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Hillary Clinton got 500K gift of jewelry from Saudi king

It is good to hear that all those Benghazi weapons were paid for, and not financed completely on the back of American taxpayers.

h/t to greg

• Temperatures are falling, while rising faster than ever
• Arctic ice has grown tremendously, and is retreating at a record rate
• Sea level rise rates haven’t changed, and threaten to drown the Earth
• All of the climate models massively over-predict temperature rise, and are conservative
• Scientists can’t figure out why the Earth isn’t warming, but the debate is over – global warming is going to kill us all.

For the past week, Obama has been insisting that he was going to attack Syria regardless of legality or anyone else’s opinion. Now that he is over his infantile “get even with Putin” temper tantrum, the press is already trying to rehabilitate his image.

Analysis: Obama and Syria: The education of a reluctant war president | Reuters

“Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that,” Mr. Obama continued. “But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly“

Obama has been granted a great gift, which allows him to bypass evidence and just start recklessly shooting from the hip. This week he was trying to use that gift to start WWIII.

It finally showed up, just north of Barrow.

British authorities have been issuing some dire-sounding warnings. In February, the man then in charge of Ofgem, Britain’s industry regulator, warned of an impending “near-crisis” of energy supply, calling the situation “horrendous” and likening it to being on a roller coaster headed “downhill—fast.” Deputy Minister Nick Clegg was quoted saying that he was working to “keep the lights on.”

The main reason for the possible crunch: Britain is closing a number of aging coal-fired plants—as well as some oil and nuclear ones—to meet European Union environmental laws.

As Coal Plants Shut Down, the United Kingdom Faces a Power Crunch

h/t to Tom Nelson

Shame on the US/UK – you never learn from your mistakes. As an Iraqi Christian, with family in Syria who fled Iraq after the consequences of your invasion, It’s a case of deja vu all over again.

Please explain one thing to me, why is the West interested in dismantling secular states in the middle east and replacing them with Islamist-fascist states?

In Iraq, you replaced a secular state, where there was freedom of religion, and my people lived peacefully, with a theocratic Iranian backed government compounded by Wahabbi and Salafist elements that never existed in the country prior to your invasion. Now Iraqi Christians are murdered en masse and cannot worship freely – actually, all Iraqis are being murdered on en masse.

Do you not understand that your ‘democracy’ is not attainable in the middle east? Religious and tribal differences do not permit it. In Iraq, we were happy with the social freedoms under Saddam Hussein – even if it came at the sacrifice of political freedoms. Now, neither exist.

31 August 2013 9:52pm

The “war on coal” has five new casualties.  A lawsuit brought by environmental groups has forced the shutdown of five Indiana coal-fired power plants by 2018, totalling 668 megawatts of power.  Duke Energy announced that it would retire five coal plants as part of a settlement reached with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups in a dispute over a clean air permit Duke was issued by the state of Indiana for its new coal-gasification plant in the southwestern part of the state. The five plants will be retired by 2018.

The Sierra Club then explained that massively reducing the supply of energy will lower prices.

“While today’s settlement is a step in the right direction, more must be done to ensure that Hoosier families are protected from rising energy bills and the enormous health threats posed by Indiana’s reliance on coal-fired power plants,” said Jodi Perras with the Sierra Club’s anti-coal campaign.

Enviro-lawsuit forces five Indiana coal plants to shut down | The Daily Caller

They learned that at the Karl Marx school of economics.

Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group.

 from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.

“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.

Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside of a tunnel used to store weapons provided by a Saudi militant, known as Abu Ayesha, who was leading a fighting battalion. The father described the weapons as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.”

Ghouta townspeople said the rebels were using mosques and private houses to sleep while storing their weapons in tunnels.  Abdel-Moneim said his son and the others died during the chemical weapons attack. That same day, the militant group Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaida, announced that it would similarly attack civilians in the Assad regime’s heartland of Latakia on Syria’s western coast, in purported retaliation.

EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack