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Egypt launches air strikes against IS militias in Libya
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Peter King: Russia, Iran Moving on Many Fronts Against US
[Breitbart] Sunday on AM 970 New York'€™s '€œThe Cats Roundtable,'€ in discussing the chaos in Yemen with host John Catsimatidis, Rep. Peter King (R- NY) said the American people need to understand Russia and Iran are moving on many fronts and constantly plotting against against the U.S. and our allies.
Understand? Some of us have understood it for decades.
King explained, '€œThe Saudis are willing to lower energy prices because of the Russian meddling and the threat from Iran. They figure the best way to undercut them is to take away their economic power and they do that by basically dropping the price of oil on the world market. Both Russians and the Iranians want to get back at the Saudis. There is absolutely no doubt about it. The Houthis in Yemen are again, the Iranian force there, the Iranian supported force there. Iran is moving on many fronts. The Russians are moving on many fronts. Unfortunately, Americans, we take one thing at a time. The fact the Russians and the Iranians, al-Qaeda and all their affiliates, they move on many fronts and they never stop. We think we can get back to our normal lives going to breakfast and dinners, and little league games, and watching the Super Bowl, but the fact is these people do nothing but try and plot against us and we have to keep that in mind.'€
Appears Pete may have acquired an advance copy of Netanyahu'€™s planned speech to Congress.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To me it seems more like "Russia & USA compete to win Iranian favor". But what do I know?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/16/2015 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Because the backbone of 'the greatest generation' is crumbling of osteoporosis and degenerative disks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/16/2015 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Notice that Peter King makes no mention of CHINA despite the latter's on-going activities agz US allies the PHIL, Nippon, Taiwan + Vietnam in East Asia.

* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > [Want China Times = USNI] CHINA WANTS/DESIRES DOMINANCE IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC: EXPERTS.

The OWG Globalists + aligned US, International Special Interests are moving full-bore towards changing the Balance of Power, including likely also the Balance of Terror, in Asia-Pacific + are NOT taking "No" for an answer.

IT IS ANTI-US US GLOBALISTS, ETC. WHOM WILL BE IN THE FOREFRONT OF LEADING AMERIKAN GEOPOL OR STRATEGIC RETREAT = "PULLBACK/FALLBACK" ACROSS ASIA-PACIFIC + WORLD.

Lest we fergit, ...

* 1990's CLINTONISM = THE US-N-ONLY-THE-US MUST BE "RESTRAINED AND CONTROLLED".

* PRE-, POST-9-11 > DEMOLEFT + ALIGNED = THE US-N-ONLY-THE-US MUST "ABSORB/TOLERATE" A TERROR ATTACK(S), + N-O-T RESPOND WID [overwhelming]MILITARY OR MILPOLECON FORCE.

GOOD FOR THE SO-CALLED "BIG[GEST] GOVT" = US-WORLD COMMIE-SOCIALIST ORDER, include as per LEGAL SHARIA, ETC. IN THE US.

OUR MIGHTY "UNITARIAN" FASCIST-COMMUNIST MARIST-SOCIALIST ESTABLISHMENT IN WASHINGTON DC, WHERE FASCISM = ALSO MERE "LIMITED COMMUNISM", ERGO OUR COMMUNIST-VS-LIMITED-COMMUNIST PRO-SOCIALIST ESTABLISHMENT IN WASHINGTON DC.

Silly Moriarity is still wondering why the LeftLiberals aren't hiding their Socialism anymore.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/16/2015 20:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Some ways to Combat Might Have Unintended Consequences!!!
Curbing global warming by shading Earth from the sun could be quick and cheap but also "irrational and irresponsible" without also cutting emissions and capturing carbon, says a report on geoengineering by the US National Academies.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. You'd better just sit back and let your moral betters figure it all out.
In theory, making Earth more reflective to the sun's rays --“ called albedo modification -- could be done relatively easily with existing technology, says the report. In 1991, emissions of just 20 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines reduced global temperatures by 0.3°C for three years. A similar human exercise to curb the warming from a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations in the air would be "at least an order of magnitude less than the cost of decarbonising the world's economy", the report says.
What did they just say?
But sending mirrors into space or putting sulphur dioxide in the stratosphere could have "unanticipated, unmanageable and regrettable consequences" on the global climate, it says. Other impacts of carbon emissions, such as ocean acidification, would continue and if the techniques were ever stopped, rapidly soaring temperatures could have cataclysmic consequences.
So don't stop. Cheez, I have to come up with everything around here...
"Ideas to lessen the amount of energy absorbed from the sun should not be considered for deployment," says the president of the National Academy of Sciences. Nonetheless, the authors conclude that the techniques should be researched – not least so the world could respond if a climate vigilante were to carry out "an unsanctioned act of albedo modification".
Climate vigilantes? How is that different from Michael Mann?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/16/2015 13:56 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Chicken Little. Human behavior hasn't changed much in 2500 years regardless of 'modern', 'urban', 'hip'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/16/2015 15:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Now me, every time I look at a map of the world I notice those great aching empty spaces in Canada and Alaska. Not to mention N. Dakota and Nebraska, Finland and Sweden. Plus the great sweeps of Siberia. Empty real estate, all too cold to live in.

If you ask me, a bit of global warming is just what the world needs. The climate activists should be up there spreading coal dust on the ice fields on northern Canada, and the ice pack of the north pole. Speed this whole thing up a bit! :-)
Posted by: DLR || 02/16/2015 16:36 Comments || Top||

#3  DLR, I remember from 30 years ago the Chicken Littles screaming about seeding the oceans with Iron, IIRC, to promote algae growth to stop the ice age they were all clucking about.

"Willie go round in circles......."
Posted by: AlanC || 02/16/2015 16:45 Comments || Top||

#4  "An unsanctioned act of albedo modification" > must mean OWG-UNO outlawed FRACKING circa 2040.

Of course you know this means War agz the Sun, but first an AM Apple fritter + coffee.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/16/2015 20:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Isn't there a LaGrange point out there that would hold a giant umbrella?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/16/2015 21:43 Comments || Top||


Europe
Poland to Spend Billions on Defense amid Rumblings of War in Europe
Always best to be prepared.
[AnNahar] Looking east to the bloody conflict gripping Ukraine, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-member Poland has kicked off an unprecedented military spending spree worth billions to overhaul its forces as Warsaw believes peace in Europe is no longer a given.

The escalation of tensions with Russia over its annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and subsequent role in the crisis in that country's east has sounded the alarm on NATO's eastern flank in countries that were under Moscow's thumb during the Cold War.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing like a good war to get the economies cranking.
Posted by: KBK || 02/16/2015 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  And it'll help them against Russia?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/16/2015 2:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Russians no, Germans yes.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 02/16/2015 6:09 Comments || Top||

#4  KBK
powering Bastiat's spinning grave.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/16/2015 6:30 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Man killed, three hurt doing car stunts
[DAWN] LAHORE: A young man was killed while another three were maimed on Saturday when their speeding car collided with a tree near Moslem Town.

Moslem Town Station House Officer Sheikh Abid told Dawn that four youths were celebrating Valentine's Day by doing stunts in a car. The driver lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a turn on Canal Road near Moslem Town and it collided with a roadside tree.

The SHO said Akash, 27, was struck down in his prime while Lal Bakhsh, 25, of Rawalpindi, Junaid Saleem and Tayyab Butt of Iqbal Town were shifted to Jinnah Hospital.
Posted by: Fred || 02/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Darwin at work.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/16/2015 11:17 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
F-35s 'Essential' for Carrier Air Wings
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/16/2015 15:31 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Essential because the Navy boxed itself into a single airframe.

Basically it will be forced to work, like the Flying Brick, the F-4
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/16/2015 20:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Lest we fergit, F-35's are supposed to the "LOW" end of the Mix [read, CHEAP + PLENTIFUL], as compared to the "high" end of the Mix vee the F-22 [read, YOU-BETCHA-ITS-COSTLY-BUT-ALSO-INVINCIBLE].

In this 21st Century of OWG Globalism + Unitarian Govt, no one is talking about putting F-22's on CVNS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/16/2015 20:32 Comments || Top||



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1Houthis
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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2015-02-16
  Egypt launches air strikes against IS militias in Libya
Sun 2015-02-15
  SECOND Copenhagen shooting at synagogue
Sat 2015-02-14
  21 Coptic Christians slaughtered in Libya
Fri 2015-02-13
  Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
Thu 2015-02-12
  France says it has dismantled 15 terrorist networks
Wed 2015-02-11
  4 Qaida Suspects Dead in Yemen Drone Strike
Tue 2015-02-10
  Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller
Mon 2015-02-09
  Top Pakistani Taliban leader injured in Afghanistan
Sun 2015-02-08
  '109 Boko Haram Fighters Dead' after First Attack on Niger Friday
Sat 2015-02-07
  Yemen rebels dissolve parliament, assume power
Fri 2015-02-06
  Al-Qaeda holy man killed in Yemen drone strike, AQAP says
Thu 2015-02-05
  Jordanian King Personally Participating in Sorties Against ISIS
Wed 2015-02-04
  Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death
Tue 2015-02-03
  ISIS burns Jordanian Pilot Alive
Mon 2015-02-02
  Nigeria's Military Repels Boko Haram's Attack on Maiduguri


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