Germany and France move to supporting Russia in Syria...

You can only draw so many fake red lines before everyone realizes you are full of sh*t. 

Via Veterans Today:

Germany is surprisingly quitting the anti-Putin Alliance created by the United States: Germany now officially welcomes Moscow’s readiness to engage with Syria and launches an initiative to end the war with the Russians and the French.
Thus, the stream of refugees is to be stopped. Germany put thousands of soldiers on standby.
A spokesman of the Foreign Ministry also said Germany would welcome a greater engagement of Russia in the fight against the IS.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier even announced, with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and the French colleague Laurent Fabius, a push to start to end the civil war in Syria. Lavrov and Fabius are expected in Berlin on Saturday.
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Saudi Arabia doesn't want any refugees, but they did offer to build 200 mosques in Germany.

If Germany takes in hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees, they are idiots. 

Via The Independent:

Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany.
Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have been accused of not doing their fair share in the humanitarian crisis, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE also keeping their doors firmly shut to asylum-seekers.
According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which quoted a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al Diyar, Saudi Arabia would build one mosque for every 100 refugees who entered Germany in extraordinary numbers last weekend.
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Germany singles out Jewish-owned businesses and targets them for detrimental treatment...

Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass

Shockingly, this story is not a flashback to the1930s...

Via NY Sun:

In a throwback to its darkest past, the German government recently decided to back an initiative which singles out Jewish-owned businesses and targets them for detrimental treatment. Joining 13 other European Union members, Berlin has reportedly agreed to support efforts aimed at applying special labels of origin to products manufactured by Jewish owned factories in Judea and Samaria.

The goal is to harm the livelihood of Jewish businessmen and entrepreneurs as a way of undermining the settlement enterprise. Needless to say, goods made by Palestinian-run plants in the territories will not similarly be branded.

This is an absolute outrage, one that is both morally obscene and historically indefensible, and the government of Angela Merkel should be ashamed of itself for going along with such a discriminatory practice. Whatever one may think of the peace process and the two-state solution, it should be obvious that treating merchandise differently simply because the person who owns the factory where it was made is a follower of Moses rather than Muhammad is an act of pure bigotry.

In light of its own sordid record during the 20th century, Germany and its leaders have a special responsibility to be exceptionally sensitive to such issues, particularly when they relate to Jews. After all, it was 80 years ago, in April 1933, that the Nazis launched a nationwide assault on Jewish owned businesses throughout Germany, painting yellow-and-black Stars of David on storefronts and discouraging people from patronizing them.

How much would you spend to delay global warming 37 hours? Germany is spending $110 billion...

Whether you believe in anthropogenic global warming or not, this is nuts.

Via Weekly Standard:

. . . “The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels,” said Lomborg. “The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century.”

“All those billions, for 37 hours delay?,” asked Stossel.

“Yeah,” said Lomborg, “so remember them in [the year] 2100 and say, ‘Wow.’”

Stossel clarified, “You believe in global warming and man-made–”

“Global warming is real,” said Lomborg, “and it is we need to fix. But we should fix it smartly, and not in a very, very costly way as we’re doing it now. Germany is probably spending $660 for every ton of CO2 they’re cutting.”

110 members of the 'Religion of Peace' arrested in Germany after rioting over a cartoon

Where are all the rioting Christian stories?

BERLIN (AP) – Clashes erupted in Germany when police tried to separate competing rallies by an ultraconservative Muslim group and a small far-right march, injuring 29 officers, authorities said Sunday. More than 100 Salafist protesters were briefly arrested.

The trouble in the western city of Bonn started late Saturday when hundreds of Muslims protested against the rally of about 30 supporters of the local far-right party Pro NRW, which has angered Muslims by showing unfavorable cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Strict Muslims oppose any depiction of their prophet.

About 110 Salafist protesters were arrested after they started attacking security forces with stones and bottles, police said. Two of the injured police officers were hospitalized with serious wounds after being stabbed.

Germany preparing for Greece to default on debt

This has been inevitable for a long time. A country where hairdressers get early retirement because their jobs are deemed hazardous is unsustainable in the age of global economies.

The Telegraph reported:

The German finance ministry is actively pushing for Greece to declare itself bankrupt and to agree a "haircut" on the bulk of its debts held by banks, a move that would be classed as a default by financial markets.

Eurozone finance ministers meet on Monday to approve the next tranche of loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund, designed to stave off national bankruptcy while the new Greek government puts the country's finances in order.

But the severe austerity measures being demanded have caused such fury in Greece, and the cuts required are so deep, that Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, does not believe that any government would be able to implement them.

His pessimism has been tipped into despair with a secret European Commission, Central and IMF report that even if Greece made good on its promises, it would not be enough to reach the target of bringing total debt to 120 per cent of GDP by 2020. Keep on reading...

Green Fail: Germany to fund new coal plants with climate change fund cash

You just can't make stuff this good up.

(WUWT)- Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy:  in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their economy), the German government will direct climate fund cash to building coal and natural gas plants.  You can’t make this stuff up.

Germany plans to dump nuclear power by 2022 but clearly needs to meet burgeoning electricity demand especially for a still powerful manufacturing economy dependent upon exports.  Solar panels at their latitude and windmills are not going to suffice, so the solution is more coal.  The environmental movement must be apoplectic with so many politically correct wires crossing at once. Keep on reading.

Obama State Department Refuses to Call Jihadist Attack on US Servicemen an Act of Terrorism

A recently radicalized Muslim spends days on radical Islamic sites. Then, he yells “Allahu Akbar” and launches a planned attack on US Servicemen in Germany. President Obama's State Department is refusing to call this an act of terrorism. Instead, they compare it to the Rep. Gifford's shooting.

“Was the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords a terrorist attack? I mean, you have to look at the evidence and look at the motivation and then you make a judgment”

 Look at the motivation? Arid Uka is a recently radicalized Muslim who shouted "Allahu Akbar." He was clearly a Jihadist. On the other hand, the Gifford's shooter was a just a garden variety lunatic who wasn't motivated by religion or politics. How can anyone compare the two?



H/T Weasel Zippers.

Muslim Yells 'Allah Akbar' and Shoots Two US Servicemen. Obama Will "Spare No Effort" to Determining Why They Were Killed

The Shooter was a 22 year old Muslim.

Arif Uka, a 21-year-old Muslim was arrested after the shooting in a public lane outside the busy airport's Terminal 2. He was reportedly armed with an automatic weapon and a knife.

He reportedly yelled "Allah Akbar" before the shooting.

Via FOX Nation:

Source says shooter in Germany was waiting for bus to arrive. ... Yelled "Allah Akbar!" when opened fire. ... Dropped gun at scene, then ran into a terminal where he was subdued.

President Obama is on it. He said the US Government will "spare no effort" to find out why two of our servicemen were killed.

(Politico) — President Obama says the government will “spare no effort” to determine why two American airmen were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in Frankfurt, Germany.

Perhaps President Obama should by a vowel.