{"id":22749,"date":"2015-02-27T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=22749"},"modified":"2015-02-27T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:58:36","slug":"linkswarm-for-february-27-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=22749","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for February 27, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Friday LinkSwarm, where two themes are jihadis enjoying the benefits of the welfare state, and Hillary Clinton enjoying treating campaign finance laws as &#8220;optional suggestions.&#8221; <\/p>\n<li>96% of Australian jihadis who joined the Islamic State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/nsw\/aussie-jihadists-were-on-the-dole\/story-fni0cx12-1227233046278?sv=44dcf0ac4a9a4910ef54251c6440b3db\">were on welfare<\/a>.\n<li>Sweden\u2019s national job agency fires its entire network of &#8220;immigrant resettlement assistants&#8221; because they were finding them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2964991\/Swedish-migrant-aides-Isis-recruiters.html\">jobs with the Islamic State<\/a>.\n<li>And the hits keep coming: Swedish expert on &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/2015\/dgreenfield\/swedens-multicultural-center-expert-on-islamophobia-joins-isis\/\">fighting for the Islamic State<\/a>.\n<li>Another day, another <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AF_BOKO_HARAM?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2015-02-24-12-42-41\">24 people murdered by jihad in Nigeria<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2015\/02\/nigeria-jihad-martyrdom-suicide-bombers-murder-24-at-two-bus-stations\">Jihad Watch<\/a>.)\n<li>&#8220;If it bleeds, it leads&#8221;? Not when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anamericanhousewifeintexas.com\/nine-year-olds-cost-the-most-and-other-sickening-surprises-from-google-alerts-about-heavy-topics\/\">gang rapes in Muslim countries<\/a>.\n<li>What the hell? Terrorism trials come to a halt after the Obama Administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/guantanamo\/article11135684.html\">orders military judges to move to Guantanamo Bay until the trail is finished<\/a>.\n<li>How one Nebraska woman <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2015\/02\/17\/one-nebraska-woman-lost-health-insurance-three-times-obamacare\/\">lost her health care three times thanks to ObamaCare<\/a>.\n<li>Dana Milbank is <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/accusing-scott-walker-of-winking.html\">very, very upset<\/a> that Scott Walker isn&#8217;t biting on liberal gotcha questions. Oddly enough, I don&#8217;t think this concern extends to Hillary Clinton ducking Benghazi questions&#8230;\n<li>Speaking of Hillary, blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says that, despite her boasts to the contrary, Hillary <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2015\/02\/25\/dissident-lawyer-flatly-contradicts-hillary-clintons-account-of-rescuing-him-from-house-arrest-in-china\/\">didn&#8217;t do squat to help him<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/moelane.com\/2015\/02\/25\/hillary-clinton-chen-guangcheng-china-forced-abortions\/#more-88100\">Moe Lane<\/a>.)\n<li>The Clinton Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/reince-priebus-how-can-hillary-take-a-3-a.m.-phone-call-from-a-country-that-gave-her-millions\/article\/2560791\">took millions of dollars in donations from foreign donors while Hillary was Secretary of State<\/a>. Maybe Hillary thinks every 3 AM call is a chance to ask for more money&#8230; (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/202880\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.)\n<li>Related tweet:<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>So Hillary&#39;s hoovering dictator dollars while Bill takes the Lolita Express to Orgy Island. Maybe they have a bet. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonahNRO\">@JonahNRO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\">@baseballcrank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BattleSwarmBlog\/status\/570752188533723136\">February 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<li>Hillary-linked firm: Campaign finance laws are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/watchdog-calls-for-federal-probe-of-powerful-democratic-campaign-data-firm\/article\/2560530?utm_content=buffer71e20&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\">for the little people<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;Barack Obama has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/414112\/rudy-right-kevin-d-williamson\">great, big, heaping dose of Holden Caulfield in him<\/a>.&#8221; So he&#8217;s an annoying, whiny loser&#8230;\n<li>&#8220;Every Obama speech has a villain, and that villain is often other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/414085\/what-kind-portrait-america-does-obama-paint-jim-geraghty\">Americans who disagree with the president<\/a>.&#8221;\n<li>So Turkey isn&#8217;t willing to lift a finger to save Kurds or Yazidis, but they&#8217;re willing to invade Syria to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/02\/22\/turkey-invaded-syria-a-little-bit-yesterday\/\">protect an Ottoman tomb<\/a>.\n<li>Mike Rowe defends <a href=\"http:\/\/profoundlydisconnected.com\/ofw-minimum-wage\/\">minimum wage jobs<\/a> and says why there&#8217;s no such thing as a &#8220;bad job.&#8221; &#8220;Work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there\u2019s still a thing called opportunity, and that\u2019s what people need to pursue.\u201d\n<li>The PLO and the Palestinian Authority have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/24\/nyregion\/damages-awarded-in-terror-case-against-palestinian-groups.html?emc=edit_na_20150223&#038;nlid=31298867\">found liable in terrorism jury trial<\/a>. Does this mean funds can be garnished directly at the UN? (Hat tip: Legal Insurection.)\n<li>Did you know that there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/story\/news\/local\/texas-news\/2015\/02\/22\/riot-forces-shutdown-of-south-texas-prison\/23838959\/\">a prison riot at a Texas illegal alien holding facility<\/a>?\n<li>Allah: The worst communicator ever:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nEKhq8nHbA8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li>Liberals are shocked that college &#8220;study centers&#8221; designed to attack Republicans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/20\/us\/ideology-seen-as-factor-in-closings-in-university-of-north-carolina-system.html?_r=1\">being closed by Republican legislators<\/a>. &#8220;Mr. Nichol said the center\u2019s only agenda was to raise the profile of poverty in the state through research, teaching and advocacy.&#8221; One of these things is not like the others. Research and teaching are fine. Do your &#8220;advocacy&#8221; on your own time and dime, not the taxpayers.\n<li>Given the (obvious) news that the Justice Department wouldn&#8217;t be indicting George Zimmerman, Legal Insurrection took it upon themselves to <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2015\/02\/zimmerman-trial-redux-busting-the-myths-again\/\">review all the myths around the George Zimmerman\/Trayvon Martin trial<\/a>.\n<li>Chicago has it&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/feb\/24\/chicago-homan-square-black-site\">secret black site prison<\/a>. It&#8217;s almost like it&#8217;s a corrupt one-party police state&#8230;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexis_Tsipras\">Wikipedia<\/a>: &#8220;Alexis Tsipras is a Greek politician who is the 186th Prime Minister of Greece since 26 January 2015.&#8221; By my calculations, that works out to about 5 Prime ministers a day&#8230;\n<li>UCLA strives to make its council <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2015\/02\/24\/the-way-a-jewish-student-was-treated-while-running-for-ucla-student-govt-left-at-least-one-person-sickened\/\">Juden Frei<\/a>.\n<li>Anti-antisemitism amidst the yobs:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4B4BpnoIff4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li>Got to admit: That&#8217;s one hell of an effective personals photo:\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.chzbgr.com\/maxW500\/8450249216\/h09523D5A\/\">\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Friday LinkSwarm, where two themes are jihadis enjoying the benefits of the welfare state, and Hillary Clinton enjoying treating campaign finance laws as &#8220;optional suggestions.&#8221; 96% of Australian jihadis who joined the Islamic State were on welfare. Sweden\u2019s national job agency fires its entire network of &#8220;immigrant resettlement assistants&#8221; because they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,17,49,31,11,194,24,12,232],"tags":[2091,1045,1966,354,457,2660,2661,2113,2870,1109,1988,840,779,30,2361,2867,2648,930,64,2866,498,524,537,1674,2861,774,2878,1829,2875,2588],"class_list":["post-22749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-control","category-democrats","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-media-watch","category-military","category-obamacare","category-texas","category-welfare-state","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-australia","tag-boko-haram","tag-border-controls","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-chen-guangcheng","tag-clinton-foundation","tag-dana-milbank","tag-foreign-policy","tag-fundraising","tag-george-zimmerman-trial","tag-guantanamo-bay","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-islam","tag-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-syria","tag-jihad","tag-mike-rowe","tag-nigeria","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-rape","tag-sweden","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-texas","tag-turkey","tag-video","tag-welfare","tag-welfare-state","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22749"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22831,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions\/22831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}