Dawn, this morning.

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‘Obama Refused to Assist Jordan, Egypt With Information on ISIS Targets

Oliver North told Greta Van Susteren tonight that the Egyptian government asked the US for information on ISIS targets in Libya yesterday after ISIS beheaded 21 Christians. But, the Obama Administration refused the request. The Obama administration also refused to give Jordan information on ISIS targets in Syria after their pilot was burned alive in a cage. “President El Sisi asked for American intelligence targeting intelligence before today’s strikes and didn’t get it.
….The Kurds are begging for arms and ammo from the United States, not one bullet has been delivered by the United States.”….’
Also:
‘A Boston-based hub of terrorism associated with a top Islamic State propagandist and producer of hostage-beheading videos will receive the red carpet treatment at an anti-terrorism conference at the Obama White House this Wednesday..’

 A kind person just sent me this, with the following comment: “We’re used to seeing the battleship Arizona as a mangled wreck at Pearl Harbor, or as an underwater memorial after salvage operations. We forget she was once a proud and beautiful ship. Built in 1915, here it is in Norfolk Navy Yard after her 1931 modernization.”

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‘THE Australian Academy of Science has released a new document, The Science of Climate Change, aimed at the man and woman in the street. It was prepared on behalf of the academy by leading lights of the global warming establishment. Some day the academy may come to regret the arrangement…’   MORE

‘Backdoor Gun Control: Obama’s ATF Proposes AR-15 Ammo Ban’
and
The Politics Of Fear: A Rumination  by Francis Porretto
Darin’s ginger cat?

 Party students blamed for leaving Dunedin street ‘like the Third World’
Don’t anybody bother trying to tell me that students are no worse behaved than they were in my day. They are. Much worse.

‘1000 migrants on way to Italy at risk of drowning
At least 1000 migrants in difficulty being rescued by Italy’s coast guard in the third operation of its kind in as many days..’

‘There will be no more “benefit of the doubt” for those who may be seeking to harm Australia, says Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who believes Australians are being played “for mugs”.
Abbott took to his official Youtube channel this morning to ramp up his rhetoric on national security.
“It’s clear to me, that for too long, we have given those who might be a threat to our country the benefit of the doubt”, he said on the video, uploaded this morning.
“There’s been the benefit of the doubt at our borders, the benefit of the doubt for residency, the benefit of the doubt for citizenship and the benefit of the doubt at Centrelink.  (Australia’s welfare agency. kg)
“And in the courts, there has been bail, when clearly there should have been jail.
“We are a free and fair nation. But that doesn’t mean we should let bad people play us for mugs, and all too often they have: Well, that’s going to stop.”…’

‘As Jews Depart, European Civilization Dies
It sounds like some kind of mysterious demographic whodunnit: “The case of the missing Jews.” Except it’s no real mystery.
After years of hostility, both at the government and personal level, declining fertility rates and growing emigration, Jews now make up their smallest share of Europe’s population in hundreds of years, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
This is of course tragic for Jewish families that have lived in Europe for generations, but it’s especially bad for European culture and science, two areas where Jews have had an especially dominant role…’

BBC coverage of Dresden bombings say Britain was ‘worse than the Nazis’
Apparently, Coventry, London and the concentration camps don’t count…..