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Verse 25 of the Impeachment song: Climate change and the end of Capitalism.

Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, recently made a devastating admission… the goal of environmental activism is not to save the world from terrifying environmental calamity, but to end capitalism.

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.

Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

This brings us to verse 25 of the Obama Impeachment song (as if sung by President Barack Hussein Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

Climate change our biggest threat,

If worse, I will break out a sweat.

Global Governance, you bet!

My war on King Coal not over yet.

The whole Obama Impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

Meanwhile, China keeps increasing its use of coal

Verse 24 of the Impeachment song: Conference on violent extremism.

The White House on Feb 17 began hosting a three-day summit to examine ways to counter violent extremism.

The meeting put a special emphasis on domestic and international efforts to prevent extremists and their backers from radicalizing young people.

The conference, which has been in the works for months, came just days after fighters with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) executed 21 Egyptians and terrorist attacks in Copenhagen left three people dead including the radicalized Islamic terrorist.

President Obama addressed the summit twice, which included representatives from more than 60 countries, during events at the White House and at the State Department. There were delegates from the most repressive authoritarian regimes, representatives from Russian counterpart to FBI, but not our own FBI

I am paraphrasing and consolidating his remarks with this (admittedly incomplete) version in verse 24 of the Obama Impeachment song:

No Islamic terror here;

Extremism is more severe.

Legal guns my greatest fear.

I am who I am, – is that so queer?

The whole Obama Impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

Gunfire at a debate at the Cultural Center “The Powder Keg” in Copenhagen. Subject: “Blasphemy and Freedom of Speech”.

Gunfire in Copenhagen art debate featuring the theme “Blasphemy and freedom of speech”. The featured speaker was to be the Swedish Cartoonist Lars Vilks, famous for his Muhammad Cartoons. The gunfire started before he was to speak.

First a background on Denmark and its people:

The Danes, a friendly people are hard to impress and hard to scare. Lately, they too have had to take in their fair share, (as defined by EU) of Muslim refugees and immigrants. The Danes decided to distribute them evenly across the country and thus they would be absorbed into Danish culture in no time. After all, they had successfully assimilated even the Gypsy. However in mid 2000 they experienced a few honor killings in their peaceful country, since some young women sought to assimilate into Danish Culture. The Danish judicial system decided to apply Danish law on the perpetrators and everyone associated with one honor killing got long prison terms, including the taxi driver who provided the getaway car. The Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten gave it maximum publicity. This didn’t sit well with the Muslim Imams, so they complained and threatened them, telling them to stop writing evil of our sense of honor or else. The newspaper editors responded with a competition who could produce the best Muhammad cartoons, and so in 2007, slowly at first, but the religion of peace activists grew angrier and angrier and a total of about 93 people were killed worldwide. The results linger as we saw in Paris lately.

Now back to the Cultural center “Krudttønden” (The Powder Keg) in Copenhagen.

One person is dead, a 55-year-old male, film director Finn Norgaard. 3 policemen wounded, none life threatening.

Two armed gunmen opened fire at the attendees of the debate, one gaining entrance through the kitchen, and the other shooting from the outside through the windows.

About 30 shots were fired from automatic weapons, more powerful than the police weapons

The getaway car, a stolen VW Polo was found a few blocks away but the gunmen, described as “Of Mideastern Descent” are still at large.

Update:

There is since 2007 a Fatwa on Lars Vilks, and a $100000 reward for his death.

There were 40 shots at the Culture Center.

They now think there was only one gunman at the culture center, not two as first reported

The first shooting at around 4:p.m. local time.

There has been a second shooting outside the Jewish Synagogue on Krystalgade in Central Copenhagen about 12:45 a.m. Monday, three people wounded, including 2 policemen, one shot in his head, the policemen with flesh wounds.

There also may be a shooting at the Norreport Metro Station, two blocks from the Synagogue.

The person killed outside the synagogue, 37 year old Dan Uzan was standing guard safeguarding a Bat Mitzvah (coming of age for 12 year old Jewish girls). He was a member of the Synagogue.

After a shootout the perpetrator, 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein,a person on the police watch-list was killed by the police.

A second arrest has been made, reason unknown.

Verse 23 of the Impeachment song: The surprising loss of Yemen.

Jan 20: U.S. officials told NBC News late Monday that they don’t plan to evacuate the American embassy in Yemen’s capital, where government soldiers and Shiite rebels fought near the presidential palace and a military before agreeing to a cease-fire.

The rebels seized Yemen state television and its official SABA news agency, Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf told The Associated Press. Nine people were killed and 67 injured in the fighting in Sanaa.

“This is a step toward a coup and it is targeting the state’s legitimacy,” Sakkaf told AP.

But the two sides agreed to a cease-fire after holding day-long negotiations, on Monday.

The strife comes as the U.S. and its allies fight al Qaeda’s Yemeni operation, which said it was responsible for the Jan. 7 attack on a Paris-based satirical magazine in which 13 people were killed.

There was no imminent threat to Americans inside the embassy, U.S. military officials said. It would be “more likely and safer” for any Americans to leave the capital of Sana’a on a commercial flight, said one senior U.S. official, who noted that the military had not stepped up its alert level.

Feb 11: Yemen the model of American Diplomacy took over the Embassy as the State Dept evacuated all US personnel – including the US MARINE GUARDS who were ordered by State Dept to destroy any and all weapons – including personal weapons before being allowed to leave the country – on a commercial flight .

So individuals had to abandon the Marine Code of NEVER GIVE UP YOUR WEAPON – under orders from State Dept –

Obama seems to have a far reaching hand in the demoralization of the US – with this being the latest .

The rebel group who ordered the US out of the embassy says they will respect the US property now under their control including 20 vehicles left behind with their engines running – which they are only borrowing to use “temporarily.”

Verse 23 of the Obama Impeachment song: (as if sung by Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

Yemen loss was a surprise,
And my successes were but lies.
This will lead to my demise,
I never was worth my Nobel Prize.

The whole Obama Impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

Munich “Peace for our time”, take two. A very, very bad deal. A Limerick.

Obama’s and Chamberlain’s shame:

Was “Peace for our time” just in name?

When Iran gets its nukes

it’s too late for rebukes.

It’s Winston’s and Benjamin’s claim.

Despite pressure to cancel his speech before a joint session of Congress March 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sticking to his decision, because Israel’s very existence is at stake.

This reminds the world of another Munich agreement. Charles Krauthammer claims this deal is much worse than the Munich agreement of 1938.

Breitbart.com published this picture of the negotiations.

Here is a piece from The Telegraph(UK):

Britain at War: Chamberlain a hero, Churchill booed I clearly remember watching the latest Newsreel in our local cinema. It showed Chamberlain returning from Munich with the famous paper with Hitler’s signature on it. Neville Chamberlain brandishes the paper that he believed signified “peace for our time” on his return from Munich in 1938 Photo I was amazed to see most of the audience rise to their feet and start to clap and cheer. The majority of the population wanted peace and thought that Chamberlain had averted war. At the same time Churchill was booed by most of the audience. I was 15 years old at the time. G R Gorner, Bolton

Obama’s Jihad against the Crusades, the Inquisition and Jim Crow laws. A Limerick.

Obama has made his decision:

Blame Christ for the great Inquisition,

But “the Prophet” is pure

and Islam is the cure.

His worldview? A Caliphate vision.

President Obama tipped his hand at the Presidential prayer breakfast last Thursday.

To be fair to the President I will quote him in context:

“We see faith driving us to do right.

But we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge — or, worse, sometimes used as a weapon. From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith, professed to stand up for Islam, but, in fact, are betraying it. We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism — terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions.

We see sectarian war in Syria, the murder of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, religious war in the Central African Republic, a rising tide of antisemitism and hate crimes in Europe, so often perpetrated in the name of religion.

So how do we, as people of faith, reconcile these realities — the profound good, the strength, the tenacity, the compassion and love that can flow from all of our faiths, operating alongside those who seek to hijack religious for their own murderous ends?

Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India — an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity — but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other Peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs — acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhi, the person who helped to liberate that nation.”

Why is that offensive?.

He says violence in the name of religion is to blame, and the only examples he can come up with are age old atrocities done in the name of Christ, but fails to give examples of atrocities done by Radical Islam. In fact he has never used that term, preferring to call it workplace violence or extremism in general.

On slavery in the U.S. it was Abraham Lincoln, a Republican that championed its abolishment.

On Jim Crow laws, it was the nearly exclusive domain of the Democrat party. The Democrat Party identified itself as the “white man’s party” and demonized the Republican Party as being “Negro dominated,” even though whites were in control. Based on Obama’s logic, he and the Democrats should never cease to apologize to the blacks and to the Republican Party.

On violence in the name of Islam is betraying it:

Number of non-Muslims killed since 602 A.D. Between 200 and 400 million. Of these are about 100 million slaves from sub-Saharan Africa that died during their march from their home to the Mediterranean.

Number of Muslims killed by Muslim Governments from 632 to 1945: About 40 million

Number of Muslims killed by Muslim Governments since 1945: About 12 million and rising (Pakistan and Sudan (Darfur) come to mind.

On the Crusades: Obama gives the ISIS propaganda line calling us “The Crusaders”. The truth is that the Crusades were largely in response to relentless Muslim aggression:

The first Crusade began in 1095 after centuries of church burnings, killings, enslavement and forced conversions of Christians…

460 years after the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies

457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies

453 years after Muslims first plundered Italy

427 years after Muslim armies first laid siege to the Christian capital of Constantinople

380 years after France was first attacked by Muslim armies

249 years after the capital of the Catholic world, Rome itself, was sacked by a Muslim army

By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered two thirds of the Christian World.

On the Inquisition: Total trials: 44674. Conviction rate 1.8% or about 800. About as many convicted in absentia and never executed. Jews were expelled, not executed. Muslims were expelled. The total number of executions performed in all Inquisitions, about 2200.

Obama mentions the genocide of the Yezidis but omits the genocide of Christians, which in much larger.

On Slavery: Muhammad was a slave trader. Mauritania abolished slavery in 2007, Saudi Arabia in the 1950’s. Slaves taken under Muslim rulers, well in excess of 100 million. Slaves taken by Europeans: less than 4 million.

Verse 22 of the Obama Impeachment song: Obama the Muslim Brother.

On September 1 2014 Egypt’s largest newspaper claimed on its front page that Obama is a full fledged member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

That was in September. It received very little media attention. It is now 2015.

The Muslim Brotherhood called for “a long, uncompromising jihad” in Egypt just days after a delegation of the Islamist group’s key leaders and allies met with the State Department, according to an official statement released last week.

While the President himself did not attend (as far as we know) the State Department meeting was attended by a deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor and other State Department officials.

The Muslim Brotherhood statement also was issued just two days before a major terror attack Thursday Jan 29 in Egypt’s lawless Sinai region that killed at least 25.

“It is incumbent upon everyone to be aware that we are in the process of a new phase, where we summon what is latent in our strength, where we recall the meanings of jihad and prepare ourselves, our wives, our sons, our daughters, and whoever marched on our path to a long, uncompromising jihad, and during this stage we ask for martyrdom,” the statement from the Muslim Brotherhood reads.

Then February 4 2015 the President met with Muslim leaders in the East Room of the White House, off limit to reporters. We are not to know the content of the President’s message, only that it is none of our business, neither are we to know who attended the meeting, “since they are private citizens and their privacy needs to be protected”.

This does not pass the smell test.

Which leads to verse 22 of the Obama Impeachment song (sung to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

I’m a Muslim Brother now,

as they declared Jihad somehow,

after White House sweet powwow.

What’s left of my bark: A weak bowwow.

And here is the whole impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

The connection between banning oil exploration in ANWR, vetoing the Keystone XL pipeline and visiting Saudi Arabia. A Limerick.

President Obama announced Jan 25 that his administration plans to lock up the oil-rich 1.5 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain and offshore areas in Alaska from oil and gas exploration.

On a totally? unrelated matter President Barack Obama and the First Lady traveled to Saudi Arabia to pay respects following the death of King Abdullah

Obama cut short an official trip to India and flew to Riyadh Jan 27 to meet the new King.

Obama: Ban oil drills in ANWR.

Import oil is better by far.

I must visit the crown,

to King Salman bow down.

Submit to his will, or it’s war.

King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is now Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, (Mecca and Medina).

That’s why.

Sarah Palin at Freedom Summit. I’m ready for Hillary! A Limerick.

Sarah Palin spoke well in Des Moines.

In her message a challenge did coin:

I’m ready for Hillary!

Bring out the artillery!

For the battle is on! Let us join!

Her speech was ridiculed by both left and right. The phrase that received the most ridicule was:

‘The man can only ride you when your back is bent. So strengthen
it! Then the man can’t ride you, America won’t get taken for a
ride, because so much is at stake.”

Sarah Palin 24 January 2015 Iowa Freedom Summit Des Moines, Iowa,

“And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are
going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is
bent.”

Martin Luther King, Junior 3 April 1968 I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Memphis, Tenn.

So, the critics were really ridiculing MLK.

Obama, Netanyahu, Congress, Iran, nukes and diplomacy. What could go wrong? A Limerick.

“We thought we’ve seen everything,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us.

“There are things you simply don’t do. He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price,” he said.

When Barry and Bibi converse

can Congress invite make it worse?

When Iran gets its nukes

it’s no time for rebukes.

Diplomacy? From bad to verse.