JIHAD BRIDES TRAVELLING FROM UK TO SYRIA

The UK Mail spoke about Muslim brides going from Britain to Syria to marry jihadists:

An increasing number of British women are travelling to war-torn Syria to marry jihadists from the UK, with some seeing them as leading a ‘perfect life’.

Many are thought to be marrying jihadists on the internet, as strict Islamic code forbids unmarried women to travel alone, according to researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College, London.

Exact numbers are difficult to pinpoint, but the research centre believes that dozens of British women have married English-speaking jihadists – or are trying to - according to chatter that it monitors on forums.

It knows of two women from Portsmouth, one from London and one from Surrey who definitely have married English-speaking men fighting for opposition forces.

Some of these jihad brides could be converts, and have thrown away their lives in turn for the sake of monsters who don't deserve their attention. And because the authorities make no attempt to establish campaigns to counter Islamic propaganda, more women will trash their lives for the sake of these fiends.

BOOM: I endorse J.D. Winteregg over John Boehner in #OH8

I had a chance to speak with John Boehner's primary challengers in OH-8 and came away extremely impressed with J.D. Winteregg. The man gets it. He gets the dire circumstances that the country is facing and he understands that John Boehner has been a singularly ineffective Speaker of the House. Boehner needs to be unseated and Winteregg seems to be precisely the kind of young, principled, articulate conservative we need.

DRJ: J.D., tell us a little about yourself and your rationale for running against John
Boehner.

JD: I'm a teacher part-time and an adjunct professor and am also working on my PhD at Ohio State. I've also lived abroad and gotten a sense of where socialism leads. At the time, it struck me that Marxism could never really take root here. I came back to the U.S. and worked for Sprint in the private sector down south until my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. So I came back to Ohio and started working in academia.

My time in the PhD program was enlightening: I was exposed to real progressivism, what they say behind the scenes. I've seen that the progressives are trying to destroy capitalism. They are doing so by undermining Christianity, the family, our economic system, etc. During the 2012 campaign, I saw the GOP fail to react to the dire threats of progressivism. It was extremely disheartening. I was seeing that the Republicans had no concept of what they were up against. I felt the GOP had to change. We need real conservatives. And seeing Boehner operate as an enabler, I felt as though I had to run against him. We need fresh ideas, youth, articulate conservatism.

DRJ: When you say you view progressivism as a dire threat, help me understand the nature of what we face.

WHY ARE THESE MEN SMILING?

TWO EYEBROW RAISING SUBJECTS

Haaretz reported about two different incidents that took place, the first being what a resident of the Arabic neighborhoods in Jerusalem said about the mayor:

In two unrelated incidents this month, the Israel Police questioned two Palestinians from East Jerusalem about a Facebook posting that one wrote and a memoir written by the other.

Earlier this week Ameer Abd Rabbo, a photographer, posted a status on his Facebook page describing Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat as the “mayor of the occupation.” The post included a picture of Barkat at the dedication of a new community center in the Beit Hanina neighborhood.

On Tuesday evening, Abd Rabbo received a phone call from the Jerusalem police, asking him to report to the Russian Compound station in downtown Jerusalem for questioning. According to Abd Rabbo, the interview lasted about half an hour and the only subject discussed was the Facebook status. The investigator told Abd Rabbo he was suspected of incitement. “He told me, ‘You live in this city, why did you write occupation?” Abd Rabbo told Haaretz.

In a response, the Jerusalem district police said Abd Rabbo “was called in to clear up a message he posted on Facebook. He was questioned and released shortly after.”

He was inciting in a way, and sure isn't showing any gratitude for the good Barkat's done for the city. The second is about a woman who tried to run a book event under PLO sponsorship:

The second incident involved author Rania Hatem and a memoir she published about her life as a Palestinian woman. Forced to marry at age 14, she was abused by her husband and divorced without her family’s consent.

“It’s not a political book,” she says. “It’s a book about love.”

Two weeks ago, as a book launch that she had organized was about to begin, four Border Police vehicles converged at the venue, and an officer ordered her to cancel the event. The procedure was repeated when she tried to hold a second, smaller launch party at her home two days later, and the following day she was called in for questioning at the Russian Compound police station.

Hatem says investigators questioned for four hours about the book and the launches, claiming the Palestinian Authority was behind the events.

The Jerusalem police routinely disperse crowds at events identified with the PA, including children’s festivals and nonpolitical cultural events.

“I wanted to do a good thing, to show that even if you’re divorced, you can return to learning and speaking about things. I worked on the book for two and a half years, and I saw how they destroyed my dream. I asked them, ‘Why did you do this?” Hatem relates.

“According to intelligence received, the two events were held with PA sponsorship, in violation of a law prohibiting such activity,” the police said in a response, that went on to say that the action was taken on the basis of an order signed by the home front defense minister.

A few months ago around a dozen young Palestinians were arrested on suspicion of fomenting incitement on blogs and social media websites. Most of the activists were connected to Islamist movements. They were questioned by police and released.

Her description of the book is telling. I suspect she's written a very sugarcoated take on a galling subject, her former husband's abuse notwithstanding, and any connection she led with the PLO tells that alas, this isn't the scandal-expose it could've been. Good on the police for stopping the show.

OBAMA INCREASED DEBT $6.66 TRILLION - AND YET, THE ECONOMY IS STILL "SLUGGISH" AT BEST

The debt of the U.S. government has increased $6.666 trillion since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, according to the latest numbers released by the Treasury Department. When President Obama was first inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009, the debt of the U.S. government was $10,626,877,048,913.08, according to the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Public Debt. As of Jan. 31, 2014, the latest day reported, the debt was $17,293,019,654,983.61—an increase of $6,666,142,606,070.53 since Obama’s first inauguration. 

The total debt of the United States did not exceed $6.666 trillion until July 2003. In the little more than five years of the Obama presidency, the U.S. has accumulated as much new debt as it did in it’s first 227 years.

IF DEBT WAS STIMULATIVE - AS THE KEYNESIANS HAVE LONG ARGUED - THEN DON'T YOU THINK THE ECONOMY WOULD BE GROWING AT LITTLE FASTER RATE BY NOW!?!?!

SHEESH.

THE SPENDING BENEFITED CRONIES OF OBAMA AND THE CHICAGO MACHINE MORE THAN ANYONE OR ANYTHING ELSE.

THE DEBT HAS HURT THE REST OF US, NOT HELPED THE REST OF US.

9-11 MEMORIAL MUSEUM CHARGES MONEY FOR ENTRANCE AND OMITS THE CAUSES OF THE TRAGEDY

Pamela Geller's come to the aid of 9-11 Families who're justly outraged that the NYC 9-11 Memorial is going to charge $24 for entrance fees and does everything wrong in telling the history of 9-11:

The Museum officials are oddly secretive. I asked for an interview with Joe Daniels, the 9/11 Memorial President, but was refused. I asked for an interview with any of the 9/11 Memorial Board members, in this I was refused as well. I requested three separate times for media credentials to visit the Museum; Guido told me that the Museum had been closed to the media since December. Why? When I asked, Guido answered: “The Museum doesn’t open until May, so along with construction progress at several points in the last 6 months we have given media preview tours.”

Americans need to take back the 9/11 Museum. And not at the outrageously priced $24 admission price. It is not a theme park. It’s hallowed ground.

One vital question is whether it should be in the hands of the government, since Obama is in charge. The problem is that it would still be under a lot of politically correct arrangements, and that's something we can't approve of.

DISGUSTING

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: DISPOSABLE DOUCHE.

STATE DEPT. DOING A COMICS PROJECT IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE 99'S CREATOR

The US State Department is running a project where they allegedly ask for people to create a "global" superhero, but, they're doing it in cooperation with a very unreliable source:

Early Wednesday morning, the U.S. State Department asked citizens of the world, from Moscow to Madagascar, to design a superhero who represents global values. And since Washington needed a guide through the pow! zap! world of comics, it turned to a reliable source: San Diego’s own Comic-Con.

“No matter where we live in the world, or what our external circumstances are, people are more similar than dissimilar,” said David Glanzer, Comic-Con International’s director of marketing and public relations, who flew to D.C. for this international online discussion. “Righteousness, justice, strength in the face of adversity — these transcend cultural differences.”

Glanzer will be joined in Washington by Evan Ryan, assistant secretary of State for educational and cultural affairs, and — via remote connection — Naif Al-Mutawa, a Kuwaiti psychologist who created “The 99,” a comic book featuring Muslim superheroes.

And to make it worse, the SDCC's involved with this too? What's ludicrous is how al-Mutawa is the most prominently featured speaker here, but not some of Europe's career cartoonists. Just because European comics writers aren't as big on superheroes as Americans are doesn't mean they wouldn't make great consultants. Alas, they must be doing this deliberately, inviting an alleged psychologist who created nothing more than a propaganda vehicle for the Religion of Peace.

What do they even mean when they speak of "global" values? "Moral" could sum it up better, if not perfectly. And people aren't similar if they don't maintain a firm belief in civilized value systems.

Take, for instance, “The 99.” This eight-year-old comic book series has a premise that may — scratch that: will — sound familiar. Ninety-nine ordinary folks suddenly gain superpowers (a la “Spider-Man”), a development that brings them into conflict with super villains (a la “Superman,” “Batman,” “Star Wars” and an overflowing intergalactic toy chest more). If the 99 superpowers loosely follow those the Koran attributes to Allah, and if the archenemy’s lust for power and his twisted theology echo Osama bin Laden, well, Al-Mutawa doesn’t push the parallels too far.

This, after all, is just a comic book.

And now a cartoon series, seen in 20-odd countries on “Cartoon Network” and in the U.S. through Netflix.

Just a comic? That's about as effective as saying Triumph of the Will is just a movie. Based on some of the research I'd read in the past few years, that's dishonest to say the lust for power the book's archenemy has echoes bin Laden's. If Netflix is airing this, I'm beginning to think it's not worth subscribing to them, nor to Cartoon Network. A commentor to the article said:

Our tax dollars at work. Is this really what our state dept. should be doing?

Not if it involves taqqiya masters like al-Mutawa, that's for sure.

FORT HOOD DEMOLISHES SITE OF 2009 JIHAD BLOODBATH

I think this is another sign of political correctness taking place, and an effort to obscure moments in history that should be kept standing to remember and learn from:

For the last four and a half years, Fort Hood’s Building 42003 stood frozen in time, mostly untouched since Nidal Hasan entered its doors and opened fire on defenseless soldiers preparing to deploy to war.

The building, home to a soldier readiness processing center, or SRP in military parlance, was considered an active crime scene until Hasan’s court-martial last year, in which he was sentenced to death in the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting, which left 13 dead and more than 30 wounded.

On Tuesday, a heavy equipment excavator began tearing the building apart, slamming into its red brick walls and ripping out its innards. The demolition is the first step in transforming the site: Fort Hood officials say the building will be replaced with trees, a gazebo and a plaque memorializing the victims. [...]

The building was sealed off for nearly four years until post officials announced in November that they would demolish it.

Not all victims and their relatives agree with them. Kathy Platoni, an Army reservist who saw her friend, Capt. John Gaffaney, bleed to death, was one of the people who called on Fort Hood to keep the building standing as a reminder of what happened.

Platoni found out about the demolition Tuesday in a mass email from the post.

While post spokesman Chris Haug said he believed family members and victims were consulted about what to do with the site, Platoni said Army officials had not asked her opinion.

Platoni mentioned other points of contention between the Army and the Fort Hood victims, including a prolonged fight for increased benefits and recognition due to what many victims say is a terrorist attack, despite the Army’s insistence that the shooting was an act of workplace violence.

“For the building in which this horrific event took place just to be wiped off the map before we have a say in what’s done with it seems like another slap in the face,” Platoni told The Associated Press Tuesday afternoon.

She described her shock at watching video of the building being torn down. Asked if the video provided any closure, she said no.

“I don’t think there will be closure until Nidal Hasan has left the face of this earth, and even more importantly than that, the families of the deceased and the wounded receive all of the benefits [they deserve],” Platoni said.

“Then there will be closure.”

The building could've been kept as a memorial. Instead, they seem intent on obscuring important issues, even if they do intend to build a monument on the spot. And the victims still remain without genuine compensation from the army and government.

UK JIHADIST WARNS LIFE'S TOUGH IN SYRIA, AND MANY COULD RETURN TO COMMIT ATTACKS IN EUROPE

The UK Telegraph reported about a British jihadist who told what it's like in Syria, and the fear that the hell being raised overseas could come back into Britain:

A British fanatic in Syria has warned would-be jihadists that fighting in the war-torn country is “more difficult than people think”.

The unidentified man said being a Muslim warrior was more than just putting on a “tactical vest and grab a Kalashnikov and get a big beard”.

He also attacked the image that Syria was a “five star jihad” following reports by other fanatics that boasted of staying in villas and mansions.

The warning raises the prospect that hundreds of Britons who are believed to have returned to the UK may have found it too hard in Syria and now plan to carry out attacks here instead.

It is feared as many as 250 British jihadists are now back in the UK having fought in Syria.

They certainly could be, and that's because the jihad beliefs call for attacking "infidels" as well as other Islamists. This is what happens when sharia replaces education.

THE BUREAUCRATIC HYDRA

This recent article in the Washington Post discusses the Tenth Edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The number of medical diagnostic codes has been tripled to 68,000 classifications!

Note the following paragraph from the article:

There are different numbers for getting struck or bitten by a turkey (W61.42 or W61.43). There are codes for injuries caused by squirrels (W53.21) and getting hit by a motor vehicle while riding an animal (V80.919), spending too much time in a deep-freeze refrigerator (W93.2) and a large toe that has gone unexpectedly missing (Z89.419).

Absurdity in the extreme! And costly absurdity:

One study funded by the American Medical Association estimated that it could cost doctors’ offices $56,000 to $8 million to transition to ICD-10, depending on the size of the practice. The AMA, one of the larger groups opposed the switch, is still petitioning the federal government to reverse course.

OBAMA: SHAMELESS, COVETOUS, MENDACIOUS - AND LAWLESS

IN PUTTING DOWN PROTESTS WITH UNBRIDLED VIOLENCE, UKRAINE AND VENEZUELA ARE JUST FOLLOWING IRAN'S PLAYBOOK

AND WHY NOT?

AFTER ALL, OBAMA DID NOTHING TO SUPPORT THE IRANIANS REBELLING AGAINST THEIR TYRANNY, SO... IRAN GOT AWAY WITH IT.

• THE PROTESTS AND WHAT AROUSE THEM ARE THE FRUITS OF SOCIALISM.

• THE VIOLENT ATTACKS AGAINST THE PROTESTERS BY THE STATE ARE THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT.

AND OBAMA IS SILENT AS VENEZUELANS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.

I GUESS HE JUST COULDN'T BRING HIMSELF TO INTERRUPT HIS GOLF ON HIS SEPARATE VACATION FROM MICHELLE.

ROMNEY'S DOG VERSUS HILLARY'S LYING, PHILANDERING HUSBAND

IF ROMNEY'S DOG WAS A FAIR SUBJECT FOR DEBATE IN 2012 - (the incident took place 29 years before the election), THEN SO IS BILL CLINTON'S MORE RECENT 1995-1997 AFFAIR WITH LEWINSKY, (AN AFFAIR ABOUT WHICH HE LIED ABOUT) - IN 2016.

If we want to win the Senate in 2014 and the White House in 2016, then we have to fight as ruthlessly as they have - as ruthlessly as GHW Bush did when he defeated Dukakis with Willie Horton.

They've brought guns and lies to a knife fight - and won as a result; we must now bring nukes - and the truth.

LIKUD LAW COMMITTEE WINS CRUCIAL VICTORY FOR DEFENDING LAND OF ISRAEL

An important victory has been won that can help prevent Netanyahu from making concessions to the PLO (Hat tip: Big Peace):

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s political future suffered a major blow Monday when the Tel Aviv District Court ruled that the Likud’s institutions can vote to take key powers away from him.

The Likud’s law committee had ruled that the power to convene the party’s central committee could be taken away from the party leader and given to the head of the central committee, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon.

When an internal Likud court overruled the law committee, Danon took Netanyahu to the external court.

Judge Dafna Avnieli ruled in Danon’s favor and forced Netanyahu’s lawyers, who work for the party, to pay Danon NIS 40,000 in legal bills. In her ruling, she criticized Netanyahu for trying to paralyze the party’s institutions.

The significance of the ruling is that Danon will be able to convene the central committee next month for votes on key issues Netanyahu opposes, including opposing territorial concessions and preventing a merger with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party.

This is a win for democratic process, and good for stopping any Likud leader from making dangerous concessions.

SURVEYING THE HEADLINES MAKES ME WONDER: IS THE WORLD HEADED OVER A CLIFF?

CURRENT HEADLINES:

RIOTING IN VENEZUELA, UKRAINE, AND THAILAND... INSTABILITY IN GREECE, ITALY - FRANCE FLOUNDERING... CHINA'S HOUSE OF CARDS MAY BE ABOUT TO FALL, BUT THEIR SABER-RATTLING IS ON THE RISE... GOLD IS UP 7% THIS YEAR... TALIBAN RISING IN AFGHANISTAN.... AL QAEDA RISING IN LIBYA AND SYRIA AND IRAQ AND THE VIOLENCE IS ON THE RISE IN EGYPT.... TURKEY IS EDGING TOWARD TOTALITARIANISM.... ARGENTINA IS ABOUT TO COLLAPSE.... IRAN ABOUT TO GET A NUKE.... KIM JUNG UN UNBRIDLED... THE US ECONOMY IS SLIPPING BACK INTO THE ABYSS - PROPPED UP ONLY BY THE FED'S QE.....

IS THERE SOMETHING SOMEWHERE GOING RIGHT AND DOING WELL???

HERE'S AN ECONOMIC LIST VIA TYLER:

The following are 20 signs that the global economic crisis is starting to catch fire...#1 The unemployment rate in Greece has hit a brand new record high of28 percent.
#2 The youth unemployment rate in Greece has hit a brand new record high of 64.1 percent.
#3 The percentage of bad loans in Italy is at an all-time record high.
#4 Italian industrial output declined again in December, and the Italian government is on the verge of collapse.
#5 The number of jobseekers in France has risen for 30 of the last 32 months, and at this point it has climbed to a new all-time record high.
#6 The total number of business failures in France in 2013 was even higher than in any year during the last financial crisis.
#7 It is being projected that housing prices in Spain will fall another 10 to 15 percent as their economic depression deepens.
#8 The economic and political turmoil in Turkey is spinning out of control.  The government has resorted to blasting protesters with pepper spray and water cannons in a desperate attempt to restore order.
#9 It is being estimated that the inflation rate in Argentina is now over 40 percent, and the peso is absolutely collapsing.
#10 Gangs of armed bandits are roaming the streets in Venezuela as the economic chaos in that troubled nation continues to escalate.
#11 China appears to be very serious about deleveraging.  The deflationary effects of this are going to be felt all over the planet. The following is an excerpt from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's recent article entitled "World asleep as China tightens deflationary vice"...

China's Xi Jinping has cast the die. After weighing up the unappetising choice before him for a year, he has picked the lesser of two poisons.
The balance of evidence is that most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong aims to prick China's $24 trillion credit bubble early in his 10-year term, rather than putting off the day of reckoning for yet another cycle.
This may be well-advised for China, but the rest of the world seems remarkably nonchalant over the implications.
#12 There was a significant debt default by a coal company in Chinalast Friday...

A high-yield investment product backed by a loan to a debt-ridden coal company failed to repay investors when it matured last Friday, state media reported on Wednesday, in the latest sign of financial stress in China's shadow bank sector.#13 Japan's Nikkei stock index has already fallen by 14 percent so far in 2014.  That is a massive decline in just a month and a half.
#14 Ukraine continues to fall apart financially...

The worsening political and economic circumstances in Ukraine has prompted the Fitch Ratings agency to downgrade Ukrainian debt from B to a pre–default level CCC. This is lower than Greece, and Fitch warns of future financial instability.
#15 The unemployment rate in Australia has risen to the highest levelin more than 10 years.
#16 The central bank of India is in a panic over the way that Federal Reserve tapering is effecting their financial system.
#17 The effects of Federal Reserve tapering are also being felt in Thailand...

In the wake of the US Federal Reserve tapering, emerging economies with deteriorating macroeconomic figures or visible political instability are being punished by skittish markets. Thailand is drifting towards both these tendencies.
#18 One of Ghana's most prominent economists says that the economy of Ghana will crash by June if something dramatic is not done.
#19 Yet another banker has mysteriously died during the prime years of his life.  That makes five "suspicious banker deaths" in just the past two weeks alone.
#20 The behavior of the U.S. stock market continues to parallel the behavior of the U.S. stock market in 1929.
Yes, things don't look good right now, but it is important to keep in mind that this is just the beginning.
This is just the leading edge of the next great financial storm.
The next two years (2014 and 2015) are going to represent a major "turning point" for the global economy.  By the end of 2015, things are going to look far different than they do today.
None of the problems that caused the last financial crisis have been fixed.  Global debt levels have grown by 30 percent since the last financial crisis, and the too big to fail banks in the United States are 37 percent larger than they were back then and their behavior has becomeeven more reckless than before.
As a result, we are going to get to go through another "2008-style crisis", but I believe that this next wave is going to be even worse than the previous one.
So hold on tight and get ready.  We are going to be in for quite a bumpy ride.

BUMPY RIDE? AT BEST!

MAHMOUD ABBAS USES TAQQIYA IN MEETING WITH ISRAELI STUDENTS

A very grave case of a leftist arranging for students to meet a monster:

Speaking to an audience of some 300 Israeli students on Sunday in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denied allegations that he is a Holocaust denier, saying that he is aware of the tragedy that befell the Jewish people.

The event, which took place at the Muqataa -- the Palestinian Authority government compound in Ramallah -- was organized by Labor MK Hilik Bar and the OneVoice organization.

Abbas' rhetoric on Sunday was tamer than it was during a recent speech he made to the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee. Speaking to the group of Israeli students on Sunday, Abbas said the Palestinians are not interested in seeing a massive return of refugees to Israel.

Truly lethargic, but unsurprising that somebody of his Islamic background would resort to that kind of taqqiya. The Labor party member and group who organized this - exploiting students in the process - should be ashamed of themselves.

IT'S TIME FOX BROADCAST ADDED AN EVENING NEWS SHOW

FOX NEWS CHANNEL IS BY FAR THE NUMBER ONE CABLE NEWS NETWORK - WATCHED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL THE OTHER CABLE NEWS NETWORKS COMBINED.

BUT...

IT'S WATCHED BY 1/20TH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WATCH BROADCAST NEWS ON THE THREE BROADCAST CHANNELS - ABC, CBS AND NBC.

AS LONG AS 20 MILLION PEOPLE ARE WATCHING BROADCAST NEWS EVERY NIGHT, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THE LEFT WILL HAVE AN ENORMOUS ADVANTAGE.

THE ONLY WAY TO CHANGE THAT IS FOR FOX TO DO TO BROADCAST NEWS WHAT THEY DID TO CABLE NEWS.

IT'S TIME ROGER AILES PUT TOGETHER A 30 MINUTE NEWS SHOW TO COMPETE WITH ABC, CBS AND NBC.

AND IT'S TIME RUPERT MURDOCH AND PETER RICE MADE THE TIME SLOT AVAILABLE BY OFFERING AFFILIATES A GOOD DEAL FOR THE SHOW.

AILES ALREADY HAS THE ASSETS NECESSARY TO PUT IT TOGETHER.

ALL HE NEEDS TO DO IS SELECT AN ANCHOR - EITHER GET BRIT HUME OUT OF SEMI-RETIREMENT, OR GET SHEP SMITH OR BRET BAIER.

AND RE-INVENT THE FORMAT.

AND GET BILL O'REILLY - AND A FOUR OTHER FOX CABLE NEWS COMMENTATORS - TO DO AN ERIC SEVAREID TYPE COMMENTARY ONCE EACH WEEK - DOBBS, WILLIS, VAN SUSTERN, HANNITY, KELLY.

I THINK THEY'D RACE TO THE TOP WITHIN MONTHS AND GET ABOUT 8 MILLION VIEWERS EVERY NIGHT - AND BEGIN THE PROCESS OF DEMOLISHING THE STRANGLEHOLD THE LEFT HAS ON EVENING NEWS.

ACCORDING TO THE BLS, AFTER 5 YEARS OF OBAMANOMICS THE REAL ECONOMY IS JUST AWFUL

• BLS: LABOR PARTICIPATION RATE 63% - DOWN FROM 66%.

• 2014: 71 MILLION PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 20 ARE NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE.
• 2009: 61 MILLION PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 20 ARE NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE.
• IOW: 10 MILLION HAVE LEFT THE LABOR FORCE.

• 2014: 116,000,000 AMERICANS ARE WORKING.
• 2009: 139,000,000 AMERICANS ARE WORKING.
• IOW: 23,000,000 FEWER AMERICANS ARE WORKING NOW THAN BEFORE THE CRASH.

THE STOCK MARKETS ARE BETTER ONLY BECAUSE OF THE FED.

THE STOCK MARKETS' RISE HAS NOT HELPED THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.

FOOD AND SHELTER AND ENERGY PRICES ARE UP, AND INCOME AND SAVINGS ARE DOWN.

THIS CANNOT GO ON, BECAUSE WHAT CANNOT GO ON WILL NOT GO ON.

A MARKET CORRECTION IS COMING.

WE CAN MAKE A POLITICAL CORRECT THIS NOVEMBER.

WE CAN CHANGE COURSE THIS NOVEMBER.

IN FACT, IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

PIGS FLY: NYTIMES RUNS FRONTPAGE ARTICLE CRITICAL OF OBAMA'S CLIMATE ALARMIST CLAIMS ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA DROUGHT

NYTIMES:

In delivering aid to drought-stricken California last week, President Obama and his aides cited the state as an example of what could be in store for much of the rest of the country as human-caused climate change intensifies. But in doing so, they were pushing at the boundaries of scientific knowledge about the relationship between climate change and drought. While a trend of increasing drought that may be linked to global warming has been documented in some regions, including parts of the Mediterranean and in the Southwestern United States, there is no scientific consensus yet that it is a worldwide phenomenon. Nor is there definitive evidence that it is causing California’s problems. 

In fact, the most recent computer projections suggest that as the world warms, California should get wetter, not drier, in the winter, when the state gets the bulk of its precipitation. That has prompted some of the leading experts to suggest that climate change most likely had little role in causing the drought.

I THINK THIS ARTICLE PROVES THAT THE TRUTH IS BEGINNING TO WIN THE CLIMATE ALARMISM DEBATE.

AND THAT TO ADVANCE HIS SOCIALIST ASSAULT ON AMERICA, OBAMA WILL TELL ANY LIE AND ANY TIME TO ANY AUDIENCE.

POLICE DOCUMENTS REVEAL FURTHER DETAILS OF PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE BY LEV TAHOR

The Globe and Mail has more about the discoveries made of how the Islam-influenced Haredi cult ran their sickening business:

Quebec police started probing the Lev Tahor ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect after hearing nearly two years ago of allegations that teen-aged girls were confined in basements and married by force to older men, according to unsealed search-warrant applications.

The court documents also allege that children from other countries were brought to the Hasidic community to be married after false reasons were given in the immigration process.

Followers were kept under “psychogical control” with medications, and government money given to families was managed by the community leader, the documents say.

The documents are part of applications for search warrants from the Sûreté du Québec. They were unsealed on Friday at the request of several media outlets, including The Globe and Mail. [...]

The search-warrant filings allege a young woman said she was hit with a belt and a coat hanger and a pregnant 17-year told nurses at a hospital she was beaten by her brother, sexually abused by her father and married by force to a 30-year-old man when she was 15.

Investigators were told children had to drink water mixed with an unknown green powder and that “all kinds of pills” were bought from a pharmacy and given to people without explanation.

One man was quoted as saying someone “diagnosed with him a personality disorder and wanted him to take medications. He said that taking medications was compulsory if one disobeyed the community’s orders. He said that [blacked-out name] was beaten with a stick because she was not listening.”

Another person also told police about beatings with sticks, crowbars, whips and belts. “He was forced to take pills during meal times three times a day.”

That person said he was placed in a family he was not acquainted with when he joined the Lev Tahor. “There was nothing to eat. He had to beg. They all had to shave their hair.”

The witness said he saw a woman struck in the face because she did not want to wear the burqa-like outfit for women that has led Israeli media to call the group the Jewish Taliban.

The witness added that “no one could keep money, everything had to be handed to Shlomo,” the document said.

The Lev Tahor’s spiritual leader is Rabbi Shlomo Elbarnes, who is also known as Shlomo Helbrans.

And this repulsive man was allowed to take up residence in the Great White North. Speaking of which, he also filmed a video where he attacked the Canadian authorities, accusing them of committing "genocide" against Lev Tahor:

MONTREAL—Quebec judges, child-protection workers and politicians are waging a “genocide” campaign against Lev Tahor, the reclusive Orthodox Jewish group being targeted by multiple police and social services and investigations, the group’s spiritual leader alleges.

In a video released by the group Friday, Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans delivers an 18-minute speech to a few of the group’s followers before bundling himself into vehicle, the last of the more than 200 Lev Tahor members to leave the province of Quebec. It appears to have been recorded on Feb. 6 at about 6:30 p.m.

Helbrans says that his group, which claims to follow a purer version of Hasidic Judaism than other strains of the faith, attempted to comply with the demands of provincial education authorities and child-welfare officials, who have been waging a months-long battle with Lev Tahor over a home-schooling regime that falls far short of the Quebec curriculum and what the regional Director of Youth Protection has alleged were findings of child neglect, psychological abuse, underage marriages and poor health.

Oh yeah, that's "pure" alright. Denying oneself the necessary energy from the sun (vitamin D) to keep healthy is no way to be "pure".

Helbrans vehemently denies the allegations in the video.

Others who have had interactions with the group, lived in the community or encountered former Lev Tahor members have said the group has the characteristics of a “cult.”

“The creator knows the truth — that we have not committed in the village a single crime. We did not break any Canadian or Quebec laws,” Helbrans says.

He continues down his dark path of lies and dishonesty. He practically broke the law by abusing the children for supposed violation of his sick principles and leaving the province while refusing to comply with the ruling that the children be placed in custody of other Jewish families. He also violates the Commandment of Thou Shalt Not Use God's Name in Vain.

Quebec police recently executed search warrants against Lev Tahor homes in their former Quebec base of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts and their new compound in Chatham-Kent, Ont. Details of what the authorities are investigating are expected to be released Friday afternoon after an application by Torstar News Service and other media to view the search warrant applications.

In the video, Helbrans is holding Torah scrolls and says that Lev Tahor was pushed to flee their Quebec homes for Ontario by a vindictive and unfounded investigation.

“We were expelled from here like we were expelled from many other lands,” he says in the video, which also shows photographs of Jews being persecuted, rounded up or expelled from Lithuania, Poland, Romania during the Holocaust. “We have escaped as a last resort.”

How can they be "expelled" when they fled? But this is a man who also accuses Israel of "persecution". It's offensive how he's comparing the reasons authorities are investigating them with the Holocaust. People like Helbrans never even fought convincingly against the nazis during WW2, and what he's doing is just what the nazis would want.

Helbrans lashes out at judges in Quebec and Ontario, who have handed down repeated rulings against Lev Tahor, as well as the child-protection authorities whose three-month investigation prompted an order handed down by an Ontario judge last week that 13 of 14 children targeted by that probe should be forcibly returned to Quebec and placed in temporary foster care while undergoing physical and psychological check ups. The community was given 30 days to file a judicial appeal of that ruling, during which time the children are allowed to stay in the community.

But the community’s charismatic leader holds particular ire for Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard who, without naming Lev Tahor, said last December: “To those who come here to profit from our freedoms, from our democracy, only to later attack them and ultimately destroy them, we say loud and clear: you are not welcome here and we will fight your, we will hunt you down.”

Helbrans said the message was no different than that coming out of Nazi Germany: that Quebec should be “Judenrein” or clean of Jews.

“When we see clearly that they are going against humanity, that they are persecuting innocent persons and they do not let the true facts faze them . . . what difference does it make if he is referred to as a judge or a minister or he is referred to as (Joseph) Goebbels or Mr. (Hermann) Goering,” Helbrans says, referring respectively to the head of the Nazi propaganda chief and the founder of the Gestapo and deputy to Nazi leader Adolph Hitler.

“Mr. Couillard and other band people . . . want to destroy us, to obliterate us, to make a genocide.”

And again, it's offensive - virtually obscene - how he compares wanting to save children from an abusive lifestyle to nazism. Couilliard wants to do nothing of the sort, and besides, the authorities want to move the children to the custody of other Jewish families - even Haredi ones - in the province. What's ironic is that Helbrans was allowed into the country pretty much based on his anti-Israel/Zionist stance over the past decade, and he thanks them by comparing them to the very kind of mindsets he shows no interest in opposing. Yet I get the vibe he'd never accuse an Islamic regime of the same, and unlike Canadian authorities, they'd surely allow him free reign with his cult. After all, he's taken up their customs.

Helbrans also blatantly abuses the Torah, just like God's name, to justify his repellent world view, and it's high time they put out an arrest warrant against him.

SOUTH KOREAN TOURISTS MURDERED BY JIHADISTS IN SINAI

A horrible tragedy occurred in the Sinai peninsula:

An explosion tore through a bus filled with South Korean sightseers in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, killing at least four people and raising fears that Islamic militants have renewed a bloody campaign to wreck Egypt's tourism industry.

The bombing near the tip of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba was the first attack against tourists in Sinai in nearly a decade.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the blast bore the hallmarks of attacks blamed on the al-Qaida-linked militant groups that have been battling government forces in Sinai's restive north for years.

At least three South Korean tourists were killed and 12 seriously wounded, according to Egyptian security officials. The Egyptian bus driver was also among the dead, the officials said.

The AP has offended again by terming the terrorists as "militants", even if they acknowledge the attackers are Muslims. The Sinai peninsula is unsafe for innocent people thanks to these savages.

2014 NBA ALL-STAR GAME PROVES EVERYTHING WRONG WITH PRO-BASKETBALL

This was the most points scored in the NBA All-Star Game with a combined score of 318 points

NEAR RECORD SNOWS IN TOKYO

BBC: At least 11 people have killed by a record-breaking snowstorm in Japan, according to local media.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes and hundreds more injured, as more than one metre (three feet) of snow fell in some areas. The snow forced airports to cancel flights and closed roads as it barrelled past Tokyo on Saturday. Forecasters are warning of blizzards and avalanches later, as the storm moves north towards Hokkaido. 

Kyodo news agency reported deaths in several prefectures near Tokyo, and other deaths as far south as Oita on Kyushu island. Reports said roofs of buildings had collapsed under the weight of snow in some areas, and hundreds of drivers had been left stranded in miles-long traffic jams. Some 27cm of snow was dumped on Tokyo on Friday and Saturday, and several other cities reported record snowfall.

THIS SNOW WAS NO MORE CAUSED BY MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE THAN IT WAS IN 1883:

The deepest snow on record for the city was 46 cm (18.1”) measured on February 8, 1883 (this is a depth record, not necessarily a single snowstorm record).

THOSE WHO ARGUE THESE TYPES OF WEATHER EVENTS - OR A DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA, OR AN ICE-STORM IN THE MID-SOUTH - ARE CAUSED BY MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE EITHER DELUDED DUPES OR LEFTIST LIARS.

UN MEDIATOR THINKS DISCUSSION WILL STOP JIHAD IN SYRIA

The Times of India says that the UN is apologizing to Syrians for unsuccessful "peace talks":

GENEVA: International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi apologized to the Syrian people for the lack of progress at peace talks in Geneva after their second round ended on Saturday with little more than an agreement to meet again.

As it became clear that the talks had not even broached the subject of a change of leadership in Syria, both France and Britain, who back the opposition, blamed President Bashar al-Assad for the impasse.

Underlining the gaping rift that remains between the sides, anti-government negotiators and a diplomat said Syria's government had added opposition delegates to a "terrorist list" and had seized their assets.

"I am very, very sorry and I apologize to the Syrian people ... their hopes ... were very, very high here, that something will happen here," Brahimi told journalists.

Why don't they apologize for not promoting the idea of using military force to take down the jihadists running amok in the country now, and Assad's own government for being the dictatorship it is? Both warring sides, unfortunately, are as evil as they come, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't both be struck down as part of an effort to change the culture there for the better.

IF ONE'S GENDER IS OPTIONAL NOW, THEN WHY NOT RACE?

IF A "HENRY" CAN CHOOSE TO BE A "HENRIETTA", THEN WHY CAN'T A WHITE PERSON CHOOSE TO BE A BLACK PERSON - AND, THEN (WHEN APPLYING TO A SCHOOL OR A JOB), REAP THE BENEFITS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AS A  RESULT?

JUST ASKING.

SERIOUSLY: THE SOLUTION - AS FAR AS APPLICATIONS IS CONCERNED - IS MAKING GENDER AND RACE IRRELEVANT WHEN APPLYING FOR ANYTHING.

AS DR. M.L. KING JR. SAID: PEOPLE SHOULD BE BASED ON THE CONTENT OF THE CHARACTER AND NOT THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN.

OR THEIR GENITALIA. OR THEIR SEXUAL PREFERENCE.

AS FAR AS HOW PEOPLE "SELF-IDENTIFY":

WE SHOULD DISTINGUISH BETWEEN REALITY AND FANTASY.

JUST BECAUSE A PERSON FANTASIZES THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE NOT DOESN'T MAKE THEM SO.

AND IF A SURGEON MAKES IT SO, ALL THEY HAVE DONE IS ALTER THE EXTERNAL/EXTERIOR FACADE TO MAKE IT CONFORM WITH THE FANTASY.

BUT IT REMAINS A FANTASY, NONETHELESS.

THIS YEAR'S BRITISH FLOODS - AND 1928'S

BBC:

Climate change is "clearly a factor" in the period of stormy weather the UK has been experiencing, the defence secretary has said. Philip Hammond told the Andrew Marr Show the storms and flooding had caused "quite serious damage" to the country's infrastructure. Earlier, Labour leader Ed Miliband said global climate change was an issue of national security for Britain. 

Their comments come as more flooding is expected in many parts of the country. Despite a let-up in the stormy weather, there are 14 severe flood warnings - indicating a "danger to life" - for south-east England close to the River Thames and two for the Somerset Levels, which have experienced weeks of flooding. As well as the impact to the transport network, about one million properties had their power cut off in the last week and thousands in southern England and Wales are still without power, according to the Energy Networks Association.

I SUPPOSE THAT THE FLOODS OF 1928 - WHICH WERE MUCH WORSE - WERE ALSO BECAUSE OF MAN-MADE CO2 AND ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE?!?

IMPOSSIBLE.

THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1928:

BBC: In 1928 the Thames flooded much of central London, with fatal consequences. It was the last time the heart of the UK's capital has been under water.

THIS YEAR'S FLOODS ARE NO MORE CAUSED BY MAN-MADE CO2 THAN WERE THE FLOODS OF 1928.

CLIMATE ALARMISTS, WHO ARGUE THAT CURRENT WEATHER EVENTS ARE CAUSED BY ANYTHING RELATED TO HUMAN ACTIVITY, ARE DELUDED DUPES OR LYING LEFTISTS.

A CALL TO BUILD BY MAALEH ADUMIM

A show of solidarity with Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim took place last Thursday:

Some 10,000 people marched on Thursday to the E1 area between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, where construction has been frozen for years, in a right-wing show of strength aiming at showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the opposition he can expect if he agrees to the framework peace proposal U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to present to Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the next few weeks.

Participating in the rally were government ministers, deputy ministers, MKs, right-wing activists and other public figures. The demonstrators included Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (Habayit Hayehudi), Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir (Yisrael Beytenu) and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud), along with deputy ministers Danny Danon, Zeev Elkin and Tzipi Hotovely from the Likud, sending a clear message to the prime minister.

The rally was organized by right-wing organizations, primarily the Nahala movement headed by settler leader Daniella Weiss. Thursday's demonstration focused on two issues: Construction in E1 and the rest of Judea and Samaria, and Kerry's expected framework proposal.

[...] Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin also quoted Netanyahu.

"This is our land; we have a right to build on it. The large public gathered here today came to say one very clear thing to the leaders: Your obligation is not to the nations of the world but to the citizens of Israel. It is important to build in Mevaseret Adumim and in other places in Judea and Samaria," Elkin said, [...]

Demonstrators held signs calling Kerry a "persona non grata" who was pressuring Israel to make "suicidal concessions."

It's time for Netanyahu to prove he's capable of standing up to Kerry's offensive positions and building in the E1 district.