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Monday, August 9, 2010
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Three Muslims from the UAE become first non-U.S. citizens to train at NASA
Nine more Emirati students are slated for training at Nasa this autumn.
What is the U.S. getting out of this?
Friday, August 6, 2010
State Dept. Concludes U.S. Role Creates Terrorists
“I do think that that is something that is very much at the center of our policy making and our deliberations,” Benjamin said. “It very much affects our thoughts regarding our presence in particular parts of the world where we may not be wanted as much as we might think or might like.”
“It will certainly condition how we view any use of force and kinetic action because I think we have a more precise understanding about the relationship – I won’t claim we’ve fully cracked the code on this but we have a better understanding of the relationship between the use of force and the radicalization of those watching it,” Benjamin said.
Benjamin said the strategy depends on the relationship the United States has with a particular country or government, and each entity’s ability to fight terrorism on its own or in partnership with the United States.
“There’s a wide range of different circumstances in which we find terrorists, but the question is, ‘What’s the appropriate way to deal with them?’” Benjamin said. “What threat do they pose to us, what are the long-term implications for our security, but also for our ability to work with countries in that region?”
Benjamin said actions taken by the United States could have an impact on whether more people are radicalized around the world.
“We really just have to ask the question, ‘What’s the best way forward and how do we minimize the likelihood that we’re going to see more terrorists down the road?’” Benjamin said.
Reporters Attack Black TEA Party Leaders at Press Conference 8 4 2010
Black Conservatives Say Black Liberals Are Using Race to Discredit the Tea Party Movement
National Black Conservative Press Conference Speakers:
Herman Cain, National Radio Talk Show Host,
Kevin Jackson, author of Amazon best-selling book, The BIG Black Lie, President of the Black Conservative Coalition and The Black Sphere, LLC,
Ambassador Alan Keyes-Chairman of Conservative Majority PAC,
Mary Baker, Conservative Moms for America,
Mychal S. Massie Chairman Project 21-The Nation Leadership Network of Black Conservatives,
Niger Innis, National Spokesman Congress of Racial Equality. Co-Chairman Affordable Power Alliance, William & Selena Owens-Higher Standard Publishers,
Frantz Kebreau-National Director, NAACPC (National Asso. For the Advancement of Conservative People of ALL Colors),
Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D.-The Frederick Douglass Foundation,
Bob Parks, Member, National Advisory Council, Project 21; Video Producer, Media Research Center,
Ruth Bryant White, Editor In Chief of BreakingNewsJournal.Net, Leader on Conservative Moms For America and author of “Life Through The Eyes Of An Interracial Couple”,
Alfonzo Rachel, rapper/Commentator, PJTV,
Our white brother, Jim Martin of 60 Plus (the conservative alternative to AARP). (Pat Boone is the National Spokesman for the group)
And myself, Lloyd Marcus, author of “Confessions of a Black Conservative”, president of the NAACPC and singer/songwriter of the “American Tea Party Anthem”.
Lloyd Marcus, (black) Proud Unhyphenated American
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Reason Enough for McChrystal to Resign? Almost Half of U.S. Fatalities in Afghan War Took Place Since Obama Took Office
The point here is that in 18 months of Obama's misunderstandings we have lost as many U.S. lives as in 7 years of Bush's leadership. The politics of the parties should be set aside and the resolution of the war decided on now. Our troops deserve our support.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Store Manager Witnesses to Robber
On July 23, 2010 20-year-old cellphone store manager Nayara Goncalves persuaded a would-be armed robber to put away his gun and leave her store in the name of the Lord. Every moment of the more than five-minute exchange between a calm Goncalves and the nervous, unidentified robber was captured on a store camera. He exchanges pleasantries with Goncalves, asking whether she was keeping dry, then asks to see a phone. Moments later, he reaches into his coat, apparently showing her a gun. He apologizes: ``I really hate to."
Candidate Sues Obama, Pelosi and Reid and asks Citizens to Join the Lawsuit
Van Irion, a GOP Congressional Candidate from Tennessee's third house district has brought a lawsuit against Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the Federal Government over Obamacare. He recently hand delivered the lawsuit in Washington,DC (see below video) He is also asking regular citizens to join him:
To join the lawsuit (Van Irion is covering all costs) you can visit his web site:
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Kagan: Anti-Military, Guns, Pro-Abortion, and Pro-Illegal Immigration
Sen. Sessions gave an overview of the issues that will be a focus of this week's floor debate on Elena Kagan's nomination.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Mosque is fine; convent not in Auschwitz
As a bit of historical perspective, the Pope ordered nuns out of their convent in Auschwitz so as not to offend Jewish sentiments. The same consideration could be extended to the Americans out of sensitivity to their feelings.
Lt. Col. Lakin Arraignment scheduled for Aug. 6
The court will convene for the purpose of taking Lakin’s plea to the charges which consist of “missing movement” and of refusing to obey orders. Lakin is seeking Obama's documentation. If Obama "is a natural born citizen then the American people deserve to see proof, and if he is not, then I believe the orders in this case were illegal.”
Cf. http://blogsmithconsulting.blogspot.com/2010/07/retired-army-major-general-jerry-ralph.html
http://blogsmithconsulting.blogspot.com/2010/07/lakin-appeals-armys-fitness-report.html
http://blogsmithconsulting.blogspot.com/2010/06/lt-col-terrence-lakin-obama-not-natural.html
http://blogsmithconsulting.blogspot.com/2010/04/retired-army-general-lt-col-lakin-has.html
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Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care
England is reorganizing the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948, to decentralize and localize health care delivery. Rationed health care, as the U.S. recently adopted, does not work. In addition, the British also had the advantage of spending money on health care as opposed to defense since World War II because of American military might. We do not have the luxury of someone else protecting our country.
AGENDA: Grinding America Down (Trailer)
James Simpson wrote a Patriot’s Handbook
a Practical Guide to Restoring Liberty to assist Americans in maintaining life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Congressman at Town Hall: ‘The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything in This Country’
Rep. Pete Stark misunderstands the Constitution at a town hall meeting.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Zuhdi Jasser - Oslo Freedom Forum 2010
Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, whose mission is "to provide an authentic Muslim voice advocating for the preservation of the founding principles of the U.S. constitution: liberty and freedom through the separation of mosque and state." His parents emigrated from Syria to the United States, where majority rules but minorities are protected like no other place in the world. America presents opportunities for learning an unfiltered history, expressing all opinions, questioning authority, and creating ideas without censorship—an environment Dr. Jasser believes is consistent with the Islamic faith. The democratic idea that every citizen, blind to race, faith, and creed, has equal access to government is a cure for the pathology of extremist Islam. The freedoms offered by a democratic society can be a laboratory for Muslim reform, allowing for open interpretation and debate, and thus the evolution of philosophies. Dr. Jasser considers the Muslim world currently trapped in a binary choice between Arab secular dictatorship and militant political Islam. However, he argues that there is a third option: universal liberty. Islam must be reinterpreted in modernity, which is only possible in an environment where people are free to debate and discuss it without fear of dangerous consequences. The intolerance of radical Islam is a threat to everyone, East and West, and Dr. Jasser argues, "it is incumbent on us to defeat it for our children."
Who is Barry Soetoro? Stanley Ann Dunham, et. al.?
Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro Passport Application File Strunk v Dept of State FOIA Release: more questions than answers emerge from this Some of Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro's Passport Application Records Are Released due to Strunk FOIArelease.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Obama's Vietnam
July is deadliest month of Afghan war for US. McChrystal was right. Obama is not engaged in this fight.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
AlJazeera English reviews the American financial crisis.
AlJazeera English reviews the American financial crisis.
The American History Guys trace the modern day concept of unemployment back to the era between the 1870s and 1880s - a period of recession they say closely mirrors the current economic climate.
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BackStory is the American history-themed public radio show hosted by University of Virginia History Professor Peter Onuf, University of Richmond President Edward Ayers, and Miller Center GAGE Chair Brian Balogh.
The show's theme is "Looking for Work: A History of Unemployment," and explores themes such as joblessness, immigration, and internal migration through three centuries of American life. - Miller Center of Public Affairs
In July 2007, Edward Ayers assumed the presidency of the University of Richmond. Previously Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, where he began teaching in 1980, Ayers was named the National Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2003.
Brian Balogh is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia and Director of the GAGE National Fellowship Program. Before coming to U.Va., Brian Balogh taught history at Harvard University. Trained as a historian at The Johns Hopkins University, his specialties are 20th century American history, political history, history of science and technology, and environmental history.
Peter S. Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, and author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (Virginia) and co-author (with Nicholas G. Onuf) of Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War.
Anti-Free Speech Obama; Pro-Islamic Obama
Jonathan Turley noted in an important article that Obama has sided with a U.N. Muslim effort to stifle free speech. In his advocacy of restricting free speech Obama joined Egypt in sponsoring the non-binding admonition not to criticize Islam. As Doug Mataconis points out at Below the Beltway, there is no room in a free society for laws restricting freely expressed or held views against any religion, as the Supreme Court made clear in the 1952 case Burstyn v. Williams:
[F]rom the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them which is sufficient to justify prior restraints upon the expression of those views. It is not the business of government in our nation to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine, whether they appear in publications, speeches, or motion pictures.
It is very disconcerting that a sitting American president would join hands with a Muslim military dictatorship to stifle free speech.
RealCatholicTV.com Produced "Obamageddon!"
RealCatholicTV.com produced this video entitled "Obamageddon!"
No Swine Flu Shot for Obama Kids: How About the Peasant's Kids?
What did you see? What is the message here?
Included here is a video promo for the "FlashForward" series which illustrates that it is an apocalyptic plot centered around a global catastrophe.
Is this just entertainment? Or, is it conditioning us to accept the inevitability of some nightmare future “event” that the government will be mandated to protect us from?
What do you see on television? Are there messages on TV?
Obama et. al., get a flu shot but no swine flu vaccination.
Many Americans wondered what they should do because of the swine flu pandemic.
Americans may be receiving direction from an unusual source of which they may not be completely aware. A prime time ABC drama show that aired last week featured a subliminal message that encouraged people to take the swine flu shot. The campaign to sell people on the government’s health agenda is widespread and includes suggestive messages implanted in network TV broadcasts.
There is a series of screen shots from the science-fiction series FlashForward which is currently airing. The scene occurs 26 minutes 30 seconds into the fourth episode, which was broadcast on 15 October 2009.
The image shows a computer screen and on it a web page with a prominently featured advertisement that reads, “Time for Your Flu Shot.” Another ad immediately to the right of this reads, “Take It Now!”
The web page was obviously manufactured deliberately for the scene because the URL in the address bar is not a real website.
Obama's Manufacturing Czar Quotes Mao
Obama’s manufacturing Czar agrees with Mao (responsible for over 70 million deaths) “political power comes from a barrel of a gun.”
David Plouffe, Business in Dubai (including Al Gore)
TV commercial for the Leaders in Dubai Business 2009 conference. 26 - 29 October, www.leadersindubai.com. Featuring Al Gore, Desmond Tutu, Gary Hamel, David Plouffe, Benjamin Zander and many more.
WH Communications Director Tells International Audience: "Controlled" Press
Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.
"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.
"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.
"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.
Continued Dunn: "Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying."
Dunn was speaking at a Jan. 12, 2009, event focusing on Obama's media tactics and hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, which seeks to promote collaboration between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. The event was held in Santo Domingo and was attended by the country's president.
NOT EVIL JUST WRONG – The Movie Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To See
NOT EVIL JUST WRONG – The Movie Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To See
Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, spoke at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem.
Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, spoke at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem.
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines , Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan , Lebanon , and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities.. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.
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