themselves.

Even the Socialist mayor of Amiens, Gilles Demailly, has referred to the Fafet-Brossolette district of Paris as a "no-go zone" where, "you can no longer order a pizza or get a doctor to come to the house."

Europe 1, a leading broadcasters in France, has referred to Marseille as a "no-go zone" after the government was forced to deploy riot police, known as CRS, to confront warring Muslim gangs in the city. The French Interior Ministry said it was trying to "reclaim" 184 square kilometers of Marseille that have come under the control of Muslim law. Disgusting!

The French newspaper Le Figaro referred to downtown Perpignan as a "veritable no-go zone" where "aggression, antisocial behavior, drug trafficking, Muslim communalism, racial tension and tribal violence" are forcing non-Muslims to move out. Le Figaro also reported that the Les Izards district of Toulouse was also a no-go zone, where Arab drug trafficking gangs rule the streets in a climate of fear.

Separately, Le Figaro reported that large quantities of assault rifles are circulating in French no-go zones. "For a few hundred dollars you can buy Kalashnikovs," political scientist Sebastian Roché said, for "the price of an iPhone!"

The newspaper France Soir published poll results showing that 60% of French citizens are now in favor of deploying the army into troubled suburbs to restore order and root them out; dead or alive!.

The newspaper Le Parisien has called parts of Grigny, a township in the southern suburbs of Paris, a "lawless zone" plagued by well-organized Muslim gangs, whose scumbag members believe they are "masters of the world."

The weekly news magazine Le Point reported on the "spiralling Muslim lawlessness" in the French city of Grenoble. While the French magazine L'Obs has reported on the deteriorating security situation in Roubaix, a city in northern France that is located close to the Belgian border. The magazine reported that local citizens are "exiled within their own country" and want to create their own militia to restore order because police are too afraid to confront Muslim gangs. Pathetic !

In August 2014, the French magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Contemporary Values) reported that "France has more than 750 areas of lawlessness" where the law of the French Republic no longer applies. Under the headline "Hell in France," the magazine said that many parts of France are experiencing a "dictatorship of Islamic riffraff" where police are "greeted by mortar fire" and are "forced to retreat amid flying projectiles."

Separately, Valeurs Actuelles reported on the lawlessness in Trappes, a township located in the western suburbs of Paris, where radical Islam and endemic crime go hand in hand. "Criminals are pursued by Islamic fundamentalists to impose an alternative society, breaking links with the French Republic," according to local police commander Mohammed Duhan. It is not advisable to go there, he says, adding, "You will be spotted by so-called chauffeurs (lookouts for drug traffickers) and be
stripped and beaten."

Valeurs Actuelles has also reported on no-go zones in Nantes, Tours and Orléans, which have turned into "battlefields" where remaining native French holdouts are confronted with "Muslim communalism, the disappearance of their culture and rampant crime."

The Way I See It.....Muslim enclaves in European cities are breeding Islamic drug syndicates that operate openly without fear of apprehension and Islamic radicalism thrives posing a serious threat to Western security.

Europe's ''no-go ghettos'' are the by-product of decades of the stupid multicultural policies that have encouraged Muslim immigrants to create parallel societies that remain segregated from, rather than become integrated into, their European host nations.

No, no, Mayor Hidalgo, the French resistance does not abide at the craven Fox News... it’s right outside your own bloody door!

Global Warming and the Not-So ''SETTLED'' Science !

Professor John R. Christy, atmospheric scientist at Alabama University wants to know......

''Why do we argue about climate change?''
 

The reason there is so much contention regarding “global warming” is relatively simple to understand: In climate change science we basically cannot prove anything about how the climate will change as a result of adding extra greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. So we are left to argue about unprovable claims.
 

We can measure and prove that greenhouse gases are increasing. And, in the laboratory, we can measure and prove that adding greenhouse gases to a jar of air will lead to further warming. But when it comes to how the actual climate system might respond to extra greenhouse gases, we’re out of luck in terms of “proof” because the climate’s complexities are innumerable and poorly understood.
 

Climate science is a murky science. When dealing with temperature variations and trends, we do not have an instrument that tells us how much change is due to humans and how much to Mother Nature. Measuring the temperature change over long time periods is difficult enough, but we do not have a thermometer that says why these changes occur. We cannot appeal to direct evidence for the cause of change, so we argue.
 

The real climate system is so massively complex we do not have the ability to test global-size theories in a laboratory. Without this ability, we tend to travel all sorts of other avenues to confirm what are essentially our unprovable views about climate. These avenues tend to comfort our souls because we crave certainty over ambiguity. It is a fundamental characteristic of the scientific method and, therefore, of the confidence we have in our theories, that when we finally understand a system, we are able to predict its behavior.
 

One avenue of inquiry is computer simulation. If a system’s important details can be represented properly in a computer model, predictions can be accurate and therefore valuable. My local supermarket can predict with great skill what I am going to buy, thanks to the information-gathering system now utilized and my boring eating habits. Unfortunately, even the most advanced set of climate-model simulations does not deliver much in the way of certainty.
 

For example, I analyzed the tropical atmospheric temperature change in 102 of the latest climate-model simulations covering the past 35 years. The temperature of this region is a key target variable because it is tied directly to the response to extra greenhouse gases in models. If greenhouse gases are warming the Earth, this is the first place to look. Professor  Richard S. Lindzen, (photo left) of the department of Atmospheric Studies at MIT states, ''What our team has seen is that climate is more-than-likely insensitive to increases in greenhouse gases, and that there is little reason to suppose that a warmer world will be characterized by more storminess and extremes though both are part of normal weather variability.''

 

All 102 model runs overshot the actual temperature change on average by a factor of three. Not only does this tell us we don’t have a good grasp on the way climate varies, but the fact that all simulations overcooked the atmosphere means there is probably a warm bias built into the basic theory — the same theory we’ve been told is “settled science.” To me, being off by a factor of three doesn’t qualify as “settled.”
 

As important as models can be for problems like this, it is clear we have a long way to go. And it is troubling that current policy is being based on these computer models, none of which has been validated by a formalized, independent Red Team analysis. (Congress, EPA: Are you listening?)
 

Others might look to certain climate anomalies and convince themselves that humans are the cause. I often hear claims that extreme weather is getting worse. Now, here we do have direct evidence to check. Whether it’s tornadoes (no change over the past 60 years), hurricanes (no changes over the past 120 years) or droughts and heat waves (not as bad as they were during the past 1,000 years), the evidence doesn’t support those claims. So, we argue.
 

Without direct evidence and with poor model predictability, what other avenues are available to us? This is where things get messy because we are humans, and humans tend to select those avenues that confirm their biases. (It seems to me that the less direct evidence there is for a position, the more passion is applied and the more certainty is claimed.)
 

One avenue many folks tend to latch onto is the self-selected “authority.” Once selected, this “authority” does the thinking for them, not realizing that this “authority” doesn’t have any more direct evidence than they do.  It's the old adage; the blind leading the blind.
 

Other avenues follow a different path: Without direct evidence, folks start with their core beliefs (be they political, social or religious) and extrapolate an answer to climate change from there. That’s scary.
 

Then, there is that time-honored, media-approved, headline-grabbing source of truth — the opinion poll. The poll can be of scientists, nonscientists, the man on the street, anyone with a smartphone or groundhogs. If no one (not even an esteemed scientific organization) has direct evidence to substantiate any claim of the impact of greenhouse gases on climate, what would an opinion poll provide besides entertainment or (worse) justification for one’s agenda?
 

This polling tack is relatively clever. Without direct evidence to prove or refute the claims of a climate poll, the poll becomes the popular avenue for supporting whatever claims are being made. With enough attention, a poll’s climate claim morphs into “settled science.” So we argue even more.
 

Finally, what to do about climate change is not a scientific question; it is a moral question: Is there value in enhancing the quality and length of human life? If one believes greenhouse gases will cause terrible climate problems, then stopping their release from sources of carbon-burning energy means energy costs will skyrocket. However, the length and quality of human life is directly proportional to the availability of affordable energy, which today is about 85 percent carbon-based. The truth is, carbon emissions will continue to rise no matter what the U.S. does, because most of the world has already answered the real question — that argument is settled.
 

The Way I See It....we should study new sources of energy. Absolutely. And when they become safe and affordable, they could be ready for deployment. Until then, I’d rather see the next generation have the opportunity to accumulate wealth, enabled by affordable energy, rather than be made poorer and thus less able to face whatever vagaries the world and the climate might throw at them in the future.

Globally, renewables investment has reached $360 billion annually while the foolish EU says it will allocate 20 per cent of its already stretched budget to climate related spending. All this based on a naïve modelling of the atmosphere, ignoring the sun's influence, that emphasizes water vapour's influence by enhanced levels of carbon dioxide.
 

''This is much more than a murky scientific issue and why the stakes, and thus passions, can be so high — and why we argue,'' concludes Christy.
 

Note: John R. Christy is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Alabama state climatologist. Readers may write to him at christy@nsstc.uah.edu. He wrote this for The (Fredericksburg, Va.) Free Lance-Star.