Sunday, 16 September 2012
Late News.................
Don't Pee On My Leg
All-female bloc runs in Palestinian elections
CDR Salamander: Sunday Funnies
Pensacola Marine's search leads to airmen's remains
6 Harrier jets destroyed, 2 damaged in Taliban assault on Camp Bastion
The guy in the second row on the left looks like he's having fun...
Iran acknowledges troops in Syria, warns of retaliation if attacked
Rice: Benghazi attack was spontaneous; Libya: No, it wasn't
Libya arrests 50 in connection to U.S. envoy's killing
Teenage Enlistee Negates Oath of Enlistment With Fingers Crossed Behind Back
Saudi Arabia closes 100 lingerie shops with male sales staff
The great Olympic sell-off: fans paying out for table tennis balls and beach volleyball rakes
French winemakers concerned over 'chateau' change
China seized by second day of violent anti-Japan protests
Netanyahu warns: Iran on brink of nuke bomb in 6-7 months
Al Qaeda-led Salafis hit three Egyptian Sinai bases, down Egyptian chopper
Kremlin Pressures Ukraine to Join Alliance
Commodities or Dollars?..................from Rico
Here is a 'snapshot' of the US Dollar's most recent decade. It is from the FED.
- No one can claim they are 'unaware' of this information. Note the sharp reaction upon QEIII being announced. Bad idea to hold Dollars.
No matter how 'high' the stock markets seem to climb, it is a reflection of the diminishing purchasing power of the Greenback. Bad idea to have your Dollars invested there.
- When Zimbabwe's currency collapsed, many trillionaires were created on their stock market when it skyrocketed as the Zim$ tanked. They are all 'el busto' now.
Precious metals and commodities 'not being money' as Benny of the Fed said, are a different matter.
- Fifteen of the twenty commodities tracked by Lloyds TSB have at least doubled since 2002.
Silver leads the list, UP 572% in ten years.
Gold is #2, UP 428% over the same decade.
Photo evidence showing why we face huge problems in the west?...from Mike Haltman at TPC
If children learn what they live then the lessons being taught to the youth in the Middle East poses a big problem for the West!
Check it out at The Political Commentator here.
It's Not The Economy Anymore, Stupid...............from Dan Friedman
Listen up, pay attention, and if you value your country and our freedoms, act accordingly on election day. At the rate Obama is going, it may be the last chance we get.
Watch this video ASAP:
The Sunday Best...............
Rather Than Deploy, Air Force Girl Asks Husband to Shoot Her
I am quoted and linked by a member of congress ....
German World War II Artillery Found in Caucasus
F-16 training session for Iraqis to end by New Year
Marines storm Pensacola for charity in 5k Run
A voter Freudian slip by the Democrats
Man arrested one year after allegedly stealing $300,000 in purses from Silver Sands
Mike Huckabee set as guest speaker for Lincoln Day dinner
‘Every American should be ashamed of their president’
Obama’s foreign policy of reconciliation lies in tatters
Taliban fighters wore US Army uniforms in attack on Prince Harry's base
Two British soldiers killed by Afghan policeman
Iran plans military exercises in preparation for Israeli strike on nuclear facilities
Just 100 cod left in North Sea
Middle East protests: meet the hardline 'tele-Islamist' who brought anti-Islam film to Muslim world's attention
Thousands take to the streets in protest at Argentine government
Post-Arab Spring "moderate” Muslim regimes cornered by radicals
Sudan Humiliates Obama Administration
Avoiding the Unthinkable in the E. China Sea
“Innocence of Muslims” video allowing Obama media to control the truth
Ryan Pick Forces Obama to Defend Wisconsin
Another short and simple lesson on the concept of bullshit .... on ignoring the duty of nations to protect and defend the diplomatic missions of foreign nations ....
and finally..........
Constitution Marsh
Saving the day by destroying the Dollar?....................from Rico
This "never ending QE" (aka QE to infinity) is reminding me of the old Vietnamese Imperial city on the Perfume River...Hue.
- The place that 'had to be destroyed to save it.'
Now we Have unlimited QE. Huzzah! The day is saved!
- But the Dollar had to be destroyed to save it.
Bloomberg predicts that Gold will reach $2250 and Oil $153 by 2014 as the Fed expands its Balance Sheet.
Bank of America, in turn, says that Gold will reach $3350 and Oil $190 by 2015, with the Fed having added $2.2 trillion in MBS and Treasurys to its current Balance Sheet of $2.8 trillion...in 27.5 months.
- The $5 trillion Fed Balance Sheet will then be 30% of the US GDP.
Let's just use round numbers and say Gold hits $3500 and Oil $200. In a couple years.
- We need to get used to adding lots of zeros to our numbers in future anyway.
UNSPOKEN is that this policy screws holders of the Dollar, Treasurys, and people on fixed-incomes.
- They are all going to be financially sheared, and many will then be financially slaughtered.
New Film Mocking Religion Surfaces - No Riots Yet.................from Dan Friedman
MEMRI
Excerpts from Trailer of Newly Released Antisemitic Iranian Feature Film – In Which Jews Build War Machine to Take Over the World
New O-Bummer TAX.................from Rico
Taxation is theft.
I knew about this real estate tax 'buried' in the steaming Obamacare pile-o-crap, but maybe some others haven't yet gotten the word?
- Well, that was the "plan" all along...keep it quiet until AFTER the Fall election.
This will sure "help" the housing market recover!
- Nasty Pelosi wasn't kidding when she said "we'd have to pass it before we could see what was in it."
ObamaCare Flatlines: ObamaCare Taxes Home Sales - Clobbers Middle-Class Americans
Overnight News.........
Britain announces support for arming Iraq and rejects military intervention in Syria
Because it was just a perfectly understandable gush of outrage...
California man linked to anti-Islam film taken in for questioning
Al-Qaeda says attack on U.S. consulate in Libya 'revenge' for death of its 2nd man
Afghan policeman kills 2 British soldiers in Helmand
Armada of British naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike
Information Dissemination: How a slowdown in Chinese economy may effect PLA
President Obama Probably Gets Tougher Questions from his Daughters at the Supper Table, than from Steve Kroft on CBS
Paul Krugman's Baltic Problem
State Department to press: Stop asking us about the sacking of Benghazi consulate
Re: "Preference Cascades"
Kurdistan to keep Sept oil output steady in Baghdad deal
EagleSpeak: Weekend Reading
Quote of the Day
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Enough, already...
The Real Rules of the U.N. Human Rights Council
North American energy independence possible, House panel told
Almost 40% of Chicago's Public School Teachers Send their Kids Elsewhere to Learn
Report: Base Corporal Always In PT Gear
Genetically modified foods: Why does California insist on finding a problem where nobody else does?
Media endangers entire neighborhood to pursue thoughtcrime suspect
No One Murdered Because Of This Image
Barack Obama: Is this the face of a war President...? (Video)...from Mike Haltman at TPC
If a US Embassy is sovereign territory and it is proven that the governments of Egypt and/or Libya were involved in the September 11th attacks during which our Ambassador to Libya and three other were murdered, then it would constitute an act of war?
Would US reaction in that case depend on whether Barack Obama had a campaign event to attend? You never know!
Read the article at The Political Commentator here.
Saturday, 15 September 2012
1.5 Billion Bin Ladens
by Alan Caruba
Amidst the graffiti on the wall outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, one of the rioters scrawled “1.5 Billion Bin Ladens.” Last time I heard, the last thing bin Laden saw was a member of Seal Team Six just before he took a bullet to the head. That is the way a nation that has been attacked responds to the murder of nearly three thousand of its citizens.
To suggest, as the White House keeps saying, that rioting in more than twenty-five mostly Muslim nations is the result of some amateur film that no one has seen reveals an administration that thinks Americans are stupid and unaware that President Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East is responsible for the crisis that has killed our ambassador to Libya and others. A compliant mainstream news media continues to report this fiction.
At the heart of events is the intention to create a Muslim caliphate stretching across the Middle East, Northern Africa, and into Southeast Asia. One that will stretch into Europe and, presumably, America. The aim is to establish governments in which Sharia law will replace any remnants of democracy and freedom. It is being aided and abetted by Barack Hussein Obama.
I don’t want 1.5 billion Muslims to die. I just want them to stop attacking America, the West, and each other. The likelihood is that many, if not most, Muslims find the rioters an offense to Islam, but if they said so out loud, they are just as likely to become a dead Muslim. No other faith of the many on planet Earth requires its faithful to make war on everyone that is not a Muslim.
There is no making peace with the more radical elements of Islam for whom dying as a martyr is so appealing they believe that killing other people is worth strapping on a bomb.
Jews don’t believe this. Christians don’t believe this. Hindus don’t believe this. And Buddhists don’t believe this.
The history of Islam reveals a pattern of conquest by a cult that venerates a self-proclaimed prophet.
In 612 AD, Mohammed began to preach his new “religion.” It was a patchwork of what he knew of Judaism and Christianity with a mix of local pagan faiths. Its greatest appeal was that it endorsed the pillage of caravans and then of tribes as a means to acquire wealth. It permitted men to have several wives and reduced women to chattel. If you were a malcontent forever looking for someone to hate, you were instructed to hate—and kill—all non-believers in Allah.
In 632 AD, Mohammed died. His followers launched “holy wars” to spread Islam and, in the process, created the schism between Sunnis and Shiites concerning who was Mohammed’s rightful successor. They still disagree and, as we have seen, do not hesitate to kill one another.
By 638 AD, Muslims had conquered Jerusalem and, within a few decades, controlled an empire stretching from Libya to Afghanistan, a landmass that includes modern day Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
In 673 AD, the first Muslim attack on Christian Constantinople was repulsed. Having established Islam throughout northern Africa, Muslims invaded Spain in 711 AD where they would remain for seven centuries until driven out. When they tried to go farther north in Europe, they were stopped at Poitiers, France in 732 AD.
Between 1095 and 1291, led by the Catholic Church, a series of crusades ensued. The latter ones were more successful, recapturing Jerusalem in 1099. Saladin would recapture it in 1187 AD. In 1453 AD, Constantinople fell to Ottoman armies and the Church lost its base in the Middle East. Rome would become its capitol.
Thereafter the greatest threat to Europe was the Ottomans, but in 1683 their army was decisively defeated near Vienna, ending any expansion. It would not be until World War I that the Ottoman Empire would be dismembered by Britain and France.
Muslims have long memories and still resent the loss of Spain despite their spread into India and parts of Asia. When Israel declared itself an independent nation in 1948 those memories were inflamed because Islam does not cede land it once controlled.
In the modern era, the West has mostly sought to control the Middle East through the proxies of various despots, but that has not always worked out as they wished. After invading Afghanistan the Soviet Union collapsed when they were driven out. They lost control over satellite nations in Eastern Europe. The U.S. is seen as losing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Militant Islam is on the rise again, driven in large measure by Iran, but also funded and encouraged by Saudi Arabia despite its reliance on American military power to protect it. The present turmoil has nothing to do with a quest for democracy and freedom.
In Egypt the overthrow of Hosni Mubarack put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge and President Obama had signaled his support when he gave his apology speech in Cairo in 2009. He then supported the overthrow of Libya’s dictator.
In all likelihood, Israel will have to mount a military mission to damage Iran’s nuclear program. If it does not, it will be destroyed. After Israel, America will be next. So let’s root for Israel even if the present administration does not.
America’s problem is the present administration of Barack Hussein Obama who was elected in 2008 despite the fact that his father was a Muslim, his step-father was a Muslim, and his outreach to Muslims has proven to be a colossal failure.
America responded to the 2001 attack on 9/11 with military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. It did not pursue these wars as we once did against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan in the last century which ended with the demand for an unconditional surrender and a long occupation.
That’s going to be hard to achieve as President Obama continues to reduce our nuclear arsenal and massive budget cuts to our military power kick in. Those who think that America can withdraw from the Muslim turmoil and aggression behind two great oceans are wrong. We could not do that in the 1940s, we could not do that in 2001, and we cannot do it now.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Amidst the graffiti on the wall outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, one of the rioters scrawled “1.5 Billion Bin Ladens.” Last time I heard, the last thing bin Laden saw was a member of Seal Team Six just before he took a bullet to the head. That is the way a nation that has been attacked responds to the murder of nearly three thousand of its citizens.
To suggest, as the White House keeps saying, that rioting in more than twenty-five mostly Muslim nations is the result of some amateur film that no one has seen reveals an administration that thinks Americans are stupid and unaware that President Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East is responsible for the crisis that has killed our ambassador to Libya and others. A compliant mainstream news media continues to report this fiction.
At the heart of events is the intention to create a Muslim caliphate stretching across the Middle East, Northern Africa, and into Southeast Asia. One that will stretch into Europe and, presumably, America. The aim is to establish governments in which Sharia law will replace any remnants of democracy and freedom. It is being aided and abetted by Barack Hussein Obama.
I don’t want 1.5 billion Muslims to die. I just want them to stop attacking America, the West, and each other. The likelihood is that many, if not most, Muslims find the rioters an offense to Islam, but if they said so out loud, they are just as likely to become a dead Muslim. No other faith of the many on planet Earth requires its faithful to make war on everyone that is not a Muslim.
There is no making peace with the more radical elements of Islam for whom dying as a martyr is so appealing they believe that killing other people is worth strapping on a bomb.
Jews don’t believe this. Christians don’t believe this. Hindus don’t believe this. And Buddhists don’t believe this.
The history of Islam reveals a pattern of conquest by a cult that venerates a self-proclaimed prophet.
In 612 AD, Mohammed began to preach his new “religion.” It was a patchwork of what he knew of Judaism and Christianity with a mix of local pagan faiths. Its greatest appeal was that it endorsed the pillage of caravans and then of tribes as a means to acquire wealth. It permitted men to have several wives and reduced women to chattel. If you were a malcontent forever looking for someone to hate, you were instructed to hate—and kill—all non-believers in Allah.
In 632 AD, Mohammed died. His followers launched “holy wars” to spread Islam and, in the process, created the schism between Sunnis and Shiites concerning who was Mohammed’s rightful successor. They still disagree and, as we have seen, do not hesitate to kill one another.
By 638 AD, Muslims had conquered Jerusalem and, within a few decades, controlled an empire stretching from Libya to Afghanistan, a landmass that includes modern day Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
In 673 AD, the first Muslim attack on Christian Constantinople was repulsed. Having established Islam throughout northern Africa, Muslims invaded Spain in 711 AD where they would remain for seven centuries until driven out. When they tried to go farther north in Europe, they were stopped at Poitiers, France in 732 AD.
Between 1095 and 1291, led by the Catholic Church, a series of crusades ensued. The latter ones were more successful, recapturing Jerusalem in 1099. Saladin would recapture it in 1187 AD. In 1453 AD, Constantinople fell to Ottoman armies and the Church lost its base in the Middle East. Rome would become its capitol.
Thereafter the greatest threat to Europe was the Ottomans, but in 1683 their army was decisively defeated near Vienna, ending any expansion. It would not be until World War I that the Ottoman Empire would be dismembered by Britain and France.
Muslims have long memories and still resent the loss of Spain despite their spread into India and parts of Asia. When Israel declared itself an independent nation in 1948 those memories were inflamed because Islam does not cede land it once controlled.
In the modern era, the West has mostly sought to control the Middle East through the proxies of various despots, but that has not always worked out as they wished. After invading Afghanistan the Soviet Union collapsed when they were driven out. They lost control over satellite nations in Eastern Europe. The U.S. is seen as losing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Militant Islam is on the rise again, driven in large measure by Iran, but also funded and encouraged by Saudi Arabia despite its reliance on American military power to protect it. The present turmoil has nothing to do with a quest for democracy and freedom.
In Egypt the overthrow of Hosni Mubarack put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge and President Obama had signaled his support when he gave his apology speech in Cairo in 2009. He then supported the overthrow of Libya’s dictator.
In all likelihood, Israel will have to mount a military mission to damage Iran’s nuclear program. If it does not, it will be destroyed. After Israel, America will be next. So let’s root for Israel even if the present administration does not.
America’s problem is the present administration of Barack Hussein Obama who was elected in 2008 despite the fact that his father was a Muslim, his step-father was a Muslim, and his outreach to Muslims has proven to be a colossal failure.
America responded to the 2001 attack on 9/11 with military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. It did not pursue these wars as we once did against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan in the last century which ended with the demand for an unconditional surrender and a long occupation.
That’s going to be hard to achieve as President Obama continues to reduce our nuclear arsenal and massive budget cuts to our military power kick in. Those who think that America can withdraw from the Muslim turmoil and aggression behind two great oceans are wrong. We could not do that in the 1940s, we could not do that in 2001, and we cannot do it now.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Some Weekend Rule 5 Blogging
Lots of stuff going on.
Plus, "Nicole Neal Rule 5."
And, "Candice Swanepoel Takes it Off in Latest Victoria's Secret Photo Shoot in Miami."
Check back for updates, smokin' updates!
Will Ben Bernanke please pay my inflation-free credit card bill?...from Mike Haltman at RantFinance (and TPC)
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The release of the inflation numbers in the US led some economists to claim that consumer prices are under control.
Benign inflation is also one of the things that allowed Ben Bernanke to unleash QE3.
The problem is that for me and most other Americans inflation is killing us!
Read the article at RantFinance here.
This cartoon has sparked no riots and no killings!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
the Onion has posted a cartoon depicting some of the worlds religious leaders including Moses and Jesus in a NSFW way.
While followers have every right to be angry and disgusted they do not have the right to riot and kill. As the headline in the Onion reads, "No One Murdered Because Of This Image!"
Read more at The Political Commentator here.
News................
Lebanese Protesters Protest America While Wearing
American Clothes
Elk camp bean soup and fried mush ....
Why should we allow islam to set the rules, and grant itself immunity from its acts?
Opinon for Americans, from Canadian media
British troops help fight off Taliban attack on Afghan military base housing Prince Harry
Nine men found hanging from bridge in Mexico
Swiss farmer turns down £20 million offer for his land
At least 4 casualties in Al Qaeda attack on US-led Sinai peacekeeping mission
U.S. Credit Rating Downgraded Again
Innocence of Muslims movie a fraud?
How Stimulating is China’s “Stimulus”?
The White House Goes Wobbly on Free Speech
Police seal area near US embassy in Cairo
Man posted 'all soldiers should die' Facebook update, court told
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