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Why Is Obama Meddling In UK Vote Over Whether To Leave EU?
by Shifra on March 14, 2016Maybe Obama watched ‘Titanic’ too many times. Because it looks like the “I’m the King of the World!” line really got to him. Via Daily Caller: President Barack Obama is set to visit London in April to lobby against the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, leaving some British lawmakers furious. The trip will come approximately one month before British voters go to the polls in June to vote on a referendum that will decide whether or not they will stay in the E.U. The decision, popularly referred to as ‘Brexit,’ will be the first time in 40 years that British voters have had the opportunity to leave the European partnership. Obama’s plan to lobby against the move has some...
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Obama: Bibi Netanyahu Was Condescending To Me
by Shifra on March 10, 2016Barack Hussein is insulted because Netanyahu lectured him about the realities of the Middle East. Then he says Netanyahu could have “made peace” with the “Palestinians” but did not because he felt “too politically vulnerable” ? Sounds like POTUS has no clue about the realities of the Middle East. Via Israel National News: …in an interview with veteran American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg forThe Atlantic, Obama described one particularly charged meeting in which Netanyahu “launched into something of a lecture about the dangers of the brutal region in which he lives,” i.e. the Middle East. Obama said he felt Netanyahu was being condescending towards him, and responded: “Bibi, you have to understand something. I’m the African American son of a single...
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Khamenei: ‘Divine Intervention’ Delivered U.S. Sailors Into Our Hands
by Shifra on January 25, 2016Iranian Brigadier General Hossein Salami claims that U.S. sailors cried when they were captured. But personally, I think Gen. Salami is full of baloney. Via Times of Israel: Ian’s supreme leader said divine forces had delivered American sailors into the hands of his country’s naval forces. Meeting with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy unit that took 10 US sailors captive when they strayed into Iranian waters on January 12, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed the “courage” and “strong faith” of the unit, semi-state Iranian news site Fars reported on Sunday. “You did an excellent job,” Khamenei told them. “Certainly, it was the divine job that sent the Americans straying into our territorial waters only to be promptly captured with...
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Video: Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif Slams U.S.A.
by Shifra on January 21, 2016What do you do after the U.S. gives you $1.7B and agrees to a deal giving you just about everything you want? Well, apparently, you go on camera to mock and insult the U.S. Because…gratitude. Via BizPac Review: In a new interview with the Associated Press, Iran’s top diplomat slapped the hand of the United States. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the AP that the US has an “addiction to sanctions” ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos. He said the nuclear sanctions that the US called “crippling” were anything but, and that it better be careful about imposing new sanctions. “The United States was not able to stop Iran’s nuclear program through sanctions,” he said. “They imposed...
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CNN Panel *Loved* Obama’s Speech, But The Foreign Correspondents… Not So Much
by Shifra on December 7, 2015This CNN panel lives in an alternate universe (Planet Zog?) Or maybe they are just totally drunk on Obama Kool-Aid. Via NewsBusters: Following President Obama’s Sunday night address, the always large post-event panel on CNN had plenty to say, but it was quite the disconnect as many of their political commentators hailed the “straightforward” speech by the President while two of their foreign policy analysts panned the President’s “self-congratulation” and having “his head…in the clouds if he thinks this current strategy is going to succeed.” In the moments after the speech, Jake Tapper, Gloria Borger, and John King offered up largely complimentary thoughts on the speech with Borger observing that she’s “never heard this language from the President before” as...
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Videos: Tammy Discussing Kerry’s Hebdo “Rationale” & Carson’s Struggle with Foreign Policy
by Patricia on November 18, 2015Tammy on “Making Money” with host Charles, Pete Hegseth, Richard Grenell, and Dave Sears. Tammy states that John Kerry should resign because of his sympathetic comment on the Charlie Hebdo attack in justifying the attack on Paris. In the second video the discussion turns to Ben Carson’s struggle with foreign policy. John Kerry under fire for comment on Charlie Hebdo attack Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Ben Carson struggling to grasp foreign policy? Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
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On Middle East Chaos, A Psychologist Asks: Is POTUS Misinformed… Or ?
by Shifra on October 11, 2015Psychotic disorders: Mental disorders in which a person’s personality is severely confused and that person loses touch with reality. As a psychologist myself not having a personal opportunity to meet with and diagnose him, I can’t say what his problem is, but whatever the issue his attitude here makes it clear he’s ignoring reality for one reason or another. After all, denial ain’t a river in Egypt. Via Right Scoop: Obama had another interview with 60 Minutes, and to Steve Kroft’s credit, he actually made Obama face up to the failures of his foreign policy in the Middle East. Of course, Obama’s ridiculous myopic arrogance won’t let him see what’s plainly obvious, and instead he gets visibly annoyed that Kroft...
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HHS Contracting For Development of Burn Treatment ‘In Case Of Nuclear Attack’
by Shifra on October 1, 2015This is all so confusing. I mean, didn’t President Selfie-Stick say ISIS was a Junior Varsity Team? And didn’t he also say “Al Qaeda is on the run” ? And didn’t he assure us that the Iran Deal would prevent Iran from going nuclear? So, why is HHS suddenly concerned about the possibility of a nuclear attack? Via CNS News: HHS Boosting Nation’s Stockpile of Burn Treatments in Case of Nuclear Attack The detonation of an improvised nuclear device would produce intense heat, resulting in many patients with severe burns,” says a September 30 news release from the Department of Health and Human Services. The announcement says HHS has contracted for the development of “four novel products to treat severe...
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Saudis To Crucify Protester, Named ‘Human Rights’ Chair, State Dept ‘Welcomes’ News
by Shifra on September 24, 2015As Carly Fiorina so aptly stated: This is about the character of our nation. H/T Weasel Zippers Via The Intercept: Last week’s announcement that Saudi Arabia — easily one of the world’s most brutally repressive regimes — was chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. That reaction was triggered for obvious reasons. Not only has Saudi Arabia executed more than 100 people already this year, mostly by beheading (a rate of 1 execution every two days), and not only is it serially flogging dissidents, but it is reaching new levels of tyrannical depravity as it is about to behead and then crucify the 21-year-old son of a prominent regime critic…. Most of the...
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Opportunity In 2012 To Have Assad Step Down—US Declined
by Pat_S on September 15, 2015According to a senior negotiator, in 2012 Russia proposed that Assad would step down as part of a peace deal. Western powers refused because they thought Assad was about to fall anyway. West ‘ignored Russian offer in 2012 to have Syria’s Assad step aside’ Former Finnish president and Nobel peace prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said western powers failed to seize on the proposal. Since it was made, in 2012, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions uprooted, causing the world’s gravest refugee crisis since the second world war. Ahtisaari held talks with envoys from the five permanent members of the UN security council in February 2012. He said that during those discussions, the Russian ambassador, Vitaly Churkin,...
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Liberal Law Professor Alan Dershowitz Now Furious With Obama
by Shifra on September 7, 2015One question for the ‘esteemed and brilliant’ Harvard law professor: What took you so long? Via Algemeiner: Long-time Democrat, Israel defender and famed law professor Alan Dershowitz told a synagogue audience on Saturday night that he was “furious” with President Obama over the Iran nuclear deal. Speaking at Manhattan’s illustrious Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side… Dershowitz implied he had been betrayed by the president he had formerly championed. He recounted being invited to the Oval Office before Obama’s reelection in 2012, where the president had committed to being vigilant on the Iranian nuclear issue. Obama has now crossed many of his own red lines, said Dershowitz, who backed Obama in two elections. The international law expert, who...
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Video: ‘Veterans Against The Deal’ In Scathing New Ad
by Shifra on August 11, 2015Obama has attacked anti-nuke deal Republicans, comparing them to Iran’s hardliners. And he has accused American Jews of “dual loyalty” for opposing the plan. So, will he call these Vets “just like ISIS?” Via Bloomberg: Obama has said recently that there are only two camps: those who support the deal versus those who would prefer a bloody and costly war like the conflict in Iraq. The new ad campaign complicates that, asserting that the deal itself will lead to more war. And the voices putting forth that case do not prefer war; they are soldiers who have had enough of it. The group, Veterans Against the Deal, was founded last month as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, and it does not disclose...
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U.S. Negotiator To Senate: We Will Keep ‘Side Deals’ Secret, For ‘National Security’
by Shifra on August 6, 2015Shorter Wendy Sherman to Senate: It’s none of your business! Via CNS News: It is both “appropriate” and in the U.S. national security interest for side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to remain secret, the State Department’s top nuclear negotiator told senators on Wednesday. Undersecretary of state Wendy Sherman tussled with Senator David Vitter (R-La.) during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as he asked her repeatedly if she thought it appropriate that she – who does not get to vote on the deal – has seen the side agreements, while lawmakers who do get to vote will not…. She did not explain why she had herself been able...
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State Dept: Syria Still Uses Chemical Weapons, But U.S. Effort To Remove Them A ‘Success’
by Shifra on July 28, 2015“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less.” – From Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Via Free Beacon: On Monday, Associated Press reporter Matt Lee challenged the State Department’s idea of “success” in regard to the removal of chemical weapons in Syria. The Syria government reached an agreement with the United States and Russia in 2013 to turn over all chemical materials from its chemical weapons program. State Department spokesperson John Kirby said the administration still considers that agreement a success, despite reports that the Syrian government continues to use chemical weapons on its own citizens…. “I don’t see how...
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Huckabee Invokes Holocaust In Criticism Of Iran deal, Dems Throw Hissy Fits
by Shifra on July 27, 2015Former Gov. Mike Huckabee likened the agreement on an Iranian nuclear deal to “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven,” a reference to the Holocaust. Sounds about right to me. However, the Dems are losing their lunches over his comments. POTUS: ….Obama, asked about the comments at a news conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said they were part of a pattern of attacks by 2016 Republican presidential candidates that would be “considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad.” Such issues as the Iran nuclear deal deserve serious debate, not outlandish statements, he said…. Obama also singled out Ted Cruz, a Texas senator running for the GOP nomination, for suggesting in the wake of the nuclear deal that Obama...