Afghan Surge Doomed to Fail

Hundreds of experts will be on their way to re-create Afghanistan in the American image. This surge is surely wrong-headed. Afghanistan has no intention of imitating the U.S. However, Rodham Clinton said Wednesday before meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband that the administration was working on "an integrated strategy" to train the Afghan military and police as well as to support "governance, rule of law, judicial systems (and) economic opportunities."

No, This is Not Iraq; This is Not Afghanistan

Active duty combat troops from nearby Ft. Rucker, Alabama, came to be placed on the streets of Samson during the night of a murder spree.

Obama Youth Army Update

The House passed H.R. 1388: Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act yesterday which includes language indicating young people will engage in mandatory national service programs as a fulfillment of Obama’s promised “civilian national security force.”

Candidate Obama addressed youth service on 2 July 2008 when he suggested national security could be entrusted to a civilian force.

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded," Obama stated during a Colorado Springs rally.

H.R. 1388, known as the GIVE Act, was passed by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate. The Senate has been considering a similar piece of legislation.

Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate:

“Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”

Section 120 of the bill also discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.”

Professor of Peace Promises Anthrax

Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Nafisi Fantasizes about a Biological Attack at the White House and Prays for the Bombing of a Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) -
February 2, 2009 - 00:09:05

Following are excerpts from a speech by Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Al-Nafisi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 2, 2009.

Abdallah Al-Nafisi: Four pounds of anthrax in a suitcase this big carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the US, are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour, if it is properly spread in population centers there. What a horrifying idea. 9/11 will be small change in comparison. Am I right? There is no need for airplanes, conspiracies, timings, and so on. One person, with the courage to carry four pounds of anthrax, will go to the White House lawn, and will spread this "confetti" all over them, and then will do these cries of joy. It will turn into a real "celebration."

The WMD is a problem. The Americans are afraid that the WMDs might fall into the hands of "terrorist" organizations, like Al-Qaeda and others. There is good reason for the Americans' fears, because Al-Qaeda used to have in the Herat region... It had laboratories in north Afghanistan. They have scientists, chemists, and nuclear physicists. They are nothing like they are portrayed by these mercenary journalists backward Bedouins living in caves. No, no. By no means. This kind of talk can fool only naïve people. People who follow such things know that Al-Qaeda has laboratories, just like Hizbullah. Hizbullah has laboratories in South Lebanon, in which it produces weapons and sells them. Hizbullah has laboratories in South Lebanon, from which it sells weapons to Romania and Hungary.

[...]

If they call someone a terrorist, say: "He's a friend of mine." Why? Because these "terrorists" are the world's most God-fearing people. They are the most honorable people in the world, the best people in the world. I have personally met Mullah Omar. I had the honor of meeting with Mullah Omar. This is a man who does not belong to this era. He always refused to meet with Western delegations. He would say to them: "Go to Kabul, I am in Qandahar." "Truly, the polytheists are impure" if you know what I mean. "Go meet the foreign minister to talk politics. I am staying here." This is the kind of people who are suitable for dealing with the West. As for 'Ariqat, Dahlan, and their ilk they do not benefit the nation in any way.

[...]

In the US, there are more than 300,000 white militia members, who are calling to attack the federal government in Washington, and to banish the Arabs, the Jews, and the negroes [sic] from the US. These are racist people. They are called "rednecks." The Ku Klux Klan. They are racists.

[...]

These militias even think about bombing nuclear plants within the US. May Allah grant them success, even though we are not white, or even close to it, right? They have plans to bomb the nuclear plant at Lake Michigan. This plant is very important. It supplies electricity to all of North Africa [sic]. May Allah grant success to one of these militia leaders, who is thinking about bombing this plant. I believe that we should devote part of our prayers to him. We should pray that Allah grants him success, so he can complete this mission, and we will be able to visit him and congratulate him, Allah willing.

[...]

Allah states in the Koran that the hostility between us and [the Jews] is eternal. So whoever talks about dialogue cut off his tongue! What dialogue are they talking about?! There is no room for dialogue. Allah said that our hostility towards the Jews is eternal, and then along comes someone and talks about brotherhood and so on... This contradicts the Koran. Anyone who contradicts the Koran is an infidel. Accusing people of heresy? Yes, I'm all for it. Yes, I support accusing people of heresy.

[...]

We should also defend the resistance, and not remain silent in the face of this organized campaign against the resistance in the press of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, and other Arab newspapers. There are voices expressing doubts about the leaders of the resistance. We must confront these [journalists], and prevent them from continuing this, even if it means calling them over the phone, and saying to them: "Do not repeat these despicable things in your columns or your articles, or else we will take the following measures against you." We must resort to pressure with these people. We must not remain silent. We must not leave them to their own devices, under the pretext of freedom of expression. This is a fifth column.

[...]

I, Abdallah Fahd Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Nafisi, am inciting you to confront, using any means possible, anyone who speaks out against the resistance. "Any means possible" get it?

[...]

The [Hamas] ministers are mujahideen. I know a minister who actually participated in operations.

Early Sub Warnings

Obama Fannie

Catholics protest 'maltreatment' by Conn. leaders

Obama's border option: armed soldiers

Obama controls the National Guard now; the situation is a precedent for the first of many armed military personnel interventions.

US, China Discuss Naval Confrontation Incident Amid ‘Spying’ Accusations

Companies Flee Obama's Plans

Nobel-prize winner backs one world currency

Vaclav Klaus on the U.S.

Free market economist and two time president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus has been speaking plainly and is dismayed with recent events in the U.S.

Sitting here in this room in the last two hours and the coming from, first Europe, and, second, from a former communist country where I spent most of my life, I almost don’t believe my eyes to see how much you believe in government and how much you don’t believe in the market.

This is for me a shocking experience. And I have to say that very loudly. As a professor of economics, I have my theoretical arguments about the impossibility of running the economy from above.

As a person who spent almost 50 years of his life in a communist country, I know how crazy it is to introduce schemes like the cap and trade and similar ideas, how devastating and damaging for the economy all those ideas really are. So I’m rather frustrated. It seems to me that to fight for freedom, free markets, is still the task of today, even if we hoped almost 20 years ago in the moment of the fall of communism that it was over.

This is the same in Europe these days. There is one EU summit after another one weekend after another, there is a summit trying to find solutions. But I don’t think that this solution will come from the government.

Obama is planning cap and trade although Klaus is pointing out that this plan will not work.

Gary Franchi from Restore the Republic on PBS

Gary Franchi from Restore the Republic is a network that has produced documentaries on PBS.

The Obama Deception

The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order's plans. and only by exposing the con can we help to save freedom in America. The Obama Deception is not about Left or Right: it's about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda, and how his initial appointments and actions prove he serves the corporate oligarchs, not the American people. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you.

The alarmist tone should reveal what type of material you are in store for but there are points that are worth considering.

"F" Grade for Obama: Economists

Obama "illogical:" Finally, Someone with Some Sense, the Taliban

Reuters reported that Afghanistan's Taliban turned down as illogical Obama's bid to reach out to moderate elements of the insurgents, saying the exit of foreign troops was the only solution for ending the war.

"This does not require any response or reaction for this is illogical," Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group, told Reuters when asked if its top leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would make any comment about Obama's proposal.

"The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?,"

"If it means those who are not fighting and are sitting in their homes, then talking to them is meaningless. This really is surprising the Taliban."

Yousuf said expulsion of foreign troops was the only solution for Afghanistan's spiraling violence.

"Afghans know better how to decide about their destiny," he replied when asked if the Taliban were willing to hold talks with Karzai's government should and when the troops leave.

Jefferson on America: 2009

John Kennedy once said to a assembled group of scholars in the White House, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

The quotes by Jefferson are telling.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian Students

A question comes to mind. Are these the children of Mohammed Abul Abbas?

Gitmo Guy Back to Kill More Americans

Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007. Rasoul is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan. His new position is that of the Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan. This miscreant is just the latest example of a freed detainee who returned to the battlefield to kill more Americans.

Muslims Jeer Returning Troops as Baby-Killers

Lieberman Grills Saudi-Chinese Agent: Dumped

Charles W. Freeman Jr., the former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has been dumped as a nominee. He promoted China and he took money from Saudi royals.

Freeman “requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed.”

The withdrawal came after Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) grilled Blair at a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing Tuesday.

Thank you Senator.

“There is nobody there. You cannot believe how difficult it is,” Gordon Brown

Why Does a Russian Love Democracy So Much?

Scalia stated that an argument on the basis of the merits of the case would be heard if Taitz can get four Justices to hear it. Maybe one of the Justices that call themselves Constitutionalists went to the other side.

Scalia did not say that quo warranto is antiquated or inappropriate.

Scalia also indicated that the 17th Amendment makes Congress less accountable to the states and to the people.

Skeptic on Climate Change

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, stated at the International Conference on Climate Change:

"Their true plans and ambitions: to stop economic development and return mankind centuries back," he declared. "It is evident that the environmentalists don't want to change the climate. They want to change our behavior. Their ambition is to control and manipulate us."

The actual aim of environmentalists is to stop global development, not save the planet.

Afghanistan More Deadly in 2009

IEDs in Afghanistan killed three times as many coalition troops in the first two months of 2009 compared with the same period last year.

The bombs killed 32 coalition troops in January and February, compared with 10 during the same period in 2008: according to data from the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. The numbers are final for January and preliminary for February.

Last year, 3,276 IEDs detonated or were detected before blowing up in Afghanistan, a 45% increase over 2007, and a record for the war.

IEDs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Since the war began, 589 U.S. servicemembers have been killed there, 434 of them in combat. More than 2,700 have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon.

Pentagon: Chinese vessels harassed unarmed American ship

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Illegal immigrants get stimulus, experts say

Missouri House Joint Resoulution NO.34

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 34

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES COOPER (Sponsor), BROWN (149), STREAM, LAIR, SCHOELLER, SCHARNHORST, FISHER (125), BROWN (30), McGHEE, BIVINS, FUNDERBURK, NIEVES, ERVIN, NANCE, WELLS AND DAVIS (Co-sponsors).

1422L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment to article VIII of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to a voter’s bill of rights.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2010, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article VIII of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

Section A. Article VIII, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section, to be known as section 8, to read as follows:

Section 8. We the people of Missouri adopt a voter’s bill of rights as a defense against corruption, fraud, and tyranny. Missouri voters shall have the following rights:

1. The right to vote using a paper ballot;

2. The right to protection from voter fraud by:

(1) Identifying eligible voters by:

(a) Requiring any person seeking to vote in a public election to establish his or her qualification as a citizen of the state lawfully present in the United States of America by providing election officials a form of identification with the voter’s photo and signature, including valid government-issued photo identification, as established by law. The state shall provide at least one form of such identification required to vote at no cost to any otherwise qualified citizen who does not already possess such identification and who desires the identification in order to vote; and

(b) Requiring absentee voters to provide, in an envelope with their absentee ballot, a notarized photocopy of a form of identification with the voter’s photo and signature, including valid government-issued photo identification as established by law. The state shall provide free notary services for any qualified voter who could not otherwise obtain notary services for this purpose, as established by law. Active duty soldiers may be exempted by law from this requirement; and

(c) Prohibiting same-day voter registration and voting. Any person who is qualified to vote, or who shall become qualified to vote on or before the day of election, shall be entitled to register in the jurisdiction within which he or she resides. To vote in any election for which registration is required, a person must be registered to vote in the jurisdiction of his or her residence no later than 5:00 p.m., or the normal closing time of any public building where the registration is being held if such time is later than 5:00 p.m., on the fourth Wednesday prior to the election. Any person registering after such date shall be eligible to vote in subsequent elections; and

(d) Prohibiting any exchange of valuable consideration for registering voters. No person shall receive or give to any other person valuable consideration for registering voters;

(2) Reducing opportunities for ballot tampering by:

(a) Requiring every eligible voter, except those voting absentee, to vote on a single day as set forth in section 1 of this article; and

(b) Allowing absentee voting only if a voter expects to be prevented from going to the polls to vote on election day due to:

a. Absence on election day from the jurisdiction of the election authority in which such voter is registered to vote;

b. Incapacity or confinement due to illness or physical disability, including a person who is primarily responsible for the physical care of a person who is incapacitated or confined due to illness or disability;

c. Religious belief or practice;

d. Employment as an election authority, as a member of an election authority, or by an election authority at a location other than such voter’s polling place.

3. The right to have only qualified candidates placed on the ballot. The secretary of state shall determine that each person is qualified for the office he or she seeks, according to the law, before placing his or her name on the ballot. For candidates who are required by the Constitution of the United States to be natural born citizens, the secretary of state shall request an official copy of the candidate’s birth certificate. Other certifications, such as a certificate of live birth, shall not be accepted. Should any candidate fail to provide an official birth certificate within thirty days of the request by the secretary of state, his or her name shall not be placed on the ballot. The secretary of state shall verify the qualifications of any elected officeholder who was previously placed on a Missouri ballot. Should any elected officeholder fail to provide the required documentation or birth certificate within thirty days of the request by the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall turn the matter over to the attorney general who shall within twenty days file suit to obtain the required documentation.

4. In the event that any political subdivision incurs costs to implement the requirements of this section, the state shall reimburse the political subdivision for such costs.

5. The provisions of this section shall be self-enforcing. All of the provisions of this section are severable. If any of the provisions of this section is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or unconstitutionally enacted, the remaining provisions of this section shall be and remain valid.

State Discriminates for Islamic Mortgages

Chuckie Poster

A new Chuckie Schumer poster has hit the streets.

Fullerton, CA Tax Protest May Have Netted 15,000

Dems Oppose Regulation: Economy Crashes

Our Canuck neighbors to the North would like us to see a YouTube video. The American media did not want this video on You Tube, so they had Time Warner threaten a law suit (proprietary rights) if it was not taken off. This link is of the same video but is routed through Canada. We'll see if the powers in Washington let it along, and for how long.

Hawaii Law: Certificates

HAWAII LAW:
[§338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.
(b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate.
(c) The fee for each application for registration shall be established by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 91.

North Korea's Missile Program

Wikipedia Bans Criticism of Obama

Cybersecurity Chief Resigns

Rod Beckstrom, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, resigned from his post as Cybersecurity Chief citing "the threats to our democratic processes are significant if all top level government network security and monitoring are handled by any one organization (either directly or indirectly)." That echoed the view of some privacy advocates who worry about a government agency having too much information on individuals.

Scientists meet to dispute global warming theory

The Rise of the American Patriot

Tracking Obama's Popularity: Or, Decline

Obama: Surge Succeeded, Talk with Taliban, Defeated in Afghanistan

Obama admitted in an interview published in the New York Times that the United States was opening a door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban, much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq. Obama is mirroring the successful surge strategy of Petraeus in Iraq.

Was that an admission that the surge worked?

Without stating it so baldly that is what it is.

Asked if the United States was winning in Afghanistan, a war he effectively adopted as his own last month by ordering an additional 17,000 troops sent there, Obama replied flatly, “No.”

Jefferson Quote

“This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression."


~ Thomas Jefferson

Obama Just Plain Rude to Britain. Don't Call Us in the Future

An administration prepared for the world should be able to translate words correctly; the gaffes while dealing with the world are getting embarrassing to America.

Has Obama Buried Reagan? Daniel Henninger

Obama's Indonesian Snack

In Obama's childhood home, a snack in his honor is not settling all that well with people.

Deception at Core of Obama Plans, Charles Krauthammer

Beck on Graphic Inflation

Obama Destroying America: Cramer

More Obama Cronies Who Steal

Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, asked to help solve the nation's financial crisis, includes a union executive who took the Fifth in a federal probe, a billionaire whose failed bank pioneered the subprime mortgage market, and deep-pocket donors who gave or gathered nearly $1.2 million for the president's campaign.

In all, 11 of the 16 board members donated or raised money for Democrats in the last election, according to a Washington Times review of campaign finance records. They include the president and chief operating officer of the American arm of UBS Investment Bank, the Swiss-based bank now at the center of a widening tax evasion probe by the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service.

The board is headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, whose only political contribution last year was $2,300 to Mr. Obama.

"It is distressing to see the president turning to his heavy finance hitters as consultants," said Craig Holman, legislative director for Public Citizen, a nonpartisan watchdog group that tracks political fundraising and its influence on government policy.

One board member, Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, surfaced during a Clinton-era federal investigation into a money-laundering scheme involving the Democratic Party and Teamster's President Ron Carey. Court documents and a congressional report claimed that Mr. Trumka helped divert $150,000 in union funds to Mr. Carey's 1996 re-election campaign through a liberal consumer-advocacy group known as Citizen Action.

China's Military Expansion

Clueless

50,000 Rally in NYC

An estimated crowd of 50,000 rallied today a New York City Hall. Taxpayers are tired of the recession and they are furious with budget cuts.

In New York it may be time to roll out the goon squads. People care for their country and their future.

Fed Secrecy

The Fed refused yesterday to disclose the names of the borrowers and the loans, alleging that it would cast “a stigma” on recipients of more than $1.9 trillion of emergency credit from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

Maybe.

Fed secrecy was the focus of a Senate Banking Committee hearing today in which the panel’s top two members said the central bank’s reluctance to identify companies benefiting from the American International Group Inc. bailout risks undermining public confidence in the government.

The public lacks confidence in the government; where the taxpayer's money is going should not be a secret.

Anti-Obama? Kids: Tattle On Your Parents Here

For the youth today it is hard to understand parents who don't support Obama. This is common for many of the young people of this generation, just as the youth back during the civil rights era had parents who just didn't understand the racism like they saw it. Many of you are struggling with the fact that your parents just don't get it. They don't feel the same about Obama the way that you do. They still cling to their old ways of guns and bibles and greedy capitalism. You know better. You know that Obama, and the Democratic marjority, can run things better than those greedy corporations. You know that the best way to run an industry is to nationalize that industry.

That is why this thread has been created. For you, the future of our nation, to let us know who your parents are. Tell us the names of those who do not support Obama the way that you do. Let us know if your parents own guns, or wish ill will toward the government. Let us know before it is too late for you and too late for your country.

It is the patriotic thing to do. Let the government take care of this problem for you.

List your parents name here.

Did de Tocqueville Predict Today's Crisis?

Russian Scholar Says This is the End of America

Barry v. Dubya: The Military Speaks

Someone did a better job of editing this clip though I tried posting it before; more importantly, as the announcer noted at the end of Barry's speech the response was "tepid." Dubya had a bit better response but the viewers can judge for themselves who would be most likely to be supported by the troops when the chips are down.

More on China & Eminent Domain

The Epoch Times, a newspaper source founded by the Chinese dissident religious sect Falun Gong, and in some unclear fashion still connected to the group, reported that Chi Haotian, Minster of Defense and vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, stated China's intentions in a 2005 speech. The original article by Haotian states "the only collateral we have left is land" in their search for living space. He goes on to say where the Chinese can get space.

"Would the United States allow us to go out to gain new living space? First, if the United States is firm in blocking us, it is hard for us to do anything significant to Taiwan and some other countries! Second, even if we could snatch some land from Taiwan, Vietnam, India, or even Japan, how much more living space can we get? Very trivial! Only countries like the United States, Canada and Australia have the vast land to serve our need for mass colonization."

The Chinese seek U.S. land for mass colonization.

Congress realized the possible eminent domain swap for Treasury bills. A Republican tried to insert an Amendment to the federal spending Bill to specifically prevent the use of Eminent Domain, but the Amendment was defeated. Congress knows what the administration is doing with China/Eminent Domain.

H.R. 1105 – Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
Managers: McGovern / Sessions

Motion offered by Foxx

To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #6, offered by Rep. Goodlatte (R-VA), which would prevent funds in the bill from being used to exercise the power of eminent domain to take private property from a private entity and give that property to another private entity, while exempting certain enumerated uses, such as highways, prisons, public utilities, and in cases of national emergencies or national disasters declared by the President.

Defeated 4 to 7*

Indian/Chinese Professionals Leave Land of Opportunity

Vivek Wadhwa, a professor in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, co-authored a study, in which researchers interviewed 1,200 highly educated Indian and Chinese professionals who returned to their countries after living in the United States. Most returned for better job prospects and pay.

Earmarks in the Stimulus

CNBC `Radical Agenda Greatest Wealth Destruction By a President'

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CNBC's Jim Cramer: Obama's "radical agenda" is "the greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a president." Cramer is a staunch Democrat who supported John Corzine and has contributed $260,000 solely to Democratic campaigns.

Hope

Bloggers are collecting new photos from the election in November; this is one of them. I can hardly annotate it.

Ideological Hack Study

According to the Web Hacking Incidents Database, which is maintained by the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), stealing money or data still may not be the biggest motivating factor for hackers, although attacks involving data thefts certainly have been on the rise in recent years.

Most of the Web-site defacements among the studied attacks "were of a political nature, targeting political parties, candidates and government departments, often with a very specific message related to a campaign," the report said. "Others [had] a cultural aspect, mainly Islamic hackers defacing Western Web sites."

An Italian blogger, Giorgio Maone, documented recent Islamic attacks targeting the U.S. and Israel for what it claimed as killing children and civilians.

Afpak Summary

The Swat Taliban violated the ceasefire with the Pakistani military twice on Sunday, prompting protests from the local government.

Sufi Mohammed is the spiritual leader of the outlawed Movement for the Implementation of Mohammad's Sharia Law.

“From the very beginning, I have viewed democracy as a system imposed on us by the infidels. Islam does not allow democracy or elections,” Sufi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur just days before the Malakand Accord was signed. “I believe the Taliban government formed a complete Islamic state, which was an ideal example for other Muslim countries."

On Sunday, a US airstrike killed eight in South Waziristan. The Predator airstrike targeted a Taliban compound in the Sararogha region, a stronghold of Baitullah Mehsud.

Recent attacks included:
• US airstrike in Pakistan's Kurram tribal agency kills 30
Feb. 16, 2009
• US Predator strike in South Waziristan kills 25
Feb. 14, 2009
• US strikes al Qaeda in North and South Waziristan
Jan. 23, 2009
• US hits South Waziristan in second strike
Jan. 2, 2009
• US kills four al Qaeda operatives in South Waziristan strike
Jan. 1, 2009

March 2, 2009:

Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed six in an attack in a madrassa in the Pishin district in Baluchistan. The Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Peshawar and mortared a security forces outpost in North Waziristan. The Swat Taliban released a Frontier Corps officer and four of his men. Al Qaeda threatened to attack Saudi businesses and facilities in Pakistan.

Afghanistan

NATO may ask China for help with establishing a new supply route into Afghanistan. The UN said it would be nearly impossible to hold elections in April. An explosion that killed three Afghan children in Kandahar was caused by old munitions left by the Taliban and not Canadian troops.

March 1, 2009:

Pakistan

A US strike killed 8 people, including Arabs and Uzbeks, in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed four security personnel and 10 civilians, and captured two policemen in attacks in Mohmand, Khyber, and Arakzai. Seven Taliban were killed and 15 were captured in Kohat.

Afghanistan

The Taliban murdered a cleric in Spin Boldak in Kandahar province and wounded six Afghans in a suicide car bomb attack in Nangarhar province. President Karzai's call to move elections up to April sparked criticism from his political opposition. The Independent Election Commission and the US are pushing for a vote in August.

Obama Abandons Eastern Europe: Capitulates to Russia

Update

Obama plans to bow to Russia's desire to drop a missile shield plan for Eastern Europe. Since Iran's nuclear program is progressing full bore regardless of Obama's weakness in dealing with the Iranians he has little choice but to comply. Iran has remained belligerent and has not responded to Obama's "open hand" comment. Iran has asked for apologies for American actions and asked Hollywood to apologize for recent creative works. Ironically, I agree with the apology, except for different reasons. Iran was offended with recent Hollywood efforts such as "300" which portrayed the ancient Persians in a truthful, according to Thucydides, but negative light. The plans to deploy a missile base in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic has left Eastern Europe in the lurch since they have been among the West's biggest supporters. The new regime is abandoning them in favor of showing a weak hand before Russia since the missile shield has been viewed as a threat to its national security. Russia has played its energy card well and has already kow-towed the Europeans.

Hanson: Military Historian Update on Obama

Library of Congress on Crisis of Obama

The Obama File has been picked by the Library of Congress as it does to "historic collections of Internet materials related to the Presidential Transition during a Time of Crises." The reasoning is pregnant with meaning. Is the new regime seeking to cut the site down or is the Library independent of the White House and is seeking to document the constitutional crisis we are in. Time alone will tell.

Cash for New Urban Czar

Tocqueville Describes Obama's America

Anti-Catholic Obama Nominates Sebelius

Marx: Collapse of Capitalism Quote

“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

Karl Marx, 1867, Das Kapital

World Tells America How to Wipe

I wish there was enough creativity in me to make these stories up but now the environmental lobby is telling Americans how to conduct their private business. Americans may well comply.

Iran Accesses Secret American Data

Tiversa, a company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered what it said is a potentially serious security breach involving Marine One’s helicopter.

Engineering and communications information about Marine One was discovered at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.

Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, said, ”We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One."

The company was able to trace the file back to its original source.

"What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, MD had a file sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One," Boback said.

Tiversa also found sensitive financial information about the cost of the helicopter on that same computer.

Boback said someone from the company most likely downloaded a file-sharing program, typically used to exchange music, not realizing the potential problems.

"When downloading one of these file-sharing programs, you are effectively allowing others around the world to access your hard drive," Boback said.

Iran is not the only country that appears to be accessing this type of information through file-sharing programs.

“We've noticed it out of Pakistan, Yemen, Qatar, and China. They are actively searching for information that is disclosed in this fashion because it is a great source of intelligence,” Boback said.

Obama Hate Speech

"I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: So am I."

Obama Anti-Conscience

Obama is poised to rescind a policy that protects the conscience rights of American health care workers.

The policy protects health care workers from being forced to perform and provide controversial services that conflict with their personal, moral and religious beliefs. Without the policy, doctors, nurses and others could be forced to participate in abortions or to dispense the abortifacient morning after pill, even if to do so would violate their core beliefs.

Father Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International (HLI), today lambasted Obama for his decision to reverse the Bush administration policy.

"Any pretense of 'moderation' on life issues was long ago dispensed with," said Fr. Euteneuer. "With the rescinding of the Mexico City Policy, the appointment of dozens of radical anti-life cabinet members and staff, the enormous increase in funding for contraception and irresponsible sex advocacy, and now these grave insults to human life and dignity … one shudders to think what could be next."

"It's as if the president and Congress are trying to outdo each other for the dishonor of who can forward the most extreme anti-life agenda," said Father Euteneuer.

"Like everyone who believes in human dignity, I am tired of these cowards in Congress trying to sneak these destructive, anti-life measures into bills that are supposed to be helping our country emerge from this recession," said Fr. Euteneuer. "And I'm tired of President Obama's 'Choice for me, but not for thee' hypocrisy. His audacity is not of hope, but of the destruction of freedom and human life."

Tea Party Rallies Held Over the Weekend

Tea parties were held over the weekend, one of the largest was in St. Louis, to object to the Stimulus, bailouts, and greater government control. The regime is no doubt watching closely for signs of trouble. I would suspect that if this move catches steam the regime will clamp down on trouble makers and it will start to move against free speech.

The inevitable result of not reading and disclosing laws before they are passed is tyranny.

Intelligence Head Has Not Only Bin Laden Ties, but Chinese Oil & Government Interests at Heart

Graphic source: China National Offshore Oil Corporation

Obama's nominee for a top intelligence post, the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC), sits on the board of a major oil company owned by the Chinese government that is widely seen as conducting business deals meant to expand China's influence worldwide.

Charles "Chas" Freeman, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, is on the board of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, which in 2005 tried to purchase the ninth largest oil firm in the U.S. while he was a member. The merger was halted following bipartisan congressional opposition amid fears the deal would harm American national security interests.

The Chinese oil firm also has been accused of multiple human rights violations.

Freeman has served on the board of CNOOC since 2004. He also founded a pro-China organization, the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, which seeks to promote U.S.-China relations.

75% of CNOOC, the third largest Chinese oil company, are owned by the government of the People's Republic of China.

In 2005, CNOOC made a staggering, all-cash $18.5 billion offer to buy the American oil company Unocal. Immediately, lawmakers and many policy experts, including a broad array of Democrats and Republicans in Congress, mounted a major opposition campaign to the bid, urging the Bush administration to have the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. determine how the deal would affect national security.

Alan Tonelson, a research fellow with the U.S. Business and Industry Council, told reporters in 2005. "It's also part of a Chinese campaign to move, again, very aggressively into the American economy."

"The acquisition would significantly help China achieve its goal of dominating the entire (Asian) region," John J. Tkacik Jr. wrote in a 2005 article in Capitalism Magazine.

Arakan Oil Watch, a human rights organization, issued a report accusing CNOOC last October of human rights abuses and land theft in an oil prospecting venture in Burma.

As previously noted, Freeman also has Saudi Arabian and bin Laden family ties.

Quote: Montaigne

Consider a quote from Montaigne's dear friend Etienne de la Boetie:

More than 400 years ago, the philosopher Etienne de la Boetie wrote of this phenomenon in his Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. Speaking of Rome in the time of emperors, he said:

Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, “Long live the King!” The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them. … The mob has always behaved in this way — eagerly open to bribes that cannot be honorably accepted and dissolutely callous to degradation and insult that cannot be honorably endured.

Obama Declares War on Investors, Entrepreneurs, Businesses, And More

Afghanistan Commands

The map illustrates the Afghanistan Regional Commands and Provincial Reconstruction Teams.

Muslim Threatens American

According to a news story, in the weeks leading up to Obama's inauguration, Saad Hussein, an Ethiopian refugee in his late 20s, sent an AIDs infected envelope addressed to "Barack Obama." Court documents said Hussein, who takes drugs to treat a mental illness, later told FBI agents he is "very sick with HIV" and cut his fingers with a razor so he could bleed on the letter.

Hussein, with his brother acting as an interpreter, told FBI agents he was actually "an admirer" of Obama and was "seeking help from the government."

Hussein, who has never held a job in the three years he's been in the United States, was arrested last month. He was charged with "knowingly" mailing letters "containing HIV-infected blood, with the intent to kill or injure another," in violation of federal law.

A judge ordered he receive a mental examination to see if he's fit for trial, but as of two weeks ago the court couldn't locate a translator to conduct the examination, according to court documents.

This is not the first time law enforcement officials have had to take Hussein into custody. He was arrested by police in 2006 after starting a fire in the middle of a crowded Chicago intersection. When officers arrived on the scene, he was waving the Koran in the air and yelling "Allah Akbar," or "God is Great" in Arabic. Court documents say he was transported to a hospital, where he called President Bush a terrorist and criticized American foreign policy. He was not formally charged, but he did spend time in the mental health unit of the hospital.

When did this really happen? Why is just being released now? Why does no one question an unemployed, Islamic man yelling `God is great' in Arabic waving a Koran around while threatening Americans.

Its America, that is why.

Which President?

President #1 and his reception; President #2

and his reception by the troops. Which president has the support of the troops?

Obama Ready to Strike North Korea

In an exclusive interview with ABC News', Admiral Timothy Keating, head of the U.S. Pacific Commands, said that the military is prepared to shoot down any North Korean ballistic missile if Obama orders it.

I thought we may get lucky and only have Iran to worry about but maybe we have North Korea as well.

U.S. Options Eminent Domain to China

According to the blogosphere, sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just confirmed that the U.S. has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA, as collateral for China's continued purchase of US Treasury Notes and existing US currency reserves. Without confirmation this story is too big to sit on but there are more sobering evaluations afoot as well. At the very least, Chinese investors

are looking over California property.

85 Military Ask Where is the Proof?

Clinton Grimes and family

Eighty-five service personnel have joined in the suit to uncover the paper trail on Obama.

This is the record of one typical plaintiff:

Clinton Alan Grimes

POSITION IN THE MILITARY/RANK/DATES SERVED/STATUS: CDR/0-5 US Navy (Reserve)
1 OCTOBER 1984 - Present
OCCUPATION: N-5 Mentor, NCAGS DELTA, Silverdale, WA
Civilian Occupation: Sergeant, Long Beach Police Department
ACHIEVEMENTS: Navy Commendation Medal (2), Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Medal(2), Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal, , Global War on Terror Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Navy/Marine Overseas Service Ribbon, Armed Forces Reserve Medal w/”M” device and Bronze Hourglass, Rifleman Expert Medal, Pistol Expert Medal, Surface Warfare Breast Insignia.
Police Awards: Police Awards: Employee of the Year 1999, Meritorious Class A

Denver archbishop warns against ‘spirit of adulation’ surrounding Obama

Byrd: Obama in Power Grab

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic senator, is criticizing President Obama’s appointment of White House “czars” to oversee federal policy, saying these executive positions amount to a power grab by the executive branch.

Islamicizing America

A new documentary outlines the homegrown American jihad and their training camps.

Speech Reaction: AP slams Obama for dishonesty, Byrd says “Obama Grab for Power”, Stock Market Drops, Dem Governor May Turn Down Stimulus Funds

Emanuel & Taxes, Not His: Yours

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." Thomas Jefferson

Saudi Agent to Direct U.S. Intelligence

The National Intelligence Council is the center of strategic thinking within the US Government. The former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman is the Obama administration's pick to head up the group and people have weighed in on Freeman's merits. Critics have been attacking the appointment over Freeman's views on Israel and ties to Saudi Arabia.

Freeman received $1 million in 2006 from the Saudis for public relations services in running his Middle East Policy Council. The money was given from “the generosity of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia.” The Saudis paid him to promote their influence in the United States.

In 2005 Freeman wrote in a speech:

As long as the United States continues unconditionally to provide the subsidies and political protection that make the Israeli occupation and the high-handed and self-defeating policies it engenders possible, there is little, if any, reason to hope that anything resembling the former peace process can be resurrected. Israeli occupation and settlement of Arab lands is inherently violent.

Freeman has clearly thanked his benefactors:

These are obviously very difficult times for any organization attempting to promote better understanding and stronger ties between the United States and the Arab world. …Financial support has been very negatively affected both by … the financial controls and other restrictions on international financial transactions — inhibiting and tending to reduce the willingness to give as well…About a year and a half ago the board of MEPC …concluded that we probably couldn’t continue our work and we couldn’t survive on the basis of a continuing flow of small and medium size donations. The only way we could ensure our survival and the continuation of our work over the long run was through the establishment of an endowment. Thanks to the generosity of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia we have managed to accumulate an endowment….I periodically visit the region — to the Kingdom and to other countries in the Gulf. I meet mostly with individuals and companies who are interested in seeing better relations between the US and the Arab world…Frankly, I’m delighted that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has, after a long delay, begun to make serious public relations efforts.

Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors. Originally posted at http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2009/02/freeman-appointment-usa-may-appoint.html.

Changing History One Fact at a Time

Obama revisionism is annoying. History gets short shrift by most politicians but it does get even more egregious at times. During the address, Obama opined:

History reminds us that at every moment of economic upheaval and transformation, this nation has responded with bold action and big ideas. In the midst of civil war, we laid railroad tracks from one coast to another that spurred commerce and industry.

I'd have to wonder who the "he" is that is referred to. It was not the Federal government. Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 during the American Civil War, and supported by U.S. government bonds and extensive land grants of government owned land, it was built by private companies. The expansion of the railroads was accomplished also by British railroad speculators and a land bribe, giving a section (one square mile) of land along each mile of railroad bed right-of-way. It cost taxpayers nothing, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs and planted the seeds of the great catalog retailers, Sears Roebuck and Co. and J.C. Penney. Settlement followed the railroad as new towns were founded to supply the routes. If Obama is suggesting that the great railroad expansion was a Federal program then he is patently wrong.

He also misstated the schools:

"From the turmoil of the industrial revolution came a system of public high schools that prepared our citizens for a new age."

Wrong again, public education was not championed by the Federal government. Public schools were local efforts by local citizens out of a civic duty.

Afghan Order of Battle: February 2009

Graphic source: The Long War Journal

This month, due to the relative draw down in Iraq, and the recent decision by Obama to escalate in Afghanistan, I am posting information regarding the Afghan Order of Battle according to The Long War Journal:

Overall, the Afghan National Army has made significant strides in the last year. Its improved readiness and ability to carry out independent operations are particularly noteworthy. However, a rapid expansion, the doubling of their strength, will be a major challenge. Success or failure in this endeavor will have a significant impact on the overall security situation in Afghanistan.

Obama Escalates: No Congressional Oversight

In September 2007, Obama grilled General Petraeus and criticized the actions of the military. This time around though, with Obama’s recent decision to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan, there has been little scrutiny from Congress-–unlike the ultimately successful “surge” in Iraq that Petraeus was forced to defend to a skeptical Congress two years ago. Obama’s decision lacks oversight from members of Congress. The 17 February escalation entailed approximately 17,000 additional U.S. troops that will be deployed to Afghanistan in the next few months. This will mean an approximately 50% increase over the estimated 38,000 troops already there.

Obama Pledge Means Nothing

Obama pledged that his administration would cut the federal budget deficit in half by the end of his first term.

But according to the Congressional Budget Office, even if Obama meets that goal – the deficit would go down, but only to a level higher than that seen during most of the Bush administration.

Obama’s policies will cause the federal government to run deficits of more than $1 trillion through fiscal year 2010, meaning that any deficit-reduction measures he enacts simply will be returning federal spending to levels seen during the administration of Bush.

Obama "inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit – the largest in our nation’s history – and our efforts will add to it in the short term.”

But according to the Congressional Budget Office, the projected deficit for 2009 was pegged at $1.2 trillion – even before the passage of Obama’s $787 billion stimulus and his pledge of $75 billion in mortgage relief spending.

Now, with the stimulus and mortgage plans in place, 2009’s deficit will be approximately $1.5 trillion, the CBO said – and further spending would push that figure higher. The 2010 deficit, which had been pegged at $703 billion, will balloon to $1.1 trillion, due to Obama’s stimulus package.

Cutting even the $1.3 trillion figure in half, as pledged by Obama, would still leave the budget with $650 billion of red ink.

By contrast, in 2006, the deficit stood at $248.2 billion; in 2007, at $162 billion; in 2008, at $410 billion, as calculated by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

"Strong. But Average. And Way Divided."

Gary Langer is director of polling at ABC News, and according to his results regarding Obama he concluded: "Strong. But Average. And Way Divided."

Approval in February of 1st term:

In-out In party

President All Dem Rep Ind party vs. ind.

Obama 68 90 37 67 53 23

Bush 55 37 86 54 49 32

Clinton 63 86 40 59 46 27

Bush 76 64 90 74 26 16

Reagan 68 56 89 71 33 18

Carter 71 79 58 69 21 10

Nixon 60 52 76 57 24 19

Kennedy 72 86 49 69 37 17

Eisenhower 68 61 84 66 23 18

ABC/Post polls since Reagan, Gallup previously

February 24, 2009

NH Next State to Assert State Sovereignty

New Hampshire is the second state that has passed a state sovereignty resolution. These resolutions appear to be the natural result of "Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis."

Holder Against Free Speech on Internet

Attorney General Holder advocated restricting Internet speech in 1999.

On the 28 May 1999 edition of National Public Radio's Morning Edition Holder stated:

"The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is going to be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at."

Iran Promised to End Coalition Attacks: If Nukes Continue

Iran has denied a claim by British diplomat, Sir John Sawers, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, and his claim that Iranian officials secretly offered to end attacks on coalition soldiers in Iraq in exchange for a stop to interfering in Iraqi affairs while Tehran continued its nuclear program.

The claim is startling since Iranian willingness to acknowledge complicity in the attacks has consistently been denied in public. However, it is entirely plausible and appears to be a credible claim. Iran has miffed Obama's efforts at conciliation.

U.S. to Bribe Hamas

The United States plans to offer more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel's invasion.

So what is Israel now? Is Israel the 51st state? In our troubled economy, why is it that the U.S. is paying off the Palestinians?

The answer is obvious. It is a bribe. We are bribing Hamas so that they do not attack. Their hand is strengthened now that Iran has nuclear power.

Secret Meeting: Martial Law

The videos have extraneous religious-ideological commentary but the excerpts from the sessions can still be heard.

13 March 2008 secret debate and meeting held in Congress: martial law.