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Muslims, Leftists dismissive of Obama's visit
Muslims dismiss Obama.
Muslims from across India have downplayed the hype surrounding Obama's visit this week, saying they did not expect him to do anything to improve the condition of Muslims in India or abroad. Members of the minority community in India that constitute roughly 12 percent of its 1.2 billion people, said Obama had said and promised much, but delivered little, during his two years in office.
Indian left-wing condemns Obama in India.
Indians greet Obama with protests
Muslims from across India have downplayed the hype surrounding Obama's visit this week, saying they did not expect him to do anything to improve the condition of Muslims in India or abroad. Members of the minority community in India that constitute roughly 12 percent of its 1.2 billion people, said Obama had said and promised much, but delivered little, during his two years in office.
At the meeting with the students, Obama faced some difficult questions including his thoughts about jihad and why the United States doesn't consider Pakistan -- India's neighbor and rival -- a terrorist state.Obama defends Islam.
The president said it was necessary to isolate those who distort religion as a means for war, and said young people have a role in rejecting violence as a way to mediate differences.
Indian left-wing condemns Obama in India.
Indians greet Obama with protests
Obama Sides Steps Bangalore, India – The Outscourcing Capitol of the Wolrld
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Ch. 11 Sec. 3; France - Napoleon Bonaparte, :11, HMS VICTORY - Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 4:03, Nelson (part 1/3) , 8:21; Duke of Wellington, Wellington - The Iron Duke 1 1/5 , 10:16
"Bienvenue, je suis Napoléon, de France, le militaire le plus intelligent de l'Histoire mondiale."
"Welcome, I am Napoleon of France, the most intelligent military man in world history."
Nelson (part 1/3), 8:21
London Licks, Waterloo Sunset, Kinks, 2:38
The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset, 3:14
Napoleon on the Danny Kaye Show, 2:49
The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967.
India: Two-faced Obama
American strategists argue that the military relationship between the U.S. and India is long-term as well strategic in nature; on the other hand, Obama listens when Islamabad demands more as an "ally" against the Taliban. Of course India was miffed as Obama has snubbed the nation for the last two years despite the cultural and governmental that India shares with the West. Obama is slow on the uptake and it has taken him an excessively long time to understand foreign affairs in Southeast Asia as he is easily distracted by pro-Islamic concerns. One other advantage of staying close to India, instead of Pakistan though, is financial. India pays for its weapons, Pakistan is largely on loans.
Friday, November 5, 2010
How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?
In October 2009, the DSA newsletter reported that 70 congressional Democrats are active members.
The Democratic chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, is on tape meeting with a U.S.-based, Marxist-oriented socialist organization to discuss how the group can cooperate to strengthen Obama and advance their "one-world" plans.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Penn Says Obama Should `Move to Center' With Strategy
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Penn, chief executive officer for Burson-Marsteller Llc, talks about the outlook for President Barack Obama's economic policies amid the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections, which saw Republicans gain the majority in the House of Representatives. Penn speaks with Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Update to Obama's India Visit
34 warships sent from US for Obama visit, including an aircraft carrier.
Two jets, armed with advanced communication and security systems, and a fleet of over 40 cars will be part of Obama's convoy.
Around 800 rooms have been booked for the President and his entourage in Taj Hotel and Hyatt. Apart from Obama's Air Force One, a few private luxury jets carrying top American corporate leaders, who are part of Obama's entourage, are also expected to arrive in India in the next 2-3 days. Following the General Motors bailout, GM executives are flying along.
As a point of contrast, the U.S. war in Afghanistan, which involves 100,000 troops, costs about $190m a day; the price tag for the India venture is $200 million a day.
Britain, facing a deficit issue as well, proposed another means of travel. In July, David Cameron, on his first trip to the U.S. as British prime minister, took a business-class seat on board a scheduled British Airways flight.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Black Panther Harasses Voter — At Same Polling Place
Fox News in Philadelphia found a member of the New Black Panther Party stood at the same polling place as last year. A passerby has claimed the man threatened him with violence. Breitbart TV identified that Panther as Jerry Jackson, one of the same Panthers who was filmed standing in front of the same polling place in 2008. He was handing out a sample ballot for Democrats, a likely violation of election laws — not that he will have to worry. Mike Roman at BigGovernment.com has noted Jackson has at least two first-degree felony convictions but has been photographed holding firearms — which is a felony for ex-cons. Not only has no one prosecuted him for voter intimidation or a firearms violation, but there is no word that he will be charged for his attempts to sway two elections for the Democratic Party.
Geithner vs. the Americans
Congressman Michael Brady scolded Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner during a testy hearing on Capitol Hill, telling the former New York Fed chief that he should never have been hired and demanding that the TARP program come to an abrupt end, shortly after GOP Rep. Kevin Brady had called on Geithner to resign.
“The public has lost all confidence in your ability to do the job,” Brady told Geithner during a heated Joint Economic Committee meeting, adding that he had failed to oversee an economic recovery before asking Geithner, “Will you step down from your post?”
Geithner responded by claiming that confidence in the economy was substantially stronger than before Obama took office, to which Brady responded, “Tell all of that to the millions of American who no longer have jobs because of your decisions,” adding, “At some point you have to take some responsibility for your decisions.”
“This is your budget! This is your bailout”, shouted Brady.
Obama pledged to create 3.5 million new jobs by 2010, however, with unemployment running at 10.2 per cent, and with 3.5 million jobs lost, the Obama jobs deficit stands at over 7 million.
Shortly after the fracas, Rep. Michael Burgess confronted Geithner on how TARP funds were used to bail out banks in Europe while the American people suffered with spiraling mortgage defaults and unemployment.
“We’ve got the TARP, it’s supposed to expire, why won’t we let it die a natural death rather than letting it painfully linger?” asked Burgess, to which Geithner responded, “We are working to put TARP out of its misery,” contradicting reports of a “second stimulus” being planned for early 2010.
Geithner’s claim that he was working aggressively to terminate TARP programs was met with Burgess’ response, “Well it looks like money is going out with little or no oversight,” which Geithner denied, despite the fact that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke admitted earlier this year that he didn’t know which foreign banks had received over half a trillion dollars in credit swaps when pressed by Congressman Alan Grayson, who this week introduced an amendment with Ron Paul to secure more oversight on money leaving the U.S. earmarked for foreign banks.
Burgess stressed that small businesses were frightened of adding jobs because they were worried about the potential costs of health care, regulation and the impact of the cap and trade program, stating, “We don’t need another stimulus, we need to provide some tax relief and then get the heck out of the way and the American economy will recover as it has always done.”
Referring to Brady’s comments, Burgess commented, “I don’t think that you should be fired, I thought you should never have been hired.”
“I’ll tell you, my constituents, they’re not just anxious, they are mad, they are fighting mad about what is happening in the economy, they’re fighting mad about what is happening in the stimulus,” concluded Burgess.
Obama: I Took A "Shellacking" Last Night
The country did not, the Democrats did not, but Obama summarizes the election results. He learned a lesson. He learned he has to explain himself more? He did not learn an important lesson. For Obama, life revolves around himself.
http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/11/03/obama_i_took_a_shellacking_last_night.html
Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee Statement
Issued today following a two-day meeting on monetary policy.
Voting against the policy was Thomas M. Hoenig. Mr. Hoenig believed the risks of additional securities purchases outweighed the benefits. Mr. Hoenig also was concerned that this continued high level of monetary accommodation increased the risks of future financial imbalances and, over time, would cause an increase in long-term inflation expectations that could destabilize the economy."
CNBC: Fed's Big Gamble--What Could Go Wrong?
CNBC—Nov. 3, 2020— http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39985108/...
Former Fed Governor Larry Meyer discusses what could go wrong in the Fed's controversial plan to purchase more bonds.
Copyright CNBC 2010
What could possibly go wrong?
It could make the weak dollar even weaker and lead to trade disputes with other countries. It could lead bond traders to believe that higher inflation is on the way, and they could derail the Fed's efforts by pushing rates higher.
Many investors argue that it may create bubbles as hedge funds and other speculators borrow cheaply and make even bigger bets on stocks, commodities and markets in developing countries like Brazil.
"It's a desperate act," says Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of the investment firm GMO. Grantham says it's a clear message from the Fed to the rest of the world: "The U.S. doesn't care if the dollar weakens."
Speaking of the 90's, David Ader, head of government bond strategy at CRT Capital, stated: "If the Fed's efforts fail we suddenly look like Japan," Ader says. "Japan started off wimpishly, then did it again, and again and then they wound up losing a decade."
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
AG Holder Asks Court to Seal Goldman Sachs Tech Secrets From Public Scrutiny
A video went viral: “Somebody threw us into the Atlantic without a life raft.” Somebody. Who? This is the question everyone wants to know.
Tonight, Daily KOS blogger Badabing published commentary about Attorney General Eric Holder, who has asked the court protect Goldman Sachs’ secrets in a trial involving alleged computer code theft.
AG Holder asks Judge to Seal Goldman Sachs Courtroom Case
AG Holder Asks Court to Seal Goldman Sachs Tech Secrets From Public Scrutiny
http://gulagbound.com/7889/ag-holder-asks-court-to-seal-goldman-sachs-tech-secrets-from-public-scrutiny
Federal Government Asks for Closed Courtroom to Protect Goldman Sachs Secrets
World Series Riots
No sound but raw video attack on car. Among the fires, attempted looting and general madness, here is video from KTVU of a mob attacking a car, even pulling people from the car and beating them until riot police closed in — after several frightening minutes pass. From KTVU.com:
Around 10 p.m., a crowd that had taken over the intersection of 3rd and King streets had started multiple fires, but those were extinguished soon afterward.
An hour later, at the intersection of Mission and 22nd streets that had been taken over by dozens of fans, a large fire had been started. Later, a car attempted to drive through the crowd was stopped, and the vehicle and its passengers were attacked.
Around 10 p.m., a crowd that had taken over the intersection of 3rd and King streets had started multiple fires, but those were extinguished soon afterward.
An hour later, at the intersection of Mission and 22nd streets that had been taken over by dozens of fans, a large fire had been started. Later, a car attempted to drive through the crowd was stopped, and the vehicle and its passengers were attacked.
Obama's Next Worry: A Restive Left Flank
Every president who lost re-election in the last half-century has first been weakened by a primary fight.
47% of Democrats oppose Obama. Dean, Kucinich, and Feingold, in addition to mentioning Hillary, are possibilities. Ford, Carter, and G.H. Bush, had primary challenges and eventually lost. Truman and LBJ withdrew on their own.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Dr. David Janda explains rationing
Dr. David Janda explains the ObamaCare health rationing board which was quietly appointed by Obama just 3 days after the original Stimulus Bill was signed. The secret 15 member rationing board was hidden within the Stimulus Bill some 600 pages deep. Also explained is the cost of treatment divided by the number of years the patient will benefit from the treatment which equals the ratio determining whether you can or will be treated for your diagnosis.
Armed Guards in Unemployment Offices: Indiana
Armed security guards will now be posted at all 36 full-service unemployment offices in the state of Indiana.
The message seems to be clear, stay scared, you are not safe, terror is in the air, and violence reins.
Obama lies about UPS bomb: False Flag Terror Event Just Before Election
Authorities in the UK initially confirmed that the package found on a plane at East Midlands Airport was an ink toner cartridge and contained no evidence of explosives. Similarly, CNN first reported that, “Investigators examined two UPS planes that landed at Philadelphia International Airport and another at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, said Mike Mangeot, a UPS spokesman. Authorities later gave the “all-clear” at the airport in Newark, U.S. and U.K. officials said.” However, within hours Obama gave a speech claiming the packages did contain evidence of explosives.
For the First Time America is Judged by the World
US faces first scrutiny by UN rights council.
U.S. groups produced a 400-page report criticising "glaring inadequacies in the United States human rights record," including the "discriminatory impact" of foreclosures, "widespread" racial profiling and "draconian" immigration policies.
"Those [policies] reflect the precipitous erosion of human rights protections in the US since 9/11," stated a spokesperson.
Among the Most Historic and Volatile Elections
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
Federalist No. 51, James Madison
Revival of Volatility Signals Historic Era in U.S. Politics
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. . . . The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all without taking into view indirect and remote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another or the good of the whole.
Federalist No. 10, James Madison
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Indonesia Sukarno CIA
Obama, his half sister, and mother were in Indonesia when the CIA overthrew Sukarno and installed Sahuarto.
Minneapolis: "alternative financing to the interest-based system that is in accordance with Islamic law, or Sharia."
Minneapolis: "alternative financing to the interest-based system that is in accordance with Islamic law, or Sharia."
CBS reporters caught on tape hoping for violence against Republican candidate. Mistaken voicemail also reveals news team plotted to ‘find’ a ‘child molester’ at politician’s rally
New meaning for the term spin; CBS reporters plan attack pieces.
Reporters from a CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, allegedly left a voicemail by mistake at the campaign of the state’s Republican nominee for Senate, Joe Miller, in which the journalists can be heard plotting to “find” a “child molester” at the politician’s recent rally.
The reporters also are overheard hoping for violence against Miller so they can “send out a tweet” and Facebook alert that “Miller got punched” at the rally.
The apparent accidental voicemail message was left on the cell phone of Miller’s spokesperson, Randy DeSoto.
In the recording, the assignment editor for the CBS Anchorage affiliate, KTVA, Nick McDermott, along with other reporters, can be heard openly discussing concocting the two stories about Miller.
DeSoto says the voicemail message was later authenticated by McDermott himself, who sent a text to the Miller spokesman stating “Damn iPhone … I left you a long message. I thought I hung up. Sorry.”
“Frankly, when I first heard this I was shocked,” said DeSoto. “Though a bit garbled at times, there are disturbing comments in this conservation that never should have occurred.”
According to the Miller campaign, another voice in the message was that of KTVA’s news director.
McDermott and other KTVA news staff did not immediately return a WND request for comment.
In the first portion of the discussion, the CBS reporters are heard plotting to get a list of Miller campaign supporters in order to “find” a “child molester.”
“You have to find that one person,” says the male reporter, seemingly McDermott, to laughter in the news room.
The KTVA reporters then discuss creating a “Rand Paul” incident at a Miller rally, which was actually held this past Thursday, hoping for violence so that they can “send out a tweet” and “Facebook” that “Miller got punched” at the rally.
A full transcript of the conversation relates:
FEMALE REPORTER: That’s up to you because you’re the expert, but that’s what I would
do…I’d wait until you see who showed up because that indicates we already know
something…
[Laughter]
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE REPORTER: Child molesters…
MALE REPORTER: Oh yeah… can you repeat Joe Miller’s…uh… list of people, campaign
workers, which one’s the molester?
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE VOICE: We know that out of all the people that will show up tonight, at least one of
them will be a registered sex offender.
[Laughter]
MALE REPORTER: You have to find that one person…
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE REPORTER: And the one thing we can do is ….we won’t know….we won’t know but
if there is any sort of chaos whatsoever we can put out a twitter/facebook alert: saying what
the… ‘Hey Joe Miller punched at rally.’
FEMALE REPORTER: Kinda like Rand Paul…I like that.
[Laughter]
FEMALE REPORTER: That’s a good one.
Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens in 1989 Advocating the Death of Salman Rushdie for the Satanic Verses
Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, on Hypotheticals in 1989, stating he advocates the death of author Salman Rushdie, for the Satanic Verses.
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/10/30/video-riding-the-peace-train/
On February 21, 1989, Yusuf Islam addressed students at Kingston University in London about his conversion to Islam and was asked about the controversy in the Muslim world and the fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie’s execution. He replied, “He must be killed. The Qur’an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die.”
Newspapers quickly denounced what was seen as Yusuf Islam’s support for the assassination of Rushdie and the next day Yusuf released a statement saying that he was not personally encouraging anybody to be a vigilante, and that he was only stating that blasphemy is a capital offense according to the Qur’an.
However on March 8, 1989, while speaking in London’s Regents Park Mosque, Yusuf Islam was asked by a Christian Science Monitor reporter how he would “cope with the idea of killing a writer for writing a book.” He is reported to have replied:
In Islam there is a line between let’s say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It’s got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.
Two months later Yusuf Islam appeared on a British television program, BBC’s Hypotheticals, an occasional broadcast which featured a panel of notable guests to explore a hypothetical situation with moral, ethical and/or political dilemmas. In the episode, (“A Satanic Scenario”) Stevens/Islam is recorded having this exchange with moderator and Queens Counsel Geoffrey Robertson:
Robertson: You don’t think that this man deserves to die?
Y. Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Robertson: Yes.
Y. Islam: Yes, yes.
Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?
Y. Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act – perhaps, yes.
[Some minutes later, Robertson on the subject of a protest where an effigy of the author is to be burned]
Robertson: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Y. Islam: I would have hoped that it’d be the real thing
The New York Times also reports this statement from the program: [If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help] I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I’d try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is.
Obama Heckled by Young Democrats at Fund Raiser
A man gets on his knees next to a car carrying U.S. President Barack Obama as he pulls away from Valois restaurant in Chicago, October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing
The liberal news source "Democracy Now" reported: "It’s almost beyond the capacity of the mind to cope with that George Bush seemingly was more engaged in the battle against HIV than Barack Obama," according to Stephen Lewis, the former special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and co-founder of AIDS-Free World.
CNN reported in July "That Republican president Bush was a bigger advocate on AIDS than "liberal" Obama may come as a surprise, but many people around the world are starting to notice the discrepancy."
The hecklers were concerned about Global Aids funding. And in order to quiet them down Obama responds with what the other side wants and plans to do, stating thate we are funding global AIDs relief and the other side is not. Bush was credited for huge contributions to fighting AIDS in Africa going back to 2003. The Washington Post noted that he had tripled funding by 2006. The AP lauded Bush's efforts in this regard. The British newspaper the Telegraph called him “an African hero. The BBC suggested Bush may have been the Africa's best friend. Scientific studies showed the Bush initiated program had reduced the mortality rate by 10%, amounting to hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide.
By contrast, there has recently been criticism of the Obama regime for flat-funding of the same programs. This is not to suggest that Obama doesn't care about the problem or even that cutting back on some funding might not be a good idea at some point. But Obama stated at this rally, that Republicans haven't been engaged on the issue or that they are the ones who should be protested for lack of attention to it, is not in accordance with the facts.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
New Business Model for Textbooks
Flat World Knowledge is one of several companies that are attempting a new business model for the textbook industry.
Obama Ballot: 2 November
This is a screen shot of an ad; Obama is not running but it certainly is a mandate against him if his candidates lose on 2 November. The Democrats certainly seem to think so or they would not be running this ad.
CNN Growing a Pair?
Progressives must sense that an electoral TEAnami is coming. Even Anderson Cooper is questioning the deeply flawed NAACP study on alleged racism in the TEA Party.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Is Obama Medicated?
Edward Spannaus of Executive Intelligence Review from the Lyndon LaRouche organization.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Bush Thought PA 9/11 Plane Shot Down?
The president reveals he gave the order to shoot down planes on September 11 -- and at first thought the plane in PA had been shot down.
Bush's new book will only lend credence to the idea that questions about 9/11 are still open and speculative.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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