OBAMA: Climate Change Worse Than Terrorism - Out Of Touch?

Continuing to show the administration is either out of touch or has ulterior motives, the White House

Obama & Earnest

doubled down on Tuesday stating that the dangers posed by climate change is greater for America  than the threat of terrorism.

As he spoke to reporters White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Americans no longer face the same threat of attack that they did prior to Sept. 11, 2001, crediting the administration’s efforts to degrade organizations such as al Qaeda.  Yet ISIS and Boka Horam are continuing to grow and Iran continues its path towards nuclear proliferation.

Today, Josh Earnest said, “There are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the direct impact on their lives of climate change, or on the spread of a disease, than on terrorism,” he said. “When you’re talking about the direct daily impact of these kind of challenges on the daily lives of Americans, particularly Americans living in this country … more people are directly affected by those things than by terrorism.”

President Obama made the same argument during an interview with Vox released this week.

In its national security plan released last week, the administration also ranked climate change alongside more traditional threats such as nuclear proliferation and terrorism.

80 More Girls Kidnapped by Boka Haram This Time Cameroon. Time For A New Hash Tag Offensive?

Suspected Boko Haram Jihadists from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children

, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and government officials said.

The kidnappings, among the largest abductions on Cameroonian soil since the militants began expanding their zone of operations across the border last year, came as neighbouring Chad deployed troops to support Cameroon’s forces in the area.

“According to our initial information, around 30 adults, most of them herders, and 50 young girls and boys aged between 10 and 15 years were abducted,” a senior army officer deployed to northern Cameroon told Reuters.

He said the early-morning attack had targeted the village of Mabass and several other villages along the porous border with Nigeria. Soldiers intervened and exchanged fire with the raiders for around two hours, he added.

Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma confirmed the attack, in which he said three people had been killed, as well as the kidnappings, but was not able to say with certainty how many people had been taken in the raid. Around 80 homes were destroyed, he said.

Last year 300 girls were kidnapped from Nigeria and the best response the U.S. was willing to give was Michelle Obama holding a sign with the hast tag #bringbackourgirls ; 

Source: www.theguardian.com