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Want to stop terrorism? Ron Paul had it right: get out of Muslim countries. Stop bombing. Stop installing dictators. Stop stealing. Stop intervening. Stop killing.

There is nothing there that we need. There is much to do here.

I would add to Ron’s list: stop selling or giving weapons to them, stop giving military training to them, and stop funding and implementing proxy and regime change wars.

All of the above is just common sense, selection and judgment and does not imply isolationism, the slur by neocons on the right and left.

What problem has been fixed by bombing the Middle East? What national interest has been served? Do you feel safer now after 15 years of bombing and killing in your name? We have more enemies now and they are better trained, armed and funded than in September 2001. Turkey, Egypt, Saudi, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, etc already have sufficient military power to eliminate ISIS. Our problem is they don’t really want to.

Remember that a U.S. Navy ship shot down an Iranian airliner full of innocent people. Get a grip on your reactions.

Americans need to retaliate by finally securing our borders, executing existing laws, bringing home and strengthening our military for our own defense, and profiling people who are already here. The latter task should not be limited to the government.

We fully expect to be attacked. They have been training for generations. When that happens, we will respond.

We must protect peaceful Muslim citizens in America. It is their burden to prove they are peaceful by turning in the radicals in their community. The radicals kill their fellow Muslims, the peaceful moderates among them, more than they kill us, to maintain fear, discipline and control within their community. We cannot reform their social system, culture and religion for them. If we don’t protect the truly peaceful ones and give them a safe place to reform, then there will be no reform and these 1400 year old problems will remain. We cannot protect peaceful Muslims unless we profile their community to find and remove the radicals among them. When this effort starts, know that the radicals will attack the safe places hard and prepare for that. The moderates must have confidence in us if they are to help us.

Some of the radicals are in high places in our government. Be prepared.

Perhaps the majority of Democrats and left wing libertarians will resist the need for profiling…until it is too late. Help them understand if they listen.

We learned from incarcerating Japanese-Americans in WWII. It is a very slippery slope. Wisdom is needed, not aggression. Parts of Muslim holy books call for jihad and violence. So do ours in places.

You cannot defeat an enemy who is morally certain unless you are morally certain. The U.S. is far from that today. How about you?

If you ask God for something, and especially if He grants it, then whatever you prayed for had better be good. He has a long history of wrath against evil doers, sometimes taking all of their blood line. You are really praying for a revelation of your forgotten mission here. Such good things are not new, but their time has come.

On April 5, 1793, decorated French military commander Charles Dumouriez caused a sensational panic in Paris when he fled the country and defected to Austria.

It had been nearly four years since French peasants stormed the Bastille, the event that historians generally regard as the start of the French Revolution.

And hardly a week had gone by since without some major crisis, emergency, or tragedy in France.

There were regular violent riots across the country– in Paris, other major cities, and even the rural countryside. Widespread massacres were commonplace.

And given that one of the key goals of France’s new revolutionary government was to eliminate Christianity from the nation, civil war between religious factions broke out as well.

To cap things off, France was under constant threat of foreign invasion.

Austria and Prussia were not only waging conventional war against France, but both nations had sent highly trained agents to infiltrate French borders to pursue violence and chaos from within.

It was exhausting. French people were living in perpetual fear, and the wanton death of innocents had become an unfortunately normal part of life.

So when it was found that Dumouriez (a French citizen) had defected to the enemy, people hit their breaking points. Enough was enough. And they cried out to the government to save them.

The government listened.

The very next day, on April 6, 1793, the new French government established the Committee of Public Safety (though it was originally known as the Danton Committee).

The Committee was given broad, emergency powers since it was a time of such crisis.

And under the leadership Maximilien Robespierre, the French people got their protection.

Robespierre passed the ‘Law of Suspects’, allowing the government to essentially imprison anyone they wanted for any reason.

It was impossible to tell friend from foe back then; you never knew if someone was a loyalist, or a Christian, or an Austrian spy, or any number of counter-revolutionaries.

So people were required to carry special certificates indicating that they were good and dutiful citizens. Those without would be imprisoned, and potentially executed.

The University of Chicago estimates that nearly 30,000 either died in prison or were executed as a result of this law.

Then there was the Law of the Maximum, which attempted to stabilize an ongoing financial crisis by fixing the prices of goods and services in the country. The law also imposed the death penalty on those who did not follow the rules.

They also passed the Law of 22 Prairial, which awarded the Committee even more power to arrest, try, and execute anyone deemed to be suspicious or disloyal.

The law also prevented anyone accused of a crime from being able to call witnesses or have defense counsel.

Plus it required that ALL citizens report potentially suspicious or disloyal neighbors to the Committee. If you see something, say something.

As you are likely well aware, this period in French history became known as the Reign of Terror, or often simply ‘the Terror’.

Coincidentally, this is where the first modern use of the word ‘terrorist’ is found.

Except that it wasn’t used to describe the counter-revolutionaries. Or the rebels. Or the foreign agents.

It turns out that “terrorist” was originally a term used to describe the government officials who created and executed these oppressive tactics under the guise of keeping people safe from their enemies.

Governments have a dangerous tendency to never let a serious crisis go to waste.

The US government spent trillions of taxpayer dollars to fight a War on Terror that made the world less safe and Americans less free, all to protect them from a threat that has a statistical likelihood of 0.0%.

(You’re far more likely to be shot by a police officer than to ever even see a terrorist.)

Yes, the desire for revenge runs deep. And that’s understandable.

But the greatest thing to fear is not men in caves. It is the consequent loss of freedom and the never-ending cycle of costly, destructive war.

Until tomorrow,

Simon Black, in Chile
Founder, Sovereign Man

www.sovereignman.com

Obama voters. But the indentured voters to follow can’t wait to hold out their hands as well as cover their eyes and mouths.

New studies flip climate-change notions upside down

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Cold-sun-rising-30272650.html

 – – Monday, November 9, 2015

According to Real Clear Politics, 63.8 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track. This could explain, in part, the amazing victories for conservatives during last Tuesday’s local and state elections.

Across the board, liberal pet issues lost while conservatives won elected office. Liberal cities led the pack in rejecting what we’ve always been told are “trends” or a reflection of a “changing” America. Well, not so fast.

The Matt Bevin gubernatorial victory in Kentucky made the biggest news. Here was an outsider businessman who challenged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014 and lost, came back and was handily elected governor of Kentucky Tuesday night.

Polls said Mr. Bevin would lose, another example of polls projecting the preferred liberal result. Even the leftist rag Salon covered Mr. Bevin’s win by noting it “undermines” Democratic theory but also is bad news for Democrats across the country.

Why? Because Mr. Bevin ran against everything liberals hold dear including their own Rosemary’s Baby also known as Obamacare. He approached the issues in an unapologetic way, rejecting political correctness and the notion that, in order to win, Republicans have to find “common ground” on liberal issues.

Bunk.

Beyond the Bevin victory there was a whole host of issues that if you allowed the Legacy Media and pollsters to determine reality, you would think have already been embraced, heralded and accepted by the American people — things like the joys of sanctuary cities, legalized marijuana, gun control, a $15 minimum wage and more so-called equality laws that simply expand the footprint of government on our necks.

But what if Americans have been bullied into believing that they were on the wrong side of the liberal bullet train? What if, in fact, Americans had been conditioned by political correctness into not trusting their own judgment, into believing that they were the only ones who still thought legalizing pot was a bad idea, and sanctuary cities were destroying our quality of life, and that a higher minimum wage made no sense economically?

Tuesday’s election results should indeed frighten liberals in that, I contend, it represents a renewed trust by the voter in their own opinions and assessment of the facts, and they are now willing to vote what is right regardless of the names and abuse hurled at them by the left.

And we have one man to thank for that: Donald Trump.

Personally, I’m not a fan of Mr. Trump politically. I believe him to be a liberal, but one thing is undeniable: He has demonstrated to the American people that it’s safe to reject the leftist Thought Police, to cultivate your own opinion and to trust your judgment. Liberals will wail this is bad news, as the dogs of racism, homophobia and sexism will be unleashed.

This, of course, is just more projection, as liberal policies enacted throughout this nation continue to destroy the lives and futures of people of color and women in particular. Tuesday should be seen as an indication that the American people have had enough with the lies of the left and are ready, willing and able to take this nation back from a fantasy world only a masochist could love.

Mr. Trump reinforces the rejection of leftist orthodoxy every day with television viewers and the tens of thousands who attend his rallies. His plain, honest talk usually contradicts the leftist narrative, which is virtually unheard of in the public sphere.

Finally, Americans are realizing they’re not alone in being appalled at what is transpiring in the nation and are realizing a house won’t fall on them if they dare to think, consider and judge the left for the scourge they are.

Cases in point:

Despite being told legalized marijuana is something the American people want, Ohio rejected their state initiative making the drug legal by an overwhelming 65 percent of the vote. This despite pre-election polls saying it would pass. Who knows, maybe the pollsters were high.

Portland, Maine, rejected an initiative to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 58 percent of the voters. Portland. Maine. Not exactly a conservative barnburner, yet they still know when something is a job killer.

In Houston, voters overwhelmingly said no to a so-called gay and transgender rights ordinance that opponents noted would have allowed men access to women’s bathrooms. Supporters said that was ridiculous fear-mongering, but it’s a problem unfolding across the country, including at high schools. At least two-thirds of the voters said absolutely not to the notion that equality has devolved into allowing men into girls’ bathrooms.

San Francisco rejected an initiative that would have trimmed the sails of Airbnb by limiting the number of days someone could rent their property.

Entrepreneurship won; liberals trying to kill small business lost.

At the same time, San Franciscans fired the sanctuary city supporting sheriff who defending the city’s position in the aftermath of the Kate Steinle murder.

Liberals have been full of excuses in the days following Tuesday’s blowout. They insist it’s because Democrats don’t vote in midterms. And that’s true, largely due to a lack of enthusiasm.

The “enthusiasm gap” as it’s known, is a key factor in election results as it affects turnout, and 2016 doesn’t look any better for the Democrats.

The Washington Examiner reports, “Entering the 2016 elections, Democrats face a wide ‘enthusiasm gap’ benefitting Republicans, according to a new poll. The survey conducted by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg found that 67 percent of Republican voters are jazzed to vote compared to just 52 percent of Democrats for a 15-point gap … Asked if the 67 percent enthusiasm was a floor or ceiling of GOP enthusiasm, Greenberg said, ‘I think it’s a floor.’ “

Considering the fantasy world liberals live in, it makes perfect sense that they resist facing facts, and they can make all the excuses they want, but not only are Americans sick and tired and not going to take it anymore, we’re not afraid to say so, either.

• Tammy Bruce is a radio talk show host, gay and conservative. Opinion Columnist — Tammy Bruce, an Independent Conservative, is a radio talk-show host, New York Times’ bestselling author, blogger, Fox News’ on-air political contributor and a columnist at The Washington Times. Ms. Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and worked on several political campaigns as well. Her nationally syndicated talk show, “The Tammy Bruce Show,” ranks number one on TalkStreamLive and her editorials and commentaries on social issues are published nationally and internationally, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and The Advocate. In addition to her media work, Ms. Bruce speaks to a variety of groups nationwide with her speech, “Contrary to Popular Belief: How Conservative Ideas Empower Women, Gays and Blacks.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/9/tammy-bruce-warning-alarms-liberals/?page=1

Title: “On the Present Halting of Global Warming.”

First line of abstract: “The rise in global average temperature over the last century has halted since roughly the year 2000, despite the fact that the release of CO2 into the atmosphere is still increasing.”

… Paragraph 2 in section 2.1 “Based on various climate change data, such as those of tree rings [5], glacial retreat [6] and river ice breakup [7], Akasofu [8] showed that global warming began as early as 1800 ~ 1850 and NOT AFTER CO2 began to increase very rapidly around 1946. Further, among these factors, the sea level increase from about 1850 to 2000 was also almost linear, though with a slightly decreasing rate [9].”

Capitalization of the words “NOT AFTER” is mine for emphasis. (The effect cannot occur before the theorized cause.) Full pdf of science paper at the link below. Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. Published: 3 May 2013.  http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/1/1/4/pdf

Nov 2, 2015: “A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers, according to NASA.”

“The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice, according to NASA.” …”The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology. http://news.weathernationtv.com/2015/11/02/antarctic-actually-getting-bigger-new-nasa-study-explains/

You can’t co-exist with people whose most fundamental belief is that they must either kill you or enslave you. It’s never going to work.

Here’s an example of a bleeding heart liberal teacher who stood for tolerance,  multiculturalism and moral relativity.  He was killed for Allah. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260590/year-old-connecticut-principal-promoting-daniel-greenfield#.VjglUG4oe69.facebook

Here’s a short video with English subtitles of an interview on Palestinian TV with the defiant mother of a son recently killed after an attack in Israel.  http://lilofeia.livejournal.com/725566.html

This is a difficult lesson for so-called liberals or progressives to learn: Muslims took their solution from their so-called prophet 1400 years ago. The solution of Islam’s prophet was totalitarian domination. And the solution executed by today’s as well as 1000 years of history’s neo-cons of the left and right is to totally dominate Muslims. It’s a difficult lesson.

So long as leaders and people on this planet continue to process ideas and all the decisions of life by the Hegelian dialectic, then the serious problems of life will never be solved. All Lawrences of Arabia will go mad. And, you will be dominated.

You must think outside of the box. Let your attention deficit go wild. Consider all of the other alternatives you have not been presented and have never thought about. Make it your usual and customary process to connect all of the dots you can brainstorm. “Look at the familiar as if it were unfamiliar and at the commonplace as if thou hadst never seen it before.” Do not allow yourself to think atomistically.

Do not drink the koolaid.  “Thou shalt not accept the fixed boundaries marked off by the current divisions of knowledge into subjects and disciplines.”  If you have ever even considered the possibility of your own enlightenment, congratulations for that, but then you must think through until you understand the Hegelian dialectic and how it controls your life. Otherwise, you can never be free. Instead, you will have the temporary security of one orthodoxy or another.  In other words, you will have freedom FROM thought…”and the bonus of never being able to think intelligently about what is happening to you in the real world.”

Philosophy Professor Nordenhaug taught: “Everyone in every discipline is growing in ignorance every day.” His law of disciplinary ignorance states that if one’s own knowledge in a discipline increases by a factor of ny – x, where n is the number of all other disciplines less one’s own, and y is the factor of increase in knowledge in each of those disciplines. Since ny is always greater than x, then everyone in every discipline is growing in ignorance every day.  This situation, Nordenhaug concludes, is pornographic or naked, or “dead to rights.”

Listen to the experts, but think for yourself. “Seek out the conceptual parameters that define the range of possible positions on a question, and then try to imagine an alternative to those parameters.  The difference between a thinker and an idiot is roughly that the latter takes the conceptual parameters of any discussion as they are given, while the former always tries to imagine alternatives even to his own alternatives.”

And, of course, the freedom to do that is blasphemy according to Islam. Are we human or are we dancer? Get on your knees.

Here’s a short video on the Hegelian dialectic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_F4WomLlq0

Apologies to The Killers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aUnNjzfkME

“Quantifying the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Literature: A Re-analysis,” by Richard S.J. Tol.  Energy Policy, Volume 73, October 2014, Pages 701–705 

Abstract

A claim has been that 97% of the scientific literature endorses anthropogenic climate change (Cook et al., 2013. Environ. Res. Lett. 8, 024024). This claim, frequently repeated in debates about climate policy, does not stand. A trend in composition is mistaken for a trend in endorsement. Reported results are inconsistent and biased. The sample is not representative and contains many irrelevant papers. Overall, data quality is low. Cook׳s validation test shows that the data are invalid. Data disclosure is incomplete so that key results cannot be reproduced or tested.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421514002821

P.S.  Yet the paper by Cook et al is the reference for the claims by Obama, Gore, UN, EPA, et al that 97% of climate scientists agree.  Dr. Tol is a proponent of AGW and is one of the scientists who were misquoted by Cook et al.

Carbon pricing is putting a price on life, selling death, by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.  You should be very afraid.  This is the face of insanity and self-destruction wrapped up to make you feel guilty, complicit and willing to sacrifice yourself.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/carbon-pricing-fiscal-policy-by-christine-lagarde-and-jim-yong-kim-2015-10

“This child does not need a solar panel.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-child-doesnt-need-a-solar-panel-1445466967