Blog Smith

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.

Monday, September 12, 2011

WORLD ‘ISLAM IS ONLY AS STRONG AS WE ARE WEAK’: SWISS POL WARNS EU OF ‘SUCCEEDING’ ISLAMIC ‘DOGMA’


Last week, Oskar Freysinger, a member of the Swiss Parliament delivered a rousing speech in Germany, warning the German people and all of Europe about Islam’s slow-motion takeover. Freysinger’s political party, the SVP, seems to parallel the values espoused by America’s Tea Party. The Party has been described thusly:

The SVP adheres to national conservatism, aiming at the preservation of Switzerland’s political sovereignty and a conservative society. Furthermore, the party promotes the principle of individual responsibility and is skeptical toward any expansion of governmental services. This stance is most evident in the rejection of an accession of Switzerland to the European Union, the rejection of military involvement abroad, and the rejection of increases in government spending on social welfare and education.
A portion of Freysinger’s speech can be seen here, the full text of the prepared speech is also attached below (apparently there were some ad libs in the actual delivery):



Speech by Oskar Freysinger in Berlin
September 3, 2011
Berlin is worth a trip. Especially today. Especially here. Because here and now an important signal is being given to the peoples of Europe. The signal for a European Spring! To offset the autumn mood in the EU. So that, instead of the mood of doom, finally a mood of awakening will come. An awakening in the name of freedom!

Yes, yes, cherished FREIHEIT! That is also the name of the party here in Germany that offers an alternative to bureaucratism, centralism, loss of democracy, uncontrolled immigration and Islamization. An alternative to self-destruction.
My dear Berlin friends, I come to you today as a neighbor. And as a concerned friend.
Since I am a citizen of a small country which is put under greater and greater pressure by the EU, it is near to my heart to support the truly democratic forces in the EU conglomerate. Only if these forces prevail can I hope that the Great Power pretensions of the EU will be abandoned and its relationship to Switzerland will at last be shaped in the way it should be between civilized and respectful neighbors.
Freedom is one of the democratic forces I count on. But why does the EU exert this kind of massive pressure — economically, financially and politically — on my country? Is it arrogance? Greed? Envy? All of those may apply, but the true reason lies deeper.
The EUSSR will no longer tolerate the existence of a small country in the heart of the continent, whose people still want to decide their own fate. A prudent, little bit of a folk that has thus far withstood the over-indebtedness which is playing hell with the states reined in by globalization.
For that is the goal of all global financial institutions and international monetary funds: The weakening of nation-states in order to lead them to their dubious “good fortune.” The wealth of peoples is destroyed en masse, so that the weakened states can be reduced to willing agents of a global dogma.
We Swiss hate every form of paternalism! We want no patronizing, no foreign judges! Our citizens are independent and imaginative enough to take their fate into their own hands.
Just picture this: On the southern border of Germany is a country in which 53% of the people have voted for deportation of criminal aliens; a land in which every minor rise in the VAT must be approved by referendum. Who is surprised that the VAT is still at 8% in Switzerland while it has reached 20% in the EU?
A study by the French economic expert Yvan Blot demonstrates that where state
affairs are voted on directly and democratically, the rates of duties and taxes are on average 30% lower than where state affairs are decided exclusively on administrative and policy grounds.
We watch our own wallets more carefully than other people’s money. There lies the future of the continent. Not in further expansion of a bureaucratic and centralized monster that will one day swallow its own children.
In Switzerland, the power is still in the hands of the people. We Helvetians were able to vote on entry to the EU… and wisely looked the other way. In retrospect, this decision has proven to be a great good fortune.
How did that work in Germany? Elites distanced from the people decided for the people. The same elite who introduced the euro, which, at one blow, caused a 30% loss of purchasing power for the average German citizen.
In Switzerland, the possible introduction of the euro had to be approved by the people. You can just picture the result.
Of course, the strong Franc would then be no problem for our export economy, but we would be stuck in the euro trap like the others and would have to bleed financially for a completely broken-down statist system, just as the German taxpayer has been doing for years. Better to stay flexible and economically independent.
Direct democracy means that the optional or obligatory referendum underlies every law proposed by parliament, and nothing can be decided over the heads of the people. Direct democracy means that determined citizens can launch initiatives with 100,000 signatures, which must be put before the people. This gives political decisions much greater legitimacy than the usual parliamentary resolutions. No one in Switzerland would think of questioning a decision by referendum which was approved by 50-70%. What the people have decided is valid and everyone has to adhere to that, Period. Even the administration. Especially the administration.
That is how it was with the famous/notorious anti-minaret initiative in which I was the anti-muezzin. 58% of the Swiss population decided in November, 2009 to prevent the occupation of public space by the dominating symbols of a religious dogma.
This decision by the last free population in Europe had a signal effect. In its wake, decisions were made about the veiling of women in France and Belgium and the construction of a Saudi-financed giant mosque in Norway was prevented. The dhimmi attitude of Europeans sustained a wound which must not heal over, if the millennia-old European civilization is to survive.
For Europe is more than a plot of land, more than a continent, more than the sum of its countries. Europe is an idea, a cultural landscape, an intellectual space shaped by history. Europa is the cradle of the modern constitutional state, the treasure-house of human rights, of freedom of opinion and expression.
This is ever more strongly endangered by the possibility that our political elite will bend their necks before a religious dogma that is alien to our intellectual history, our values and our constitutional state.
This dogma is gnawing away at the pillars of our system of laws, wherever it is allowed some space. This dogma demands total obedience from its followers. They are in no case to integrate into our value system. That would be like treason and can even be punished with death. They are expected to conquer our intellectual home, make the Western world subject. Not with tanks, rockets or riflemen. Not through brutal revolution.
No, Islam is in no hurry. It has an eternity.
A long process of softening up and leisurely occupation of our weakening, child-poor society is foreseen. The Islamic doctrine is expected to gradually creep into everyday life and Fortress Europe will crumble from within. Just think of how the Serbs lost Kosovo. Through demographic development and the help of NATO, which brought about the founding of the first Islamic state on European ground. What an ominous sign.
The Islamic dogma is succeeding everywhere. In Turkey, the Islamists are gradually occupying all judicial and army posts, in order to obliterate the heritage of Kemal Atatürk. Lebanon will become an Islamic state in the next decades, The Arab Spring is on the point of being taken over by the Islamists. In Iraq, in Egypt and in Pakistan, the last Christian communities are facing extinction,
And what are we doing? We are allowing this violent doctrine, unhindered in cultural ghettos, to strain at toppling the nation of laws. We just shrug our shoulders when girls are forced into marriage and Muslims willing to integrate are pressured and threatened. When women are beaten and whole city districts are taken over, we look the other way. We believe we can soften the power hunger of the holy warriors with welfare money.
We believe we can buy peace! What lunacy! No one fingers the Prophet’s beard. Fanatics cannot be bought. Germany should know that better than any other country in the world.
My dear friends in the audience, we are not fighting against people, we are fighting for people! We are fighting against a dogma that is anathema to every aspect of humanity and would like to lead us back into barbarism. We do not intend to give up the freedom we have fought so hard for over the centuries.
Dear Berliners, here I stand, and I cannot do otherwise, lest soon no human being in this Europe will be able to take the responsibility for what represents the pillar of our culture, of our system of law and of our humanity: transcendent, unconditional love of neighbor.
If we lose this battle, there will be no second chance, for Islam does not give back what it has conquered. So I summon all the humanists of this continent not to keep their heads in the sand and to resist the Islamic dogma’s drive to conquest. Let us stand together and uncompromisingly insist upon the primacy of our civil law over any religious dogma. Let us find our way back to our precious intellectual heritage.
Islam is only as strong as we are weak.
Let us oppose it with more than McDonald’s, soap operas, stupefying TV programs and brutal video games. Our culture has so much more to offer. Let us get back to depth and endurance, to organic growth. Let us stay alert and critical, so long as even a grain of Socrates lives on in us. Let us no longer subject our spirit to the dictates of the material. Only that way can we prevent brutal power politics being spread in the name of religion. Only that way do we have chance to leave our children a peaceful Europe, shaped by respect and dignity.
Long live die Freiheit! (Long live freedom!)

Sunday, September 11, 2011

F-16 PILOT CONSIDERED ‘RAMMING’ FLIGHT 93 ON 9/11

Lieutenant Heather “Lucky” Penney remembers what was asked of her, and the decision she faced.

FATHER OF FLIGHT 93 HERO TODD BEAMER REFLECTS ON SON STORMING COCKPIT, SHOUTING ‘LET’S ROLL’


Let's Roll Dad Tells It Like It Is.

During a segment on Fox News Friday, Beamer said that while the recordings serve as a reminder of 9/11, Americans need to know who the enemy is. He added that the public cannot forget because it is reminded daily of the threats present, and by being on heightened alert at all times.

Beamer, who believes the nation is doing its best to ready itself to combat and prevent another terror event said he doesn’t think the public is doing a good job defending itself against the “tactic of infiltration” being used by our enemy — militant Islamists, and Muslims who sympathize with the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks. “They don’t want us to salute …the stars and stripes…they want us to salute the flag of Islam,” Beamer said.

He also singled out the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) for particular scorn stating the acronym instead stands for, “Constantly Advancing Islamic Regime.”

Beamer believes the American public is “in denial” about what “their tactic of infiltration will do to our republic.”

Islamic Pedophile Marriages

Saudi Cleric Issues Fatwa Defending Pedophilia as ‘Marriage’

Remembering the Dog Heroes of September 11th

Video of Dog Heroes

Break Crazy Tea Party Bubble: Van Jones Reveals The Strategy Behind Villainizing The Tea Party


UK MUSLIM PROTESTERS BURN AMERICAN FLAG IN FRONT OF US EMBASSY DURING 9/11 MOMENT OF SILENCE


It appears that the group removed are from the EDL, a right-wing group which to be fair can be considered hooligan-like and previous clashes have occurred with local opposition and other opponents have led to street violence, anti-social behaviour, and arrests. However, from at least what appears on the tape in question, they were engaged in peaceful, simple, non-violent discourse and free speech. Yet, they were removed in light of the Muslims Against the Crusades protest against honoring the dead on 9/11. The group of English Defence League protesters were ordered to move on to accommodate the anti-American demonstration.

The 60-strong EDL group briefly scuffled with police as they were forced away from their original location to a different part of Grosvenor Square. Twenty people were arrested for breach of the peace as the group was dispersed towards Oxford Street. And at least four more arrests were made as police escorted the Muslim group back towards the Central London Mosque in Regents Park.

Viewers can decide for themselves about the rhetoric, tactics, and political value of the Islamists speech.

Groups of young men, EDL and the Muslims Against the Crusades, demonstrate on 11/09/2011, walking towards Hyde park.


100 protesters burn American flag outside U.S. embassy in London during minute's silence for 9/11.


EDL members get stabbed on Edgware Road - London.

Later in the evening two EDL members were stabbed by Muslim youths (according to police reports) outside the JD Wetherspoon pub. Police outside the JD Wetherspoon pub confirmed two EDL members were stabbed.

A summary and raw tape of protests included here.

The 60-strong group briefly scuffled with police as they were forced away from their original location to a different part of Grosvenor Square.
Twenty people were arrested for breach of the peace as the group was dispersed towards Oxford Street.
And at least four more arrests were made as police escorted the Muslim group back towards the Central London Mosque in Regents Park.


Another raw tape of the is here.

Priest Says 9/11 Day of Remembering (Not Service)

9/11 10th Anniversary Is a Day for Remembering, Not Forgetting


Twisted Steel, Ian Hunter, History Project Music Video

Ten Years -- We Are Still Missing the Lessons of 9/11

Faith was the impetus for the attack, faith was the instrument for healing, and faith is the only hope we have to defeat the ideology that attacked us ten years ago.

Poll: Did the university violate the students' First Amendment rights?

Poll: Did the university violate the students' First Amendment rights?

NORTH ARIZONA UNIVERSITY HALTS STUDENTS DISTRIBUTING FLAGS FOR 9/11

Michelle: "All This For A Flag," Obama Smirks in Response

Some lip readers are saying she says - "all that for a flag?"
The ceremony beforehand included a choir singing and bagpipe playing before unfurling a tattered US flag.
There is a growing internet buzz over the First Lady's comment to her husband during the 9/11 commemoration Sunday, as the flag ceremony is taking place.

George W. Bush Flight 93 Memorial Speech, September 10, 2011


9/11 Guidelines Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

Banning Religion on 9/11

HOW HAVE AMERICANS’ OPINIONS ON FAITH & RELIGION EVOLVED SINCE 9/11?

9/11 You Lost the War

RADICAL ISLAMIC GROUP: WE WILL ‘MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS POSSIBLE’ DURING 9/11 MOMENT OF SILENCE

The move is sponsored by Muslims Against Crusades (MAC).

Provide for the Common Defense: The U.S. Military 10 Years After 9/11


In stark terms, Providing for The Common Defense highlights the impacts that ten years of hard fighting have had on America's military. In the video, Armed Services Chairman McKeon previews questions that Committee members will be asking this fall of our nation's brightest national security minds; "what if we're attacked in some other area, what is our military going to be able to do if we keep cutting it... tell me the missions we've done in the last couple of years that we won't be asked to do in the next couple of years."

Reflections on 9/11

I mean a terrorist act against civilians as compared to Mumbai, London, Lisbon, et.al. I understand your point though. There are acts committed in war against civilians and in the past they were, and are, horrific. Today, we have horrific acts against civilians and the changing nature of warfare: a Major in the Army at Ft. Hood, attacks on military recruiting centers: actions within our midst.

Do we have a GWOT (Global War on Terror), or an Overseas Contingency Operation, or a kinetic action? Our leaders are so mystified they can't even agree on what to call it, a worldwide violent movement, within and from without our borders. If you can not define a thing, nor define your enemy, you will never have a strategy to defeat it. Ten years later, three sort of declared wars later, and we still have an elusive, undefined enemy which our leadership can not identify, nor is seemingly able to find.

http://people-press.org/2011/08/30/muslim-americans-no-signs-of-growth-in-alienation-or-support-for-extremism/
Yet, in one of the most extensive surveys ever done on American Muslims, the Pew Research Center found 21% of the respondents reported a "Great deal/Fair Amount" of support for extremism within their mosque. Can any of us waltz into our churches and say that about one of every five persons within their congregation advocates religiously motivated violence? These numbers would hearken us back to the days of the Ku Klux Klan and lynchings; and yet, silence on the part of our leaders.

We do have Obam's Iftar dinner remarks so we have guidance on how to think about 9/11.
9/11 is a day of honoring Muslims.

Arbeit Macht Frei.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Ian Hunter, City Winery, 9 September 2011

"Stand By Me," "Alice" and "Isolation" are the rare tracks played live here.

"All American Alien Boy"


"Alice"/"Waterlow"


"Alice"


"Isolation"


A second version of the tune follows:

"Isolation"


"When The Daylight Comes"/"Sweet Jane"


"American Music"


"Roll Away the Stone"


"Is There Life After Death"


"It Ain't Easy When You Fall"/"Shades Off"/"All The Way From Memphis"


"Cleveland Rocks"


"Saturday Gigs/All the Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene"


Tracy, Jesse, and Ian on "All The Young Dudes"

Cf. John Lennon, "Isolation," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZzXg0qYoAo

Winery Thurs.-Friday setlists were these, in order:

1. All American Alien Boy
2. American Music
3. Stand By Me
4. Cleveland Rocks
5. Isolation
6. Central Park N West
7. Flowers
8. Man Overboard
9. Alice
10. Waterlow
11. Wash Us Away
12. When the Daylight Comes
13. Sweet Jane

ENCORE
14. Girl From the Office (with Andy York)
15. Standing in My Light
16. It Ain't Easy When You Fall/Shades Off
17. All the Way From Memphis

ENCORE II
18. The Moon Upstairs (Thurs., not Fri.)
19. Once Bitten Twice Shy (Fri., not Thurs)
20. Roll Away The Stone (Fri., not Thurs)
21. The Saturday Gigs
22. All the Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene

Ian Hunter & Rant Band rip through dynamic downtown show

Religion Banned from 9/11

COPS NOT CONVINCED


PASTORS HOLD VIGIL OUTSIDE GROUND ZERO TO PROTEST LACK OF CLERGY AT 9/11 CEREMONY

How much does our national debt weigh?


Islamist Statistics: Arrests from Small Muslim Community

The threat to the United States has grown exponentially in ten years. A report from the Department of Justice in March of 2010 showed that of 228 terror-related arrests 186 of them were Muslim. That is over 80 percent from a Muslim community that represents less than 2 percent of the U.S. population.

What this report does not tell us is that of the 186 Muslim arrests almost certainly all of them were Muslims that believed in and adhered to an Islamist ideology. Since this report we have seen upwards of another 28 terror-related arrests of Muslims including the likes of Faisal Shahzad -- the Times Square bomber -- and Pvt. Naser Abdo who was preparing a second attack on Fort Hood who both claimed to be "Muslim soldiers" fighting for the ummah (Muslim nation).

PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe about Lincoln

Obama made a major gaffe; he identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party.

Ponzi Scheme Pedigree

They were written by economist Paul A. Samuelson, a proponent of Keynes, in his February 13, 1967 Newsweek column which carried the subhead Something for Nothing?

9/11 Islamist Threat Sought

Kenan Mohammad has been posted on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.

A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted him and seven other men in 2009 on charges that they conspired to carry out terrorist activities around the world. Two of the men have pleaded guilty, and the trial of four others is set for September 19.

Obama Loses 20,000 SAMs in Libya

Human Rights Watch "estimates there are 20,000 surface-to-air missiles in Libya, and many of those are now missing. Some are recent Russian-made SAMs, capable of shooting down aircraft flying as high as 11,000 feet."

Friday, September 9, 2011

Ian Hunter, City Winery, 8 September 2011

"Alice"/"Waterlow"


"Twisted Steel"


"The Girl From the Office,"

with Andy York



All The Way From Memphis

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2348489119776

Extended Family on "All The Young Dudes"


The original "Alice" by Mott The Hoople

Israel Palestinian Conflict: The Truth About the West Bank


Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The video explains where the terms "West Bank", "occupied territories" and "67 Borders" originated and how they are incorrectly used and applied. Also follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DannyAyalon and http://facebook.com/DannyAyalon

LAWMAKER’S SIGN CRACKS DECORUM AT OBAMA JOB SPEECH

Rep. Jeff Landry printed out a small white sign to raise when Obama mentioned how, exactly, he planned to put more Americans to work. “Drilling(equals)jobs," it read.

Tarek Fatah: PM Harper is right about islamofascism


"The comments of Prime Minister Harper should be saluted. He's the first Western leader who has come up with the clarity that has been missing in the last ten years.

Had Prime Minister Harper been the President of the United States we would have won the War on Terror by now. But instead we've got someone in the White House today who's apologizing, and in fact giving the impression that it was the United States that attacked muslims, not vice versa."
. . .
[in response to lawyer Paul Champ]
"These sharia Bolsheviks, these bleeding-heart white liberals are a dime a dozen in Canada, and what they do not understand is that as a muslim I am the first line of defence - the islamists will get me and slit my throat long before Mr. Champ ever comes into the picture. I would gladly exchange my position with his white privilege and then discuss this issue. Let him go to Pakistan."

N.Koreans Down U.S. Plane

US Military Plane Forced Down By North Korean Electronic Attack

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Ian Hunter, Rescheduled 10 September 2011, Havana, New Hope, PA

Business Man Straight Out of Atlas Shrugged


This is the audio of Ronnie Bryant at a public meeting in Birmingham on July 20, 2011. The recording was made on my iPad just to have a record of correct quotes, so the audio quality is poor since it wasn't intended for broadcast purposes.

“If they want to create jobs, provide health insurance, and increase revenue,” Bryant said in reference to the federal government, “they need to back down on the regulatory burden. It’s like pulling an iron ball with a chain. I’m not saying to make it go away—just the stuff that’s not pertinent or useful.”

Terry Douglas, who owns two mines in Jasper with Bryant, said it costs them about $250,000 per mine in permit fees alone and that paperwork and regulatory inspections are a constant presence (as well as an additional revenue strain). When asked about typical concerns surrounding coal mining—including companies skirting health and safety regulations—Douglas said it “doesn’t make sense” to let safety lapse and risk losing miners to illness or injury when it would only cost more to train new personnel.

“We take care of our equipment and take care of our people,” Douglas said. “The regulations make coal miners out to be criminals; but we’re not outlaws. Coal mining is an art. I have a civil engineering degree; Ronnie has a mining engineering degree. It’s not wildcat whiskey we’re making; this is drinking whiskey we got.”

Bryant pointed to less stringent environmental regulations in countries such as China, saying that the U.S. is falling behind even though it has abundant resources. “But you can’t get to them,” he said, adding that while there are concerns over dwindling wildlife populations, “people are becoming the endangered species.”

Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, regional administrator for EPA’s Southeast Region, attended the Birmingham public hearing but could not be reached for comment.

“Nearly every day without fail…men stream to these [mining] operations looking for work in Walker County. They can’t pay their mortgage. They can’t pay their car note. They can’t feed their families. They don’t have health insurance. And as I stand here today, I just…you know…what’s the use? I got a permit to open up an underground coal mine that would employ probably 125 people. They’d be paid wages from $50,000 to $150,000 a year. We would consume probably $50 million to $60 million in consumables a year, putting more men to work. And my only idea today is to go home. What’s the use? I see these guys—I see them with tears in their eyes—looking for work. And if there’s so much opposition to these guys making a living, I feel like there’s no need in me putting out the effort to provide work for them. So…basically what I’ve decided is not to open the mine. I’m just quitting. Thank you.”

Jesus Missing at Georgetown University

Obama Covers Up Jesus

Obama Jobs Speech: Broken Record

MSNBC Rigs Post-Debate Poll Results to Suppress Ron Paul

Media Bias Alert

Analysis of the Republican Primary Debate

The lamestream media is boring. The questions and tone were dismissive and discouraged interaction. Gingrich called the media out:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0AqYH6MSos&feature=player_embedded

How many times can you ask about Iraq (as if Afghanistan and Libya haven't happened)? Immigration "reform," and all the candidates answered how many times that they are against the Dream Act, yet, the Telemundo guy kept asking, "just a follow-up" to promote his view, education, these and other favored leftist causes. Did the commentators realize they were talking to Republicans? How about the dolt who asked, `What does it indicate that the audience clapped when asked about the [severe in Texas] death penalty?' He wants to imply the audience is made up of barbarians; the fact of the matter is that people overwhelmingly favor a severe application of the death penalty, regardless of how anyone else feels about it. Why don't these commentators know that?

The leftist media is promoting Romney and Perry, nominating them as they did last night, front and center. This is for two main reasons; they favor Romney because they see him as `presidential' meaning he has the looks (since Kennedy, Kerry, Obummer, et. al.), a primary leftist criteria during the nomination process. Romney is obviously an empty suit, like Obummer, so the left can deal with him; likewise, the left media likes Perry because then you can have conflict among Republicans, just as Gingrich called them out on.

Then, you place Bachmann, who the left dismisses, on one side, and then Paul, on the other, because he is provocative. These two foils will highlight the imagined conflict between Republicans, the TEA party perspective, and the libertarian, respectively. The others are dismissed completely. Cain can not be taken seriously because the left wing media can not understand an intelligent, articulate African-American business man who belongs to the TEA party. In the leftist perspective, Cain is a throwback to the racists of the past as in Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. Huntsmann is another empty suit and a progressive Republican, also looking presidential, but he has polled so poorly he is insignificant. Gingrich of course is a committed ideologue and the left does not want to take him seriously, and Sanctorum fits in that category as well. Thus, the further away from the impression the left would like viewers to have, promoted candidate--Romney--and conflict ridden--Perry, you are going to get short shrift. The left does not encourage debate and discussion and it is little wonder that the debaters appeared to have little to offer or anything new.

The silent candidate is the news media itself. The media wants to leave a viewer with the impression that the Republican challengers to the Obummer have nothing interesting to say, offer, or have any solutions to the severe problems facing our country. The media is the critical factor in the presentation of ideas. The debate, if you can call it that, confirms Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message."

The genuine battle is the difficulty of presenting fairly complex principles and ideas in the medium of television. The ones with ideas and principles are Sanctorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, Paul, and Cain. Respectively, voters will choose between them depending on their inclinations. The more Romney talks the dumber he sounds: he's an Obama clone. Of the principled group, Bachmann is the only credible candidate in terms of electability, although she is going to be Palinized relentlessly in the lamestream media; Paul is certainly a principled individual but his age will work against him, age discrimination is acceptable in the media and too big a factor for him to overcome (progressive Republican McCain suffered the same fate). Paul's primary effort is simply based on his libertarian ideals which attract many people to his cause once they hear him. Note how MSNBC rigged the Post-debate poll results to suppress the popularity and appeal of Paul:
http://hillbuzz.org/2011/09/08/msnbc-rigs-post-debate-poll-results-to-suppress-ron-paul-media-bias/

At this point the primary will be between Bachmann, who will be hounded relentlessly and tarnished repeatedly and so will appear "dirty" and suspect, which, if you think about it, is ironic since she is such a squeaky clean candidate she is almost a Canadian. On the other hand, Republicans will look towards the stealth candidate Perry, who has flip-flopped before on issues dear to those who maintain rightist or conservative principles, introduced an Islamic curriculum in Texas, and could really be suspect; and yet, he will be portrayed in the media as enough of a challenger to Obummer, pitting the Texan Bush-sound alike against the media hero, Obummer. Perry is enough of a compromise that Republicans, progressive and conservative could vote for him; at the same time, progressives could hold their noses and still work with him if he won in 2012.

Its a Bachmann vote if you actually think a dedicated and competent person is worthwhile; its a Perry vote if you figure this is about the best that can be expected out of the Republican party. Perry is going to have the lamestream media promoting him so the media can sell the Bush-like challenger vs. our Anointed One spin.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Top Russian Missiles Lost in Libya: Thanks Obama

Video:Johnny Cashless Sings,“Obama’s Prison Blues”


Jim Gossett with another take on the Obama economic plan.

Obama Teacher Browbeats Child for Political Views



Fayetteville, North Carolina, teacher Diatha Harris, was videotaped asking students whether they're "pulling for" Obama or McCain. One of her charges was visibly upset (her father served in Iraq) by the teacher since she stated she supports McCain. The exploitation of public classroom authority was filmed by a Swedish documentary crew.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Obama's abortion absolutism and the 1st Amendment

Obama's abortion absolutism and the 1st Amendment

Obama is deciding to crack down on those protesting, conducting sidewalk counseling, or even praying for the mothers and their babies.

Dick Retta is "not deterred by . . . by a civil lawsuit the Justice Department filed against him in July."

"This President, as a State Senator, voted against a bill requiring doctors to care for babies born after failed abortions (and then misled the media on the matter). As a candidate, he promised his first act would be signing the sweeping "Freedom of Choice Act," which would wipe out nearly all limitations on abortion and abortion subsidies. And then during the budget debates we saw him draw nearly his only line in the sand over Planned Parenthood subsidies.

It's abortion absolutism. Everything else -- free assembly, free speech, conscience protection, and his party's other interests -- they all take a back seat to protecting abortion."

Catholics, during the current regime, are restricted in exercising their civil rights of religious liberty and free speech under the First Amendment.

Big Sis: The Wolves are Watching the Wolves, Who is Watching the Wolves?

Big Sis: The Wolves are Watching the Wolves, Who is Watching the Wolves?

"We don't do anything without kind of running it through our own civil rights and privacy office. . . . we think we've hit it pretty right."

Obama "has so far failed to nominate a quorum for a Congressionally-mandated oversight board to track civil liberties issues government-wide."

Democrats to Obama: Constitution Trumps U.N.

Democrats Oppose Obama-U.N. Gun Control Treaty

Monday, September 5, 2011

Rep. Allen West Says ‘Marxist,’ Now Who Else Will Tell the Truth?


The President’s concern is about getting reelected. The President’s concern is that he is an intransigent, liberal, progressive socialist who is also Marxist because of the class warfare rhetoric that he espouses. And I think that when you heard him on Friday and the more he comes out and talks, the more truly out of touch and incompetent he seems.

He has a vision for this country that is anathema to the vision of the founding fathers and our belief in individual responsibility and accountability and our free enterprise system.

U.S. SAILORS KILLED IN THE ISLAM'S FIRST WAR ON THE US

Thirteen U.S. sailors who died in 1804 during the First Barbary War and were buried in Tripoli, Libya, may finally be coming home, if the American Legion gets its way.

Islamists Plan to take over Libya

U.S. steps up surveillance of suspects among rebels

"The report said the jihadist plotting coincided with the high-profile emergence of Abu Abdallah al-Sadiq, a former leader of the al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and now a leading rebel. He is currently known as Abdel Hakim al-Khulidi Belhaj and led rebels in overrunning Col. Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound."

September 5, 2011 Questioning Educational Assumptions

By P Michael Reidy

"In the 1960s and '70s, the focus had been on the relationship between the teacher and the pupil, but that the really crucial relationship was between the teacher and his subject. That relationship created a vortex into which the student was drawn. This observation suggests a reason why teaching qualifications, length of experience, advanced degrees, and even class size may be of less consequence than presently supposed."

"Schools often talk about the success they have enjoyed in helping place students in colleges and universities, but few publicly subdivide their results to identify the numbers who have gone to leading universities6 and those who have gone elsewhere."

"How can teachers who have not themselves attended top-flight universities either know what their standards are, or adequately prepare students for them?"

"To what extent are schools pushing for excellence?"

"The focus on the less able and the underprivileged has, to too great an extent, overshadowed the attention that students at the top end of the scale deserve to realize their full potential. It has been easier for the private sector to maintain a sharper focus on higher achievers, but able children at public schools deserve the same academic opportunities, if they are capable of the achievement."

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Bomb on the Scanner: Flight 93, Shanksville, PA, 9/11


SHANKSVILLE — As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, a video shot just minutes after the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 has surfaced.
While the video does not show the moment of impact, it clearly shows a mushroom cloud rising from the site of the crash at an abandoned strip mine near Shanksville.


The voice of Berlin resident Dave Berkebile, now deceased, can be heard speaking calmly in the background.
“This is the remains of an airplane crash over on Lambertsville Road,” he said. “Probably a terrorist bomb on board that blew up.”
Berkebile said the crash “shook the heck out of the house … A great, big, black cloud just mushroomed right up into the air.”
Then he added: “I wonder if there is anything left of Lambertsville.”
Donna Glessner, who is collecting oral histories for the National Park Service, saw the video and said she believes it is the earliest known video of the crash.

Practical Money Skills for Life

Practical suggestions.

Attorney General vs. the Americans


Holder has:

* refused to prosecute the Black Panthers for assisting the 2008 Obama campaign by standing outside Philadelphia voting centers with weapons to intimidate voters

* refused to prosecute Obama’s friend, Bill Richardson, for graft and corruption as New Mexico governor

* mounted a determined and sustained assault on our nation’s intelligence network by going after CIA, FBI, NSA, and other agents he feels are too rough on Islamists

* jeopardized the safety of New York City and American intelligence resources by deciding to try Khalid Sheik Muhammad and other 9/11 Muslim terrorists just steps from Ground Zero

Senator Lindsay Graham lectures the Attorney General on the law.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Doesn't Know Anything About Texas, Spouts Off About Texas

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Cultural Imperialism


"Cultural Imperialism" is a video produced by Real Catholic TV.com.

Obama Lies Abut Having Bill O'Reilly's Support for Debt Plan

Obama: Even Bill O’Reilly Agrees With My Debt Plan. O’Reilly: I Do?

Quartzsite Liberty Fest with Oathkeepers, FreedomsPhoenix and Jordan Page


Quartzsite Liberty Fest with Oathkeepers, FreedomsPhoenix and Jordan Page - Pt2


'Nazi-police' town has election 'stolen'
'They found a whole bunch of early ballots they could stuff the box with'
Posted: August 31, 2011

The mayor of Quartzsite, Ariz., the town seething in vitriol since police forcibly removed a woman from speaking at a public meeting despite the mayor's objections lost in a recall election last night, but claims the "corrupt" town council fixed the results to force him out.

Mayor Ed Foster of Quartzsite, Ariz., says his town is filled with massive corruption among government officials.

"They found a whole bunch of early ballots they could stuff the box with," said Mayor Ed Foster, telling WND the election was "absolutely" stolen.

Foster says at the polling place, he was winning by a 2-to-1 margin over former Town Councilman and Quartzsite Fire Department Capt. Jose Lizarraga.

But there had been 328 early ballots cast, and 208 of those went to Lizarraga, giving the win to Lizarraga by a final tally of 289 votes to 230.

"There's no doubt about it [being a fixed election]," said Foster. "The early voting was so obscenely different. ... Whether people voted early or late should not have affected the weight of the vote."

But the outcome is not deterring Foster from continuing his fight against alleged corruption in his rural town. In fact, he plans on running again for mayor, as primaries are slated for March, and a general election in May.

"They stole it from me. I'm gonna take it back," he said.

925 Obama Jobs Plan

"NEW" LIBYA RELEASES 600 JIHADISTS FROM PRISON


A study by the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point indicated that a disproportionately large number of young men from Libya entered Iraq to wage Jihad during the height of that conflict.

“Eastern Libya has traditionally been the primary center of the country’s Islamist opposition currents and where cells of young Islamist militants are located. It is also where scores of young Libyan men left to join the jihad in Iraq. Given that the regime is still struggling for survival and that Libya looks unlikely to return to any sort of normality soon, the issue of Islamism in a future Libyan scenario cannot be dismissed.”

65% Give Obama Thumbs Down On Economy

Seven out of 10 independents disapprove.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Dash Cam: Canton PD "Notification" Arrest & Officer Goes Berserk / Threatens


It is not obvious why these three were stopped in the first place; these people are just on the road or outside their car. Then, the second officer was in the car and he didn't secure the driver. Then, the driver has the permit and attempts to communicate what he has. The lead officer is just angry and unprofessional. People need to protect themselves and get armed: the 2nd Amendment is in the Bill of Rights.

On June 8, 2011 the unfortunate arrest took place in Canton, OH. Notifying the policy when you have a firearm is required by Ohio Law, but when this individual with a thirty-day old license tries to do that he is repeatedly ordered to look away, shut up, or interrupted and "forced" to change what he is speaking about by the actions of an aggressive cop who maintains verbal command of the individual.

One flagrant mistake for a two man car is dealing with three people and putting themselves at risk when the one officer started what appears to be an illegal search of the rear of the car without extracting or securing the driver--which would have given him an opportunity to notify.

No Rush Obama Golfing

October was the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban. Obama stated: "I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way." Obama has been in office for just over nine months; he has already hit the golf links as much as Bush did in two years and ten months, according to CBS' Mark Knoller, an unofficial statistician of the White House. Also, in about nine months, Obama has already attended more than two dozen Democratic fund raising events, while Bush did only six in his first year in office, according to Knoller.


The Noble Peace Prize winner sent 17,000 troops on 17 January; 4,000 trainer troops thereafter, and most recently, deployed at least 14,000 troops.

A foreign service officer and former Marine captain resigned stating he no longer knows why his nation is fighting.

In a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, Matthew Hoh, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency. He wrote a four-page letter questioning the current strategy.

Ramadan Bombathon


Obama Can't Write

Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write

The Letter Link

I would therefore agree with the suggestion that in the future, our concern in this area ia [sic] most appropriately directed at any employer who would even insinuate that someone with Mr. Chen's extraordinary record of academic success might be somehow unqualified for work in a corporate law firm, or that such success might be somehow undeserved. Such attributes speak less to the merits or problems of affirmative action policies, and more to the tragically deep-rooted ignorance and bias that exists in the legal community and our society at large.
Barack Obama
President, Harvard Law Review
Published November 16, 1990

"Islam is the Light," Fisher Price & Nintendo Toys, Dolls, Games




Scary “Islam is the Light” Baby Pals video game from Nintendo

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Muslim Riot: Insist on Unsafe Garb at Playland Though Warned

WILD SCENE ERUPTS AT PLAYLAND: POLICE ARREST 15 IN DISPUTE OVER MUSLIM HIJAB

MEMRI: Egyptian Cleric Dr. Sallah Sultan, Founder of the American Center for Islamic Research, Calls to Kill Israeli Ambassador and Tourists in Egypt

MEMRI: Egyptian Cleric Dr. Sallah Sultan, Founder of the American Center for Islamic Research, Calls to Kill Israeli Ambassador and Tourists in Egypt

#3090 - Egyptian Cleric Dr. Sallah Sultan, Founder of the American Center for Islamic Research, Calls to Kill Israeli Ambassador and Tourists in Egypt
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - August 26, 2011 - 02:12

Rifqa Bary's parents' lawyer, Omar Tarazi, took exception to the description of the Ohio Noor mosque as a terror-tied mosque.

One of the examples cited was Salah Sultan.

Here is what Pamela Geller stated in November 2009:

"There are more radical ties to the Noor mosque that CAIR and devout Muslims are strong arming Ohio authorities to send Rifqa Bary back to. Rifqa Bary's Mosque imam is a Muslim Brotherhood leader. There was an in-depth investigation of the Noor mosque (here), exposing the radical ties. Rifqa's Imam Hany Saqr was Taking Calls from Hamas Leader."

Here's the latest on Salah Sultan, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, and former resident scholar at the Noor mosque before being banned from the United States. He and Anwar Al-Aulaki (Major Hasan's imam) are jihad buds. Check out the picture of the hajj brochure. It specifically states that Hasan's extremist Imam and the former scholar in residence at the Noor mosque were hajjing together back in 2002.

Rifq Bary is not safe in the state of Ohio.

Following are excerpts from a statement by Egyptian cleric Dr. Sallah Sultan which aired on Al-Jazeera on August 26, 2011.

Sultan, who in 2004 founded the American Center for Islamic Research (ACIR) in Columbus, Ohio, has, according to his eight-page resumé, held many consulting and teaching positions in the U.S. Since coming to the U.S. in 1998, he has founded several Islamic institutes, including the Islamic American University in Southfield, Michigan, and the Sultan Publishing Co. in Columbus, Ohio.

Sallah Sultan: "As someone who has studied Islamic law, specializing in Islamic jurisprudence, I am calling to kill the [Israeli] ambassador, not just expel him. Our sons were killed in our country, on our land, and our sons are being killed in Gaza by an occupying enemy. Brothers and sisters, the genuine rulings of Islamic law can no longer be silenced. I am prepared to confront any Islamic scholar who says otherwise."

"When General Issam Al-Tarsawi headed the anti-narcotics unit, he said that heroin and other drugs were first brought to Egypt in the suitcases of Zionist diplomats, which are not subjected to search. That's right. Before the [Camp David] Accords, Egypt did not have these drugs, these crimes, or these images.
"Show me one good thing that came out of the normalization of relations with the Zionist entity. You may say: We got the Sinai. Did we really?! To this day, we do not have authority over the Sinai. […]
"Once I said: Any Zionist – tourist or other – who enters Egypt must be killed. We will not kill tourists from any [other] country. We stress that this fatwa is directed only toward those Zionists, who destroyed our country, killed our people, and shed our blood on our land." […]

Back in 2006, Patrick Poole wrote about Salah Sultan: Hometown Jihad: Citizen Salah Sultan

Hometown Jihad: Our Newest Citizen?, is headlining this morning at FrontPage Magazine. Follow the links to my previous articles on this topic, Hometown Jihad, the initial exposé published back in April, and Hometown Jihad: Blowback, which came out in late May.

The newest revelation is that Salah Sultan, the individual who has been the subject of these articles that lives here in my hometown of Hilliard, Ohio, is set to get his US citizenship within the next few weeks. This despite extensive connections and close relationships to terrorists, terror sympathizers, apologists and financiers. He is also the protégé of HAMAS spiritual leader Sheikh Yousef Qaradawi, who the Anti-Defamation League has characterized as the "Theologian of Terror".

For those who have asked me what can be done to prevent Salah Sultan from receiving US citizenship, my suggestion would be to contact Rep. Deborah Pryce, our local congressional representative who is looking into the matter (be sure to be polite), and Ohio Senator Mike DeWine, who is in a tight race for re-election. Also be sure to contact your own Congressman and Senators. They are the only people who can apply the pressure to the idiots at the USCIS to put the kabosh on this deal.

Obama's Apology Strategy in the Middle East: U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford Assaulted


A video has emerged of U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford being assaulted by a pro-regime demonstrator on the streets of Damascus last week.

UNEMPLOYMENT JAN '09: 7.8%; JUNE '11: 9.2%

Google reference adjusts and it is interactive.

Monday, August 29, 2011

FEMA Partners with Homeland Security on Psyops Campaign


This is a truly creepy video produced by the DHS which encourages Americans to turn on one another and trust the enlightened members of the Fusion Centers who are smart enough to analyze the data and determine who the threats are. Americans are urged to spy on and report on one another. The Nazis would have been very proud of the DHS.

Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Many of the whistle blowers who snitch on their fellow citizen are black, Asian, or Arab.

Dr. Jasser joins Eric Bolling on Follow the Money on Fox Business


Dr. Zuhdi Jasser joins Eric Bolling on the Fox Business Show Follow the Money to discuss an al-Qaeda recruitment cartoon that glorifies Islamism and a training video from the DHS program See Something, Say Something program that completely ignores the threat from Islamist terrorism.

McCain Natural Born Citizen Obama: The Congressional, Natural Born Citizen Part III: McCain & S. Res. 511 Were Meant To Sanitize Obama’s Ineligibility to Be President

John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen, Res. 511, co-sponsored by Obama/Clinton, April 10, 2008

The Congressional: Natural Born Citizen Part III: McCain & S. Res. 511 Were Meant To Sanitize Obama’s Ineligibility to Be President.

Otunnu on Luo Tribe Member Being Elected President, Oct. 25, 2008

Otunnu on Luo Tribe Member Being Elected President, Oct. 25, 2008

Olara Otunnu (Harvard Law, 1978) relating the remark of Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui on the oddity that a member of Kenya's Luo tribe (Barack Obama, a Kenyan citizen and Luo tribe member from birth) may become president of the United States before a Luo tribe member becomes president of Kenya. "Town Hall Forum: An Examination of Race, Age, Gender & Religion in the 2008 Election," Harvard Law School Reunions, Oct. 25, 2008, 9:15 a.m. (Austin Hall, 1st Floor, West), at 60:17 mark.


As Obama states in his autobiography; the key question is the birthplace of his father, in Kenya; thus, whether Obama was born in Hawaii or not is of secondary importance. He is not a natural born citizen.

"African News Headline: KENYAN-BORN OBAMA MAKES HISTORY!"
http://jillosophy.blogspot.com/2008/0...
LINKED FROM ARTICLE:
http://www.usafricaonline.com/chido.o...

"Little wonder then why Kenyan-born Barack Obama, America's first Black President,"
http://allafrica.com/stories/20090820...

"As Kenyan born US Senator Barack Obama jets into Kenya today as part of his African tour,"
http://www.africa-ata.org/ug_newslett...

THIS ON HAS SINCE BEEN CHANGED, BUT I SAW IT WHEN IT WAS THE ORIGINAL AND GOT A SNAPSHOT. YOU CAN SEE IN THE 2ND LINK, ABOUT 1/2 WAY DOWN, WHERE THEY HAVE A SNAP OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE...

"Both were born outside the country — Obama in Indonesia, Duckworth in Thailand — and graduated from high school in Honolulu — Punahou and McKinley, respectively."
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/art... (SCRUBBED)
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/for... (ORIGINAL 1/2 WAY DOWN PAGE)

"Kampala — Ugandans have formed a group to mobilise support for Kenyan born-senator, Barack Obama for the US presidency."
http://allafrica.com/stories/20080218...

"She also describes the stories that have been exciting, including the U.S. presidential race of Kenyan-born Sen. Barack Obama."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...

"Olara Otunnu (Harvard Law, 1978) relating the remark of Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui on the oddity that a member of Kenya's Luo tribe (Barack Obama, a Kenyan citizen and Luo tribe member from birth) may become president of the United States before a Luo tribe member becomes president of Kenya."
http://www.archive.org/details/Otunnu...

New Pentagon report outlines China's military buildup: War in 12-18 Months

China is rapidly preparing for all-out war with America over Taiwan.

An attack within the next 12-18 months is a reasonable expectation.

The Taiwan Scenario

"Although the PLA [People's Liberation Army] is contending with a growing array of missions, Taiwan remains its main strategic direction. China continued modernizing its military in 2010, with a focus on Taiwan contingencies, even as cross-Strait relations improved. The PLA seeks the capability to deter Taiwan independence and influence Taiwan to settle the dispute on Beijing’s terms. In pursuit of this objective, Beijing is developing capabilities intended to deter, delay, or deny possible U.S. support for the island in the event of conflict. The balance of cross-Strait military forces and capabilities continues to shift in the mainland’s favor."

"China is modernizing its nuclear forces by adding more survivable delivery systems. In recent years, the road mobile, solid propellant CSS-10 Mod 1 and CSS-10 Mod 2 (DF-31 and DF-31A) intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs) have entered service. The CSS- 10 Mod 2, with a range in excess of 11,200 km, can reach most locations within the continental United States."

In 2005, top-level Chinese army officer General Zhu Chenghu threatened America with nuclear war if America interfered with Taiwan:

"If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond. We ... will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian [a city in central China]. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds ... of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."

And, as reported in 2006, Sha Zukang, the Chinese ambassador to the U.N., furiously and harshly threatened the U.S. over Taiwan. I transcribed the words that he literally screamed in an interview with a BBC reporter:

"The moment that Taiwan declares independence, supported by whomever, China will have no choice but to [use] whatever means available to my government. Nobody should have any illusions on that. ...
It's not a matter of how big Taiwan is, but for China, one INCH of the territory is more valuable than the LIVES of our people."

[With regard to the U.S.'s constant criticism of China's rapid militarization:] It's better for the U.S. to shut up, keep quiet. That's much, much better. China's population is 6 times or 5 times the United States. Why blame China? No. forget it. It's high time to shut up. It's a nation's sovereign right to do what is good for them. But don't tell us what's good for China. Thank you very much."

Secrecy and deception

China's military culture is completely opposite to America's in the sense that America tries to be as open as possible, while China tries to be as secretive and deceptive as possible until it attacks. This is described in the report:

"PRC [People's Republic of China] military writings point to a working definition of strategic deception as "[luring] the other side into developing misperceptions, and [establishing for oneself] a strategically advantageous position by producing various kinds of false phenomena in an organized and planned manner with the smallest cost in manpower and materials." In addition to information operations and conventional camouflage, concealment, and denial, the PLA draws from China’s historical experience and the traditional role that stratagem and deception have played in Chinese statecraft.
There is an inherent tension in Chinese strategic culture today, pitting a deep-seated tendency to conceal military capabilities and force development against a partial acceptance that excessive secrecy inflames regional and global anxiety about China’s rising power. For over a decade PRC leaders have identified the so called .China threat theory. as a serious hazard to the country’s international standing and reputation, threatening the development of a persistent alignment of regional and global powers in opposition to China. In addition, extreme secrecy is increasingly difficult to reconcile with China’s role in the integrated global economy, which depends upon transparency and the free flow of information for success.

There is perhaps another source of tension between the emerging reality of Chinese military power and China’s tradition of secrecy, and that is the fact that many of China’s new military capabilities are difficult or impossible to hide. Examples of such capabilities include advanced aircraft, long range missiles, and modern naval assets. Furthermore, missiles, space-based, and counterspace systems must be tested and exercised before being operationally deployed with confidence. The PLA’s growing inventory of these new assets and the ranges at which they operate effectively prevents their concealment."


Obama Picks VAT Economist

Obama picked a VAT {Value Added Tax) economist as his latest move to harm the American people.

A Future Consumption Tax to Fix Today’s Economy By ALAN B. KRUEGER

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Muslim Brotherhood Underpublicized threat deep in White House

FBI: Penetration by radical agents worse than thought

Former FBI special agent John Guandolo identified several other Brotherhood-connected agents of influence – all of whom are just as politically savvy and moderate sounding, as those who have infiltrated the government as identified by Muslim reformer Tarek Fatah-–who have worked their way into government positions, including:

Arif Alikhan, who was assistant Homeland Security secretary for policy development and is now a distinguished visiting professor of homeland security and counterterrorism at the National Defense University.

Syrian-born Kareem Shora, who is Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's senior policy adviser.

Navy Cmdr. Youssef Aboul-Enein and Jocelyne Cesari, a Muslim convert who previously worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, both of whom teach at colleges within the National Defense University.

Guandolo blames the advances Brotherhood figures on political correctness and lax vetting at government agencies.

Even at the FBI, he notes, an Iranian-born Muslim has taken over the agency's weapons of mass destruction program.

Stung by workplace discrimination lawsuits by Arab and Muslim employees, the FBI has come under pressure to hire more Arab and Muslim agents and language specialists and promote existing ones, while clearing them for higher security levels, according the best-selling book "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America."

The book cites internal FBI records showing the agency has been sued by no fewer than 14 Arab and Muslim employees since 9/11. Some of the lawsuits have been solicited or aided by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, another Muslim Brotherhood front group. The FBI in 2008 cut off formal outreach with CAIR and its branch offices.

"This is happening as we remain silent. And I say that as a liberal Democrat who worked and campaigned for Barack Obama," said Fatah during a recent speech in Toronto, a Pakistan-born journalist and activist who founded the moderate Muslim Canadian Congress to fight the spread of "Islamofascism."

"Muslim Mafia" also has prompted a lawsuit from CAIR over the acquisition by the authors of CAIR documents.

In the lawsuit, CAIR, a self-described Muslim civil-rights group, does not defend itself against the book's claims, and the FBI has seized the CAIR material from the Washington law office of one of the attorneys for the authors. A previous filing in the case revealed a federal grand jury is investigating CAIR for possible violation of laws that ban financial dealings with terrorist groups or countries under U.S. sanctions.

As WND reported, CAIR's complaint seeks to expunge all copies of "Muslim Mafia" in an attempt, according to defense lawyers, to eliminate evidence that could lead to criminal prosecution.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The CAIR legal attack on WND's author is far from over. WND needs your help in supporting the defense of "Muslim Mafia" co-author P. David Gaubatz, as well as his investigator son Chris, against CAIR's lawsuit. The book's revelations have led to formal congressional demands for three different federal investigations of CAIR. In the meantime, however, someone has to defend these two courageous investigators who have, at great personal risk, revealed so much about this dangerous group. Although WND has procured the best First Amendment attorneys in the country for their defense, we can't do it without your help. Please donate to WND's Legal Defense Fund now.

Obama's Rahm Gets Testy, Walks Out of Interview

When Rahm's Temper Made a Comeback

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Out of Sync - Public versus Private Pay in Illinois


At a time when one out of 11 Illinoisans are out of work, Illinois's state employees are protesting the fact that they didn't get their third pay raise of the year. This short video is an introduction to the report Out of Sync: Government and Private Employee Compensation in Illinois.

The average compensation for a state employee in Illinois is $69,500 which is 23% more than the private sector worker in the state. Between 1993 and 2008 state employees saw their compensation grow by nearly 18% while private sector workers saw their compensation decline by 2%. All figures inflation adjusted.

To read the report visit: www.illinoispolicy.org/outofsync

Friday, August 26, 2011

Gadafy Daughter Who Died in Reagan 1986 Bombing Alive

College Bans Violent National Anthem

First it banned the words, now the whole song

Proposes key revisions to Obama administration’s latest National Strategy on Counterterrorism

American Muslim leaders provide analysis to strengthen US efforts against militant Islamist terror


AILC Coalition Signatories:


Golam Akhter, Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition Inc., Washington, DC

Bahman Batmanghelidj, Founding Member, Alliance for Democracy in Iran, Virginia, USA

Khurshed Chowdhury, Ph.D., Maryland, USA

Manda Zand Ervin, President, Alliance of Iranian Women, Maryland, USA


Tarek Fatah, Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Farid Ghadry, President, Reform Party of Syria, Washington, DC

Jamal Hasan, Council for Democracy and Tolerance, Baltimore, MD

Farzana Hassan, Ed.D., Past President, Muslim Canadian Congress, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Phoenix, AZ

Hasan Mahmud, Member, Advisory Board, World Muslim Congress, Dallas, TX

Kamal Nawash, President, Free Muslims Coalition, Washington, DC


C. Holland Taylor, Chairman & CEO, LibForAll Foundation, Winston-Salem, NC

Jalal Zuberi, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

China Exploits Cuban Oil Drilling

Currently, most of the eastern portion of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico—which borders the water where the Chinese, Indians, and Russians would be operating off Cuba—is closed to drilling.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Battle For Brooklyn: Eminent Domain Abuse Gone Wild

The Battle For Brooklyn: Eminent Domain Abuse Gone Wild

Should the government be able to take citizen's property through eminent domain?


The Battle For Brooklyn, a documentary about one man's fight to stop a private developer from using eminent domain to take his home, recently opened in select theaters in New York City after a successful film-festival run.

In 2003, billionaire real estate developer and New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner decided to move the team to Brooklyn, with the intention of building an arena, an affordable housing project, and bringing desperately needed jobs to the borough of Brooklyn. Ratner's friend and fellow billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, enthusiastically put the weight of top-down government planning behind the project. That included using the city government's extensive powers of eminent domain, despite the fact eminent domain is supposed to be used only in cases where development is for public uses such as schools and roads. And despite the fact that the construction of what became known as the "Atlantic Yards" project would displace many thriving businesses and homes.

Graphic designer Daniel Goldstein fought for nearly seven years to keep his home out of the hands of Ratner's company, Forest City Ratner. Goldstein's quixotic struggle is the centerpiece of The Battle For Brooklyn.

Reason.tv sat down with co-directors Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley to discuss eminent domain abuse and political perceptions of their film. Galinsky and Hawley insist their film is not a polemic, but rather an all-too-common story of a single person fighting an injustice against figures whose power and influence drawf his own.

Produced by Anthony L. Fisher. About 4.40 minutes.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Will Uncle Sam Be Pushed off a Cliff?

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Strongest Earthquake Ever in D.C.: Magnitude 5.8-9

The largest damaging earthquake (magnitude 4.8) in the seismic zone occurred in 1875.

Vacationer-in-Chief misses putt while in vacation.

NATIONAL CATHEDRAL DAMAGED IN QUAKE

It was the strongest earthquake to hit Virginia since at least 1897 (for which earthquake magnitudes are estimated) and apparently the strongest quake to hit east of the Mississippi River since a 5.9 quake struck in Indiana in 1983, according to a site hosted by Michigan Technological University.

The strongest earthquake recorded on the East Coast hit Charlestown, S.C., in 1886 with an estimated magnitude of 6.8, resulting in more than 60 deaths and extensive damage.

High Schoolers Start Business: 6 Years Later, Sold for $100 Million

This 21-Year-Old Just Sold Her Startup For $100 Million

These 10 Pre-Teen Entrepreneurs Make Millions More Than Their Parents

New national debt data: It's growing about $3 million a minute, even during Obama's vacation

That means the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased $4,247,000,000,000 in just 945 days. That's the fastest increase under any president ever.

Communist Statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Outsourced to Chinese Sculptor

King memorial made in China

However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei's rendering.

More than 150 granite blocks, weighing some 1,600 tons, were then shipped from Xiamen to the port of Baltimore, and reassembled by a team of 100 workmen, including ten Chinese stone masons brought over specifically for the project.

However, Ed Dwight, a sculptor in Denver, said Dr King would be "turning over in his grave" if he knew his likeness had been conceived by someone living under a Communist regime.
"He would rise up from his grave and walk into their offices and go, 'How dare you?'"

Monday, August 22, 2011

Sunday, August 21, 2011

National Black Pro-Life Coalition

Releases Startling New Abortion Awareness Video

Black From Islam: African American Muslim Defectors (Jalila)


Black From Islam: African American Muslim Defectors (Jalila)
A Film by Layla Merritt
Throughout Pro-Black movement of the 1960's and 70's, black Americans converted in droves to Islam. Black From Islam profiles three African American women who were raised in insular, Muslim communities inside America. What they each discovered when they stepped outside led to three fascinating life stories of triumph, tragedy, wisdom, and growth.

BLACK FROM ISLAM: AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSLIM DEFECTORS

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Syrian Tribal Leader Ahmad Al-Shlash Threatens to Barbecue the US Ambassador to Syria

"With or Without Salt"

Clip #3036 Broadcast: July 15, 2011

Of the U.S. ambassador, Al-Shlash said:

“That man, sitting in his embassy… I don’t get it. Who does he think he is – Christopher Columbus, exploring the area here? I don’t get it. I would like to convey a message to the security forces and to the entire world. The young people of Deir Al-Zour will not let him set foot in their city. I am talking about my cousins and my tribe. If they let me down, I myself will prevent him from entering Deir Al-Zour. By Allah, over my dead body will he ever enter Deir Al-Zour.

“One of my cousins said: ‘I swear by Allah, we will blow up the ground on which he sets foot. We will turn the road into smoldering coals.’

“Another cousin of mine said to me: ‘We are known for having the best mutton in the world. For the first time, Allah willing, we will be eating American mutton. Whether his flesh is bitter or not, with salt or without salt – we will eat him up.’

“Let me issue a warning. We cannot vouch for this man’s safety if he so much as sets foot on the threshold of Deir Al-Zour.”

ARCHBISHOP: MSNBC, CNN, NEW YORK TIMES ‘UNTRUSTWORTHY’ WHEN IT COMES TO RELIGION

The news outlets CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and Newsweek have come under fire by Philadelphia’s incoming Archbishop, for a lack of “trustworthiness” where matters of religious faith are concerned.

According to Archbishop Charles Chaput, the media do not “provide trustworthy information about religious faith. ” His comments were made Wednesday during an address on religious freedom before some 10,000 pilgrims at the Catholic World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain.

Archbishop Chaput noted that the media gave a lot of coverage to the so-called “Arab Spring,” involving civil unrest in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries. “But very little of that coverage has mentioned that the turmoil in Muslim countries has also created a very dangerous situation for Christians and other religious minorities across North Africa and the Middle East,” he said. “In Egypt, angry mobs have attacked Christian churches and monasteries, burning them to the ground and murdering the people inside.”

Archbishop Chaput also criticized the lack of media coverage for widespread anti-Christian violence in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, and Pakistan.

“Christians face frequent discrimination, slander, beatings and even murder,” the Archbishop added.

The Archbishop seems to have a point. The White House has not made any public statements whatsoever denouncing the persecution of Christians and Jews during the rise of Islamism in the Middle East.

The Archbishop is pointing out how religious warfare is predominant and common across the globe. Islamism is on the rise and the Western democracies, satiated by their relative economic prosperity, or in these days weakened by economic distress, are too flaccid to respond effectively. Either they do not believe it could happen here, or are too weak intellectually to form a response as the West did during the rise of Communism throughout the Cold War.

In the West, "democracy," and calls for `this is what democracy looks like,' has been evoked to erase the Judeo-Christian heritage of those countries from the public arena. Erasing the Judeo-Christian heritage of the West, along with the intellectual tradition of the Enlightenment--tolerance and pluralism--has forced Judeo-Christian values out of our nation’s public square and out of this country’s public debates which does not serve democracy, nor the sustenance of this Republic. It does not serve real tolerance or pluralism. What it does do is impose a kind of unofficial state atheism, allied with those forces, such as Islamism, which seek to break the people of this country from their heritage. To put it another way, if we ban Christian Churches, Jewish voices, and their spokespersons from taking an active role in our nation’s civic life, we’re really just enforcing a new kind of state-sponsored intolerance — a religion without God, or something perhaps much more ominous and worse, creeping sharia or stealth jihad, at some point perhaps an imposed state religion, which works in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, et. al.

Cf. Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion, Paul Marshall, Oxford University Press, (2008); http://www.librarything.com/work/7517845/summary/46467036

Cf. Terror and Liberalism, Paul Berman, W. W. Norton & Company, (2004); http://www.librarything.com/work/7829/23469307
This is an original contribution to an overlooked connection between violence and the Left, along with an insightful study of terrorists amongst the Islamists.

Cf. The Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press
Paul Berman, Melville House (2010); http://www.librarything.com/work/4897258/60815999
Berman convincingly demonstrates that the Western press is not seriously considering Islamist ideas.

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