Blog Heap of Links for the day 11 July 2014

According to an investigation by Iraq Oil Report (paywall), ISIL rapidly captured one and possibly two oilfields south of Kirkuk soon after storming Iraq a month ago. The fields, in the Hamrin mountains, produce relatively small volumes—just 16,000-20,000 barrels a day. But that earns a tidy income even at the knock-down local black market rate of about $55 a barrel, according to the report. +

The description of ISIL’s smuggling route into Kurdistan continues the narrative of a ruthlessly managed, financially savvy rebel group that has emerged over the last year first in Syria and now Iraq. That includes control over Syria’s oilfields—on July 3, ISIL captured al-Omar, the country’s largest oilfield—plus some $420 million in Iraqi dinars snatched up in the June capture of Mosul. In all, ISIL may have a cache of some $1.3 billion.

Evidence suggests that the Benghazi attacks were the work of two separate militant groups, commanders involved in the U.S. response to the attacks told the House Armed Services Committee in testimony released on Wednesday.

…two photos from President Obama’s meeting with Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday… met in Dallas to discuss the humanitarian crisis on the Texas-Mexico border… Gov. Perry and his team appear to be taking the moment seriously. President Obama is grinning and laughing. …

"It looks like he had a chicken burrito bowl," Chipotle's national office replied to E! News' request for comment. "No changes with regard to sneeze guard rules. He shouldn't have reached over it. An overreach of government, I guess." [Ha ha ha ha. Arrogant President is Arrogant. Photo at link.]

I’m not the savviest person when it comes to body language, but even I can tell when someone is using inappropriate laughter… In this case… Barack Obama… cracking up during a meeting with Texas governor Rick Perry. … Perry… looks deeply disturbed and that’s not surprising. After all, the meeting is to discuss the crisis playing out on Texas’s southern border, as hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans — children, criminals, gang members, terrorists, disease carriers, sexual predators, etc. — pour into America. … Even if Obama is thrilled by the deluge… he should at least pretend that something serious is going on. … I am saying… that he is increasingly unhinged.

“The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their Notice to Appear forms,” NBPC’s Local 2455 Spokesman, Hector Garza, told Breitbart Texas.

“This is not the CBP [Customs and Border Protection] or another federal agency renting or leasing an aircraft, these are the same planes that the American public uses for domestic travel. This just adds insult to injury. Not only are we releasing unknown illegal aliens onto American streets, but we are allowing them to travel commercially using paperwork that could easily be reproduced or manipulated on any home computer. The Notice to Appear form has no photo, anyone can make one and manipulate one. They do not have any security features, no watermark, nothing. They are simply printed on standard copy paper based on the information the illegal alien says is the truth.

“We do not know who these people are, we often have to solely rely on who they say they are, where they say they came from, and the history they say they have. We know nothing about most of them, ICE releases them into the American public, and now they are boarding aircraft at will with a simple paper document that anyone can easily alter or reproduce themselves.”

Kolkata, 2013 Jan 13 (IBNS): As India observed two years of polio free status on Sunday, the global face of the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Polio Crusader Ramesh Ferris, Friday met India's last Polio victim Ruksar Khatun at Panchla, here. [Note: The United States of America is no longer polio-free thanks to President Do-Nada.]