Too Late Gutless Barry.......Iraq is Gone !!

A report that the Administration knew of the proposed onslaught by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as long ago as three years is like water of a duck’s back to Obama who has nonchalantly surrendered and vacated America’s role as the world’s hotspot moderator.

Secretary of State, John Kerry is touring the ruins (or “setbacks” as the Administration calls them)  like he’s on vacation. Netanyahu has been thrown to the wolves, the idiot Pope is in bed with the PLO, Putin is licking his lips and there’s a second coming of the Taliban all because Barry clearly has no stomach for military action when it comes to Islam.

Nations like China, Russia, Iran and a patchwork of Islamic militant organisations are jostling to fill the breach with oddball alliances and America is actually toying with four years of an horrific Hillary.

Bloody hell, that sort of bleak forecast makes you want to stay in bed and pull the covers over your head!

After the relative success of “the surge” the Middle-East was containable, Bin Laden was dead, Al Queda leadership had splintered, the Taliban were asleep, ISIS was unheard of and a nuclear deal was possible with Iran. But after only three years of the US Administration’s ineptitude the whole of Syria and Iraq is ablaze, Europe is awash with a million refugees and a Middle-East nuclear war is bubbling in the background.

Obama’s love affair with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood along with his entire foreign policy is in tatters... he has gifted our traditional enemies a new lease on life.

The ISIS is now on the outskirts of Baghdad and no prizes for guessing why it is rampaging eastward from Ramadi and not from the north... Baghdad’s international airport is on the east of the capital and once that’s taken, it’s goodnight Irene, even for a city the size of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane combined.

The greatest military force in the world has allowed an insoluble mess to evolve unabated. The Aussie a’hem, “advisers” should come home right now, there is no point in being there. Australian pilots have been refuelling US fighters mid-air but there are no targets left as the ISIS fighters dissolve into Iraqi cities where the Shia military either drop their guns and run or stay put, pretend to be Sunni, and throw out the welcome mat.

US sorties are down to a paltry 10 per day, most returning with their bombs intact.

It’s easier to push a camel through the eye of a needle than to teach an Iraqi to fight. They never will fight because historically they have always waited to see who has the military ascendency before simply joining them. That’s how Saddam Hussein ruled as a Sunni and he at least prevented Iraq from imploding. Iraqis have no allegiance to anyone other than to who’s winning.

Only Syria, Iran and the Kurdish Peshmerga (photo below) in the north are left to confront the ISIS on the ground, other Arab States already realise they can never win fighting door to door in a guerrilla war where you can’t even identify who the enemy is.

But here’s the main problem; Russia is supplying Syria’s military while Turkey is giving the ISIS  economic support. Turkey wants the  Kurds and Yazidis eradicated while Iran wants a nuclear presence because, after a ten-year war with Saddam Hussein and decades of sanctions, its weaponry consists of hopeless home-made helicopters and inoperable tanks.

The air fight in Iraq is over, despite Russia having provided the al Abadi Shia Government with 40 helicopter gunships, Su-25 combat jets, air defence missiles and other weapons. We are on one side while Putin, Syria and Iran are on the other, leaving Iraq to breathlessly beg for assistance from anyone.

Meanwhile John Kerry tries to broker a farcical nuclear deal with Iran (a deal that actually allows them the bomb) while at the same time claiming the ISIS is on the back foot. On the back foot? They have already won for Christ’s sake!

The US refuses to arm the Kurds and has been training ISIS jihadists to defeat Syria’s Assad but instead the Sunni ISIS predictably turned on Obama’s Shia puppet Iraqi Government and of course Obama refuses to assist Iran or Syria in repelling them.

Either Obama is the most incompetent Commander-in-Chief in US history or he knows full well his puppet Shia Government of al Abadi is destined to fail in preventing a total Caliphate over Syria and Iraq... no, he’s not that smart.

The US under Obama has been embarrassingly thrashed by a militia in utes that has no country, no air force and no naval capacity.

The time for boots on the ground seems long gone. There was no leadership when it was needed. Obama is now content to let this genocide play out and is prepared to geographically let Europe suffer hordes of unprocessed Jihadist insurgents embedded within a genuine tsunami of civilian refugees.

The Way I See It.....meanwhile Al Queda remains a real threat... it was reborn as the Khorosan in Syria’s north and has since spread as far as the Arabian peninsula and to northern, eastern and even central and western Africa but neither Al Queda nor Obama will cop Muslims killing Muslims.

So Al Queda remains totally preoccupied only with destroying the West, while the ISIS is intent on completing its Caliphate across the Levant. But once that Caliphate is established the canny ISIS will doubtless turn its venom on the West.

Barack Obama is either a complete dickhead or a devoted Muslim... or both.

Obama's Middle East Policy (Based on Lies) in Flames !

SECRET documents obtained via freedom of information requests reveal the US military predicted the rise of IS well before the group began making headlines around the world.
 
Over a 100 pages of classified reports from the Department of Defence and the State Department obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch paint a starkly different picture to what the Obama administration had previously portrayed to the public.
 
Among the documents is an August 2012 report containing military intel which predicted the rise of the Islamic State in the wake of regime change in Syria.

“This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI (al-Qaeda in Iraq) to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi,” the document states.

ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organisations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory.

The intelligence is largely at odds with comments made by President Obama in a 60 Minutes interview in September last year… “I think they (US intelligence operatives) had underestimated what had been going on in Syria,” he said while also suggesting his administration over-estimated the strength of Iraqi government forces.

More leaks suggesting the same disastrous MO with Benghazi - Obama refusing to tell the truth about terrorists, presumably to avoid having to do something about them:

Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained more than 100 pages of previously classified “Secret” documents from the Department of Defense (DOD)and the Department of State revealing that DOD almost immediately reported that the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was committed by the al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood-linked ''Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman'' (BCOAR), and had been planned at least 10 days in advance

The White House instead pretended the deadly attack on the consulate was just a demonstration against an anti-Islam YouTube clip that had got out of hand.

These documents are jaw-dropping. No wonder it took multiple law suits over two years to release them.  If the American people had known the truth – that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaeda terrorist attack from the get-go – and yet lied and covered this fact up – Mitt Romney might very well be president.

And why would the Obama administration continue to support the Muslim Brotherhood even after it knew it was tied to the Benghazi terrorist attack and to al Qaeda? ''These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war – and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists,” stated Tom Fitton, (photo left) Judicial Watch president.  “These documents show that the Benghazi cover-up has continued for years and is only unraveling through our independent lawsuits. The Benghazi scandal just got a whole lot worse for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”       

The Way I See It.....

The “sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq” that Barack Obama and Joe Biden hailed as one of Obama’s “great achievements” in 2014 has regressed into chaos as a result of Obama’s premature withdrawal of American troops. 

But it isn’t just Iraq. Syria is the closest thing to Hell on Earth. Iran is working away on nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Yemen has fallen to Iran’s proxies. Saudi Arabia is looking for nuclear weapons to counter Iran’s. 

ISIS occupies an area the size of Great Britain. Libya, its dictator having been gratuitously overthrown by feckless Western governments that had no plan for what would follow, is a failed state and terrorist playground. Some of the “dire consequences” are blacked out in the report, but the Defence Intelligence Agency presciently warned one such consequence would be the “renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi Arena.”

Putin's Collection of Scumbags Shows Us the New Anti-West Club !

What a telling collection of leaders helped Vladimir Putin bombastically celebrate VE day with lots of threatening military weapons.  Most Western leaders stayed away in protest at Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, but no end of dictators and authoritarians attended:

President Xi Jinping of China took pride of place next to Vladimir Putin of Russia on Saturday… Once again, the Russia-China axis is the main threat to the West’s vision of peaceful and prosperous international relations.

The line-up of leaders alongside the two men was a walking representation of a new anti-American alliance that has formed bit by bit since the invasion of Iraq demonstrated the frightening ease with which Washington could destroy hostile leaders far away.   Alongside Mr Xi were Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Raúl Castro of Cuba, Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela: standouts against what Mr Putin called a unipolar world, his code phrase for the spread of western-style democracy.

At first sight, things look very different now. When President Xi Jinping of China took his special place next to Vladimir Putin of Russia on Saturday, they looked like any other modern world leaders: pragmatic men-in-suits, full of smiles, temporary possessors of power rather than dictators-for-life.

Back in 1949, when Chairman Mao Tse-tung paid his first visit to Moscow to celebrate Comrade Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday, it was a paean of old-school Communism. Children in Young Pioneer uniforms paraded through the Bolshoi Opera House telling of their ambition to become tractor drivers. Mao wore a "Mao suit" and Stalin a military uniform. Both men looked grumpy.

 But the two events, six decades apart, have a clear parallel. Once again, the Russia-China axis is the main threat to the West's vision of peaceful and prosperous international relations.

In itself, there isn't much new to this. China has been railing against a "unipolar world" for a decade. Mr Putin and his allies all have their reasons for disliking the West's tendency to set a high store on open elections, a free press and "cooperative" foreign policies. What is stark is that Russia and China are now openly stating their intention to stand together to lead such an alliance.

The history is a patchy one. In 1949, Mao felt snubbed by Stalin, who regarded him as just another leader of a Soviet-backed Communist satellite rather than an equal. Mao's subsequent falling-out with Stalin's successors led to the US-China rapprochement following President Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972. The new détente helped defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

Twenty years ago, when both Presidents Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin of China stood alongside Boris Yeltsin at the 1995 Moscow Victory Day parade, the power relations were self-evident.


Moscow Victory Day Parade 1995

A self-confident America knew that Russia was no longer a threat, while China was dependent for its economic growth on American spending power and investment.

Yesterday in Moscow there was no America – something Washington may come to regret – and there was no doubt whose smile was most confident.

Mr Xi finds himself in a diplomatic sweet spot. It is Mr Putin who gets the flak for standing up to NATO in Ukraine, for supporting the Assad regime in Syria, for threatening to sell air defence systems to Iran.

The Way I See It.......China who is the ultimate winner, as America's attention is diverted from Beijing's expansion across the South China Sea.   China is openly developing a naval strategy aimed at challenging American dominance of the western Pacific, including in the waters around Japan and Taiwan.

Unlike Chairman Mao, Mr Xi is happy to be seen to play second fiddle on the podium in Moscow. With China now the rising power, he has no doubt as to where the balance of power will lie between China and Russia in years to come. Shows of Russian strength like yesterday's serve his interests, as much as Mr Putin's.

He Not Only TWEAKS The Graphs, But a FEW NIPPLES Too !

As reported here last year, be prepared for an IPCC barrage of climate misinformation as the pivotal Paris global warming conference draws near. From the ridiculous report that walruses were being forced to mate on rocky foreshores to the Himalayas becoming bereft of snow it’s been a mix of incompetence and outright lies from the IPCC.

And now the UN is threatening to declare Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in danger and that it risks being delisted from its World Heritage status.

All this bullshit from none other than IPCC Chairman, the ''uglier than thou'' Indian railway worker, Rajendra Pachauri (pictured) who has just resigned following allegations of sexual harassment.

Australia is in the UN’s crosshairs because Tony Abbott is seen as a warming "denier" but, instead of telling the UN to get stuffed, Abbott decided to kick in another $100 million to prop up our expensive James Cook University marine biologists who are addicted to floating around our healthy reefs trying to find something wrong.

Jon Brodie, chief research scientist at TropWater, the infamously green  water quality research unit attached to the James Cook University, said, “The money announced is nowhere near enough to do what is required to protect the reef."  We should actually protect the reef from marine post-graduate Lefties, which allows more snouts in the government trough.

Without a perceived reef problem these marine leeches have no jobs, so their role in life is to concoct problems that have never actually existed. “Problems” like water quality and the Crown of Thorns starfish.

The reef has survived run-offs from a thousand waterways for a billion years, it has also withstood cyclical attacks from the Crown of Thorns starfish and the most identifiable of reef fish, the Parrot varieties, that also eat coral turning it into fine sand. Not to mention the regular cyclones that
mercilessly batter the reef.

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

Without these so-called “threats” our reefs would no longer exist. Old coral is destroyed to make way for new strains in the same way our bush is re-invigorated by fire to allow for new growth.
Green gophers cite possible “extinction of a species” as a weapon in fighting for further increases in their budgets.

The mere suggestion that our reefs could be healthy is monetary sacrilege to a Green gopher!

The truth is that 99 per cent of all species that ever lived in the sea or on land have already become extinct, and have made way for more adaptable, stronger species... I think it's called survival of the fittest, or evolution or something like that.

The UN’s IPCC alarmist fraudsters are beating the same drum... if you can put fear into the hearts of the simple minded who care about things like reefs, there’s a veritable fortune to be made in carbon credits, with the IPCC copping a cool 10 per cent of all carbon taxes levied by compliant Left governments.

The fact is the plant food C02 produced by man has almost no effect on the Earth’s temperature. Both polar caps are increasing and Europe and North America have experienced five years of record low

temperatures. It's undeniable when you see the blizzards on your TV the past few years.

To suggest the contribution of man-made C02 is anything more than piddling when compared to that of the oceans, the Sun and volcanoes, is crazy! But there you go, the IPCC’s warming conference is to be held in Paris in December this year. How crazy is that when Europe will be copping its sixth consecutive year of record freezing temperatures? So who are the Real Deniers ?

The Way I See It.......it would be wonderful if the IPCC’s dishonest forecasts were even remotely correct because the reality is that warming produces fertility with massive increases in food production, employment and third-world prosperity.  It’s the cold that kills. When are people going to wake up, speak up and give up supporting this massive hoax?

More than 100 of the world’s leading scientists, theologians, academics and commentators have written an open letter to Pope Francis urging him not to join the climate hysterics in their war on the fossil fuels that power the planet. Their plea is a simple but powerful one: if we cut back on the use of especially coal for electricity, we would directly condemn tens of millions of people to death; and at best, lock hundreds of millions of the poor — of the developed world as much as of the developing world — into endless poverty and misery.

The letter is specifically directed at Pope Francis as unquestionably the world’s most important spiritual and moral leader. It builds its plea to him on theological grounds, commending him “for your care for the earth and God’s children, especially the poor”.

But its argument is based on a hard-nosed rational assessment of the facts. These are broadly two: the facts — actually the failures — of the global warming thesis/hysteria; and the undeniable, utterly irreplaceable global use of coal, gas and oil.

Borg Lomborg vs The Enemies of Reason !

The massive stink over Bjorn Lomborg being given Australian government funding to set up a climate-change centre at the University of Western Australia (UWA) shows that the spirit of McCarthyism lives on. Only now, its targets aren’t Reds, but anti-greens: anyone who dares to criticise either the science — sorry, The Science — or the politics of climate change.

Lomborg is the Danish-born author of the best selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001). He’s the rattler of greens across the globe with his claims that climate change is not the biggest problem facing humanity, and to the extent that it is a problem we should develop our way out of it rather than cutting back on fossil-fuel use and forcing everyone to live ‘sustainable lives’, which is only fancy code for eco-
friendly poverty. 

But even by the standards of denier-denouncing environmentalists, the fury over Lomborg heading Down Under has been intense — and revealing.

The Australia Guardian questions the fitness of Lomborg for university life. Green-leaning writers demand the Oz government ‘pull the plug’ on the Lomborg centre, outraged that it might argue that climate change should be ‘placed well down [the] list of global priorities’. At the UWA itself, academics and students held a meeting ... at which there was ‘riotous applause’ when staff called for UWA to ‘end [its] deal with the climate-change contrarian’.... The UWA Student Guild joined with their professors to demand that UWA refuse to ‘engage controversial climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg’, on the basis that having him on campus would ‘harm UWA’s world-class reputation’. No, you've done that yourselves already you idiots! (editor's note)

There’s also a palpable religious feel to the denunciations. That student-started petition calling for Lomborg to be kept off campus demands that this be done ‘In the name of science’. Once we had ‘In the name of the Lord’, now we have ‘In the name of science’. It reeks with a kind of religious dogma, coated with stupidity.

The terminology used to denounce those who question climate change, particularly ‘DENIER’, brings to mind dark, intolerant episodes from history when anyone who called into question the truth of the Bible or the authority of the Church was likewise hounded out of universities (think John Wycliffe, expelled from Oxford in 1382 for riling church elders)

University of Western Australia campus 

As the UWA Student Guild said, ‘While Dr Lomborg doesn’t refute climate change itself’, he does have a ‘controversial track record [as a] climate contrarian’. And we can’t have controversy on a campus, can we? This scandal exposes the true intolerance of the eco-lobby, their real censorious urge — which is not merely to ringfence science from ridicule, which is bad enough, but to prevent the expression of contrarian ideas.

For academics whose world view is predicated on the unchallenged orthodoxy of left-wing thought, the arrival of a dissenter, no matter how mild mannered, seems to induce panic.

Despite his track record of book and journal publications, [Lomborg’s] impact as a public intellectual, and his collaboration with Nobel laureates, some Australian academics are claiming he lacks the requisite qualifications to lead a policy centre.
 
In the absence of policy expertise, the anti-Lomborg camp is clinging to a single measure of academic performance known as the h-index ... [which] measures the number of articles an academic has published in peer-reviewed texts and the number of times they are cited by fellow academics. The reason Lomborg’s academic detractors favour the h-index is likely because it favours them.  Lomborg’s ­appointment should be subjected to “independent peer review”, chime the peers, apparently unaware of the irony.

Peer review, like the derivative h-index, is a process regulated by humanities academics whose

Warmist Professor Thomas Wernberg

­careers are built on toeing the leftist party line. From the time they are postgraduate students, aspiring humanities academics learn the importance of ideological conformity. Academic supervisors routinely advise post-graduates to find journals and peers who share their ideological position to increase their chance of publication success.

Journal editorial boards, like the faculties from which they are drawn, are predominantly left-wing.. Without ideological conformity, humanities students stand little chance of publishing in peer-reviewed journals. The second element of the h-index, academic citations, also are subject to political considerations in the humanities. Academics cite peers with whom they enjoy political accord and the favour is often returned in an informal quid pro quo arrangement. The reverse tactic, ostracism, is reserved for dissenters. Refusing to cite a dissenter such as Lomborg is the fastest way to disappear them permanently from the academic landscape, where publish or perish remains the rule of law. One of the Leftist  academic dissenters is a marine biologist in photo on right above.

The Way I See It.....these totalitarians are not in fact attacking Lomborg for criticising the science. They are criticising him for actually citing the science. Lomborg notes that the science tells us there has been a pause in the warming. Lomborg notes the science that reveals the warming pause isn’t what was predicted by warmists.

Lomborg notes the science that shows many disasters once predicted - more cyclones, for instance - have not eventuated. Lomborg notes the science that shows the schemes to cut our emissions involve spending trillions of dollars to make virtually no noticable or meaningful difference to the temperature.

Lomborg respects the science. His critics do not. The anti-Lomborg lobby hates the science and hates those who question not the science but the warming faith. They are enemies of reason and of freedom.

UPDATE:    The University of Western Australia’s has caved-in and decided to reject Bjorn Lomborg’s Australian Consensus Centre. This is disturbing for its validation of a culture of soft censorship where free thought is punished. Where Leftist groupthink is viciously enforced. It is strange, Lomborg should be a poster boy for Leftist academics. He is gay, handsome, articulate and informal, often teaching in a T-shirt.
 
It’s hard to think of a more anti-intellectual act to promote wilful ignorance about contemporary public policy challenges. Since there was no consensus to seek consensus, it was better to let ignorance flourish than for the merest shard of knowledge to creep in.  It's a disgrace !

A friend of mine recently joked: what’s the opposite of diversity? UWA just proved the answer: university.

It's Time for Black Ameriica to Blame Black America !

Where are the black fathers in Baltimore? They don‘t exist. I saw black mothers in the streets. I saw black male teens. But no black fathers trying to keep their kids off the streets and away from violence.
 

Where is Barack Obama? Our nation’s first black president has been silent as blacks tear apart a major America city. He’s quick to weigh in and assign blame every time one black kid gets shot by a white cop. But not a word on the day thousands of blacks rampage and terrorize a city? Not a word ever about black-on-black crime? As of last Tuesday, after most of the damage has been done, Obama finally  issued a statement condemning the violence. A day late, a dollar short and still no interest in “boots on the ground” to calm the crisis.
 

Where is the black mayor of Baltimore?  Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake clearly ordered police to stand down, make no arrests and stop no crimes while her city was being destroyed, while the businesses she is sworn to protect were being looted and burned. She clearly said days before the riots went ballistic that she wanted to create a “space for those who want to destroy.” Then she blamed the media for merely repeating her words verbatim. She finally got serious and called the rioters ''thugs'' and was roundly criticized for not realizing the word now is racist code for black bastards. She quickly back flipped and labelled them  ''misguided young people.''
 

Where are the black leaders? Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Like Obama, his BFF Sharpton appears to be weighing in a day late and a dollar short too. He’s arranging a meeting of community leaders. Once there he’ll undoubtedly place the majority of the blame on “police violence” against black citizens of Baltimore. But blaming black citizens for the violence and
damage? Asking black citizens who committed crimes to take personal responsibility? It will never happen. I could write Sharpton’s script.

How about the war on poverty? How’s that worked out for black America? The longest and most expensive war in American history has been in place since President Lyndon B. Johnson and inner cities like Baltimore look exactly the same. Same poverty. Same hopelessness. Same anger and violence. Same rioting and blame and excuses. After $22 trillion has been spent – more, by far, than all the wars in the history of America combined, the results are … nothing.
 

I hear plenty of excuses from black America. I hear they feel powerless. Really? With a black president, the first black attorney general, another black (female) attorney general, a black mayor of Baltimore and a black city council? All that and you still feel powerless?  How has having the first black president helped black America? With black unemployment double that of whites, who is to blame?
 

I heard ultra-liberal, progressive activist and lesbian lawyer (and so pathetically Politically Correct) CNN analyst Sally Kohn blame white America today. She wished white America would be half as outraged over “police violence” as they are over the riots.
 

Well I have a message for Sally Kohn: 

I wish black Americans would be half as outraged over black-on-black violence, black-on-black murders, black gangs, black drug dealers, black looting, black burning of black small businesses and black rioting as they are about one white cop killing one black kid.
 

And one more thought for Sally and liberals like her: 

What has 50 years of black rule, liberal welfare and entitlement policies, excuses and blame towards white people done for black Americans in inner cities like Baltimore and Detroit? Where’s the progress in those cities under 100 percent Democratic politicians and policies?
 

The sighting of a white Republican on the streets of cities like Detroit and Baltimore is just a rumor. There were no whites or Republicans among local leaders at the podium in Baltimore yesterday. There was 100 per cent black leadership- black mayor, black city council members, black police chief, black community leaders and clergy. Yet urban inner cities like Baltimore and Detroit are in ruins.
 

It's the same pathetic story found in Africa and its many countries run by black leaders. Admittedly, the white colonial leaders, in their haste to avoid serious bloody revolutions, left their charges with little or no  political training, management skills, and leadership. The black penchant to make very little effort, but be big on gaining power that was well oiled with corruption has left many countries close to being basket-cases.
 

The Way I See It......it’s time to take personal responsibility. It’s time to move on.

It’s time to fight for jobs, not welfare. It’s time to look within yourselves. It’s time to stop blaming others. It’s time to blame black fathers. It’s time to blame black leaders. It’s time to blame a black president. It’s time to ask what the Democratic Party has ever done for you except ensure you’re helpless, hopeless and dependent on government to survive. It’s time to blame the war on poverty.