Friday, 27 August 2010
VBS TV: Afghanistan in the UK Part 5 of 5
'We travel to Wootton Bassett, in Swindon, originally made famous by the British comedy show The Office. These days its main claim to fame is as one of the first places the Army repatriates its dead soldiers onto British soil, due to its close proximity to RAF Lyneham airbase. Relatives and friends of the slain young people regularly line the streets as funeral corteges with coffins draped in British flags trundle down the high street. Whoever is head of the Swindon Tourism Board certainly has an interesting job.
After talking to the landlady of the local Conservative club, we travel back to STANTA to meet up with B Company once again. We talk to the young medic team and learn more about their motivations for putting their lives at risk every day. We also revisit brain-damaged Afghan vet Richard Dare who describes in vivid detail how combat shock manifests itself; in his case at a steak dinner on holiday in Ibiza. Then we wave goodbye to 2 Para, until we catch up with them again next year when we join them in Helmand.
Punk points: the main song we used for this film is “Visions Of War” by Discharge.'
News............
Day 49 – 27th August 1940
A no-show for 12 years, worker in Norfolk still paid
Dear Leader will once again address the nation's school children
Operation: Iota Cracker
Stimulus Figures Questioned Amid Call for Economic Team Firings
Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
Charity millions 'go to fundraising companies'
UK bank accounting rules 'fatally flawed', warns influential watchdog
Voters Now Trust Republicans More On All 10 Key Issues
Environmental Protection Agency considering a ban on lead ammunition
Fighting for Control of the Web's Future
New Book Plunges Germany into Immigration Debate
Australia warns citizens over travel to Ireland
Britain faces new terror wave
Iran issues fatwa against pets
Families of trapped Chilean miners to sue mining firm
and finally.......
7 things you learn when you’re an insomniac
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Sad end of a chain-letter. Socialism......from Rico
We are witnessing the sad end of an economic chain-letter.
- Consider REAL vs. NOMINAL for a moment.
In the last decade (that's 10 years for progressives):
- GDP vs. Gold is down <62%>
- Median Home Price vs. Gold is down <70%>
- Per Capita Income vs. Gold is down <70%>
- Beef vs. Gold is down <63%>
In REAL terms we have been not only in a 'recession' but in a 'depression' for a quite a while already.
- Recovery? Get REAL.
NOMINAL the DJIA is down over 28% from its Oct 2007 high of 14,280.
REAL it's down 50%. REALLY.
And vs, the $$$ the DJIA is down in REAL terms by 79.6%!!!
Gee, our fractional reserve lending/banking system has worked a treat, eh, Maynard?
- Double-plus good!
What we are witnessing is the sad end of a Ponzi scheme, the end of a chain-letter (ever hear of Albania?).
This is exactly what SOCIALISM has to offer you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Collapse under the weight of it's delusion, idiocy, and corruption.
Thursday, 26 August 2010
The Left's Eliminationist Narrative
After yesterday's smackdown, Charles Johnson is doing Olympian twists and turns (safe link) to try to salvage his "right-wing bigotry and hatred" slander regarding the New York cabdriver attack. To see people like this is to witness those who inhabit another world apart from reality. It's a world that Melanie Phillips explained in The World Turned Upside Down. No truth can break them from the grips of their hatred, and those who deviate from the narrative are not just repudiated, but hounded --- even beaten --- into silence and subjugation. That's why leftists get along so well with jihadis. Their goals of ideological domination are one and the same.
William Jacobson has an awesome post on this, "Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative" (via Glenn Reynolds):
Bill Sparkman. Amy Bishop. The Fort Hood Shooter. The IRS Plane Crasher. The Pentagon Shooter.
Check the rest of William's post for all the usual suspects.
People who had nothing to do with each other in the real world. In the blogosphere, each of these people was linked by a macabre desire by the left-wing blogosphere to find a crime which fit a narrative of right wing violence inspired by talk radio, Fox News, "wingnut" bloggers, and Tea Partiers.
It's the narrative pushed by Dave Neiwart of Crooks and Liars about an "eliminationist" radical right. You could say that Neiwart fancies himself the new Richard Hofstadter, and "eliminationist" is the new "paranoid style" in American politics.
In each case, the facts did not fit the narrative. But the narrative was pushed anyway.
Add the Anti-Muslim Cabbie Stabber to the list. That person is Michael Enright.
The narrative which exploded immediately in the left-wing blogosphere was that right-wing incitement related to the Corboda Mosque and Islamic Center incited Engright to stab a Muslim cab driver, after questioning the driver as to his faith. Here is a taste of the initial reaction from leading blogs ...
And don't miss Michelle Malkin's entry as well, "Left: The NYC Muslim cabbie stabbing was right-wing ISLAMOPHOBIA!…oh, wait a minute…" Michelle links to a classic example from the Village Voice: "Was the Muslim Cab Driver Slashing the First “Ground Zero Mosque."
This is par for the course. Fortunately though the slanders are being debunked and their perpetrators repudiated. The November election's going to start the process of removing these freaks from power. It may well take a couple of elections, but radical leftists have badly overreached and their attempts to keep power at all costs have become increasingly extreme. But don't rest, friends. They're on the run and we're going to keep the pressure on. Evil will prevail only in the absence of countervailing moral power. Keep your head in the game and your eyes on the ball. But most of all get in the arena if you're on the sidelines, and give no quarter. The battle is enjoined!
Cross-posted from American Power.
ORIGINS OF THE AK-47
Little known story behind the world's most popular assault rifle . . .
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Article: Blaming climate skeptics for green failures is convenient but wrong
It’s not been easy being green since the revelations of Climategate and mounting evidence that the science behind man’s influence on climate change is far from accurate, let alone settled. No wonder then that many greens chose to vent their frustration at skeptics and blame their ideological opponents for their troubles.
In the past decade, leaders of the global warming movement have won international fame and acclaim, including Nobel prizes and Oscars
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VBS TV: Afghanistan In The UK Part 4 of 5
'We meet some young soldiers who discuss how fair it is that British ammunition used by 2 Para in Afghanistan is of a smaller calibre than American ammunition. In perhaps the biggest understatement of 2010, craftsmen Richard Robinson informs us that Afghanistan is: “just not a nice place.” Then we leave the camp and travel to to meet Afghan veteran Richard Dare. He was a private in the Royal Anglican Regiment, made famous on British telly by soap opera actor Ross Kemp’s forays into TV war reporting. (He played surly tough guy Grant Mitchell in “Eastenders”). Richard was severely brain damaged after a mortar attack.'
There is also a gallery of pics
HERE
News............
Day 48 – 26th August 1940
60 cops 2 shoplifters
Feds moving to dismiss some deportation cases
No vigilantism plea as Ed Balls found safe in wheelie bin
The Perfect Iranian Storm on the Horizon
Dan Quayle’s son wins congressional primary
Las Vegas man sues Alpine attorney for $38 quadrillion
Germany Considers Major Restructuring of Military
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
Pre-Crime Technology To Be Used In Washington D.C.
The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS
Defense official discloses cyberattack
Raytheon Produces Active Denial and Other Directed Energy Solutions
Is The Air Force Preparing To Seize Private Property?
Bennet Bombshell: Trillions in Debt, ‘Nothing to Show for It’
Google offers free voice calls via Gmail
Pakistan’s Real Disaster
This very crowded isle: England is most over-populated country in EU
Forces fury as servicemen face losing 12% of their payout due to changes in pension calculation
Bonewatch: The doggy lifeguards that leap from helicopters to save stranded swimmers
North Korea leader Kim Jong-il visits China
Japanese politician launches attack on 'River Kwai' Britons
The Victorian soldier who served in World War Two
Nato supplies to Afghanistan hit by Pakistan floods
US to step up pressure after al-Qaeda in Yemen judged world's greatest terror threat
Gulf oil spill: other slicks 'saved' by microbes
Sick illegal immigrant costs one county $400,000
Report: Epidemic sweeps Syrian army
Egyptian minister: Iran military capabilities threat to Arab states not Israel
Tensions rise between Hamas and other Gaza groups
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Barack Herbert Obama Hoover...........from Rico
I almost said "false green shoots" in the subj: line, but then considered using "heads they win, tails you lose" before considering that there was very little point.
Our Government has NO "hope" of the consent of the people if the true circumstances facing us were clearly laid out.
When every cent written-off has to be replaced by a borrowed cent, there is no "hope" of a recovery ...got that John Maynard, Benny, and Timmy?
- B. Soetoro could not be reached for comment as he was busy golfing....
Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats
At U.S. News:
One of Washington's principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the FBI and moving to a high-security building near the U.S. Capitol.And will more of the MFM report this? I mean, seriously, everybody is freakin' out, and perhaps, just maybe, the damned press will actually start reporting some of the extremism on the Democratic-left. (More freakage at Politico, "Democrats privately fear House prospects worsening," via Memeorandum.)
"FreedomWorks and Dick Armey receive dozens of threatening and harassing calls and E-mails each day. Many imply violence and use of weapons," spokesman Adam Brandon tells Whispers. "As we get closer to the election we expect the harassment to increase."
He says that FreedomWorks will hire additional security, meaning less money for its election-eve, get-out-the-vote, or GOTV, campaign. "Unfortunately, we may have to use resources for security guards that we would rather use for GOTV," he said.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Ground Zero Mosque Supporter Curses Out Holocaust Survivor: 'Obviously He Didn't Learn His Lesson'
At JWF:
Obviously a Michael Bloomberg and Barack Obama supporter. Classy guy. He calls the old man an unpatriotic, treasonous piece of garbage. A shame how the lamestream media ignored this.Cross-posted from American Power.
WHO's FUNDING ILLINOIS SENATE CANDIDATE ALEXI GIANNOULIAS?
Alexi GiannouliasThis was brought to our attention by DOUBLETAPPER (professional soldier, IDF, and friend):
Obama's buddy Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is locked in a tight Senate race with strongly pro-Israel Republican Marc Kirk. Here's some interesting data on who is financing Giannoulias' campaign:
Mohammed SahloulMohammed Sahloul contributed $1,000 to the Giannoulias campaign on June 22.
Sahloul is the former president of the Mosque Foundation, a Bridgeview mosque that has numerous links to terrorist organizations. The Mosque Foundation contributed roughly $400,000 to four Islamic charities that were later shut down by the federal government for links to terrorism. According to the Chicago Tribune, the organizations receiving funds were: the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Benevolence International Foundation, the Islamic American Relief Agency, and Global Relief Foundation.
In 2004, the Chicago Tribune wrote of one instance where the mosque’s imam, Sheik Jamal Said, raised $50,000 from his congregants for the legal defense of Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor who pled guilty in 2006 to raising money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. While soliciting the contributions, Said reportedly called Israel “a foreign, malignant and strange element on the blessed land.”
Source: Carl in Jerusalem
I personally believe that we must not exclude the Muslims, that we must reach out to them, that we must strive to recruit the good Muslims in our struggle against the evil forces of Islamic Fundamentalism. I still say this, but this does not mean that I am a blind idealist; we are seeing more and more where the Muslims are using their mosques as political headquarters to disseminate propaganda sympathetic to terrorist causes, and their charities as funding instruments to finance terrorist organizations.
$1000 may not seem like a significant amount; a quick Internet search reveals that in 2008 Sahloul personally donated more than $10,000 to various political candidates. Those of you who vote in Illinois, please keep this in mind when you go to the polls this November; Alexi Giannoulias shakes hands with the financiers of terrorism.
KAZIAH HANCOCK
Kaziah Hancock paints portraits of fallen U.S. servicemen and women. She has personally completed 634 pieces. Kaziah's portraits possess amazing lifelike qualities.
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The IDF's role in Israeli Society
...a comprehensive look at the historical and contemporary role and influence that the Israel Defense Forces has had in Israeli society, and highlights the benefits of the IDF as a “people’s army”-one which serves as a melting pot and strives to fit the needs of Israel’s ethnically, culturally, religiously, and socio-economically diverse array of citizens.
As a mandatory requirement for most citizens of Israel, many of whom fulfill their military service between the ages of 18-22, the IDF also seeks to equip its soldiers with the professional and educational tools needed to succeed following their service. The leading assumption is that by integration into the IDF, assimilation into Israeli society is...
Read the entire report at DoubleTapper
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Telling the Truth?
An old rich man of 70 walked into his exclusive men's club with a stunning young lady in her 20's on his arm.
A few of his fellow club members asked him while they were in the toilet, "How did you get something like that?"
"That's my new wife" he replied.
"How did you get her to marry you?"
"I lied about my age."
"Did you tell her you were 50?"
"No I told her I was 95."
H/T Agis
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