'If we don't mention it, IT will go away' - Homeland Security Report Calls for Rejecting Terms 'Jihad & Sharia'.

'If we don't mention it, IT will go away' - Homeland Security Report Calls for Rejecting Terms 'Jihad & Sharia'. (WB).

A new Department of Homeland Security report urges rejecting use of Islamic terms such as “jihad” and “sharia” in programs aimed at countering terrorist radicalization among American youth.

The Homeland Security Advisory Council report recommends that the department focus on American milliennials by allocating up to $100 million in new funding. It also urges greater private sector cooperation, including with Muslim communities, to counter what is described as a “new generation of threats to the Homeland related to the threat of violent extremism.”

The funds would be used for hiring experts and new social media programs and technology to influence young people not to join terror groups.

“The department’s CVE efforts are an attempt to protect our nation’s young people from extremists who prey upon the Millennial generation,” the report says.

“The department must reframe the conversation to reflect this reality and design a robust program around the protection of our youth, which must include predator awareness and an understanding of radicalization. In doing so, our citizens will be better equipped for this threat.”


Under the section on terminology, the report calls for rejecting use of an “us versus them” mentality by shunning Islamic language in “Countering Violent Extremism” programs, or CVE, the Obama administration’s euphemism that seeks to avoid references to Islam.

Under a section on recommended actions on terminology, the report says DHS should “reject religiously-charged terminology and problematic positioning by using plain meaning American English.”

Government agencies should employ “American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir’ or ‘umma,’” states the June 2016 report by the Council’s countering violent extremism subcommittee. Hmmm......The kindergarten has taken over the real world. Read the full story here.

Video - Obama: "U.S. most powerful nation on Earth. Period." No one of the joint chiefs stands up to applaud.

Obama brags about how powerful America is. No one on the joint chiefs stands up to applaud. pic.twitter.com/1N3PSfQKne

— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@DefendWallSt) January 13, 2016

Pentagon leaders stoically followed along with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Speech tonight, showcased as President Obama declared the United States “most powerful nation on Earth. Period.” and insisted “no nation dares to attack us” on a night that ten Navy sailors are spending captive in an Iranian prison.

Also occurring as the President spoke, ten U.S. Navy sailors are being held captive by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, assaulted by Iranian soldiers as they attempted to transit between Kuwait and Bahrain earlier Tuesday. The soldiers are being held on Farsi Island, home to an Iranian military base, and Iranian media outlets have reported that their ships and GPS systems have been confiscated. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly expected the soldiers to be released “within hours,” but multiple media outlets confirmed the soldiers are being detained at least until Wednesday morning.

Multiple White House officials confirmed before the State of the Union address that the President would not mention the ten soldiers, with one telling Fox News there was “no chance” of it happening. The President claimed “no nation declares to attack us” instead of discussing a nation attacking the United States within hours of his speech.Read the full story here.

 Update:

Iran releases 10 US Navy sailors after boat drifted in Persian Gulf via the @FoxNews App Iran Mocks Obama & USA https://t.co/452yyUMK1F

— Lou Dobbs (@loudobbsnews) January 13, 2016

Video - Egyptian Novelist Youssef Ziedan: Bin Laden Was an Innocent Man, died in 2008.

The 'most transparent admin Evah'...has hardly appointed any watchdogs surveying them

The 'most transparent admin Evah'...has hardly appointed any watchdogs surveying them. (DS).

It has been 2,292 days since the Department of Interior has had a permanent inspector general in place to serve as a watchdog over the agency. But the Interior Department is not alone; the inspector general position is vacant in seven other agencies as well.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, held a hearing recently to address “why this White House, who claimed to wanting to be the most transparent administration in history, has taken so long to fill so many positions of inspectors general.”

Some 33 federal agencies are required by law to have presidentially appointed inspectors general to identify wasteful practices and general government misconduct.

But, according to the Project on Governmental Oversight, the Obama administration has left these positions open for, on average, 613 days, which is hundreds of days longer than even President Clinton, who was second with 453 days.


Johnson said having acting inspectors general in these roles is not the same as those who confirmed by the Senate.

“They are not truly independent, as they can be removed by the agency at any time; they are only temporary and do not drive office policy, and they are at greater risk of compromising their work to appease the agency or the president.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been operating with a temporary inspector general since December 2013. The Department of Interior has been without a permanent inspector general for more than six years.

But there is another problem with the acting inspectors general: They are not supposed to serve in that capacity for more than 210 days. But seven of the eight people current serving in those roles will have been in for more than a year by the end of this month. Hmmmm.....'All the President's men'

Video - 'The make believe presidency' Obama Touting His Legacy: U.S. Foreign Policy Has Restored Respect.

Video - Human Caused Global Warming: The Biggest Deception in History - gloBULLwarming.

Potsdam Institute: “Natural Variability Underestimated”…”WE ARE CURRENTLY FACING A COOLING PERIOD”! http://t.co/QaIi96so2W via @notrickszone

— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) April 16, 2015

Video - GloBULLwarming Icebergs wash ashore along Cape Cod

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Video - "The most transparent 'Admin' EVAH" - Ann Compton Reveals Of Obama: He Has 'Profanity-Laced' Tirades Against Press.

Video - Al-Mayadeen reveals Turkey aware of militants crossing border to Syria.

Video - Al-Mayadeen reveals Turkey aware of militants crossing border to Syria. (AA).

A video published on Al-Mayadeen’s website on Tuesday revealed that up to 100 civilians and militants cross the Syrian-Turkish border daily under the surveillance of the Turkish army, which never interferes.

The footage made public by the news channel shows an unsupervised stretch of the border, specifically that separating the Syrian governorate of Aleppo and the Turkish provinces of Gaziantep and Kilis.

One Syrian who appears in the video said that there were a number of individuals who coordinate with the Turkish army and were responsible for organizing the movement of civilians, militants and smuggled goods across the border.

The footage echoes a similar report in October, where a foreign Islamist fighter who joined the Syrian rebel ranks in 2012 told Reuters that the Turkish borders “were wide open” and armed rebels “used to get in and out of Turkey very easily. No questions were asked. Arms shipments were smuggled easily into Syria.”

The border has become a safe haven for militants to move freely and smuggle weapons and aid inside Syria into the regions they occupy. According to the Al-Mayadeen report, some Turkish officers are also involved in smuggling arms into Syria.

Residents of the Turkish towns on the border reported living in chaos. They recalled an incident when Turkish reporters were attacked with knives by a group of militants and were later threatened by the Turkish government if they didn’t keep quiet regarding the attack.

In October, Press TV’s correspondent in Turkey, Serena Shim, was killed in a “suspicious car accident” near the Turkey-Syria border, days after she told Press TV she had obtained images of militants infiltrating into Syria through the Turkish border in trucks belonging to the World Food Organization and other NGOs. Hmmm......Turkish Gov: "We never had relations with terrorists" Read the full story here.

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Al-Mayadeen reveals #Turkey AWARE of militants crossing border to #Syria http://t.co/sTJZVVb8eM https://t.co/QnAaCQ75t0
— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) November 25, 2014

Turkish FM sources: "FSA will nominate who to train, Turkey and US will have final say"

Turkish FM sources: "FSA will nominate who to train, Turkey and US will have final say".(DS).


According to sources from Turkey's Foreign Ministry talks with the U.S. use of military bases in Turkey are on-going and if the goals correlate there will be a planning effort.

It also announced that Turkey has trained 230 Peshmerga forces and will train up to 2000 Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters per year.

The FSA will nominate members to be trained while the U.S. and Turkey will have the final say of who will ultimately be trained. ]

The train-equip agreement would see that Turkey will train the selected FSA fighters while the U.S. will equip....Hmmm.....The US Will equip WHO, WHAT, WHERE?... Turkish ISIS II?

Agreement on plan to train 2,000 moderate Syrian rebels?....Not yet...perhaps later if Turkish Parliament approves.

Agreement on plan to train 2,000 moderate Syrian rebels?....Not yet...perhaps later if Turkish Parliament approves.(HD).

No deal has yet been reached over moderate Syrian rebels being trained and equipped in Turkey, Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has said, saying the talks over the issue are still continuing.

A Turkish Foreign Ministry official had the told Hürriyet Daily News on Nov. 24 that Turkish and U.S. forces have agreed to train 2,000 Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters at a base in the central Turkish city of Kırşehir as part of the campaign against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents.

When asked about the reports on Nov. 25, Yılmaz avoided confirming the claims.
“The talks are continuing,” the minister said in response to reporters’ questions before attending his party’s group meeting at Parliament.

“Whenever these negotiations are finalized, both parties will sign an agreement … As far as I know, no agreement has been signed yet. Therefore, the negotiations are continuing,” he added.

A Foreign Ministry official speaking to the Daily News had said Turkey and the U.S. have been trying to narrow “tactical differences” in the discussions for the training and equipping program for the FSA.

The official had added that any final agreement would have to be approved by Parliament after a legal examination of the text. Hmmm....The make believe presidency.....bill Biden Visit: $625K, come to think of it ....Then who are the guys who are they're training now?

Related: TURKISH FM SOURCES: FSA WILL NOMINATE WHO TO TRAIN, TURKEY AND US WILL HAVE FINAL SAY

China ‘outfoxes' Obama’s War on Coal

China ‘outfoxes’ Obama’s War on Coal. (Heritage).

China’s agreement to reduce coal emissions isn’t worth the paper it was printed on, an energy research group says.

Noting that Beijing made no binding promises, the Institute for Energy Research said President Obama “got swindled” during his appearance with Chinese leaders Wednesday.

The swindle ultimately hits the American taxpayer, according to the group.

“The president is making costly promises that will hurt Americans in the long run,” said Chris Warren, communications director for IER in Washington, D.C.

Rules enacted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will shut down 72 coal-fired electric plants across the nation over the next decade. The move will eliminate enough gigawatts to power 44.7 million U.S. homes.

China’s pledge to curb coal contradicts that country’s energy policy, which depends on the black ore for cheap power. Significantly, none of Beijing’s cohorts in the international BRICS alliance — Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa — have joined the anti-coal push.

When Obama attended the U.N. Climate Summit in September, neither China nor India sent their leaders.

“The U.N.’s summit platform included an energy agenda that aims to limit greenhouse gas emissions through the adoption of costly, ineffective renewable technologies and energy efficiency standards,” reported the Economic Times.

“China and India recognize that this agenda will raise electricity and gasoline costs, unfairly stifle their nations’ economic growth and leave their citizens worse off,” the Times concluded.

To prod China — which generates massive amounts of air pollution that drifts daily across the East China Sea to Korea — and to stick his thumb in the eye of the new Republican Congress, Obama ramped up his call for more government funding of renewable energy ventures. That includes taxpayer subsidies for controversial solar and wind projects. Hmmm....Any farmer with some common sense would realize how bad this is for America.

Read more at Watchdog.org


The post China ‘Swindles’ Obama’s War on Coal appeared first on Daily Signal.

Video - North Pole covered in Ice over 8 days time -- South Pole still @ record levels.

Video - North Pole covered in Ice over 8 days time -- South Pole still @ record levels.

8 days ago, I put out a video showing that the North Pole Ice pack was growing rather rapidly. After doing some mileage computations on the spread of the ice, I made the statement that the North Pole would be covered in a couple weeks (or less).

Here we are 8 days later.... and now the ice reaches across to Russia, with just one small open spot yet to freeze.

Sea ice levels can be viewed here:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

See that video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0x0...

Over the past 30 days, there has been a dramatic seasonal cooling of the North pole, producing quick spreading sea ice across the arctic circle.

Also, a dramatic increase in land ice / snow across large portions of the Northern Hemisphere.

This rapid cooling is expected in the fall months across Northern latitudes, however if one observes this rapid cooling in the North along with the record levels of ice at the South Pole (Antarctica), then we can see the reports this past year have been fairly INACCURATE in regards to "warming" around the globe.

Several FALSE reports have been coming out in main stream science regarding the icepack levels. One series of reports this past summer said that GRAVITY was changing due to a lack of ice at the South pole!! In reality, as you see in this video, and read from NASA, the South pole is at record HIGH levels (still at the end of October 2014) as well.

Also, false reports of a diminished North Pole (some saying NO ice at all). Again, you can see the concentrations are thick, and growing daily. In just a few days (or less) the entire North pole will be covered.

NASA confirms South Pole ice at a record maximum thickness and area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RkuRh75AY

Video - Walrus beach parties: Walrus Haulouts Are Nothing New - GloBULLWarming.

GWPF paper (PDF) - Susan Crockford: On The Beach



HT: Watts Up With That?

Climate change PROVED to be 'nothing but a lie', claims top meteorologist

Climate change PROVED to be 'nothing but a lie', claims top meteorologist. (Express).

John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, shocked academics by insisting the theory of man-made climate change was no longer scientifically credible.

Instead, what 'little evidence' there is for rising global temperatures points to a 'natural phenomenon' within a developing eco-system.

In an open letter attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he wrote:

"The ocean is not rising significantly.

"The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are increasing in number.

"Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing).

"I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid."

He added: "There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future."

"Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant greenhouse gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed."

"There has been no warming over 18 years."

Climate expert William Happer, from Princeton University, supported Mr Coleman's claims.

He added: "No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonisation of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control and energy production.

"The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science."

In 2010 a high-level inquiry by the InterAcademy Council found there was "little evidence" to support the IPCC's claims about global warming.

It also said the panel had purposely emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made "substantive findings" based on little proof. Read the full story here.

Obama Can Use Same Parole in Illegal Alien “Humanitarian Crisis” to Bring Ebola Patients to U.S.

Obama Can Use Same Parole in Illegal Alien “Humanitarian Crisis” to Bring Ebola Patients to U.S. HT: Judicial Watch.

The Obama administration has shunned multiple requests to respond to a disturbing report exposing its secret plan to admit Ebola-infected foreigners into the United States for treatment and now Congress has joined Judicial Watch to demand answers.

Will the administration blow off Congress the way it has Judicial Watch?

In the last couple of days JW has contacted a number of  government agencies that may be involved in the backdoor plan for comment but all except one have ignored the requests, both telephonic and by electronic mail. Only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offered a response, albeit a curt one. “We have nothing for you on that,” CDC spokeswoman Amesheia Buckner told JW this week.


Other agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), simply discounted JW’s requests—both verbal and in writing—for comment.

Specifically, the Obama administration’s goal is to bring Ebola patients into the United States for treatment within the first days of diagnosis, according to high-level sources that provided JW with details of the scheme.

It includes special waivers of laws and regulations that ban the admission of non-citizens with a communicable disease as dangerous as Ebola. Read the full story here.

FEMA edict to U.S. states: ‘Provide a Climate Plan or Lose Funding’

FEMA edict to U.S. states: ‘Provide a Climate Plan or Lose Funding’.HT: WUWT

FEMA, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, has issued draft guidance which demands that states include an assessment of climate risk in their 5 year disaster plan, or risk losing federal funding.

According to the FEMA draft guidance; “Key concepts under consideration include strengthening specific requirements for:

…assessing future risk in light of a changing climate and changes in land use and development. This will ensure that the mitigation strategy addresses risks and takes into consideration possible future conditions in order to identify, prioritize, and implement actions to increase statewide resilience;

supporting states in fulfilling mitigation commitments, including FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants management performance, throughout the five-year plan approval period. FEMA seeks opportunities to build and maintain mitigation capabilities and advance hazard mitigation proactively during plan implementation, and not solely at plan update and review; clarifying that “formally adopted by the state” means plan adoption by the highest elected official to reflect the importance of plan implementation as a means to demonstrate risk reduction as a statewide priority;

and

coordinating and integrating the mitigation planning process with the whole community, including agencies and stakeholders with mitigation capabilities that are responsible for economic development; land use and development; housing; infrastructure; natural and cultural resource management; and health and human services. Engaging agencies and stakeholders with data and authority early in the planning process facilitates both successful plan development and implementation.”

http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1410365092470-4dcaea71807b36f564f8e7841be4ff6b/State%20Mitigation%20Plan%20Review%20Guide_Key%20Concepts.pdf

The section on hazard assessment contains the following injunction;

“The risk assessment must provide a summary of the probability of future hazard events that includes projected changes in occurrences for each natural hazard in terms of location, extent, intensity, frequency, and/or duration. Probability must include considerations of changing future conditions, including the effects of climate change on the identified hazards.”

There is a threat of funding sanction against states which fail to fulfill the key requirements, the first of which is an assessment of the risk of “future climate change”;

“If FEMA determines that the State is not maintaining the mitigation plan and, therefore, not meeting mitigation commitments, FEMA may take corrective action, such as revoking or suspending the plan approval status. Corrective action may impact eligibility for certain FEMA assistance until such time as FEMA determines that the plan meets the requirements and restores plan approval status.”

With the threat of a lethal global Ebola pandemic looming, and an elevated risk of a repeat this year of last year’s brutal winter, if Great Lakes temperatures are any guide http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/14/water-temperature-of-the-great-lakes-is-over-6-degrees-colder-than-normal/ , it’s a comfort to know that Federal agencies have prioritised states devoting time and resources, to determining what they will do if the world warms a little.

The normal high in Atlanta in winter is about 11c. Brazilian meteogram has it cold, snowy, for that site pic.twitter.com/simdsWoQqT

— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) October 20, 2014

Austrian daily: "Huge ice growth surprises climate scientists" ... "Like one not seen in decades"!

Austrian daily: "Huge ice growth surprises climate scientists" ... "Like one not seen in decades"! (Scottnet).

The Kronen Zeitung opens with: A huge growth in ice at the poles has surprised scientists and is casting questions. Is global warming taking a break? [...] For the prophets of climate change the new figures pose questions:

At the poles of Mother Earth, in complete contradiction to prognoses of a complete polar melt, there is an ice growth like one not seen in decades." Almost the entire mainstream media has been quiet about this development. So it is refreshing to see that some media are reporting the "good" news that the planet is not warming alarmingly.

Antarctic ice growth "problem for penguins"

The Kronen Zeitung reports that Antarctic sea ice is growing at an average annual rate of 16,500 square kilometers since 2007. The case is pretty much the same for Arctic sea ice, the online Austrian daily reports.

The Kronen Zeitung also writes that the rapidly growing sea ice surrounding Antarctica is a "huge problem" for penguins, who need open water.

"Climate science turned on its head"

Moreover, the Kronen Zeitung mentions the surprise of the National Snow and Ice data Centre (NSIDC) in Colorado concerning the growth in the Arctic:

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder (Colorado) in any case have to admit that instead of a global warming, a global cooling is taking place. [...]

At the moment this development appears to have turned climate science on its head globally." The Kronen Zeitung then explains how the climate models have failed in that they predicted the very opposite to happen and that some scientists even desperately claimed that the measurements were wrong.

At the end of its article, Kronen Zeitung explains how the recent slowdown in overall solar activity may be playing a major role on the climate.

For years few sunspots could be observed. Colder winters and cooler summers could once again be the consequences, Max-Planck scientists say." Reported or not, the polar sea ice is there, and it cannot be ignored.

Video - 2015-2035 Mini Ice Age | Agricultural Losses 2014 from Cold Temperatures .

File under Globull Warming.