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“Violence is exploding. Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border along with the tens of thousands ID-less refugees.”

Lefties like to tout Sweden — a country of ten milliion people — whenever they’re bloviating about the joys of national socialism. But here’s one native-born Swedish-American who’s having none of it:

This is the last post on this blog. I am leaving Sweden for good shortly, and will no longer be following its descent from what was once the third most prosperous country in the world. Frankly, it’s just too damn depressing. I was born and raised in Sweden, which leaves a cultural mark even though I moved to USA in the 1990s and have spent the better part of my adult life as an American. Coming back for a few years has been a shocking experience.

ISIS released video today of a training camp of “caliphate cubs” in Mosul that shows boys being groomed for jihad with live-fire exercises and abusive adult trainers.
The boys are masked in the video except for mealtime, when the camera pans away from their faces. Their higher voices and average heights suggest mostly pre-pubescent boys to some in their early teens.
The release comes as ISIS is preparing for its one-year anniversary of sacking Mosul and establishing the caliphate on June 29. The group has put heavy emphasis on raising younger generations as jihadis, including boys who were already living in areas seized by ISIS and children brought to the Islamic State by their parents.
The full video was viewed by PJM. Here are some images captured from the 7-minute film.
Boys are subjected to fights in a cage ringed with ISIS flags
A trainee is shown breaking a pile of tiles with his head
The trainer sledgehammers a pile of tiles on a boy’s chest
The trainer walks on the chests of boys stretched out on the ground
The trainer hits boys with a stick as they traverse climbing bars
The trainer breaks a stick across the torso or heads of boys as they’re not supposed to flinch
Boys crawl through an astroturf-lined tunnel while ISIS trainers fire live rounds at their path
Boys are put through an exercise in how to ambush a car
A boy fires at a fellow trainee in the grass

Before winning a minority government in 2006, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised to get to the bottom of the climate change file and handle the issue properly. Neither he, nor most members of his party, believed that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities were causing a climate crisis. Emission reduction regulations were clearly not necessary, they said.

In a 2002 fundraising letter for the now-defunct Canadian Alliance, Harper called the UN climate process “a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.”

Somewhere along the road to power, everything changed. Now, like the Chretien and Martin Liberal governments before them, the Conservatives officially support UN negotiations to “stop dangerous climate change.”

Proposals to curb emissions from trucks, airplanes, oil and natural-gas operations, and power plants

The Obama administration is planning a series of actions this summer to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions from wide swaths of the economy, including trucks, airplanes and power plants, kicking into high gear an ambitious climate agenda that the president sees as key to his legacy.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday plans to regulate carbon emissions from airlines, and soon after that, draft rules to cut carbon emissions from big trucks, according to people familiar with the proposals. In the coming weeks, the EPA is also expected to unveil rules aimed at reducing emissions of methane—a potent greenhouse gas—from oil and natural-gas operations.

Does the White House think it is going to lose this year’s big ObamaCare subsidy case at the Supreme Court? We’re beginning to wonder given President Obama’s increasing show of pique when he talks about the law.

On Monday in Austria, Mr. Obama responded to a question about the looming decision in King v. Burwell by treating the Supreme Court like first-year law students for even considering the case.
“There is no reason why the existing exchanges should be overturned through a court case. It has been well documented that those who passed this legislation never intended for folks who were going through the federal exchange not to have their citizens get subsidies,” Mr. Obama averred. That conveniently ignores comments by ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber, but the President kept rolling.

A while ago I took a walk on a desolate stretch of the Oregon coast. When I returned to the cabin, I realized I had dropped a purple glove on the beach. When my husband went out for his walk, I asked him to be on the lookout for my glove. When he returned, I asked, “Did you happen to see my glove?” He said, “Well, I saw a purple glove on the beach, but I wasn’t sure it was the right purple glove.”

It is said a doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Israel has many certain enemies. They appear to be a wretched lot, manufacturing their own misery by avoiding the best things in life, like canine kisses and silk print dresses billowing with April. Israel’s certain enemies rant, “Death to Israel.”

“Muslim children, too, need to come to terms with German history.” — Günther Felbinger, MP with the Free Voters Party.

“At a time of increasingly rampant anti-Semitism and even anti-Semitic terrorism across Europe, the Steiner Bavarian plan, together with your generous Federal Islamic education program seems a recipe for Jihadism, ISIS recruitment and incitement to Jew-hatred, to be inevitably followed by attacks on other traditional Nazi victims: Roma, gays, women and disabled.” — Shimon Samuels, Simon Wiesenthal Center.

“We must never consider it normal that for a Jewish child growing up in Germany his kindergarten, his school and his synagogue must be guarded by police. This circumstance should provide us with an incentive to combat anti-Semitism by all means available to us within the rule of law.” — German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière.

A debate has erupted in Germany over whether Muslim students should be exempted from mandatory visits to former concentration camps as part of Holocaust education programs.

The French draft corresponds with President Obama’s own — strongly held — belief that Israel has to ascribe to the President’s view, despite just having elected a Prime Minster who disagrees.

The air is poisoned. The CEO of the French cell phone company Orange declared his desire to boycott Israel, while Orange rakes in money from its operation in the Republic of Congo, a major human rights violator.

Smash the two stories together and you get an American President supporting France in its efforts to be a major player in the Middle East in exchange for French support for the P5+1 deal with Iran.

Sometimes, if you smash two stories together, you end up with something interesting; sometimes you get something worrisome. This is one of the latter.

See this letter to the NRO editor by litigator Howard Glickstein, and Diana West’s rebuttal to the most recent libelous screed against her which NRO published.

NRO refused to publish her eviscerating point by point rebuttal, so Breitbart published it. The Breitbart rebuttal follows Mr. Glickstein’s letter.

From: Howard Glickstein

Date: June 5, 2015 at 1:09:48 PM HST

To: “letters@nationalreview.com”

Subject: Diana West, American Betrayal and your destruction of your credibility and integrity

I value National Review for Andrew McCarthy, Victor Davis Hanson and many other authors. That is why it is so dismaying and disheartening to have followed the consistently dishonest treatment NR has given to Diana West’s book, even now, two years later.

Disagreement is one thing. Misrepresentation is quite another. I have been a litigator for 36 years (AV peer rated). I have read the evidence: the book, all the pieces in NR, and Ms. West’s replies, including the ones you wouldn’t publish or buried.

You have knowingly and repeatedly published as facts demonstrable falsehoods that any fact checking intern would catch.

This is not a close call. Dozens of lies are not an accident.

NR’s conduct is unforgivable.

To see your publication become an exemplar of the Big Lie dishonors William F. Buckley’s accomplishments, integrity and memory.

I expected more from Rich Lowry.

This doesn’t pass the smell test. It reeks.

The inescapable question: since you’re lying about this, what else are you lying to me about?

In disgust,

Howard Glickstein

If you asked me what it is that makes America respected around the world, I might come up with a short list like this one off the top of my head:

1. Your living standards. The real test of your popularity is the length of the queue to get into your country as compared to the queue of those trying to get out. There’s a reason Mexican border guards aren’t patrolling their frontier against gringo illegals.

2. Your television and popular culture. Pretty much the whole world watches “The Simpsons,” “Breaking Bad” and the rest. This evinces some level of global ease with American values.

3. Your enterprise. I remember an Islamist once saying “We want your television sets, not your television programs”. He couldn’t see why the two things came as a package.

4. Your freedom. There is nowhere else on the planet where people can so confidently expect to be unharassed by the authorities.

5. Two world wars. After defeating the Kaiser, America sponsored the creation of several new nation-states from no other motive than altruism. After defeating the Axis, it went further, rebuilding and reforming the countries it had beaten. Look at modern Germany and Japan. I’d say they represent two pretty massive American achievements.

6. The Cold War, by which you liberated hundreds of millions of people from Communism, which must be considered mathematically the most murderous ideology in human history.