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For Anti-Interventionists, Trump vs. Sanders Is Ideal Race
Post Date: 2015-10-16 09:54:23 by nativist nationalist
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Barack Obama sought as his legacy to bring an end to the two longest wars in U.S. history. On Oct. 15, he, again, admitted failure. The 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will remain another year. And, on Inauguration Day 2017, 5,500 U.S. troops will still be there. Why cannot we leave? Because, if we do, we risk the re-seizure of power by the Taliban we drove out 14 years ago, and a wipeout of all we have accomplished in America’s longest war. When can we come home? Never, if we hope to secure that for which we have already paid with 2,500 U.S. dead. For not only have the Taliban shown they can capture cities like Kunduz in the north, ISIS has arrived to begin its trademark ...
Worse Than Invasion–German Villagers In Lower Saxony Told Their Home Now Belongs To Migrants
Post Date: 2015-10-15 14:23:24 by nativist nationalist
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"The village is on a minor road lined with traditional half-timbered bungalows, vegetable gardens and farms with almost no infrastructure or local shops for daily needs. " Think of what it means to be invaded. How would actually affect your life if your country was defeated and occupied by a foreign power? Your homes would be the property of a foreign people. You would become a stranger in your own land. Your quality of life would plummet as your community would lose its collective control over its own destiny. This is precisely what Germans face today. Villagers in a tiny, rural area of Lower Saxony in Germany are demanding answers after it transpired that their village with ...
The Philippines Is Pissed-Off That Canada Is Using It as a Giant Garbage Bin
Post Date: 2015-10-15 10:55:08 by Willie Green
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That's some good garbage. Photo via Flickr user MeaduvaRead: Montreal Is Going to Dump Two Billion Gallons of Raw Shit into the St. Lawrence RiverVancouver, a city known for its borderline self-righteous waste disposal policies, is being called out by the Philippines for essentially using the island nation as an enormous trash bin.In 2013, the Ontario-based company Chronic Inc. sent 50 shipping containers, or 2,500 tons, of "plastic for recycling" to the Philippines, but closer inspection by that country's Bureau of Customs revealed the bins were filled with regular old trash, including rotting food and adult diapers.The Philippines has not taken kindly to this nasty ...
Toyota to Phase Out Gas-Powered Vehicles, Doubling Down on Hydrogen
Post Date: 2015-10-14 18:45:32 by Operation 40
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Not a drop of petrol- the Hydrogen powered Mirai Toyota Motor Co. wants to virtually eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles from its fleet by 2050, and is betting that hydrogen cars, rather than electric vehicles, will be the long-term answer. The Japanese maker recently introduced the Mirai, its first retail fuel-cell vehicle, and though sales have so far been measured in the hundreds, the target is to reach 30,000 annually by 2020, and even higher in the years beyond. A number of other automakers are experimenting with hydrogen power; Hyundai already offers a fuel-cell version of its Tucson SUV, and Honda will launch a retail model next year. While most competitors are focusing on ...
Germany to expand hydrogen-filling infrastructure to 400 stations by 2023
Post Date: 2015-10-14 09:03:38 by Operation 40
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Renewable Hydrogen station in Hamburg, Germany Six industrial companies – Air Liquide, Daimler, Linde, OMV, Shell and Total – have formed a cross-sector joint venture, H2 MOBILITY Deutschland GmbH & Co KG. The creation of the limited partnership paves the way for a staged expansion of hydrogen (H2) filling stations across Germany, which will bring the total to around 400 by 2023. The Berlin-based company has started operations and is working intensively in preparation for Stage One of the joint action plan. This envisages the accelerated set-up of 100 filling stations over the next few years. Senior representatives of the H2 MOBILITY venture partners met yesterday at launch ...
Russian troops are building a base at Crusader Castle Krak des Chevaliers west of Homs
Post Date: 2015-10-14 03:08:54 by Pericles
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إبراهيم الحسيني @homsian Many reports indicate that #Russia|n troops are building a base in the well known Krak des Chevaliers west of #Homs Click for Full Text!
SAUDIS, ISIS, AL-QAEDA AGREE: TIME FOR JIHAD AGAINST RUSSIA
Post Date: 2015-10-13 20:07:05 by nativist nationalist
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The leader of al-Qaeda linked group al-Nusra Front is encouraging jihadists in the Caucasus to attack Russia. His call follows similar condemnation of Russia from rival jihadi group the Islamic State (ISIS) and a number of Saudi clerics. “If the Russian army kills the people of Syria, then kill their people. And if they kill our soldiers, then kill their soldiers. An eye for an eye,” declared Abu Mohamed al-Jolani. Russia began airstrikes on September 30. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the UN Security Council the government received a request from Assad to strike the rebels. Russia has stated they are only targeting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), but insiders ...
Climate Change May Destroy Global Food Chains
Post Date: 2015-10-13 12:43:09 by Willie Green
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Disney's Pocahontas got it right when singing to John Smith that "every species is connected in a circle that never ends."What she didn't explain is what happens when a single plant, animal or organism is removed from this balanced system? But given the increasing amount of carbon build up, we may soon find out, a new study reveals. Researchers from the University of Adelaide recently conducted a global analysis of marine responses to increasing carbon dioxide emissions, and their findings suggest fisheries and ocean ecosystems have a tough road ahead of them. Expected ocean acidification and warming will greatly reduce marine biodiversity and key species that support ...
Why Do the Merkel Youth Come from Inbred Countries?
Post Date: 2015-10-13 12:11:46 by nativist nationalist
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What with demand for Volkswagens soaring, German Chancellor Merkel’s decision to let in (literally) countless numbers of newcomers from the Muslim world is being hailed as an economic masterstroke that will counteract the deleterious wage-boosting effects of the number of working- age residents in Germany being otherwise expected to plunge from 49.2 million in 2013 all the way down to 48.8 million in 2020. But, strange as it may seem from reading The Economist, the word “demographics” means more than just “age.” One of the more interesting aspect of demographics is the “consanguinity” rate, or percentage of all marriages that are between first or second ...
Syrian troops gain as Putin defends strikes [cluster munitions]
Post Date: 2015-10-13 10:05:06 by Tooconservative
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes advanced against insurgents in the center of the country as President Vladimir Putin defended Moscow's intervention in the conflict, saying it would aid efforts to reach a political settlement. Putin said Moscow's objective was to stabilize the Syrian government and create conditions for a political compromise. "When a division of international terrorists stands near the capital, then there is probably little desire for the Syrian government to negotiate, most likely feeling itself under siege in its own capital," he said in an interview with Russian state television broadcast on Sunday. Critics of ...
Don’t Take Your Guns to Town, Paul
Post Date: 2015-10-13 01:03:28 by nativist nationalist
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The honor of it all aside, Rep. Paul Ryan would do well to decline the speakership of the House. For it is a poisoned chalice that is being offered to him. The Republican Party is not, as some commentators wail, in “chaos” today. It is in rebellion, in revolt, as it was in the early 1960s when Barry Goldwater’s true believers rejected Eisenhower Republicanism and Nelson Rockefeller to nominate the Arizona Senator for president. A similar and bristling hostility to today’s establishment has arisen, in the GOP Congress, the country, and the presidential race. The acrimony attendant to this militants revolt explains why Speaker John Boehner packed it in, singing ...
How Putin outwitted the West
Post Date: 2015-10-12 10:54:56 by Tooconservative
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How Putin outwitted the West His Syrian intervention has made Obama and Cameron look weak and confusedSaddam Hussein hanged: is Iraq a better place? A safer place? Gaddafi murdered in front of the viewers: is Libya a better place? Now we are demonising Assad. Can we try to draw lessons? — Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, United Nations, 1 October Russia was right about Iraq and Libya, and America and Britain were dead wrong. Regime change doesn’t seem to have changed Middle Eastern countries for the better, as Vladimir Putin has been warning for years. His policy is not to support any armed groups ‘that attempt to resolve internal problems through force’ — ...
Russia's Putin, Saudi Defense Minister Agree to Cooperate in Syria
Post Date: 2015-10-11 19:50:14 by Pericles
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Russia's Putin, Saudi Defense Minister Agree to Cooperate in Syria by Reuters Oct 11 2015, 2:44 pm ET SOCHI — Russian warplanes pounded Syrian rebels unaffiliated with ISIS on Sunday, insurgents said, helping Moscow's ally, Bashar Assad, reclaim territory and dealing a fresh setback to the strategy of Washington and its allies. President Vladimir Putin — who has infuriated Assad's enemies in the United States, Europe, Turkey and the Arab world by bombing the rebels to protect him — reached out to one of the Syrian leader's fiercest opponents by meeting the powerful defense minister of Saudi Arabia. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that ...
Who Is a Better Strategist: Obama or Putin?
Post Date: 2015-10-11 09:46:52 by Tooconservative
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Who Is a Better Strategist: Obama or Putin? Pitting a former KGB agent against a former community organizer and seeing what happens in Syria. Who’s the better grand strategist: Barack Obama or Vladimir Putin? That’s not quite the right question, of course, because both leaders depend to some degree on intelligence reports and advice from trusted advisors and not just their own judgment. Accordingly, any assessment of their relative performance is to some degree an evaluation not just of the individual leaders but also their respective foreign-policy brain trusts. Still, the buck does stop at the top, and Russia’s recent move into Syria has a lot of people wondering if the ...
ObamaTrade trashes American jobs and sovereignty
Post Date: 2015-10-09 16:41:47 by nativist nationalist
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The Obama administration has reached a deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership aka Obamatrade. This sweeping international regulatory agreement, spanning 12 countries on four continents, would impact all the food, drugs, energy and communications we rely on every day, the way we do business and even how we are governed. Yet, like the Iranian nuclear pact, the details of Obamatrade remain shrouded in mystery. The administration has refused to release any details of the pact. But thanks to patriotic lawmakers including Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has read the agreement, we know Obamatrade poses a dire threat to our jobs and our Constitution. The TransPacific Partnership is more than ...
The Scorpion and the Frog In Germany
Post Date: 2015-10-09 15:00:31 by nativist nationalist
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NYT op-ed columnist Roger Cohen argues for importing vast numbers of anti- Semites into Europe as payback for Christendom’s past anti-Semitism. Or something: Indifference Kills OCT. 8, 2015 Roger Cohen MILAN — “Indifference” is the word engraved on the stark wall at the entrance to Milan’s Holocaust memorial, housed beneath the central railway station from which Jews were deported to Auschwitz and other Nazi camps. The premises vibrate when trains depart overhead, as if mirroring the shudder the place provokes. A survivor of the deportation, Liliana Segre, whose father, Alberto, was killed at Auschwitz, suggested that “indifference” was the most ...
“Europe Can’t Become A Fortress”–Merkel Unclear on Concept That Locking in and Locking Out Are Different
Post Date: 2015-10-09 13:10:36 by nativist nationalist
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Remember that Ariel Castro guy in Cleveland who kidnapped three girls and kept them locked in his house for a decade? Well, that was wrong. But it would also be wrong to keep Ariel Castro locked out of moving to your country, according to the logic of one of the favorites for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. Commenter Prokop calls attention to this article in The Local of Sweden: ‘Europe can’t become a fortress’: Merkel Published: 08 Oct 2015 08:53 GMT+02:00 There will be no quick-and-easy solutions in the refugee crisis – “but the situation is here now” and there’s no going back, Chancellor Angela Merkel told television viewers on Wednesday night. ...
What California can learn from Saudi Arabia’s water mystery
Post Date: 2015-10-09 05:05:47 by Willie Green
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A decade ago, reports began emerging of a strange occurrence in the Saudi Arabian desert. Ancient desert springs were drying up. The springs fed the lush oases depicted in the Bible and Quran, and as the water disappeared, these verdant gardens of life were returning to sand. “I remember flowing springs when I was a boy in the Eastern Province. Now all of these have dried up,” the head of the country’s Ministry of Water told The New York Times in 2003. The springs had bubbled up for thousands of years from a massive aquifer system that lay underneath Saudi Arabia. Hydrologists calculated it was one of the world’s largest underground systems, holding as much groundwater ...
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. officials conclude Iran deal violates federal law
Post Date: 2015-10-09 01:52:35 by nolu chan
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. officials conclude Iran deal violates federal law By James Rosen FoxNews.com Published October 08, 2015 Some senior U.S. officials involved in the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal have privately concluded that a key sanctions relief provision – a concession to Iran that will open the doors to tens of billions of dollars in U.S.-backed commerce with the Islamic regime – conflicts with existing federal statutes and cannot be implemented without violating those laws, Fox News has learned. At issue is a passage tucked away in ancillary paperwork attached to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, as the Iran nuclear deal is formally known. ...
GERMANS TOLD: RETIRE LATER, SCRAP MINIMUM WAGE TO PAY FOR MIGRANTS
Post Date: 2015-10-08 15:23:36 by nativist nationalist
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The head of one of Europe’s leading economic think tanks has called on Germany’s government to scrap the minimum wage and raise the country’s retirement age in order to cope with the huge influx of migrants now underway. Only by introducing such measures can the enormous costs associated with the flow be borne, he said. Germany will spend €6 billion on caring for the 800,000 migrants expected to arrive in the country by the end of this year. Last year just 400,000 people came to Germany, so the country has been hit hard financially as well as socially by the unexpected jump in costs. In order to avoid piling debts up on to later generations, the Ifo institute, based ...
HOW AMERICA SHOULD RESPOND TO RUSSIA’S SYRIA VENTURE: A GUIDE
Post Date: 2015-10-08 14:37:07 by nativist nationalist
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To respond to Russia’s military campaign in Syria, first, we have to be realistic about the facts on the ground. Iraq and Syria, for all practical purposes, are failed states. There is no chance that either Iraq or Syria will ever be reconstituted as mandated by the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, which basically divided up control or influence over the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire between France and England. Since the combined remaining military forces of Hezbollah, the Iranian Quds Force and Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad have not been sufficient to assure Assad’s survival, Russia’s deployment of its air and marine ground forces to an airbase at Latakia, ...
HONOR KILLING: SYRIAN GANG RAPE SURVIVOR MURDERED IN GERMANY
Post Date: 2015-10-08 13:14:21 by nativist nationalist
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The horrifying story of an “honor killing” in Germany spotlights the sheer madness of importing millions of unvetted, unassimilated migrants. The victim, a 20-year-old woman known as “Rokstan M,” is one refugee who had a strong case for asylum. She was gang-raped in Syria, emigrated to Germany two years ago, and found employment with the German government as a translator. However, she strongly suspected her family wanted her dead for being “unclean,” and her suspicions appear to have been confirmed, as the German police believe her father and brothers slaughtered her with knives and buried her body in a garden, allegedly at the instruction of her mother. ...
Furious but powerless, Turkey left smarting by Russian action in Syria
Post Date: 2015-10-08 12:14:43 by nativist nationalist
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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan talks to the media before a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (not pictured) at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 5, 2015. Turkey may be furious about Russian incursions into its air space but beyond words of protest there is little it can do, with its dependence on Russian energy and trade keeping its hands tied, and its own Syria policy in disarray. President Tayyip Erdogan has said he is losing patience with Russian jets crossing the border after Moscow launched an air campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last week. "An attack on Turkey means an attack on NATO," ...
US-Armed Syrian Faction Complains Russia Destroyed Weapons Depot
Post Date: 2015-10-08 11:42:59 by nativist nationalist
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Group Has Been Fighting Alongside al-Qaeda in Idlib Province Adding to US claims that the vast majority of Russian airstrikes in Syria aren’t targeting ISIS, but rather other rebel factions, the Liwa Suqour al- Jabal (Falcons of the Mountain) brigade is claiming that Russia attacked and destroyed their main weapons depots in western Aleppo Province on Tuesday. The Falcons are part of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), and the recipients of massive amounts of arms from the CIA earlier in the war. The group also claims large funding from other unnamed “Arab and foreign countries” and insists it is fighting ISIS as well as the Syrian government. Which all appears to be true enough, ...
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