Monday, 21 November 2011
According to the 'Squid's' plan?............
Gee, it's kinda 'funny' that the ECB held back on Italy until Berlusconi threw in the towel on Nov 8th.
- Italy was a 'crisis' UNTIL then, right?
Was it 'coincidence' that on the 9th-10th-11th the ECB massively then 'intervened' (bought)?
- This was no 'accident' but it was policy.
Then coincidence it must be that a Goldman Sach's guy replaced Berlusconi?
- This was planned, and not an accident.
For the 'Squid' as it is affectionately known could not really have a 'plan' could it?
- These guys bear watching. Closely.
And now all of a sudden, the Italian 'crisis' is gone from the media?
- Next......
News..............
Caribou calamity cancelled
The 1% Occupation
Hypocritical OWS protesters channel 1%: Stay at $700-a-night hotel
No Sty for the Pigs
Barn Doors and Fled Horses
Canada remains open to sending military to Syria, Iran
Saudi women may be forced to cover up 'tempting' eyes
Second water utility reportedly hit by hack attack
What Preserves Israel?
Rhodes Scholar: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s Kid
Re: Oleg Atbashian interviewed on GBTV
Spain election: Conservatives win landslide victory but new PM warns 'there will be no miracles'
Judge: it's no crime to swear at police, they are used to it
Egyptians turn on the army: the heroes have turned villains
US elections 2012: US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan 'will not be increased for electioneering'
Colombian Marxists plotted to sell uranium to Venezuela for 'distant friends'
and finally........
Prince Philip tilts at turbines. Hurrah!
OWS “Kent State moment”? More like “Dorothea Lange moment”
Obama’s Denigrate America tour
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Panetta to Israel: It's The Economy, Stupid Jews.................by Dan Friedman
Let’s give Obama his due. At least he has his priorities straight. An Israeli conventional strike against Iran’s inchoate nuclear weapons capacity will do more harm to “the world economy” than a nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel. Brilliant thinking, Mr. President. How can we ever thank you?
Panetta: Strike on Iran could hurt world economy
Free advice for Israel: Keep practicing for “the mission” until you can do it out in your sleep.
Dan Freidman
NYC
Occupy Cairo Movement Off To Slow Start...............by Dan Friedman
Yo occupiers! Take a look at this. Your compatriots in Cairo are having a rough time. Makes you long for the days of Mubarak, and an end to the tenure of President Obama on 1/20/13, don’t it?
Oh, almost forgot, comrades. Things aren’t much better for Occupy Syria, as you’ll see here. So stop whining about a little mace in the face. You never had it so good.
Dan Friedman
NYC
The Sunday Best............
The 13 Countries That Own the World’s Gold
Occupy Pensacola protester charged with burglary, theft of furniture
Liberals, Israel and Disaster
Perry: Yep, last time I checked, Barack Obama is still a socialist
The Navy, the Marine Corps, and Celebrities
Victoria’s Secret Blows It
Fate of U.S. Base Raises Tensions Around Iraqi Kurdistan
Top 20 Most Beautiful Women 2011 Rule 5
Saif Gaddafi must face justice for role in 'barbaric' reign of terror in Libya
Wind farms are useless, says Duke
Pressure mounts on Lottery to give more for war memorials
The euro is a macro-economic weapon of mass destruction - it simply must be defused
Egypt police clash with protesters ahead of vote
Dead at 15 - the schoolboy whose murder shows how Syria's cycle of violence is spinning out of control
Eurocrats threaten strike as eurozone faces disaster
Rahul Gandhi, brave new hope for future of India's dynasty, steps forward
The Occupy movement has failed the essential test of protest
The BBC's hidden 'warmist' agenda is rapidly unravelling
The tide of history is now flowing against the euro
Bullets – and bones – found in Soviet tank
Newt Rips Into OWS: ‘Go Get a Job Right After You Take a Bath’
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood, Protesters, Police in bloody clashes ahead of vote
Occupy Protesters Hold Moment of Silence For Man Accused of Shooting at The White House
Pushback
and finally..........
Maggie's Scientific Autumn Poll #2: What firearms do you own?
Doc's Computin' Tips: The back-up drive
System Failure on a Global Scale
By Alan Caruba
We are living in times when the structures involving the global financial system, national security, and self-governance are under attack, decaying, or just self-destructing due to all the ills to which humanity is prone.
Wars in the twentieth century were always an example of either the failure of nations to resolve their differences or of the ancient human inclination to steal whatever they can from their neighbor. Wars organize this into armies for that purpose. The other cause for war is the necessity to rid the neighborhood of the crazy guy who’s hoarding weapons and building bombs.
What is occurring of late, however, goes beyond the usual casus belli to something far greater, a loss of faith in national and international banking systems, aggravated by the failure of nations to act in a prudent fashion to protect the wealth of their citizens and their national sovereignty.
The cause of this is socialism, the polite name for communism. Like Islam, it exists for world domination, the control of the population for the enrichment of those holding the reins of power. It is no accident that the U.S. Congress is filled with millionaires or those who soon will be.
Communism, the creation of a man who never held a job in his life, Karl Marx, and its theoretically gentler version, Socialism, has proved to be a failure wherever it was implemented. It is always introduced as the antechamber to utopia, a better life for everyone and it has always led to the slaughter of millions in the name of achieving it. It is just another form of slavery.
Socialism, as practiced throughout the United States and Europe, dependent as it is on the “redistribution of wealth” in the form of “entitlement” programs is now crashing down around the heads of various elected leaders.
As the former British Prime Minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher, once famously said, “Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
When you pile on debt beyond the mind’s capacity to imagine and you empower “super committees” or hold desperate meetings as are occurring in Europe, public faith in national currencies begins to disappear and with it a rational world in which goods and services generate income.
We are now 66 years since the end of World War Two, the war that followed “the war to end all wars”, World War One. Peace—the absence of war—lasted a scant twenty-one years in Europe before the latter cataclysm began in 1939.
Times of turmoil are the perfect opportunity for tyrants of every description to emerge, organize the collective anger, and launch new wars. In the past 66 years of “peace” there has been a succession of wars, usually between Communist and Capitalist nations such as the Korean and Vietnam Wars or civil wars. The recent wars and revolutions in the Middle East have been about oil and who gets to pump it out of the ground.
Threatening the entire world is the rise of the Islamic Revolution. Islam is less a religion than a battle plan for global conquest that has the added fillip of enslaving its adherents in a faith system that demands total obedience on pain of death. Unbelievers in general face this threat. Israel in particular always has.
Capitalism isn’t a perfect system, subject to periodic cycles of recession and depression, but it does require a greater measure of individual freedom than any other in order to encourage the kind of innovation and risk-taking that creates vast wealth-producing economies.
The problem the West is facing has been brought on by the profligate and often corrupt waste of the people’s wealth. This has been the result of metastasizing laws whose ultimate purpose is to keep populations from demanding more freedom from rapacious taxing, borrowing, and spending. Even central banks are powerless against this. Ours, the Federal Reserve, has responded by printing dollars out of thin air.
On November 18th a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Congress to balance the budget failed in the House. The U.S. is currently $15 trillion in debt. The worst fears of our Founding Fathers are coming true. Presiding over the nation is a Marxist ideologue and his henchmen.
When the Congress of the United States of America refuses to obey the limits of the Constitution, you have failure.
When that same Congress refuses to reform “entitlement” programs and reduce massive spending, you have failure.
When the Federal Reserve—a central bank that is not a part of the federal government— owns most of the nation’s debt, you have failure.
In my lifetime, the United States of America went from a largely Capitalist system and society to one of near total government control. It is Socialism supported by an insane system of taxation lacking even the appearance of fairness.
The United States has moved too far away from the purpose of the Constitution, established to “form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…”
We are that posterity,
In the decades since the last Great Depression a succession of Congresses has bankrupted the nation once again. It is happening as well in Europe because nations like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and France thought they too could defy common sense and fiscal prudence.
It is system failure on a global scale.
Americans and the citizens of Europe are the unwilling victims of too much government, too much regulation, too much corruption, too much taxation, and the general inclination of those in charge to acquire as much wealth for themselves while keeping the rest of the population complacent with “redistribution of wealth” schemes that always fail.
The Tea Party movement is calling for a restoration of America. We have precious little time to do that and it is the Democratic Party in league with unions who oppose that goal.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Shepard Fairey, Idiot Obama Propagandist, Designs 'Occupy Hope' Poster, Replaces Obama's Face With 'V for Vendetta' Mask
See: "'Occupy Hope'."
This is the perfect representation of the utter brainlessness of the contemporary left.
The full picture, with the ubiquitously stupid Anonymous mask, is at the link.
Backers Win Right to Fight for Proposition 8
And the Court's ruling not only back-slapped the gay rights extremists, but Govenor Brown and Attorney General Harris as well.
See: "California Supreme Court Gives Huge Boost to Backers of Proposition 8."
WoW!
Every week these cats hook up each other with hot hits and big phazed cookies to peruse and then vote on their individual fancy catchers.
Without further adieu - or a don't here are this weeks winners
Council Winners
- *First place with 2 2/3 votes! The Noisy Room–-Book Burning – It’s All The Rage
- Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room-Penn State and the slow death of American self-reliance
- Third place *t* with 2 votes – The Razor-The Clash of Western and Islamic Values – Part 1
- Fourth place with 1 2/3 votes – TJoshuapundit-The ‘Peace Process’ R.I.P.
- Fifth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Right Planet – ‘Fundamental Transformation’: Recreating the Soviet
- Sixth place *t* with 1 vote – The Political Commentator – #OWS and Zuccotti Park: Have you ever been to Christiania, Woodstock or a Further concert at Red Rocks?
- Sixth place *t* with 1 vote – Simply Jews – A fairy tale for the kids of Tehran
- Seventh place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – Something For All The Romney-Hating Conservatives To Consider
- Seventh place *t* with 2/3 vote – Right Truth – Causing Undue Hardship
- Fourth place *t* with 1/3 vote – New Zeal – Is Richard Trumka a DSA Socialist?
- Eighth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – No Heroes
- Eighth place *t* with 1/3 vote -GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD- Vicious Rumors
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 1 2/3 votes! – Gates Of Vienna- “An Iron Burka Has Descended Across the Continent” submitted byJoshuapundit
- Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – American Thinker – De-Christianizing Dr. King submitted by The Right Planet
- Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Victor Davis Hanson – “Rage On — and On and On…” submitted by The Watcher
- Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Sarah Palin – Fire Eric Holder submitted by The Watcher
- Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Justin Timberlake – My Night At The Marine Corps Ball submitted by Bookworm Room
- Third place *t* with 1 vote -Charles Cameron/Zenpundit – One Hadith, One Plan, One Video, And Two Warnings submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Third place *t* with 1 vote - The Passing Parade – UNCLE PADDY AND THE CRAPPING HAT, AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN THE UNKNOWN submitted by Simply Jews
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Arabist – Mapping Egypt’s Political Parties submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Sultan Knish – The Devil’s Smile submitted by The Noisy Room
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Commentary – #OWS Supporters Confirm: Violence an Essential Component submitted by The Political Commentator
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Patterico’s Pontifications – After The Green Rush submitted by Right Truth
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Way North – Veteran’s Day 2011 submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
New York Occupy Protesters Snarl Traffic, Clash with Police
And a couple of them went topless. See "Occupy Protesters Snarl Traffic, Clash With Police in New York."
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