Sent to me by a dear friend, fellow memo reader and a poignant reminder of our debt we can never repay.
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Hillarious learned at least one thing while working with Obama - blame the other person.
If her lawyers were incompetent does that not reflect on her own judgement or did her Iranian side kick select them?
The woman just cannot tell the truth. It is beyond her capability.(See 1 below.)
My response to a friend and fellow memo reader who laments the fact that he supports Trump yet, believes he is not the answer to our mounting problems.
"Trump may be what we need as was Goldwater. If you cannot get elected what difference does it make? Oh, was that something Hillarious said?.
Nominate Trump, feel good that you did the right thing then lose and ask how do you feel now that Hillarious is president, even if from the jail cell. Me"
Trump's tax plan is a step in the right direction but the more citizens who have no skin in the game is not healthy.
I prefer a consumption tax with not tax on essentials as being preferable but either is a plus because simplification restores balance and rebuilds faith in government.
Now we need specifics on where we cut spending.
Now this is how you win. Humor, gentle invective and satire : htttp://www.youtube.com/embed/
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The current market decline is in keeping with what I wrote several weeks ago after The Fed failed to raise rates.
The market interpreted their inaction and subsequent confused comments from the Chairman to indicate all was not well with the world economic outlook and concluded it could have an ill effect on our own economic recovery, modest at is has been.
Technically the Dow can drop into the mid 14,000 level.
Once we have clarification of who will become the next candidates that certainty should act as a steadying influence, assuming they are worthy candidates and not just celebrity types.
The reduction in gas prices will add money to consumer pockets in the up coming Christmas Season but anxiety over the future could restrain an up beat mood.
Then we have the Middle East problems and America's decline as a stabilizing force as Russia takes over and that should be a real and lasting market concern.
Investors also have need for China's leaders to stabilize their control over the reigns of government and that largely depends upon China's own economic problems.
Thus, I do not believe China will impose self restraint but will continue to do what they have been , ie. expand their sea reach as a challenge to us, continue their cyber attacks as simply another challenge because stealing information and technology is what they do best and provides them leaps in their pursuit of progress.
We will continue to sit with our thumbs up our behind in both instances because "Put-in" has the upper hand, China's word is worthless and Obama is a weakling except when it comes to end runs around sleep at the switch Republican leadership and contempt for the Constitution.
Little wonder the market is reacting to so much uncertainty but one thing is for sure, the market is making a clear statement about its lack of confidence in Obama and The Fed's Chairperson.
Oh, I forgot and The Pope has returned to Italy/Eataly, so no more inspirational speeches to lift our spirits..
Then there is Icahn! (See 2 below.)
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More from the JV'ers. (See 3 and 3a below.)
PP's UN address. (See 3b below.)
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Dick
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1)
Clinton Says She Let Lawyers Decide Whether Emails Were Work or Personal
Former Secretary of State says she didn’t look at emails before turning them over to State Department
By
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she didn’t personally review her emails to determine which related to work and which were personal before turning them over to the State Department, but relied on her attorneys to make the proper determinations.
Asked on NBC whether it was possible that work-related emails were wrongly deleted from her personal server, she replied that the process was “exhaustive” but that she didn’t personally participate.
“I didn’t look at them,” she said. “I wanted them to be as clear in their process as possible. I didn’t want to be looking over their shoulder. If they thought it was work-related, it would go to the State Department. If not, then it would not.”
Her comments followed reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is examining the server she used for her work and personal email as secretary of state, has recovered some of the deleted emails. She has signed an affidavit testifying that she did turn over all work-related emails, but her critics have questioned that assertion.Mrs. Clinton both restated her confidence in the process her attorneys used but also removed herself from the decision making. She said that after that process was complete, she told her staff that she didn’t need the personal emails and they were deleted.
Asked if emails related to the work of the Clinton Foundation would have been considered work or personal, she said that she didn’t communicate with the foundation about work-related matters but that anything related to the work of the State Department would have been turned over.
Mrs. Clinton was also asked about discrepancies in when she first began using her personal account, replying “there was a transition period” as she took office. “You know, I wasn’t that focused on my email account,” she said.
A Clinton aide said that Mrs. Clinton’s email account began being hosted on her personal server in March 2009, which is why the records turned over to the State Department begin then. But, the aide said, the domain clintonemail.com was bought in January 2009, and “it appears she started using it” before it was housed on the server.
Mrs. Clinton said setting up the personal system was less complicated that it might seem, noting the server was already in place for her husband, former President Bill Clinton. “It was sitting there in the basement. It was not any trouble at all,” she said. “I added my account to it and it apparently took a little time to do that.” She said that there was “about a month” in which there was nothing on the server.
She rejected the idea that she used the private server in part to avoid scrutiny from congressional subpoenas or Freedom of Information Request Act requests. “It’s totally ridiculous. That never crossed my mind,” she said. She said she assumed her emails would be available because she mostly was emailing to colleagues’ government email addresses.
She also was asked about concerns among supporters that the email story will persist in “drip, drip, drip” fashion and asked whether she could assure them that there is nothing else out there.
“It is like a drip, drip, drip, and that’s why I said there’s only so much that I can control,” she said. “I can’t predict to you what the Republicans will come up with, what kind of, you know, charges or claims they might make. I have no control over that.”
A spokesman for the Republican National Committee, Michael Short, said Sunday Mrs. Clinton is misleading the American public. “She continues to perpetuate falsehoods about being transparent when the server itself was an exercise in skirting public records laws,” he said in a statement.
Mrs. Clinton said voters will have to decide how important the email issue is to them. “If people are uncertain, if they have concerns around these questions about the emails, it is their choice to say, ‘That’s going to influence, you know, how I think about the election.’ I understand that, I get it,” she said. But she said she hopes that people will also look at her record of advocating for families and her proposals to deal with raising incomes, and dealing with the high costs of college and prescription drugs and other issues. “That’s what I hope people focus on and people can make their minds up.”
She added that in the 1990s, she was subject to “the same kind of barrage” of criticism and still the voters of the New York sent her to the Senate because they were more concerned about what she would do to help them. “I trust the voters to make that decision this time around too,” she said.
Mrs. Clinton also addressed her changed positions on three high-profile issues: legality of same-sex marriage, which she now supports, and building the Keystone XL pipeline and the Iraq war, both of which she now opposes. On Keystone, for instance, she said that people now know more about the “dirtiness” of the oil being extracted from the Canadian tar sands, which would be transported by the new pipeline if built.
“I’m not one who...stakes out a position and holds it regardless of the evidence or regardless of the way I perceive what’s happening in the world around me,” she said. “That’s where the Republicans are.”
Eric Morath contributed to this article
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2) 'Danger Ahead': Icahn Warns of Potential Looming Catastrophe in New Video
Billionaire financier and activist Carl Icahn warns that the financial markets are on a brink of yet another catastrophe.
Icahn is planning to release a video on Tuesday called “Danger Ahead” on his website, warning that gridlock in Washington, Federal Reserve monetary policy and irresponsible CEOs are creating a recipe for trouble.
"I've been worried for the last five, six months about the market and the economy and the dangerous spot that we're in," Icahn said.
"I did speak four or five times warning about the problems we have. I want to speak out now because — I know this may sound corny, I grew in the streets of Queens — I love this country and I feel strongly about the dysfunction going on in both Washington and the boardrooms of corporate America," he said.
He told CNBC that low interest rates caused bubbles in art, real estate and high-yield bonds – with potentially dramatic consequences.
"It's like giving somebody medicine and this medicine is being given and given and given and we don't know what's going to happen — you don't know how bad it's going to be. We do know when we did it a few years ago it caused a catastrophe, it caused '08. Where do you draw the line?
Icahn said he's "more hedged now than I've been in years."
"The Fed may have backed itself into a corner. They should have absolutely raised rates six months ago," adding it's difficult now because of global concerns.
In an interview with the New York Post, Icahn also is now the latest to attack the 1 percent.
“I’m saying the wealthy, the elitists, are a little oblivious to the problems” facing the country.
“They are my friends but they feel a certain sense of entitlement.”
Icahn said a pal, a fellow 1-percenter, asked him recently what the first thing he would do if he were elected president, and he replied: “I told him I would make you pay some f- -king taxes.”
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2) 'Danger Ahead': Icahn Warns of Potential Looming Catastrophe in New Video
Billionaire financier and activist Carl Icahn warns that the financial markets are on a brink of yet another catastrophe.
Icahn is planning to release a video on Tuesday called “Danger Ahead” on his website, warning that gridlock in Washington, Federal Reserve monetary policy and irresponsible CEOs are creating a recipe for trouble.
"I've been worried for the last five, six months about the market and the economy and the dangerous spot that we're in," Icahn said.
"I did speak four or five times warning about the problems we have. I want to speak out now because — I know this may sound corny, I grew in the streets of Queens — I love this country and I feel strongly about the dysfunction going on in both Washington and the boardrooms of corporate America," he said.
He told CNBC that low interest rates caused bubbles in art, real estate and high-yield bonds – with potentially dramatic consequences.
"It's like giving somebody medicine and this medicine is being given and given and given and we don't know what's going to happen — you don't know how bad it's going to be. We do know when we did it a few years ago it caused a catastrophe, it caused '08. Where do you draw the line?
Icahn said he's "more hedged now than I've been in years."
"The Fed may have backed itself into a corner. They should have absolutely raised rates six months ago," adding it's difficult now because of global concerns.
In an interview with the New York Post, Icahn also is now the latest to attack the 1 percent.
“I’m saying the wealthy, the elitists, are a little oblivious to the problems” facing the country.
“They are my friends but they feel a certain sense of entitlement.”
Icahn said a pal, a fellow 1-percenter, asked him recently what the first thing he would do if he were elected president, and he replied: “I told him I would make you pay some f- -king taxes.”
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3)
German Journalist Back from Frontlines: ISIS Seeks Nuclear Holocaust
(JNi.media) German author and politician Jürgen Todenhöfer, 75, who in 2014 visited Syria and Iraq as the first Western journalist to be allowed extensive access to ISIS-controlled territories and to return safely, has now published a book titled “Inside IS – Ten Days in the Islamic State,” in which he suggests that “the west is drastically underestimating the power of ISIS,” and declares in no uncertain terms that “the terrorists plan on killing several hundred million people,” The Express reported.
Todenhöfer writes that ISIS’ ambition is to secure atomic weapons, comparing the Islamic army to a “nuclear tsunami preparing the largest religious cleansing in history.”
Back in 2014, in a TV interview with RTL TV two days after his return to Germany, Todenhöfer said ISIS has “social welfare,” a “school system,” and even plans to provide education to girls.
On the other hand, he was most concerned by ISIS fighters’ belief that “all religions who agree with democracy have to die.” He kept hearing that ISIS wants to “conquer the world” and anyone not following their interpretation of the Koran must be killed, with the exception of the “people of the book” – Jews and Christians.
“This is the largest religious cleansing strategy that has ever been planned in human history,” Todenhöfer told RTL.
It is presumed that Todenhöfer was allowed to get into the ISIS territory because of his vociferous criticism of GW Bush’s policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nevertheless, Todenhöfer said that “this project was opposed by my family for seven months. My son ultimately accompanied me – against my will. He meant to protect me. And he filmed there.”
Todenhöfer says ISIS “are much stronger than we here believe. They now control land greater in size than the United Kingdom and are supported by an almost ecstatic enthusiasm the like of which I’ve never encountered before in a war zone. Every day hundreds of willing fighters from all over the world come.”
He thinks the beheadings “have been established as a strategy … to spread fear and terror among their enemies. This worked well — look at the capture of Mosul [which was] taken with fewer than 400 fighters! They are the most brutal and most dangerous enemy I have ever seen in my life.”
As to the rest of the world, Todenhöfer says, “I don’t see anyone who has a real chance to stop them. Only Arabs can stop IS. I came back very pessimistic.”
3a)
Migration Crisis: “Islam Will Conquer Europe Without Firing a Shot”
- The failed foreign policies of the EU and the US under President Obama, have brought the Arabs to the brink of chaos, and destroyed regimes which, even though they were not democratic utopias, at least provided governance and public order. These failed policies have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution — and are ultimately the cause of the tsunami of refugees beating at the gates of Europe.
- Now the EU and Obama want to bring the catastrophe of Gaza to the West Bank.
- The American FDA is more careful with experiments on animals than the White House is with experiments on the people of the Middle East.
- Every time the Palestinians have taken steps against the Israelis, we have hurt no one but ourselves, and are left with — nothing.
- The Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune, because under the State of Israel we live in security.
- In the face of ongoing mass murder in the Middle East, what arcane consideration, apart from Federica Mogherini being a racist, could possibly bring the EU to deal with something as marginal to global issues as boycotting Israeli face-cream and cookies?
With the anniversary of Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, internal Palestinian discourse revolves around radical Islam and America's actions. It relates to the slaughter, rape and millions of refugees who have fallen victim to Al-Qaeda, humanitarian calamity of and the Islamist terrorist organizations to which it gave birth, such as ISIS. Today an apocalyptic proportions is unfolding in territories that used to be Arab states but are now the battle grounds for feuding Arab tribes, whose only objective is to destroy one another.
In their heart of hearts, the Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune because under the State of Israel we live in security. This reality is brought home to us by the feeble international response and the strange behavior of U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Western world who have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists (and their supporters in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar), and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution (mainly in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon).
In view of what is happening in neighboring countries, it is clear to us what will happen if Israel is in danger of destruction: no Western state will come to its aid and no Arab state will come to our aid. Our fate will be the same as that of our brothers beyond Israel's borders. It is hard not to identify and sympathize with Israel's efforts to fight terrorism and with its objections to the nuclear agreement with Iran.
Despite the chaos and worse than chaos in the Middle East, the EU's foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, recently announced that the EU had decided to mark products made in the Israeli settlements. That is mind-boggling, so say the least. In the face of the ongoing mass murders in the Middle East, what arcane consideration, apart from Mogherini being a racist, could possibly bring the EU, now, to deal with something as blatantly marginal to global issues as the provenance of face cream and cookies?
In the final analysis, if the Europeans harm Israel's ability to market goods manufactured in the West Bank, the first victims will be the Palestinian workers in the Israeli settlement factories. Every time the Palestinians have taken steps against the Israelis, we have hurt no one but ourselves. The last time we boycotted Israeli products we wound up buying them on the black market at double and triple the price. When we refused to work on construction sites, the Israelis switched to modular, prefabricated units, and the Palestinian construction workers who went on strike are unemployed to this day. When we refused to work in Israeli agriculture, they brought in workers from Thailand, who took our jobs and left us with — nothing.
The Western pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to establish a Palestinian state as soon as possible, when viewed through the prism of the mass murders and uncertainty in the Middle East, is incomprehensible. The initiative, and the obsession, to promote such a dangerous project at a time when everyone understands that the conditions on both sides are not yet ripe is dangerous; and the motives involved, whatever they really are, are suspicious. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not new, it has been waged in an atmosphere of terrorism and violence and hostility and complete lack of trust for a hundred years. So why exert pressure now?
Everyone, at least everyone living in the Middle East, knows full well that the conflict will not end with a “peace for our time” agreement forced on the two sides and accompanied by a handful of empty, meaningless documents; the dynamics are too dangerous. For both us and the Israelis it is a matter of life and death, not semantics; and it will probably take another hundred years before enough trust can be built on both sides to find a just solution.
The irony is staggering. At a time when the Arab states that were artificially created after the First World War crumble to dust, the EU is pressing for the creation of another artificial Arab state, this one called “Palestine,” to be carved out of territories once belonging to Jordan and Egypt. If “Palestine” is granted the status of statehood, it will force not only Israel but the rest of the world to grant it complete control over its borders, airports and a seaport. That will expose the new weak “state” to a rapid and certain takeover by Hamas, ISIS and various other terrorist organizations. Given the current situation in the West Bank, the elected government of “Palestine” will be controlled by Hamas. It will overthrow the Palestinian Authority, the way it did in the Gaza Strip, take over the West Bank, use its airports and seaport to import missiles, various other weapons and Islamist terrorists, and help Islamist terrorism in general, and ISIS in particular, to operate from its territory. The Islamists will proceed to attack Israel and Jordan the way ISIS is currently attacking Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. Worse, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will enter the new “Palestine” and strengthen its relations with Iran, just as it has in the Gaza Strip and Syria, and with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Evidently the Israeli withdrawal in 2005, which led directly to Hamas's bloodbath and takeover of the Gaza Strip, the expulsion of the Palestinian Authority and the entrenchment of Islamist terrorism, was not enough for Europe. Now the EU and U.S. President Barack Obama want to bring the catastrophe of the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. The American Food and Drug Administration is more careful with experiments on animals than the White House is with experiments on the people living in the Middle East.
In view of the events in the Arab countries, it is clear to the Palestinians that American and European actions in the Middle East are the direct result of stupidity and complete ignorance of the Middle Eastern mindset, if not outright racism and malevolence. What is inescapable is that under Obama, both America and Europe brought the Arabs to the brink of chaos and beyond, destroyed regimes which, even though they were not democratic utopias like the United States, at least provided governance and public order. That is ultimately the cause of the tsunami of refugees beating at the gates of Europe, all of it caused by the United States and its failed foreign policy.
All the signs indicate that the Middle East disaster is hardly far from over. It is actually just beginning. it will get worse because of the tens of billions that will now pour into the Ayatollahs' coffers from the insane agreement with Iran. Much of this money will go directly not only to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards' Qods Force, Iran's arm of international terrorism, but to the various proxy terrorist organizations Iran supports, thus hastening the total destruction of the Middle East and eventually large swaths of Africa.
The wave of refugees will increase, and the price will be paid by the Europeans, already faced with legions of refugees and no plan for dealing with them. Eventually Gaddafi's prophecy will come true: Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot.
The failed foreign policies of the EU and the US under President Obama, have brought the Arabs to the brink of chaos, and destroyed regimes which, even though they were not democratic utopias, at least provided governance and public order. These failed policies have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution — and are ultimately the cause of the tsunami of refugees beating at the gates of Europe.
Now the EU and Obama want to bring the catastrophe of Gaza to the West Bank.
The American FDA is more careful with experiments on animals than the White House is with experiments on the people of the Middle East.
Every time the Palestinians have taken steps against the Israelis, we have hurt no one but ourselves, and are left with — nothing.
The Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune, because under the State of Israel we live in security.
In the face of ongoing mass murder in the Middle East, what arcane consideration, apart from Federica Mogherini being a racist, could possibly bring the EU to deal with something as marginal to global issues as boycotting Israeli face-cream and cookies?
With the anniversary of Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, internal Palestinian discourse revolves around radical Islam and America's actions. It relates to the slaughter, rape and millions of refugees who have fallen victim to Al-Qaeda, humanitarian calamity of and the Islamist terrorist organizations to which it gave birth, such as ISIS. Today an apocalyptic proportions is unfolding in territories that used to be Arab states but are now the battle grounds for feuding Arab tribes, whose only objective is to destroy one another.
In their heart of hearts, the Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune because under the State of Israel we live in security. This reality is brought home to us by the feeble international response and the strange behavior of U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Western world who have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists (and their supporters in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar), and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution (mainly in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon).
In view of what is happening in neighboring countries, it is clear to us what will happen if Israel is in danger of destruction: no Western state will come to its aid and no Arab state will come to our aid. Our fate will be the same as that of our brothers beyond Israel's borders. It is hard not to identify and sympathize with Israel's efforts to fight terrorism and with its objections to the nuclear agreement with Iran.
Despite the chaos and worse than chaos in the Middle East, the EU's foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, recently announced that the EU had decided to mark products made in the Israeli settlements. That is mind-boggling, so say the least. In the face of the ongoing mass murders in the Middle East, what arcane consideration, apart from Mogherini being a racist, could possibly bring the EU, now, to deal with something as blatantly marginal to global issues as the provenance of face cream and cookies?
In the final analysis, if the Europeans harm Israel's ability to market goods manufactured in the West Bank, the first victims will be the Palestinian workers in the Israeli settlement factories. Every time the Palestinians have taken steps against the Israelis, we have hurt no one but ourselves. The last time we boycotted Israeli products we wound up buying them on the black market at double and triple the price. When we refused to work on construction sites, the Israelis switched to modular, prefabricated units, and the Palestinian construction workers who went on strike are unemployed to this day. When we refused to work in Israeli agriculture, they brought in workers from Thailand, who took our jobs and left us with — nothing.
The Western pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to establish a Palestinian state as soon as possible, when viewed through the prism of the mass murders and uncertainty in the Middle East, is incomprehensible. The initiative, and the obsession, to promote such a dangerous project at a time when everyone understands that the conditions on both sides are not yet ripe is dangerous; and the motives involved, whatever they really are, are suspicious. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not new, it has been waged in an atmosphere of terrorism and violence and hostility and complete lack of trust for a hundred years. So why exert pressure now?
Everyone, at least everyone living in the Middle East, knows full well that the conflict will not end with a “peace for our time” agreement forced on the two sides and accompanied by a handful of empty, meaningless documents; the dynamics are too dangerous. For both us and the Israelis it is a matter of life and death, not semantics; and it will probably take another hundred years before enough trust can be built on both sides to find a just solution.
The irony is staggering. At a time when the Arab states that were artificially created after the First World War crumble to dust, the EU is pressing for the creation of another artificial Arab state, this one called “Palestine,” to be carved out of territories once belonging to Jordan and Egypt. If “Palestine” is granted the status of statehood, it will force not only Israel but the rest of the world to grant it complete control over its borders, airports and a seaport. That will expose the new weak “state” to a rapid and certain takeover by Hamas, ISIS and various other terrorist organizations. Given the current situation in the West Bank, the elected government of “Palestine” will be controlled by Hamas. It will overthrow the Palestinian Authority, the way it did in the Gaza Strip, take over the West Bank, use its airports and seaport to import missiles, various other weapons and Islamist terrorists, and help Islamist terrorism in general, and ISIS in particular, to operate from its territory. The Islamists will proceed to attack Israel and Jordan the way ISIS is currently attacking Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. Worse, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will enter the new “Palestine” and strengthen its relations with Iran, just as it has in the Gaza Strip and Syria, and with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Evidently the Israeli withdrawal in 2005, which led directly to Hamas's bloodbath and takeover of the Gaza Strip, the expulsion of the Palestinian Authority and the entrenchment of Islamist terrorism, was not enough for Europe. Now the EU and U.S. President Barack Obama want to bring the catastrophe of the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. The American Food and Drug Administration is more careful with experiments on animals than the White House is with experiments on the people living in the Middle East.
In view of the events in the Arab countries, it is clear to the Palestinians that American and European actions in the Middle East are the direct result of stupidity and complete ignorance of the Middle Eastern mindset, if not outright racism and malevolence. What is inescapable is that under Obama, both America and Europe brought the Arabs to the brink of chaos and beyond, destroyed regimes which, even though they were not democratic utopias like the United States, at least provided governance and public order. That is ultimately the cause of the tsunami of refugees beating at the gates of Europe, all of it caused by the United States and its failed foreign policy.
All the signs indicate that the Middle East disaster is hardly far from over. It is actually just beginning. it will get worse because of the tens of billions that will now pour into the Ayatollahs' coffers from the insane agreement with Iran. Much of this money will go directly not only to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards' Qods Force, Iran's arm of international terrorism, but to the various proxy terrorist organizations Iran supports, thus hastening the total destruction of the Middle East and eventually large swaths of Africa.
The wave of refugees will increase, and the price will be paid by the Europeans, already faced with legions of refugees and no plan for dealing with them. Eventually Gaddafi's prophecy will come true: Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot.
Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East.
3b)Ensures Iran's Nuclear Program Will be 'Peaceful'
By Cortney O'Brien
In his address to the United Nations in New York City Monday morning, President Obama defended his administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran in the vein of 'international togetherness.'
The president said he is “mindful” of the dangers we face because they cross his desk every morning.
“I will never hesitate to protect our country, unilaterally or by force when necessary,” he said.
Yet, these dangers, he insisted, cannot be faced alone.
“But I believe in my core, we cannot return to the old ways of conflict and coercion. We cannot look backwards. We cannot turn back those forces of integration.”
Instead of acting in isolation, Obama said the United States often needs to rely on its friends.
“If we cannot work together more effectively, we will all suffer the consequences,” he said.
“No matter how powerful our military, how strong our economy, we understand the US cannot solve the world’s problems alone.”
The president said the power of international unity was best demonstrated during the administration's nuclear agreement with Iran.
Before the deal was drafted, the United States and its allies placed sanctions on Iran to “test” whether Iran could change course and that its nuclear program would be “peaceful.”
“For two years, international partners stuck together in complex negotiations,” he said. “The result is a lasting, comprehensive deal.”
“A potential war is averted,” he said. “Our world is safer. That is the strength of the international system when it works the way it should.”
Obama continued to stress the need for global unity while addressing Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis, specifically the annexation of Crimea. The president said they don’t want to isolate the country, but they want a strong Russia “working with us.”
The president is likely to expand on this topic when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the meeting of the nations later today.
The president’s first applause was received when he addressed America’s new warming relationship with Cuba, which includes the opening of air travel between the two nations.
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