Brooklyn College student thanks Allah for the growth of the Islamic State
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch
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The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.” The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain. But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one. At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One. Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida wins the support of 15 percent of Republican primary voters and runs best against Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released today. The former secretary of state tops the Democratic field with 60 percent and leads top Republican contenders, except Sen. Rubio, in head-to-head matchups, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll finds. The Republican primary field shows Rubio with 15 percent, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 13 percent and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker with 11 percent.
No other candidate tops 9 percent and 14 percent remain undecided. Bush tops the "no way" list as 17 percent of Republican voters say they would definitely not support him. New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie is next with 16 percent who give him a definite thumbs down, with 10 percent for U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.Dive into the internals, and you'll find Rubio running basically even (43/45) with Mrs. Clinton in a hypothetical general election match-up, with the presumptive Democratic nominee sitting several points below the 50 percent support mark. In fact, the poll shows Hillary failing to pull away from any of her potential Republican rivals, though she's slightly better positioned against other potential opponents:
45 - 40 percent over Christie; (-5)
46 - 42 percent over Paul; (-4)
47 - 42 percent over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (-5);
46 - 39 percent over Bush; (-7)
46 - 41 percent over Walker (-5);
48 - 41 percent over U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. (-7)
Boko Haram Re-Brands as Islamic State in West Africa, CSP, by Nicholas Hanlon, April 23, 2015 ;(thanks to Counter Jihad Report)
There is a lot of relatively good news on the progress of the Nigerian army in it’s efforts to defeat Boko Haram. Here is where all of the nit-picking about the differences between IS and Boko Haram will mean even less. Boko Haram was lionized for it’s ability to take and hold territory. However, because of it’s primary driver as an internationally connected Islamist group that is ideologically driven, it will adapt to a new menu of tactics that resemble Al Shabaab.
This is...
First the later lie...yesterday during a televised press conference Obama
announced then quickly apologized that this past January a U.S. counter
terrorism operation...an operation where U.S. military drones targeted and destroyed an al-Qaeda
compound in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region...accidentally killed
American USAID contractor Warren Weinstein and Italian aide worker
Giovanni Lo Porto. And then his always obnoxious spokesmouth Josh Earnest followed up with
words to the affect that Obama did NOT "specifically approve" the
operations that killed the American and the Italian, but that the
strikes were within the bounds of "policy guidance."
And with Earnest adding that U.S. officials believed with "near certainty" that
NO hostages were at the target site, that the strike was
carried out only after "hundreds of hours of surveillance" on the al-Qaeda
compound were completed, and with "near continuous surveillance in the days leading up to the
operation," let me say this loud and clear...our military does NOT make
these kind of mistakes...period. And Earnest saying that 'officials' are
now conducting a thorough independent investigation of the operation to "ensure" that this type of incident is NEVER again repeated, the fact being oh-so hushed up is that
when American hostage Kayla Mueller was killed in exactly the same way earlier this year, the exact same excuse using the
exact same words along with the exact same promise that it
would NEVER happen again was given.
So this makes both Obama's and Earnest's words NOTHING but even more empty
word to add to their repertoire...accusatory words from this military hating administration...from
a Commander-in-Chief who defames then apologizes for our military every
chance he gets. And this was proven by Earnest's very words that the death of
the hostages "raise legitimate questions about whether additional
changes (to military protocol) need to be made" as in to the protocol for our military launching
counter terrorism operations. But if truth be told what both Obama and Earnest needed to
say...but of course NEVER would...is that the two men died because they did NOT care that they were
in the compound...a compound they needed to destroy to make it appear as if something concrete was being done by this administration in the 'War on Terror' and for
that reason alone...so 'ooops' became their 'mia culpa' de jour.
As for the former lie, most listeners of our Right Side Patriots radio show
know that both myself and my friend and partner Craig Andresen both
believe...and have believed for quite some time... that Iran already is
in possession of a nuclear bomb, and now it seems some in Israel think
so as well and have thought so for quite a few years.
Now remember simple physics as per Einstein's formula E=mc² that suggested
it was possible to get 'energy' by what we now call a nuclear reaction
and that the amount of 'energy' needed is quite small even for a nuclear
device. Also remember that just a small amount of 'energy' is needed to
efficiently increase the effectiveness of conventional
explosives...conventional explosives that Iran has long had...
conventional explosives that are still the basis of all nuclear
bombs...and that the small amount of 'energy' needed has long since been
produced and refined by those 19,000+ Iranian centrifuges merrily
spinning away.
So as Barack Hussein Obama continues to hem-and-haw about the
'breakout' time needed for Iran to become a nuclear power...which is NOT the one
year he has so often claimed but which he recently has been forced to admit is but a mere
few months away...that this is NOTHING but an effort to cover his very actions
that have aided and abetted the enemy. But know too that even this is a lie
because the simple facts I've presented show that in all probability that Iran has long had a nuclear bomb and is
close to getting the much needed delivery system on which to place it, and that Obama has known this for quite some time.
Also know that with Vladimir Putin's cleverly telling the world that in six to
eight months Russia will be selling an anti-missile system to Iran the clock has now been set for Israel to go in and clean-up Obama's
mess.