Saturday, October 31, 2009

Obama Administration to lift ban on immigrants/travelers with HIV/AIDS

President Obama, while signing legislation yesterday that extends taxpayer funding of medical care and treatment to people with HIV, announced the final steps to lifting a ban on those entering the US with HIV/AIDS.  Guess we will be taking care of more of the world’s HIV population right here.*   From the Boston Globe:

WASHINGTON – President Obama said yesterday that the United States will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year.

The order will be finalized on Monday, Obama said, completing a process begun during the Bush administration. The United States has been among a dozen countries that bar entry to travelers with visas or anyone seeking a green card based on their HIV status.

This next section of the article is inaccurate because refugees with HIV have been allowed entry.  The reporter should have used the word ‘immigrants’ instead of ‘refugees.’

The law effectively has kept out thousands of students, tourists, and refugees and has complicated the adoption of children with HIV.

Those countries still banning people with HIV/AIDS are as follows.  I wonder at the accuracy of the list.   Do Iran and Syria, for example, let in people with the disease? 

The 11 other countries that ban HIV-positive travelers and immigrants are Armenia, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Sudan, according to the advocacy group Immigration Equality.

I don’t have the time, but if you are interested you might want to visit Immigration Equality and see if you can find any mention of the list.

* The Bush Administration is credited with spending a lot of money in Africa to fight HIV/AIDS, but I just talked with a young man in my town who spent 2 years in Africa recently with the Peace Corps.  He said the Africans in his area of Africa refused the condoms because they believed they were contaminated with the AIDS virus and that it was a US plot to infect them.   Consequently, his Peace Corps compatriots who were assigned to work on HIV/AIDS had nothing to do.

Coltan and Beyoncé

  • Vinny Del Negro: least confident looking NBA coach ever? Is Rajon Rondo really this good? How long before this is his team? How long until he’s better than Chris Paul? Is this a good game?
  • How do I compare to Isaac Newton? Should I care? (HT to Gravity and Levity)
  • How many different objects should have better sourcing? In what markets will this have an effect?
  • How important is tone for credibility? What would I do differently? (HT to Megan McArdle)
  • What does this tell me about art? Do I care yet? Why am I so routinely disinterested in painting in particular?
  • Is it ok that I’m absolutely giddy about this? Seriously, coolest thing I’ve seen all day.
  • I’m actually really excited to see what, if any, data comes from this. What will that data tell us about governance in Kenya? Social capital?
  • I think Easterly asks this one better than I can. But really: if displacement isn’t going to occur (and it isn’t), shouldn’t we be hoping private models are more readily adopted by governments? How do you encourage that?
  • If I consider The Wire to be the best show I have ready access to, should I prioritize repeat consumption of it over new consumption of How I Met Your Mother, which is also excellent?
  • Given my generally high opinion of people I dislike, should I be more concerned about poor judgment, excess optimism, or jealousy as factors? Is there an ideal equilibrium here, when taking into consideration motivation as a goal?
  • If one suffers from hypochondria, does one also have a higher-than usual demand for empathetic associates? Does this reduce or improve your own empathy? Depending on the answer, does this mean I should encourage my own typically-suppressed hypochondriac tendencies? How does this affect career choices?
  • Why doesn’t this system work better? Should I be concerned it has the Cowboys 11th?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

High Noon

High Noon was a 1952 Western starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. It was iconic in its day. The marshall of Hadleyville, NM, who has just quit, plans to live as a storekeeper with his newly-married quaker wife, and is awaiting his replacement the following day, when he suddenly hears that Frank Miller, a man he has put away, has just been released from prison and is on the noon train to meet three hired killers and kill Kane.

Kane goes to the saloon, the church, the stores, the people’s houses, but no one will join a posse to fight Miller. Each has a good excuse. Finally Kane faces Miller and his gang all alone and, by wiles, takes down each of the four outlaws. (No, his quaker wife shoots one of them.)

Perhaps a month or two before disclosure of the ET presence, an event which will turn the tables for the dark, the dark appears to be doing its level best to take down the new marshall in town, Barrack Obama. 

We are approaching High Noon and Marshall Barrack Obama is running out of deputies.
Most of the battles that are going on we know nothing about. How Obama is approaching them, we can only surmise.

I’d like to tell you of one that you may not be aware of.

Gen Gene Renuart, Commander of Northern Command and NORAD, was addressing a gathering in 2007:

NORAD and NORTHCOM, by their nature, are both in the business of anticipating events,” Renuart said. “In the case of a man-made threat, yes, we work to prevent and defeat attacks.
But in natural disasters and other non man-made events, we need to be able to assume that they may occur, to prepare for the consequences that they may bring and to be prepared to respond to that in a way that supports our nation. (1)

Indeed, one of the events that Renuart helped predict and produce was 9/11, where, on Renuart’s watch, NORAD stood down and launched not a single timely fighter to intercept the hijackers but instead planned for and executed an air-defence drill that bled America’s fighters off to Canada.

NORAD was a department of NORTHCOM.

NORTHCOM’s anticipation of events has made it the spearhead of numerous exercises to coordinate responses to a second 9/11. None of the plans to launch a new 9/11 were permitted by the galactic, the same ones who are now neutralizing the vaccine.
NORTHCOM has also anticipated what to do in case of a pandemic.

We need to remember some common things about 9/11 and pandemics, the most important being that they were both inside jobs. Thus Renuart was a probably key actor not only in anticipating what response would be necessary but in designing the operations themselves.
What you may not know about pandemics is their relationship to a shady plan to make the United States one with its neighbours, Canada and Mexico, through the staging of a pandemic.

This has been largely forced down Canada’s throat, by creating a hawkish American business community in Canada who then provided the energetic calls for a North American Union. Few Canadians want it. Even fewer know about it.

Most Americans, and very few Canadians, are familiar with the “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (SPP) that links the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Since there is no terrorist threat to begin with, since the terrorist threat is simply an invention of the New World Order to extend its control on the road to global domination, the SPP outlined exactly how that was going to be accomplished.

The SPP contained clauses that said either country could “come to the assistance of” (read: invade) the other in the event of a terrorist attack or a pandemic.

Now picture to yourself Canadian troops boarding trucks and buses from Base Petawawa = and driving down to help Chicago when the Sears Center is bombed by the NWO or a pandemic breaks out in Boston. Maybe they would hand out sandwiches and hot coffee.

But picture to yourself the American response if the NWO sets off a bomb in the Montreal subway, which they could do since the same security company that manned the WTC also watches over the Montreal subway.

Or if a pandemic breaks out in Canada.

Well, under the SPP, United States forces could stream into the country and “secure” it against the “terrorist threat” or a “breakdown” in public order caused by an NWO-created pandemic. Canada would become part of a “North American Union” before it awoke the next morning.

The U.S. pandemic response was placed entirely under U.N. agencies, and took it outside of U.S. control. None of this was presented to Congress for over sight or approval. It probabaly was never even circulated in Canada except in NWO circles.

Certainly I heard nothing about it till way after the fact.

The SPP plan for avian and pandemic influenza announced at the Canadian summit last week embraces the international control principles Bush first announced to the U.N. in his 2005 International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza declaration.

The SPP plan gives primacy for avian and pandemic influenza management to plans developed by the WHO, WTO, U.N. and NAFTA directives – not decisions made by U.S. agencies. …

Moreover, the SPP plan openly acknowledges, “The WHO’s international guidance formed much of the basis for the three countries’ planning for North American preparedness and response.”

{World News Daily] previously reported NORTHCOM has been established with a command center at Peterson Air Force Base, tasked with using the U.S. military in continental domestic emergency situations.

WND also has reported President Bush signed in May two documents, National Security Presidential Directive-51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive-20, which give the office of the president extraordinary powers to declare national emergencies and to assume near-dictatorial powers. (2)

OK, let’s stop the film.

The people who brought you 9/11 are now bringing you the pandemic. They have a plan that allows American troops into Canada and Mexico in the event of the breakout of a pandemic, which they themselves would produce, and at the behest of a U.N. agency, WHO, which is headed by Dr. David Nabarro, who turns out to be “certain there will be another pandemic sometime.”

Nabarro stressed at the press conference that he saw as inevitable a worldwide pandemic influenza coming soon that would kill millions. (3)

How could he see it as inevitable unless he is privy to the plans underway to launch the next NWO pandemic?

So now we have Gen Gene Renuart, who headed NORTHCOM and NORAD during 9/11 and during the exercises for preparedness for a second 9/11, all of them NWO creations, working with Dr. David Nabarro of WHO, who sees a new pandemic as inevitable, to develop and implement a response to the “expected” next pandemic, which is now here.

So against these killers, which is what they are, the lone marshall, Barrack Obama stands. He knows he has the backing of many top military officers in the Navy. Some American forces have actually mutinied against being sent to invade Iran. Many soldiers everywhere are probably ready to lay down their guns.

He has the backing of the Earth allies and the galactic and spiritual hierarchy.

But the white hats, unlike the dark hats, obey the law. They need to collect evidence on the bad guys before they bring them to justice at The Hague.

There isn’t going to be a shootout in the middle of town.

But wouldn’t it be a good thing if Barrack Obama declared a “national emergency” over the very pandemic that the NWO has negotiated with Canada and Mexico and whose triggering they have invested in an ally, Dr. Nabarro of WHO.

Granted that the old scenario of taking over Canada and Mexico and becoming a mega-superpower is not doable, how about a little martial law in the U.S. under REX84,(2) and sending a few regime opponents to FEMA camps?

Would that no smoke out Renuart and Nabarro? Would the fact that Obama is assuming greater powers over the military over the issue of a pandemic not force Renuart and others to say what their plan is and have its lack of consctitutionality exposed and its real intent be made clear, especially when the galactics and Earth allies are able to prove that the pandemic in the first place is a false-flag operation?

And how better could President Obama foil this scheme and take power away from NORTHCOM and NORAD and WHO than by declaring a national emergency around the pandemic itself and then concentrating executive and military power in himself rather than in Renuart and Nabarro.

Now I don’t say that this scenario is accurate. I don’t say this is what’s happening. It is only a surmise of the kind of unfinished business Marshall Obama has on his plate which he cannot avoid tackling and may have to do head on.

So declare a “national emergency” on exactly the grounds the cabal already has military plans in place on and then assume enhanced powers over the military that can be used to defang them.

I think it is an example of the kind of chess game that Obama is obliged to play to outsmart the NWO in these hours before the High Noon of disclosure.

In High Noon, none of the townsfolk would help Marshall Kane. But I am going to help Marshall Obama. No, I don’t understand all he is doing, but he has our interests at heart, he has laid out his vision many times, and we have heard many of the galactics and spirits say that he is the man to lead us into the Golden Age.

So I can tell you that for my two-bits worth, I will be standing beside the marshall when the noon trains rides into town. Whoever he has to fight off, I will help him fight them off, whether I know what is happening behind the scenes or not because I trust the man.

He has dealt with us honourably. He has a health-care vision which includes us. He has taken on this very difficult role of playing both sides until he can trap the black hats. He is risking his life to disclose the presence of the galactics and further the agenda of the 2012 scenario.

Disclosure will trap the black hats and rob them of their power base – a terrified population.
My job is to lend Obama my support until disclosure happens and the role of the NWO becomes a matter of public knowledge. Then my role is to explain to newly-awakened people what has been going on all along.

I’d love to have company, but I will carry out that role alone if I have to.

Namaste,

Steve

Footnotes

(1) Gen. Gene Renuart, addressing an audience of approximately 700 military and civilian space industry representatives April 11 at the 23rd National Space Symposium, reported by U.S . NORTHCOM News, April 13, 2007, at http://www.northcom.mil/News/2007/041307.html .

(2) Jerome Corsi, “Bush’s SPP power grab sets stage for military to manage flu threats. U.S. under U.N. law in health emergency,” Global Research, Sept. 2, 2007, at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6670

(3) Ibid.

Fall of the Republic HQ full length version

And by the way, Alex Jones has said for years that its the global elite, in fact he says the word “global elite” during every broadcast.

The global elite, through their shills like Rothkopf are even bragging about it, and their new world order. You can search for Gordon Brown’s TED talk here on YouTube and listen to him describe in great length his plans for a one world army, bank, and development organization. The government is a proxy between the people and the elite.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Market Outlook 10/27/09

IN MY OPINION - The market has already crested, and is beginning to roll back. Several stocks have already started their downward cycle, shifting from BULLISH to BEARISH.  Check the stocks listed below. (Also, see the DISCLAIMER at bottom of text.)

Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009  (U.S.  7AM EDT)

Based on yesterday’s closing bell, hypothetically, IN MY OPINION, the following Dow stocks have entered SELL Signals using my criteria – and are ICE COLD :   (Read the DISCLAIMER at the bottom of the text.)

Sell Signals:

10/23 – BA  @ $50

10/23 – BAC @ $16.50

10/23 – GE @ $15.25

10/26 – HD @ $26

10/26 – IBM @ 120

10/26 – JNJ @ $60

10/26 – JPM @ $44

10/26 – T @ $25.50

10/26 - WMT @ $50

The strongest stocks of the Dow are still CAT, MCD, MMM, MSFT, TRV, UTX, and XOM.

I expect to see them falter shortly, as well.

The rest of the Dow stocks fall somewhere inbetween, with the exception of INTC, KFT, KO, and MRK – all of which are VERY close to entering the sell zone.

IN MY OPINION :

The time for “caution” is behind us. It’s now the time to SELL – and then begin to look for re-entry points among the strongest stocks, when the decline is over.

There are a number of other stocks that I review on my market letter, including Yahoo, Google, eBay, and the various HOT and COLD Sectors of the Economy.

It pays to STAY AHEAD OF THE CROWD.

CAVEAT :  As all chartists know and expect, trends can change directions on a dime. Consult your broker or financial advisor before taking any action.  You are responsible for your own trades. These are merely my opinions of the market, thus far.

STAY TUNED !

Jack

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Stay current – and “STAY AHEAD OF THE CROWD !”

Casual Observations

If you watch The Simpsons (or remember when it was truly great), you’ll recall Helen Lovejoy’s plea, “Won’t somebody think of the children?” I just had what must have been the 3rd voicemail reminder from the local middle school reminding parents to submit the order forms for the cookie sale the school just had. Which brings me to the Lovejoyean point: I am quite surprised that teachers or administrators fail to see the somewhat hypocritical nature of these fundraising ventures. Picture this: the student comes home with this catalog of ‘gourmet’ cookie dough and pizza mix that you are sort of strong-armed into buying. I use the term ’strong-armed’ because the classrooms will have this unnecessary scoreboard that tallies the sales of this crap per student. If your child’s name is near the bottom of this thermometer looking thing, then they expect a little guilt and shame to loosen the wallets. I guess it’s okay to teach students about the ‘eat or be eaten’ philosophy this early. I’m not a teacher after all. So yeah, right there you have this superfluous competition. Yet at the same time, the school districts and the local governments proudly announce that they’re cutting back the availability of junk food on campus while the big government informs us that we are still grossly overweight, yet they the schools turn around and force the kids to sell – that’s right, you’re learning – cookie dough and pizza mix. By the way, the stuff that these organizations are hawking is ridiculous. A tube of dough that makes up less than two dozen cookies* lists close to $10 and the pizza stuff cooks up the equivalent of a small Tony’s pepperoni that I can find in the freezer at Dillons for less than $2. So all this profiteering goes back to the schools (right?) and yet we have kids who spell ’skills’ with a freaking ‘z’ at the end. Is it just me?

*Purchased cookies are stale and hard. Fresh cookies are soft and chewy. Science has now perfected the fresh stale cookie.

Remember when we started the slouch towards Iraq and many questioned why the Bush daughters couldn’t enlist and put on a uniform (sans underwear cuz that’s how they roll)? I do. I’m sure they do too, but you know, after a few pitchers of Mai Tai’s… The underlying message at that time was that of a certain elitism. My well-to-do kids versus your so-so kids. Well, Barack Obama had his George Bush moment last week. Did you catch it? It was a little subliminal but the message was there. Some kids are more important than your kids. Late last week you had the White House declaring that swine flu was ‘an epidemic’ and a national emergency. You had Sibelius literally pounding the podium with her Manolo demanding that everyone should get innoculated immediately. Lost in all this was the fact that less than 1000 people have died from the flu. Even more lost was the fact that the actual immunizations kill more people than the flu itself. Lost in all this was why weren’t Malia and Sasha innoculated? Still waiting for that change…

Long-term mobile phone users could face a higher risk of developing cancer in later life, according to a decade-long study. The report, to be published later this year, has reportedly found that heavy mobile phone use is linked to brain tumors. The survey of 12,800 people in 13 countries has been overseen by the World Health Organization.

Think about it. Who is at risk here? Practically the entire spectrum of the truly useless. Coked-out starlets, reality show douchebags, lawyers, Wall Street executives walking on eggshells hoping that their million dollar office doesn’t get reported, Kardashians, rappers, drug dealers, Ashton Kutcher. Goddamn! Meanwhile, the useful professionals such as doctors, writers, hobos, painters, garbagemen and prostitutes will not suffer one iota. My eyes are tearing up here.

Genius. Absolute genius.
Take Star Wars, cut it up into 15 second increments. Then allow the general public to recreate in any medium the 15 second scene. What? You don’t have a Princess Leia wig? Don’t sweat it – an old set of headphones will suffice. You can’t reproduce the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon? Hey, the driver and passenger seats of your Tercel will work just fine. Need a Jabba The Hutt? Ask that guy that plays WoW all day in his mom’s basement.

Go to http://www.starwarsuncut.com and put in your proverbial 2 cents. It’s far far better than Spaceballs or that Thumb Wars crap.

Can't be any worse than Attack of the Clones.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Genug ist genug!

  Rede von Geert Wilders vom 21. Oktober 2009, gehalten an der Columbia-University in New York   _____
Meine Damen und Herren, es ist ein Privileg und eine große Ehre für mich, an dieser exzellenten akademischen Institution zu sprechen, die der Welt so viele Nobelpreisträger beschert hat. Als Niederländer bin ich stolz darauf, dass Ihr erster Nobelpreisträger im Jahre 1906 von niederländischer Herkunft war: Der jüngste Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten: Theodore Roosevelt.

Ich danke der Columbia Universität für die Einladung und ich danke auch der US-Grenzpolizei, dass Sie mir erlaubt haben, dieses großartige Land der Demokratie, der Freiheit und der freien Meinungsäußerung zu betreten. Meine Damen und Herren, heute wird in ganz Europa die beliebteste unserer vielen Freiheiten angegriffen. Die freie Meinungsäußerung ist nicht mehr gegeben. Was wir einst als ein natürliches Element unserer Existenz, unseres Geburtsrechts ansahen, ist jetzt etwas, für das wir wieder kämpfen müssen.

Ich würde mich selbst nicht als freien Menschen bezeichnen. Vor fünf Jahren habe ich meine persönliche Freiheit verloren. Seitdem stehe ich unter Polizeischutz und das über 24 Stunden. Darüber hinaus haben einige Menschen versucht, mir meine Redefreiheit zu nehmen: Eine niederländische, islamische Organisation versuchte, das Erscheinen des Dokumentarfilms “Fitna” zu verhindern. Wegen “Fitna” verlangte der radikalste niederländische Imam 55.000 Euro als Entschädigung für seine verletzten Gefühle. Der Staat Jordanien wird möglicherweise einen Antrag auf Auslieferung stellen, damit ich in Amman vor Gericht gestellt werden kann. Ich wurde in Frankreich angeklagt.

In meinem eigenen Land, den Niederlanden, hob das Berufungsgericht Amsterdam die Entscheidung der niederländischen Staatsanwaltschaft auf, mich nicht zu verfolgen. Also werde ich jetzt in meinem eigenen Land vor Gericht stehen, und zwar im Januar nächsten Jahres.

Aber hier geht es nicht um mich. Ich bin nicht der einzige Europäer, der für die Redefreiheit kämpft, es gibt so viele mehr: Der dänische Karikaturist Kurt Westergaard zeichnete eine Mohammedkarikatur und plötzlich waren wir mitten drin in dem sogenannten “dänischen Karikaturenstreit’. Die italienische Autorin Oriana Fallaci hatte Angst vor einer Auslieferung in die Schweiz wegen ihres Buchs “Die Wut und der Stolz”. Eine österreichische Politikerin, Susanne Winter, wurde zu einer Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt, weil sie unverblümt über den Propheten Mohammed sprach. Der niederländische Karikaturist Gregorius Nekschot wurde von zehn Polizisten wegen seiner Zeichnungen verhaftet. Und der niederländische Filmemacher Theo van Gogh wurde in den Straßen Amsterdams von einem radikalen Muslim brutal ermordet.

Im vergangenen Februar wurde ich von zwei tapferen Mitgliedern des britischen House of Lords – Lord Malcolm Pearson und Baronin Caroline Cox – eingeladen, um “Fitna” im britischen Parlament zu zeigen. Aber bei meiner Ankunft am Flughafen Heathrow wurde mir die Einreise in das Vereinigte Königreich verweigert, aus dem Grund, dass ich die Harmonie der Gemeinschaft und damit die öffentliche Sicherheit gefährden würde.

Das war natürlich eine lächerliche und politisch motivierte Behauptung der britischen Regierung. Ich durfte “Fitna” zeigen und eine Rede halten im US-Senat, in New York, in Florida, in Kalifornien, in Kopenhagen, in Rom, in Jerusalem und im nächsten Monat im Senat der Tschechischen Republik. Aber die britische Regierung verweigerte mir den Zutritt in das Vereinigte Königreich, einem Nachbar-EU-Land. Nun, ich glaube, es war ein großartige amerikanische Idee, damals im 18. Jahrhundert, die Engländer heraus zu werfen.

In der vergangenen Woche fand mein Berufungsverfahren gegen die Weigerung der britischen Regierung in London statt, und ich gewann. Die Freiheit hat sich schließlich durchgesetzt! Ein britisches Gericht entschied, dass die Entscheidung des britischen Innenministers, mich auszuschließen, ungerecht, illegal und eine Verletzung der Redefreiheit war. Glücklicherweise sind die britischen Richter viel klüger als die britische Regierung. Also reiste ich am vergangenen Freitag nach London und traf mich mit meinen Freunden Lord Pearson und Baroness Cox und wir einigten uns darauf, “Fitna” im House of Lords im März nächsten Jahres zu zeigen.

Aber lassen Sie mich Ihnen erzählen, was auch während unserer Pressekonferenz geschah. Ein muslimischer Mob demonstrierte außerhalb und schrie: “Scharia für die Niederlande”, “Der Feind des Islam Geert Wilders verdient die Todesstrafe”, “Freiheit soll zur Hölle fahren” und “Der Islam wird die Welt beherrschen”. Willkommen im heutigen Europa!

Dies alles können Sie sich selbst auf YouTube ansehen. Dies ist genau das, was wir bekämpfen. Und es kommt noch schlimmer. Vor ein paar Tagen berichtete die britische Zeitung The Daily Telegraph, dass eine islamische Gruppe in der Tat eine Kampagne zur Einführung der Scharia in Großbritannien startete. Sie werden sich später in diesem Monat in London zu einer Demonstration treffen, um die vollständige Umsetzung der Scharia zu verlangen.

Bevor ich über den Islam sprechen will, möchte ich Ihnen zunächst Folgendes sagen: Ich habe nichts gegen Muslime. Es gibt viele moderate Muslime. Die Mehrheit der Muslime in unseren westlichen Ländern sind gesetzestreue Bürger, die ein friedliches Leben führen wollen. Das weiß ich. Daher mache ich eine klare Unterscheidung zwischen den Menschen und der Ideologie, zwischen Muslimen und dem Islam.

Was heute in Europa passiert, sollte uns nicht überraschen. Die Realität ist, dass dort, wo der Islam Wurzeln schlägt, die freie Meinungsäußerung stirbt. Es gibt nicht ein einziges islamisches Land in der Welt, in dem die Menschen die Freiheit haben zu sagen, was sie denken. Seit der sogenannte Prophet Mohammed seinen Leuten befahl, die Dichterin Asma bint Marwan zu töten, eine tapfere Frau, die ihr Volk vor diesem mörderischen Kult warnte, denken die radikalen Muslime, sie hätten eine Lizenz erworben, jedermann zu töten, der es wagt, das Wort Mohammeds oder seine Aktionen zu kritisieren. Die freie Meinungsäußerung ist ein Feind des Islam. Der Islam ist eine Bedrohung für das Europa von Sokrates, Voltaire und Galileo.

Wie ich bereits sagte, es gibt viele moderate Muslime. Aber so etwas wie einen moderaten Islam gibt es nicht. Das Herz des Islam ist der Koran. Der Koran ist ein böses Buch, das zu Gewalt und Mord aufruft – Sure 4, Vers 89 und Sure 47, Vers 4 -, Terrorismus – Sure 8, Vers 60 – und Krieg – Sure 8, Vers 39. Der Koran beschreibt die Juden als Affen und Schweine – Sure 2, Vers 65 / Sure 5, Vers 60 und Sure 7, Vers 166. Er nennt nicht-Muslime Lügner, Bösewichte, Feinde, Unwissende, unrein, böse, verschlagen, die schlechtesten aller Geschöpfe und die gemeinsten von allen Tieren.

Das Problem ist, dass die Bestimmungen im Koran nicht an Ort und Zeit gebunden sind. Vielmehr gelten sie für alle Muslime in allen Zeiten. Neben dem Koran gibt es auch das Leben von Mohammed, der in Dutzenden von Kriegen die Verbreitung des Islam mit dem Schwert erkämpft hat, gefangene Frauen und Kinder als Sklaven verkaufte, gewohnheitsmäßig Juden enthauptete und das junge Mädchen Aisha heiratete und die Ehe mit ihr vollzog, bevor sie zehn Jahre alt war. Das Problem ist, dass für viele Muslime Mohammed “der perfekte Mann” ist, dessen Leben sie als Vorbild folgen. Aber die Fakten zeigen, dass der so genannte Prophet kein perfekter Mensch war, sondern ein Mörder und Pädophiler. Und von ihm werden die Dschihadisten inspiriert. Mit dem Versprechen eines fleischlichen Paradieses schlachten sie unschuldige Menschen in Washington, New York, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Bali und Mumbai.

Meine Damen und Herren, vor einiger Zeit wurde in Frankreich ein Interview mit dem französischen muslimischen Schüler Mohamed Sabaoui geführt, der folgendes sagte – ich zitiere: “Ihre Gesetze sind nicht deckungsgleich mit dem Koran. Muslime können nur von der Scharia regiert werden”, und “wir wollen die Stadt Roubaix zu einer unabhängigen, muslimischen Enklave erklären und die Scharia auf alle ihre Bürger anwenden“ und “wir werden ihr Trojanisches Pferd sein. Wir werden herrschen, Allahu Akbar!” Zitat Ende.

Machen Sie keinen Fehler: Der Islam hat immer versucht, Europa zu erobern. Spanien fiel im 8. Jahrhundert. Konstantinopel fiel im 15. Jahrhundert. Wien und Polen wurden bedroht und jetzt, im 21. Jahrhundert, wird der Islam es erneut versuchen. Dieses Mal nicht mit militärischen Armeen, sondern durch Migration und Demographie.

Zum ersten Mal in der Weltgeschichte gibt es Dutzende Millionen von Muslimen, die außerhalb der Dar al-Islam, der islamischen Welt leben. Europa hat nun mehr als 50 Millionen Muslime. Es wird erwartet, dass ein Fünftel der Bevölkerung der Europäischen Union innerhalb von 40 Jahren muslimisch sein wird.

Im Jahr 1974 nahm niemand den algerischen Präsidenten Boumedienne allzu ernst, als er vor der UN-Generalversammlung sagte: “Eines Tages werden Millionen von Menschen die südliche Hemisphäre des Planeten verlassen, um in den Norden aufzubrechen. Aber nicht als Freunde. Denn sie brechen auf, um zu erobern und sie werden ihn erobern durch die Anzahl ihrer Kinder. Wir werden siegen durch den fruchtbaren Leib unserer Frauen”. Ende des Zitats.

Und der libysche Diktator Gaddafi sagte: “Es gibt Dutzende Millionen von Muslimen auf dem europäischen Kontinent und ihre Zahl nimmt zu. Dies ist der klare Hinweis, dass der europäische Kontinent zum Islam konvertieren wird. Europa wird eines Tages ein muslimischer Kontinent sein“. Ende des Zitats.

In der Tat sagt Gaddafi hier die Wahrheit. Durch das islamische Konzept der Migration – namens Al Hijra – ist Europa im Begriff, zu Eurabia zu werden. Europas Kirchen leeren sich, während Moscheen wie Pilze aus dem Boden schießen. Mohammed ist der beliebteste Jungenname in vielen europäischen Städten. Mittelalterliche Phänomene wie Burkas, Ehrenmorde und Genitalverstümmelung von Frauen sind immer stärker verbreitet. Im Vereinigten Königreich sind inzwischen 85 Schariagerichte tätig – in dem gleichen Land, in dem islamische Organisationen das Gedenken an den Holocaust abschaffen wollen, und ein Minister darum bittet, das Rote Kreuz Logo zu ändern, weil es die Muslime beleidigen könnte. In Österreich vermeiden Geschichtslehrer, über den österreichischen Krieg gegen die islamischen Invasoren zu unterrichten. In Frankreich werden Lehrer angewiesen, Autoren zu vermeiden, die als beleidigend für Muslime angesehen werden könnten, einschließlich Voltaire. In Norwegen werden den Kindern islamische Lieder beigebracht wie “Allahu Akbar” und “Kleiner Muslim, betest du?” In Belgien wäre ein Mann fast gestorben, nachdem er von Muslimen verprügelt worden war, weil er während des Ramadan getrunken hatte. Juden fliehen in rekordverdächtigen Zahlen aus Frankreich auf der Flucht vor der schlimmsten Antisemitismuswelle seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Entstehung des Islam bedeutet auch den Aufstieg der Scharia in unsere Rechtssysteme. In Europa gibt es alles: Schariatestamente, Hypothekenscharia, Schariaschulen, Schariabanken, wie gesagt im Vereinigten Königreich gibt es sogar 85 Schariagerichte. Der Islam betrachtet die Scharia als über allen von Menschen gemachten Gesetzen stehend, einschließlich unseren Verfassungen. Wie Sie wissen, umfasst die Scharia alle Bereiche des Lebens, von der Religion, Hygiene und Nahrungsvorschriften, Bekleidungsvorschriften, über Vorschriften des familiären und sozialen Lebens, ausgehend von den Finanzen und der Politik, bis hin zu einer Einheit des Islam mit dem Staat. Schariarecht kennt das Recht der freien Meinungsäußerung und die Religionsfreiheit nicht.

Laut Scharia ist es eine “Tugend”, Apostaten zu töten, aber der Konsum von Alkohol ist ein Verbrechen. Die Einführung schariatischer Elemente in unserer Gesellschaft schafft ein System der gesetzlichen Apartheid. Die Scharia diskriminiert systematisch Gruppen von Menschen. Ich habe nie verstanden, warum die linksliberalen und liberalen Politiker dies alles ignorieren. Historisch waren sie diejenigen, die für die Rechte der Frauen, Homosexuellen, Nicht-Gläubigen und anderen kämpften. Alles Gruppen, die die Ersten wären, die einen hohen Preis zahlen müssten, wenn die islamischen Werte eine beherrschende Stellung einnehmen würden. Ihr Schweigen ist erschreckend. Jetzt kämpfe ich diesen Kampf. Ich kämpfe, um diese Gruppen zu schützen. Ich kämpfe gegen die Islamisierung unserer Gesellschaft und damit für den Schutz der Rechte der Frauen, der Homosexuellen, der Christen, der Juden, der Abtrünnigen, der Nicht-Gläubigen und der Ungläubigen: der Nicht-Muslime. Ich möchte diese Opfer vor der Scharia schützen. Und das sollten wir alle tun. Wenn wir das Problem ignorieren, wird es nicht verschwinden, wenn wir jetzt nicht handeln, wird die Scharia mehr und mehr umgesetzt werden – langsam, aber nach und nach. Das würde das Ende der Meinungsfreiheit und der Demokratie in Europa bedeuten. Dies ist es, was auf dem Spiel steht, nichts Geringeres als unsere Freiheit und Demokratie.

Und bitte machen Sie keinen Fehler: Der Islam kommt auch nach Amerika. Im vergangenen Juli während einer Konferenz in Chicago, organisiert von der Hizb-ut-Tahrir, der internationalen Bewegung mit dem Ziel, einen islamischen Staat unter der Scharia in der Welt zu schaffen, versprach der amerikanische Imam Abdul Jaleel Adil zu kämpfen, “bis der Islam siegen wird, oder wir bei dem Versuch sterben werden”. Auf die Frage: “Wollen Sie die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten für die Scharia abschaffen?” antwortete er: “Ja, die Verfassung würde der Vergangenheit angehören”.

Amerika steht vor einem “verdeckten Dschihad”, einem islamischen Versuch, “die Scharia Stück für Stück einzuführen”. Lassen Sie mich Ihnen ein paar Beispiele für die Islamisierung in den Vereinigten Staaten geben: Muslimische Taxifahrer am Flughafen Minneapolis haben es abgelehnt, mehr als 5.000 Passagiere zu befördern, weil sie Alkohol bei sich trugen; muslimische Studenten fordern separate Wohnungen auf dem Campus; muslimische Frauen fordern separate Stunden in Turnhallen und Schwimmbädern; Schulen verbieten Halloween- und Weihnachtsfeiern – in der Tat sind es die Schulen, die das Schweinefleisch aus ihren Cafeteriamenüs entfernen, um die muslimischen Schüler nicht zu beleidigen. Meine Damen und Herren, seien Sie sich bewusst, dass dies nur der Anfang ist. Wenn es so weitergeht, werden Sie die gleichen Probleme haben, mit denen wir heute in Europa konfrontiert sind.

Es ist meine Meinung, dass der Islam eher eine Ideologie ist, als eine Religion. Um genau zu sein, der Islam ist eine politische, totalitäre Ideologie mit weltweiten Ambitionen, genau so wie der Kommunismus und Faschismus, weil der Islam genau wie diese Ideologien nicht die Absicht hat, sich in unserer Gesellschaft zu assimilieren, sondern er will dominieren und uns alle unterdrücken. Im Islam gibt es keinen Platz für irgendetwas anderes als den Islam. Ich denke, der große Winston Churchill hatte in vollem Umfang Recht, als er in seinem Buch “Der Zweite Weltkrieg“, Adolf Hitlers “Mein Kampf” als den neuen Koran des Glaubens und des Kriegs bezeichnete.

Aber, meine Damen und Herren, der Islam ist nicht das einzige Problem. Es gibt ein zweites Problem, ein Problem, das man kulturellen Relativismus nennt. Unsere gesamte westliche Elite, ob es sich um Politiker, Journalisten oder Richter handelt, sind vom Weg abgekommen. Ihr Realitätssinn ist verschwunden. Diese kulturellen Relativisten glauben, dass alle Kulturen gleichwertig sind. Sie glauben, dass die islamische Kultur unserer Kultur entspricht, die auf dem Christentum, Judentum und dem Humanismus beruht. Unsere Kultur bekennt sich zur Freiheit, den Menschenrechten und zur Gleichstellung von Männern und Frauen und nicht zu Gewalt und Hass.

Den kulturellen Relativisten sage ich mit Stolz: Unsere westliche Kultur ist weit besser als die islamische Kultur. Und wir sollten stolz darauf sein und sie verteidigen. Anders als die meisten Länder, in denen die islamische Kultur dominant ist, haben wir einen Rechtsstaat, eine Demokratie, ein funktionierendes Parlament, Meinungsfreiheit und eine Verfassung, die uns gegen die Regierung schützt.

Es ist klar, dass nicht jeder die Gefahr erkennt. Ich zitiere einen prominenten Amerikaner, der vor kurzem einen Nobelpreis gewonnen hat: “Im Laufe der Geschichte hat der Islam durch Worte und Taten die Möglichkeiten der religiösen Toleranz nachgewiesen“, und “Der Islam ist nicht Teil des Problems bei der Bekämpfung des gewalttätigen Extremismus, er spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei der Förderung des Friedens “und” Wir feiern eine große Religion und ihr Engagement für Gerechtigkeit und Fortschritt“. Ende des Zitats. Ich bin mit dieser Einschätzung nicht einverstanden. Der Islam hat nichts gemeinsam mit Toleranz oder Frieden oder Gerechtigkeit!

Präsident Obama feierte auch die Tatsache, dass, als der erste muslimische Amerikaner in den Kongress gewählt wurde, er den Eid auf den gleichen Koran schwor, den einer der Gründerväter – Thomas Jefferson – in seiner persönlichen Bibliothek aufbewahrt hatte. Es ist interessant zu wissen, dass es Thomas Jefferson im Jahre 1801 war, der einen Krieg gegen die islamischen „Barbaresken“ Staaten in Nordafrika führte, um die Plünderung von Schiffen und Versklavung von mehr als einer Million Christen zu stoppen.

Der Botschafter dieser muslimischen Nationen sagte Thomas Jefferson und John Adams, dass die Muslime bei der Suche nach Rechtfertigung für die Abschlachtung und Versklavung von Ungläubigen, dies im Koran gefunden hätten. Nun frage ich Sie, liebe Freunde, könnte es nicht sein, dass Thomas Jefferson eine Kopie des Korans aufbewahrte, weil er den Islam nicht bewunderte, sondern weil er die rücksichtslose Art seiner Feinde verstehen wollte?

Meine Damen und Herren, ich glaube an die Demokratie, ich glaube an das amerikanische Volk und an die Entscheidungen, die es trifft, und in der Regel, als ein Politiker aus Holland, würde ich niemals Ihren Präsident kritisieren. Aber diese Äußerungen von Präsident Obama, betreffen nicht nur Amerika, sondern auch Europa. Ich fürchte, dass Präsident Obamas Äußerungen ein Wendepunkt in der Geschichte sein könnten. Ich befürchte, dass schwerwiegende geopolitische Veränderungen drohen, Veränderungen, die unsere Außenpolitik, unsere Sicht auf die freie Meinungsäußerung verändern werden, Änderungen, die den Westen, unsere Art zu Leben zum Schlechteren und nicht zum Besseren verändern werden.

In der Tat passiert es bereits jetzt. Vor kurzem haben die Vereinigten Staaten gemeinsam mit Ägypten eine Resolution im UN-Menschenrechtsrat unterstützt, gegen die freie Meinungsäußerung. Sie wissen, dass der Rat an sich schon eine Beleidigung für Menschenrechte darstellt, da ihm die schlimmsten Menschenrechtsverletzer der Welt wie Kuba, Saudi-Arabien und Pakistan angehören. Die Obama-Administration und Europa unterstützten eine Resolution, Ausnahmen auf freie Meinungsäußerung zu machen gegenüber negativen religiösen Stereotypen. Diese “Befriedung” der unfreien arabischen Welt ist der Anfang vom Ende. Eine Aushöhlung der freien Meinungsäußerung und des eigenen Ersten Verfassungszusatzes. Diese UN-Resolution ist eine absolute Schande.

Wie Professor Jonathan Turley von der George Washington University gestern zu Recht in der Zeitung „USA Today“ sagte, ich zitiere: “Die Kritik der Religion ist das Maß für die Gewährleistung der freien Rede – die wortwörtliche heilige Institution einer Gesellschaft” – Ende des Zitats. Dass die schwachen Führer meines eigenen Kontinents, Europa, eine so schreckliche Resolution unterstützen, ist keine Überraschung für mich. Aber es ist eine traurige Sache, dass zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte die amerikanische Regierung eine führende Rolle im Kampf gegen unser Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung übernommen hat.

Meine Damen und Herren, es gibt ein westliches Land, das gezwungen ist, gegen die Kräfte des Dschihad für die eigenen Werte zu kämpfen seit dem ersten Tag seiner Existenz: Israel, der Kanarienvogel in der Kohlengrube. Lassen Sie mich ein paar Worte zu diesem wunderbaren Land sagen. Ich hatte das Privileg, in Israel leben zu dürfen. Jedoch in Europa ist man als Israel Unterstützer eine vom Aussterben bedrohte Art. Israel ist ein Leuchtturm in einer Gegend – dem Nahen Osten – die überall stockdunkel ist. Israel ist eine westliche Demokratie, während Syrien, Saudi-Arabien, Iran und Ägypten mittelalterliche Diktaturen sind.

Im so genannten “Nahostkonflikt” geht es überhaupt nicht um Landbesitz. Es ist ein Konflikt um Ideologien, eine Schlacht zwischen Islam und Freiheit. Es geht nicht um ein Stück Land in Gaza oder in Judäa und Samaria. Es geht um Jihad. Für den Islam ist ganz Israel besetztes Gebiet. Sie sehen auch Tel Aviv und Haifa als Siedlungen an.

Ich bin sehr für eine Zwei-Staaten-Lösung. Ich meine, Churchills Zwei-Staaten-Lösung aus dem Jahr 1921, als Palästina in einen jüdischen und einen arabischen Teil partitioniert war. Das arabische Palästina heißt heute Jordanien, und deshalb gibt es bereits einen palästinensischen Staat. Achtzig Prozent der Bevölkerung haben ihre Wurzeln auf der anderen Seite des Jordans, es besteht kein Zweifel daran, Jordanien ist wirklich der Staat Palästina.

Der Islam zwingt Israel zu kämpfen, und Israel kämpft nicht nur für sich alleine. Israel kämpft für uns alle, für den gesamten Westen. Genau wie die tapferen amerikanischen Soldaten, die in Sizilien im Jahr 1943 landeten und im Jahre 1944 die Strände der Normandie stürmten, sind es die jungen israelischen Männer und Frauen, die für unsere Freiheit, unsere Zivilisation kämpfen.

Meine Damen und Herren, Europa sollte Israel voll und ganz unterstützen, um das Heft in die Hand zu bekommen in seinem unerbittlichen Kampf gegen diejenigen, die es bedrohen, ob dies die Hisbollah, die Hamas oder eine Atommacht Iran ist. Auch wegen seiner Geschichte hat Europa sicherlich die moralische Verpflichtung, einen weiteren Holocaust gegen das jüdische Volk um jeden Preis zu verhindern. Aber das Wichtigste von allem ist: Israel befindet sich im Kampf gegen den Jihad, der gegen uns alle gerichtet ist. Also sollten wir alle Israel verteidigen. Wir sind alle Israel.

Meine Damen und Herren, es gibt auch gute Nachrichten! Es könnte sein, dass Europa langsam erwacht. Immer mehr Menschen sind den kulturellen Relativismus und Politiker, die die negativen Auswirkungen der Masseneinwanderung und die schleichende Islamisierung Europas ignorieren, satt. Während der Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament im vergangenen Juni haben die schlimmsten kulturellen Relativisten, die Sozialisten, fast überall verloren: In den Niederlanden, in Belgien, in Deutschland, in Österreich, in Frankreich, in Spanien, in Italien und vielleicht am schwerten von allen im Vereinigten Königreich.

Aber meine Partei, die niederländische Freiheitliche Partei, war die Siegerin bei den jüngsten Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament. Gerade jetzt, in den Umfragen, sind wir sogar die Nummer 1. Wenn es morgen Parlamentswahlen in den Niederlanden gäbe, könnte ich, ob Sie es wollen oder nicht, sehr gut der nächste Ministerpräsident der Niederlande werden.

Meine Damen und Herren, die Zeit wird knapp, wir müssen handeln. Wie ich bereits sagte, brauchen wir weniger Islam und mehr Freiheit. Wir müssen unser wichtigstes Recht, unser Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung, schützen. Wir müssen unsere Freiheit schützen. Deshalb schlage ich die folgende Maßnahmen vor, Maßnahmen zur Erhaltung unserer Freiheit:

Zuerst. Wir müssen alle Formen des kulturellen Relativismus beenden. Zu diesem Zweck brauchen wir einen Zusatz zu unseren westlichen Verfassungen der besagt, dass unser kulturelles Fundament die jüdisch-christliche Kultur des Humanismus ist und nicht der Islam.

Zweitens. Wir müssen die Masseneinwanderung aus muslimischen Ländern aufhalten. Denn mehr Islam bedeutet weniger Freiheit.

Drittens. Ich habe eine klare Botschaft an alle Muslime in unserer Gesellschaft: Wenn sie unsere Gesetze befolgen, unsere Werte und unsere Verfassung, dann sind sie herzlich willkommen zu bleiben und wir werden ihnen helfen, sich zu assimilieren.

Aber, wenn sie die rote Linie überqueren und Gewaltverbrechen begehen oder die Umsetzung der Scharia fordern und anfangen, den Jihad auszuüben, dann sind sie nicht mehr willkommen, dann werden wir sie wenn möglich noch am selben Tag hinauswerfen.

Viertens. Wir müssen unsere Gesetze in Bezug auf die Meinungsfreiheit stärken. In Europa brauchen wir dringend eine Form des amerikanischen ersten Verfassungszusatzes. Und wir müssen den UN-Resolutionen widerstehen, die versuchen, unser Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung zu schwächen, um die islamische Welt zu besänftigen.

Fünftens, last but not least. Wir müssen mutige Führer wählen. Richtige Staats- und Regierungschefs. Wir genießen das Privileg, in einer Demokratie zu leben. Lassen Sie uns dieses Privileg nutzen und die schwachen Staats- und Regierungschefs durch Helden ersetzen. Wir brauchen weniger Neville Chamberlains und mehr Winston Churchills! Kurz gesagt, meine Damen und Herren, meine wichtigste Botschaft des heutigen Tages ist, dass wir wieder anfangen müssen zu kämpfen. Keine Verteidigung, sondern Offensive. Wir müssen uns wehren und zeigen, dass Millionen von Menschen des Verlierens und Einlenkens, sowie des Beschwichtigens, überdrüssig und müde sind. Wir müssen deutlich machen, dass Millionen von freiheitsliebenden Menschen sagen: GENUG IST GENUG!

Meine Damen und Herren, ich überlasse es Ihnen: Ich werde niemals nachgeben oder aufgeben. Und wir sollten uns niemals weder ergeben, noch Kompromisse über die Freiheit eingehen, dem wichtigsten Recht, das wir in unseren freien, westlichen Gesellschaften noch haben. Wir müssen gewinnen, und ich bin zuversichtlich: Wir werden gewinnen! Vielen Dank.

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Time am 25. Oktober 2009

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Keep America Safe Reveals More Obama Lies

Move along.  Nothing to see here.

Not only did the Obama administration understand full well that the Bush administration had conducted a comprehensive assessment of Afghanistan, and not only had Jim Jones asked that the Bush review be withheld from the public–but Obama’s “new” strategy bore an uncanny resemblance to that prescribed by the Lute review.

via Keep America Safe.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Obama dismisses warming skeptics

Washington Times | Oct 24, 2009

As the Senate prepares for a week of hearings on sweeping climate change legislation, President Obama on Friday accused opponents of engaging in “cynical” claims that are failing to win the debate over the controversial bill.

In a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Obama said the coalition backing the legislation represents a “convergence” of military leaders, businesses, environmental groups and young people who support a transition to low-carbon renewable energy.

Mr. Obama contended that opponents of the legislation are making “cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, claims whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.”

He added, “The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized.”

Mr. Obama spoke to students and faculty after touring MIT’s green energy research program, before going on to fundraisers for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Connecticut Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, two Democrats running for re-election next year.

The House earlier this year passed a climate bill centered on a market-based “cap-and-trade” emissions reduction plan that would raise billions of dollars from greenhouse gas emitters while cutting emissions 17 percent by 2020 and more than 80 percent by 2050.

The government would hand out nearly all of the proceeds from the plan to industry, states, utilities and conservation projects to offset expected higher energy prices and pay for renewable-energy development.

A companion bill was introduced by Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, and Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mrs. Boxer has scheduled three days of hearings starting Tuesday.

Republicans and business groups, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have mounted a campaign to stop the legislation. They argue that it would amount to a huge new tax on American businesses and consumers and would not reduce global warming because of resistance to similar cuts by China, India and other developing nations.

Spokesmen for the Chamber and its energy affiliate, the Institute for 21st Century Energy, declined to comment Friday.

Mr. Obama went out of his way to praise the alliance of Mr. Kerry and Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, who wrote a joint opinion piece calling for passage of a bipartisan climate bill.

They laid out a potential compromise that pairs a cap-and-trade system with new offshore oil drilling and expanded nuclear power. New drilling and nuclear power are problematic for liberal Democrats, but considered essential to any energy bill by most Republicans.

“We are now seeing prominent Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham joining forces with longtime leaders like John Kerry on this issue to swiftly pass a bill through the Senate, as well,” Mr. Obama said.

The American Energy Alliance, a group that opposes cap-and-trade, Thursday began airing radio ads in South Carolina criticizing Mr. Graham for his stance. Mr. Graham said Friday that the Kerry-Boxer bill does not do enough for business and consumers as written, so he wants to continue working on a compromise, the Associated Press reported.

“Global climate change is not a religion to me, but I do believe carbon pollution is harmful to the environment and I want to find a way to fix that problem,” he told reporters.

Mr. Obama has pushed the Senate to either pass its bill or make substantial progress before the upcoming U.N. global climate conference in Copenhagen in December.

Quick passage of a Senate bill is not considered likely, however.

Mr. Obama has taken a far more aggressive approach to air pollution than his Republican predecessor, President George W. Bush. The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new emissions rules for motor vehicles and has taken preliminary steps toward direct regulation of greenhouse gas emissions should Congress fail to pass a climate bill.

Environmental and health groups said Friday that they had reached an agreement with the EPA to impose new restrictions on emissions of mercury, lead, soot and other toxic pollutants from U.S. power plants by late 2011.

American's Obama Obsession - by Victor Davis Hanson

October 23, 2009 4:00 AM

America’s Obama Obsession

Anatomy of a passing hysteria.

By Victor Davis Hanson

For 30 months the nation has been in the grip of a certain Obama obsession, immune to countervailing facts, unwilling to face reality, and loath to break the spell. But like all trances, the fit is passing, and we the patient are beginning to appreciate how the stupor came upon us, why it lifted, and what its consequences have been.

HOW OBAMA WON

Barack Obama was elected rather easily because, in perfect-storm fashion, five separate trends coalesced last autumn.

1) Obama was eloquent, young, charismatic — and African-American. He thus offered voters a sense of personal and collective redemption, as well as appealing to the longing for another JFK New Frontier figure. An image, not necessarily reality, trumped all.

2) After the normal weariness with eight years of an incumbent party and the particular unhappiness with Bush, the public was amenable to an antithesis. Bush was to be scapegoat, and Obama the beginning of the catharsis.

via America’s Obama Obsession by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Brzezinski on Afghanistan

Zbigniew Brzezinski—former national security adviser, co-founder of the Trialteral Commission and (which might come to a frequent reader’s surprise) one of the scholars I’ve avidly studied most on geopolitics—discusses the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan (4:20):

What I find worth noting:

“A foreign operation tends to mobilize opposition. And the more large scale it is, the larger the opposition becomes…. If Afghans are fighting the Taliban, counterinsurgency can succeed. If we are fighting the Taliban, the chances are that if we give 40,000 more troops for counterinsurgency against the existing levels of the Taliban, a year from now we may be fighting Taliban levels that are 25% higher. And then, we have to send more troops in, etc., etc.”

This articulates the cyclical nature of a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Afghanistan at its root. I’ve hit this point on the micro-level saying that this COIN uses force for the Afghan government, not the people. COIN in this manner “is either self-defeating or purposefully manufactures the self-fulfilling prophesy of a long-term occupation virtually enslaving the Afghans and their government to U.S. interests”. Sayyid, my co-editor, makes a stronger point, in my opinion, along these same lines against the counterinsurgency operation labeled as “the alternative” by White House officials in his comment on airstrikes boosting Taliban recruitment.

Prof. Brzezinski knows this well, seeing as his was one of the primary architects of the insurgency—known at the time as the “mujahadeen”—against the U.S.S.R. that would become The Taliban and al-Qa’ida. Here’s the—now, infamous—picture of him with Osama bin Laden:

Prof. Brzezinski follows that the 2001 U.S. invasion started with the Air Force, a small number of Special Forces troops in the hundreds that sustained a larger partnership with homegrown resistance—mostly, cynical druglords whose interests were plundered by the ruling Taliban—and there was little resistance from the locals after the small Taliban ruling faction was overthrown. But now, the U.S. troop levels are over 60,000 and the “military commanders are telling us we’re not winning. What’s that tell you? Where’s the resistance? Obviously, it’s from the Taliban.”

But it’s not “The Taliban”, as in those overthrown in 2001. He continues:

“It’s Afghans. Afghans who increasingly identify themselves with something they were pleased to be seen overthrown eight years ago. That’s a bad trend.”

Asked if the U.S. is following a trend similar to that of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan—which led to the U.S.S.R. demise—in the 80’s, he replies, “I’ve been saying that for three years.” Last month, he said it was due to the “Afghan perception that [U.S. troops] are foreign invaders“.

Prof. Brzezinski likens the U.S. “imposing elections” on the Afghan people “based on the American model with polling stations, candidates, debates, now—perhaps—even a runoff election” to the Soviets attempting to export its brand of “communism” to Afghanistan. “I think it’s high time we draw some lessons from it,” he added.

As a suggestion, he says, “Why not a jirga?”—loosely: a three branch government structure traditional to Pashtuns, consisting of people’s referendums, a Congress and a judiciary of elders acting as a dispute resolution assembly to form consensus.

My family’s from a relatively informal municipality in India that operates with a jirga. The one with which I’m familiar is genuinely democratic, in the purest non-mob-rule sense, but I’d assume the Afghans wouldn’t form a system as matriarchal as that. Either way, we’re talking about a country that—liberally—estimates a 20% literacy rate. The rational next question is: what makes one literate in Afghanistan?

You can’t establish a ‘rule of law’ when the people can’t read the law, let alone the enforcers.

As critical as I’ve been toward the Afghanistan occupation and the retardation within the mainstream so-called “debate” common in the U.S., don’t take my comment about Afghan literacy as American exceptionalism. Zbigniew Brzezinski is an amoralist, yet he rationalizes the situation in Afghanistan and the U.S. role closer to truth than people claiming to focus on justice. This is sad.

If you’re unsold that the U.S. needs to get out of Afghanistan, this is post #75 here on the occupation in the ten and a half months since this blog launched. There’s plenty to go through; most recently:

  • Ron Paul Debunks the ‘Afghanistan Debate’ (Video)
  • Escalted Airstrikes Fuel Rise in Terrorist Recruiting Among Westerners
  • Officials: 80,000 Additional Troops Sought for Afghan Occupation
  • Escalated Afghanistan Occupation ‘Buys Some Time’
  • The U.S.-Washington Post Afghanistan Occupation
  • Obama on Afghanistan: ‘Drastic Reduction in Troops’ Not an Option
  • Psychotic Neo-Con Iraq War Architects Call For Escalation of Afghan Occupation
  • Gates Open to Troop Increase in Afghanistan On Top of Obama Surge as More Civilians Die and Most Americans Oppose the Occupation

The Bottom Line On "THE" Birth Certificate

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The Birth Certificate.
Obama supporters like Snopes and FactCheck claim to have a copy of Obama’s birth certificate, but they do NOT. I challenge any reader of this column to send me a certified copy of Obama’s actual birth certificate and I will gladly disclose it to the public along with a retraction of this statement.
I won’t get one, because no such document has ever been released by Obama. End of story!
Officials in Hawaii have issued their “opinion” that Obama is a “natural born citizen” of the United States. But they have thus far refused to make public the documents used to arrive at that opinion, and until they do so, their “opinion” is nothing more than inadmissible hearsay from a third party NOT present at the time of Obama’s birth, and they are, therefore, unable to support such a claim.
Not one, but THREE different COLBs, (Certification of Live Birth, not to be confused with an actual birth certificate) have been posted online by Team Obama, Snopes and FactCheck. But none of the three contain any verifiable information necessary to vet the documents and since three have been offered, all must be treated as forgeries until one of them can be authenticated.
Some “birthers” believe Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii. That’s because Obama’s Kenyan relatives have stated under oath, that they were present at Obama’s birth in Kenya.
But where he was born isn’t so important. The fact that he was born to a father who was at no time a citizen of the United States, is the problem. On this basis alone, Obama is NOT a “natural born citizen” of the United States and that makes him an “unconstitutional president” at best!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Just Call Me Joseph

You too can be on a first-name basis with a freshman congressman from New Orleans — because people can’t seem to get his last name right.

Republican Anh “Joseph” Cao (gow) won election last December. Since then, he has heard his name mispronounced — usually as “cow” or “chow” — by newscasters and public officials, including President Barack Obama.

And he’s noticed debates about the pronunciation on Internet blogs. So he issued a tongue-in-cheek open letter over the weekend, humorously trying to set the record straight.

To pronounce it correctly, start with a hard “G” sound, as in go or grass, and then make it rhyme with “pow” or “how.”

But in the end, Cao seems resigned to his last name being botched. “On second thought, never mind,” he advises. “Just call me Joseph.”

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize - For politics, not achievements

I was appalled to learn that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.  I was even more appalled to learn he was nominated by the prize committee after only two weeks in office. 

I understand that Obama was nominated because of his “intentions” to stop nuclear disarmament.   No sitting president has received the Nobel Prize without having any concrete achievements.  That’s like giving a student an A+ for an entire course because he shows up the first day of class and tells the teacher he “intends” to be the top student in the class.

Both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Prize six years after taking office. They won for their negotiations in ending wars.  Roosevelt won for negotiating the end of the Japanese-Russian War in 1906, while Woodrow Wilson won for his conditions for a peace treaty and his plan for setting up a League of Nations, which was to be the United Nations.

All presidents have intentions of ending war (with George Bush’s War on Terriorism being the exception).  I believe several U.S. Presidents over the past forty or fifty years were much more deserving of the Nobel prize than Obama.  Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights bill,  Nixon’s restoring diplomatic relations with China and the Reagan-Bush administrations for further arms reduction with the Soviet Union.  Unfortunately, the Johnson’s downfall was Vietnam, Nixon’s was Watergate (and being a poor domestic president) and Reagan’s was his appeal to the everyday working class man, not the east coast elites. 

Obama has yet to be tested.  We don’t know if his intentions will translate into reality. 

Jimmy Carter was the last president to receive the Nobel Prize, although he received it after leaving office.  Al Gore also received a Nobel Prize for his environmental work showcased in the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” 

It seems that the Nobel Prize is awarded not on the basis of achievement, but on the basis of sharing the same political views as the Nobel Committee.  Ronald Reagan didn’t have a chance.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Obama, lasat fara cuvinte de un copil de 9 ani

Presedintele Barack Obama, care a facut o vizita in New Orleans, orasul devastat de uraganul Katrina in 2005, a trecut printr-unul dintre cele mai delicate momente de cand se afla la Casa Alba.

Prins intr-o dezbatere aprinsa pe tema reformei sistemului de asigurari de sanatate, cel mai puternic om al lumii a fost pus in dificultate, insa, de un baiat de 9 ani, transmite AFP.

“Trebuie sa spun, de ce va uraste lumea? Ar trebui sa va iubeasca. Dumnezeu e dragoste”, a spus copilul din Louisiana.

Luat prin surprindere, Obama i-a raspuns in cele din urma. “Am fost ales totusi presedinte, asa ca nu ma uraste toata lumea. Am primit o gramada de voturi”, a spus el.

“Daca te-ai uitat la televizor in ultima vreme, se pare ca toata lumea se enerveaza tot timpul. Cred ca trebuie sa suporti. Face parte din politica”, a adaugat presedintele american.

Sursa: Ziare.com

Trickle Down Communism

“Trickle-Up” Poverty: The New
Economics of Barack Obama.
The liberal media talking heads are already proclaiming that a Barack Obama victory will be revolutionary. Revolutionary is right. The last great revolution took place in Russia. Within a year of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the communist leader Lenin brought the Russians change they could believe in. He created an economic system in which:

* All industry was nationalized and strict centralized management was introduced.
* Obligatory labor duty was imposed onto “non-working classes” or people who had money. Food was rationed and centrally distributed.
* Military-like control of railroads was introduced.
* Private enterprise became illegal.

After Stalin took over the Soviet Union, he:

* Imposed a state-run system of socialized medicine
* Formed a strict, centralized cultural administration and ideological control system – in other words, reeducation.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO TREAT...OBAMA SANDBAGGED BY TEABAGS.....REALITY STRIKES A POSE.

Speaking of posers…His Magnificence Obama the First graced the belly of the Liberal Beast with his presence, while he extracted THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS apiece from gratefully groveling sycophants to hear his latest rehash of the same thing he has been saying since, oh…say December or January, all the while looking cross eyed down his nose at the Moon eyed adulators. He’s so wonderful….he didn’t have to look up once!

Meanwhile thousands of people, real people, gathered outside to let the Glorious Leader know just how much they detest what he stands for and what he’s doing. Surprisingly enough, some of them were erstwhile supporters of El Presidente, whose main beef seemed to be that he had just not been Marxist enough in his so far unsuccessful attempt at destroying our civil society. They were so intent on dissing their idol that most of them forgot to argue with the thousands of patriots present. Either that or SEIU just hadn’t  time to put enough union thug rent-a-mobs together….or maybe it’s just that it was an OT gig and their ACORN contract didn’t allow for it.

I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area and nothing is more illustrative of the groundswell and momentum of the Patriot movement in this country than these people coming out on their their own time and with their own money to protest at what this incredibly inept lightweight has been doing. By way of contrast, even as recently as a year ago you’d never see this sort of spontaneous eruption in San Francisco, unless it were the Gays all up in a hissy about something or another, or maybe the Anarchists trying to burn down the financial  district (which is 100% concrete) . Good goin’ guys…

Our increasingly detested ‘houses of governance’ (and in this instance that may be an oxy-moron), SNEAK around in the dead of night to craft legislation only a severely bi-polar person off his meds might come up with. Unelected and unaccountable Marxist Obamatons steal our American birthright by shredding our Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States of America…probably the singular most important document in recorded history. They wonder why we are literally up in arms?

You have a total non-entity such as Anita Dunn standing at a podium, preaching the glories of MAO to an audience of high school seniors? Mao, who was directly responsible for the deaths of what is estimated to be 70 MILLION of his own people? This Anita Dunn, who would rob you of the right to speak as you wish, hear what you wish, write what you please. This is OUR government? She’s wretched…but she’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Glenn Beck is a genuine passionate patriot. His research  has been impeccable.

Mark Levin is one of the greatest constitutional scholars of our time.         Rush Limbaugh, who started the whole movement and had the courage to stick with it even though ‘they’ said it couldn’t be done, has the largest audience in history and every time they attack him his audience grows. Sean Hannity and all the others who spend countless hours of research bringing us the TRUTH to combat the serial lies of the left.

Likewise Fox News. Every time they get attacked by the left, the ratings go up. It’s almost laughable if it weren’t so serious.

That’s why they are after us…they have to silence us or face the  greatest defeat any incumbent party or Congress has ever faced. They have completely misread and abused the electorate of this country time after time.

I think it’s too late for them. The genie is out of the bottle. He can’t be stuffed back in there.

What Obama faced in Babylon by the Bay is just a bare microcosm of what is actively brewing in this nation from sea to shining sea. Obama and his DemMarxists (because at this point I can’t even really separate the two) are desperate, they can see what’s coming. We have to stay vigilant and we have to stay united. They have to be stopped…We can stop them. We are the American people.
Hey, Obama Hussein…
Your San Francisco treat is on the way…

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis.

© Skip MacLure 2009

Jobs in America

When Obama wanted to pass the stimulus program he said unemployment rates would not rise above 8%,  so why is it that we are looking at all most 10% unemployment? All that money is spent and no one has a job. I have to wonder why we let him pass this stimulus or for that matter why we elected Obama  for president. This man only served 18 months before he started his campaign and has basically admitted to just voting against anything President Bush tried to pass. I know America wanted to elected their first black Pres but we have time, I think we rushed this decision a little bit. I will say that it is about time that we put the past aside and elected a black man but does he really count, after all he is only half black and grow up in Kansas. Don’t get me wrong I have no problem with that at all, I just think he used that to frick up the best country there ever was. I don’t know if America will ever recover from what he has done. He has spent my retirement money, my kids(who are not even born yet) and their kids retirement and for what? Now he wants to socialize our health care and put and extra tax on soda. Did we go through some freaky time warp to Hitler’s days? As American’s I don’t believe we should have to pay extra if we want a soda, or for that matter if we want a cigarette. I admit neither is good for us but if they are so bad, why do we sell them at all? Don’t try to make money off of me Obama! I didn’t want the stimulus to pass to begin with.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pakistani security attacked; 27 dead

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan

Militants launched a string of bold strikes against Pakistani law enforcement Thursday, leaving at least 27 police officers and civilians dead, authorities said.

At least 11 militants died in the fighting, while others were missing.

Three nearly simultaneous assaults were carried out mid-morning in the eastern city of Lahore, said police spokesman Rai Nazar Hayat.

Militants stormed Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency, along with two police training centers. The attackers gained entrance to each facility, setting set off explosives and taking hostages in some cases. At least 16 police died in the Lahore attacks.

In northwestern Pakistan, a suicide car bomber hit a police station in the Kohat district, killing at least 11 people — eight civilians and three police, said Kohat Police Chief Dilawr Bangish. A dozen people were injured in the attack.

The offices of several senior police and government officials are next to the police station that was targeted. Several military installations also are nearby.

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    Militant attacks have become increasingly bold in recent days.

    At least 41 people were killed and 45 wounded in a blast Monday at a security forces checkpoint in northwest Pakistan. The explosion occurred in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley.

    On Saturday, militants attacked the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, killing 11 military personnel and three civilians, according to the Pakistani  military. Nine militants died in the attack. A total of 39 hostages were freed Sunday morning after being held by five militants at the army headquarters.

    Previously Blaming Obama For Slumping Markets, Boehner Now Downplays Surging Dow

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed above 10,000 for the first time this year as “U.S. stocks approached their highest levels since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy sent the global economy into a tailspin.” In fact, the index is up 13 percent since the start of the year.

    House Minority Leader John Boehner grumbled at the news. “[You're] certainly not talking to the American people,” if you’re placing any significance on the 10,000 mark, Boehnercontended:

    “The American people understand that unemployment is almost at 10 percent, they understand that they might be next so there are concerns about the economy,” Boehner said. [...]

    Boehner said the stock market’s rebound is a reaction to the extreme shock from earlier this year, but it says little more than that.

    “At the end of the day, the American people aren’t looking at the stock market in terms of putting food on the table,” Boehner said. “They want jobs, and they want them now.”

    However, in the past Christian Republican Boehner didn’t  dismiss the significance of the stock market.  In fact, Boehner stated in March that the dsmil numbers coming from Wall Street represented the public’s dissatisfaction with Obama’s economic policies:

    “The president certainly remains popular, but his policies are becoming less and less popular,” Boehner said, citing the continuing slide in the financial markets. “Certainly the stock market hasn’t acted very well” ….apparently this suddenly happened since Obama’s inauguration.

    Also, Boehner, like many other Christian Republicans and Fox News have often used the markets to tout or brag about the leadership of the Republican/Christian party of family values.   Boehner stated at a GOP rally that the republicans would best handle the economy by “pointing to a hot stock market”.  Yeah, during that time it was a little “hot” but under their “leadership” we have all witnessed what happened.

    Tuesday, October 13, 2009

    Obama and the Nobel Prize

    So I wanted to come out with a more timely response to this announcement but I simply did not have time over the weekend and was trying to process this very strange choice. After doing some thinking and research, all I can say is theat the committee biffed it. In 37 weeks in office President Obama has not actually accomplished anything in the way of peace or major foreign policy that could result in peace. He has not signed any major treaties, hosted a peace conference, or made new allies. There simply are no major accomplishments to point to.

    What he has done, as this article points out,  is make some changes to our foreign policy and apologize for prior US actions (neither of which he needs to do). He has embarrassed the office of President by showing weakness before countries that want to destroy us and our way of life.

    Of course I do not think we should really be surprised. Why should we take serious an award given to Al Gore for making a movie about the environment that he later admitted used junk science?

    The New York Times THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Discovers The Worlds Best Peacekeepers. Thank You Thomas, Better Late Than Never - Or Is That The New York Times Motto?

    New York Times

    ll that said, I hope Mr. Obama will take this instinct a step further when he travels to Oslo on Dec. 10 for the peace prize ceremony. Here is the speech I hope he will give:

    “Let me begin by thanking the Nobel committee for awarding me this prize, the highest award to which any statesman can aspire. As I said on the day it was announced, ‘I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize.’ Therefore, upon reflection, I cannot accept this award on my behalf at all. “But I will accept it on behalf of the most important peacekeepers in the world for the last century — the men and women of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

    “So for all these reasons — and so you understand that I will never hesitate to call on American soldiers where necessary to take the field against the enemies of peace, tolerance and liberty — I accept this peace prize on behalf of the men and women of the U.S. military: the world’s most important peacekeepers.”

    Sunday, October 11, 2009

    Un Nobel en guerra

    Barack Obama es el Premio Nobel de la Paz en este 2009. La noticia ha sorprendido, pues no sólo no lleva ni un año como Presidente de los EE.UU, sino que también es un presidente en guerra.  Una guerra, la de Afganistán cada vez más cuestionada.

    Sea como fuere, muchos esta semana se han hecho la misma pregunta, ¿ no habrá nadie que se merezca este premio más que Obama? Él mismo ya ha dicho que no se lo merece…

    Mahmoud Abbas facing challenge to his leadership from aggressive youth

    After meeting Prime Minister Netanyahu without preconditions, Mahmoud Abbas facing a revolt against his leadership of Fatah from guard of younger leaders.

    Handshakes of deception. Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas agrees to play a game in front of President Obama.

    Hounded by his moderate supporters and militant rivals alike, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is facing a leadership crisis that will make it harder for the Obama administration to draw him into peace talks with Israel.

    He made two concessions that ignited fury at home and across the Arab world: First he joined President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for a meeting in New York last month to explore prospects for formal talks.

    Then last week he agreed, under American pressure, to postpone the Palestinians’ demand for a UN Security Council debate on a UN report accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza.

    While Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has for months offered to resume talks,

    «I cannot imagine that Abbas can meet [U.S. envoy] Mitchell and simply agree to resume negotiations with Israel without preconditions», said Mouin Rabbani, a Palestinian political analyst based in Jordan.

    Source: Los Angeles Times.

    My comment:

    During my stay in Israel last week, a friend of mine said:

    «Something is breeding among the Muslims in Jerusalem. It has been quite for too long».

    Radical Islam is not happy with the Fatah president Mahmoud Abbas. When he meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, Abbas had not got anything. The PM of Israel had not agreed to stop building in Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria.

    The logic within the Arab Palestinian terrorist movement, has again changed. The present silence has been a product of a wait and watch approach to the Likud lead Israeli Governments relations to the new Obama administrastion. «How much can we get from Benjamin Netanyahu without rocket fire and stones?»

    Now, when Netanyahu has managed to stand up during pressure from Washington and London, its time to resume the political agenda of hate and violence. The logic is simple:

    «Lets again make life inside Israel a living hell. Obama and Blair will agree to blame the Zionist state for the trouble, and Netanyahu will be forced to make «peace». In the bargain we will get Judea and Samaria, and East Jerusalem».

    This is the same logic as the Nazis used during the peace negotiations that ended with the outbreak of Word War II. The moment Chamberlain understood that Hitler was not a man of peace, it was simply to late.

    Saturday, October 10, 2009

    Obama on Nobel Peace Prize: "I Will Accept This Award As a Call to Action" [Video]


    On October 9, 2009, our newly elected president, Barack Obama, was informed that he will be honored with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Obama humbly accepted the award, but went on to speak about the nation’s and the world’s tasks for peace in the future. Many reacted by saying that Obama does not accept this award because he has not done “anything” as our president. But most may be unaware that he received it, not for his achievements as the 44th United States president, but for his efforts in international diplomacy and world peace. More importantly, his efforts in nuclear disarmament.

    After the jump I have a small, written piece from my boy Joe that is very interesting and thought-provoking, to say the least. And yes, I totally agree with him.

    “The Hate Will Never Stop”, by Joe Hyman

    In the past, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to figures in order to both congratulate accomplishment and to further encourage action of a supported agenda. Basically, specific achievements are not the only criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hear that? A world committee has convened, The Nobel Peace Prize Committee, and decided that our President, Barack Obama is an immensely important figure in the world; not our country, not our politics…world politics. And Americans hate the fact that he was awarded the prize, minimizing and downplaying his accomplishments saying, “What has he even done?”, “He shouldn’t have gotten an award after 12 days in office”. Is everyone forgetting how Barack Obama rejuvenated a nation, injecting hope and optimism in our country? That was before those 12 days in office. But the obvious reality is, they are not awarding those 12 days in office. Maybe you weren’t affected, but a lot of other people were…alot. Voting records were broken during this last election. No president in recent history has been so fervently supported by Americans, not to mention, by our youth. Any political movement that included our nation’s youth the way it did this past year should be applauded and encouraged, as it was, he was elected President.

    The Nobel Peace Prize is further congratulating our President with the prize, giving momentum to a set of causes that shows promise to a more peaceful world. The committee has awarded our President the prize for his leadership internationally, his actions towards nuclear disarmament, and to draw attention to an agenda that they (the committee, not you) think brings peace to our world. This is bigger than America, they have sat down and chosen our President because of his affect on the world. But fine, you want it to be about you? We can talk that talk. The committee also decided to award the President the award because of his historical political track to the White House. This is who you voted for America. Maybe not you, the reader, but the majority.

    Oh yea, and not to mention, he is a Black man. He is a Black man that won the presidency in a country that is built on racism, literally. A country that has an ugly past, a unique past. Only one other world event is even compared to what happened during slavery in America. I emphasize this point intentionally. It’s a big deal. This change is a big deal. The majority of voting Americans (majority white Americans) just allowed the world to view America in a different light. And they did it for this man, Barack Obama. His was the leader of that movement that changed history, and shows incredible promise to change history. Hmm, that world seems familiar. This isn’t necessarily me talking, ya’ll said it! I repeat, maybe not you the reader, but the majority.

    The majority of people in this country voted/support our President, but when he is awarded and encouraged with The Nobel Peace Prize to continue the agenda that you voted for, you’re mad about it? You hate? You discredit and minimize the award? Wow, patriotism at it’s finest? Well, I’m proud of our President because I voted for those issues that are being put on a pedestal to the world by The Nobel Peace Prize Committee, saying, he is the leader of a movement that will affect this entire world.

    It’s hate, because it is undeniable the accomplishments he has made, and the affect he is having on world politics; whether you agree with it or not. This never ending stream of hate that is pouring out of right-winged politics is antonymous to success. It seems as if it will never stop. But nobody will say why. You hate Barack Obama because he is a democrat. You hate Barack Obama because of his age. Haters, you’re making it really easy to say, you hate Barack Obama because he is Black. But after hundreds of years of Black slavery in America, abolishment of legal slavery in America, and the incredible rise of the African-Americans status within a fiercely racist society, it seems, the hate will never stop.

    Thursday, October 8, 2009

    Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran?

    Is the U.S. stepping up preparations for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities? Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has been sparring with President Obama over whether Iran is developing the technology to build nuclear weapons. (ABC News Photo Illustration) The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-noticed funding request recently sent to Congress, the answer to that question appears to be yes. First, some background: Back in October 2007, ABC News reported that the Pentagon had asked Congress for $88 million in the emergency Iraq/Afghanistan war funding request to develop a gargantuan bunker-busting bomb called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). It’s a 30,000-pound bomb designed to hit targets buried 200 feet below ground Now the Pentagon is shifting spending from other programs to fast forward the development and procurement of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. The Pentagon comptroller sent a request to shift the funds to the House and Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees over the summer. Click here to see a copy of the Pentagon’s request, provided to ABC News. // The comptroller said the Pentagon planned to spend $19.1 million to procure four of the bombs, $28.3 million to accelerate the bomb’s “development and testing”, and $21 million to accelerate the integration of the bomb onto B-2 stealth bombers. ‘Urgent Operational Need’ The notification was tucked inside a 93-page “reprogramming” request that included a couple hundred other more mundane items. Why now? The notification says simply, “The Department has an Urgent Operational Need (UON) for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high threat environments. The MOP is the weapon of choice to meet the requirements of the UON.” It further states that the request is endorsed by Pacific Command (which has responsibility over North Korea) and Central Command (which has responsibility over Iran).

    The Mojave Cross

    By the time you read this, the case may already be decided. But I’d like to throw this out for your opinion anyway.

    Today, Wednesday, October 07, 2009, the Supreme Court is hearing the case of the “Mojave Desert Cross”. This monument has been the subject of a heated argument for fifteen years.

    The Tug-o-War (paraphrased from Snopes, Religious Tolerance.org, and the UK Telegraph.  Interesting that the best news story I found on this came from the UK Telegraph, but that’s another story.):

    1934: a Christian Cross is erected on Sunrise Rock by the VFW as a WWI Memorial

    1994: Sunrise Rock becomes the Mojave National Preserve, a 1.6 million acre preserve, administered by the National Park Service (NPS)

    1999: An unnamed private citizen petitions the NPS to erect a Buddhist memorial in the vicinity of the Mojave Cross. The petition is denied.

    1999: the ACLU files a complaint with the NPS on behalf of Frank Buono (Catholic, Veteran, former Ranger with the NPS), stating that the cross violates the “Establishment Clause” of the Constitution. The ACLU requested that the cross be removed because, although it was maintained as a war memorial, it did not represent all veterans, only those who were Christians.

    Oct. 2000: NPS agrees to remove the cross

    Dec. 2000: Rep. Jerry Lewis of California (no, not THAT Jerry Lewis) inserts language into a House Appropriations bill that prohibits federal funds from being used to “remove the white cross from within the boundary of the Mojave National Preserve.”

    March, 2001: ACLU files lawsuit on behalf of Buono, seeking to compel the removal of the cross

    July, 2002: U.S. District Court rules in the ACLU’s favor stating that the cross conveys a “message of endorsement of religion.”

    2002: Rep. Lewis inserts language into a Defense Appropriations Bill declaring the Cross Site to be a national memorial and arranged a deal transferring the acre of land on which the cross sits to the VFW in exchange for five acres of privately owned land within the preserve. This technically removed the cross from federal land.  Language of the transfer may include (I read this in a couple of articles but couldn’t find concrete evidence) the provision that, if the VFW was no longer able to maintain the land, it would revert back to the NPS.

    July, 2004: Ninth Circuit Court rules in the ACLU’s favor, rejecting the land transfer proposal, stating, in part, that the “primary effect of the presence of the cross” was to “advance religion” and therefore violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

    2008: Bush Administration appeals the Ninth Circuit decision, arguing that Buono was an Oregon resident and therefore lacked legal standing to sue over a cross in California. They further argued that the land transfer was a “sensible” and “permissible” way of “resolving the establishment clause problem.”

    Feb. 2009: Supreme Court agrees to hear the Mojave Cross Case (Salazar vs. Buono). It comes before the court on Wednesday, October 07, 2009. The cross still stands on Sunrise Rock, but is currently covered by a large plywood box until a decision is made. Obama Administration lawyers bear the responsibility of defending the right of the Department of the Interior to maintain the cross.

    The relevant part of the First Amendment to the Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

    What do you think? Should the cross be allowed to stand?

    Tuesday, October 6, 2009

    Dreaming 'bout Obama

    I couldn’t believe it when I awoke this morning, that I’d dreamed about Obama!    Since I seldom remember my dreams, this was a shock, but the significance of the dream, which at first seemed silly, began to dawn on me as dawn lightened the sky.

    First of all, he was riding what appeared to be motorized bicycle (not a motorbike) yet was pedaling along on it.  Various contraptions extended which reminds me of the tinker toy gun my granddaughter had fashioned during the day.

    I was at a fair, inside a tent I believe, looking at my sister’s display which included two quilts she’d made, when Obama suddenly drove up on his bicycle and stopped to look.   “My sister in Kentucky made these” I said proudly.  He didn’t seem to know where Kentucky was.

    “Appalachia,” I said.  “Surely, you’ve heard of the Appalachian Mountains.”   There was no sign of recognition from him.   “You really should get to know  the country,” I said.   It was as though he were a stranger here who knew nothing about America.

    In the culture I grew up in, in Appalachia, we look for meaning in our dreams, believing they either instruct us or reveal truths that are hard to see when we’re awake.    I’m still pondering the dream’s meaning, however, and whether it was triggered by the tinker toy gun my granddaughter had made.

    Obama Administration Not Sure if U.S. Commander in Afghanistan is 'Ready', May Be 'Naive' or Just 'An Upstart'

    Incredible: 

    According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.

    The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago’s unsuccessful Olympic bid.

    And why was the Obama Administration so upset?

    In London, Gen McChrystal, who heads the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan as well as the 100,000 Nato forces, flatly rejected proposals to switch to a strategy more reliant on drone missile strikes and special forces operations against al-Qaeda.

    He told the Institute of International and Strategic Studies that the formula, which is favoured by Vice-President Joe Biden, would lead to “Chaos-istan”.

    When asked whether he would support it, he said: “The short answer is: No.”

    He went on to say: “Waiting does not prolong a favorable outcome. This effort will not remain winnable indefinitely, and nor will public support….”

    Gen McChrystal delivered a report on Afghanistan requested by the president on Aug 31, but Mr Obama held only his second “principals meeting” on the issue last week.

    He will hold at least one more this week, but a decision on how far to follow Gen McChrystal’s recommendation to send 40,000 more US troops will not be made for several weeks.

    And the Administration’s perception of why McChrystal would make such comments:

    An adviser to the administration said: “People aren’t sure whether McChrystal is being naïve or an upstart. To my mind he doesn’t seem ready for this Washington hard-ball and is just speaking his mind too plainly.”

    Yes, please continue to tell the military how to operate, since Washington obviously understands the situation far better than anyone actually working in Afghanistan; just like Iraq, right?

    July 20, 2007:  

     ”Here’s what we know. The surge has not worked.”

    September 4, 2008 :  

    “I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated” … “It’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

    Sunday, October 4, 2009

    Proposta de reforma de Obama deve legalizar imigrantes nos EUA

    WASHINGTON – Embora o presidente Barack Obama tenha adiado uma reforma imigratória para o próximo ano, a agência federal responsável pela aprovação de vistos já começou a se planejar para a possibilidade de conceder status legal a milhões de imigrantes, afirmou o diretor da agência na quinta-feira.

    “Nós estamos nos preparando para isso”, disse Alejandro Mayorkas, o diretor da agência Serviços de Cidadania e Imigração dos Estados Unido.

    Obama disse às autoridades de imigração que um programa de legalização fará parte da legislação que a Casa Branca planeja propor, disse Mayorkas que se tornou diretor em agosto.

    A meta da agência, segundo ele, é estar pronta para expandir rapidamente seu trabalho para lidar com o grande aumento no pedido de vistos de permanência que decorrerá da possível aprovalção da nova legislação, conhecida como ampla reforma imigratória, pelo Congresso.

    A agência de cidadania enfrenta a busca por um difícil equilíbrio, preparando-se para uma carga de trabalho possivelmente muito maior, com base em uma legislação em fase de debates iniciais que é ferozmente contrariada por muitos legisladores do Congresso.

    Além disso, a agência tem que trabalhar para reduzir os atrasos que prejudicam seu desempenho.

    Não há estimativas oficiais do número de imigrantes ilegais que solicitarão documentos para a legalização.

    Os centros de pesquisas Pew Hispanic Center e Center for Immigration Studies, de Washington, calculam que pelo menos 10,8 milhões de imigrantes ilegais moram no país.

    Mas muitos destes não poderiam pedir a legalização por muitos motivos, incluindo violações imigratórias no passado.

    Atualmente, a agência de cidadania controla o pedido de cerca de 6 milhões de imigrantes por ano, disse Mayorkas, incluindo a demorada coleção de impressões digitais e outras informação de identidade biométricas.

    Sob a nova lei, a agência poderia receber este número de pedidos em algumas semanas.

    Um exemplo do planejamento, segundo Mayorkas, é um esforço para melhorar a habilidade da agência de receber pedidos pelo correio e caixas fortalecidas colocadas em pontos de fácil acesso.

    Atualmente a agência recebe 65% dos pedidos de cidadania por estas caixas, que são mais eficientes do que muitos escritórios locais.

    A agência quer receber todos os processos através destas caixas no futuro.

    Uma das propostas será pedir que os imigrantes ilegais comecem o processo de legalização verificando sua possibilidade de permanência nos Estados Unidos através de um formulário de registro que deve ser enviado à agência, de acordo com autoridades envolvidas na questão.

    - Julia Preston

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    Pour une nouvelle médaille olympique

    La ville de Chicago est arrivée 4eme et dernière dans le choix de la ville Olympique 2016. Rio empoche donc la médaille d’or, Madrid l’argent, Tokyo le bronze et Chicago donc ?
    Je crois qu’après la médaille d’or, d’argent et de bronze, insuffisantes pour récompenser les perdants ou ceux qui n’ont pu accéder à la tribune des vainqueurs, il faudrait inventer ou créer une 4me médaille Olympique, on la nommerait la médaille …….. mais d’abord avant le nom à qui serait elle attribuée ?

    Elle serait attribuée
    - à ceux qui “tentent beaucoup mais réussissent peu”.
    - à ceux qui considèrent qu’on peut ” très bien jouer et ne pas gagner”
    - à ceux qui sont les meilleurs pour parler que pour faire.
    - à ceux qui sont plus une célébrité qu’un homme d’Etat.
    - à ceux qui sont séduisants, populaires mais sont appelés à la réalité par les faits.
    - à ceux qui foncent vers une défaite assurée plutôt que d’ encourir le reproche de ne pas savoir se désister à temps.

    On l’appellerait après la médaille d’or, la médaille d’argent et la médaille de bronze …….on l’appellerait la médaille obama.

    Saturday, October 3, 2009

    The Audacity of Nope

    Great read from the UK edition of the Times Online regarding Obama’s latest failure, securing the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.

    There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he is full of lofty vision, but is actually achieving nothing with his grandiloquence.

    Chicago’s dismal showing yesterday, after Mr Obama’s personal, impassioned last-minute pitch, is a stunning humiliation for this President. It cannot be emphasised enough how this will feed the perception that on the world stage he looks good — but carries no heft.

    It was only the Olympic Games, the White House will argue — not a high-stakes diplomatic gamble with North Korea. It is always worthwhile when Mr Obama sells America to the rest of the world, David Axelrod, his chief political adviser, said today. But that argument will fall on deaf ears in the US. Americans want their presidents to be winners.

    Mr Obama was greeted — as usual — like a rock star by the IOC delegates in Copenhagen — then humiliated by them. Perception is reality. A narrow defeat for Chicago would have been acceptable — but the sheer scale of the defeat was a bombshell, and is a major blow for Mr Obama at a time when questions are being asked about his style of governance.

     So true. The World loves him yet doesn’t respect him.  Many Americans just don’t respect him.  View the full article here.