SALMAN RUSHDIE CONDEMNS MUSLIM HATEMONGERING

The author famous for being persecuted by the onetime ayatollah of Iran for daring to speak out against Islam has spoken out again:

Accusations of 'Islamophobia' are being levelled at anyone who dares to speak out against the "hate-filled rhetoric" of Islamic fanaticism, Salman Rushdie has claimed in a speech condemning Isil and "this new age of religious mayhem".

It's also worth noting how accusations of "homophobia" are being leveled at Judeo-Christian practitioners in the USA coupled with lawfare, yet never at Muslims.

Rushdie voiced his fears that the language of "jihadi-cool" is seducing young British Muslims, many via Twitter and YouTube, into joining the "decapitating barbarianism" of Isil, the group also referred to as Islamic State or Isis.

In his PEN/Pinter Prize Lecture, the author said all religions have their extremists but "the overwhelming weight of the problem lies in the world of Islam".

Last week, Isil beheaded taxi driver and charity worker Alan Henning, the latest Western hostage to die at their hands.

The so-called "jihadi-cool" image romanticises Isil, using rap videos and social networking to recruit followers - posing with AK-47s and bragging about their "five star jihad" in videos showing fighters lounging around in luxury villas as they urged the destruction of the West.

Indeed, the latest spate of jihadism has seen a rise in graphic murders, and the one that took place in Oklahoma a few weeks ago is just one of them. (Speaking of which, it turns out the culprit, Alton Nolan, was suspended from his job and not fired, as previously reported.) Some of this could be partly fueled by exploitation of social media, as some call it, and that's why more serious effort needs to be taken to prevent jihadists from exploiting online video and other systems for their indoctrination campaigns.

Rushdie's done the right thing to speak out again. Exploitation of rap music for jihad is only making things worse, and is downright creepy.

THE NEW YORK TIMES IS ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FROM THE NYTIMES:

What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal

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THE NYTIMES HAS NO TIME FOR FAST AND FURIOUS OR BENGHAZI OR THE IRS SCANDAL OR TIME TO COVER ALL THE "MISSING" EMAILS, BUT THEY HAVE TIME FOR THIS.

THEY COVER GAY MARRIAGE, NON-STOP AND CRAP LIKE THIS.

I THINK THAT SAYS IT ALL.

GLOBAL JIHAD IS THE OPPOSITE OF "TERMINATOR"

In the movie TERMINATOR and its sequels, we are under attack by robots from the future.

In real life, it's just the opposite: we're under attack by demons from the past, from the 8th Century.

If we could go back in time, then I'd say let's go back in time and make sure these demons are never born, but we cannot go backwards - unless we surrender to them.

AWESOME VIDEO PROVES CLIMATE ALARMISM HURTS THE POOR AND THIRD WORLD MORE THAN IT REDUCES CO2 OR EFFECTS CLIMATE CHANGE

I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS:

REMINDER: OBAMA'S SINGULAR "ACCOMPLISHMENT" - OBAMACARE - WAS A TROJAN HORSE WHICH ONLY PASSED BECAUSE OF HIS DECEIT AND BRIBERY

OBAMACARE PASSED ALONG STRAIGHT PARTY LINES.

AND THE ONLY WAY OBAMA GOT ALL THE DEMOCRAT VOTES WAS TO LIE AND BRIBE.

1 - OBAMA LIED TO BART STUPAK TO GET HIS VOTE.

2 - OBAMA BRIBED SENATORS LANDRIEU AND NELSON.

AND 3, OBAMA LIED TO YOU AND ME AT LEAST 36 TIMES ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO KEEP OUT DOCTORS AND KEEP OUR HEALTH PLAN:

OBAMA DESERVES TO BE IMPEACHED FOR THESE 3 DECEITFUL ACTS.

NYTIMES: GLOBAL ECONOMY LOOKS BAD, AND IT'S GETTING WORSE - AND STOCK MARKETS ARE OVERPRICED

NYTIMES: ... the week’s zigs and zags were a reminder that, after several years of strong gains, the prices for stocks and a wide range of other assets, like junk bonds and commercial real estate, are at the high end of their historical levels, relative to fundamentals. Those valuations will prove justified only as long as the global economy continues to improve steadily. And the week was filled with suggestions that such may not be the case, especially outside the United States. 

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index showed a loss of 3.1 percent for the week, though it is still up for the year. Oil prices closed at a four-year low. 

Evidence that the global economy may be unexpectedly stalling has jarred prominent economists and policy makers gathered in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. At a conference on Thursday, Lawrence H. Summers, the former United States Treasury secretary who now teaches at Harvard, highlighted this concern. 

“The defining challenge of our time, economically, is secular stagnation,” he said. “It is the risk of inadequate growth, leading to inadequate potential, leading to inadequate growth.” ... 

... thanks to the efforts of the global central banks, prices for stocks and other financial assets have been on an upward tear for more than five years, with the S.&P. 500 index up 182 percent since March 2009. But valuations of many assets are now relatively high, even as the global economy remains somewhat shaky.

Further economic weakening could prompt more slides in the stock and bond markets, which in turn could undermine economic confidence at a fragile time. And investors may be all the more jittery after riding the markets to giddy heights. Some financial experts have long argued that aggressive monetary stimulus has done a lot to drive securities markets higher but that its has not induced robust growth in the real economy.

A pressing question is whether the American stock market and its economy can remain insulated if other parts of the world stall badly. 

WE WILL NOT GROW BY TAXING AND REGULATING MORE.

WE WILL GROW IF WE TAX AND REGULATE LESS.

IF WE CUT ENERGY TAXES AND REGULATIONS AND ELIMINATE CO2 TAXES, THEN WE WILL START GROWING - IMMEDIATELY.

THE ONLY THINGS PREVENTING THIS IS LEFTIST IDEOLOGY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR'S BIMBO FIRST LADY ONCE MARRIED AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOR MONEY

WASHPOST:

A few years ago, Oregon’s first lady, Cylvia Hayes, shared her rags-to-riches journey — from her dilapidated childhood home in Washington state, to a tent on government land in Oregon, to the governor’s mansion, where she now lives with Gov. John Kitzhaber (D). 

But she never mentioned the Ethiopian immigrant she married 17 years ago and divorced in 2002. When stories seeped out this week that she helped him obtain U.S. residency in exchange for $5,000, she said she needed the cash. 

“It was a marriage of convenience,” she said in a statement. “He needed help, and I needed financial support.” 

Hayes, 47, wiped away tears during a news conference Thursday, explaining that when she married the 18-year-old immigrant in 1997, she was “associating with the wrong people” and attempting to pay for classes at Evergreen State College near Seattle. She said she used the money to buy a laptop and cover school expenses. She was so “ashamed and embarrassed” of the illegal union she never even told Kitzhaber, her fiance — until the Willamette Week peeked into her past earlier this week.

Hayes was twice divorced and not yet 30 when she married an Ethiopian teenager identified as Abraham B. Abraham [OTHERS HAVE SPELLED IT IBRAHIM IBRAHIM], who she met through a mutual acquaintance in Washington state. He was allegedly trying to stay in America to earn a college education.

WHO REALLY ARRANGED IT?
HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN ARRANGING ILLEGAL MARRIAGES?
DO THEY HAVE RECORDS OF THEM? MIGHT THEIR BANKS?
WAS THE MAN SHE MARRIED A MUSLIM?
HAVE MANY MUSLIMS BEEN BUYING CITIZENSHIP THIS WAY?

WAS MOHAMMED-PBUH A BAD MUSLIM WHO MISUNDERSTOOD ISLAM?

OBAMA AND OTHERS ARE ARGUING THAT ISIS AND THE ISLAMISTS ARE NOT TRUE MUSLIMS, AND THEIR CREED IS NOT TRUE ISLAM.

ARE THEY CORRECT?

THESE MEN ARE MERELY EMULATING THEIR PROPHET, MOHAMMED-PBUH.

IF THESE MEN MISUNDERSTAND ISLAM, THEN SO DID THEIR PROPHET.

IF MOHAMMED-PBUH MISUNDERSTOOD, THEN HIS PROPHECY IS FALSE AND ISLAM IS A FALSE CREED.

IF MOHAMMED-PBUH WAS A TRUE PROPHET, THEN THESE MEN ARE TRUE MUSLIMS.

THE HAVOC THESE MEN WREAK AND THE SOCIETY THEY MAKE IN ITS WAKE ARE THE FRUITS OF THIS PROPHECY.

YOU BE THE JUDGE.

FORT HOOD JIHADIST SENT THREATENING LETTER TO POPE AT THE VATICAN

Nidal Hasan wants attention again, the hard way. So this time, he sent an offensive letter to Pope Francis at the Vatican, repeating his support for violent jihad (Hat tip: Truth Revolt):

Convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan has written to Pope Francis espousing “jihad,” in his latest correspondence aligning himself with radical Islam.

Despite efforts by the Defense Department to label the 2009 massacre as “workplace violence,” Hasan has described himself several times, and again in the new letter, using the acronym "SoA," or "Soldier of Allah."

Hasan directed his attorney John Galligan to mail the undated, six-page, hand-written letter to the pope. A copy of the letter – titled, "A Warning To Pope Francis, Members Of The Vatican, And Other Religious Leaders Around the World” – was provided by the attorney to Fox News.

Hasan appears to make multiple references to the Koran in the letter, and includes a bulleted list of guidelines for “believers.”

In one subsection titled "Jihad," Hasan praises "The willingness to fight for All-Mighty Allah," describing it as a test that elevates the "mujahadeen" who "are encouraged to inspire the believers." He states that “fighters … have a greater rank in the eyes of Allah than believers who don’t fight."

There is no reference in the letter to the Fort Hood massacre for which Hasan was convicted on 13 counts of premeditated murder, and 31 counts of attempted murder, but no terrorism charges. Hasan currently is on death row at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

I think his lawyer should be held accountable for delivering a letter without checking the content. It's against the law to make threats like those, yet Hasan has been allowed to live long enough so he can continue his sick charade in prison. Pure injustice.

JEWISH ANTI-ZIONISM

Eylon Aslan-Levy wrote about Jews who act against Israel and its best interests:

Edward Said hoped for a one-state solution in which Jews would be a minority, despite admitting that he could not be sure of their safety – “the fate of the Jews” in an Arab Palestine worried him “a great deal.” It is difficult to believe that this concern for Jewish well-being is genuine if anti-Zionists seek to impose a solution that most Jews fear.

But Jews, too, can be anti-Zionists. Jews excel in many fields, and Israel-bashing is no exception. The Neturei Karta cult appears at virtually every anti-Israel demonstration in the world, out of a conviction that the Jews should not have a state before the coming of the Messiah. There is no shortage of Jewish far-Left radicals who endorse the boycott movement or rabble-rouse at anti-Israel demonstrations.

So are these anti-Zionist Jews anti-Semites too? There is certainly no logical reason why a person cannot be prejudiced against a group into which he was born. It is certainly possible to be complicit in one’s own oppression: women can inculcate their daughters with repressive gender norms; Malcolm X used the trope of the “house Negro” to explain the reality of acquiescence toward oppressive power structures.

But it would be a folly to label Jewish anti-Zionists as necessarily anti-Semites.

In rejecting Zionism, they repudiate a specific answer to the Jewish Question. But unlike their gentile counterparts, they are not totally indifferent to the fate of the Jewish people: they too would suffer the consequences of Jew-hatred in a world with no safe haven. Unlike gentile anti-Zionists, ready to subject hapless third-parties to the risks of their own ideological mission, Jewish anti-Zionists would at least pay some personal price for their own miscalculations (Diaspora anti-Zionists, admittedly, far less than Israelis). Their opposition to Zionism might make them misguided or naïve – I would say useful idiots – but it need not necessarily make them self-hating or prejudiced against their people.

Maybe not, but if you know where to look, there are "Jews" out there who know perfectly well what fate could await them too, and don't care one bit. They go by a mentality Winston Churchill once described - appeasers who feed crocodiles hoping they'll be eaten last.

HIP-HIP-HOORAY: UKIP WINS HISTORIC FIRST SEAT IN PARLIAMENT!

I HOPE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF BRITAIN'S MEMBERSHIP IN THE EUSSR, AND THEN THE END OF SCHENGEN, THE EURO, THE ENTIRE EUSSR, AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE.

UPDATE:

GREAT VICTORY SPEECH:

STATE DEPT. ENDORSING HANDBOOK CALLING JIHAD "NOBLE"

The Wash. Free Beacon informs that the State Department appears to be supporting an alleged handbook that supposedly explains Islamofascism to parents, but truly, it's riddled with the very propaganda that doesn't help one bit:

The U.S. State Department endorsed on Wednesday a controversial anti-terror handbook published by Canada’s Muslim community that refers to jihad as “noble” and urges law enforcement to avoid using terms such as “Islamic extremism.”

The handbook, published earlier this month by two Canadian Muslim community organizations, was so controversial that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) flatly rejected the manual and ordered its officers not to use it.

Yet the State Department’s official anti-terrorism Twitter feed, called Think Again Turn Away, appeared to endorse the controversial handbook on Twitter and linked to a positive article about it.

The handbook, titled United Against Terrorism, has become a contentious issue for the RCMP since its release. Several sections of the guide instruct Muslim community members not to cooperate with police while others claim jihad “is a noble concept.”

The RCMP ultimately decided to reject the book, citing its “adversarial tone.”

“After a final review of the handbook, the RCMP could not support the adversarial tone set by elements of the booklet and therefore directed RCMP Manitoba not to proceed with this initiative,” the police force said in a statement posted on its website.

The handbook itself recommends that “intelligence and law enforcement officials” should “avoid terms such as ‘Islamist terrorism’, ‘Islamicism’, and ‘Islamic extremism’ in favor of more accurate terms such as ‘al Qaeda inspired extremist,’” according to one section of the handbook, which still bears RCMP’s official logo.

Reading more about this, it sounds far more like something Islamofascist groups would distribute to their own than to law enforcement officials, and the RCMP were right to reject it. So why is the State Dept. once again giving endorsements that only make it look bad?

OBAMA'S LAX IMMIGRATION POLICIES ARE LITERALLY KILLING AMERICANS

MORE PROOF THAT OBAMA DOESN'T CARE ABOUT AMERICANS AS MUCH AS HE CARES ABOUT FOREIGNERS.

DITTO HOW OBAMA HAS HANDLED EBOLA. AND BENGHAZI. AND FAST N FURIOUS.

OBAMA SEES HIMSELF AS THE LEADER OF A TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT AND NOT POTUS.

WHICH HAS MADE HIM A TRAITOR TO THE REPUBLIC.

OBAMA IS SO BAD, THAT EVEN LINDSAY GRAHAM WOULD BE A BETTER PRESIDENT; HECK... EVEN LINDSAY LOHAN WOULD'VE BEEN BETTER!

JUST SAYING...

HERE'S WHAT GRAHAM IS SAYING:

"I don't know when you've hit rock bottom in foreign policy but, when you're getting criticized by Jimmy Carter, you're damned sure close." 

 - Lindsey Graham

As hard as it may seem to accept, even Jimmy Carter was better, (at the time).

OBAMA'S LEGACY IS SHOVEL-READY

IF YOU ASK ME, IT WAS DOA - 1/20/09.

WE'VE SUFFERED THE LAST 6 YEARS UNDER OBAMA'S AWFUL POLICIES AS BAD AS THE MALL SUFFERED AFTER HIS INAUGURATION.

MAYBE WE WILL SURVIVE ANOTHER TWO YEARS - BUT ONLY IF WE ELECT A GOP SENATE.

IT'S NOVEMBER OT NEVER.

JACQUI LAMBIE IS A HEROINE FOR AUSTRALIA

The Australian parliamentarian's denounced Islamic sharia:

SHE claims she doesn’t have a problem with Muslims, but Jacqui Lambie is still refusing to back away from her call for Sharia law supporters to get out of Australia.

The outspoken Palmer United Party Senator believes the Islamic legal system “obviously involves terrorism” and its followers need to instead follow Australian law “100 per cent”.

“If you are not going to show your allegiance to our constitution and to Australian law, then get out,” she told ABC’s Insiders program this morning

She is also sticking by her push to ban the burqa headdress, arguing it is a security risk.

“I believe it is a national security issue,” she said.

“It is just like anything else, it is like a motorbike helmet. It’s like a balaclava. I will not allow you to wear that into my office because it is a security risk.”

People should be able to show their faces and “they shouldn’t feel that they need to be oppressed, to be able to hide their faces,” she said.

“I think that’s the way for the future of Australia.”

Daniel Pipes made a point once that outfits like niqabs can provide robbers with a perfect disguise, and the same holds true with jihadists. It's also little more than a way for people who don't want to be part of society to separate themselves from it, but telling they're merely sad cases with social problems. Lambie is a very bold woman to speak out against concepts like the burka and/or niqab, and she's additionally right that sharia supporters have no place Down Under.

HOW LEV TAHOR GETS ITS FINANCING

The Montreal Gazette found out how the Islamized-Haredi cult made its money and still does: because some people are naive and stupid enough to give them donations:

With cramped homes, many children in each family, and the fact that few of its members work (because they speak neither English nor French), you wouldn’t expect the 250-member ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect of Lev Tahor to be awash in cash.

Yet last November, when three buses pulled in to Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, community leader Mayer Rosner paid for the $9,650 trip to southern Ontario in cash, according to testimony related to police, and released to the public last month. The community left the neighbourhood it called home for more than a decade ahead of a date in St-Jérôme youth court to address allegations of extreme neglect, child abuse and not providing the children with proper education. The sect was, and continues to be, the subject of a Sûreté du Québec investigation on allegations of human trafficking, producing false documents and kidnapping. [...]

The community lives in extreme isolation, and men and women are not permitted to see each other, except for immediate family. Women are dressed in full chador-type black robes, with their faces covered, hair shaved, and they are always wearing socks, stockings and shoes, even when indoors. Men have shaved heads, and extra-long sideburns and beards. Children are home-schooled, and only taught in Hebrew and Yiddish in order to understand the teachings of the group’s leader, Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans. Helbrans has said he encourages children to marry at a young age, but has denied allegations that he married children who were under the legal age.

I think he can stuff his limp defenses. I'm aware of how women in Haredi sects like these shave their heads, and I've also seen Haredi men at times who shave the tops of their heads too, and just keep the sideburn lines. IMO, it's disgusting. Now for more about the financing:

ERDOGAN KILLING KURDS, NOT ISIS

AP/HUFFPO:

Kurdish protesters clashed with police in Turkey leaving at least 14 people dead and scores injured Tuesday as demonstrators in Brussels forced their way into the European Parliament, part of Europe-wide demonstrations against the Islamic State group's advance on a town on the Syrian-Turkish border.

ERDOGAN IS ON THE OTHER SIDE.

TIME TO KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO.

LIBERAL LOGIC: HAND-OUT CONDOMS IN HIGH-SCHOOL AND CRIMINALIZE SEX IN COLLEGE

THE LIBERALS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE BEEN HANDING OUT FREE CONDOMS TO TEENS IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR NEARLY A DECADE...

NOW THEY WANT TO REGULATE SEX FOR COLLEGE KIDS:

RWN:

A newly amended bill from a California lawmaker would require college students to stop in the heat of passion and establish verbal or written consent before having sex anywhere on campus, reports L.A. Weekly…SB 967, amended last week by state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), would mandate that college students obtain “an affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity.” 

Last month, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released a list of 55 schools that face federal probes into their handling of sexual assault cases. De Leon said his bill is meant to confront sexual assault problems head-on…“Obviously, there is a problem,” he said in the report. “SB 967 will change the equation so the system is not stacked against survivors by establishing an affirmative consent policy to make it clear that only ‘yes’ means ‘yes.’” 

Why not just require a notarized letter from an attorney, or better yet, a license? If we’re going to go this far, maybe college kids who want to have sex should go to a DMV-like office to get permission. Ridiculous.

LIBERALS ARE FUHREEEEEEEKIN NUTS!

THIS IS TYPICAL OF LIBERALS - THEY START A PROGRAM TO FIX ONE THING AND THEN ANOTHER TO FIX THE "UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES".

IT ALL STEMS FROM THEIR MISTAKEN IDEA THAT THEY CAN CREATE A UTOPIA IF ONLY THEY COULD INSTALL THE WRITE REGULATIONS.

IN THIS THEY ARE LIKE ISLAMISTS AND ALL STATISTS.

AND IT ALWAYS LEADS TO DYSTOPIA.

MORE ON THE MORONIC LAW HERE. EXCERPT:

California, the first state to implement this law, will require colleges that want to keep their state funding intact to deploy the "affirmative consent" standard when adjudicating sexual assault cases. This means that campus authorities will have to establish whether the partners obtained "affirmative, conscious, and voluntary" agreement. Although non-verbal consent is allowed, verbal is better. And it has to be obtained at every stage — touching, kissing, and foreplay — not just initially.

INSANE.

BIBLE-TOTING RED STATE NEANDERTHAL MORONS GIVE MORE TO CHARITY THAN HI-IQ LIBERAL ELITISTS IN BLUE STATES

MORE PROOF THAT LIBS ARE PHONIES.

PHILLIPE KARSENTY LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST FRANCE 2 TV

The al-Dura hoax whistleblower is launching a new campaign against the state-owned TV station that supported it:

Philippe Karsenty, the French-Jewish activist who became internationally renowned after he charged the France 2 television network with having used staged footage in its report on the apparent killing in 2000 of Muhammed Al-Durah, a 12 year old Palestinian boy in Gaza, has announced a new campaign against the state-owned network.

In an interview with The Algemeiner, Karsenty explained that his campaign was being mounted in response to an advertising blitz by France 2 across the country.

In 2004, Charles Enderlin, the France 2 reporter who broadcast the story that al-Durah was shot by Israeli troops during a gun battle with Palestinian terrorists – thereby turning the young boy into an icon of the global anti-Israel movement overnight – was accused by Karsenty of having used staged footage, and of not confirming that al-Durah had been killed. As a result, France 2 sued Karsenty, winning its case in 2006. Karsenty appealed, and in 2008 the original judgement was overturned by the Court of Appeal in Paris. In 2012, however, another court annulled the decision in favor of Karsenty, on the grounds that damning footage he has acquired to support his case had been secured illegally; last year, Karsenty was convicted of defamation by the Paris Court of Appeal, and ordered to pay 11,000 Euros in damages. An American organization, the Middle East Forum of leading Middle East scholar Professor Daniel Pipes, paid the fine on Karsenty’s behalf.

Karsenty told The Algemeiner that the case is now being considered by the French Supreme Court. Should he lose his battle there, Karsenty is resolved to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Karsenty explained that his campaign, launched on Facebook, is in response to a massive promotional campaign by France 2 – ironically begun, Karsenty said, on September 30, the fourteenth anniversary of the broadcast of Enderlin’s report on al-Durah.

The France 2 campaign features images of their top presenters above slogans like “En Quete 2 Verite” and “Zone 2 Turbulences.” (In French, the number 2 is spelled “deux,” a word that is pronounced exactly the same way as the preposition “de.” ) Using a picture of Enderlin and al-Durah, Karsenty’s counter campaign is based on word plays: for example, instead of “En Quete 2 Verite” (“Looking for the Truth”,) Karsenty substitutes “En Quete 2 Mensonges” (“Looking for Lies.”)

“France 2 is spending money on advertising while still defending the worst blood libel of our times,” Karsenty, who now serves as deputy-mayor of the Paris suburb of Neuilly, said. “They are still covering up their mistake which is responsible for the beheading of [Wall Street Journal reporter] Daniel Pearl. They were responsible for the first terrorist beheading of the 21st century.”

So France's 2nd major channel is still going around acting repulsive as usual. What's the point of watching such a trashy channel then? This is a definite waste of taxpayer money, and the result of government corruption. It most certainly should be countered, as should France 2's lawsuit, since it's something that every decent French citizen can/will fall prey to.

A VOTE FOR CLIMATE ALARMISM IS A VOTE FOR THIRD WORLD POVERTY

WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR THE CO2PHOBIC CLIMATE ALARMISTS TO ADMIT THEY ARE WRONG - AND FOR THEIR SUPPORTERS TO CHANGE SIDES?

I THINK IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER MISERABLY COLD AND SNOWY WINTER IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE...

... AND IT WILL TAKE A COURAGEOUS ATTACK ON IT BY THE NEXT USA PRESIDENT - ONE THAT MIRRORS WHAT PM ABBOTT HAS DONE IN AUSTRALIA.

• THIS NEEDN'T BE A POLITICAL "THIRD RAIL".

• WE NEEDN'T FEAR BEING CALLED "SCIENCE DENIERS".

• WE CAN USE SCIENCE TO DEFEND OUR POSITION, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO APPEAL TO PEOPLE'S EMOTIONS.

IT IS THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL OF CLIMATE ALARMISM WHICH MAKES IT SO POPULAR.

PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT CLIMATE ALARMISM THINK THAT BY DOING SO THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THE SIDE OF NATURE AND HELPING THE EARTH AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.

THIS CAN BE COUNTER-ATTACKED AND CLIMATE SKEPTICISM CAN BECOME A POPULAR ATTACK IF IT IS CONNECTED TO A POSITIVE EMOTIONAL APPEAL, AND THIS CAN BE ESTABLISHED BY CONNECTING IT WITH A POSITIVE PROGRAM TO TRULY AID THE THIRD WORLD.

HERE'S WHY:

CO2PHOBIA IS THE THIRD MOST HARMFUL IDEOLOGY IN THE WORLD TODAY - AFTER ISLAMISM AND SOCIALISM.

(YES: I KNOW IT'S AN IDEOLOGY USED BY SOCIALISTS TO INSTALL THEIR LONG-HELD PLATFORM, BUT IT IS A SEPARATE IDEOLOGY.)

IT IS HARMFUL BECAUSE IT HAS HAMPERED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD AND RETARDED GROWTH IN THE FIRST WORLD.

I THINK THERE IS A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER THAT NEEDS CONCERTED EFFORT BY ALL NATIONS:

DIRTY WATER

INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON CURBING CO2 AS IF IT WAS TOXIC,

WE OUGHT TO BE FINDING WAYS TO IMPROVE H20 IN TH THIRD WORLD.

DIRTY H2O KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN CO2 - OR ANY GREENHOUSE GAS,

THE FIRST WORLD OUGHT TO BE HELPING THE THIRD WORLD BUILD WATER TREATMENT PLANTS AND A WATER GRID - ALONG WITH FOSSIL FUEL-BURNING POWER PLANTS AND A POWER GRID AND HIGHWAYS.

THE IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE OF THE THIRD WORLD NEED THE SAME THINGS THAT BROUGHT THE REST OF THE WORLD OUT OF POVERTY:

CLEAN WATER AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: FACTORIES.

THEY NEED REFRIGERATORS AND OVENS AND CARS AND AIR CONDITIONING - NOT "CARBON CREDITS".

THE LONGER THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS CONTROL THINGS, THE LONGER THE THIRD WORLD REMAINS IMPOVERISHED.

WE MUST REGAIN THE HIGH-GROUND BY ATTACKING CLIMATE ALARMISTS AS THE ENEMIES OF THIRD WORLD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

AND DEVISING A PROGRAM TO ECONOMICALLY DEVELOP THE THIRD WORLD WITH CAPITALISM AND INDUSTRY.

IT HAS WORKED IN EVERY THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WHERE IT'S BEEN TRIED - SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN, CHINA... EVERYWHERE.

A VOTE FOR CLIMATE ALARMISM IS A VOTE FOR THIRD WORLD POVERTY.

THAT'S THE ARGUMENT WE HAVE TO MAKE IF WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE THE DEBATE AND WIN IT.

OBAMA'S FAILURES WERE ALL PREDICTED

BY TAB IN 2005; AND WE MADE THIS JPEG IN 2009:

AND BY MITT IN 2012:

WE HAVE JUST ONE MORE CHANCE TO SAVE THE USA AND THE FREE WORLD...

IT' NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

DEADLY DUMBING DOWN

The result of abandoning the proper teaching of geography?

With a hat tip to Barnhardt:

“He said he was from Liberia, not Africa…”

From this thread over at Lucianne.com. Emphases mine.

Reply 29 – Posted by: gone2pot, 10/3/2014 5:50:33 PM (No. 10030644)
It´s us. We are the reason for the panic. We vote for it, educate our kids with it, watch it on TV, “like” and “follow” it, and listen to its music. Here´s anecdotal evidence; my wife´s hospital is caddy corner to Dallas Presby, home of the ebola incident. The docs at her hospital left Presby to start a new, less screwed up system. So, they know Presby and keep in contact with former colleagues. Well, according to the old Presby docs, the thirty-something Dallas Presby nurse´s answer to the CDC was, “He said he was from Liberia, not Africa.” So, next time you want to believe the tin foil hat conspiracy theory answer, remember instead that we ARE that stupid and our stupidity is why we create the cases for panic.

Is the above anecdote true? I don't know, but it could be.  And I don't mean only with regard to the aforementioned nurse!  It's not out of the question that a doctor wouldn't know that Liberia is in Africa.

I myself so often see the dumbing-down — and not only among the middle-school and high-school students I teach: here we are in the Information Age with many people lacking enough sense or intellectual curiosity to look up something when the information is at their fingertips via Google search; at the same time, these same people are keen to update their Facebook status or check their email at every possible opportunity.

Now, about that triage nurse in the emergency department....

I do not blame her for not recognizing that Mr. Duncan had Ebola Virus on his first visit to the hospital.  His temperature wasn't high enough according to the protocol then in effect, and he lied to her and said that he had not been around anyone who was sick.  Let us keep in mind that Mr. Duncan lied on those forms in Liberia, too.

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN SUMMONING SWEDISH AMBASSADOR OVER COUNTRY'S RECOGNITION OF "PALESTINIAN STATE"

The foreign minister wants a word or three with Sweden's ambassador:

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman criticised Sweden for planning to formally recognise Palestine, and said its ambassador will be called in by the ministry to discuss the issue.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Loefven said on October 3 the Palestinians have "legitimate demands for national sovereignty," and therefore his nation "will recognise the State of Palestine" at some point. Several other European states, including Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Poland and Romania, have made similar declarations.

If they have, then they're acting just as disgraceful as Sweden's government is.

"Prime Minister Loefven needs to understand that no declaration or step by an external party can replace direct negotiations between the parties," Mr Liberman said today in a post on his Facebook page. "I have instructed the Foreign Ministry staff to invite the Swedish Ambassador to Israel in for a discussion."

The Swedish embassy in Israel today released a statement by text mail to reporters intended to clarify Mr Loefven's comments. "The conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be resolved through a two-state solution, the Prime Minister said, negotiated in accordance with the principles of international law," it said. "A two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to coexist peacefully. Therefore, Sweden will recognise the State of Palestine, the Prime Minister concluded."

The same pathetic cliches about 2-state solutions again, from the most equally pathetic politicians to cough it out. Although "negotiations" is just as poor an argument, and have eternally proven worthless.

When ambassador Carl Nesser did speak about this, he said:

Nesser's call for talks with Hamas comes despite the fact that the group, both in its political and "military" branches, is on the European Union's (EU) official list of terrorist organizations.

When asked if he expected other European states would follow suit after his country promised recognition of "Palestine," Nesser said "the purpose of such a statement about this forthcoming recognition is of course to support negotiations leading to the two state solution, so the objective is to be helpful."

Yes, they're always trying to "help". But he's obviously the kind of dimwit who won't pay attention to the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Update: Diana West has more to ponder:

Israeli amb to Sweden sez growing Muslim immigrant population led Sweden to recognize Pal state http://t.co/21LH23KZWq
— Diana West (@diana_west_) October 5, 2014

This figures. They fling the doors wide open to "immigrants" with horrific views on life and they not only set about establishing sharia, they form alliances with totalitarians in politics who're also perfectly fine with imposing the same delegitimization upon their own countries. A perfect recipe for disaster.

ISRAEL'S MUSLIM POPULATION GROWTH SLOWS DOWN

A recent survey indicates a sharp drop in Muslim birthrates in Israel:

Latest Israeli figures show a sharp drop in the Muslim fertility rate from 4.7 children in 2000 to 3.4 in 2013, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

In addition, the survey, published for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday indicates that the growth rate of the Muslim population is slowing: from 3.8 percent in 2000 to 2.4 percent in 2013, according to Israel’s NRG News.

In comparison, the Jewish growth rate was 1.7 percent, the Druze: 1.5 percent, and the Christian: 1.6 percent.

And it figures this would eventually happen, since the lifestyle as Muslims practice it is even more unsustainable than the Haredi lifestyle.

USA BEAUTY QUEENS VISIT ISRAEL AND LOVE IT

Several American beauty pageant contestants visited Israel and came back with a very positive impression:

During a five-day trip to Israel last week, a delegation of 11 beauty pageant winners from the U.S. got a taste of the real Israel -- which is much different from the common image of Israel worldwide.

"If Israel had a 'cover' title based on what the media portrays, it would be 'danger,' 'warfare,' 'disagreement,' 'pain,' 'death,' 'conflict' … and yet after just the first day I realized that this couldn't be any further from the truth," said Alicia Monique Blanco, Miss Arizona USA 2009.

The trip was organized by The Face of Israel organization, which offers tours of Israel to influential figures from around the globe. During their time in Israel, the beauty queens visited all of the standard tourist destinations -- Jerusalem's Old City, the Dead Sea, Yad Vashem, and so on -- but they also got off the beaten path, with visits to rocket-battered Sderot and Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. In addition, they got a closer look at the diversity of Israeli life by meeting with a wide range of Israelis, including IDF soldiers, Knesset members, high-tech executives and women leaders, among others.

I really appreciate their positive position on Israel, and it helps tremendously, just like it did when Scarlet Johansson represented Sodastream. These contestants all have big social followings and shared their experiences online, making things even better. Here's an extra article on JTA.

TURKEY'S WAR AGAINST THE INTERNET

Michael Rubin at Commentary talks about Recep Erdogan's jihad on internet sites, which has led to quite a few being blocked out of the land:

Now, alas, Turkey is no longer willing to simply go after traditional outlets. While Erdoğan’s jihad against social media is long standing, Erdoğan increasingly seeks to control what can be published online. Quite simply, the Internet—and, more broadly, free discourse—frustrates Erdoğan, who would much rather crush dissent than accept the accountability and transparency a free media encourages or address the merits of his opponents’ arguments. As journalists have moved to online outlets to escape Erdoğan’s authoritarian ambitions, the number of Turkish news portals has exploded online.

But some of these sites have been blocked in Turkey too, and it doesn't look to get any better, since Erdogan has them in the crosshairs next. It's no wonder we can't let the UN and Turkey by extension control the internet.

WAS FIRE AT FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL ACT OF ARSON?

There was a fire at the Flight 93 Memorial construction site:

A flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001, was consumed in a fire at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, the National Park Service said Saturday.

Friday's fire in Shanksville destroyed the park's headquarters complex. State police and the park service are conducting a joint investigation into the blaze, whose cause hasn't been determined, the park service said.

Park staff completed an initial inventory Saturday and said that, in addition to the flag, the losses included a handful of personal items of passengers and crew, DVD copies of the annual commemoration ceremony and meetings of the Flight 93 National Memorial Federal Advisory Commission, and about 100 tribute items left by visitors since 2001.

Park staff saved hundreds of oral histories and a photo collection.

It's terrible even if only a small portion of the archival content was consumed, and what was the cause of this blaze? Is there any possibility Muslims or jihadist sympathizers started it? If that was indeed the case, then a grave obscenity was committed, and the culprits should be punished for their offensive crime against the memory of innocent people.

EVEN JUDAISM HAS ITS PROBLEMS WITH LGBT ACTIVISTS WHO BELIEVE IN CENSORSHIP

The Jewish Press published an anonymous op-ed by a homosexual man who doesn't buy into all that liberal nonsense about homosexuality being "normal".

Following this, the paper got a shipload of mail from the LGBT community demanding the author be silenced and his op-ed obliterated. Only one person did not condemn his right to opine against the practice.

But that shows how Judaism, Orthodox or otherwise, is not immune to the wrath of LGBT activists who've already declared war on Christianity for the same reasons.