Reading list about what's going on around us

Here's ISIS' Plan To Destroy American Apache Helicopters  ... "A US-led coalition of western and regional players has been bombing ISIS targets for weeks in an effort to check the militant group's lightning expansion. The American-led campaign has been almost entirely waged from the air, and the ISIS guide goes into fairly technical detail on how to shoot down enemy aircraft with a shoulder-fired man-portable air-defense system, or MANPADS*." ...   Read more:
* MANPADS were taken from the defeated Iraqi military

Six years later: the clear connection between Barack Obama and the Weathermen    "Just before the election of Barack Obama in 2008, it was quite shocking to see that a forty-year old, seemingly forgotten radical group called the "Weathermen" was getting so much attention. Of course, Obama denied any connection to old Weathermen. Here's a quick history of the "Weathermen" and why it's relevant to a president whose entire campaign relied on a call for an undefined "change." Now, six years later, the change is coming much clearer into view. And it seems we now know which way the wind blows."
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"Still, what is the Obama connection to these dedicated revolutionaries? It's perhaps ironic that all four former Weathermen terrorists today worked through an organization called "Movement for a Democratic Society." That organization was the parent to another one called "Progressives for Obama." They raised funds for Obama, promoted his candidacy, and helped to recruit activists to support him."  Now we see what the country is like when they are in charge.

CNN poll: Voters are angry

  "Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows."

 The Volokh Conspiracy:  Gross incompetence at the State Department?
Someone left State Department spokesman Jen Psaki grossly unprepared for a press briefing today ..., and she wound up disagreeing with the notion that a teenage Palestinian Hamas supporter with American citizenship throwing molotov cocktails at cars on an Israeli highway was “essentially a terrorist” whom the State Department was a bit too quick too mourn.

 

Victor Davis Hanson asks, Crimes of Exactly What?

PJ Media  ... "If we were to embrace the abjectly racist worldview of Eric Holder or Al Sharpton, where would the racialization of crime end? Who would decide which interracial crimes illustrated premeditated racial hatred — or criminal laxity on the part of the state — and deserved national attention? Which adjudicator could or would declare that one interracial incident was idiosyncratic without transcendent significance, but the other typical and thus representative of collective pathology?

"What exactly has this country stooped to, when our officials and public figures traffic in politicizing the end of human lives? We are becoming not just a sick country, but an amoral one as well. What Ferguson wrought will not end well."   Via Lucianne

Canada gunman prepared video confirming it was planned jihad attack

Canadian Parliament Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers got a five minute standing ovation from the House after he killed the Islamic terrorist who tried to shoot up the Chamber. He killed the guy with one shot. It'll be years before he has to shout twice for the House to come to order.   (Argus Hamilton)

Jihad Watch  ... "A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that reveals his ideological and political motives, police claim.

"The footage of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, which is yet to be released, is said to confirm investigators’ fears that this was a meticulously planned terrorist attack.

"Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said in a statement they have ‘persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack was driven by ideological and political motives.’

"A detailed analysis of the video was being conducted and Paulson said they cannot release the video at this time."


ISIS 'See You In New York' Warning Fulfilled  ... "The Islamic State is perhaps the world's largest collection of nut jobs*. How sane can someone be, taking joy in sawing off the heads of infidels like Steven Sotloff and James Foley, or delighting in kidnapping and gang-raping the Yazidi women of Iraq because they worship a different god? How sane can young women be who leave the West to journey to Syria in the hopes of being incubators for future jihadis?"   Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

 

* Nut jobs who will torture and behead you, that is.

So where DO jobs come from?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

The presumptive Democrat nominee for 2016.   ... "She went on to state that businesses and corporations are not the job creators of America. “Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” the former Secretary of State said."

 

So Who Does Create Jobs?  ... "Well, maybe she should look to Texas.  Where, as this AEI report shows:

 1.32 million new jobs [have been] added since the start of the Great Recession, compared to a net deficit of almost one million jobs for the other 49 states combined … The country, the president, and all of us individually owe a huge debt of gratitude to the state of Texas and to the oil and gas industry for helping support the US economy during and after the Great Recession. Without the energy-driven economic stimulus from the fracking revolution, and without the gusher of jobs in the state of Texas, there’s no question that the Great Recession would have been much worse and lasted much longer, and the jobs picture today would be much bleaker

The Tunnel Wall covered this last week, using this video:

Honey, You Didn't Build That  

Ferguson Protesters Assault White Motorist, Threaten To Rape Cop’s Wife. Where is Al Sharpton?

The Stubborn Facts in Ferguson:  The perpetual protesters are outraged that grand-jury leaks appear to back Officer Wilson’s account. ..."Ferguson has become the latest nesting zone for America’s itinerant protesters. Unburdened by jobs or other responsibilities, these people are free to drift from city to city and cause to cause, occupying Wall Street and decrying capitalism in New York City one day, lamenting global warming in Chicago on another day, and now marching against police brutality in St. Louis today. These people’s raison d’être is to march and express their outrage; the target of that outrage is whatever is most convenient at the time."

Protesters in Ferguson block traffic; Video shows assault of white motorist

 

 

 

Downtrend   ... "I mean you got an entire city of no-values-having animals running around, blocking traffic, threatening cops and beating up motorists. Yet the liberal mainstream media refuses to bat an eyelash. Meanwhile, all the evidence backs Officer Darren Wilson’s side of the story.
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"The only good news out of this whole fiasco is the renewed push for arming every single police officer in the nation with a body camera – something I vehemently support! Other than that, it appears that the whole Ferguson fiasco – as perpetrated by the liberal mainstream media – did nothing but divide Americans even further, all while pushing the actual truth deeper and deeper into the abyss."

From 2013:  Al Sharpton: A Lucrative Career Built on Hate and Racial Conflagration Speaking about the Tawana Brawley incident:

Sharpton acknowledged to me early on that “The Brawley story do (sic) sound like bull****, but it don’t matter. We’re building a movement. This is the perfect issue. Because you’ve got whites on blacks. That’s an easy way to stir up all the deprived people, who would want to believe and who would believe — and all [you’ve] got to do is convince them — that all white people are bad. Then you’ve got a movement.... It don’t matter whether any whites did it or not. Something happened to her ... even if Tawana don’t (sic) it to herself." 

 

 

Mychal Massie asks why society should pay for acts of the 'ungodly, stiff-necked'

... "Even more egregious is the fact that they are encouraged and given emotional sanctuary for their condemnable actions by those who benefit from their animus. These blacks, those like them and those who sympathize with them, are equivalent to toxic allergens making blacks allergic to civilized behavior."

The Ferguson Collapse

Source: Darren Wilson says Michael Brown kept charging at him  ... "Wilson said he had yelled for Brown to stop, then fired, the source said. Brown flinched as if he was hit, and Wilson said he had stopped shooting. Brown continued running toward him, and Wilson said he had fired several more shots. The source said that Wilson had recalled that Brown’s head was down when the last shot hit him there." ...

Evidence discredits the progressive narrative.   Will Al Sharpton continue to be employed by MSNBC?

 

... "But that story has all but collapsed. Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Brown in early August, recently told investigators that he was pinned in his vehicle and feared for his life when Brown reached for his gun. FBI forensic analysis has confirmed that, as Wilson claims, two shots were fired in the car, and Brown’s blood was found in the vehicle, on Wilson’s clothing, and on the gun. The Washington Post reports that “seven or eight African American eyewitnesses have provided testimony consistent with Wilson’s account” that he fatally shot Brown when the young man moved toward him in the street. And, according to the official court autopsy report, Brown probably did not have his hands raised in the “Hands up, don’t shoot” position that has become the defining meme of the protests in Ferguson, Mo. An eyewitness who claims to have seen the shooting from beginning to end further corroborated Wilson’s account in an anonymous interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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"Unfortunately, racial demagoguery, too, is pretty normal in America."

 

Is ACORN behind violent unrest in Ferguson?  ... "Activists are blackmailing the grand jury that is now hearing evidence against police officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown in August reportedly in self-defense.  If the grand jurors refuse to indict Wilson, radical activists are promising even more mayhem.
"The message is unmistakable: indict the cop, and there will be peace.  Don't, and Ferguson will burn." ...

Race Hoaxes: Demoralizing For Blacks And A Calumny On Whites

 

... "But the reports were not accurate, and we had reason to doubt them as soon as the video of the convenience store robbery emerged. The theft and rough shoving of the owner didn’t look very gentle. The small cigars Brown stole are often filled with pot."

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"So it’s heartbreaking to watch the kabuki theater play out yet again and to know that thousands, maybe millions, of American blacks are being deceived into believing that an 18-year-old who showed really bad judgment in attacking a police officer is a civil rights hero, and that young black males minding their own business on city streets are in danger of being shot by police for fun. It’s demoralizing for blacks and a calumny on whites."

 

Where are the angry demonstrations in support of the businesses that were looted and burned?

 

 

Predictable Consequences: ‘Fight For $15″ May Lead McDonald’s To Automation

 Rick Moran; As 'fight for 15' campaign goes on, McDonald's looks to automate   "Unions and proressives "don't care about how many people lose their jobs. All they're concerned about are those who will be working and paying for the privilege of belonging to a union.

"Fast food workers better wake up before the leftists and unions send most of them to the unemployment line."

Weasel Zippers

 

"And when thousands lose their jobs as a natural result, we will hear about the ‘evil, heartless corporations’."

Unions and progressives, on the other hand, swore fast food chains could easily afford the inflated labor cost without much of a price increase.

http://www.rightsidesd.com/?p=17409

 

Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job
"A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.

"The company's robot can "slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible." The robot is "more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour." That's one burger every 10 seconds.

"The next generation of the device will offer "custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem."
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It is said that "device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them."

Alan Caruba; Obama's War on U.S. Energy

Warning Signs

 

... "In contrast, in March 2013 the then-Interior Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, boasted “In just over four years, we have advanced 17 wind, solar, and geothermal projects on our public lands.”  It is not these projects that Americans depend upon for energy. The opposite is a stark explanation why coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy remain the heart blood of the economy.

"The Daily Caller reported in July that the “U.S. Bureau of Land Management is currently sitting on a backlog of 3,500 applications that need approval to move forward on drilling for oil and natural gas on federal land,” just part of Obama’s war on U.S. energy."

Liberals Seek Alternative to Hillary Clinton. Guess how some schools plan to create socialist voters

Would-Be 2016 Challengers Test the Waters With Democratic Activists, Donors

WSJ  ... "As formidable as Mrs. Clinton looks even before declaring herself a candidate, liberals are casting about for a committed populist to run against her in 2016. They see the former secretary of state and senator as too closely aligned with large corporations and question whether she can be counted on to narrow the income gap in America.

"They hope to either recruit a candidate able to capture the nomination outright or at least give Mrs. Clinton enough of a scare that she embraces progressive policy goals. Their aim is to make the primary process a debate over the Democratic Party’s direction, rather than an uncontested march by Mrs. Clinton to the nomination.
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... "As some liberals see it, Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders are more trusted advocates of their interests. Ms. Warren has skewered credit-card companies and mortgage lenders, accusing them of exploiting people who aren’t financially savvy."

Socialist Bernie Sanders begins to lay out his potential presidential platform
"Bernie Sanders doesn’t run away from the socialist label.

"The independent Vermont senator recently declared he is considering a run for president, either as an independent or as a Democrat. He appeared on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” Friday night to explain what life in his socialist America would look like."

And this is how voters for these socialists will be created in our schools: 

Socialist history curriculum adopted in Philadelphia schools

 

 

"City council members in Philadelphia have given the go-ahead to a resolution to allow a socialist historian’s view of America, via his “A People’s History of the United States,” to be part of the public high school curriculum.

 

"The book, by Howard Zinn, looks at American history through the lens of the working people, and of women and minorities, and tracks the various social movements — including the advent of labor unions — that have shaped government reform and policy.-

Walter E. Williams; Teacher Indoctrination ... " The teacher was Jay Bennish. He told his students that President George W. Bush's State of the Union address sounded "a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say." He continued, "Bush is threatening the whole planet." He then asked his students, "Who is probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth?" He shouted the answer, "The United States!" During this class session, Bennish peppered his 10th-grade class with other ridiculous statements, saying the U.S. has engaged in "7,000 terrorist attacks against Cuba" and telling his students capitalism "is at odds with humanity, at odds with caring and compassion ... (and) at odds with human rights."

Islamism’s Appeal to the Discontented

Max Boot  ... "Sadly we can expect more such “lone wolf” attacks in the future, which are almost impossible to predict and very difficult to prevent. One obvious line of defense is to maintain vigilant surveillance of the Internet–which is what the NSA was doing before some of its most successful programs were exposed and curtailed by the traitor Edward Snowden."
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... "So potent is the appeal of this radical ideology that it even has some appeal to non-Muslims who convert simply so they can become terrorists or at least fellow travelers of terrorists. Oddly enough one of these converts is Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan Marxist revolutionary who once committed terrorism in the name of Palestine and then converted to Islam while sitting in a French prison."

http://libertyalliance.com/2014/09/sword/

WAPOs Glen Kessler: KY Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes Should Be Ashamed of Herself

The Lid   "Washington Post" fact checker Glenn Kessler ripped apart Kentucky's Democratic Senate Candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes for running an ad that not only contained a debunked claim but added another falsehood for good measure. Kessler wrote,"We realize that the game of politics is sometimes played rough in Kentucky, but this ad is beyond the pale. Indeed, it is likely the worst ad of a nasty campaign year. Grimes should be ashamed of herself.' "
 

 

"The advertisement in question (embedded above) claims that Grimes' opponent, incumbent Mitch McConnell, took $600K from anti-coal interests, including former NY Mayor Bloomberg, a claim the fact checker already gave his worst "Four Pinocchios" rating. Grimes stated:" ...

Union demands send Japanese firm, jobs packing from California town

Fox News  "The California city of Palmdale was ready to roll out the red carpet this summer when a Japanese company agreed to build a $60 million factory on a city-owned, vacant parcel on the southwest side of town -- but now the company is taking its project out of state and critics say union greed is to blame."

Japanese rail company Kinkisharyo agreed to build a $60 million factory on a city-owned, vacant parcel in Palmdale, Calif. It would have been similar to this facility operated by the company in Phoenix, Arizona. (Kinkisharyo) (KINKISHARYO)

 

... "The "Antelope Valley Residents for Responsible Development," a group backed by the International Brotherhood Workers Union Local 11, produced a 588-page appeal claiming that construction of the proposed factory would violate state environmental laws, by, among other things, kicking up spores. What the union really wanted, according to Kinkisharyo officials, was clearance to organize the plant without any interference from the company. When Kinkisharyo officials balked, the project suddenly became a potential environmental hazard."
Via Harley Standlee; Placerville, CA