Is this part of the reason Google has scrubbed some searches clean, restricted others?
Sunday, November 29, 2009
GoogleGate? News and Blogs being Buried AGAIN?
After coming across this Daily Telegraph article below, I tested out how AntiMullah.com and the equivalent Google Blog "noiri.blogspot.com" appear in the Google and other search Engine.
One search engine said "not found" for the "noiri.blogspot.com" which seems to indicate that Google is TOTALLY filtering this Blog from some search engines.
On some search engines, when it did appear or AntiMullah.com does, most of the articles that have been posted in the last several months have been filtered out too and do not appear on various search engines either. You get the occasional here and there article in early November then a jump to September and so on.
And not much else, whereas several articles are posted EVERY day and should show up.
The only recent article to be found was a criticism of Fox News. THAT appeared!
Thinking that Google was respecting the First Amendment and our Free Speech rights (even if my Blog opinions differed from theirs) I recently even posted a thank you to them. Now, I observe that their computers have been set to filter almost everything I post out of search engines and while NOT limiting my right to write and post, simply making it invisible to the public and blogosphere or to anyone doing searches.
When the Google operated blogsite itself fails to appear or spottily at best in search engines, then...... (we report you decide -- what conclusioni you draw).
Why is this censorship needed? Imposing their will and their opinion on what can be written, posted or more importantly seen by others is suppression of free speech, even if it is loudly worded, opposes or mocks the current regime's policies etc., and emulates the Lame Stream Media of hiding anything that reveals flaws in what's going on.
In our opinion, at least, the truth does not change because I say what I say nor Google or the Lame Stream Media hide for those they support. Whether it is the Healthcare bill, Cap and trade or multiple other bills that are not even read but rammed down our throats. Or the horrific events going on in Islamic Iran.
Or, again in our opinion, the various very strange people in positions of power in the Oba-Hussein administration that are unimaginable in any previous "regime".
Voices like AntiMullah.com should be allowed to have their full say on behalf of the far from monolithic American populace, which increasingly is finding itself opposed to what is going on. With what is shovelled at them, with what is being slammed at them in the name of political correctness and misleading aspects of Jihadi Islam and the increasing number of Dhimmis who are trying to fool us on this aspect.
If comparatively small, though broadly read blog, AntiMullah.com wields so much power (negative or positive) at its most critical crescendo of perceived truth so as to derail the Oligarchy that has come to rule us then they are straw men and don't deserve the protection of Google censorship. Regardless of any other consideration of free speech.
I have a strong affinity toward Google for giving me a soapbox to air my opinions and make an effort to educate and inform on world matters where I have in depth experience from "been there, done that" and attribute these "filter" parameters that appear from time to time to some Google employees "doing their own thing" as they feel would make them popular with the powers that be - at Google or at the Obama House, or een among their own colleagues.
I have noted some Google informative "advertising/explanation", triggered by Obama House or Obama supporters' complaints, is taking place to state that the primary mission of search engines should be able to capture all information that exists without judgment of good or bad, or offensive or not to some and present everything as it is.
AntiMullah, AntiMullah.com, etc., and noiri.blogspot.com used to appear prominently even last month, but have been relegated to oblivion by the "new" filters being applied. Putting them back into play would be appropriate and the computerized filtering re-adjusted or relaxed to avoid the kind of comment brought up in the article below.
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James Delingpole
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018263/climategate-googlegate/
James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including Welcome To Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com Climategate: Googlegate?
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 29th, 2009
85 Comments Comment on this article
What is going on at Google? I only ask because last night when I typed “Global Warming” into Google News the top item was Christopher Booker’s superb analysis of the Climategate scandal.
It’s still the most-read article of the Telegraph’s entire online operation – 430 comments and counting – yet mysteriously when you try the same search now it doesn’t even feature. Instead, the top-featured item is a blogger pushing Al Gore’s AGW agenda. Perhaps there’s nothing sinister in this. Perhaps some Google-savvy reader can enlighten me…..
UPDATE: Richard North has some interesting thoughts on this. He too suspects some sort of skullduggery
One search engine said "not found" for the "noiri.blogspot.com" which seems to indicate that Google is TOTALLY filtering this Blog from some search engines.
On some search engines, when it did appear or AntiMullah.com does, most of the articles that have been posted in the last several months have been filtered out too and do not appear on various search engines either. You get the occasional here and there article in early November then a jump to September and so on.
And not much else, whereas several articles are posted EVERY day and should show up.
The only recent article to be found was a criticism of Fox News. THAT appeared!
Thinking that Google was respecting the First Amendment and our Free Speech rights (even if my Blog opinions differed from theirs) I recently even posted a thank you to them. Now, I observe that their computers have been set to filter almost everything I post out of search engines and while NOT limiting my right to write and post, simply making it invisible to the public and blogosphere or to anyone doing searches.
When the Google operated blogsite itself fails to appear or spottily at best in search engines, then...... (we report you decide -- what conclusioni you draw).
Why is this censorship needed? Imposing their will and their opinion on what can be written, posted or more importantly seen by others is suppression of free speech, even if it is loudly worded, opposes or mocks the current regime's policies etc., and emulates the Lame Stream Media of hiding anything that reveals flaws in what's going on.
In our opinion, at least, the truth does not change because I say what I say nor Google or the Lame Stream Media hide for those they support. Whether it is the Healthcare bill, Cap and trade or multiple other bills that are not even read but rammed down our throats. Or the horrific events going on in Islamic Iran.
Or, again in our opinion, the various very strange people in positions of power in the Oba-Hussein administration that are unimaginable in any previous "regime".
Voices like AntiMullah.com should be allowed to have their full say on behalf of the far from monolithic American populace, which increasingly is finding itself opposed to what is going on. With what is shovelled at them, with what is being slammed at them in the name of political correctness and misleading aspects of Jihadi Islam and the increasing number of Dhimmis who are trying to fool us on this aspect.
If comparatively small, though broadly read blog, AntiMullah.com wields so much power (negative or positive) at its most critical crescendo of perceived truth so as to derail the Oligarchy that has come to rule us then they are straw men and don't deserve the protection of Google censorship. Regardless of any other consideration of free speech.
I have a strong affinity toward Google for giving me a soapbox to air my opinions and make an effort to educate and inform on world matters where I have in depth experience from "been there, done that" and attribute these "filter" parameters that appear from time to time to some Google employees "doing their own thing" as they feel would make them popular with the powers that be - at Google or at the Obama House, or een among their own colleagues.
I have noted some Google informative "advertising/explanation", triggered by Obama House or Obama supporters' complaints, is taking place to state that the primary mission of search engines should be able to capture all information that exists without judgment of good or bad, or offensive or not to some and present everything as it is.
AntiMullah, AntiMullah.com, etc., and noiri.blogspot.com used to appear prominently even last month, but have been relegated to oblivion by the "new" filters being applied. Putting them back into play would be appropriate and the computerized filtering re-adjusted or relaxed to avoid the kind of comment brought up in the article below.
========================
James Delingpole
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018263/climategate-googlegate/
James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including Welcome To Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com Climategate: Googlegate?
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 29th, 2009
85 Comments Comment on this article
What is going on at Google? I only ask because last night when I typed “Global Warming” into Google News the top item was Christopher Booker’s superb analysis of the Climategate scandal.
It’s still the most-read article of the Telegraph’s entire online operation – 430 comments and counting – yet mysteriously when you try the same search now it doesn’t even feature. Instead, the top-featured item is a blogger pushing Al Gore’s AGW agenda. Perhaps there’s nothing sinister in this. Perhaps some Google-savvy reader can enlighten me…..
UPDATE: Richard North has some interesting thoughts on this. He too suspects some sort of skullduggery
Saturday, November 28, 2009
AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO BE TRIED BY INTERNATIONAL COURTS?
He gives full US citizen legal rights to murdering terrorists in New York trials and
gives up American citizen sovereign legal rights to foreign nations!More and more Americans are asking themselves this question
FOX NEWS' O'REILLY INCREASINGLY JOINS LAME STREAM MEDIA
(Alan note: regardless of your opinion on the birther subject, O'Reilly has increasingly not followed his fair and balanced claims since Oba-Hussein got elected and has suppressed many (not all) items that reflect badly on Obama or his legitimacy to hold his office.
O'Reilly even went on record as far as to say he had seen the birth certificate HIMSELF!" That is B.S.! But suits his defend Oba-Hussein so that he avoids a the same type of harrassment which drove Rush Limbaugh out of New York through pernicious tax audits.
It would have served well for him to have invited a top level birther and let him or her air out their views on why the legitimacy of Oba-Hussein has been in question.
We report you decide has disappeared. We report a censored newsline and hide what the rest of the LSM fails to publish. Fox news is no longer on your side but on Oba-Hussein's, running UNBALANCED interference for him)
On the Oct 27, 2009 O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly sat stupidly while Lis Wiehl made several conspicuously false statements regarding the facts related to Obama's birth documentation. Referring to the 'birthers', Ms. Wiehl stated that "It's this whole movement that says that Obama was elected from a bad, unconstitutional point of view because he was not born in the United States. That's been litigated. Congress investigated. His birth document from Hawaii was shown."
First, regarding "That's been litigated" this case has never actually been heard in open court (because the plaintiffs have been denied standing).
Alan note: (Judge David Carter, who had decided to hear it and could have saved America but caved - to the extent of even having his 30-page decision apparently written for him by an new clerk he brought in from the Obama legal firm, has failed the Marine Corps, himself and all of us. He mentions not wanting to disenfranchise 69 million who voted for Obama but fails to address fraud perpetrated on the whole nation by an usurper.
Taking this to an extreme, it is as if we had elected Ossama Bin Laden instead of Oba-Hussein Khomeini - had he managed to fool us, fool we the people and buy his election with Saudi and other Jihadi money and Jihadi thuggery - all of which we the people were dissuaded from opposing by the Lame Stream Media and corrupt Democrat Congress and Senate majorities).
Second, regarding "Congress investigated." Does anyone know to what she is referring? Or as that a total fabrication? Does she really think that Barney Frank and Harry Reid have "investigated" this?
Third, regarding "His birth document from Hawaii was shown", Ms. Wiehl fails to mention that what has been shown is purported to be a bona fide copy of Mr. Obama's birth documentation. Furthermore, the validity of that copy is disputed for a number of reasons. (And they never mention the fact that Hawaii issues two types of birth documentation, and that there is an interesting dispute as to which type of birth documentation Mr. Obama has.)
Fox News continues to ridicule people who believe that Mr. Obama's birth records -- that are actually on file in Hawaii -- should be made available to independent document experts for inspection and validation.
O'Reilly is hiding under his desk and refuses to give the head 'birther' time to respond to Lis Wiehl's false statements on the 'O'Reilly Factor' regarding Obama's birth documentation.
Article at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372812/posts
NOTE:
Wiehl received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1983, a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland in 1985, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1987
She began her career as a lawyer for the (Obama defense) law firm of Perkins Coie then served as a federal prosecutor from 1990–1995. Wiehl worked for the House of Representatives team (as "principal deputy chief minority investigative counsel" for the House Judiciary Committee) in the late 1990s, including during the Clinton impeachment proceedings..
Before joining Fox, Wiehl was a legal analyst for CBS affiliate KIRO-TV in Seattle, and (from November 2000 to February 2001) NBC News.
Wiehl married criminal-defense attorney Mickey Sherman on June 23, 2006 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Sherman is a television legal analyst who represented Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel in the murder trial in which Skakel was convicted.
MORE DETAILS ON THIS SUBJECT
http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=2697
Thursday, November 26, 2009
IS THAT A SHOULDER HOLSTER FOR GUN HATING, LEFT-HANDED OBA-HUSSEIN
The Narcissist code "do as I say (order), not as I do". OK for me but not for all you common slavey folk.
Cross draw concealed shoulder holster for a left-hander would be just where it appears to be under his right side jacket in this photo!
Cross draw concealed shoulder holster for a left-hander would be just where it appears to be under his right side jacket in this photo!
OBA-HUSSEIN ALSO PALESTINIAN SHILL! ANY MOSLEM EXCUSE WILL DO
ANY QUESTION OF WHOSE SIDE CUTESY YOKEL OBA-HUSSEIN FAVORS?
President Obama is demanding that in connection with the terrorists for Gilad trade, which is being made with Hamas, Israel release an additional 1,000 terrorists as a 'gesture'.
Arutz Sheva is reporting that President Obama is demanding that in connection with the terrorists for Gilad trade, which is being made with Hamas, Israel release an additional 1,000 terrorists as a 'gesture' to 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen.
In response to U.S. demands that Israel free an additional 1,000-some terrorists as a "gesture" to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, Lieberman said that previous releases of Fatah terrorists "have not proven themselves. The Olmert administration did this several times and it did not work, and we do not plan to allow it to happen," Lieberman said.
Recall that Obama had -- handed him, like so much else, on a platter by Bush -- Israeli / Palestinian Authority negotiations all ready to roll, indeed already underway, ready to be, possibly, further advanced under U.S. sponsorship. Granted they were unlikely, for a number of reasons, to be terribly successful, but that's hardly unusual or unprecedented!
So, anyway, Obama blunders in and immediately BLOWS UP the negotiations. Barry says Israel ought to halt all construction of any kind in it's settlements. The Palestinians, who had been talking, suddenly say, "Hey, good idea, let's demand that as a precondition to talks." Israel, naturally, says you can't have a matter which is a primary subject of negotiations suddenly become a precondition to negotiations, and the whole thing grinds to a halt.
Nobody's talking to anybody, all because of Barry.
So, not only did Obama make this rather stupid, rookie mistake, it now appears he's incapable of learning from it!
Here he is, just a few months later, doing the same moronic thing again!
(Lunacy = repeating the same FAILED action over and over and expecting it to work)
Allegedly the negotiations for the release of Galid Shalit were on the verge of bearing fruit. But why shouldn't Hamas now say, much as Fatah did before, "good idea, Barry! Let's demand those additional 1,000 terrorist releases as a further condition to what Israel has already offered for Galid!"
Arutz Sheva is reporting that President Obama is demanding that in connection with the terrorists for Gilad trade, which is being made with Hamas, Israel release an additional 1,000 terrorists as a 'gesture' to 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen.
In response to U.S. demands that Israel free an additional 1,000-some terrorists as a "gesture" to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, Lieberman said that previous releases of Fatah terrorists "have not proven themselves. The Olmert administration did this several times and it did not work, and we do not plan to allow it to happen," Lieberman said.
Recall that Obama had -- handed him, like so much else, on a platter by Bush -- Israeli / Palestinian Authority negotiations all ready to roll, indeed already underway, ready to be, possibly, further advanced under U.S. sponsorship. Granted they were unlikely, for a number of reasons, to be terribly successful, but that's hardly unusual or unprecedented!
So, anyway, Obama blunders in and immediately BLOWS UP the negotiations. Barry says Israel ought to halt all construction of any kind in it's settlements. The Palestinians, who had been talking, suddenly say, "Hey, good idea, let's demand that as a precondition to talks." Israel, naturally, says you can't have a matter which is a primary subject of negotiations suddenly become a precondition to negotiations, and the whole thing grinds to a halt.
Nobody's talking to anybody, all because of Barry.
So, not only did Obama make this rather stupid, rookie mistake, it now appears he's incapable of learning from it!
Here he is, just a few months later, doing the same moronic thing again!
(Lunacy = repeating the same FAILED action over and over and expecting it to work)
Allegedly the negotiations for the release of Galid Shalit were on the verge of bearing fruit. But why shouldn't Hamas now say, much as Fatah did before, "good idea, Barry! Let's demand those additional 1,000 terrorist releases as a further condition to what Israel has already offered for Galid!"
THE ROOT OF OUR EVIL - NOW EMULATED BY MOSLEM SHILL OBA-HUSSEIN
Brazilian video also noting the Minister of War in Islamic Iran was responsible for over 80 killings in Brazil.
Brazilian protest to Ahmadi-Nejad the Turd's visit
AND .... FORGOTTEN LIFE IN IRAN IN 1971 (two part video)
FORGOTTEN 1971 NORMAL LIFE IN IRAN CLICK HERE
AND .... FORGOTTEN LIFE IN IRAN IN 1971 (two part video)
FORGOTTEN 1971 NORMAL LIFE IN IRAN CLICK HERE
Identity of the iranian regime`s SS-soldiers شكنجه گران را بشناسيم
IDENTIFIED ACTIVE MURDERERS AND TORTURERS CLOSE TO IRAN PREZ "THE TURD" CLICK HERE -- Sorry, Farsi only
The anti-regime movement inside Islamic Iran increasingly puts out information that, heretofore, has been unavailable and part of "state secrets".
If anyone out there has the time to translate and create a transcript of the video, we will be happy to add it to the video article.
We read and write Persian Farsi but time and energy constraints prevent us doing everything we want to achieve.
We work for a living, and to keep this site going, so the several voluntary hours needed daily to research, review and publish, already limit our endeavors.
Happy Thanksgiving to thousands of daily visitors from over 80 countries (many coming in through stealth proxies to hide their identity), though only some 60% from within the USA celebrate the day.
Be happy, be well and thrive.
The anti-regime movement inside Islamic Iran increasingly puts out information that, heretofore, has been unavailable and part of "state secrets".
If anyone out there has the time to translate and create a transcript of the video, we will be happy to add it to the video article.
We read and write Persian Farsi but time and energy constraints prevent us doing everything we want to achieve.
We work for a living, and to keep this site going, so the several voluntary hours needed daily to research, review and publish, already limit our endeavors.
Happy Thanksgiving to thousands of daily visitors from over 80 countries (many coming in through stealth proxies to hide their identity), though only some 60% from within the USA celebrate the day.
Be happy, be well and thrive.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
ANOTHER BOW - THIS TIME TO COMMUNISM! (and a simpering grin)
WHEN WILL OBA-HUSSEIN finally stop publicly demeaning the USA in front of other national leaders?
The American "yokel"
Someone please teach him how an American President should behave!
PITY A FEDERAL JUDGE LOST HIS MARINE ATTITUDE AND FAILED TO REDEEM OUR NATION
Being let down by this judge was like receiving a kick in the solar plexus. I could not believe the capitulation!
Instead of rising to a historic level and rescuing our nation he bowed to the enemy, embraced it, invited it in and surrendered - sullying his Marine courage and determination standards as depicted in this video.
He should watch this video for insipiration and find the way to redeem himself and the famous Marine Corps courage he let down and act positively to rescue our nation with the opportunity he promised to take to trial. And pick up the "semper fi" he has trampled and restore it to its shining, burnished example of what is best in America.
And this "best" now being destroyed because he has failed himself and all of us.
Instead of rising to a historic level and rescuing our nation he bowed to the enemy, embraced it, invited it in and surrendered - sullying his Marine courage and determination standards as depicted in this video.
He should watch this video for insipiration and find the way to redeem himself and the famous Marine Corps courage he let down and act positively to rescue our nation with the opportunity he promised to take to trial. And pick up the "semper fi" he has trampled and restore it to its shining, burnished example of what is best in America.
And this "best" now being destroyed because he has failed himself and all of us.
RED FACES ON NATIONAL LEVELS
ROYAL IRANIAN ANTHEM PLAYED TO GREET AHMADI-NEJAD THE TURD IN VENEZUELA click here
AND DECLARED AS "MOST CHRISTIAN GRANDMOTHER" - SARAH OBAMA - IS IN SAUDI ARABIA ON THE "HAJ" (MOSLEMS ONLY) PILGRIMAGE! OOOPS! After which the men call themselves 'haji" and in Farsi women are "hajieh khanoum" depicting their elevated status.
Non-Moslems are banned, repeat banned, from the holy cities of Mecca and Medina where she is going through the procedures and protocols of the pilgrimage.
Ignorance, lies and corruption are the watchword, these days!
ALSO another indicator of Oba-Hussein's own Islamic beliefs:
Please look at this important story below, based on an exclusive interview Ken had recently with the leader of the the outlawed Free Life Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PJAK) in Europe.
In the interview, Rahman Haj Ahmadi accuses the Obama administration of thwarting negotiations among Iranian pro-democracy groups that were on the verge of creating a united opposition front that could have led to the collapse of the Islamic regime during this summer’s post-election turmoil.
Those negotiations were on the verge of success, Haj Ahmadi told me – until the Obama administration inexplicably placed his group on the terrorism list on Feb. 4, 2009. The U.S. action “made the other groups afraid to work with us, for fear of U.S. government reprisals.”
You will also find in the story a link to some of my earlier reporting from the PJAK training camps in northern Iraq. Far from being a terrorist group, PJAK is dedicated to the overthrow of the Islamic Republic regime in Iran and its replacement by a pro-Western, secular, united Iran that recognizes the rights of all its citizens.
Nothing could be more important than this to the security of the United States and our allies.
Please read the full interview by following this link:
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/iran_pjak/2009/11/24/290260.html
Best,
Ken
--
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Contributing editor: Newsmax.com
http://www.kentimmerman.com/
Reply to: timmerman.road@verizon.net
Archive: www.newsmax.com/timmerman/
AND DECLARED AS "MOST CHRISTIAN GRANDMOTHER" - SARAH OBAMA - IS IN SAUDI ARABIA ON THE "HAJ" (MOSLEMS ONLY) PILGRIMAGE! OOOPS! After which the men call themselves 'haji" and in Farsi women are "hajieh khanoum" depicting their elevated status.
Non-Moslems are banned, repeat banned, from the holy cities of Mecca and Medina where she is going through the procedures and protocols of the pilgrimage.
Ignorance, lies and corruption are the watchword, these days!
=========
ALSO another indicator of Oba-Hussein's own Islamic beliefs:
Please look at this important story below, based on an exclusive interview Ken had recently with the leader of the the outlawed Free Life Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PJAK) in Europe.
In the interview, Rahman Haj Ahmadi accuses the Obama administration of thwarting negotiations among Iranian pro-democracy groups that were on the verge of creating a united opposition front that could have led to the collapse of the Islamic regime during this summer’s post-election turmoil.
Those negotiations were on the verge of success, Haj Ahmadi told me – until the Obama administration inexplicably placed his group on the terrorism list on Feb. 4, 2009. The U.S. action “made the other groups afraid to work with us, for fear of U.S. government reprisals.”
You will also find in the story a link to some of my earlier reporting from the PJAK training camps in northern Iraq. Far from being a terrorist group, PJAK is dedicated to the overthrow of the Islamic Republic regime in Iran and its replacement by a pro-Western, secular, united Iran that recognizes the rights of all its citizens.
Nothing could be more important than this to the security of the United States and our allies.
Please read the full interview by following this link:
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/iran_pjak/2009/11/24/290260.html
Best,
Ken
--
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Contributing editor: Newsmax.com
http://www.kentimmerman.com/
Reply to: timmerman.road@verizon.net
Archive: www.newsmax.com/timmerman/
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
SIMULTANEOUS NATIONWIDE TERRORIST ATTACK IN THE MAKING
OBA-HUSSEIN administration AIDING AND ABETTING? click here
BEFORE USING THE LINK ABOVE READ THIS ARTICLE BELOW TO OBTAIN FOCUS ON WHY THE OBA-HUSSEIN ADMINISTRATION IS QUESTIONED
AS WEAK ON TERRORISM - EVEN PROTECTING IT.
BEFORE USING THE LINK ABOVE READ THIS ARTICLE BELOW TO OBTAIN FOCUS ON WHY THE OBA-HUSSEIN ADMINISTRATION IS QUESTIONED
AS WEAK ON TERRORISM - EVEN PROTECTING IT.
Sometime, probably very soon, something will happen as a consequence
of idiocy like this to remind people that there is a war on.
This story makes me feel like I've swallowed a whole handful of crazy
pills. Holy moly.
--S.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
By Rowan Scarborough
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in
Iraq - the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four
Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the
SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told
FoxNews.com.
The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused
non-judicial punishment - called an admiral's mast - and have
requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber,"
told investigators he was punched by his captors - and he had the
bloody lip to prove it. (POOR BABY! OK to murder Americans but not be punched during capture efforts?
He is a murdering terrorist NOT a burglar or other civil type criminal!)
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value
target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault
charges and have retained lawyers.
Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class
(SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty
for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official
statement, and assault.
Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction
of performance of duty and making a false official statement.
Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an
additional charge of impediment of an investigation.
The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three
SEALs - two officers and an enlisted sailor - have been identified by
investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.
FoxNews.com obtained the official handwritten statement from one of
the three witnesses given on Sept. 3, hours after Abed was captured
and still being held at the SEAL base at Camp Baharia. He was later
taken to a cell in the U.S.-operated Green Zone in Baghdad.
The SEAL told investigators he had showered after the mission, gone to
the kitchen and then decided to look in on the detainee.
"I gave the detainee a glance over and then left," the SEAL wrote. "I
did not notice anything wrong with the detainee and he appeared in
good health."
Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, spokeswoman for the special operations
component of U.S. Central Command, confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com
that three SEALs have been charged in connection with the capture of a
detainee. She said their court martial is scheduled for January.
United States Central Command declined to discuss the detainee, but a
legal source told FoxNews.com that the detainee was turned over to
Iraqi authorities, to whom he made the abuse complaints. He was then
returned to American custody. The SEAL leader reported the charge up
the chain of command, and an investigation ensued.
The source said intelligence briefings provided to the SEALs stated
that "Objective Amber" planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush, and "they had
been tracking this guy for some time."
The Fallujah atrocity came to symbolize the brutality of the enemy in
Iraq and the degree to which a homegrown insurgency was extending its
grip over Iraq.
The four Blackwater agents were transporting supplies for a catering
company when they were ambushed and killed by gunfire and grenades.
Insurgents burned the bodies and dragged them through the city. They
hanged two of the bodies on a bridge over the Euphrates River for the
world press to photograph.
Intelligence sources identified Abed as the ringleader, but he had
evaded capture until September.
The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in
the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse
in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.
of idiocy like this to remind people that there is a war on.
This story makes me feel like I've swallowed a whole handful of crazy
pills. Holy moly.
--S.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
By Rowan Scarborough
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in
Iraq - the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four
Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the
SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told
FoxNews.com.
The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused
non-judicial punishment - called an admiral's mast - and have
requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber,"
told investigators he was punched by his captors - and he had the
bloody lip to prove it. (POOR BABY! OK to murder Americans but not be punched during capture efforts?
He is a murdering terrorist NOT a burglar or other civil type criminal!)
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value
target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault
charges and have retained lawyers.
Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class
(SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty
for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official
statement, and assault.
Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction
of performance of duty and making a false official statement.
Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an
additional charge of impediment of an investigation.
The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three
SEALs - two officers and an enlisted sailor - have been identified by
investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.
FoxNews.com obtained the official handwritten statement from one of
the three witnesses given on Sept. 3, hours after Abed was captured
and still being held at the SEAL base at Camp Baharia. He was later
taken to a cell in the U.S.-operated Green Zone in Baghdad.
The SEAL told investigators he had showered after the mission, gone to
the kitchen and then decided to look in on the detainee.
"I gave the detainee a glance over and then left," the SEAL wrote. "I
did not notice anything wrong with the detainee and he appeared in
good health."
Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, spokeswoman for the special operations
component of U.S. Central Command, confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com
that three SEALs have been charged in connection with the capture of a
detainee. She said their court martial is scheduled for January.
United States Central Command declined to discuss the detainee, but a
legal source told FoxNews.com that the detainee was turned over to
Iraqi authorities, to whom he made the abuse complaints. He was then
returned to American custody. The SEAL leader reported the charge up
the chain of command, and an investigation ensued.
The source said intelligence briefings provided to the SEALs stated
that "Objective Amber" planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush, and "they had
been tracking this guy for some time."
The Fallujah atrocity came to symbolize the brutality of the enemy in
Iraq and the degree to which a homegrown insurgency was extending its
grip over Iraq.
The four Blackwater agents were transporting supplies for a catering
company when they were ambushed and killed by gunfire and grenades.
Insurgents burned the bodies and dragged them through the city. They
hanged two of the bodies on a bridge over the Euphrates River for the
world press to photograph.
Intelligence sources identified Abed as the ringleader, but he had
evaded capture until September.
The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in
the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse
in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.
SPOKEN FOR AN INCREASING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS
This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now. He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.
Dear President Obama,
My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.
So here goes.
I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
I can't figure out what country you are the president of.
You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:
"We're no longer a Christian nation"
"America is arrogant" - (Your wife even announced to the world ,"America is mean- spirited. "Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)
I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.
After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals."
Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.
I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.
Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.
Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.
And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.
One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.
You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.
And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.
Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes
When a 95 year old hero of the "the Greatest Generation" stands up and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him to send his words to as many Americans as we can. Please pass it on.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
Dear President Obama,
My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.
So here goes.
I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
I can't figure out what country you are the president of.
You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:
"We're no longer a Christian nation"
"America is arrogant" - (Your wife even announced to the world ,"America is mean- spirited. "Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)
I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.
After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals."
Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.
I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.
Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.
Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.
And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.
One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.
You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.
And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.
Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes
When a 95 year old hero of the "the Greatest Generation" stands up and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him to send his words to as many Americans as we can. Please pass it on.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
Monday, November 23, 2009
THE TOP FAMILIES OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC AND INTER-RELATIONSHIPS
SORRY - ONLY IN FARSI for now. A CLOSE LOOK AT WHO IS WHO and their links/ties to each other.
Tennessee Ernie Ford & Son Brian who has a REAL RYTHM NECK
This is a riot! No editing on live, black & white TV... Nothing Ernie can do about it.
This is worth watching. Nothing edited back in those days!
If you like Tennessee Ernie Ford, you'll love this ! For all you
young folks who don't know who he is, you really missed something -
"Sixteen Tons" was one of his best known hits.
WATCH THE LITTLE BOY.......HE IS PRICELESS
http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/Videos/childrengo-tennernieford.html
There are other videos worth looking at here too!
This is worth watching. Nothing edited back in those days!
If you like Tennessee Ernie Ford, you'll love this ! For all you
young folks who don't know who he is, you really missed something -
"Sixteen Tons" was one of his best known hits.
WATCH THE LITTLE BOY.......HE IS PRICELESS
http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/Videos/childrengo-tennernieford.html
There are other videos worth looking at here too!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Secret tape from Iranian Intelligence Agency reveals terror against protesters -سند جنایت -جمهوری اسلامی
Secret training and analysis tape of Islamic Iran Security briefing for anti-protester activity. Sorry, Farsi/Persian only.
Obama's General Says: Syria Allied with Al-Qaida, Attacking U.S.
White House Says: Is that a Problem?
Terrorism? What's that? Oh! You mean "man made disasters"? That's just a criminal charge like a burglary. Stop pestering me, I'm busy.
Alan Note: In his first eight months in office Oba-the-usurper has played golf more times than President (for real) Bush did in eight YEARS! So he has no time to decide on Afghanistan or do any work other than plan to put the Bush presidency on trial with the senseless gambit to try the 9/11 terrorists in New York.
NOBODY has yet to show ANY advantage of making this move. (Other than more Bush bashing, without which Oba-Hussein has nothing on which to stand).
MEANWHILE, Neil Sankey, a former Scotland Yard officer wants to investigate Oba-Hussein. With access to British records, he may be able to find archives of Obambi's birthplace and true nationality as Kenya was a British protectorate at that time.
(Neil Sankey has a mission - CLICK HERE)
Neil Sankey has spent his life investigating organised crimes. As a former British police officer with almost 20 years experience, he was seconded to elite units of Scotland Yard through most of the 1970s and now runs his own private detective agency in California.
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By Barry Rubin
Does anyone read the newspapers in the U.S. government? How about checking out the dispatches coming from its generals in the field? Here’s a news story which tells all.
A Reuters’ dispatch from Iraq interviews the commander of U.S. forces there. What’s he say?
Al-Qaida is joining forces with Saddam Hussein’s supporters.
And where are both al-Qaida’s forces fighting in Iraq and Saddam’s backers headquartered with lots of money stolen from Iraq? Syria.
Syria? So Damascus is now allied with al-Qaida, the perpetrators of the September 11 attack to kill Americans and defeat the United States in Iraq?
Is that right, general?:
“Investigations into massive suicide bombings in Baghdad on Oct. 25, in which more than 150 people died, indicated that explosives or fighters were coming across from Syria, U.S. General Ray Odierno also said.”
So, again, Syria is letting al-Qaida and Saddamist terrorists come in, get armed and trained, cross the border in Iraq, and run back for safe haven. Right, general?:
“The U.S. commander's comments reinforced accusations by the government of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that al Qaeda and former Baathists were working together to undermine improved security and elections expected to be held in January. Maliki's government has also accused neighboring Syria of giving a safe haven to Baathists plotting attacks in Iraq.”
Saturday, November 21, 2009
END OF OUR WAY OF LIFE -- CONSTITUTION BEING CANCELLED
THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
PLEASE READ, THINK AND UNDERSTAND!
WE ARE BEING DESTROYED BY OUR ENEMY WITHIN!
IN A BIG HURRY TO FINISH BEFORE WE WAKE UP AND STOP THEM !
PLEASE READ, THINK AND UNDERSTAND!
WE ARE BEING DESTROYED BY OUR ENEMY WITHIN!
IN A BIG HURRY TO FINISH BEFORE WE WAKE UP AND STOP THEM !
Alan Note: Unable to put any of the statements below to the lie and label them as untrue, even admitting them to be the truth, Obambots have resorted to calling us crazy and trying to tell us that their Messiah is right to take us in this moronic "new" Marxist direction as it is best for the country!
That opinion is their right but also underlines their inexperience with world affairs and history which has repeatedly shown that Socialism (to call what is being done in a most gentle of terms) has not succeeded anywhere and is not a "new" path. And fails, even when like in Cuba or China, enforced with imprisonment and execution.
Or in the second channel of Oba-Hussein's Marxist-Islamist philosophy the way Islam imposes its beliefs on any disbeliever. Do as we say or die!
If we are "crazy" (rather than seeing the cliff off which we are being thrown) it is with the grief of seeing our culture and our freedoms being washed down the drain and sullied by an administration that has no apparent love for our nation and prefers cultist, dictatorial methods to govern us as our bosses NOT as our servers as the Constitution provides.
Imposing their oligarchic will on "us the people" with Chicago type thuggery (like the so-called "nuclear" rule-breaking option to pass the Healthcare bill with 51-votes instead of a filibuster proof 60, against the will of the people which we can expect from Harry Reid) instead of following the rules of the Senate and of the Constitution.
Dismissing the truths below out of hand as "crazy", in no way changes the truth, just shows denial of truth as it actually exists - not as you would wish it to appear.
The only "CRAZY " here is what is being done destructively to us by self-avowed radicals! (Luckily Americans are finally waking up to the danger).
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When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank
(Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed Communist), people said it didn't matter.
When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent
Obama's mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to
young Obama, people said it didn't matter.
When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and
his father and step-father were both Muslims, people said it didn't
matter.
When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them
(Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction,” people
said it didn't matter.
When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and
professors in college, people said it didn't matter.
When he traveled to Pakistan, after college on an unknown national
passport, people said it didn't matter.
When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for
the Illinois Senate, people said it doesn't matter.
When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a
preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology,
people said it didn't matter.
When an independent Washington organization that tracks senate voting
records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator",
people said it didn't matter.
When the Palestinians in Gaza set up a fund raising telethon to raise
money for his election campaign, people said it didn't matter.
When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn't
matter.
When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as
other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.
When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar
Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.
When it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.
When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine
Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.
When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came
into question, people said it didn't matter.
When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public
outcry, people said it didn't matter.
When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were
taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.
When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the
National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.
When he surrounded himself in the White House with advisors who were
radical communists, pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage
and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people
said it didn't matter.
When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other
issues, people said it didn't matter.
When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual
indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.
When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be
found about him, people said it didn't matter.
When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to
produce a birth certificate, people said it didn't matter.
When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of
questionable character who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a
sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn't matter.
When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent
a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.
When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and
even avowed Marxist/Communist, people said it didn't matter.
When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to
"fundamentally transform this nation" into something else, people said it
didn't matter.
When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and
served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats
and socialist, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced
abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers,
people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in
"Explicit Consent", harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group
called gay, lesbian, straight Education network as safe school czar and it
became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said
it didn't matter.
When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar who believed in curtailing
free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth
and admires Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.
When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior White House advisor
and she is an avowed Socialist (born in Iran), people said it didn't matter.
When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for
inspiration, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well
known socialist working on Cap and Trade as the nations largest tax,
people said it doesn't matter.
When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green
energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said
it didn't matter.
When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary,
could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't
matter.
When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi
Arabia and the Emperor of Japan, people said it didn't matter.
When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once
talked of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.
When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the
Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend, people said it doesn't
matter.
When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians
from Gaza to the United States, people said it doesn't matter.
When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system
against the Russians, people said it doesn't matter.
When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field
Commanders said we had to have to win, people said it didn't matter.
When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay
it off, people said it didn't matter.
When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it
to reward organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected,
people said it didn't matter.
When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people
said it didn't matter.
When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the
government, people said it didn't matter.
When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it
under government control, people said it didn't matter.
When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in
the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.
When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist
State, people finally woke up… but it was too late.
Any one of these things, in and of themselves, does not really matter.
But… when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that
points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into
a Marxist/Socialist society.
All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily.
Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone
is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it
read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America?
Personally, I like happy endings.
If you are an Obama Supporter, please do not be angry with me because I
think the President of your choice is a socialist, but there are too many
facts supporting this. If you seek the truth you will be richer for it.
Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did.
Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and
what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or
watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a
religious person, pray for our nation.
Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with
problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy.
Don't rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for
the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information,
lies and distortions there, too, but you are smart enough to spot the
fallacies.
Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from
the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth?
Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox aainst whom he has waged war. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any
specifics, just a general battle against them. If they lie, he should
call them out on it but he doesn't.
Please, find the truth, it will set you free.
Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia, Iran; no, our biggest enemy is a
contingent of politicians in Washington DC (under Oba-Hussein Khomeini's domination).
AND they are out to destroy America with the Health Care bill which has the following IMMEDIATE tax increases with any benefits starting in four (Congress version) or five years (Senate version)
Impressive - list of new “ObamaCare” taxes. Thanks - Repeal The 17th
Individual Mandate Tax (Page 324/Sec. 1501/$8 bil)
Employer Mandate Tax (Page 348/Sec. 1513/$28 bil)
Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (Page 1979/Sec. 9001/$149.1 bil)
Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 (Page 1996/Sec. 9002/Min$)
Medicine Cabinet Tax (Page 1997/Sec. 9003/$5 bil)
HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike (Page 1998/Sec. 9004/$1.3 bil)
FSA Cap (Page 1999/Sec. 9005/$14.6 bil)
Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting (Page 1999/Sec. 9006/$17.1 bil)
Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (page 2001/Sec. 9007/Min$)
Tax on Innovator Drug Companies (Page 2010/Sec. 9008/ $22.2 bil)
Tax of Medical Device Manufacturers (Page 2020/Sec. 9009/$19.3 bil)
Tax on Health Insurers (Page 2026/Sec. 9010/$60.4 bil)
Eliminate tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D (Page 2034/Sec. 9012/$5.4 bil)
Raise “Haircut” for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI (Page 2034/Sec. 9013/$15.2 bil)
$500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives (Page 2035/Sec. 9014/$0.6 bil)
Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax (Page 2040/Sec. 9015/$53.8 bil)
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike (Page 2044/Sec. 9016/$0.4 bil)
Tax on Cosmetic Medical Procedures (Page 2045/Sec. 9017/$5.8 bil)
THE OBA-HUSSEIN APOCALYPSE NOW CLEARLY DESCENDING ON US
hat tip and thanks for some of this to: thenewsman@ij.net
hat tip and thanks for some of this to: thenewsman@ij.net
NO LONGER SECRET TORTURE BUILDING IN TEHRAN
HUGE TEHRAN TORTURE BUILDING HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT CLICK HERE
Gist of the Farsi text.
The above link goes to the Farsi/Persian language article in the Multilingual section (look at the photos) of the "in your face" - hidden in plain site - building that the Mullah regime thought would be a secret, unknown torture center for years to come , where they can hold some 300 short term prisoners at a time. In three rows of cells.
Because most of the torture chambers are below ground and directly above a metro/subway line, the loud train noises serve to muffle screams of agony that abound inside this structure.
Also tunnels leading to the building and to the metro line, serve to bring and remove prisoners or dead bodies out of sight of the thousands of people who walk and drive past the building on a daily basis.
Recently renovated to look like a planned future Supermarket or Department Store the location at the 7th Tir (25th Shahrivar Square) acts as a centralized holding and interrogation facility easily accessible to transport street demonstrators or hostages increasingly being kidnaped from homes - hundreds of whom to never reappear!
Rooftop satellite dishes maintain constant communications with Suppression Forces operating in the streets and cameras on the sides of the building monitor street activity in this area where demonstrators have been gathering.
The Islamic regime television station occasionaly broadcasts views from these cameras and passes them to the special Forces vehicles to help monitor crowd control activity.
Despite a day and night watch on the building and the side streets leading to it, no surface traffic in and out of it was observed but the whole area is constantly patrolled by government agents and their vehicles, specially at night. (To protect a future Supermarket)?
Clandestine investigation has brought to light a maze of underground vehicle capable tunnels and entrances to the building and occasionally lights in some windows at the back turn on and off on some nights.
This information has been gleaned from agents of the regime's security and suppression forces who still officially work for them but whose hearts are with the demontrators and protestors.
The building format of purely underground entry and exit makes it easy to block access to any outsider or force which might want to raid it and release prisoners. Similarly formulated prisons are springing up around Iranian cities, including one in Tabriz.
The anti-Mullah regime partisans, who discovered this ask everyone to pass the information around.
Gist of the Farsi text.
The above link goes to the Farsi/Persian language article in the Multilingual section (look at the photos) of the "in your face" - hidden in plain site - building that the Mullah regime thought would be a secret, unknown torture center for years to come , where they can hold some 300 short term prisoners at a time. In three rows of cells.
Because most of the torture chambers are below ground and directly above a metro/subway line, the loud train noises serve to muffle screams of agony that abound inside this structure.
Also tunnels leading to the building and to the metro line, serve to bring and remove prisoners or dead bodies out of sight of the thousands of people who walk and drive past the building on a daily basis.
Recently renovated to look like a planned future Supermarket or Department Store the location at the 7th Tir (25th Shahrivar Square) acts as a centralized holding and interrogation facility easily accessible to transport street demonstrators or hostages increasingly being kidnaped from homes - hundreds of whom to never reappear!
Rooftop satellite dishes maintain constant communications with Suppression Forces operating in the streets and cameras on the sides of the building monitor street activity in this area where demonstrators have been gathering.
The Islamic regime television station occasionaly broadcasts views from these cameras and passes them to the special Forces vehicles to help monitor crowd control activity.
Despite a day and night watch on the building and the side streets leading to it, no surface traffic in and out of it was observed but the whole area is constantly patrolled by government agents and their vehicles, specially at night. (To protect a future Supermarket)?
Clandestine investigation has brought to light a maze of underground vehicle capable tunnels and entrances to the building and occasionally lights in some windows at the back turn on and off on some nights.
This information has been gleaned from agents of the regime's security and suppression forces who still officially work for them but whose hearts are with the demontrators and protestors.
The building format of purely underground entry and exit makes it easy to block access to any outsider or force which might want to raid it and release prisoners. Similarly formulated prisons are springing up around Iranian cities, including one in Tabriz.
The anti-Mullah regime partisans, who discovered this ask everyone to pass the information around.
MEANWHILE
Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad
Failing efforts to reconvert them back to islam, these two Chrisitian girls have been released from the notorious Evin prison after nine months incarceration for apostasy after they converted from Islam to Christianity.
Are we all tippy-toeing around the fact that they did not spend a quiet nine months in Evin? That they have been raped, gang raped, and tortured to make them convert back to Islam?
Am I being too cynical to think they are so badly battered that their release could well be to avoid either of them or both dying in prison, whereas now their death announcement (God forbid) can be censored and not appear?
While they and their families are inside Islamic Iran, their silence is almost certain, so their release is physically a blessing for them but until we know what their physical condition is, it may not be anything more than the regime hiding what was done to them.
And Islamist protector/promoter Obama could not care less and continues to want tea and chat with this regime of monsters as if they were acceptable people.
Failing efforts to reconvert them back to islam, these two Chrisitian girls have been released from the notorious Evin prison after nine months incarceration for apostasy after they converted from Islam to Christianity.
Are we all tippy-toeing around the fact that they did not spend a quiet nine months in Evin? That they have been raped, gang raped, and tortured to make them convert back to Islam?
Am I being too cynical to think they are so badly battered that their release could well be to avoid either of them or both dying in prison, whereas now their death announcement (God forbid) can be censored and not appear?
While they and their families are inside Islamic Iran, their silence is almost certain, so their release is physically a blessing for them but until we know what their physical condition is, it may not be anything more than the regime hiding what was done to them.
And Islamist protector/promoter Obama could not care less and continues to want tea and chat with this regime of monsters as if they were acceptable people.
CULTIST OBA-MESSIAH HAS COMPETITION FROM HIS MULLAH FRIEND KHAMENEI
ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW FARSI TEXT
WHO IS COPYING WHOM?
OR ARE BOTH IMPLEMENTING THE CLASSIC SOVIET PLAYBOOK?
WHO IS COPYING WHOM?
OR ARE BOTH IMPLEMENTING THE CLASSIC SOVIET PLAYBOOK?
هنوز در جهان سابقه نداشته است که دولتی از مزدورانش انتظار داشته باشد چنین نمایش مسخره ای را برای قبولاندن یک رهبر قلابی به یک ملت به اجراء گذارند. آنچه در این عکس می بینید عده ای بسیجی هستند که دستور دارند هرگاه رهبر قلابی جمهوری اسلامی که از خونخوارترین و خدانشناس ترین موجودات دنیاست برای ایراد سخنرانی به جائی میرود آنان جای پای او را ببوسند تا بقیه مردم باور کنند که او موجودی مقدس است و باید پرستش شود و این درست بر خلاف دستور اسلام است که پرستش فقط مخصوص خداست و پیغمبرش هم گفته است من بشری مانند بقیه شما هستم. لذا جمهوری اسلامی برای تحمیق مردم حتی بدستورات اسلام هم پشت کرده است. واقعأ دیکتاتورها برای ارضاء خود خواهی خود دست به چه اعمال احمقانه ای میزنند و عوام الناس بیسواد و پول پرست هم برای چند شاهی در آمد بیشتر دست به چه کارهای پست و نفرت انگیزی. نادانی از یک سو رهبر جمهوری اسلامی را مورد مضحکه قرار میدهد و از سوی دیگر گروه خرافات زده و عوامی که اطراف او هستند. لذا عجیب نیست که این گروه نادان و گمراه از رهبر و پیروانش همه جز عده ای دلقک بیش نباشد و لیاقت مملکت داری نداشته باشند.
Slightly edited translation:
It is (almost) without precedent that a government expects their mercenaries to provide such ridiculous demonstrations to try to legitimize a false leader with the people.
What you see in this picture is a bunch of Bassiji (Suppression Forces) under orders that whenever the false, bloodthirsty and most godless leader ever, of the Islamic Mullah regime, passes anywhere to make a speech, they should kiss where his feet trod to persuade others that he is a holy personage and should be worshipped.
In direct contravention of Islam where only Allah is to be worshipped and even the prophet stated that he is a human being like all others, so to fool the populace the Islamic regime has turned its back on Islamic tenets.
It is incredible to what lengths this self-serving dictatorship goes with lunatic actions and what despicable and disgusting things uneducated, superstitious, money loving people will do for some extra pennies.
This all shows the ignorance of the Islamic regime leader, who thus becomes a subject of ridicule and illustrates the superstitious nature of the people who surround him and are stupid clowns who have no right or ability to run the country.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
THE NEDA STORY - ANOTHER HUMAN MADE DISASTER, OBA-HUSSEIN?
OBA-HUSSEIN STOP SUPPORTING THE MULLAH REGIME AND STOP COPYING MANY OF THEIR METHODS (WITHING AMERICAN LATITUDES) TO DESTROY THE USA!
THE NEDA STORY click here
THE NEDA STORY click here
FRIDAY GRAB BAG MIX
We at AntiMullah have been absent for a few days
slowly catching up
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WASHINGTON – President Obama’s approval rating has slipped below the critical 50 percent threshold for the first time, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.Obama’s approval rating stands at just 48 percent, with 42 percent disapproval. His approval has been on a steady drop since this summer in the survey. It stood at 59 percent in may, 57 percent in July, and 50 percent in October.
At the same time, the percentage of those who disapprove of his handling of the economy has spiked, going from a virtual even split in October to 52 to 43 percent disapproval today.
And as Obama has weighed his strategy options in Afghanistan, public approval has also dropped. Voters disapprove of his handling of the war there 49 to 38, down from near even 42 to 40 approval last month.
Support for the war is also down, with people saying it is the right thing to do by a margin of 48 to 41, down from 52 to 37 in October.
A plurality want Obama to send 40,000 more troops, 47 to 42 percent, but support is mostly from Republicans, 68 percent of whom want more troops, compared to just 27 percent of Democrats.
"Increasingly, the president finds himself with two different coalitions, one that backs him on domestic matters and a completely different one that backs him on Afghanistan," said Peter Brown, who conducted the poll.
A growing concern to the White House is softening support for the president among independents. The group split on approval of Obama in the survey, with 43 percent approval and 46 percent disapproval.
His healthcare plan is defintiely not helping him thoughthe Democrats will force it through and hurt him even more.
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
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America needs Obama care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
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At a recent Obama speech there was a guy in the back of the hall screaming anti-American slogans and making hateful racist remarks. They turned the house lights up and it was Reverend Wright.
For a moment Obama thought he was back in church and yelled, "Can I get an amen"?
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Have you heard about McDonalds new Obama Value Meal? Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
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Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.
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Q: What do Vanilla Ice, Eminem and Barack Obama have in common?
A: They all made careers pretending to be black men.
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Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.
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Obama has ordered GM to come out with a new model called the Pelosi. It's a convertible, but no one wants to see it with the top down.
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On Halloween you put on a false face and trick people. This year Barack Obama is going as – Barack Obama.
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If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved? .... America !
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Q: What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers.
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JOE LEGAL vs. JOSE ILLEGAL
You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families
have two parents, two children, and live in California ..
Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes
$25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number,
and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".
Ready? Now pay attention...
Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours =
$1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00
per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has
$31,231.00.
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or
$31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has
$31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for
his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now
has $24,031.00.
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and
local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has
$31,200.00.
Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible
for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per
year.
Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps
and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe
Legal now has $9,631.00.
Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose
Illegal pays $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal
still has $ 31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal
now has $7,231.00.
Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has
$31,200.00.
Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.
Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities,
gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.
Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after
work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe
Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get
a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal's children have an after
school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the samepolice and fire services,
but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.
Do you get it, now?
If you vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens...
You are part of the problem!
It's way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!
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November 18, 2009
by Frank Gaffney
On November 17, 2009, a prominent Senator and five leading Members of Congress sent a letter to the IRS asking for an investigation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) concerning their possible violation of the Lobbying Disclosure Act which limits the expenditures a non-profit can spend on lobbying If CAIR has exceeded the limits of that law, they risk losing their non-profit status. Other penalties may be more severe: if the Secretary of the Senate or Clerk of the House of Representatives determines that CAIR should have registered and find 'a knowing violation by a preponderance of the evidence,' CAIR could be 'subject to a civil fine of not more than $200,000, depending on the extent and gravity of the violation,' and if CAIR 'knowingly and corruptly failed to comply,' they could be subject to imprisonment up to 5 years. Our separate analysis of CAIR tax returns, compared to audio evidence recorded in 2006, reveals another potential issue for IRS investigators – more on that follows below…
The November 17 letter to the IRS was signed by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), Ranking Member on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The members of Congress signing the letter also have extensive experience in intelligence, counter-terrorism and investigations:
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), Deputy Whip, founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, who also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), who serves on the Judiciary Committee and the Armed Services Committee
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), who serves on the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment
Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), who serves on the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who serves on the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs for the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Our own investigation revealed another problem CAIR may have with the IRS.
Their most recent publicly available tax return, from 2006, reports gross receipts for their annual fundraiser that are significantly less than they announced at the event itself. On that 2006 990 form, they reported that they had raised $89,775, but left blank (or zeroed) several key fields:
But our investigative team attended that 2006 annual CAIR event and recorded the fundraiser Master of Ceremonies, Rodwan Saleh of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, announcing that they raised much more than $89,775 – at least $250,000, and possibly as much as $600,000 due to a matching grant. Below is a partial transcript and the audio:
Partial Transcription:
RODWAN SALEH: We are now at $250,000. Takbir.
AUDIENCE: Allahu Akbar.
SALEH: Takbir.
AUDIENCE: Allahu Akbar.
SALEH: Now, listen carefully [unclear] requirements. There is a family, there is a family that says if we all now can put this amount of money from 250 to 300, they will match the 300. You understand what I’m saying? Now, so we need now to make sure that we get $50,000 in no time because if we can make 300 this family will put another 300 [unclear]. Did you hear me?
So here are two more questions for IRS investigators: Did CAIR raise only $89,775 at the fundraiser and if so, what happened to the rest of the $250,000 (or $300,000 0r $600,000)? Or did CAIR raise the larger amount, and if so, why did they report less to the IRS?
On November 3, 2009, we called CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad for comment on this apparent discrepancy. Mr. Awad said he would look into the matter and get back to us, but so far he has failed to do so.
CAIR’s supporters include foreign businesses and members of various Middle Eastern royal families, and at the 2006 annual fundraiser in question, tables were assigned to the embassies of Malaysia, Pakistan, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the Interests Section of Iran. The Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial documents, along with numerous Arab and English news articles, show CAIR receiving foreign contributions and pledges ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. During 2005 and 2006, CAIR had additional capital to purchase properties valued at over $10 million, as detailed in the investigative best-seller book Muslim Mafia.
Yet in 2006 their membership dues from actual Muslim Americans were only $41,383 - one percent of their total reported revenues of over $2.7 million.
One percent from Muslim Americans’ dues. And just $89,775 gross receipts from the annual fundraiser, partially reported to the IRS.
And 99% from…somewhere else.
Incidentally, we were able to obtain copies of the 2007 990 tax forms for fifteen CAIR chapters, and the 2008 990 tax forms for five CAIR chapters, but the CAIR national office has still not made public their 2007 and 2008 tax returns.
A key question for both the IRS and the Department of Justice: Is CAIR really an organization representing Muslim Americans, or is it representing the interests of foreign principals?
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The White House's forthcoming state dinner with the Prime Minister of India is expected to be larger than those of President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush. But another upcoming White House event will be smaller than in years past: The White House's annual Hanukkah party.
The guest list is expected to be shrunk by more than half, according to the Jerusalem Post. "Though several Jewish leaders expressed understanding for the economic and other reasons behind the cut, they acknowledged that it would likely help feed feelings in some quarters of the American Jewish community that the White House is giving them the cold shoulder."
The move comes on the heels of Obama's cancellation of an appearance before the General Assembly of North American Jewish Federations last week.
The White House's decision is likely a response to tough economic times and a desire to keep the holiday festivities reasonable.
A White House official told the Post that Obama "looks forward to celebrating Hanukkah at the White House and having many members of the Jewish American community at that event."
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If you were troubled by President Obama's "Wow Bow" in Japan, you won't be any happier with the "kowtow" during his just-concluded trip to the People's Republic of China.
In the latest chapter of Team Obama's at-best-mediocre, teetering-on-the-disastrous foreign policy, the president and a slew of Cabinet secretaries roared into Asia like lions, promising a new era in US diplomacy in the region. But they're leaving like pussycats -- accomplishing, well, a whole lot of nothing so far.
So much for our "first Pacific president," as Obama anointed himself at the start of the eight-day, four-country swing through Asia last week.
The lack of good news was starkest in China, where the United States faces a raft of critical issues that need addressing at the presidential level.
Sure, the joint statement that concluded the visit had a long list of possible areas of Sino-US cooperation such as Chinese aircraft safety, public health, climate change and bumping up the number of Americans studying in the PRC. And the president, to his credit, did raise the issues of human rights and freedom of expression for the more than a billion Chinese.
But a presidential visit should've delivered more than that.
Obama failed to make progress on the most important issue to the United States right now -- economics and trade. We're experiencing a $200-plus billion-a-year trade deficit with China, but no measure came out of the visit to ease that pain.
We could've seen an agreement to help level the playing field for US firms doing business in China by reducing the various subsidies local firms receive from the central government, undermining foreign competitiveness in the PRC.
Or how about the undervalued Chinese currency, the Renminbi? Beijing fixes ("pegs") the RMB's conversion rate against such other currencies as the dollar, instead of allowing it to float with the market. This makes Chinese goods cheaper here and American goods more expensive there.
This inequity adds to the trade deficit, allowing China to become the largest holder of US debt -- and adding to a series of imbalances that could be harmful to both countries in the long-run.
On security, there was also a worrisome lack of movement. China is involved in an unprecedented military buildup -- and US planners are often in the dark about the intent of Beijing's modernization but are especially troubled when it comes to "power projection" capabilities, such as the PRC's missile, naval and air forces.
Obama also flubbed a question on Taiwan, failing to immediately note our obligation under US law to sell arms to the island (which China considers a renegade province) -- and the most likely place America and China might cross swords. He later corrected himself, but the damage was done -- possibly adding doubt in Beijing's mind about the US commitment to a peaceful resolution of Taipei's future.
While there's been a thaw in cross-Taiwan Strait ties lately, better relations have historically been fostered by strong US support for Taiwan.
Then there are the matters experts wish the president hadn't touched upon -- offering up Sino-American cooperation in space, where China is taking steps to challenge the United States for military supremacy.
There was also no noticeable traction on efforts to roll back North Korea's nuclear program -- or, arguably more urgent, getting Beijing to take tougher measures on preventing Iran from joining the Mushroom Cloud Club.
Responding to criticism of the visit, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that the administration hadn't expected "the waters would part and everything would change over the course of 2½ days in China."
Fair enough -- except that the American people were seemingly promised just that during last year's presidential campaign: a new approach, leading to a more effective foreign policy that would burnish America's image and improve Lady Liberty's security.
That just hasn't happened. Instead, the administration keeps floundering on foreign policy. And there's nothing in sight to suggest reality will suddenly start measuring up to Obama's campaign rhetoric.
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Obama's Doubletalk on Political Dissent
Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow of information. It's the only safe place he could do so without getting heckled. With a straight face, Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students he welcomed unfettered criticism in America. Fierce opposition, he said, made him "a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don't want to hear." How do you say "You lie!" in Mandarin?
While the kowtower-in-chief's press shop feeds paeans to free speech into Obama's globetrotting teleprompter, the White House is still waging war on vocal foes at home. Obama has lectured his critics in Washington to stop talking and "get out of the way." He has stacked his carefully staged town halls with partisan stooges and campaign plants throughout the year. The president recently derided limited-government activists in the Tea Party movement with a vulgar sexual term used by left-wing cable host Anderson Cooper on CNN and the MSNBC smear merchants (just Google "teabagging" and you'll see what they mean).
There are now more muzzled watchdogs in the Obama administration than on the sidelines of the Westminster Kennel Club show.
Most recently, two EPA lawyers critical of the "fatally flawed" cap-and-trade system -- peddled by their agency, the White House and the Democratic majority -- were told by their superiors to yank a video they posted to YouTube explaining their views. Despite including a caveat that the opinions expressed were their own and not the agency's, the couple faces possible disciplinary action by the feds. While demanding the video be yanked, the EPA disingenuously claims it tolerates all dissenting views of its employees.
The clampdown follows on the heels of the Obama EPA's stifling of veteran researcher Alan Carlin's dissent. He dared to challenge the agency's reliance on outdated data to support its greenhouse gas "public endangerment" finding. Carlin's report was squelched; his office is now on the chopping block.
In China, O proclaimed himself "a big supporter of non-censorship." But his FCC "diversity" czar, Mark Lloyd, is bent on re-engineering public airwaves by redistributing free speech rights from conservative haves who earned their success to minority have-nots who demand talk radio entitlements in the name of "media justice."
And among Obama's closest advisers is a husband-and-wife duo who specializes in marginalizing and stifling the Democratic Party's most effective enemies. Just days after White House interim communications director Anita Dunn -- the administration's resident Mao cheerleader and Fox News-basher -- stepped down to take a planned role as a "consultant" behind the scenes, her husband, Robert Bauer, stepped up and shoved aside White House counsel Greg Craig.
The problem? Former Clinton lawyer Craig wasn't tough enough for Chicago-on-the-Potomac. Obama needed an intimate ally who will put hardball politics ahead of policy and the law. Bauer fits the bill.
A partner at the prestigious law firm Perkins & Coie, Bauer served as counsel to the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Obama for America. He has served as Obama's personal attorney, navigating the corrupted waters of former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pay-for-play scandals in Illinois. He also served as legal counsel to the George Soros-funded 527 organization America Coming Together during the 2004 campaign.
That get-out-the-vote outfit, helmed by Patrick Gaspard (the former Service Employees International Union heavy turned Obama domestic policy chief), employed convicted felons as canvassers and committed campaign finance violations that led to a $775,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission under Bauer's watch.
During the 2008 campaign, Bauer pooh-poohed GOP complaints about voter fraud. While decrying the Republicans' "fear message," it was Bauer who was on a fear-inducing crusade -- pulling out all legal stops to silence conservative critics of Obama's ties to the radical left.
As I've noted previously, and in light of Obama's self-serving praise for political dissent abroad, I note again: It was Bauer who lobbied the Justice Department unsuccessfully last fall to pursue a criminal probe of American Issues Project (AIP), an independent group that sought to run an ad spotlighting Obama's ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
It was Bauer and his legal goon squad who attempted to sic the DOJ on GOP donor Harold Simmons and sought his prosecution for funding the ad. In a parallel effort launched the same week as Bauer's legal efforts, a nonprofit called "Accountable America," spearheaded by a former operative of the Obama-endorsing MoveOn outfit, began trolling campaign finance databases and targeting conservative donors with "warning letters" in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fundraising.
It was Bauer who tried to bully television stations across the country into pulling the spot. Team Obama then summoned their troops to bombard stations, many of them owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails to squelch the commercial.
With Bob "The Silencer" Bauer now working from the inside and Anita "News Commissar" Dunn working from the outside, Obama has a state media police apparatus the Chinese regime itself could love.
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Unlawful health reform?
By George Will
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/
PHOENIX — In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health-care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most potent advocate of limited government, embraced Eric Novack's idea for protecting Arizonans from health-care coercion. In 2008, Arizonans voted on Novack's proposed amendment to the state's Constitution:
"No law shall be passed that restricts a person's freedom of choice of private health care systems or private plans of any type. No law shall interfere with a person's or entity's right to pay directly for lawful medical services, nor shall any law impose a penalty or fine, of any type, for choosing to obtain or decline health care coverage or for participation in any particular health care system or plan."
Proponents were outspent five to one by opponents who argued, meretriciously, that it would destroy Arizona's Medicaid program, with which many insurance companies have lucrative contracts. Nevertheless, the proposition lost by only 8,687 votes out of 2.1 million cast, and Arizonans will vote on essentially the same language next November.
But does not federal law trump state laws? Not necessarily. Clint Bolick, a Goldwater Institute attorney, says, "It is a bedrock principle of constitutional law that the federal Constitution established a floor for the protection of individual liberties; state constitutions may provide additional protections."
In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the Constitution's system of "dual sovereignty," states' "retained sovereignty" empowers them to "remain independent and autonomous within their proper sphere of authority." The court has been critical of the "federalism costs" of intrusive federal policies and recently has twice vindicated state sovereignty in ways pertinent to Novack's plan.
In 2006, the court overturned an interpretation of federal law that would have nullified Oregon's "right to die" statute. The court said states have considerable latitude in regulating medical standards, which historically have been primarily state responsibilities.
In 2000, Arizona voters endorsed an English immersion policy for students for whom English is a second language. Federal courts had issued an injunction against such policies because they conflicted with federal requirements of bilingual education. This year, however, the Supreme Court mandated reconsideration of the injunctions because they affect "areas of core state responsibility."
The court says the constitutional privacy right protects personal "autonomy" regarding "the most intimate and personal choices." The right was enunciated largely at the behest of liberals eager to establish abortion rights. Liberals may think, but the court has never held, that the privacy right protects only doctor-patient transactions pertaining to abortion. David Rivkin and Lee Casey, Justice Department officials under the Reagan and first Bush administrations, ask: If government cannot proscribe or even "unduly burden" — the court's formulation — access to abortion, how can government limit other important medical choices?
Democrats' health bills depend on forcing individuals to buy insurance or face severe fines or imprisonment. In 1994, the Congressional Budget Office said forcing individuals to buy insurance would be "an unprecedented form of federal action," adding: "The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States."
This year, the Congressional Research Service delicately said "it is a novel issue whether Congress may use the [commerce] Clause to require an individual to purchase a good or service." Congress has the constitutional power to "regulate commerce . . . among the several states." But a Federalist Society study by Peter Urbanowicz and Dennis Smith judges it perverse to exercise coercion under the commerce clause "on an individual who chooses not to undertake a commercial transaction." As Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) says, there is "a fundamental difference between regulating activities in which individuals choose to engage" — e.g., drivers can be required to buy auto insurance — "and requiring such activities" just because an individual exists.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says Congress can tax — i.e., punish — people who do not buy insurance because the Constitution empowers Congress to tax for "the general welfare." So, could Congress tax persons who do not exercise or eat their spinach?
When asked whether any compulsory insurance purchases are constitutional, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was genuinely astonished: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" In 1803, in Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote, "The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written." He was serious.
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Nov. 19, 2009 / 2 Kislev 5770
At the end of the day, diversity has jumped the shark, horrifically
By Ann Coulter
Dhimmi Apologist Asshole!
It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity … is a strength."
As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations.
Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), the Balkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare — I mean the beautiful mosaics — in Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A.
"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset!"
By contrast, the canard "diversity is a strength" has now replaced "at the end of the day," "skin in the game," "blood and treasure," "jumped the shark," "boots on the ground," "horrific" (whatever happened to the perfectly good word "horrible"?), "not so much," "I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," and "that went well," as America's most irritating cliche.
We should start making up other nonsense mantras along the lines of "diversity is a strength" and mindlessly repeating them until they catch on, too.
Next time you're at a cocktail party, just start saying, "Chocolate pudding is dramatic irony" from time to time. Eventually other people will start saying it, without anyone bothering to consider whether it makes sense. Then we'll do another one: "Nicolas Cage is a two-cycle engine."
Before you know it, liberals will react to news of a mass murder by muttering, "Well, you know what they say: Nicolas Cage is a two-cycle engine," while everyone nods in agreement.
Except mere nonsense makes more sense than "diversity is a strength."
If Gen. Casey's wildly inappropriate use of this lunatic cliche in the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre doesn't kill it, nothing will.
Among the worst aspects of America's "diversity" is that liberals' reaction to a heterogeneous population is to create a pecking order based on alleged victimhood — as described in electrifying detail in my book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America."
In modern America, the guilty are sanctified, while the innocent never stop paying — including with their lives, as they did at Fort Hood last week. Points are awarded to aspiring victims for angry self-righteousness, acts of violence and general unpleasantness.
But liberals celebrate diversity only in the case of superficial characteristics like race, gender, sexual preference and country of origin. They reject diversity when we need it, such as in "diversity" of legal forums.
After conferring with everyone at Zabar's, Obama decided that if a standard civilian trial is good enough for Martha Stewart, then it's good enough for the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. So Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is coming to New York!
Mohammed's military tribunal was already under way when Obama came into office, stopped the proceedings and, eight months later, announced that Mohammed would be tried in a federal court in New York.
In a liberal's reckoning, diversity is good when we have both Muslim jihadists and patriotic Americans serving in the U.S. military. But diversity is bad when Martha Stewart and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are subjected to different legal tribunals to adjudicate their transgressions.
Terrorists tried in civilian courts will be entitled to the whole panoply of legal protections accorded Stewart or any American charged with a crime, such as the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair trial, the right to exclude evidence obtained in violation of Miranda rights, the right to a speedy trial, the right to confront one's accusers, the right to a change of venue, the right to examine the evidence against you, and the right to subpoena witnesses and evidence in one's defense.
Members of Congress have it in their power to put an end to this lunacy right now. If they don't, they are as complicit in Mohammed's civilian trial as the president. Article I, Section 8, and Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution give Congress the power to establish the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts and to create exceptions to that jurisdiction.
Congress could pass a statute limiting federal court jurisdiction to individuals not subject to trial before a military tribunal. Any legislator who votes "nay" on a such a bill will be voting to give foreign terrorists the same legal rights as U.S. citizens — and more legal rights than members of the U.S. military are entitled to.
In the case of legal proceedings, diversity actually is a strength.
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Nov. 19, 2009 2 Kislev 5770
Circling Sharks Smell American Blood
By Victor Davis Hanson
On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea — like many nations these days — in no mood to hear more American lectures.
Beijing is worried about owning so much American debt. Tokyo is tiring of an American military base in Okinawa, and wants to redefine its relationship with us. Seoul is starting to doubt American commitment to keep it safe from North Korea.
Why all the sudden pushback to our charismatic president?
Our dollar is crashing, while the price of gold is soaring. The budget deficit has never been worse — and the president wants to float even more debt for health-care and energy initiatives.
By the end of this presidential term, we may add another $9 trillion to our already astronomical $11 trillion debt. Unemployment has already topped 10 percent. This quarter's trade deficit reached a near-historic high. Our debtors and oil exporters talk of scrapping the dollar as the common international currency.
American hesitation abroad reflects the shaky economic news. In Afghanistan, we can't decide whether to seek victory or admit defeat — or simply vote present by keeping the status quo. President Obama reached out to enemies like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. But so far they remain unimpressed, despite his apologizing for an assortment of supposed past American sins.
The Chinese don't listen all that much anymore to our sermons on their human-rights, coal-burning and free-trade abuses — not when they hold $1.5 trillion in U.S. assets. The president took a lot of flak for bowing to Saudi royals and the Japanese emperor. But why wouldn't he show deference — given America's huge dependence on foreign oil and Japanese imports?
France, of all nations, is now warning us to get a backbone with the Iranians. So far the theocracy has snubbed our new outreach efforts aimed at stopping its nuclear proliferation. Iran's Russian patrons now talk more nicely to us — but mostly because we caved on land-based missile defense in Eastern Europe, and got nothing really in return.
The Norwegians gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office and without any real accomplishments. They must suspect that such global recognition will flatter Obama to push a now-unexceptional America toward a more multilateral perspective in tune with the thinking at the United Nations.
The Obama administration announced a kinder, gentler approach to the war on terror. It serially promised to the world to shut down Guantanamo and loudly derided much of the Bush-era anti-terrorism protocols. We may put on trial former CIA interrogators, while we give civil trials and full American legal protection to the terrorist detainees who planned the 9/11 attacks.
Obama himself has praised the history and culture of the Islamic world, and even fudged the historical record to magnify its achievements.
Yet so far this year authorities broke up three radical Islamic terrorist plots inside the United States. And we lost 12 soldiers and one civilian (with others wounded) at Fort Hood; the accused, a member of our own military, has shown himself to be a Muslim extremist. Al-Qaida promises more attacks, and the Taliban feel that American commitment to a free Afghanistan is weakening.
Add it all up and there is a growing sense that America is in fact hemorrhaging — as both friends and enemies abroad smell blood in the water. The president through conciliation and concession — not to mention constant talk — is trying to superficially restore the influence we once earned by virtue of our economic power and self-confidence in our exceptional past and singular values.
But being both loud and vulnerable is not a winning combination, since political influence and military power are ultimately predicated on economic strength.
The United States needs to re-establish itself as financially credible and responsible so that when we lecture — about everything from global warming to Iranian nukes — we do so from a position of strength. That means, we need to stop borrowing other nations' money.
America also can't afford to keep importing high-priced oil that we CAN but won't produce at home. And we should stop promising ever more government entitlements to ever more voters that we can't even begin to pay for.
For as we continue in our self-indulgence, a more defiant world seems to be saying that the old rules of the game have changed. In response, America should keep quieter abroad — and try finding a bigger stick.
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