Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
According to the Muslim Brotherhood, jihad,
that is, holy war against the infidels, is one of the fundamental
elements spread by the Muslim Brotherhood. The organization's ideology,
as it appears on its official website, regards "the Prophet Muhammad
as its leader and ruler, and jihad as its path." Jihad
has a global strategy beyond self-defense; it is the unceasing attack
on every infidel rule, intended to widen the borders of the Islamic
state until all mankind lives under the Islamic flag.
More on the Muslim Brotherhood here
Recovery charted!!!............from Rico
This chart is PROOF of the recovery! Just ask the people who GAVE it to us (the Dem's (C)).
- Thanks Joe & Barry!
- And let's not forget to WHOM we entrusted the reins [read purse strings] of Congress to in 2006, either...so swell job Harry & Nancy!
Look at the annual progress (compare February of 07-08-09-10 respectively) that has been made helping the little guy!
on the other hand
All this droning-on about 'recovery' is not much more than all FED QE "hat" and no systemic economic growth "cattle."
- The REAL economy (the one outside the D.C. Beltway) is so detached from the long discreditede media "managed perception" economy that all a sane person can retort with to the talk of a return to the 'good old days' from that remota island known as reality is "whatever" .....like sparrows farting in the general direction of typhoon.
News.......
Wind stalled in Ontario
Friend of Shariah
Please do not adjust your set, Obamavision has been activated
Death in the Desert: Project Gunwalker and the ATF Cover-Up
Labour government did 'all it could to secure release of Lockerbie bomber'
Luxury clinic tipped for Mubarak exit
LIES, DAMN LIES, AND UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Reagan vs Obama
Huffington Post, AOL deal: why they did it
Swedish football star attacked by girl gang
Silver in complete backwardation.
How Obama Botched Egypt
Coming Apart
Definitely Not Separated at Birth
After a bloated Super Bowl in Dallas, it's time to rein in big game
MoD halts helicopter deal as police probe 'irregularities'
Nato Brussels headquarters to cost €1billion
and finally....
The 10 funniest fictional drugs from TV and movies
My Five Most Embarrassing Media Confessions
Oh, and did I mention Iran?..........by Dan Friedman
[Don’t let the turmoil in Egypt obscure the inexorable rise of a nuclear-armed Iran. The two taken together can only compound and intensify the explosive situation already developing in the Middle East since Obama took office. So in the nick of time, PJTV’s Roger Simon reminds us of an important documentary which takes us inside the Iranian regime. df]
THE THREAT OF A NUCLEAR IRAN is looming over America and the world. Despite being party to the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty implemented more than 30 years ago, Iran's leaders are adamant about continuing their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Iranium, a new documentary film by Clarion Productions, depicts the danger behind the threat. The documentary will be available for free on Tuesday, Feb. 8, on its website. Click here to watch the trailer, and please tell your friends about this important film.
To really understand the severity of this issue, we must know the ideology of Iran's leaders. The 60-minute film uses rarely seen footage of them and interviews with 25 leading experts on Middle East policy, terrorism and nuclear proliferation -- including former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and PJM writer Michael Ledeen. The film, which also features Iranian dissidents, visually demonstrates the hatred and violence exhibited by Iran's brutal leadership.
The experts interviewed in the film also explain how Iran could use its nuclear arsenal to exert leverage in the Middle East, and it sketches various potential scenarios of an Iran with nuclear weapons. For example, a nuclear Iran would trigger an arms race in the Middle East and have a huge impact on the cost and availability of oil, which would reverberate across the world.
As the film explains: "What happens when a regime that openly desires the destruction of nations obtains nuclear weapons? The world may suffer unthinkable consequences."
Monday, 7 February 2011
Super Bowl Ads
For some, the ads are more important than the game:
See: "Best Super Bowl Ads," and "Advertisers Raided the National Memory Banks on Super Bowl Sunday."
Egypt News....
Senior US Marine: Multiple Platoons Are Heading to Egypt
When asked for his analysis Stormbringer replied "They will be met on the beaches by US Army Special Forces teams from 1/10 in Stuttgart, who will sell them beer & war souvenirs."
Video: Fighter Jet Gets Too Close to a Bomber
This video first saw the light Thursday, February 3, 2011, discovered by Stephen Trimble at The Dew Line. The accident happened during Red Flag 2007 at Ellsworth AFB.
H/T Marc
10 Top Democrats Way Dumber Than Sarah Palin.....from Dan Friedman
There’s really a glut, but these were first 10 that came to mind:
1. Harry Reid
2. Barney Frank/Andrew Sullivan (tie)
3. Joe Biden
4. Al Franken
5. John Conyers
6. Nancy Pelosi
7. Sheriff Dupnik
8. Jimmy Carter
9. Patty Murray
10. Howard Dean
Winter in Missouri.........
It’s winter in Missouri
And the gentle breezes blow,
70 miles per hour at 52 below!
Oh, how I love Missouri
When the snow’s up to your butt;
You take a breath of winter air
And your nose is frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful,
You may think I’m a fool.
I could never leave Missouri ,
Cause I’m frozen to the stool.
H/T DML
Spc. Nicholas Francioso, armored crewman, assigned to 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Company C., 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, kneels atop a cliff overlooking the Arghandab River Valley Jan. 31, to provide security for his squad as they climb up the cliff from the valley below. Francioso, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was conducting a foot patrol with his squad to search orchards throughout the district and interact with the local population. During their foot patrols, 2nd squad must maneuver their way through the Arghandab‘s many obstacles, including: farmer-built mud walls, irrigation canals, densely populated orchards, foot-wide pathways through long stretches of boggy flats and even a 30-foot-tall wall they must climb during their patrol. Photo by Spc. Breanne Pye
H/T Marc
News............
The dessert of forbidden art ... a small museum in uzbekistan saves 20th century russian art ...
How to Understand Rush Limbaugh
de Havilland’s prototype Mosquito to be restored
Farmer livelihoods in danger due to weather
The Obama Administration and the Middle East: A Half-Time Assessment
Huge spike in illegal Indian traffic to US via Mexico
Bush fears arrest, scraps Swiss visit
Human brains shrinking in size, say scientists
Iran can’t ‘dictate what movies Canadians watch’: Minister
Proposed Canadian oilsands pipeline stirs U.S. debate
Opinion: The Genius of Ronald Reagan's Humor
Egypt uprising falters as negotiations with government begin
Dossier to show Labour 'complicit' in Lockerbie release
Iran bans foreign food from cookery channels
Iranian opposition recruits disgruntled Revolutionary Guard to cripple Ahmadinejad
Chechen rebel leader threatens more attacks on Russia
UN calls for restraint between Thailand and Cambodia
Bush fires destroy dozens of homes in Western Australia
and finally.........
Corrigan Brothers –Shay Healy and Peter Creighton are releasing Country Music as the band Nashville Skyline
Football (and War) is about Winning
The film, “Patton”, opens with George C. Scott giving an abbreviated version of General George Patton’s actual speech to the men of the Third Army on the eve of D-Day.
Today’s wars apparently require a different kind of general; one who gets combat ribbons for testifying before Congress and giving press conferences. They could win wars if the pukes in Washington would let them annihilate the enemy.
Patton’s actual speech was laced with profanity of the kind any man who has spent time in the Army or other branches of the service understood. Patton began by saying “Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.”
“When you, here, every one of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards.”
The late comedian George Carlin had a routine in which he compared baseball to football. In baseball, he said, you play “in a park.” In football, you play in a stadium “on a grid.” Carlin knew that football is as much about war as it is about winning. The very image of a football player is a large, intimidating man clad in body armor.
The Superbowl is a clash of titans, men who have fought for every inch and every point until the whistle blows and the game is ended. We don’t go to the games or tune in on television to watch women play football.
We don’t want women analyzing the game afterward. We don’t even like seeing them interview the players on the sidelines. We do like the cheerleaders in their skimpy outfits. That’s the only place for a woman anywhere near the field.
Vietnam War veterans will tell you they were winning in the field and they were. The problem was that we had been in Vietnam for seven years by the time the politicians, yielding to a weary public, pulled the plug.
Fifty thousand-plus lives were lost, mostly due to a lack of resolve. Out of Vietnam came the doctrine enunciated by Colin Powell who had fought there and rose to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He said America must only go to war with overwhelming numbers and force.
That was applied in the first Iraqi war (1990-91) called Desert Storm and it worked. George H.W. Bush, probably because of pressure from Middle Eastern allies, stopped well short of going into Baghdad. It was left to George W. Bush to do. Both were aided by our British and Canadian allies.
On March 20, 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced. U.S. forces arrived in Baghdad with too few troops to control the crowds and with no plan beyond finding Saddam Hussein. What followed was yet another long, meandering war without an end date though combat has ended.
This has been repeated in Afghanistan. How long have we been there? Can anyone remember? Have we “won”? Is it, by any definition winnable? It is technically a NATO operation.
Throughout the 2008 campaign, Obama, carped about Iraq and called Afghanistan the real war. As president he increased the number of troops in Afghanistan and it is still a stalemate.
We have troops in Korea, in Japan, in Germany. Even when we “win” we never leave. When not killing the enemy, we build schools and clinics. For this we get little thanks and no respect.
“Americans play to win all of the time,” said Patton. Well, we used to. Our victories since the end of World War Two have ended in stalemates. It’s not that we lack the capacity to win decisively and impose our will on our enemies; it’s that we lack the will to do so.
Unlike the Superbowl where millions tuned in to watch, I doubt you have seen any coverage of the war in Afghanistan in a long time. After a year, the Iraqis have managed to cobble together something they call a government.
We have two carrier groups parked off the coast of Iran and the Iranians have recently announced they are going to put some warships through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean off the coast of Israel.
“Sure we want to go home,” Patton told his men. “We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards that started it.”
Good advice then. Good advice now.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Egypt Siani gas pipeline blown up by terrorists
The pipeline supplying Egyptian gas to Israel and Jordan was blown up near the North Sinai town of El Arish early Saturday Feb. 5. Egyptian TV reports "terrorists" carried out the attack which caused a huge explosion and fire.
Jordan will suffer from this loss of Egyptian gas which covers 80 percent of its energy consumption and will have to use far more expensive oil and diesel to keep its power supply running. This will cause a raise in fuel prices, already a point of contention in the unstable Jordanian Monarchy.
Obama is Opening Pandora's Box............by Dan Friedman
The Muslim Brotherhood is slipstreaming behind Egypt’s rush to Obaman “democracy” and singing its praises in order to secure themselves a seat near the head of table when the new government is formed. Better to eat you with, my dear. We will soon discover why Mubarak had them outlawed, and why it wasn’t such a bad idea.
Brotherhood Presses Demands in Egypt Talks
Video: Iranium 90 Second Trailer
The film the iranian leaders don't want us to watch. This film will be presented on 8 February at the Heritage Foundation, Washinghton, DC.
Must watch!
H/T Filippo
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TWEET OF THE WEEK
Dear Egyptian demonstrators, Please do not damage the pyramids. We will not rebuild them. Sincerely yours, The Jews by @CoffeeonSwing
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