There is no certain explanation but it appears to be a non-natural event.
Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
DA: West Philadelphia abortion doctor killed 7 babies with scissors
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Did the Judge meet the same fate as the tampered Passport witness?
Obama recently signed an executive order allowing the Feds to confiscate all 401ks and retirement accounts. A single judge adjudicated that Obama did not have that authority and stopped the confiscation: Federal Judge John Roll. He died in the Tuscon tragedy.
One Islamist Out, Another Islamist in at Victory Mosque
Imam Rauf has been replaced on the Victory mosque charade by Imam Abdullah Adhami.
Adhami, as Rauf, thinks Sharia Law should replace the American Constitution.
His hero is Siraj Wahhaj!
Who is this who Adhami refers to as his “beloved imam”?
Imam Wahhaj is an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was a character witness for the defense in the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, “the blind sheik” who is now serving a life sentence for his role in plotting the 1993 WTC bombing.
Wahhaj has made it very clear in all of his sermons that he wants America destroyed and Islam to be built on its ashes.
Adhami is so enchanted with Wahhaj’s hate-filled screeds that he volunteered to design the Al-Taqwa mosque, from where Imam Wahhaj incites his followers with his wrath against the unbelievers.
"Under my plan, electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket . . . . higher prices will be passed on to the consumer."
In a candid moment while running for president, Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, “under my plan…electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Last week, the Obama administration moved to make that a reality, using its rule by executive fiat to punish the coal industry. The action comes as Obama is halting offshore oil drilling and threatening one state alone with millions of dollars in lost revenue. His most recent action was “unprecedented,” could kill jobs during a recession, and comes as heating oil and gasoline prices are rising.
Obama’s latest environmentalist imbroglio is his declaration of war on the coal industry. Last week, the EPA revoked the mining permit of Arch Coal’s Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia. The EPA granted the permit in 2007. Since then, Arch Coal has complied with all of the agency’s terms and made millions of dollars of investments in the hard-hit Appalachian state.
The EPA reversed itself last week, revoking its validly granted permit and calling into question whether it would honor any of its prior obligations. Its pretext was the company’s use of mountaintop removal mining, which it called “destructive and unsustainable. However, it was known the mine would use this procedure when the EPA granted the permit four years ago.
The mine would have employed 250 people and harvested more than 40 million tons of coal, over 15 years.
West Virginia’s lawmakers are rightly incensed. Newly elected Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s statement read in part: “According to the EPA, it doesn’t matter if you did everything right, if you followed all of the rules. Why? They just change the rules.”
Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller told President Obama in a letter that his action “needlessly throws other permits into a sea of uncertainty at a time of great economic distress.”
Industry leaders echoed his concern. “Every road project, construction project or mine site that has received valid CWA 404 permits in the past is now in jeopardy of having that permit vetoed or revoked,” said Bryan Brown, executive director of the Foundation for American Coal Energy. The crippling handicap of uncertainty harms our economy, undermines confidence in the government, and keeps industry executives from making additional investments in energy exploration.
DAY 729: Obama orders review of regulations that hurt job growth...
Obama Wants to Shed his Rules That Harm Americans Job Growth. Now he is learning about America and Economics 101. Pretty sharp guy he finally came around after harming job growth for so long. Still, there is no improvement yet so he may still cater to his moneyed masters.
Monday, January 17, 2011
In observance of Martin Luther King Day, pro-lifers are focusing in part on a major civil rights issue.
Joseph Parker, pastor of two African-Methodist-Episcopal churches in Mississippi, says today's culture often overlooks the critical questions and issues related to life and the unborn. Instead, he says, people tend to avoid pushing their moral views on others or agree that it is up to a woman to decide what she should do with her body.
"Tragically, this kind of argument has become just a smokescreen that has kept too many from really seeing the true issue at hand," Parker laments. "The false claim has been that the abortion issue is about women's rights and reproductive freedom, but this is simply marketing hype and lies. In reality, it was racism and eugenics that drove the legalization of abortion."
What's the most-telling piece of evidence that proves
the abortion industry in the U.S. targets minorities and the poor?
More than 30 percent of abortions that take place in the U.S. involve the killing of black babies -- a truth clearly portrayed in a documentary called Maafa 21, which was produced by Life Dynamics. A group of black pastors will show that film today at its "Festival for Life" at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.
"One of the great needs in our society is to recognize that there's a huge need for us to take a stand for the civil rights of the unborn child [and] that the civil rights of the unborn need to be respected and protected," Parker concludes.
He goes on to point out that Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., describes standing up for the rights of the unborn as one of the most serious civil rights issues of our time. The Mississippi pastor recently spoke at a rally in Jackson, where he voiced his agreement with that statement.
China's President Lays Groundwork for Obama Talks
WSJ's Jake Lee speaks to Heard on the Street Asia Editor Mohammed Hadi about Chinese President Hu Jintao's comments on currencies, balancing the Chinese economy and China's growing clout abroad.
Thomas Sowell: Federal Reserve a 'Cancer'
Economist Thomas Sowell explains why he supports Ron Paul's stance on abolishing the Federal Reserve. When asked by Peter Robinson what should replace the Fed, Sowell replies: "When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"
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Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and updated edition of his classic volume, Basic Economics.
"Through its various editions," Sowell writes, "the fundamental idea behind Basic Economics remains the same: Learning economics should be as uncomplicated as it is informative."
Here, Sowell seeks to uncomplicate some of the economic issues confronting the country today, from the financial crisis and the role of the Fed to the economics of health care and trade imbalances. - Hoover Institution
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.
Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.
Previewing Chinese President Hu Jintao's U.S. Visit
Kenneth Lieberthal: Next week's Washington meetings between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will provide the leaders with an opportunity to further improve relations between the U.S. and China. The dialogue is expected to cover tough economic and trade issues, security concerns and military expansion. China Center Director Kenneth Lieberthal explains.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Why Leftists Are Far Likelier to Use Political Violence Than Conservatives
No Surprise AZ Shooter Was a Mentally Deranged Anarchist.
The tenets of Classical Liberalism are listed by Amy Sturgis (Sturgis, Amy H. "The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism." Belmont University | Nashville, TN | Middle Tennessee | Liberal Arts College. 1994. Web. 16 Jan. 2011.
1. An ethical emphasis on the individual as a rights-bearer prior to the existence of any state, community, or society;
2. The support of the right of property carried to its economic conclusion, a free-market system;
3. The desire for a limited constitutional government to protect individuals’ rights from others and from its own expansion; and
4. The universal (global and ahistorical) applicability of these above convictions.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Cornel West "Barack Obama Is NOT The Fulfillment Of Martin Luther King's Dream!"
Cornel West,January 13, 2011 C-SPAN
Arizona Shooter walked through campus last fall rambling about his 'genocide school.'
College releases YouTube post from Loughner.
The video was posted on YouTube on Sept. 23 but his current account was not created until October. No one seems to have noticed the discrepancy. Thus far, no one has stated what his previous YouTube account was if he had one. In any event, this video got him suspended from the community college.
$14,000,000,000,000
Remarkably, nearly half of today's national debt was run up in just the past six years. It soared from $7.6 trillion in January 2005 as President George W. Bush began his second term to $10.6 trillion the day Obama was inaugurated and to $14.02 trillion now. The period has seen two major wars and the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s.
In three years the U.S. increased its debt $4 trillion; then, in two years, Obama increased the debt another $4 trillion.
Here's what then-Sen. Barack Obama said on the Senate floor in 2006: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance the government's reckless fiscal policies."
At that time, not a single Senate Democrat voted to raise the limit, opposition that's now complicating White House efforts to rally bipartisan support for a higher ceiling.
Friday, January 14, 2011
OPEC OIL EMBARGO - 1973
NBC Nightly News coverage of OPEC's decision to cut exports of oil to the United States along with other nations. Reported by John Chancellor of the evening of October, 17 1973.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
'HE DID NOT WATCH TV. HE DISLIKED THE NEWS. HE DIDN'T LISTEN TO POLITICAL RADIO'
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/jared-loughners-friend-says-suspect-did-not-watch-tv-disliked-the-news_b48040
The suspect had run-ins with Barney Fife but he will not release them.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
History of the Internet
"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The clip was made by Melih Bilgil — http://www.lonja.de
The history is told using the PICOL icons, which are available on picol.org. You can get news about this project on blog.picol.org .
Voice-over by Steve Taylor http://voice-pool.com
You can get more information on this movie on my website
http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history...
or on the PICOL-Project site where you can download a pre-release of the icons.
http://blog.picol.org/
If you are interested in more Internet history you can also read/watch:
- ISOC: History of the internet: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...
- Geschichte des Internet (german & link to Amazon): http://tinyurl.com/4kzlwq
- Computer Networks: The Heralds Of Resource Sharing http://tinyurl.com/apocod
Credits for subtitles:
(The correctness of the subtiles depends on the people listed down here)
English: Stefan Badragan | youtube.com/StevXtreme
Italian: Stefan Badragan
German: me
Turkish: Zeynep Can
French: Arnaud 'dehy' DE MOUHY
Bulgarian: Andrian Georgiev
Chinese: Terry Lee
Portuguese (Brazilian): Guilherme Euler
Spanish: Mauricio Diaz Orlich
Polish: Agnieszka Marciniak
Greek: Pantelis Bouboulis
Swedish: Paul Lindström
Also thanks to: Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes
Monday, January 10, 2011
Airborne Laser to Attempt Another Missile Shoot-Down
February 11 2010. A modified Boeing 747-400F with more than 7 tons of optics up front and a megawatt-class laser in back destroyed a liquid-fueled ballistic missile target while both were in flight. The Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser TestBed reportedly carries a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser that's coupled with precise pointing and atmospheric correction equipment. And it has now proven capable of knocking a ballistic missile out of the sky.
The system is the result of a cooperative effort led by Boeing, in partnership with Northrop Grumman (which supplies the laser) and Lockheed Martin (which is developing the fire control system). The aim is to deter enemy missile attacks by disabling the attacking missiles while they are in the boost phase. That means hitting a target capable of 4,000 miles per hour with a beam of light traveling somewhere close to 670 million miles per hour.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency hopes similar devices will one day be able to track and attack multiple targets, at a range of hundreds of kilometers, at at a lower cost than current technologies.
But For now, the price of the program is a problem. Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled what had been an order for a second airborne laser system. The original, will continue to participate in experiments.
Third High Level Official Killed
The third high level official, and an attempt on a Congresswoman as well, has died under strange circumstances. Hill aide, dead in burning car.
The sport-utility vehicle was heavily damaged by fire in the garage of the couple's Capitol Hill home. The cause of her death is uncertain. She was found dead shortly before 5 a.m. in a burning BMW, the back end of which was partly out of the garage, as if the vehicle had been entering or leaving when the fire started, authorities said. Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three. Neighbors called for help about 4:50 a.m. after they saw flames spewing from the garage at the rear of the house. He said firefighters found a burning vehicle facing into the garage with a dead body in it. A source familiar with the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation, said the SUV was "about seven-eighths of the way" into the garage and was stopped "at a weird angle." He said the vehicle was heavily damaged by fire, but said he could not discuss the condition of the body.
The deceased was the wife of Daniel A. Turton, 43, the White House's deputy director of legislative affairs for the U.S. House. As such, he is President Obama's point man on legislation moving through the House.
She was a lobbyist for North Carolina-based Progress Energy, which announced a merger Monday with Duke Energy.
A lobbyist for an energy company being acquired by Duke Energy, one of the worst of the Big Oil crowd, is married to someone in charge of pushing legislation through Congress for Obama. Aren't there conflict of interest laws? Who's to say that he's not pushing Duke's favored bills more than others?
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Left-wing Loughner Update, False-flag, Second Suspect
Pundits agree that the rhetoric is heated. What the opposition sides do not recognize though is that rhetoric characterizes virtually everything that passes for political discourse today. Who would you suspect said the following?
“They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/
“Punish your enemies.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJqD7F2pwA
“I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/us/politics/21memo.html?_r=1
“hand to hand combat”
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/07/news/la-pn-obama-base-20101008
“Get in Their Faces!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4
"We talk to these folks… so I know whose ___ [hind quarters] to kick.“
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2G93rARJEA
"I’m itching for a fight.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/07/131879902/coming-up-president-obama-s-news-conference
If you guessed the psychotic Loughner your would be wrong; the speaker is Obama. Public officials do not like criticism and yet it is critical in a Republic to allow political discourse to flourish. This is an old problem tackled early on in American history. The Alien and Sedition Acts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts), specifically, the Sedition Act made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government or its officials. It was enacted July 14, 1798, with an expiration date of March 3, 1801 (the day before Adams' presidential term was to end). Federalists at all levels, however, were turned out of power, and over the following years Congress repeatedly apologized for, or voted recompense to victims of, the enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Thomas Jefferson, who won the 1800 election, pardoned all of those who had been convicted for crimes under the Alien Enemies Act and the Sedition Act.
Now that the Tuscon tragedy occurred we are all asking why. One hint of the political necessity for something drastic following the "shellacking" in November was suggested by a Democratic strategist.
The Democratic strategist Mark Penn noted on the liberal Chris Matthews show that it took the Oklahoma City tragedy in order for President Clinton to “reconnect” with the American people. He then stated that Obama needed a “similar event” to achieve that reconnection following his party’s November 2010 midterm losses.
The DHS seems to be trying to portray Loughner as a right-winger.
strong suspicion is being directed at AmRen / American Renaissance. Suspect is possibly linked to this group. (through videos posted on his myspace and YouTube account.). The group's ideology is anti government, anti immigration, anti ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), anti Semitic. Gabrielle Gifford [sic] is the first Jewish female elected to such a high position in the US government. She was also opposite this group's ideology when it came to immigration debate.
DHS Links Jared Loughner To American Renaissance
There is nothing in Loughner's videos that would suggest American Renaissance. Napolitano is inventing a connection out of thin air. The American Renaissance group has explicitly denied any contact whatsoever with Loughner and does not appear to advocate violence, and is not anti-Semitic. They state: "If this memo is typical of the research done by the Department of Homeland Security, our country is in serious danger."
The leader of the group may have a point; both the leader and the shooter share the first name. Perhaps that was enough of a connection for the DHS.
Cf. http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2011/01/american_renais_16.php#comments
No one should associate the psychotic Loughner with either the right or the left yet his friends thought of him as a "Left-Wing Pothead" apparently this evidence is not worth repeating by the DHS. He frightened people by his behavior in college as well.
Loughner’s leftwing high school friend, Caitie Parker, remembers him as a “political radical”: “He was left wing,” she wrote; “As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal.”
The left-wing blog the Daily Kos deleted a reference that the Congresswoman is now dead to me.
FOX News has reported that the shooter’s favorite books are the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf. Loughner is also reportedly an atheist. There’s an anti-bible quote in one of his videos: “Every United States Military recruit at MEPS in Phoenix is receiving one mini bible before the tests. Jared Loughner is a United States Military recruit at MEPS in Phoenix. Therefore, Jared Loughner is receiving one mini bible before the tests.”
I would hope that the nation does not jump to conclusions, since the Left is all to quickly blaming Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and the usual suspects. Palin has deleted the metaphorical reference to the Congresswoman as a "target." Indeed, the Congresswoman is just about right on the center as possible. She is a former Republican but one who is a "blue-dog" Democrat who has voted against her party, and Pelosi as minority Speaker. Unwittingly, the Congresswoman is just about the most divisive figure possibly. All varieties of the political spectrum can focus their hate against their opponents with an attempted assassination such as this.
It is unprecedented that in an event like this the Federal level of investigation would be involved so quickly. Yet, FBI Director Robert Mueller was ordered to the location by Obama, and the FBI is ready to take over the investigation. The usual procedure is that various law enforcement agencies would cooperate and after some time the FBI or federal agencies would move in. In this instance the FBI response has been instantaneous and from the beginning the Capitol Police are also conducting an investigation. Why agencies 2900 miles away would take such a important role so early on is unusual and a mystery. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik stated clearly that Arizona was "Mecca" of hate groups and he lamented the vitriolic speech emanating from radio and television. Is he the local contact that is cooperating with this heightened suspicion of free speech and gun rights?
8 January 2011, Dupnik
On the afternoon of the 9th Dupnik released a statement that the second person of interest is a taxi driver and has now cleared him of any connection to the shooting.
On the morning of the 9th Dupnik already dismissed the involvement of the second person of interest before locating them.
Dupnik starts at 6:01 to discuss the second person of interest.
"We are still searching for the person of interest but we are more satisfied in our minds that this person may not have been involved in this incident at all. But we still need to talk to him to verify that."
Dupnik also is the one downplaying the importance of the so-called undiscovered second suspect alluded to by Mueller. Why? They haven't even found him yet the Sheriff is disregarding any potential gathering of intelligence and data? Why not wait until he finds out investigative data before jumping to any conclusion. At 1:57 is the search for a "laughing" subject male in a white t-shirt?
Oro Valley Arizona Police radio broadcast Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shooting during 1018 - 1038 (referring to the morning of the shootings).
Mueller and police said they were looking for a second suspect, a white male approximately 40-50 years old with dark hair. On the morning of January 9, they released a security-camera photo in which he appears.
"I don't have that information yet" [evidence that Loughner is connected to radio/TV rhetoric). How does he know he is about the receive information?
In an interview today with Megyn Kelly, Kelly asks:
If there was anything the sheriff had discovered in his investigation that suggested that Loughner was “listening to radio or watching television and was in any way inspired by what he heard or saw?
Dupnik said that he did not yet have any such evidence, but that the investigation had only just begun.
Then Kelly presses: is it the right time for a sheriff to be “injecting speculative opinion” about the case? He evoked Free Speech. She said:
With respect, sheriff, I know that you’re a Democrat and you ran for office as a Democrat, and I just want to press you on that a little. I’m sure some of our viewers are asking themselves why you are putting a political spin on this when they may asking you the sheriff to stay focused on the facts, on uncovering the facts,” she said.
Dupnik repeated the partisan rhetoric. Kelly said but that is “just your opinion.”She asks if it should be up to a sheriff to “stir the pot on either the aisle.” Dupnik responded, “that’s for listeners to decide.”
Pima County Sheriff Dupnik opposes Arizona’s immigration law SB1070, and says it was a effort to deflect attention from Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona’s lawmakers fiscal irresponsibility over the past two years. Dupnik supports former Governor Janet Napolitano, and has run for a Democratic office in the past.
He said Arizona doesn’t need the law, because Federal law already requires Border Patrol to arrest illegal aliens. If I were Hispanic, Dupnik said, “I would feel angry and humiliated.” In July 2010, when the controversy over SB1070 was raging, the sheriff stated.
The second person of interest is interesting historically since as has happened before the secondary individual turns out often to be of greater importance. A parallel may be found in Sirhan Sirhan, the accused assassin of Robert Kennedy. Although Sirhan was blamed as the lone individual behind the shooting, forensic evidence that emerged in 2008 confirmed that he did not fire the fatal shot. Sirhan may have been the so-called Manchurian candidate, ironically enough, Loughner was concerned about mind control on his YouTube postings.
The CIA’s use of mind control to create killers is a matter of historical record. MK-ULTRA was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence that came to light in 1975 through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti insists that the program is ongoing and has not been abandoned.
My hunch yesterday is that there is something very odd about the proceedings based on the YouTube releases. He joined YouTube only in October; the same month he was suspended from the community college he attended. He posted his statements first, and then the "Hello" and the "Introduction" and his Internet activity began in November. Mueller announced today that he also bought a Glock 9MM in November. It is odd that a 22 year old only recently began an online presence, coupled with the acquisition of a weapon.
In late December, Attorney General Holder specifically noted the danger of homegrown terrorism. "The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born," Holder added.
CNN's version of the tragedy seemed to be focused on terrorism, against the right or at least a political angle, TV/radio commentators, and specifically Arizona. ABC focused on the domestic terrorism angle of the investigation as well. It is a huge concern of Federal officials the commentator noted. You bet, it might be the point that the lamestream media and the Federal government wishes to promote.
One of the strangest connections between Giffords and Loughner is that the Congresswoman subscribed to his YouTube channel.
Screen shot of Gifford's web page showing her subscription to Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube account: "Classitup10."
Also, while Loughner has been in custody after the shooting, his YouTube content is changing. Either someone at YouTube is switching things around or he has an accomplice.
But there is a larger and more important question of context to be asking in light of Tuscon. Why is the legislature suspending operations in light of the tragedy in Tucson?
In the one breath Boehner says they will not be deterred from their duties but in the same breath he states that legislative duties will be deferred for a week. Is this a false-flag operation? False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and can be used in peace-time. In 1962, Operation Northwoods for example was a false flag operation intended to whip up support for a campaign against Cuba. The operation was a series of false-flag operation proposals that originated within the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other operatives to commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro. One part of Operation Northwoods was to "develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."
Boehner says normal House business this week is postponed to focus on any necessary actions in the shooting aftermath. and the Republican speaker didn't take any questions before leaving the township government building near his West Chester, Ohio, home. The most ominous statement is the idea that unspecified actions need to be taken. Didn't most politicians realize that public political figures could be a target of violence before Tuscon? I would like to hope that we do not have a Reichstag Fire scenario at play here.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
AZ Congresswoman Shot Dead, or Critical, in Arizona
Classitup10 was his YouTube channel.
If these videos are indeed of the suspect the guy is insane. He wrote the incomprehensible ravings of a lunatic. He had ideas about a new currency and other such ravings. Based on his books and the kind of writing he penned he apparently was working on syllogisms which made sense to him. Loughner local charges against him which was dismissed. The court case involved possession of drug paraphernalia in 2007: the case number was CR07-718864A (Cf. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/8/934360/-Who-is-Jared-Lee-Loughner). On the other hand, there is a case with a different number that appears to be Loughner also: Cf. http://twitpic.com/3o8lgu/full. Most likely this will verify that he has minor offenses against him which is not particularly revealing but puts him in the attending a few classes, still lives at home with his parents, but going nowhere type of loner.
The Free Republic reported that the suspect was rejected from serving in the military. Cf. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2653580/posts
A friend who knew him Tweeted that she knew him in 2007 as a leftist.
Cf. http://hillbuzz.org/2011/01/08/be-on-that-lookout-for-caitie-parkers-appearances-on-good-morning-america-the-today-show-and-abc-radio-regarding-jared-lee-loughner/
Pam Geller has reproduced the same with some additional details.
Cf. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/01/jared-loughner-high-school-pal-twitter-page-describes-arizona-shooter-loughner-left-wing-quite-liber.html
Caitie Parker, the friend, GMA, Today Show, and ABC Radio appearances talking about knowing Parker in school.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the case is the emergence of an accomplice, a male in his 50s who has not been identified. The typical type of connections would make sense if the suspect was a chronic drug user or gay but no one has asserted those points. In that case, the only real inference is that the older guy has no real connection to the tragedy or he is the mastermind behind it all.
The victim, believed to be the first female victim of a political assassination in American history was reported in the Globe to be: "Arizona’s first Jewish member of Congress." The Federal Judge John Roll was killed which no one in the media seems to be addressing directly. I wonder what a federal Judge was doing at a shopping mall while attending a Congressional member's meeting with constituents? Was he the primary target or did he just happen to be there? With further details emerging he was simply the wrong person at the wrong time. He often attended daily Mass and he noticed his friends appearance and went to say hello.
Cf. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345386/Gabrielle-Giffords-shot-Congresswoman-fighting-life-Arizona-gunman-identified-Jared-Loughner.html
Photo from MySpace
Loughner with his Glock and a Holt U.S. History book.
Profile
Name:
Jared Lee Loughner
Channel Views:
271
Joined:
October 25, 2010
Website:
http://Myspace.com/fallenasleep
About Me:
My name is Jared Lee Loughner!
Hometown:
Tucson
Country:
United States
Schools:
I attended school: Thornydale elementary,Tortolita Middle School, Mountain View Highschool, Northwest Aztec Middle College, and Pima Community College.
Interests:
My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college!
Movies:
(*My idiom: I could coin the moment!*)
Music:
Pass me the strings!
Books:
I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.
His reading list is quite suspect: Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf are amongst his favorite books. He has something for everyone? Also, he has been a young adult for several years but he only joined in October and then he kills in January? These two points are red flags that this could be a set up. Then, there is his middle name: "Lee." Perhaps, as in, I don't know, maybe like Lee Harvey Oswald? Oddly enough, the first video, on the currency, was posted 22 November 2010, and thereafter he posted the Controller and the student videos, only subsequently did he post the Hello and the Introduction. It appears that he made his statements first and later introduced himself which does not make sense even if in his deranged mind he was trying to communicate whatever delusional notions he had.
Introduction
15 December 2010
Hello
15 December 2010
Mind Controller
6 December 2010
If you're editing of every belief and religion reaches the final century then the writer for every belief and religion is you.
You're editing of every belief and religion reaches the final century.
Thus, the writer for every belief and religion is you.
You control every -- thought, action, and lifestyle -- for the person or people as the mind controller.
I'm able to control every belief and religion by being the mind controller.
New Currency
22 November 2010
This Student At Pima Community College: An Unconstitutional Crime!
30 November 2010
Fraud
If I'm not receiving the purchase from a payment then I'm a victim of fraud. I'm not receiving the purchase from a payment. Therefore, I'm a victim of fraud.
All purchases for an educational course in The United States as of now are unconstitutional in the United States of America because of Section 10 in the United States of America's Constitution. A student paying for a Pima Community College course is a purchase for an educational course in the United States as of now. Therefore, a student paying for a Pima Community College course is unconstitutional in the United States of America because of Section 10 in the United States of America's Constitution.
If you're receiving a grade from Pima Community College class then the grade you're receiving is unconstitutional because of the United States Bill of Rights. You're receiving a grade from Pima Community College class. Therefore, the grade you're receiving is unconstitutional because of the United States Bill of Rights. The grading you purchase from Pima Community College is unconstitutional at tuition.
The United States Department of Education is allowing unconstitutional education facility's to operate or the United States Department of Education is allowing free constitutional education facility's to operate. The United States Department of Education isn't allowing unconstitutional education facility's to operate. Thus, the United States Department of Education is allowing free constitutional education facility's to operate.
If the police remove you from the educational facility for talking then removing you from the educational facility for talking is unconstitutional in the United States. The police remove you from the educational facility for talking. Thus, removing you from the educational facility for talking is unconstitutional in the United States. This situation is fraud because the police are unconstitutional!
Every police officer in the United States as of now is unconstitutionally working. Pima Community College police are police in the United States. Therefore, Pima Community College police are unconstitutionally working. The police are unconstitutionally working!
All United States of America's college programs are unconstitutional colleges that's in accordance with the United States of America's Constitution. Pima Community College is a United States of America's college program. Hence, Pima Community College is an unconstitutional college that's in accordance with the United States of America's Constitution.
Every Pima Community College class is using free sources for education from the internet. Algebra is a Pima Community College class. Thus, Algebra is a free source for education from the internet. Every Pima Community College class is always a scam!
If you're literate in English grammar then you know English grammar. You don't know English grammar. Thus, you're not literate in English grammar. Most of the teachers and students at Pima Community College are illiterate.
If I'm thinking of adding the 1 new symbol and number to the current alphabet and number system then I'm thinking of creating 1 new symbol and number to the current alphabet and number system. I'm thinking of adding the 1 new symbol and number to the current alphabet and number system. Thus, I'm thinking of creating 1 new symbol and number to the current alphabet and number system. You control the grammar!
Don't be scared to know you can't find the location of a subject: Most students can't locate a subject! Most people know all the subjects are for mind control and brainwash! The students are unconstitutionally paying for free education! The students are attending a torture facility! You know the teachers are con artists?
You now know - every college's unconstitutional crime! You shouldn't pay unconstitutional money for free speech! Don't trust the current government, listener!
Final Video - Jared Loughner, once I accessed his YouTube channel the one with the flag was a "favorited" video; it is not Loughner.
Update: Doctors are optimistic that the Congresswoman will survive the attack.
Update: Congresswoman perhaps alive, a report is now stating that she is in critical condition.
Update: Congresswoman Dead in shooting.
NUMBER OF COMBAT INJURIES IN AFGHANISTAN APPROACHES IRAQ-WAR LEVELS...
Quagmire in the graveyard of Empires.
More than 430 American service members died from hostile action in Afghanistan last year through Dec. 21, according to official data released by the Pentagon last week at the request of The New York Times.
This was a small fraction of those struck. Nearly 5,500 American troops were wounded in action — more than double the total of 2,415 in 2009, and almost six times the number wounded in 2008.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Web Tools
ImaginationCubed is a multi user drawing tool. You can use a pen, stamp,shapes, line or you can type. You can also change the color of the background.
WeToku is an interview tool that automatically records it to play it back. You can embed it and share it with others.
WikiDot is another wiki builder.
You can send video mails with EyeJot
You can paste a text to JustPasteit and you can get a link to share it with others. You can also upload pictures, save your document as a PDF file.
LinkBlip lets you monitor when the links you’ve sent to others has been clicked. You are notified with an email with the time the link was clicked as well as the city which they were in.
GoodWidgets is a way to create photo widgets for your blog or websites but it loaded too slowly and it had limited use.here.
I see only limited use for EarthTunnel.
BusinessCard2 is a really useful and easy way to present a presence online. You can add videos, slide shows, files,external links, your websites, social sites and you can let other people to leave messages.
MadeupMemories did not download when I tried it.
Stiqr is a potentially really good tool. This tool lets you to create and design your website with sticking pictures. The only thing you need to do is to embed the code to your website.
AcapelaTV is a text-to-speech site where you can use this feature to make the characters talk. There a number of these things out there but they can become tiresome once the novelty wears off. There may be a limit on the amount of text to cut and paste as well.
http://www.acapela.tv/en/talking-card/WalkTheDog/7d5c381b466afca9766dc87dfb1e1a1d203c4fa3/
http://www.acapela.tv/en/talking-card/UncleSam/e79f17b6eabf16bfdb45fd9a1203c9a6170011a4/
Packtari is a bookmarking service that bookmarks your tweets that contains URL for your delicious account.
Prezi is a creative way to create presentations but without actually working on any they make be very time consuming. Its worth a look. Similar to Prezi is Ahead
StoryBird allows you to create their own stories from scratch using their own text and pictures. It’s also collaborating so you can start a story at home and you can finish it when you come back to school.
PhotoPeach is a quick way to create slideshows using pictures and music. It also lets you create quizzes on your slideshow.
With QuizCentre, you can create, administer and grade quizzes online. It also provides instant feedback.
QuizMaker lets you create multiple choice quizzes. You can add pictures or links to your quizzes. When you finish, you simply cut and paste it to your web page.
Vozme lets you turn your text into speech. You can choose a male or a female voice and with these limitations some students will tire fairly quickly although it can be helpful.
Kakomessenger is a fun text to-speech application. It’s a singing telegram machine that will sing your text. You choose between two singers, Gina and Humphrey, write your text and let the singers sing them for you.
CiteBite is a tool where you can get a link directly to specific quotes in web pages.You simply paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page and get a link that opens directly to your selection by highlighting it.
Bot Morpheus is a bot that can write and speak at the same time.
Clue is an interesting way to test people (or you) about what they remember on your site. People who take the test, look at the web page for a few seconds and write what they remember. It may be the most useful for educational applications.
HOMELAND SECURITY HASN'T MADE US SAFER
Foreign Policy
DHS serves only one clear purpose: to provide unimaginable bonanzas for favored congressional districts around the United States, most of which face no statistically significant security threat at all. One thinks of the $436,504 that the Blackfeet Nation of Montana received in fiscal 2010 "to help strengthen the nation against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks"; the $1,000,000 that the village of Poynette, Wisconsin (pop. 2,266) received in fiscal 2009 for an "emergency operations center"; or the $67,000 worth of surveillance equipment purchased by Marin County, California, and discovered, still in its original packaging, four years later. And indeed, every U.S. state, no matter how landlocked or underpopulated, receives, by law, a fixed percentage of homeland security spending every year.
Nor a "single bomber or bomb plot [was] stopped by its time-wasting procedures. In fact, TSA screeners consistently fail to spot the majority of fake "bombs" and bomb parts the agency periodically plants to test their skills. In Los Angeles, whose airport was targeted by the "millennium plot" on New Year's 2000, screeners failed some 75 percent of these tests."
Unemployment rate falls to 9.4%. as fewer seek work
103K new jobs added in December, no matter what the spin meisters will say, do not point to slow, steady growth.
Underemployment rose to 19.0% in December from 17.2% at the end of November.
Bernanke: 4-5 Years Before 'Normal' Unemployment.
If Obummer stated in November 2008, that "We may not get there in one year or even one term," he could have meant five to eight years hence resulting in improvement in 2013 or 2016. Bernanke is implying 2015 or 2016.
Information Warfare
Connect the Dots: Information Warfare 101 Preview - Guy Rodgers
“Connect the Dots: Information Warfare 101,” is a Power Point presentation featuring ACT! for America Executive Director Guy Rodgers.
The Oulawed Brief Preview - John Guandolo
American Terrorism Since 9/11
TERRORISM SINCE 9/11, The American Cases, Edited by John Mueller
The death toll of all these is fourteen: thirteen at Ft. Hood and one in Little Rock. I think it's fair to add to this the 2002 incident at Los Angeles Airport where a lone gunman killed two people at the El Al ticket counter, so that's sixteen deaths in the U.S. to terrorism in the past ten years.
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security (this does not include our many foreign wars), that's $62.5 billion per life lost.
Conspicuous omissions:
July 4, 2002: lone wolf attack on El Al counter at LAX. Two killed, four wounded. Since the shooter was also killed, there was no arrest.
It may be that the measures are extremely effective and that terrorism is actively prevented every day, but we just don't hear about the successes. It might also be the case of having a banana in your ear to keep away alligators.
"Why do you have that banana in your ear?"
"To keep away the alligators."
"But there are no alligators here."
"See! It's working!"
July 28, 2006: lone wolf attack on Seattle Jewish Federation. One killed, five wounded. The shooter was convicted in a state court.
Maybe these weren't considered "cases of terrorism" because there weren't federal criminal charges brought in response to either incident. Shooting a military recruiter is a federal crime; shooting a Jewish civilian is a state crime.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
There are a number of free alternatives.
Pics4Learning - Very popular site to find free, safe-to-use images for teachers and students.
UCLA Sharia
Sharia Law at UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies:
El Fadl ran into Campus Watch and American Thinker, where he attacks Dr. Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/uclas_professor_of_fantasy.html
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10523
Dr. Pipes has responded at his blog:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/12/answering-khaled-abou-el-fadl
As has Robert Spencer:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/islamic-supremacist-pseudo-academic-khaled-abou-el-fadl-lies-about-sharia-freedom-fighters.html
El Fadl ran into Campus Watch and American Thinker, where he attacks Dr. Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/uclas_professor_of_fantasy.html
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10523
Dr. Pipes has responded at his blog:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/12/answering-khaled-abou-el-fadl
As has Robert Spencer:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/islamic-supremacist-pseudo-academic-khaled-abou-el-fadl-lies-about-sharia-freedom-fighters.html
Final Tab for Pelosi’s Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt—Or $3.66 Billion Per Day
During her tenure, she amassed more debt than the first 49 speakers combined.
Here are the national debt figures for the speakership terms of Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her two immediate predecessors:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Jan. 4, 2007 $8,670,596,242,973.04
Jan. 4, 2011 $14,014,049,043,294.41
New debt added: $5,343,452,800,321.37
Total days served: 1,461 days
Debt added per day: $3,657,394,113.84
Speaker Dennis Hastert
Jan. 6, 1999 5,615,428,551,461.33
Jan. 3, 2007 8,677,214,255,313.07
New debt added: 3,061,785,703,851.74
Total days served: 2,920
Debt added per day: 1,048,556,747.89
Speaker Newt Gingrich
Jan. 4, 1995 4,801,793,426,032.89
Jan. 3, 1999 5,614,217,021,195.87
New debt added: 812,423,595,162.98
Total days served: 1,461
Debt added per day: 556,073,644.88
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