Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 June 2015

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Wars and Rumors

A weekend volley of U.S. airstrikes on a farmhouse in eastern Libya didn’t just target a notorious, one-eyed al Qaeda leader. Mokhtar Belmokhtar—nicknamed “the Uncatchable”—was gathered together with a “Star Wars bar” of al Qaeda and ISIS members, a senior administration official tells The Daily Beast.

“He was meeting with more than 20 locals and core al Qaeda and ISIL members,” the official said, using an alternate acronym for the terror group. “He was apparently trying to bring them together,” to get the disparate militant groups to cooperate….

11:06pm CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW

Animals can be Dangerous

Shark
…So when you see the shark attacks this past weekend at Oak Island North Carolina you have a convergence of issues: ♦ The overfishing of their food source, tuna. ♦ The migration along the coast April – August. ♦ A Fishing Pier with bait and food source nearby putting scent in the water. ♦ Swimmers in the immediate vicinity, on body boards giving the appearance/profile of a food source…
See refutation to this on Jun 21
11:17pm CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW

Know the Enemy

…Although many in the past have set the table for the USA’s destruction, it was not until Barack Hussein Obama took the US White House as his own that the final phase began implementation. It has been extremely easy for Obama and his syndicate to “transform” (aka “dismantle and decimate”) the USA from within, as the people of the country had already been conditioned to following the authority of leftist-run public (government) school systems and would buckle to any far-Left Luciferian authority’s order they faced.…

9:12am CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW
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Spacecraft

Meteor?

The European Space Agency says the comet lander Philae has come back to life after hibernating for seven months. It is the first communication with the probe since it landed in November.…

9:18am CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW

History - still with us

Scientists have identified the scribes who wrote two of the four original 1215 copies of the Magna Carta. They found the copies held in Lincoln and Salisbury were written by scribes based at those cathedrals, rather than by someone working for King John. The discovery was made ahead of the 800th anniversary of the historic charter on Monday.…

9:15am CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Pistol Pete
Pistol Pete starts the week off with his gleanings from the web. (Posted day late)
11:49pm CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW
Political Hat

Obama Scandals, Gun Rights, Hide the Decline, Obamacare, War & Terror, National News, Economy & Taxes, International News, Opinion

News headline links
11:03pm CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Several dozen African immigrants who were denied entry into France are staging a sit-in and a hunger strike at the border crossing in Ventimiglia, Italy. Meanwhile, eighteen would-be migrants were found dead in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, apparently having lost their way in a sandstorm en route to Libya to attempt the Mediterranean crossing.

In other news, at least ten employees of the Tunisian consulate in Tripoli were taken hostage by armed community activists.

News headline links and summaries
6:57am CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1215 The Magna Carter was signed and sealed by King John of England.…

Vic has been up drawing the links together and forming his opinions. Don't-miss material.
6:21am CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW

US Election 2016

Jeb!

Jeb Bush's logo for the 2016 campaign revealed. See, also, an original Mindful Webwork, the Ole variation inspired by the Moron Horde at Ace of Spades.
9:21am CDT Mon 2015 Jun 15 :MW