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

Hope

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

Ideological Hack Study

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

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

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

Afpak Summary

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

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

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

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

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

March 2, 2009:

Pakistan

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

Afghanistan

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

March 1, 2009:

Pakistan

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

Afghanistan

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

Obama Abandons Eastern Europe: Capitulates to Russia

Update

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

Hanson: Military Historian Update on Obama

Library of Congress on Crisis of Obama

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

Cash for New Urban Czar

Tocqueville Describes Obama's America

Anti-Catholic Obama Nominates Sebelius

Marx: Collapse of Capitalism Quote

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

Karl Marx, 1867, Das Kapital

World Tells America How to Wipe

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

Iran Accesses Secret American Data

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obama Hate Speech

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

Obama Anti-Conscience

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tea Party Rallies Held Over the Weekend

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

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

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

Graphic source: China National Offshore Oil Corporation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quote: Montaigne

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

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

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

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

Afghanistan Commands

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