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WHY TURKEY WANTS CHAOS AS DOES IRAN
For most Westerners, Turkey is a hard nut to crack. How can you understand a state sponsor of terrorism that is also a member of NATO? How can you explain Turkey's facilitation of Kurdish independence in Iraq in light of Turkey's hundred-year opposition to Kurdish independence? What is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan trying to accomplish here? The answer is chaos - just like Iran albeit with a very different objective. On the terrorism support front, today Turkey vies with Iran for the title of leading state sponsor of terrorism. Here's the explanation.
HOW THE NEW DEMOGRAPHY OF WAR IS HELPING ISRAEL
The current political and military upheavals in the Middle East are producing new and far-reaching demographic realities. They are primarily due to Bashar Assad's desperation to keep power at any cost. Assad and his ruling clique are Alawites, a Shiite sect, while the rebels opposing him are primarily Sunnis. He thus has a policy of ethnically and religiously cleansing Syria of Sunnis. This includes the Palestinians in Syria. The impact his policy is having on neighboring countries like Lebanon and Jordan is tremendous - and often counter-intuitive. So much so that various communities in the Levant and even in Libya are now expressing a positive attitude toward Israel and repudiating pan-Arabism. Here's what's going on and why.
THE VA SCANDAL KEEPS GROWING
THE COLD FACTS ABOUT REALITY DENIERS
The gullible give in to the government's global-warming myth {youtube}tiO68V45bjY{/youtube} "Wasting Resources on a potential threat ignores problems at hand." Much of the media treat those who are skeptics about man-made global warming with the pejorative term "global-warming deniers," as if they were Holocaust deniers. Yet many of those in the media who watched presidential spokesperson Jay Carney engage in what can only politely be called "reality denial" day after day were-all-too silent about his obvious misstatements. Reality deniers get away with many of their fibs because...
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/20/14
ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) attacked oilfields in Iraq this week, prompting fears of $200 a barrel oil, and seized Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons facility. President Barack Hussein Obama held a news conference yesterday (6/19) to give the appearance of action, but has yet to do anything that might stem the murder spree. The IRS scandal metastasized; the Army will investigate why Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his post; the VA scandal got a whole lot worse; the administration's claim that 8 million have enrolled in Obamacare imploded; the administration's encouragement of illegal immigration by Central American children has created a major health hazard in the Southwest, and, to distract attention from all of the above, Zero found a "squirrel" in Benghazi. Heckuva time for Jack Wheeler to be on safari.
OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE…
Lying takes a huge toll on our relationships, our physical health, and our mental health. But sometimes we’re not so clear about what it means to be honest. Does it mean we say everything that we think or feel?
There are very strong benefits to honesty; and also some common sense guidelines as to what’s appropriate to express.
Let’s start with outright lying. Americans lie an average of...IN BENGHAZI, THE WHITE HOUSE FINDS A TERRORIST WHO WASN’T HIDING
FLAT-FOOTED IN IRAQ
Iraq will go down in history as one of President Barack Obama's greatest achievements, said Vice President Joe Biden in 2010, cementing his reputation as the biggest dunce ever to serve in that office. An Islamist army headed by a man who was in U.S. custody until Mr. Obama became president has reached the outskirts of Baghdad, the headless corpses of more than 1,000 men, women and children strewn in its wake. Our embassy staff is being evacuated.