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Islamic State Releases New Propaganda Video ‘No Respite’

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The Islamic State has released a new propaganda video in English titled ‘No Respite.’

Certainly they are targeting the United States with the release considering their taunts of “Bring it on.”

Heavy is reporting that the title, ‘No Respite,’ comes from Quran verse 71:

And recite to them the news of Noah, when he said to his people, “O my people, if my residence and my reminding of the signs of Allah has become burdensome upon you – then I have relied upon Allah . So resolve upon your plan and [call upon] your associates. Then let not your plan be obscure to you. Then carry it out upon me and do not give me respite.

Heavy also reports:

In the video, ISIS mocks the United States’ military tactics in the region and also spotlights racial tensions in the U.S. It shows geographical information of its expanding “caliphate” and comments on the Sykes–Picot Agreement, which split up the lands of the defeated Ottoman Empire after World War I and drew the modern map of the Middle East.

 

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Obama: Climate Summit to be ‘Powerful Rebuke’ to ISIL

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Time after time we’ve heard Obama and his administration claim that nothing is a bigger threat to civilization than climate change. On top of that, every single democrat candidate makes the same claim.

Recently, Bernie Sanders tried to justify the terrorist attack in Paris claiming climate change caused a drought and they were all just really upset they couldn’t grow crops.

Seriously? What is wrong with these people?

Truly, liberalism is a mental disorder!

So, to top it off, Obama had a press conference at the White House with French President François Hollande urging Americans to unite against the threat of terrorism.

His proposal?

You guessed it, attend a climate change summit in France.

Obama said, “What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be, when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.”

A ‘powerful rebuke?’

If you ask me… France and Russia dropping hundreds of bombs on ISIS controlled areas is a pretty powerful rebuke.

The Islamic State couldn’t give two craps about climate change, or global cooling, or global warming, or weather for that matter.

They care about one thing: killing anyone who doesn’t agree with them.

 

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Saying No to Syrian Refugees is Compassionate

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“Americans are hypocrites.”

“You’re un-American if you don’t let in Syrian refugees.”

That’s just two of the ridiculous comments that I’ve seen on social media. But, I think too many people are losing sight of the bigger picture.

It’s easy to want to help people in war-torn areas. I get it. As Americans, we tend to want to help others.

But… it’s far more compassionate to turn them away right now. Aside from knowing Washington is in charge of vetting these individuals, we need to ponder on why other Middle Eastern nations are not taking them in.

Obama said at the G20 press conference that America doesn’t have a religious test for who we’ll help. Yet, how many of the refugees that are being dispersed are Yazidi? How many of them are Coptic Christians? Aren’t they also in immense danger as long as the Islamic State is around?

Ask yourself how it’s compassionate to bring in someone completely foreign to the American way of life and make them assimilate. It’s not going to happen. They don’t understand it.

Also, don’t forget that there are already groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR operating here and radicalizing more and more Muslims each day.

Let me paint you a picture:

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Among all of those you see in that picture, some of them have been poisoned. Are you willing to chance eating them?

Here’s another way to think about it: Why do you lock your doors at night? Is it because you want to keep people away, or is it because you love those that are already inside?

Yes, there are still a lot of questions that need answering before we just start accepting thousands of these refugees.

It is compassionate to say no. It’s okay to turn people away, knowing that it would be better for them to go to an area of the world that already understands them and their way of life.

One last question:

Why are they not willing to stand and fight for their own country?

 

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Top 5 Political Cartoons of Hillary’s Benghazi Testimony

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Political Cartoonists have a great way of making light of big situations. Here are the top 5 of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony:

5. Putting Hillary Under Oath by Steve Kelleyunder oath

4. Benghazi: Unscathed by Dana Summersunscathed

3. The Clinton Witch by Ken Catalinowicked

2. I Survived by Glenn McCoytestify

1. Cackling Out Loud by A. F. Brancocackling

 

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Trey Gowdy Confronts Hillary Clinton in Opening Remarks

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Trey Gowdy didn’t waste any time during his opening remarks to confront former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the investigation of Benghazi.

Clinton has made previous remarks that this investigation was all about her and it was an all-out witch hunt. Nonetheless, it was her turn to testify to what happened in Benghazi that left four Americans dead.

Some of Gowdy’s opening remarks included:

“Madame Secretary, I understand some people — frankly in both parties — have suggested this investigation is about you. Let me assure you it is not. And let me assure you why it is not. This work is about something much more important than any single person. It is about four U.S. government workers, including our Ambassador, murdered by terrorists on foreign soil. It is about what happened before, during, and after the attacks that killed these four men.”

“Not a single member of this Committee signed up for an investigation into you or your email system. We signed up because we wanted to honor the service and sacrifice of four people sent to a foreign land to represent us – who were killed – and do everything we can to prevent it from happening to others.”

“Our Committee has interviewed half a hundred witnesses, not a single one of them has been named Clinton until today. You were the Secretary of State for this country when our facility was attacked. So, of course this Committee is going to talk to you. You are an important witness, but you are just one important witness, among half a hundred important witnesses.”

In closing his opening remarks, Gowdy noted:

“There are certain characteristics that make our country unique in the annals of history. We are the greatest experiment in self-governance the world has ever known. And part of that self-governance includes self-scrutiny – even of the highest officials. Our country is strong enough to handle the truth. And our fellow citizens expect us to pursue the truth, wherever the facts take us.”

Watch Gowdy’s opening remarks below:

h/t Western Journalism

 

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Iran Discovers Unexpectedly High Reserve of Uranium

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Iran is saying that it has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium, and they will start extracting it at a new facility.

Many thought the country had a relatively low supply and that they would eventually have to start importing uranium for their nuclear programs.

According to Reuters:

“I cannot announce (the level of) Iran’s uranium mine reserves. The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves,” Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

This news casts some doubt on the Iran deal that has been so highly debated.

The question now is ‘What’s next?’

 

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Hillary Clinton Jokes About Wiping Email Server Clean ‘With a Cloth’

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When asked about wiping her email server clean, Hillary Clinton replied, “What, like, with a cloth or something?”

This marks the second joke she’s made in reference to her homegrown email server being wiped clean. Her first was jokingly referring to how much she loves Snapchat because they disappear all by themselves.

This shows her complete disconnect from the reality and severity in what she did by hosting her emails on a home server. A server that was kept in a bathroom closet.

Am I the only one who finds it ironically funny that her email server was stored in a bathroom where it was wiped clean? Seriously?!

Let’s just hope she’s not so untouchable that she will, in fact, undergo a complete and thorough investigation. There is a high likelihood that she has placed our national security at risk.

 

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What John Kerry said that shocked Glenn Beck

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Secretary of State John Kerry said something pretty alarming and it left Glenn Beck shocked.

It’s no secret that Obama and many of his cronies want the Iran deal to be the law of the land. And now they are out trying to scare the American public into supporting it as well.

John Kerry said, “That is a recipe very quickly, my friends, businesspeople here, for the American dollar to cease to be the reserve currency of the world – which is already bubbling out there.”

This statement should be alarming to many people.

For many years now, some of us have been giving warning to the workings of other countries wanting to move away from the US dollar. This is one of the reasons, if not the only reason, for the alliance of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China).

When you look at two of the names listed, you should start to wonder.

Russia and China. Plain and simple, they want nothing more than to move away from the dollar. And, they are seeing this as another way to make that happen.

The Obama administration is playing fool and supporting the push to a bad Iran deal.

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we needed to pass Obamacare to find out what’s in it? The same thing is happening with the Iran deal.

 

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Carly Fiorina on Hillary Clinton’s ‘Track Record’

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Carly Fiorina, Republican presidential candidate went on the attack against Hillary Clinton on “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC.

She begins the interview saying:

“I come from a world where titles are just titles, and talk is just talk. It’s only in politics where titles and words mean a lot. In the rest of the world, it’s actually about what have you done, actions speak louder than words. People want to know are your words and your actions consistent and are they consistent over time. And so, I think when 82% of the American people now believe that there is a professional political class more interested in preserving its own power and privilege than it is in serving the American people, people expect basic questions to be asked of anyone running for president. ‘What have you done, are you trustworthy, are you transparent, will you answer questions?'”

When asked about Hillary’s ‘track record’ she replied:

“[As] Secretary of State she took women’s rights and human rights off the table for discussion with China. It’s also true as Secretary of State that she called Bashar al-Assad a positive reformer. It’s also true that in 2011, when she was Secretary of State, she said that Iraq was a free, stable, sovereign nation. And now we have a nation falling apart, Iranian influence growing, ISIS growing. It’s true that she said that she could reset our Russia — our relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin is on the march. So, I think all of those things I just named go fundamentally to what is her track record.”

Host Andrea Mitchell asked Fiorina about her ISIS strategy, replying:

“I would do very specific things. First, instead of having a Camp David conference to talk our Arab allies into a bad deal with Iran, I would have had a Camp David conference to talk with our Arab allies about how we can support them to fight ISIS. Let me give you very specific examples. The Kurds have been asking us to arm them for three years, we still have not. The Jordanians have been asking us to provide them with bombs and material. We know King Abdullah of Jordan, I’ve known him for many years. He took the appropriate leadership steps when a Jordanian pilot was burned alive. He was here in this country asking us for bombs and materiel, we haven’t provided him with any of them. He’s now looking to China for that. The Egyptian president, a very brave and pious Muslim, who has said there is a cancer in the heart of Islam, has asked us to share intelligence. We are not. The Turks have asked us to help them topple Bashar al-Assad, we are not. There are a whole set of things that we’ve been asked to do by our allies who know this is their fight, and we’re not doing any of them.”

h/t Breitbart

Obama Pushes Strong Sanctions; Putin Laughs

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Crimea "We Are Together" Rally
Participants in the “We Are Together” rally and concert to support the residents of the Crimea, at Vasilyevsky Slope, Moscow.(RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresenskiy)

If you’ve been following what has been happening in Russia, you already know that Crimea has overwhelmingly voted to break away from Ukraine and become part of Russia by a 97% majority. On a world stage, Putin has said that they should be viewed as an ‘independent nation.’

You may have even noticed that Obama has been drawing red lines in the sand with his box of crayons in the form of sanctions.

But what does Vladimir Putin think of all of this? Have you seen the meme? If not, it features Obama and Putin on the phone with eachother and the conversation goies a little like this:

Putin – ‘Knock Knock’

Obama – ‘Who’s there?’

Putin – ‘Crimea’

Obama – ‘Crimea who?’

Putin – ‘Crimea river!’

That pretty much sums up all of the going on right now. Obama draws a red line while Putin sits back and lets everyone mock Obama.

Putin doesn’t care. He’s got bigger plans and Crimea is just a stepping stone. Putin is an old-school KGB dude that looks far more forward than Obama who thinks in the now.

Let’s just look at one aspect: economic sanctions. Obama talks a lot of hype about these. But, have you ever heard of the BRIC and their purpose?

Before we get to that, let’s first take a look at who makes up the BRIC. Brazil, Russia, India and China. Those are some pretty big names, and when you know what one of their main purposes is the names are even bigger. That main mission: to move the world away from the dollar. They’ve been working toward this for quite some time now.

So for strong economic sanctions to be placed on a country like Russia who already wants to move away from the dollar, it brings into question what effect this would have. And to be honest, these super awesomely strong sanctions that Obama is touting only affect a handful of people surrounding Putin.

“There is already a tense situation in the world in relation to the dollar. We all know it very well. The dollar is not a very stable currency. In the absence of other factors, the dollar is declining, and the transition to the gold standard has been mentioned many times, and other currencies were proposed,” said Rustam Tankanov. “In this situation, taking any country out of the dollar zone would simply mean bringing the dollar down. Quite a significant number of commitments in our foreign reserves are in dollars. If they are dumped in the market, the U.S. dollar will significantly suffer.”

“Naturally, the use of the dollar, including as the nominal currency, adds additional branding points to this currency, encourages a more active use of the dollar in transactions. This is an additional argument in favor of the importance of the currency in the global market. IF the dollar is not used in contractual documents, it means less significance for the currency that is not used, that’s all. In this regard, I believe, there will be displacement of the dollar, including from the consciousness, from business turnover, and hence, weakening of the dollar, weakening of the prestige of the dollar as the leading global currency,” said deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Financial Markets Anatoly Aksakov.

Wow! When you put it that way, it looks like the one to really be hurt by the sanctions would be America. After all, some would argue that that’s exactly what Obama wants to do. Weaken America’s stance and create a level playing field for all countries.

Diplomacy through weakness doesn’t work. It only invites aggression. Which, Russia welcomes. They don’t mind being aggressive with American leadership. The KGB of old wanted nothing more than to see an American collapse.

Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly current affairs show: “Russia is the only country in the world that is realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash.”

That is what’s on the flip side of this show. While the White House would lead you into thinking Russia would be hurt by all this red line talk, Russia tells their people that in an effort to ramp up the propaganda war. One way of doing that is egging on a response because you’ve just ordered thousands of troops to the border.

One other thing to think about is the people of Crimea. They are saying that this brings hope for a better life. They say that this would mean more protection from a global player. But in the end one thing remains: Do you really want to lay down with that old Russian bear?