CAMPUS OPPRESSION

Alexandra Zimmern lets us all know how universities today are restricting free speech on draconian levels, and it's not just dangerous for Israel, but for other people too:

The infamous Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and “apartheid week” displays on college campuses are not the only threat to Jewish students. A much greater threat looms: the inability for students to publicly defend their beliefs. While universities claim to be havens of open debate and intellectual curiosity, they are in reality black holes of political correctness. On campus, only certain ideas are worthy of consideration and Zionism is definitely not one of them. This culture doesn’t just threaten members of the Jewish community, who are terrified to challenge those who accuse Israel of the most heinous crimes. Rather, it threatens all of us who value free speech and its ability to encourage criticism, debate, and original thought on college campuses.

While speech codes are thought to be a thing of the 90s, the truth is that college students today are facing the most serious threats to their civil liberties. From “trigger warnings” to “free speech zones,” universities are slowly training students to become hypersensitive and incapable of deviating from ideologies that are in vogue.

But unlike the 90s, universities are now controlling speech in a much more insidious manner. Speech codes today manifest in vague and poorly written policies that try to protect students against harassment, sexual assault, and bullying. Seemingly, these policies serve the best interest of students who face these issues on campus. But practically, they give university administrators the power to punish students for harmless speech protected by the First Amendment, while ignoring due process for the accused.

It is shocking how many universities have such policies. Lehigh University, for example, defines harassment as “…unwelcome statements, jokes, gestures, pictures, touching, or other conducts that offend, demean, harass, or intimidate.” I suppose they weren’t planning to invite Sarah Silverman (or any other decent comedian) anytime soon. Georgetown University’s Code of Student Conduct includes punishable measures against incivility defined as behavior that “disrespects another individual.” Since when is being disrespectful a crime? In Minnesota, St. Olaf College has a policy that disallows “creating or posting material that is offensive” on a campus computer. In other words, no emailing political memes, cartoons, or opinion articles…all of which could potentially offend someone.

Therein lies the real danger. How can we punish students or professors for saying something that might be understood as disrespectful? And should universities have the authority to decide what does and does not fall under these definitions on a case-by-case basis? For many students, the positions that conservatives take on social issues are offensive: anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, etc. But that shouldn’t mean that these positions are illegitimate and that those who hold these opinions should be discriminated against. These policies, though, allow for exactly that.

Exactly. And the only time anti-gay marriage stances are considered appropriate are when Muslims object to it. It's extremely disturbing how university staffs are basically teaching their students to be thin-skinned towards anything they disagree with. How can anybody at a college be a true success if they have low self-esteem? Most bewildering is how people with no ownership or property certificate to a college campus can make such a fuss about people they don't agree with giving lectures there, or why they'd even want to attend. Staying at home would be a much better way to go, yet these leftists waste all their time yelling at people they despise, acting vulgar and hardly presenting somebody you'd want to hang around with.

I think one of the challenges now is to get universities to stop teaching their students to be thin-skinned and start acting with self-confidence. Better still, they could teach them to be apolitical and not act like politics are something they must adhere to no matter what.

MALMO'S POLICE HQ UNDER SIEGE

In Sweden's most Islamized city, it's like a plotline out of Assault on Precinct 13, as one of their police stations has been under attack by jihadists with bombs, having experienced 36 attacks this year alone. Predictably, while the police are cordoning off part of the street to protect it, the authorities are doing nothing to set up raids to capture the urban jihadists committing the crimes.

ISLAMIZATION IN FRANCE DURING 2014

Soeren Kern summarizes what's been going on with Islamofascism in France during this past year. Some very awful things have happened, and more effort than ever is needed to get European dhimmi governments to cut out their cowardice and start showing muscle against the modern jihad invaders.

WESTERN LEFTISTS DEFEND THEIR ISLAMIC TOVARISCH (COMRADES)

Jennifer Oriel wrote in The Australian about pseudo-westerners who go out of their way to side with Islamofascism. Here's one weird example:

Loretta Napoleoni’s widely acclaimed book The Islamist Phoenix also contains a curious admixture of condemning Islamic State violence while praising the terrorist group’s caliphate ambition. It has been endorsed by Chomsky.

When Chomsky's involved, you know the situation is truly awful. And how can anyone support such a stupid book when the author speaks from both ends of her mouth? Definitely not a book any sensible person who understands the Koran's influence should ever buy.

2 POLICEMEN STABBED AT OLD CITY

They're lucky their wounds weren't severe, but they were attacked:

Two Border Policemen were stabbed early Friday morning near Jerusalem Old City's Lion Gate.

One officer, age 35, was stabbed in the hand, the other, age 19, was stabbed in the neck.

They were transported to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital, where they are listed in light to moderate condition.

More on topic here. The attacker fled the scene. We must hope he's caught.

GIRL SERIOUSLY INJURED IN FIREBOMB ATTACK

Jihadists attacked a car with a firebomb, wounding a girl:

An Israeli driver and his 11 year old daughter were attacked by Arab terrorists who threw a firebomb at his vehicle Thursday night. The two suffered burns, but managed to escape from their burning vehicle. They were treated on the scene by Magen David Adom rescue workers and taken to a hospital in Kfar Sava. The girl is said to be in serious condition by doctors.

Keep her in your prayers and hope the vile terrorists are caught.

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN'S POLITICAL CAREER MAY BE OVER

Lieberman's policies on Israel are already suspect. Add to that how one of his own party's members is being investigated anew for corruption charges:

Police detained over 30 high-ranking government officials on Wednesday for questioning on corruption charges, including Yisrael Beytenu's Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum.

Police say they allegedly used tens of millions of shekels worth of public money from charities and gave it to those close to them politically.

Those brought in for questioning also include a cadre of regional heads, a Knesset director general, former ministers, heads of public corporations, union leaders and political activists.

Lahav 433, the elite anti-fraud police unit, has been investigating the case undercover for the past year and went public with the investigations on Wednesday, when the detentions were made.

As noted before, he's been chummy with corrupt businessman Martin Schlaff, and if he's been doing anything illegal, it should be frowned upon as much as Ehud Olmert's own felonies. A Jerusalem Post writer tells why this time, Lieberman may not have much success:

The theory behind criminal investigations boosting Yisrael Beytenu in the polls is that they awaken a sense of other-ness and victimhood in its traditional voter base, immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, like half of the party's current MKs.

The probes also attract right-wing voters that feel like the Left runs the country, the media, the police, etc. Even though the Right has been in power for years, the most popular newspaper in the country is pro-Netanyahu and a Yisrael Beytenu minister is in charge of police.

Of course, politicians on the Right and Left, religious and secular, Ashkenazi and Sephardic, immigrant and sabra have been investigated for corruption in the years since 1999, but perception is often stronger than facts.

Now that Liberman has distanced himself from both of the groups that identified with the party's victimhood, he might not benefit from that perception anymore.

This is not the first election in which Yisrael Beytenu sought to present itself as not just a party for Russian-speakers, but it is certainly continuing in that vein, and in any case, many sociologists and pollsters say immigrants from the FSU no longer vote in a bloc.

Plus, Liberman presented himself as a centrist in recent weeks, highlighting his support for a two-state solution and saying that isolated settlements will have to be evacuated, even though he lives in one, Nokdim. In addition, the party refuses to confirm or deny reports that the right-wing members of his faction - Tourism Minister Uzi Landau, Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir and MK David Rotem - will not be on the list for the next Knesset. However, he has not backed down from demanding that Israeli-Arabs declare loyalty to the state.

The proudly right-wing parties – Likud and Bayit Yehudi – jumped on all of Liberman's ostensibly leftist statements, and Yisrael Beytenu has been bleeding voters from the Right in the polls without picking any up from the other parties calling themselves centrist – Yesh Atid and Koolanu.

These "centrist" parties have been nothing but trouble for Israel, and it's time to start avoiding them. If Lieberman's willing to support 2-state propaganda, then how does he expect Israel's Muslim citizens to truly remain loyal to Israel? Indeed, his logic is very weak. Besides, most Arabs here actually prefer to live under Israeli sovereignty.

So Lieberman's loss of voters is richly deserved for all the slapdash and dangerous ideas he's willing to uphold. It's time to move away from him and support the right-wing parties that are more loyal to Israel than he'll ever be.

THIRD TERRORIST ATTACK IN FRANCE IN JUST A FEW DAYS

Once again, however, the authorities are acting weakly in what they call it this newest terrible incident in Nantes where a jihadist ran people over with an old Fiat Scudo:

French authorities have ruled out terrorism as a motive for the van attack, despite reports the driver shouted “Allahu akbar” as he piloted the white Fiat van into crowds of people doing last minute Christmas shopping. Hours later police arrested a man reportedly “armed to the teeth” on Tuesday morning.

Despite the similarities to an almost identical motor-attack that occurred less than 24-hours before in the French city of Dijon, the local prosecutor speaking in the wake of this latest event said “We cannot speak of a terrorist act”, saying evidence suggests it was an “isolated case”.

British newspaper The Times reports a number of reliable sources, including a police officer, witnessed the driver of the white van attack in Nantes shouting “Allahu akbar” as he drove into people. The phrase is Arabic and translates as ‘God is Great’.

It is reported the ram-attack specifically targeted a chalet serving mulled wine. After his vehicle came to a rest and he had injured eleven bystanders, five seriously, the driver began to stab himself repeatedly in an apparent, unsuccessful, suicide bid. He is now in police custody.

He should still be crippled in the legs, since that'll make him less of a threat physically. The authorities are now going to have to do some serious thinking and put the country on higher security alerts.

TWO JIHAD ATTACKS IN FRANCE

Jihad in France is getting worse. First, there was an attack at a police station in Tours:

French anti-terrorism police are investigating an attack on a provincial police station where three officers were slashed by an assailant with a large knife before he was shot dead.

The attacker, identified as Bertrand Nzohabonayo, of Burundian origin, shouted Allahu Akbar [God is great] before lunging at the officers at Joué-lès-Tours, a suburb of Tours in central France on Saturday. Two policemen were gravely injured and a third wounded before the man was shot dead.

The perpetrator can rot in hell. Soon after this happened, another Islamofascist hit people with a car in Dijon:

A driver shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") ploughed into pedestrians in eastern France Sunday, injuring 11 of them, just a day after a man yelling the same words was killed in an attack on police officers.

Two of the people injured in the car attack in the city of Dijon were in a serious condition, a police source said, adding that the driver had been arrested.

[...] Witnesses told police that the driver shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "that he was acting for the children of Palestine", a source close to the investigation said.

And their politicians have the gall to claim a race/nation that doesn't exist is worth supporting? This is absolutely abominable, and a prime reason many in France are losing faith in their political representatives.

DAN SLOTT'S SUDDENLY AGAINST COMMUNISTS, OR IS HE?

Who knew that ultra-leftist Slott, of all people, would suddenly speak out against a communist country like North Korea, after the alleged hack at Sony led to their withdrawing The Interview from release to theaters? Yet even then, there's reason to doubt he's sincere. Here's a list of tweets he wrote:

I had no intention of seeing THE INTERVIEW. Now I feel I have to. TWICE! Don't tell what entertainment I can-or-can't watch.
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 17, 2014

Screw it. I want to watch a TEAM AMERICA + THE INTERVIEW double feature! Get THAT in the theaters! STAT!
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 17, 2014

Now "Team America" screenings are getting canceled? Of all the-- Dear Hollywood, suck it up.
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 18, 2014

New list of North Korean demands to Hollywood: 1. Stop screenings of Team America 2. Remove Burbank from Google Maps 3. Cluck like a chicken
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 18, 2014

Just so you know: TEAM AMERICA is available on @netflix streaming. For now...
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 18, 2014

Dear North Korea, Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS movies have hidden insults against your glorious leader. Honest.
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 19, 2014

Breaking news: TV Land is now pulling all episodes of M.A.S.H.
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 19, 2014

Odds of me seeing "The Interview" were as high as me seeing "Deuce Bigalow: North Korean Gigolo". The point: Don't tell me what I can't see.
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 20, 2014

Free health care, fewer gun-related deaths, & more balls. RT @THR #TheInterview Protest Screenings Planned in Canada http://t.co/32TrJITKYy
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 21, 2014

Uh oh, here's where it gets fishy. If it's anything like Obama's idea for healthcare, that makes it very troubling, certainly if it's government-run. And there was a terrorist attack a couple weeks ago in Ottawa, so I'm not sure why Slott thinks Canada's got less gun violence.

.@248NYR So I guess from now on we don't hold marathons in Boston? Or put up buildings in NYC? You don't let terrorists dictate your life.
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 21, 2014

That would be a lot more convincing if he admitted it's wrong to let people going by "holy" scriptures calling for death and annihilation to dictate western policies and threaten their countries. Which leads us to a fascinating question: what if The Interview involved a country like Qatar or Brunei, and they cursed the US and threatened them? Would Slott's reaction be the same? Or would it be different? Suppose Sally Field's movie Not Without My Daughter were filmed today rather than in 1991, what would he think and say? Also odd is how a man giving telling hints of his leftist standpoints is willing to attack a country that could have some of the same policies in place. And he's working for a company whose modern staff forbid any negative word on Islam, so honestly, does he have a point?

I'm sure we'd all like to think Slott's suddenly found some brains, but the signs still indicate that's a long way off.

HARVARD ALMOST CAVED TO ANTI-ISRAELISTS HOSTILE TO SODASTREAM

Harvard University almost stopped using Sodastream products because Muslim students opposed them. But the president of the university recognized the wrong and ensured common sense would prevail:

Harvard University’s president has requested an investigation into the decision by the university’s dining service to stop buying SodaStream equipment.

Drew Faust asked for an investigation into the decision, Provost Alan Garber told The Harvard Crimson student newspaper on Wednesday night.

The request came following an article written earlier in the day by the newspaper reporting that the university’s dining service agreed in April to halt buying the equipment following protests by Palestinian students and their supporters.

The dining service agreed to remove the SodaStream labels on existing water machines and purchase new ones from American companies after university officials met in April with members of the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Harvard Islamic Society, the newspaper reported Wednesday.

“Harvard University’s procurement decisions should not and will not be driven by individuals’ views of highly contested matters of political controversy,” Garber wrote in an email statement to the Crimson late Wednesday night. “If this policy is not currently known or understood in some parts of the University, that will be rectified now.”

Garber said in the statement that neither he nor Faust was aware of the decision before reading about it in the newspaper. The existing machines are from a company acquired by SodaStream, an Israeli firm that has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement because of its factory in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim.

I'm not sure if Sodastream is still running this kind of business, but the university shouldn't be allowing this kind of fanaticism to dominate their campus. In fact, universities shouldn't even be platforms for politics; I thought they were supposed to be for learning trades like science, medicine, and agriculture. Political nonsense should be the last thing any university or college wants littering their grounds with its toxic effects.

THE ANTI-COP POGROM AKA THE OBAMA INTIFADA

A FEW WEEKS AGO, WE CALLED THE  LEFT'S ORGANIZED, NATIONAL AND COORDINATED ASSAULT ON POLICE A POGROM.

WIKI:

A pogrom is a violent riot aimed at massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term originally entered the English language to describe 19th- and 20th-centuryattacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement in present-day Ukraine and Belarus). Similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

WITH THE RECENT ASSASSINATION OF TWO NYPD COPS, MAYBE EVERYONE WILL SOON START TO AGREE THAT THIS IS NOW A POGROM.

IT STARTED IN A NON-VIOLENT WAY; THE LEFT STARTED WITH A POLITICAL ATTACK ON OUR DEFENSES:

THE NYPD HAVE ALREADY BEEN ORDERED BY THE SEIU/WORKING FAMILIES PARTY/NLG-SUPPORTED SOCIALIST MAYOR DEBLASIO TO END STOP-AND-FRISK AND END ALL MOSQUE SURVEILLANCE.

THESE TWO MOVES HAVE MADE. NYC LESS SAFE FOR LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AND SAFER FOR ARMED CRIMINALS AND JIHADISTS.

THE LEFTIST INSPIRED POLITICAL ATTACKS ON THE POLICE AND THE ASSASSINATIONS FURTHER WEAKEN OUR FIRST LINE IF DEFENSE.

THIS IS THE ENEMY'S GOAL.

THE JIHADISTS ARE USING THE SAME TACTICS IN ISRAEL AND ISLAMIST NEIGHBORHOODS IN EUROPE.

IT'S A POGROM. AN INTIFADA. THE OBAMA INTIFADA. 

BROWN'S DEATH IN FERGUSON AND GARNER'S DEATH IN NYC ARE PALLYWOOD EVENTS LIKE THE SUPPOSED DEATH OF MOHAMED AL DURAH.

(MORE ON AL DURAH HERE.)

UPDATE - VIA GATEWAY:

Ferguson protesters were back out on the street Saturday night in St. Louis.One protester wore a skeleton mask. Another protest leader, Bassem Masri, wore a Palestinian keffiyah scarf.

JUST MORE PROOF THERE IS A POLITICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ANTI-SEMITIC JIHADISTS ABROAD AND THE LEFTISTS AT HOME.

IF ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, NYC WILL SOON RESEMBLE CHICAGO AND DETROIT,  AND THEN CAIRO AND KABUL.

THIS ASSAULT ON TRUTH AND OUR ABILITY TO DEFEND OURSELVES WON'T END HERE UNTIL WE NEUTRALIZE OBAMA AND DEBLASIO AND SHARPTON AND THEIR COMRADES. 

THE 114TH CONGRESS MUST USE ANY AND ALL CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS TO NEUTRALIZE OBAMA.

IF THEY FAIL TO ACT, THEN THE VIOLENCE WILL ONLY GET WORSE.

SOMETHING THAT OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES WOULD LIKE.

PREDICTION: OBAMA'S NEXT MOVE: GIVING COP-KILLER MUMIA A PARDON!

JUST SAYING....

THE ANTI-COP BS GOING DOWN NOW ALL OVER THE USA AIN'T NEW; IT'S AN OLD FAV' FROM THE LEFT.

"OFF THE PIG!"

"FREE MUMIA!"

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND HIS AG SUPPORT THEM!

WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE ELECTED AN ACOLYTE OF SAUL ALINSKY AND BILL AYERS AND JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.

OH. WAIT. WE. DID.

LESBIAN RABBI IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPPORTS SHARIA

A bizarre story comes from New England:

A story from New Hampshire reminds us once again that liberals are often willing to commit suicide to prove how liberal they are.

It would be hard to imagine a more ridiculous scenario than a lesbian rabbi making a public stand in favor of adopting Sharia Law as the new ruling principles of any American state, but Rabbi Robin Nafshi of New Hampshire has done just that.

With the type of smug ”I’m a liberal, so I’m smarter than you” hubris only the sickest of liberals can muster, Rabbi Nafshi scolds her fellow Granite Staters in a piece she has curiously titled “The Misguided push to ban Sharia Law.”

Of course, the Rabbi takes an obligatory shot at Republicans as she whines that the final point in their statement of Party principles says, “Take any and all actions possible to protect against the implementation of any part of Sharia Law in New Hampshire, including legislation outlawing Sharia law.”

Her hollow argument makes a comparison between Sharia Law as the Muslim way of life and Halakhah, the Jewish way of life. This idiot must think that Jews cut the heads off homosexuals and blow up non-Jews in belief that doing so will ensure their place in paradise. Sure thing rabbi–not a dime’s with of difference, right?

If she's a Reform, she's one of the dumbest and most revolting in the business, shaming the religion she has no business being part of and shilling for one that would suppress her too. No wonder the Reform movement's collapsing today.

JOSHUA DYSART GOING TO KURDISTAN, BUT UNDER UN SPONSORSHIP

The comics writer Joshua Dysart has announced on his site he's traveling to Iraq's Kurdish region for goals of research. While it would seem like he's taking up a noble mission to help Kurds suppressed by Iraq's Islamofascists, his choice of whom to travel and work with isn't great:

For over a year now I’ve been in contact with some people at the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization concerned with hunger and food security. We’ve been plotting to tell some stories about the complexity and necessity of feeding the world’s displaced people in an engaging way. Now we’re finally getting started and soon I’ll be leaving for northern Iraq. There, I’ll begin researching the current situation facing Kurdish refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict and the violent push of the Islamic State. The situation is incredibly dire, especially with winter coming. In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq the temperatures can range from 40 degrees Fahrenheit down to near 0 this time of year.

He's right that ISIS are the evil entity, and that nobody innocent should have to starve, but why does he think a political organization that's been Islamofascism's worst enabler - with some of the worst violators of human rights sitting on their own security councils - are the kind of people he should be associating himself with? The UN was also guilty of involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal, and one of their worst members of recent was Richard Falk, an anti-Israelist and 9-11 Truther. Falk's offenses even include blaming America after the terrorist attack at Boston's marathon. Why associate himself with an organization that's not what some used to think it was, if it ever was at all?

Dysart's mission may be for a good cause, but he shouldn't be working with members of the UN to fulfill it, since they're some of the most dishonest people you can find, and willfully employed some pure scum on their payroll. If he were smart, he'd look for a better relief organization to travel to Kurdistan with.

WOW: NASA CO2 MAP SHOWS BIOMASS BURNING IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA RELEASES MORE CO2 THAN US AND EU INDUSTRIES!

BBC:

Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) has returned its first global maps of the greenhouse gas CO2. 

The satellite was sent up in July to help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed. 

This should help scientists better understand how human activities are influencing the climate. 

The new maps contain only a few weeks of data in October and November, but demonstrate the promise of the mission. 

Clearly evident within the charts is the banding effect that describes how emitted gases are mixed by winds along latitudes rather than across them. 

Also apparent are the higher concentrations over South America and southern Africa. These are likely the result of biomass burning in these regions.

THE REGIONS THAT ARE RED HAVE MUCH MORE CO2 THAN THE OTHER REGIONS.

THE RED REGIONS ARE HIGH CO2 PRODUCING REGIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOREST FIRES, AND BECAUSE THEY BURN A LOT OF WOOD AND DRIED MANURE AS FUEL: WIKI:

Dry animal dung is used as a fuel in many countries around the world. It is a source of Green fuel used by more than two billion people.[1][2] However, it might have some disadvantages, such as air pollution.[3] As a cheap bioenergy source, it has gained growing interest.[4]

MORE:

Burning issues: tackling indoor air pollution, 7 May 2011 by The Lancet: "According to WHO, 2 million people die as a result of the smoke generated by open fires or crude stoves within their homes every year. Indoor air pollution has been definitively linked to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, the risk of which is doubled by exposure to indoor smoke. More than 900 000 people die from pneumonia caused by indoor air pollution every year. 500 million households worldwide—roughly 3 billion people—rely on solid fuels, such as wood, animal dung, or coal, for cooking and heating. These fuels are usually burned in a rudimentary stove, or in a traditional open fire. It need not be a problem, at least in terms of health. But only assuming the fuel is completely combusted—wood must be dry, and the stove must work efficiently—and there is plenty of ventilation, a spacious chimney, or a sizeable window. In those places where the use of solid fuels prevails, however, these conditions rarely apply, and the consequences can be severe."
"Yet, 'despite the magnitude of this growing problem' notes WHO 'the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution have yet to become a central focus of research, development aid, and policy making'....But the past year has had some encouraging advances."
"In September, 2010, the UN Foundation launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves....The Alliance—a public-private initiative—brings together partners from the range of specialties across which the issue of indoor air pollution sprawls. There is public health, of course, but also energy, international development, female empowerment, climate change, technology, and business."
"The real benefits will be seen by switching to cleaner fuels and cleaner stoves. Improved stoves—those fitted with fans, for example—combust fuel more efficiently, have lower emissions, and require shorter cooking times."[1]

IF THESE REGIONS HAD MORE INDUSTRIAL POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRICITY THEN THE PEOPLE BURNING MANURE AT HOME FOR COOKING AND HEATING FUEL COULD USE ELECTRICITY INSTEAD,

IN OTHER WORDS:

TO REDUCE CO2 THE WORLD NEEDS MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION, NOT LESS.

EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE LEFTIST AGENDA.

IF CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA WERE NOT REALLY AN ATTACK ON THE WEST'S INDUSTRIALIZATION - AND AN ATTEMPT OF THE LEFT TO GAIN CONTROL OVER IT, THEN THEY'D BE SUPPORTING MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA.

THE FACT THAT THEY AREN'T PROVES THEY ARE NOT REALLY AGAINST MAN-MADE CO2, AND THAT THEIR CO2PHOBIA IS MERELY A STRATEGY TO GAIN POWER OVER THE ECONOMY.

HERE'S THE REAL REASON OIL HAS CRASHED: SAUDI'S AND GULF STATES PREPARING FOR IAF STRIKE ON IRAN

1 - THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF IRAN AND HANDLING OF SYRIA:

THE WSJ - 9/26/13:

The Obama administration's handling of overtures on Syria and Iran have outraged regional ally Saudi Arabia, which is signaling it wants to do more to boost the power of armed Sunni rebel groups on the ground in Syria as the U.S. pursues diplomacy. 

Saudis fear that Syrian President Basher al-Assad will use the time afforded by U.S.- and U.N.-backed diplomacy on Syria "to impose more killing and to torture its people," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Thursday night in New York, in a warning that was overshadowed by the attention paid to the weekend's first public contacts in three decades between the presidents of Iran and the U.S. 

Accordingly, Saudi Arabia wants "intensification of political, economic and military support to the Syrian opposition…. to change the balance of powers on the ground" in Syria, Prince Saud said in his remarks to the Friends of Syria group, a coalition of Western and Gulf Arab countries and Turkey that supports the Syria opposition against Mr. Assad. The state-run Saudi Press Agency carried a transcript of his remarks. 

The Saudi government has had no public comment so far on the groundbreaking phone call Friday between U.S. President Barack Obama, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as the main military protector of its interests, and new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as its main threat. 

Asharq al Awsat, one of Saudi Arabia's leading newspapers, led its front page the morning after the phone call with a photo of Mr. Rouhani, bowed over with laughter.

1A - REUTERS - 18/22/13:

In unusually blunt public remarks, Prince Turki al-Faisal called Obama's policies in Syria "lamentable" and ridiculed a U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons. He suggested it was a ruse to let Obama avoid military action in Syria. 

"The current charade of international control over Bashar's chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious. And designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down (from military strikes), but also to help Assad to butcher his people," said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family and former director of Saudi intelligence.

1B - HAARETZ - 3/27/14:

“Why are you abandoning your allies?” fumed Faisal Abbas, editor of Al Arabiya News’ English website, in an op-ed published in Arabic. “You” referred to the United States – and, more specifically, President Barack Obama, who arrives in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a state visit. Abbas, who reflects the prevailing opinions of the Saudi royal court, lists a large number of missteps that he believes characterize the Obama administration. The most important one is the interim deal signed last November with Iran regarding its nuclear program, as well as the present negotiations over a final agreement. 

“Has Washington forgotten the long-standing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the war on terror?” Abbas asks. “Has it forgotten that it was Iran that destabilized Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein? That it’s rocking Lebanon and Bahrain, that it supports Hezbollah and has captured three islands in the Persian Gulf that belong to the United Arab Emirates? An American strategy that ignores all these to placate Iran, while negotiating over its nuclear ambitions, raises grave concerns.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t have written a more scathing article.

1C - THE GUARDIAN - 3/28/14

The US President's flying visit – no more than an evening in the Saudi king's palace – is his first since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, which drove an initial wedge between Washington and Riyadh. 

Ever since, relations have tangibly soured on every front, with the US outreach to Iran and ambivalence on Syria particularly irking Saudi leaders who believe arch foe Tehran has been empowered at their expense. So bothered has Riyadh become by what it sees as naive appeasement of Iran, that it now seems ready to project itself regionally without US cover. 

"The US has underwritten the regional security order for the past 70 years and it sees now as a good time to disengage?," one senior figure put to the Guardian recently. "We will have to do it all ourselves."

2 - RALPH PETERS, TODAY:

This week, oil fell through the price floor of $60 a barrel and gas at my local filling station was $2.26 a gallon. 

That’s great news for commuters and almost every business, but wonderfully bad news for our ugliest enemies. 

If oil prices remain low through next year, the effect on rogue governments, from the Russian Federation to Venezuela, will go from damaging to devastating. 

But Western economies (and China’s) stand to benefit, with cheap oil possibly tickling Europe’s snoozing markets awake. Even most underdeveloped states will get a welcome break. 

This price plunge has been driven by Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s dominant power. While it’s true that part of Riyadh’s actions respond to the energy renaissance in North America, the greater motivation is breaking Iran’s will.The Saudis believe they can no longer rely on the US to contain Tehran’s imminent nuclear threat, so they’re out to do what our lukewarm sanctions couldn’t.

IN MY OPINION, IT'S NOT THAT THE SAUDIS THINK THEY CAN BREAK IRAN ECONOMICALLY WITH A SERIOUS DROP IN OIL RICES.

IN MY OPINION, THE SAUDIS AND THE GULF STATES, UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF A RELIABLE AND COURAGEOUS ALLY IN THE USA, (WHICH IS THE CASE SINCE OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE) - ONLY ISRAEL CAN DESTROY THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.

THEIR GREATEST FEAR OF SUCH AN ATTACK WAS WHAT IT WOULD DO TO OIL PRICES AND TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY:

PRICES WOULD TRIPLE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER AN ATTACK - IN PART JUST BECAUSE OF FEAR, AND ALSO BECAUSE IRAN WOULD MOST LIKELY BE ABLE TO LAUNCH A COUNTER-ATTACK THAT WOULD DEMOLISH A GREAT DEAL OF THE GULF STATES' OIL INFRASTRUCTURE.

THOUGH SOME MIGHT THINK THAT THE HOUSE OF SAUD LIKES ANY HIGH PRICE, THE FACT IS THEY REALLY JUST LIKE THE HIGHEST PRICE THEIR CUSTOMERS CAN AFFORD.

A $300/BARREL PRICE WOULD DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.

SO THEY HAVE BEEN STEADILY BRINGING THE RICE DOWN SO THAT AFTER THE IAF ATTACKS - AND AFTER OIL TRIPLES - IT WILL ON;Y REACH $130-150/BARREL FOR A FEW/SEVERAL MONTHS, A PRICE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY CAN LIVE WITH.

SO... IF I WAS IRAN, THEN I'D BE VERY VERY WORRIED. SCARED EVEN THAT AN IAF ATTACK WAS IMMINENT.

MORE SCARED THEN SONY.

PREDICTION: THE IAF WILL ATTACK ON A NEW MOON - PERHAPS THE ONE IN MARCH - 3/20/15...

HERE'S WHY LEFTISTS DON'T CARE THAT OBAMA VIOLATED THE LAW TO BAILOUT THE CASTRO REGIME

OBAMA HAS BROKEN THE LAW... AGAIN, AND THE LEFT DOESN'T SEEM TO MIND.

THEY LIKE THE NEW PRO-CASTRO POLICY.

WE CAN DEBATE THE VALUE OF AN EMBARGO.

BUT THEY SHOULD WANT ANY CHANGE IN POLICY TO BE DONE LAWFULLY.

THE BI-PARTISAN CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT OF 1992 - PASSED BY CONGRESS AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE PRESIDENT - PROHIBITED ANY CHANGE IN CUBA'S DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE STATUS UNLESS AND UNTIL THE PRESIDENT REPORTS TO CONGRESS CERTIFYING THAT CUBA HAS MADE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS AND THAT CUBANS HAVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.

OBAMA CLEARLY VIOLATED THIS LAW.

OBAMA'S MOVE IS LAWLESS.

IT VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW.

BY DOING IT IN SPITE OF THE LAW - AND IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE LAW, OBAMA IS ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR AND NOT THE PRESIDENT OF A DEMOCRATIC, CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.

OBAMUNISTS SHOULDN'T SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.

IT COULD ALLOW A PRESIDENT NAMED CRUZ OR PALIN OR WALKER ACT BY FIAT AND CANCEL LAWS THEY LIKE - SUCH AS GUN CONTROL, OBAMACARE OR THE EPA OR THE INCOME TAX, FOR EXAMPLE.

WHY ARE THEY SO BLIND TO THE DANGER F THESE LAWLESS, DICTATORIAL PRECEDENTS?

SIMPLE;

• LEFTISTS ARE SO CONSUMED WITH POWER...
• AND SO UPSET THAT THEY'RE LOSING IT - 
• BY LOSING THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE ...
• AND SO MANY GOVERNORSHIPS AND STATE HOUSES, 
• THAT THEY RE WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING OBAMA DOES... 
• THAT EITHER TRANSFORMS US INTO A MORE SOCIALIST NATION... 
• OR BRINGS US CLOSER TO A CLOWARD-PIVEN COLLAPSE ...
• THAT DESTROYS ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS AND CLEARS THE DECK ...
• FOR AN ENTIRELY COMMUNIST STATE.

CONGRESS MUST NOT LET OBAMA'S LAWLESS CUBAN GAMBIT STAND.

TWO ARTICLES ON TODAY'S BBC NEWS SUMMARIZE WHY WE ARE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST JIHADISM

TODAY'S BBC NEWS::

1 - Boko Haram unrest: Nigerian militants 'kidnap 100 villagers' -  33 dead

THIS ARTICLE USES THE WORD "ISLAMIC" ONCE, AND NEVER USES THE WORD MUSLIM.

2 - Geert Wilders faces charges over 'anti-Moroccan' speech:

Mr Wilders, who leads the Party for Freedom (PVV), has often expressed his distaste for Islam and mass immigration.
In response to the prosecution, Mr Wilders described the charges in a statement as "a travesty".
"The public prosecutor would do better to devote his time to prosecuting jihadis instead of me," he said.
Mr Wilders made his comments during a political meeting in The Hague.
Asking supporters in a cafe if they wanted fewer Moroccans in the country, some responded by chanting "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!"
The politician then replied: "I will fix it for you."

AS JIHADISTS SLAUGHTER AND ENSLAVE THOUSANDS EACH WEEK ALL OVER THE GLOBA, THE AUTHORITIES IN THE WEST USE THEIR COERCIVE POWER TO ENFORCE SHARIA.

WE CANNOT DEFEAT THE ENEMY IF OUR POLITICIANS ATTACK OUR PATRIOTS INSTEAD OF OUR ENEMIES.

MOST OF OUR POLITICIANS HAVE AS MUCH COURAGE AS THE WHINING, PHONY, MENDACIOUS TWO-FACED EXECUTIVES AT SONY WHO JUST CAVED INTO NORTH KOREA.

PATHETIC.

WE NEED TO EMPOWER MORE POLITICIANS LIKE GEERT WILDERS AND NIGEL FARAGE AND MARINE LE PEN IF WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT THE LIKES OF BOKO HARAM AND ISIS, AND AL QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN AND THE FILIPINO MLF.

EU REMOVES HAMAS FROM BLACKLIST

A court for the EU has given its support for Hamas' barbarism by excising the jihadist gang from their blacklistings:

The European Union's second-highest court on Wednesday annulled the bloc's decision to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations, but temporarily maintained the measures for a period of three months or until an appeal is closed.

The General Court of the European Union said the contested measures were not based on an examination of Hamas' acts but on imputations derived from the media and the Internet.

The court said it was nevertheless maintaining the effects of the measures in order to ensure that any possible future freezing of funds would be effective.

Uh uh, I don't buy their defense here. How do we know they haven't been giving Hamas some money and kickbacks under the table? This is nothing more than a show of weakness.

Israel is concerned Hamas may use the opportunity to renew its activities in Europe.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Hamas to be immediately returned to the terrorist blacklist, saying Israel was not satisfied with the EU's explanation that the removal of Hamas from the list was merely a "technical matter."

"The burden of proof is on the European Union," Netanyahu said. "Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization, with the stated goal, in its charter, of destroying Israel. We will continue to fight against it with determination and strength, so that it will never achieve this aim."

Again, their defense for this pathetic cave-in does not work at all, and if they're really serious, they should return them to the blacklist immediately.

THIS CUBAN RESET WILL BE AS GOOD FOR US THE RUSSIAN RESET - in other words, it will suck

WHY DID OBAMA PRESS THE CUBA RESET BUTTON NOW!?!?

Simple: The Castro Regime was more likely to fall now than ever.

Obama is rescuing them.

He's not for peace; he's on the other side.

TED EXPLAINS IT ALL HERE:

SONY APPEASES GENOCIDAL NORTH KOREAN TYRANNY

TGWP: Sony Bows to North Korea: Cancels Release of ‘The Interview’

Appeasement always just encourages more bad behavior. 

ROB LOWE GETS' IT: 

In a tweet on Wednesday, actor Rob Lowe compared Sony's decision to cancel the scheduled Dec. 25 release of "The Interview" to the strategic mistake that is widely blamed for emboldening Nazi Germany just before World War II.  Lowe said the cancellation of the movie, which followed a massive hack on Sony studios, would have made former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "proud."

I cannot wait to see what's next. 

If we had a patriot in the WH, then he'd have a screening of the movie this weekend!

UPDATE: The WH doesn't have a clue as to what's next. TYPICAL.

AMERICAN LEFTISTS LIE AS FREELY AS ISLAMISTS

The Apostle said:

“Who will rid me of Ibnul-Ashraf?” Muhammad bin Maslama, brother of the Bani Abdu’l-Ashhal, said, “I will deal with him for you, O Apostle of God, I will kill him.” He said, “Do so if you can.” “All that is incumbent upon you is that you should try” {said the Prophet to Muhammad bin Maslama}. He said, “O Apostle of God, we shall have to tell lies.” He {the Prophet} answered, “Say what you like, for you are free in the matter.”

AND SO THE RIGHT TO LIE - TAQQIYA - WAS ESTABLISHED BY MUSLIMS.

RATHERGATE, DUKE LACROSSE, UVA RAPE, CLIMATE CHANGE; HANDS UP IN FERGUSON, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTHCARE PLAN... (THE RECENT LIST IS ENDLESS) ... ALL HAVE THIS IN COMMON WITH THE TAQQIYA.

LEFTISTS - LIKE ISLAMISTS - ARE FREE TO TELL LIES IF THEY THINK IT WILL HELP THEIR CAUSE.

AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.

THEY HAVE TO:

THE TRUTH IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE.

UNBELIEVABLE: ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 1200 YEAR OLD SUV IN CALIFORNIA!

SUCH A FIND IS UNBELIEVABLE BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

RECENT ARGUMENTS THAT THE CURRENT DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA IS THE RESULT OF MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE JUST AS UNBELIEVABLE:

THE GUARDIAN:

A new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Griffin & Anchukaitis concludes that the 2012–2014 drought in California was its most intense in at least 1,200 years. 

The study used drought reconstructions from tree-ring cores, from the North American Drought Atlas (NADA) and from cores Griffin & Anchukaitis collected from blue oak trees in southern and central California. Blue oak tree ring widths are particularly sensitive to moisture changes. ...  

... The study compared today’s drought conditions in California to those reconstructed over the past 1,200 years using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), an estimate of available soil moisture. The data showed that California is experiencing its most intense drought in over a millennium, the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years, with single year (2014) and accumulated moisture deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry years … In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record (-14.55 cumulative PDSI), more extreme than longer (4- to 9-year) droughts.

WHAT CAUSED THIS HORRIFIC DROUGHT 1200 YEARS AGO? SUV'S? MAN-MADE CO2?

OR COULD IT HAVE BEEN NATURAL EVENT? YA THINK?!?!?!!?

UNLESS ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND A WHOLE BUNCHA 1200 YR OLD SUV'S, I'M GONNA HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WAS NATURAL.

AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS ONCE AGAIN, TOO ALL THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS:

STFU.

THE NLG CONNECTION TO OWS, FERGUSON AND THE NATIONAL POGROM ON COPS

An adjunct prof of poetry at CUNY was arrested for assaulting a cop after the anti-cop march in NYC - his name is ERIC LINSKER.

Linsker's lawyer is big time NATIONAL LAWYERS' GUILD operative- Martin Stolar. The NLG is an old time, bigtime communist lawyers' group which is pro islamo-terror; Lynn Stewart was another big-time NLG lawyer and she was convicted of helping al Qaeda. 

Linsker's lawyer - Stolar - was the NLG's point man against the NYPD's mosque surveillance program which NYC Mayor deBlasio shutdown as one of his first acts. 

Holder - [whose law-firm (prior to being selected by Obama to be his AG) aided Gitmo detainees, just as the NLG did] -  and Sharpton and deBlasio must all know each other via the WORKING FAMILIES PARTY - the party that propelled deBlasio's career and which is the creation of the SEIU and ACORN and which is the successor party to the explicitly socialist party "The New Party" which fwas also founded by comrades of race-hustler Jesse Jackson, was the first party line Barry Obama ever ran on. 

The NLG and Stolar also were central to OWS movement which tried to shut down ur nation's financial system and painted all capitalists as evil - much like the anti-cop movement is trying to paint all cops as evil.

IOW: MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: the nation-wide and NYC anti-COP movement is a coordinated left-wing attack - a left-wing which has actively sought to defend islamo-terrorists and which is pro-CAIR, who returns the favor - a front for the Muslim Brotherhood operation.

Also note that LINSKER IS A BDS/ ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST; he signed up here: http://www.usacbi.org/endorser...

So are they all anti-Israel.

Leftist groups like REVCOM, OWS, CODE PINK do NOT SPONTANEOUSLY protest; they plan and coordinate their agitprop and their protests and their lawfare.

And they are working hand-in-glove with people in the Working Families Prty including Mayor deBlasio and USAG Holder and Al "Tawana" Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Obama/Jarrett has defended them and attacked the cops. And Soros finances some of them.

All this is aimed to advance socialism and Islam.

REPEAT: neither the Trayvon Martin tumult or the Ferguson riots or the current pogrom against our cops were spontaneous. 

They are part of a concerted effort by leftist politicians and their comrades to undermine our ability to defend our civilization in order to replace it with a pro-islamic socialist one.

UPDATE: MUCH MORE HERE.

UPDATE2: SEIU IS DEEPLY INVOLVED - AND ONE OF ITS ACTIVISTS ASSAULTED A COP DURING A PROTEST.

MARZ TURNS AUSTRALIAN TERROR SIEGE INTO GUN CONTROL MISHMASH

Ron Marz puts on his know-it-all acts again, addressing the terrible hostage crisis caused by an Iranian jihadist that went on for 16 hours at a chocolate store in Sydney:

People saying "If Australia hadn't banned guns, maybe #sydneysiege wouldn't be happening" are really too stupid to even be on the internet.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 15, 2014

Curious how Marz can't at least argue that, if less Islamofacists were allowed into countries that value civility, there'd be less situations of the sort that plagued Sydney today. The jihadist, who can now rot in hell, was arrested earlier this year for sexual assault, was also arrested as an accessory to his ex-wife's murder, and faced punishment for sending obscene letters to the widows of soldiers who died in Afghanistan. And the authorities let him walk around free. Why doesn't Marz rail against an incompetent, kowtowing justice system?

Once again, Marz misses the chance to make arguments with more sense.

JIHADIST HELD HOSTAGES IN AUSTRALIAN STORE

The crisis has been stopped, and the jihadist, who came from Iran, is now dead, but tragically, so are at least 2 other people. From ABC (via Jihad Watch):

The gunman who had been holding people hostage inside a chocolate store in downtown Sydney has been killed, Australian police confirmed to ABC News.

And two other people have been killed, a highly place Australian source told ABC News.

The suspect had previously been identified as Man Monis by local news reports, and the manner in which he died still remains unclear but New South Wales police have confirmed his death. The identities of the two others killed were not immediately revealed.

Police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in the early hours of Tuesday morning, local time, and three injuries have been reported, including one policeman.

Explosions of what were believed to be flash bang grenades were heard when police stormed the shop and while there were many loud noises, it is not clear if or how many shots were fired by either police or Monis during the face off.

At 10:19 a.m. ET, a group of at least seven heavily armed police officers went into the Lindt cafe under the cover of loud bangs of what local news Channel 9 is calling stun grenades. Shortly after the police stormed the café, at least two hostages emerged, looking visibly shaken.

A few minutes later, a few paramedics were seen entering the café behind police officers with medical packs — followed by at least two stretchers. The explosive police action came shortly after a new wave of hostages emerged from the shop.

Monis was believed to be a self-proclaimed Islamic “sheikh” who is known to Australian police because he was allegedly involved in dozens of counts of sexual assault, according to Australia’s 9News.

He was born in Iran as Manteghi Bourjerdi and migrated to Australia in 1996, according to the station.

This just confirms further why immigration from Islamic countries has to be curtailed according to religious ideological background.

PIGS FLY: BBC ADMITS ARCTIC ICE IS NOT DISAPPEARING, AND THAT THERE IS NO SIGN IT EVER WILL

BBC: Arctic sea ice volume holds up in 2014
By Jonathan Amos 

Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco 

Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise. 

While global warming seems to have set the polar north on a path to floe-free summers, the latest data from Europe's Cryosat mission suggests it may take a while yet to reach those conditions. 

The spacecraft observed 7,500 cu km of ice cover in October when the Arctic traditionally starts its post-summer freeze-up. 

This was only slightly down on 2013 when 8,800 cu km were recorded. 

Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume. 

And while the ice is still much reduced compared with the 20,000 cu km that used to stick around in the Octobers of the early 1980s, there is no evidence to indicate a collapse is imminent.

IOW: ALL THE HYSTERICAL PROCLAMATIONS THAT THE ARCTIC WAS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR WERE TOTALLY WRONG.

AS IS ALL CO2PHOBIC, CLIMATE ALARMISM.

MEANWHILE, LAST WEEK THE UN'S CLIMATE ALARMISTS HAD MANY NATIONS SIGN CO2PHOBIC PROMISSORY NOTES TO REDUCE CO2.

A TOTALLY IDIOTIC ACT THAT WILL - IF EVER CARRIED OUT - DO NOTHING FOR THE GLOBAL CLIMATE.

BUT IT WILL RETARD ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD AND THEREBY HARM A BILLION POOR PEOPLE.

MAN-MADE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE THIRD BIGGEST AND MOT HARMFUL HOAX EVER PERPETRATED UPON THE HUMAN RACE - AFTER SOCIALISM AND ISLAMISM.

Erdogan's brownshirts make mass arrests of opposition media

MORE PROOF THAT TURKEY DOESN'T BELONG IN NATO, LET ALONE THE EU.

VIDEO: THIS BLACK WOMAN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!

She uses some mildly offensive language.

Telling the truth does these days...

CROSS-DRESSING JIHADISTS SHOT IN YEMEN.

BEHEADING. CROSS-DRESSING.

IS THERE ANYTHING THE JIHADISTS WON'T DO?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30465535

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS WILLING TO JOIN A LABOR COALITION

The Likud's attacked him for willing to sit in a coalition with Labor:

The Likud attacked Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday, after he made comments saying that he is not ruling out sitting in a future coalition – whether with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Isaac Herzog.

The Likud, in a press release, said that this proves that voting for Liberman takes votes away from the right and contributes to the left.

The prime minister's party stressed that "it is clear that anyone who wants a broad, strong government headed by Netanyahu, based on the right and center-right, should vote Likud under Netanyahu this time."

Lieberman's already demonstrated his ties to corrupt businessmen like Martin Schlaff, and that's one more reason why he's ultimately bad news, not unlike Aryeh Deri from the Shas party.

ISIS RELEASES GUIDE FOR HOW TO HANDLE SEX SLAVES

The Islamic State put out a pamphlet for how to control sex slavery:

The Islamic State has released a pamphlet detailing guidelines for treating non-Muslim female slaves in the militant group's custody, according to a group that monitors violent extremism worldwide.

The Middle East Media Research Institute says the Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State released the document titled "Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves," which it claims was printed by the militant's group publishing house. [...]

In some of its answers, the document cites the Koran to back up its claims. In answering whether it's OK to have sex with a captive, the pamphlet states, "It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with the female captive. Allah the almighty said: '(Successful are the believers) who guard their chastity, except from their wives or (the captives and slaves) that their right hands possess, for then they are free from blame (Koran 23:5-6)'..."

In terms of when it's OK to have sex with a captive, the document states that if she is a virgin, her "master" can have sex with her immediately. "However, is she isn't, her uterus must be purified (first)…"

I think that's all we need to know about how vomit-inducing their beliefs are.

MUSLIM MOTHER JAILED FOR PROMOTING JIHAD ONLINE

A Muslim woman in Britain has been sent to the clink for encouraging jihadism on the web:

An Isil-obsessed mother-of-six who took pictures of her toddler son holding a toy gun and encouraged parents of children as young as two to put them on the path to jihad has been jailed for more than five years.

Runa Khan, who daydreamed of sending her eight-year-old son to fight jihad when he grew up and told other women to send their men to fight, was jailed for promoting terrorism on Facebook.

The 35-year-old, who was allowed to appear in the dock wearing a niqab with only her eyes visible, revealed her radical views on the social network, encouraging fellow Muslim women to urge their male relatives to fight and posting picture of a suicide vest.

She also praised an article giving tips on how to prepare young children for jihad and unwittingly passed a route to Syria to an undercover police officer.

Khan appeared to glorify the murder of Lee Rigby, while she repeatedly spoke of her desperation to travel to the war-torn country in messages on WhatsApp.

When she was arrested police found a photo of her two-year-old son with a toy assault rifle and a jihadist book on her phone, as well as images of her and her older children holding a sword, Kingston Crown Court heard.

The 35-year-old, from Luton, admitted four charges of disseminating terrorist publications between July and September 2013.

She was jailed for five years and three months.

Such an inhuman creature indeed, and a bad example for women everywhere. Yet we can't even get to see what she looks like under that stupid niqab when everyone should be able to know who she is and make snake eyes at her for the horrors she engaged in online.

PLO TRIES TO BUILD ANOTHER WAR ON ISRAEL USING DEAD MINISTER AS MARTYR

A so-called minister in the PLO named Ziad abu Ein died - in a clash he incited - as he and a crowd tried to break onto some land owned by a Jewish village:

The death of Ziad Abu Ein is more than another statistic in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. A member of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Cabinet, Abu Ein died after leading a demonstration that sought to break into land claimed by an Israeli settlement. The 55-year-old died in the aftermath of a clash he initiated with soldiers guarding the site. That was bad enough but, as is par for the course in this situation, the team of doctors who performed an autopsy on him split along national lines. A Palestinian doctor says he died from the blows he got from the soldiers. The Israeli doctors say he had heart disease and died from the stress caused by the incident. Predictably, the U.S. is calling for an inquiry into the incident but rather than get caught up in the question of which doctor is telling the truth, the real answer as to what killed Abu Ein is the commitment of his Fatah Party to perpetuating the conflict rather than accepting a compromise that would end it.

[...] It should also be remembered that when we speak of him being a Cabinet minister, this was not some bureaucrat in charge of the Palestinian treasury or some other responsible officeholder. He was in fact the Cabinet member in charge of staging provocations against both settlements and checkpoints in the West Bank. A convicted terrorist who took part in a bomb plot that resulted in the murder of two Israeli teenagers, he was eventually released in a prisoner exchange before becoming a PA official. His goal was to create violent confrontations and to generate Palestinian casualties that could be paraded before the world as evidence of Israeli cruelty. The only difference between this and other such violent demonstrations is that Abu Ein was the statistic rather than some anonymous Palestinian.

He probably hoped he'd die for the sake of "allah". In any case, good riddance to that filthy creature as well, and nobody should be worrying about him, or letting the PLO get away with exploiting his blood.

IF BLACKS AND LEFTIES REALLY WANT TO LOWER THE MURDER RATE OF BLACKS THENTHEY'D ATTACK GANG CULTURE AND NOT COPS

IF BLACKS AND LEFTIES REALLY WANT TO LOWER THE MURDER RATE OF BLACKS, THEN THEY'D ATTACK GANG CULTURE AND NOT COPS.

There's really only one explanation why they are targeting cops and not gangs:

Obama and Holder and Jarrett and Sharpton and their comrades on the left and in the mass media must not really be concerned with the black murder rate.

THE "MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY" RIGHT-WINGERS ARE WRONG

We shouldn't make the perfect the enemy of the good.

Let's halt our nation's lurch to the left before steering it back on course by going right.

The GOP doesn't yet control the Senate,  and when it does next year it still won't have the ability to override an Obama veto.

That's why we also need to accept the fact the GOP needs to temper its goals between now and 2017, and the inauguration of a GOP President. And do things that make taking the White House more likely.

Many on the right want to have the knockdown drag-out battles now. They cite as proof that this is not pointless the fact that the GOP did great after the shutdown despite the fact that so many predicted it would hurt the GOP. And many of these same people have threatened to sit it out in 2016 or vote 3rd party if a moderate Republican is nominated.

Some even say they'd even rather see Hillary or Warren get elected than a rino - as if 12-16 straight years of Leftist rule would be a better recruiter for the right-wing than Obama's eight.

Actually, their logic here is quite faulty. If, as they believe,  the GOP/rino leadership - aka "the establishment" - is bi-partisan and means that the next year of Obama's rule will be just like the previous 7, won't that also bolster the right wing's chances in 2016? People will see what works and what doesn't and who is on their side and who is not. We don't need to help the left dig us deeper into the hole, into a bottomless pit. Sitting it out does just that. Romney-haters helped elect Obama, and only idiots argue Romney would have been no better.

At worst the current GOP leadership is at least slowing the pace of that descent - and that's better than leaping headlong into the abyss.

So,  let's give the leadership of the GOP a chance. They don't hold all the cards.  They need to carefully pick their fights.

I'm going to give them until the CR- (SHOULD IT EVER PASS!) -runs out in April.

WHAT DO THE CIA, IDF, AND NYPD HAVE IN COMMON ?

THEY ARE ALL UNDER ATTACK OF OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES.

MEANWHILE... OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES APPEASE IRAN, HAMAS AND THE RACE-HUSTLERS - AND RELEASE TERRORISTS FROM GITMO.

TRULY, NOTHING COULD MAKE IT CLEARER THAT OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES ARE EVIL.

WARNING: THE APPEASER DOES NOT ALWAYS GET EATEN LAST

IRONIC:

SPLC writer David Ruenzel , an apologist for Black Crime who, like most leftists who are into the postmodernistic BS known as critical race theory, blamed it on white privilege was murdered by black criminals.

More here.

ACID ATTACK

A jihadist attacked a Jewish family with acid:

An alleged Palestinian attacked a six Israelis with acid on Friday near a tunnel checkpoint in the West Bank.

The suspect was shot in the leg prior to his arrest; he remains in serious condition.

Magen David Adom workers treated the injured on site before evacuating them to Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem. The four girls, between the ages of eight-ten, and two adults suffered light wounds and remain in fair condition.

The suspected perpetrator received initial medical treatment at the scene, MDA reported.

According to the IDF, the attack occurred after the family traveling near the security checkpoint picked up a hitch-hiker, who proceeded to throw acid on the passengers in the vehicle.

The assailant then attempted to attack the father of the family with a screwdriver, but he managed to escape.

As security forces were in pursuit of the suspect, a separate civilian in a vehicle near the scene shot and wounded the suspected attacker in the leg.

Border Police officers then arrested him.

That monster should have both his legs shot up to make him less of a threat and ensure he'll never walk again. This incident is proof why it's dangerous to take hitchhikers in vehicles.

BREAKING NEWS: OPENLY GAY HOLLYWOOD EXEC OUTS OBAMA AS CLOSETED GAY

Ahead of a breakfast with President Obama hosted by DreamWorks Animation CEO and major Democratic donor Jeffrey Katzenberg, Pascal asked Rudin, “What should I ask the president at this stupid Jeffrey breakfast?” 

Pascal suggested, “Should I ask him if he liked Django?” 

Rudin floated another suggestion, “12 years,” (referring to the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave). 

“Or The Butler,” Pascal continued. “Or Think Like a Man?”

“I bet he likes Kevin Hart,” Rudin said.

THERE ARE A LOT OF ACTRESSES IN THE ALL BLACK-THEMED MOVIES WHICH SCOTT RUDIN AND HIS CRONY AMY PASCAL WERE SUGGESTING THEY COULD TALK ABOUT WITH OBAMA.

BUT RUDIN ONLY JOKED THAT OBAMA WOULD LIKE KEVIN HART.

CLEARLY AN INSIDE JOKE BETWEEN THEM THAT THEY KNOW OBAMA IS GAY.

PASCAL HAS APOLOGIZED FOR HER RACIALLY INSENSITIVE REMARKS - (WHICH BECAME PUBLIC BECAUSE OF THE HACK-ATTACK ON SONY WHICH SHE AND RUDIN RUN.)

WILL RUDIN EXPLAIN HIS REMARK ABOUT OBAMA'S SEXUAL PREFERENCES?

JUST ASKING...

LEV TAHOR OWES TONS TO CANADIAN TAX AUTHORITIES

The Islamized Haredi cult has been dodging tax authorities for years:

The tax agency alleges the Lev Tahor group used charities to evade $4.4 million in Quebec taxes, according to Federal Court documents obtained by QMI Agency.

[...] The Canada Revenue Agency has its eyes on Congregation Riminov, the group's Quebec-based charity.

Congregation Riminov didn't provide documentation the tax agency requested in a 2007 audit, court documents say.

The tax agency alleges the charity conducted real estate transactions that had nothing to do with its spiritual vocation. It says Lev Tahor swapped land north of Montreal for no purpose other than to make a profit.

"The very fact that Congregation Riminov was involved in commercial activities (unrelated to its purpose), shows that its registration (as a charitable organization) was used to evade taxes," the agency alleged as it sought a freeze on some of the group's assets.

QMI Agency has previously reported the tax agency secured $4.4 million in liens on 34 properties that belonged to Congregation Riminov.

To make matters worse, the money might've been stored abroad, making it harder to recover. The authorities must do everything they can to get the cult's assets frozen to stop the further misuse of their funds.