I took the time to watch the video as all Prager U videos are generally worthwhile. Its argument that people don’t want to confront evil because it’s too painful to see is pretty good as is the comparison between the Iran Deal with the Munich Pact.
That being said it has a fatal flaw. I have to disagree with the premise of the That the Iran deal was one of the worst deals in history. This makes an assumption, and a rather ironic one.
It assumes that the weakening of the west, the empowering of Iran was contrary to the goal of Barack Obama and those who made this deal.
I submit and suggest that this assumption by Mr. Prager is due to the same blindness that he describes at the start of this video because I further submit and suggest that to Barack Obama and his team all of the consequences of the Iran deal Mr. Prager describes were features, not bug
Closing thought If you told me I would be writing that sentence about a US president 10 years ago I wouldn’t have believed you.
Almost immediately after the apocalyptic nature of the Australian bushfires became apparent claims that the infernos are either caused by, or made worse, by climate change began to fill news reports and the internet. A large majority of the Australia bushfire stories falsely point fingers directly at climate change.
Fortunately there are articles such as this Breitbart
article Delingpole:
Environmentalists Made Australia’s Bush Fires Worse which actually uses
science, historic data, and real facts to determine the true cause of this
catastrophe. I highly recommend reading
the original article, it is full of supporting scientific data and charts. With this quote you can see that there was
nothing extreme about the lack precipitation the area has been experiencing
As Paul Homewood pointed out last month, there has been no significant long-term decrease in rainfall or increase in temperatures in the affected regions.
Yes, it has been dry in New South Wales (where most of the worst fires are), but there have been several years, especially pre-1960, when it was drier
The same holds true for the temperature, which rules out
climate change.
The same applies to temperature. Yes, this has been a hot spring in New South Wales. But there have been times when it has been much hotter — making a nonsense of all stories in the Australian media about temperatures being the hottest evah
This next quote points the blame directly where it belongs.
So, to be clear, there is zero evidence of any change in climatic conditions that might have increased the likelihood or severity of these bush fires. This is not — repeat NOT — a man-made climate change story, and anyone who claims otherwise is either a gullible idiot or a lying charlatan.
There is, nonetheless, good reason to believe that the stupidity and irresponsibility of man is at least partly to blame for this disaster — just not quite in the way that the left-liberal MSM and the green wankerati would have you believe.
Arson is the number one cause of the catastrophe.
Man-made culprit #1: all the firebugs who have been deliberately starting fires in New South Wales, Queensland, and elsewhere. You won’t be surprised that their involvement has had very little coverage in the left-liberal MSM.
Bad forest management caused by environmentalists is the
number two cause.
Man-made culprit #2: well-meaning idiots who don’t understand that unless you manage forested areas with controlled burns, you’re going to end up with out-of-control wildfires.
Jo Nova has a damning story about locals in East Gippsland in the state of Victoria who successfully stopped a planned controlled burn at Nowa Nowa. Two of them were pictured holding signs saying, “Spring burns kill baby birds alive” and “Stop burning nesting birds”.
A you can see from the next three quotes, bad laws passed to
solve the mythical boogie man climate change are also to blame.
Man-made culprit #3: Greens The people most to blame for the Australian bush fires are the greens. Just like in California, their tree-hugging Gaia worship blinded them to the reality that forests need regular clearance and maintenance if they are not to become a major fire hazard.
in large parts of Australia, it remains illegal to remove trees from your land even in order to create fire breaks and protect your property — despite the obvious risk this ban creates to homeowners living in potential bush-fire zones. Trees have been designated a ‘carbon sink’, which supposedly offset Australia’s CO2 emissions.
Liam Sheahan is an Australian fireman who in 2002 was fined $50,000 – and paid another $50,000 in costs – for illegally clearing the trees round his home in rural Victoria. In 2009 he was vindicated when his property was only one left standing after bushfires destroyed his town.
Research has shown about 8 percent of officially recorded vegetation fires were attributed to malicious lighting, and another 22 percent as suspicious. However, about 40 percent of officially recorded vegetation fires did not have an assigned cause.
When unassigned bushfires were investigated by fire investigators, the majority were found to be maliciously lit
At around 8 p.m. Saturday, hackers breached and defaced the website of the U.S. Federal Depository Library (USFDL), posting a graphic image of President Trump being punched in the face and announcing, “This is a message from Islamic Republic of Iran.”
U.S. officials have not confirmed that the attack on the website of USFDL, a program created to make federal government publications available to the public at no cost, came from Iran, but the hackers claim to be avenging the death of Qasem Soleimani, the brutal Iranian terrorist who was killed in a U.S. airstrike at the Bahrain Airport in Iraq early Friday morning.
About an hour after the attack on the little-known USFDL website, the Iranian propaganda had been removed and the website was offline
I like to think of myself as well informed but I’d never heard of USEDL and I’ll wager that if you asked 1000 Americans 999 wouldn’t have any idea who there were either.
But if you read what the Iranians are saying this is a big deal.
“Martyrdom was his (Shahid Soleymani) reward for years of implacable efforts. With his departure and with God’s power, his work and path will not cease and severe revenge awaits those criminals who have tainted their filthy hands with his blood and the blood of the other martyrs of last night’s incident,” the message read. “Hacked By Iran Cyber Security Group HackerS… This is only small part of Iran’s cyber ability! We’re always ready… to be continues… We Are: Iranian Hackers… #Hard revenge… #ICG – #SpadSecurityGroup.”
“Death to America,” almost all of the 290 members of the Iranian parliament chanted over the weekend.
“Mr. Trump! This is the voice of the Iranian nation. Listen!” Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said as lawmakers chanted.
Oh NO! You mean the Iranians instead of chanting “death to America” like they were doing before are now doing it for a completely different reason! But it gets worse!
Iranian state television reports that Iran will no longer abide by any of the limits of its 2015 nuclear deal.
The announcement came Sunday night after another Iranian official said it would consider taking even-harsher steps over the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Friday in Baghdad.
OMG you mean the Iranians are now publicly declaring that they will ignore a deal they likely didn’t keep anyways and might do something even harsher! If that’s not bad enough here is the corker:
Iran has placed an $80 million bounty on Donald Trump’s head and threatened to attack the White House in response to the president’s warning that any strike on American interests in the region will bring massive retaliation.
An organizer for a funeral procession for General Qassem Soleimani called on all Iranians to donate $1 each ‘in order to gather an $80million bounty on President Trump’s head’.
The organizer made the remarks during the procession in Mashad.
emphasis mine
They’ve got to raise that bounty a buck at a time, I guess pallets of cash don’t stretch as far as they used to.
So let me get this straight, for all the bluster that Iran is making their big retaliation is a web hack, a telethon a bunch of chanting jihadist “lawmakers” & ignoring a deal we didn’t trust them to keep?
Now here in the west such “retaliation” might bring the following reaction:
But I expect Iran to play it up big internally (and further more I expect our media to do so too along with this meaningless vote) because if all this stuff is a big deal and fitting revenge then there is absolutely no need to do anything that might get any of the leader of Iran, or their navy or their air-force or their oil refineries blown up.
It will be just one more face saving lie that they tell to themselves and President Trump will be happy to allow them to do so because that lie will inform the entire Middle East who is running the show.
Hint It’s not the Mullahs anymore.
Now in fairness it is possible that the Iranians will decide to risk destruction either by misjudging Donald Trump or because culturally they believe in it (think Japan just before the end of WW 2) so we should be alert and not be reckless.
But make no mistake the initiative has now shifted and as long as Donald Trump is president it will remain so.
Posted: January 5, 2020 by julietteochieng in Uncategorized
by baldilocks
It’s frustrating to read as people comment on topics about which they know next to nothing, or worse, twist the topic – especially if I’m close to those people. I do what I can to assist; here, at my own blog, and on my social media accounts. It would be foolish of me to expect everyone to agree with my opinions, but is it too difficult to expect others whose opinions are different from mine to base their opinions on fact?
I’m not even talking about complicated matters; people can’t even be bothered to type simple things into a search engine.
Also, when people are being led by their emotions or their gut feelings – or when they haven’t done their homework, why can’t they at least say so?
Example: I’ve got people on my media who hate the president and are saying that he ginned up this Iran-Iraq situation with the intention of distracting the public from the impeachment.
Now, I don’t put it past any president to wag the dog, as it were, but this “distraction” would be neat trick — i.e. USELESS — toward that purpose since no impeachment actions can go forth until Congress reconvenes following its holiday break. That happens on Tuesday, January 7. Therefore, there’s no impeachment from which to be distracted.
Leaving aside that I believe that President Trump intentionally goaded the House Democrats into impeaching him, I mentioned Congress’s return date to the person in question. I don’t even think he read it.
Could people merely make their conspiracy theories make sense? That’s what I always try to do with mine. I consider it a courtesy.
There are three matters that I have in mind, three topics in the news which every adult American should look up right now before they start talking about them.
Impeachment
It was startling to discover how many people thought that when the House formally voted to impeach President Trump, it was the end of his presidency.
War Powers Act of 1973
Many believe that a president is supposed to get permission from Congress before ordering any combat action. Nope.
Status of Embassies
Many don’t know that all embassies are considered the sovereign property of the country in question.
Regardless of what one thinks of any of the actors in these dramas, you can’t form a coherent opinion about the news of the day without knowing the basics – the topics that are not prone to interpretation.
Of course, we know that baseless conclusions will still be offered all the time, if only for the sake of up-votes.
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