Google's Cozy Relationship with Obama

Consumer Watchdog has called on Sen. Issa to investigate Google for perks it may receive from the government.

Update: Haskell's Stick by Story, Christmas Day Bomber a Plant, Patsy

The Haskell's and other witnesses noted at the time that a mysterious figure intervened to allow the bomber to board the plane. Up to the present, the Haskell couple have consistently maintained on their blog that there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Cf. http://blogsmithconsulting.blogspot.com/2010/01/kurt-haskell-on-latest-muslim-terrorist.html and http://blogsmithconsulting.blogspot.com/2009/12/airplane-lies-of-this-administration.html

Update: Wilmington, DE, John Wheeler, Mysterious Death

Medical examiner: Homicide victim John Wheeler died of 'blunt force trauma.'

Within hours of the grisly New Year’s Eve discovery, state pathologists had ruled that the 66-year-old New Castle resident was a homicide victim, but until today authorities had been mum on the cause of his death -- an unusual posture in Delaware, where such information is usually released promptly.

Hal G. Brown, deputy director of the medical examiner’s office, said he did not know what medications or chemicals, if any, were in Wheeler’s system, but said the death certificate makes it clear that toxicology “didn’t play a role’’ in Wheeler’s death.

Obama Promotes Islamist Youth in Egypt

A secret US document discloses support for Islamist youth protesters which implicates Obama and the United States government with supporting the unrest occurring in Egypt. The British newspaper the Telegraph reports that Egypt protested against the U.S.'s secret backing for rebel leaders behind the uprising. It looks like the way this story will be spun is to suggest that Obama advocated democracy, human rights, and they were privately pushing Mubarak towards reform. The Iranians are closer to the mark. Iran correctly sees the rise of Islamic hard-liners. Usually by playing both sides, as much chaos and confusion can be created. The Islamists received support from Obama's regime, yet, Mubarak's repression is marked with "Made in USA" teargas.

Finally, it should be noted that the secret State Department document expresses skepticism whether the revolutionaries truly have the support of significant numbers of Egyptians against Mubarak.

The Alliance of Youth Movements Summit began with a December 2008 summit in New York City to identify, convene, and engage 21st century movements online. The United States Department of State partnered with Facebook, Howcast, MTV, Google, YouTube, AT&T, JetBlue, Gen-Next, Access 360 Media, and Columbia Law School to launch a global network and protect the efforts of young people to mobilize. Speakers at the 2008 summit included actress Whoopi Goldberg, Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz, The Obama Campaign’s New Media Team, and then-current Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of the United States James K. Glassman.

In March 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced and endorsed the Second Alliance for Youth Movements Summit, held in Mexico City. Young delegates were described by Secretary Clinton as “the vanguard of a rising generation of citizen activists."



I oppose the involvement of the U.S. State Department and Obama's partisan political arm promoting Islamic youth movements. The leaked documents show the extent to which the U.S. was offering support to Islamic activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East. After Obama's regime came to power in late 2008, in a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year. The documents showed that the activist had been approached by US diplomats and received extensive support for his Islamist campaign from officials in Washington. The documents released by WikiLeaks reveal US Embassy officials were in regular contact with the activist throughout 2008 and 2009, considering him one of their most reliable sources for information.

The Egyptian youth leader further claimed in the secret document that several opposition forces -- including "the Wafd, Nasserite, Karama and Tagammu parties, and the Muslim Brotherhood, Kifaya, and Revolutionary Socialist movements -- have agreed to support an unwritten plan for a transition" in Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist transnational movement and the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states.

Political parties in Egypt are dominated by the one-party rule of Mubarak's National Democratic Party.

The Revolutionary Socialists are international communists.

The Wafd party is a nationalist group. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafd_Party and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wafd_Party.

The Nasserites are an Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was a major influence on pan-Arab politics in the 1950s and 1960s, and continues to have significant resonance throughout the Arab World to this day. It also metamorphosed into other nationalist movements during the 1970s. However, the scale of the Arab defeat in the Six Day War of 1967 severely damaged the standing of Nasser, and the ideology associated with him. Nasser himself died in 1970, and certain important tenets of Nasserism were revised or abandoned totally by his successor as Egyptian President, Anwar El-Sadat. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasserites and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Democratic_Nasserist_Party.

Karama - is the Dignity Party (Hizb al-Karama) - a Nasserist offshoot led by journalist and MP Hamdeen Sabahi. Isn't granted full-license yet.

Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Egypt

Tagammu is the National Progressive Unionist Party (in Arabic: Hizb al Tagammu' al Watani al Taqadomi al Wahdawi حزب التجمع الوطني التقدمي الوحدوي, commonly referred to as Tagammu) is a socialist political party in Egypt.

Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_National_Unionist_Party

Kifaya (Egyptian Arabic: كفاية kefāya, IPA: [keˈfæːjæ], “enough”) is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change (Arabic: الحركة المصرية من أجل التغيير‎ el-Haraka el-Masreyya men agl el-Taghyeer), a grassroots coalition which draws it support from across Egypt’s political spectrum to oppose President Hosni Mubarak’s presidency and the possibility he may seek to transfer power directly to his son Gamal.

Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefaya

Egypt Shows How Easily Internet Can Be Silenced

The U.S. has a more robust infrastructure but the Internet can be shut down more easily in places such as Egypt.

Are you eating food sacrificed to idols?

Are you eating food sacrificed to idols? from El Shaddai Ministries on Vimeo.

zabihah lists halal sites in the U.S.

Marc Faber on Bloomberg 01/25/11

I think he’s done a horrible job and I think that will continue, I think he is a dishonest person, and nothing has changed… Some politicians are more honest than others. I don’t think that I have a very high regard for politicians, I have a high regard for businessmen and for people who work, and not for people who abuse the system continuously. And in comparison to other politicians, I think he came in on a platform as a president that would want to change the government in Washington, and actually he’s made it worse… We foreigners, we just laugh at someone like Mr. Obama. I was very critical of Mr. Bush, but at least he had one line and he stuck to that line, and at least he set out to do a thing and he was relatively straight on the thing that he did. He may have been wrong, but at least he didn’t change his mind continuously, and didn’t prostitute himself.”

Pulled Down Pants: Body Cavity Search

APD Unit Investigated Over Public Strip Search Claims.

Death to Infiels Muslim cleric caught being smuggled into U.S. over Mexico border

Said Jaziri, who called for the death of a Danish cartoonist that drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed, was being smuggled into California.

Limbaugh Mocks: Americans Defend Communist Chinese

Asian-American lawmakers demand Limbaugh apology

Obama Supports Islamic Dictators

But lost in the lunge to protect US strategic and commercial interests by propping up the region's dictator class is any realisation that that support is what leaves the youth of the region under-educated and under-employed and, thereby, ripe for the picking by Islamist and other underground movements.

British Schoolgirl's Testimony - Muslims Threaten Children With Violence & Rape Outside School Daily

They have to use "Asian" for Muslim the kids are so afraid of speaking plainly since they live in fear of retaliation.

MC 5 DNC Festival of Life Surveillance by DOD

Obama's Sophmoric College Essay

Obama's 1983 Columbia article on "Breaking the War Mentality."

When television was television Baby boomer's video recalls glory days of small screen

Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment and Planning Scenarios

Plan for the next Mass Casualty scenario.

Border Insecurity: Suicide Bombers Book Found in Arizona

Iranian Book Celebrating Suicide Bombers Found in Arizona Desert

Other Than Mexican (OTMs)

Just last year, the Department of Homeland Security had in custody thousands of detainees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. U.S. Border Patrol statistics indicate that there were 108,025 OTMs detained in 2006, compared to 165,178 in 2005 and 44,614 in 2004.

The Russians Lecture the Americans: Private Sector, Not Gov't the Solution

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on 25 January 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the most effective way to resolve a severe economic crisis is through the Private Sector - not big government:

"Simple and often populist solutions, in ninety cases out of one hundred, are wrong, or prove to be wrong, or perhaps even prove to be worst out of all the possible options. A vivid case in point is a tendency of trying to resolve economic problems through nationalization, including the nationalization of financial institutions.

"In the [recent era and] period of financial crisis, many states paused to think about that, and many states took that option, including states with well developed Liberal economies. Our economy is not developed well enough - I'm referring to the Russian economy - but we have exercised restraint, and we did not resort to that option. And I believe that we were right in doing that.

"I believe that, in most cases, crisis can be resolved through the efforts of private sectors, and, in the long term perspective, this is the most effective way of dealing with things."

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

"Only government can break the cycle that are crippling our economy. The federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back into life. It is only government that can break the vicious cycle."

Obama - 2009

No Sharia Law

Obama Plagiarizes SOTU

Obama's State of the Union Was Tantamount to Plagiarism

Early in his address, Obama said that he wanted the nation he leads to be a "light to the world." The last president who set such a mission for the nation he led, and in those exact words, was Woodrow Wilson.

Obama’s concept of the “American family” may well have had its origins in the first State of the State address New York Governor Mario Cuomo delivered in 1983. Cuomo proclaimed the state of New York as a “family.” He also talked about multiple partnerships, both public and private.

Margaret Thatcher coined a phrase Obama made his own in his second State of the Union address. Thatcher told her American audience that "no other nation has been built upon an idea." In a slightly revised form, Obama, in his second State of the Union address, all but repeated it, using additional words.

The most famous quote from the plagiarized statement is the Sputnik moment: Obama's Not the First to Use 'Sputnik Moment.'

It’s a theme that Obama has toyed with on and off for some time, and it’s one that other pols—including Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney--have used for several years as well.

Reagan described “ordinary heroes,” after all, it was Reagan who began the practice of inviting citizens who had done extraordinary things to sit beside the first lady in the House gallery as the president recited their achievements. It was also Reagan who reminded his listeners that the greatness of America emerged not from the hand of government, but through the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people.

Obama said, "I know there isn’t a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth." Leaving aside the faulty grammar (people change places with people, not with nations), the poaching from John F. Kennedy's immortal inaugural address was obvious. ("I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation.") That Obama could utter almost identical words days after paying tribute to Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of the delivery of that famous speech and not making reference to it suggests a self-absorption rare even among presidents.

Most pointedly, the low point of Obama’s speech came when he brought back government re-organization from the ash heap of failed efforts of previous presidents who sought to save money without inflicting pain on a public that had grown accustomed to government largesse. This one, like all that talk about all those green energy jobs that lay before us, had fallen out of the presidential repertoire with retirement of Jimmy Carter. Obama might have had the decency to have Carter on hand to witness the moment. He will have another chance should he, when he delivers his budget, bring back that other Carter flop from yesteryear, “zero based budgeting.”

Even Obama’s feigned attempt at humor had an antecedent in the remarks of a predecessor who spun better yarns than this guy. Obama informed his listeners that salmon comes under the jurisdiction of one department when swimming in fresh water and under another when swimming in salt water. He rhetorically inquired what happened to the fish when “smoked.”

Franklin Roosevelt wrote to an adviser in which he complained that some bears were the property of the Interior Department, while others belonged the National Parks System. FDR, tongue in cheek, warned of a pending custody battle over cubs that emerged from illicit unions of bears crossing departmental jurisdictions.

The teleprompter rules; Obama reads whatever is on the screen. There is no thinking behind the words.