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Saturday, December 12, 2015

GOP Faces Major Conflict. Who Will Be Able To Beat Obama?

Pat Buchanan to GOP: Support Trump Now or Lose to Hillary

By Bill Hoffmann | Thursday, 10 Dec 2015 03:46 PM

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Veteran conservative voice Patrick Buchanan issued a stern warning to the Republican Party on Thursday: Throw your weight behind GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump now — or prepare to lose next year’s election to Hillary Clinton.

Buchanan, an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, told Newsmax TV the freak-out over Trump's proposal to temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the U.S. is misguided and will make the billionaire developer turn independent as his supporters flee the GOP.

And it will open the door to Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential front-runner, to waltz into the Oval Office in the 2016 general election.

"Somebody's got to tell the Republican Party, look, everybody's advising you how you get rid of Trump, but you destroy him, you destroy his issues or you deny his issues and arguments, where do you think those people are going to go? They're going to stay home," Buchanan said on "Newsmax Prime" with J.D. Hayworth.

"The whole message in this campaign, frankly, and it's also to a degree in the Democratic Party, is that the American establishment since 1991, the end of the Cold War, has utterly failed America.

Wouldn't That Be Appropriate! Lets Hope No One Claims Her

This Could Be Fate of Tashfeen Malik if No One Will Do Burial — and It’s Strictly Forbidden by Islam

Dec. 11, 2015 8:13pm Oliver Darcy

The body of San Bernardino terror bride Tashfeen Malik could be cremated if no one soon volunteers to perform her funeral — an act strictly forbidden by Islamic law.

Cremation is forbidden for Muslims and Islam requires the body of the deceased be washed and shrouded prior to the funeral. A funeral prayer then precedes the burial. The body of the individual is finally laid to rest on his or her right side, facing the direction of Mecca.

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But, Malik doesn’t seem likely to get that treatment. Sources told Fox News that Muslim leaders want nothing to do with her funeral and that her body remains unclaimed.

“The state is not going to care about religious tradition. She was a terrorist.”

“No one wants to claim her and no one wants to do the funeral,” a “well-placed source” within the Muslim community told Fox News. “They are all waiting for someone else to be the one to take care of this part of it.”

According to Fox News, local religious leaders have been busy trying to convince each other to perform the funeral so Malik receives the Islamic burial, but no one wants to step up.

“If nobody claims a body, it is turned over to the public administrator, who will handle it civilly and not religiously,” local attorney Troy Slaten told the news network. “Cremation is usually standard because it’s the cheapest option.”

Attorney David Whol echoed Slaten’s prediction.

“The state is not going to care about religious tradition. She was a terrorist,” he said.

Nevertheless, Sharia lawyer Daniel Akbar told Fox News that he is confident she will be buried in accordance with Islamic law.

“Some might be cautious and wait to see if others do the job. But what is certain is that Farook and his wife will be buried in an Islamic way,” he said.

Syed Farook’s body is expected to be claimed by his family. Malik and Farook killed 14 and injured 22 when they opened fire at a San Bernardino holiday party earlier this month.

Florida Illegal Muslim Immigrant Has Ammo Stockpile

TRUMP WAS RIGHT: Illegal From Muslim Country Arrested… And Look What They Found in His Storage Unit

An illegal immigrant from the United Arab Emirates was recently arrested in Florida and charged with unlawfully possessing ammunition, a charge that could result in up to 10 years in federal prison and automatic deportation.

According to Breitbart, the United States Attorney Office for the Middle District of Florida recently announced the charges against 25-year-old Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif, who was found living in a hotel in Melbourne.

Rehaif had been living out of the hotel for at least the past 53 days, checking in and out on a daily basis, spending more than $11,000 in cash for the various room fees.

Rehaif also admitted to investigators that he had been in possession of several firearms, a felony offense for an illegal immigrant, but claimed to have recently sold or otherwise disposed of the weapons.

However, the U.S. Attorney’s Office stated in a press release: “Agents located rounds of handgun and rifle ammunition in his hotel room and in a storage unit that he had rented, but they did not locate any firearms.”

It was not immediately clear where those firearms were.

Rehaif was originally admitted into the country on a student visa in 2013 and enrolled at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne

However, he had been dismissed from the school in the fall of 2014. When he failed to leave the country within 30 days after ceasing to be a student, he became an illegal immigrant.

Why Rehaif was still in America, his religion, what he was doing with the weapons and ammunition he had possessed, if he had connections with other illegal immigrants or radical Islamists, and what their plans for the future might have been, were either unknown to or not disclosed by investigators.

Stories like this lend credence to the proposals put forth by Donald Trump and others calling for a temporarymoratorium on Muslim immigration — or, better yet, all immigration — until our government can sort out the mess of unknown illegals and security threats already here.

Kerry Veers Into The Truth

'CLIMATE CRIMINAL' BLOWS WHISTLE: 'IT'S JUST ABOUT THE MONEY!'

'Wealth transfer' is 'gesture to redesign the global economic system'

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Secretary of State John Kerry told the Paris climate conference that ending all U.S. carbon emissions, or even those in all the industrialized world, would do nothing to impact the climate, leading one of the top critics of the climate-change movement to call the speech additional proof that the effort is all about wealth redistribution.

In another major development, the latest draft of the climate agreement does not include the creation of the International Climate Justice Tribunal, which would have been a U.N. agency that billed industrialized nations for the cleanup of natural disasters around the world.

In Kerry’s address to the conference, he made a push to get developing nations to make major commitments in reducing carbon emissions. However, his comments also gave considerable fuel to those who believe Kerry and others are on a fool’s errand.

“The fact is that even if every single American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what? That still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution from the rest of the world,” Kerry said.

He took a step further.

“If all the industrialized nations went down to zero emissions, remember what I said all the industrialized nations went down to zero emissions, it wouldn’t be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world,” Kerry added.

Christopher C. Horner is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of multiple books challenging the basis for the climate-change movement. He is in Paris as an observer at the conference, where he has been branded a “climate criminal.”

Horner said Kerry accidentally lurched toward the truth in trying to implore global cooperation.

“What he’s doing is inadvertently pointing out that this is all pain, no gain,” Horner said. “He won’t admit to the pain. They still say that if the state uses its coercive power and forces you into energy rationing and so on … it still wouldn’t impact the climate.”

Kerry used the hypothetical of zero carbon emissions, which is a far cry even from the hotly contested Obama environmental regulations calling for major carbon reductions by 2030. Horner said the real goals go much further and are plenty frightening.

“They’re talking 70-95 percent reductions in this document,” Horner said. “They really do think that they can bring us back to the renewable age, which we left over 100 years ago because we could. Suddenly we liberated hydrocarbon energy. We didn’t have to live on hydro power or solar power.”

While going back to renewables is the stated goal of climate-change activists, Horner said there’s a good reason we moved away from it generations ago.

“We’re not going back to that,” he said. “We left it. It was a time of much-shortened lifespans, disease, drudgery and mortality, crop failures leading to catastrophe and so on.”

Meanwhile, the scrapping of the International Climate Justice Tribunal marks a win on one of Horner’s highest priorities since he envisioned the panel blaming the U.S. and other advanced nations for the severe weather events throughout the world. It’s a charge he believes would have stuck at the tribunal because signatories at the conference will be expected to confess their responsibility for climate change in any final agreement.

But while Horner is thrilled, he said many others in Paris are not.

“It’s clearly going to leave the greens upset and some countries upset because it’s kicking the can down the road on a few issues,” Horner said.

Persistent sticking points are leading some climate-change activists to call for Pope Francis to come and demand unity in advancing a climate deal. Horner said the pontiff had better be ready for a debate.

“He’s going to couch this in terms of social justice, and as I have mentioned to you, that is truly perverse,” he said. “I’m not saying the pope knows this, but social justice, as they see it, is killing tens of thousands of the most vulnerable in every country.”

Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Christopher C. Horner:

Horner said the explanation for that charge is simple. Implementing emissions reductions places major costs on energy providers, which pass the costs on to consumers. Soaring utility rates will then impact the poor most negatively and European nations that already do this see people having to choose between buying food and paying to heat or cool their homes.

As for the logistics of the conference and any forthcoming agreement, Horner said officials are twisting themselves in legal knots to avoid this being a treaty since they know Congress won't approve it.

"The buzz here in Paris is that the U.S. Congress is the greatest obstacle to them obtaining the treaty they refuse to call a treaty," Horner said. "That means the democratic process. There's nothing democratic about this. If you allow Congress to get a crack at this, it's over.

"Under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, this would never fly. No free society would ever do to itself what they're demanding of us," he said.

Horner is one of seven activists opposed to any deal to have their face plastered around Paris on posters branding them climate criminals. After, first joking that activists could have picked a better picture of him, Horner said there is a message of intimidation involved with the posters.

"It's getting a little long in the tooth, putting up all the bad guys' pictures so everybody knows what they look like," Horner said. "We can play the 'What if Sarah Palin Did It' game if you want, but they really want everybody here to now what we look like."

In the end, Horner said the activists' definition of climate criminal is really an indictment on those working to preserve freedom.

"We point out the policies, history, that it won't effect the climate, that's it's about a wealth transfer, that it will kill the most vulnerable, that it's a gesture about clearly what they're openly acknowledging here – to redesign the global economic system," he said. "When you point those things out, because they aren't popular in the United States, you are a criminal."

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