THE END IS NEAR, BUT SO TOO MIGHT BE A GREAT NEW AGE

The world of Islam is devolving into hell on earth... Iran about to go nuclear, ISIS increasing its brutality daily, and war and terror stretching within the islamic world from east Africa to southeast Asia

Europe is buckling under social and economic strain...

China's bubble economy about to burst and drag us all down with it....

The USA under Obama is becoming a second rate military power and a banana republic without the rule of law... drowning under unsustainable debt and an economy that can't employ 1/3 of its people...

Russia is lashing out at its neighbors in a desperate attempt to grow their economic pie, but with global energy aplenty - and cheap, Russia's prospects suck, too, because they really don't manufacture a damn thing anyone wants to buy except military hardware and vodka....

Turkey is getting ready for a national civil war as Erdogan and the AKP desperately try to hold onto power as their young people and their Kurds revolt - and they are flooded with refugees,..

Iran is about to get a nuke one way or another, by building it or buying it, but all this really does is bring the whole damn world closer to total annihilation...

Meanwhile India wallows around unable to develop its people or economy as China did and wary of Pakistan - whose nukes might easily fall under the control of islamists....

Meanwhile in northeast Asia, Japan has reached the demographic point of no return, and South Korea and North Korea edge ever closer to war...

WHAT CAN STOP THIS SEEMINGLY INEXORABLE CRASH OF HUMANITY ON EARTH?

I think only a few things that are on the near-term horizon:

1 - THE ADVENT OF COMMERCIAL FUSION ENERGY - which will provide clean cheap sustainable energy to all humanity and moot the anthropogenic climate change hysteria which has retarded economic growth and squelched improvements to QOL and life-spans for 1/3 of humanity.

2 - CURING CANCER AND MOST DISEASES, and greatly lengthening youthful lifespans. This will decrease most people's desire to use violence, terror and war, but make threats of same a more powerful weapon for a minority - a minority which might finally be eradicated since they threaten much more in a world in which people might live to be 150.

3 - NANOTECHNOLOGY WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING.

I think these three innovations could become a part of everday reality within the next ten years.

I'm just not sure that Weatern Civilization will last that long. 

In the next ten years, Iran, ISIS, China, North Korea, Pakistan, and Putin might ignite a global nuclear war.

Meanwhile, the attack on our civilizations foundations from within by Gramscian postmodern leftists threatens to destroy us from within.

And then there's the possibility of total, global economic collapse.

It seems to me that these three grave threats - (the hegemonistic mania of the totalitarian states and islamism which bring war and terror and destruction, and the socialistic utopian mania of so-called progressives who bring us economic and moral bankruptcy, libertinage, anarchy and decadence) - might easily lead humanity to total collapse within the next ten years.

As Yeats wrote right after the first global war:

THE SECOND COMING

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre

    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

    The best lack all conviction, while the worst

    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;

    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;

    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

    Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

    The darkness drops again but now I know

    That twenty centuries of stony sleep

    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The great pity is that our end will be of our own making.

We have the capacity to stop it, but the current crop of world leaders in the Free World, the Western World, do not have the will.

If I had to lay odds, I'd say the end comes before we make fusion and eternal youth - and a great new age of prosperity and creativity - a reality.

And what happens after the collapse?

The future after the seemingly unavoidable impending cataclysm depends on if a remnant survives, and who that remnant is.

It might very well be Iran. Or North Korea.

Imagine a whole world that looks like either of them.

I really believe the next president may very well be our last. And certainly be the last of this Age.

If we choose poorly and elect someone who carries obamunism forward, then we will surely be choosing our own end.

YES: ON THIS NEXT ELECTION RESTS THE FUTURE OF ALL HUMANITY.

Vote accordingly.

Vote as if the future of humanity depended on it.

And the future of your own soul, too...

ISRAEL PASSES TOUGH NEW ANTI-TERRORISM LAW

The Knesset approved the first reading of a bill for improvements in countering terrorism:

An upgraded counter terrorism law passed its first reading Thursday in the Knesset plenum.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) sponsored the bill. She told journalists it was intended to provide authorities with the many tools needed to “lead an effective battle against terrorist organizations, both in fighting their expanding activities and the funding that enables such activity.

“We believe that passing the Terror Act, in its current version is a necessary and vital step to advance the fight against terror,” she said. “In this fight, there is no ‘Left’ and ‘Right,’” she emphasized.

[...] Under the new law, administrative detentions will be legalized, and those who support terrorism will receive up to three years’ imprisonment. The definition of terror support will include posting praises of terrorism online, waving flags connected with terror activity, etc.

In addition, accomplices to such crimes will receive the same penalties as perpetrators.

The maximum prison term will be raised to 30 years for terror-related crimes as well.

It's certainly time this was done.

VIDEO: CRUZ POLITELY AND TOTALLY DEMOLISHES A CLIMATE ALARMIST AMBUSH

12 FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS BELONGING TO UN STAFF PROMOTING ANTISEMITISM EXPOSED

UN Watch discovered 12 Facebook accounts promoting antisemitism and violence:

UN Watch released a new report today documenting 12 different Facebook accounts operated by UNRWA officials (see images below) that openly incite to antisemitism and terrorism, and urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNRWA chief Pierre Krähenbühl to terminate the responsible officials, condemn the offending posts, and establish a commission of inquiry, comprised of representatives of top donor states (see chart at right), to investigate the culture of impunity for perpetrators of racism and incitement that pervades UNRWA.

“The pattern and practice of UNRWA school principals, teachers and staff members posting antisemitic and terror-inciting images suggests a pathology of racism and violence within UNRWA that must be rooted out, not buried, as UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness has attempted to do by calling for boycotts of newspapers or NGOs that report these incidents of hate,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental Geneva watchdog organization.

“The UN must recognize that these disgusting posts, published on Facebook accounts run by people who identify themselves as UNRWA officials, constitute a gross violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which prohibits “incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence,” said Neuer.

Unfortunately, knowing how the UN's staff operate, there's little chance they'll ever take disciplinary action against any of these ghouls.

ALAN KISTLER DOESN'T KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD ISLAM (OR MUSLIM)

Yet this would-be comics historian thought to write the following comment about a Florida gun manufacturer who designed a model with a bible verse upon it to discourage Muslims from using it:

I... I don't think this person actually knows what the word Muslim MEANS. https://t.co/wu4wLbQeHE

— Alan Sizzler Kistler (@SizzlerKistler) September 3, 2015

Well maybe the person you speak of doesn't know what it means, Mr. Kistler, but then, what about you? Do you know the meaning of the word Islam? Well then, let me school you a bit. It translates in Arabic as "submission" and "surrender", and let me point you to a Muslim in Britain named Anjem Choudhary who confirms it in his very own words (H/T: Jihad Watch):

Although both George W. Bush and Barack Obama have declared that Islam is a religion of peace, Choudary begs to differ.

A Religion of Peace?

“You can’t say that Islam is a religion of peace,” Choudary told CBN News. “Because Islam does not mean peace. Islam means submission. So the Muslim is one who submits. There is a place for violence in Islam. There is a place for jihad in Islam.”

Choudary is the leader of Islam4UK, a group recently banned in Britain under the country’s counter-terrorism laws. He wants Islamic Sharia law to rule the United Kingdom and is working to make that dream a reality.

So now you know what it means, Mr. Kistler. But I guess it means zero to your dismissive mindset, eh? And I guess you're not worried about Islamofascists using guns for violence against infidels either? What a shame. He just can't appreciate some creativity if that's what can help to prevent jihadists from using certain companies' products and leaving the company staff burdened with guilt that their products were used for evil. Let us be clear: no sane business worker wants to be blamed for giving an enemy rope to hang them with. And if the Florida gunmaker thinks this could help prevent their products from being exploited for evil, then they should be given some credit for trying to find ways to keep their weapons from getting into the wrong hands. Kistler, alas, doesn't have the courage to thank them for their efforts.

"PERSONAL GUILT" VERSUS "COLLECTIVE GUILT" IS RIGHT VERSUS LEFT

In  the West, Christianity solved the problem of personal guilt: one inevitably sinned, but could be forgiven if one sincerely repented and changed for the better.

The state of society was left to Caesar; the state of your soul was in your hands alone.

As postmodernism eroded the concepts of personal sin and hence guilt - (by arguing that morality is culturally relative and not universal, and that traditional social mores were repressive and needed to be overthrown) - they were replaced by collective sin and collective guilt: society was guilty of certain "sins"; therefore society had to be changed "for the better". This is the core moral argument for progressivism.

Liberalism in general - and its bastard sons progressivism and leftism - are attempts to solve the problem of personal sin and collective guilt. Individuals don't have to behave in a traditionally upright moral manner, or are absolved if they fail to, as long as they support to collectivist agenda to rid society as a whole of its collective sins.

These collective sins are racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and traditional Judeo-Christianity.

Today, one can personally be guilty of any traditional sin, and even be guilty of personally transgressing a collective sin, but be absolved of these sins if one also supports the liberal agenda.

And the agenda doesn't even have to be effective at changing society for the better for it to be able to assuage the guilt of the liberal who transgresses.

This is how limousine liberals who jet around all the time and own huge homes and rent ginormous yachts and otherwise have enormous carbon footprints can still see themselves - and are seen by other liberals - as climate crusaders.

This is why they can support and want to mainstream all sorts of personal salacious libertine behaviors that have been seen as anarchistic and immoral by most cultures for most of human history.

This is the basis of liberation theology - a religion that puts personal salvation to the side and instead emphasizes collective sins and collective guilt and collective salvation.

This is why liberals blame society for the crimes individual criminals choose to commit.

This is what motivates liberals' desire to control healthcare, energy, CO2, H2O, and regulate all commerce and trade: they see the marketplaces which freely set prices for these things and freely create winners and losers as selfish, greedy personal efforts which create too few winners and too many losers. They feel that a collective overhaul which fixes prices and allocates resources from on high can fix things so that the price is abstractly fair and the goods or services fairly distributed to all members of the collective.

This effort has always failed, and Friedman explained why.

The goal of the liberal is not personal salvation; it is utopia... a sort of collective heaven here on Earth.

History has shown that these liberal collective policies inevitably create a hell on Earth.

So, why do liberals persist in advocating them?

They persist because it makes them feel good about themselves - regardless of what they do personally to positively effect the problems they see and regardless of how abominably they behave in their private lives.

Liberalism allows liberals to behave badly - to sin - in their personal lives and allows them to feel good about themselves becaue they support attacking collecfive sins.

Hence their support for a sexually permissive nannystate that feeds, clothes, and shelters them from cradle ti grave and even allows them drug abuse.

I think Bill and Hillary Clinton epitomize this at the current time.

They ar liars, cheaters, thieves and possibly traitors who see themselves and are seen by many liberals as great people because of their efforts at bolstering the collective.

But they are truly sinful and evil people.

One of the few truly collective responsibilities we have as a nation is national defense: individually we cannot defend our nation from external threats.

And it is no coincidence that liberals always attack this truly common cause.

A strong national defense perpetuates our nation, and anything that perpetuates our nation also perpetuates the West and Judeo-Christian Civilization - things they hate.

A key reason they hate them is that a cornerstone of this civilization - and the system of government it gave rise to after thousands of years of struggle, self government - is individualism.

And nothing is more threatening to a collective hell-bent on creating a utopia on Earth than the individual who wants to live his own life in accordance with how she and he see eternal, traditional and times-tested values.

Salvation is personal.

Unless you are a liberal.

Obama knows this and has spoken about it many times:

This is why fighting liberalism is not just a fight for our nation, for the West and the Free World or Judeo-Civilization; it is a fight for your soul. 

And this is why, if you give into the left, you have surrendered your soul.

BOMBSHELL: Current and former Clinton lawyers in coordinated email cover-up

At least four classified Hillary Clinton emails had their markings changed to a category that shields the content from Congress and the public, Fox News has learned, in what State Department whistleblowers believed to be an effort to hide the true extent of classified information on the former secretary of state’s server. 

The changes, which came to light after the first tranche of 296 Benghazi emails was released in May, was confirmed by two sources -- one congressional, the other intelligence. The four emails originally were marked classified after a review by career officials at the State Department. But after a second review by the department's legal office, the designation was switched to "B5" -- also known as "deliberative process," which refers to internal deliberations by the Executive Branch. Such discussions are exempt from public release.   

The B5 coding has the effect, according to a congressional source, of dropping the email content "down a deep black hole." 

According to recent congressional testimony, at least one of the lawyers in the office where the changes were made is Catherine “Kate” Duval, who now handles the release of documents to the Benghazi select committee and once worked for the same firm as Clinton's private attorney David Kendall. 

Fox News is told there were internal department complaints that Duval, and a second lawyer also linked to Kendall, gave at the very least the appearance of a conflict of interest during the email review. A State Department spokesman did not dispute the basic facts of the incident, confirming to Fox News the disagreement over the four classified emails as well as the internal complaints. But the spokesman said the concerns were unfounded. 

The whistleblowers told intelligence community officials that they did not agree with the B5 changes, and the changes had the effect of shielding the full extent of classified content on the server. The incident was referenced in a Washington Times report mid-August, but this is the first time fuller details have been available. Because the emails are now marked B5, or deliberative, it is impossible to know the content and relevance to the congressional and FBI investigations. 

The internal State Department disagreement was so significant that it rose to the level of Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy, who is deeply involved in the email controversy, as Clinton's server arrangement required his formal signoff or tacit approval. Asked who signed off on the private server on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, "I personally don't know."

RTWT.

THE SCUMMIEST LAWYERS DEPICTED IN "THE GOOD WIFE" WOULDN'T DO WHAT HILLARY, KENDALL AND DUVAL ARE DOING.

THEY DESERVE TO BE CHARGED, TRIED AND CONVICTED AS TRAITORS AND CONSPIRATORS AFTER THE FACT.

THE IRAN CAPITULATION: DEFINING VICTORY DOWN: OBAMA WINS WITH ONLY 33% SUPPORT, WITHOUT GETTING ANY BIPARTISAN SUPPORT

NYTIMES:

Two Democratic senators threw crucial support behind the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, almost assuring that President Obama would have the votes to overcome congressional opponents seeking to derail the landmark accord.  

The announcements by the senators, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Chris Coons of Delaware, came a week before the Senate returned to formally debate a Republican resolution disapproving the accord among Iran and six world powers.  

With the support of Mr. Casey and Mr. Coons, the chances of Congress torpedoing it are becoming ever more slim. Mr. Coons, an outspoken voice on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, received personal, written assurances from Mr. Obama on Tuesday on a range of concerns before throwing his weight behind the deal.  

In the House, Representative Adam Smith of Washington, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee and an important voice in his party, also came out in favor of the deal on Tuesday. The decisions by Mr. Coons and Mr. Casey were hardly made without reservations.

WHEN VICTORY IS DEFINED AS ONLY BARELY GETTING 33% OF YOUR OWN PARTY'S SUPPORT...

... AND ONLY GETTING THAT PITIFUL AMOUNT WITH OPENLY EXPRESSED RESERVATIONS (ASS-COVERING)...

... THEN YOU HAVE NOT REALLY MET THE MINIMAL LEVEL OF SUPPORT NECESSARY FOR SUCH A MOMENTOUS DEAL.

OBAMA CAPITULATED TO IRAN...

AND CONGRESS APPEARS TO BE CAPITULATING TO OBAMA...

NOT A MAJORITY OF CONGRESS, BUT JUST ENOUGH TO MAKE OBAMA AND KERRY'S CAPITULATION TO IRAN A DONE DEAL.

THIS MUST NOT STAND.

IRAN'S BALLISTIC STOCKPILE

It's been confirmed they have a whole stash (via Pajamas Media):

Israel is keeping a “very sharp eye” on Iran’s modernized ballistic missile arsenal and will be “ready to respond” should the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) attempt to export the new Fateh 313 to Lebanon- or Syria-based proxies, a defense official says.

“We assess that Iran has begun to stockpile them,” the official said of the 500-kilometer-range, solid-fueled missile, unveiled in Aug. 22 ceremonies for National Defense Industry Day in the presence of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. “You can be sure we are monitoring any attempt to move these out of the country by air, land or sea.”

He added, in a not-so-cryptic reference to the multiple times weapon shipments have either been seized on the high seas or attacked by air, “Our red lines are very clear to all and we are obliged to act on them.”

…the precision-delivered system would be extremely lethal in the hands of Hezbollah.

“It means that from the farthest point in Lebanon, this missile can accurately hit high-value targets throughout Israel,” he said.

And while Iranian officials have stated that the missile is ready to enter production, Inbar concurred with the defense official who assessed that the Fateh 313 was already in serial production.

And Obama's policies have only made the situation worse by encouraging them to make more rockets.

TEN QUESTIONS WHICH DEMOLISH OBAMA'S IRAN DEAL

1. You have argued that the Iran deal enhances Israel’s security and those of our Arab Gulf allies. 

At the same time, your administration has offered the Gulf states a huge security package by way of compensation and you have expressed frustration that the government of Israel has not yet entered into discussions with you to discuss ways to bolster its security. 

But isn’t this a paradox? 

If the Iran deal bolsters their security, shouldn’t their security needs be going down, not up?

ITS NOT A PARADOX. 

ITS PROOF THE DEAL HURTS THE SECURITY OF OUR ALLIES IN THE REGION AND ONLY HELPS IRAN.

NINE MORE AT THE LINK. (Now fixed thanks to bruce hall)

BILL O'REILLY SHOWS OFF HIS IGNORANCE OF ISLAM

People's Pundit Daily addressed the Fox news host's ignoramus side:

Calling jihad a perversion of Islam is nothing but a demonstrative show that Bill O’Reilly is incredibly ignorant of Islam, or has succumbed to Civilization Jihad. Jihadists claim they are dying for Islam. They have the exact same beliefs as those Muslims who attend Jumma prayers each Friday at their local mosques.

How do we know this to be true versus Bill O’Reilly’s foolish belief that Jihad is a perversion of Islam?

Tarek Fatah pointed out on January 10, 2015 that “[there] is a specific ritual prayer uttered by most Mosque Imams just prior to the formal Friday prayer we Muslims refer to as the Juma’a. In the prayer, the clerics ask Allah among other things to give victory to Muslims over the ‘Qawm al-Kafirun,’ the Arabic phrase that lumps all non-Muslims, that is Jews, Hindus, Christians, Atheists, Buddhists and Sikhs into one.”

O'Reilly isn't just ignorant of Koranic themes. He's also ignorant of the many Islamofascists who've confirmed the opposite of what he says, including Recep Erdogan. He acts like they don't exist. He's not fit for his job.

PREDICTION: THE FINAL FOUR: KASICH, CRUZ, FIORINA, AND PAUL

Paul - who will hold the isolationistic libertarian slice of the GOP electorate - will continue to perform poorly, but persist like his ol man.

Fiorina will steadily continue impress and capture a slice of the electorate that wants an outsider, a woman, and a consistent conservative.

Kasich will become the chosen candidate of the establishment and get the backing of Bush and Christie and Perry and Rubio.

Cruz will get the backing of Jindal, Santorum, and Carson, Huckabee, Walker and Trump.

Trump will become tiring and his liberal views and his propensity to shoot wildly from the hip will turn more people off as we get deeper into the process. He won't have a deer in the headlights moment, but his ignorance of the issues will begin to trump his gutsy intuitive and overly general opinions.

Trump is a combination of Silvio Burlusconi and Beppe Grillo. And as such has a ceiling above which he cannot climb. As others drop out, the remaining candidates begin to approach that ceiling and Trump no longer seems like an unstoppable force.

After losing a few primaries, Trump the egomaniac will come up with a reason for dropping out to support Cruz.