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General News and Comment
Missile downs Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine , killing 298; Kiev
Excerpt: U.S.
intelligence officials confirmed, but could not identify the origins of, the
missile strike that led to the deadliest downing of a civilian passenger plane
in recent decades. One Ukrainian government official, however, said the Boeing
777 traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur appeared to have been hit by an
advanced Russian-made missile system that recently came into the hands of the
pro-Moscow separatists waging a bloody uprising in the east. (There will be a
lot of debates and discussions about what the United States can or should do in
response to this reckless, deadly decision. But let's begin by asking, if we
had the opportunity to reach out and strike 23 Russian separatists involved in
the decision to launch this missile, would we do it? I'd like to think so.
Fighting a war is not inherently evil, nor is stupidity, but the combination of
the two is a fertile ground for evil. These guys need to be taught a lesson,
and it's not clear who can teach them. Commercial airliners
fly — usually quite highly — over dangerous or
not-so-friendly parts of the world all the time. Right now commercial jets are
avoiding Eastern Ukraine . Should they avoid Syria , too? Iran ? Iraq ? Afghanistan ? If
so, you've just cut off India
from Europe . These guys need to
pay — and Putin needs to see consequences of his reckless support of
these dumb, brutal goons. -- Jim
Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Malaysian Jetliner Shot Down Near Russian Border. By Daniel Doherty
Includes quotes from news sources and tweets from experts.
~Bob
Excerpt: Writing in the Atlantic , Megan Garber calls out the New York Times for
publishing a troubling photo of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flightthat
crashed near the Russia/Ukraine border.
Obama pledges U.S.
help for Malaysian plane probe, talks to Putin
Excerpt: Obama went ahead with a trip to tout infrastructure
investment in Delaware and to raise money for
Democrats in New York
Crash claims top AIDS
researchers heading to Melbourne
http://www.smh.com.au/national/crash-claims-top-aids-researchers-heading-to-melbourne-20140718-zuaw3.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/crash-claims-top-aids-researchers-heading-to-melbourne-20140718-zuaw3.html
Excerpt: About 100 of the 298 people killed in the Malaysia
Airlines crash were heading to Melbourne
for a major AIDS conference, conference attendees have been told.
Delegates at a pre-conference in Sydney were told on Friday morning that about
100 medical researchers, health workers and activists were on the plane
that went down near the Russia-Ukraine border, including former International
AIDS Society president Joep Lange.
Tweet from Moe Lane@moelane
I never thought that I'd see the day that the US
government would just shrug off a no-fooling war crime committed against our
citizens.
Excerpt: In Wilmington , Delaware , after monitoring
events over a burger and fries at the Charcoal
Pit (temporarily re-named “Situation Room NE
Tweet from Mark Knoller @markknoller
AF-1 wheels up from Delaware .
Pres Obama en route to NYC for two Dem fundraisers. Both closed to press
coverage.
US Marine Corps
commandant openly blasts CIC Obama
Excerpt: On July 15, 2014, speaking at the Brookings
Institute think tank in Washington ,
DC Vietnam , LtGen Victor "Brute" Krulak
was the only senior officer to criticize Johnson on Vietnam , to Johnson's face, in
private. Johnson reportedly escorted him out of the office and denied him a
fourth star and becoming CMC, as all expected. ~Bob. Too little too
late!....... He had earlier opportunities to show some courage. Too much of a
political animal. No points in my book! --GJ. {Other retired USMC officers said
"Too little, too late." ~Bob])
Future without
Electricity: That’s what radical Greens want — and President
Obama’s policies are moving us toward. By Stephen Moore
Excerpt: I wonder how many Americans got the subtle message
here: Energy is the master resource. Without it, we return to a Stone Age
existence. Life in its absence is nasty, brutish and short.
The Gender Confusion Challenge to Army Recruitment. By William
Kilpatrick
Excerpt: Perhaps hoping to put a dent in the appeal of ISIS,
some Western newspapers have made much of the expensive stolen watch visible on
the wrist of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during his first public
appearance at the Grand Mosque in Mosul .
According to several articles, this proved that al-Baghdadi was a hypocrite
because such a show of stolen worldly possessions is contrary to the spiritual
nature of Islam. As usual, the mainstream media is all wrong about Islam.
In FrontPage Magazine, Daniel Greenfield points out that
“looting was the core of Muhammad’s conquests.”, says Greenfield , because it is “innately a gang
religion.” (A really interesting essay about young men and the drive to find
manhood and what that means to different cultures. And how in modern times we
have really moved into more complexity about roles in society than probably
ever before in human history. --Del )
Worth Reading : When America
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/hanson-when-america-fell-apart/
Excerpt: The summer of 2014 will go down in history as the
season when America
fell apart. Let’s take a tour of the disasters. Germany in 2008
enthusiastically hosted candidate Barack Obama for his so-called “Victory
Column” speech. Now Germans suddenly sound as though they are
near-enemies of the United
States .
Agency admits it
fired workers who reported wastefulness to Congress: Millions owed in back pay
Excerpt: The federal government’s broadcasting arm for years
rejected union charges that officials targeted
employees who discussed waste and abuse with congressional investigators,
insisting a 2009 “reduction in force” was completely legal. But in a notice
recently posted in the Broadcasting Board
of Governors (BBG)
offices in Florida and Washington, D.C., officials acknowledged that they
“failed” to satisfy bargaining obligations in connection with the layoffs at
the BBG’s
Office of Cuba Broadcasting.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140716/METRO01/307160034
Excerpt: The incident was the latest in a string of
homeowners opening fire to defend themselves, although after a flurry of such
shootings early this year, before Monday there hadn�t been a reported
incident since May 4 � an indication that criminals are thinking twice about
breaking into people�s houses, Craig said. Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer
robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer
break-ins of businesses and homes, and 30 percent fewer carjackings. Craig
attributed the drop to better police work and criminals being reluctant to prey
on citizens who may be carrying guns.
Gun-Control Fact Sheets:
Save and Share. ~Bob
Excerpt: A six-year-old schoolgirl has allegedly been raped
by two staff members at a prominent school in the southern Indian city of Bangalore , police say. The
alleged assault happened on 2 July but her parents discovered it only a few
days ago after she complained of stomach ache and was taken to hospital. (Have
to ask Whoopi Goldberg if it was "rape rape." ~Bob)
Excerpt: Australia 's
Senate has voted to repeal the carbon tax, a levy on the biggest polluters passed
by the previous Labor government. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose
Liberal-National coalition beat Labor in an election last year, had made the
repeal a central aim of his government.
Excerpt: Buy now, pay later. That will be the epitaph on the
tombstone of the Obama administration. The Congressional Budget Office, a
research outfit that justifies government spending, is warning that while
deficit may appear tame now-- comparatively speaking-- the budget path we are
on is unsustainable.
Tom Steyer struggles
to find big-money donors
Excerpt: Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is falling
far short on his pledge to raise $50 million in outside money to make climate
change a midterm-election weapon against the GOP.
His super PAC, NextGen Climate Action, has raised just $1.2
million from other donors toward that goal, according to still-unreleased
figures that his aides shared with POLITICO.
Jonathan Turley:
Congress ‘Must Act’ Against Obama’s Overreach Or Face ‘Self-Destruction’
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/16/jonathan-turley-congress-must-act-against-obamas-overreach-or-face-self-destruction/#ixzz37hDgFN7B
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/16/jonathan-turley-congress-must-act-against-obamas-overreach-or-face-self-destruction/#ixzz37hDgFN7B
Excerpt: Liberal law professor
Jonathan Turley warned a
panel of lawmakers that they “must act” in support of a lawsuit against
President Barack Obama for executive overreach or face “self-destruction” as a
deliberative body.... “Our system is changing,” he warned, “and this body is
the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are
seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago
rejected by the framers.”
Jonathan Turley warned a
panel of lawmakers that they “must act” in support of a lawsuit against
President Barack Obama for executive overreach or face “self-destruction” as a
deliberative body.... “Our system is changing,” he warned, “and this body is
the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are
seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago
rejected by the framers.”
Obamacare & Healthcare News
SURPRISE! Louisiana
Excerpt: Louisiana
spent $52 million less than was budgeted for Gov. Bobby Jindal’s privatization
deals for the LSU hospitals that provide care to the uninsured in the recently
ended fiscal year, according to data provided by the state health department.
The Next Front in the
Battle
Excerpt: Just this week, we are seeing the latest front in
the political battle over Obamacare, and it is being fought by a bipartisan
group. A majority of the U.S. Senate (51 Senators, including 36 Democrats),
have written to the Obama administration urging them not to go through with
cuts to home health care services via Medicare in the implementation of
Obamacare.
Undocumented Democrat News
EXCLUSIVE: Documents Detail Heinous Crimes Committed by
Gang Members Being Housed in Nogales
Excerpt: Now, Border Patrol documents newly obtained
exclusively by Townhall detail the crimes MS-13 and other gang
members in the Nogales
processing center admit to committing.
In an interview with Border Patrol agents, 15-year-old self
admitted MS-13 member with the last name Aguilar said he killed a member of
rival gang 18th Street
six months ago with a fully automatic Uzi before coming to the United States .
Be Very Afraid: Especially For Your Children. By Mychal Massie
Excerpt: On July 1, 2014, I wrote a syndicated Daily Rant
(TDR) titled “What If Terrorists Used Infectious Diseases.” I
postulated that America
is being placed in mortal danger as illegal aliens, to which I specifically add
the tens of thousands of illegal alien children, are flooding our borders. ...
Not surprisingly, liberals accused me of hate-mongering; they argued that “as a
black man, I should understand the discrimination” these illegals are facing
and that I should be more empathetic. Even misguided wannabe Conservatives
railed against me. Their argument being, that as church-goers, we should want
to help these “poor children”.
Fed-backed group
drops plan to buy fancy hotel to house illegals
Excerpt: A plan to house hundreds of illegal immigrant
children at a multimillion-dollar hotel complex in Texas was scuttled
after the prospect of taxpayers footing the bill for luxury lodging proved
too much of a public relations obstacle. BCFS, previously known as Baptist Child
and Family Services, which has a contract with the Department of Health and
Human Services to run camps at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and Fort
Sill in Oklahoma, had a deal to buy the Palm Aire Hotel in
Weslaco, Texas, for $3.8 million. (Oh, gee, let the vets die from
inattention but put the illegals, drug cartels, and OTMs (other than Mexicans)
in a multimillion $ spa didn’t go down so well…..Wonder why. Send ‘em to Guantanamo . They have a
soccer field and everything plush we’ve already paid for and DOJ does not want
to use and they probably speak Spanish. --Barb)
Unaccompanied
Immigrant Minors To Be Placed In Florida Foster Homes
Excerpt: “In Brevard County Broward County
Obama Talks About
Foreign Crises To Avoid Domestic Crisis
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/16/obama-talks-about-foreign-crises-to-avoid-domestic-crisis/#ixzz37hELU1yL
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/16/obama-talks-about-foreign-crises-to-avoid-domestic-crisis/#ixzz37hELU1yL
Excerpt: The domestic crisis on the Texas border is so bad for President
Barack Obama that he tried to divert the media’s
attention Wednesday by highlighting various foreign-policy crises. Multiple
polls show Americans blame him for the flood of Central American immigrants,
which is showing no sign of ending anytime soon. The flood has already
derailed his top legislative priority and was declared by a Gallup poll on July
16 as the nation’s No. 1 problem.
Religion of Peace News
Israel launches
ground invasion of Gaza
Excerpt: Israeli forces backed by artillery barrages and
airstrikes launched a major ground offensive into Gaza late Thursday, marking a
dramatic escalation of the 10-day-old conflict with the Palestinian militant
group Hamas.
Worth Reading : Palestine occupied by Islamism as much as Israel
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/07/17/palestinians-political-islam-hamas-column/12788093/
Political Islamists push out legitimate Muslim groups and
contribute to regional dysfunction. While Gazans,
their Hamas leadership and pro-Palestinian supporters around the world condemn Israel's Operation Protective Edge, now turning into a ground invasion,
its time Muslims examined the Other Occupation: the inexorable advance of
political Islamism over Islam.
The Truth about
Gaza: Rarely does international politics present a moment of
such moral clarity. By Charles
Krauthammer
Excerpt: Israel
accepts an Egyptian-proposed Gaza
ceasefire; Hamas keeps firing. Hamas deliberately aims rockets at civilians; Israel
painstakingly tries to avoid them, actually telephoning civilians in the area
and dropping warning charges, so-called roof knocking.
“Here’s the difference between us,” explains the Israeli
prime minister. “We’re using missile defense to protect our civilians and
they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.”
Must Watch: Hamas
The unvarnished truth. ~Bob
Hamas Interior
Ministry To Social Media Activists: Always Call The Dead 'Innocent Civilians';
Don't Post Photos Of Rockets Being Fired From Civilian Population Centers
Excerpt: Following are excerpts from the guidelines: "Anyone
killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza
or Palestine ,
before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank. Don't forget to
always add 'innocent civilian' or 'innocent citizen' in your description of
those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza .
"Begin [your reports of] news of resistance actions with the phrase 'In
response to the cruel Israeli attack,' and conclude with the phrase 'This many
people have been martyred since Israel
launched its aggression against Gaza .'
Be sure to always perpetuate the principle of 'the role of the occupation is
attack, and we in Palestine
are fulfilling [the role of] the reaction.' ... "Avoid publishing pictures
of rockets fired into Israel
from [Gaza ]
city centers. This [would] provide a pretext for attacking residential areas in
the Gaza Strip. Do not publish or share photos or video clips showing rocket
launching sites or the movement of resistance [forces] in Gaza . "To the administrators of news
pages on Facebook: Do not publish close-ups of masked men with heavy weapons,
so that your page will not be shut down [by Facebook] on the claim that you are
inciting violence.
Baby Killers of
Hamas. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Every year the kindergartens of Gaza graduate a new class of children dressed like
terrorists and suicide bombers. There are child sized coffins decorated with the
flags of Islamic terrorist groups and colorful balloons. A teacher
explained that, “In every year’s kindergarten graduation ceremonies we focus on
the children to represent the role of struggling and resistance in the way of
Allah.”
Excerpt: Dozens of men at an anti-Israel demonstration in Antwerp shouted slogans
about slaughtering Jews. Approximately 500 people attended Saturday’s protest
in the capital of Belgium ’s
Flemish region, where one of the speakers used a loudspeaker to chant a call in
Arabic that means “slaughter the Jews.”
Excerpt: As Hamas supporters are being called out on Twitter
for posting photos of Syrian casualties from 2012 as victims of the Israeli
Army in Gaza in 2014, Israel advocacy group StandWithUs on Tuesday posted a
clip from Hollywood horror flick ‘The Final Destination 4′ that was used to
create another fake that circulated widely on Facebook falsely depicting Israel
killing civilians. (this won't stop Muslims, the left or the media from
believing everything these murders say. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Gen. Joseph Dunford, the top US commander in Afghanistan , tells senators he is
'not confident' the Afghan security forces will be able to sustain
themselves after US troops leave. (Nominated to be CMC. ~Bob)
Obama Hints at
Extension for Iran
Excerpt: President Obama said Wednesday that there had been
“real progress in several areas” in negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear
program, and he hinted that he might extend the talks beyond the deadline on
Sunday in order to reach a final agreement. (On Monday, the word was that the West's negotiations with Iran
weren't going well: "The mood of the talks has gone from optimistic weeks
ago, as Iran made concessions on items such as the future of its Arak nuclear
reactor, to pessimistic in recent days as it becomes clear a giant gap remains
on the crucial question of how much capacity Iran will retain to enrich uranium
for what it insists is a peaceful nuclear program." (-- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Thank Obama for Iran Eli Lake
Excerpt: The White House eased pressure on Tehran to get a preliminary nuclear deal. But
Iran ’s
economy has bounced back fast, undercutting Western leverage as the talks’
deadline looms.
As U.S.
and allied negotiators try to hammer out a nuclear deal with Iran this week in Vienna , they will have less economic leverage
on their Iranian counterparts than they had a year ago.
Hitler Might Have
Been Right, Says Ex-Mufti
Excerpt: Popular religious scholar Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul
Abidin has waded into the Adolf Hitler controversy today, writing in an opinion
piece that the Nazi dictator “might have been right” in exterminating the Jews.
Despite admitting that not all Jews are bad, the former Perlis mufti insisted
that Jews in general have a bad record, as proven by their many trickeries and
betrayals, including against Prophet Muhammad.
Excerpt: The Islamic State claimed that an Australian
fighter killed several Iraqis in a suicide attack at a Shia shrine in Baghdad today. The Baghdad Division of the Islamic State claimed credit for
today's attack in the Al Shorja neighborhood in Baghdad in a statement that was
released on the group's Twitter feed. Five people were killed and 37 more were
wounded in the suicide attack, according to the National Iraqi News Agency.
Open Borders Are More
of an ISLAM Problem than a Mexican One
Excerpt: I recently just finished reading one of the most
influential books I have EVER read. I learned things about the terrorists and
the Islamic religion that I have never heard before. …. The book is called
“Because They Hate” by Brigitte Gabriel. Personally, I have never heard the
anti-terrorist message conveyed as clearly as she does in this book. (From
2010; imagine how implanted now thanks to regime and its minions. --Barb)
Arab American group
urges boycott of White House Iftar dinner
Excerpt: White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the
annual dinner was not just a way for the president to observe a "religious
tradition" observed by Muslims around the world, but it is also
"an opportunity for the president and other senior administration
officials to pay tribute to the important role that Muslim Americans play in
American communities all across the country." … Earnest added
"we certainly respect the differences that some people may have on
this. … But we would not want that to overshadow the efforts of the
president and other senior administration officials to pay tribute to the
contribution that so many American Muslims play in their communities." (Article
notes tradition goes back at least to Hillary Clinton in 1996. Some Muslims
upset that 5 were surveilled by NSA. Thought USA equal opportunity place;
we are all spied on….Barb)
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