H/T Jeff
The dark truth about the pro-Palestine marches
4 hours ago
Friday, 28 September 2012
Humble? Royal?..................from Rico
Author Robert Gray has an interesting perspective coming out in his new book.
While the taxpayers of the UK support their Royals to the tune of $57.8 million per year, while not a 'royalist' it seems a fair quid pro quo (or as my Aussie pals would say "fair dinkum") at the end of the day. Both ways.
On quite the other....er, hand we have the 'royals-in-their-own-minds' Barry and Moochelle (a well-earned sobriquet, that latter one) setting records for living like royalty in a nation that once took some pride in having no royalty beyond individual merit.
- How did that TV guy say it? Caviar lifestyle and champagne tastes? NO snouts have EVER been buried so deeply in the public trough!
Proving that the very American expression "we're #1" also applies to the American taxpayer [read: "we're #1 suckers"] the shabby, classless, smug and VERY ghetto-style couple ref infra is supported to the tune of $1.4 billion dollars per year!
- A very bad bargain indeed, for what little they have on offer. The corner crack dealer presents a much better value for the money spent.
The Churchillian quote about being 'humble, with much to be humble about' doesn't begin to describe this pathetic situation.
News............
Gigi Chao and Friend
Statue taken by Nazis likely made from meteorite
New Series of 'Lost' soon, sponsored by Apple
Navy wraps up mine-hunting exercise in Persian Gulf
Barack Obama and the Redistribution of Power
US court case poses new threat to huge Ukraine-Iraq arms deal
Bipartisan: Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants answers on Libya attack from State Department
CDR Salamander: Mattis and the PONCE
Leon panetta is not the idiot his boss obama is .... the attack on the embassy in libya was planned, not a spontaneous demonstration ....
Will the World Heed Netanyahu’s Warning?
Media Shocked GOP Hasn’t Conceded
Obama’s Dishonest Second-Term Plan
'Last Gasp' of the Taliban?
Taxpayers spent $1.4B on Obama family in 2011?
Aging Array of American Aircraft Attracting Attention
America’s best weapons are law and justice
UK food bills rise faster than rest of Europe
British-built schools in Afghanistan may be forced to close
Syria: over 5,000 deaths forecast for September
How Long Can Obama Avoid His Economic Record?
Americans Are Ready, Locked, and Loaded
China’s Snow Dragon icebreaker makes 85-day voyage to become country’s first vessel to cross Arctic Ocean
Take your Mitts off, Governor Romney
Erdogan lashes out at Russia, China, Iran over Syria
Puppy found buried alive recovering nicely, officials say
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Late News............
Oh, goody: Get excited for this major motion picture about fracking
CDR Salamander: The Perishability of Institutional Memory
Israeli president says Iran's Ahmadinejad needs history lesson
Hillary Clinton: You know, AQ might have had something to do with that consulate sacking after all
Campaign to assist Syrian people, military equipment to Mauritania
Obama to Jihadists: Be Nicer
Commander of Iran's Quds Force Visits Erbil
China's aircraft-less carrier
Sebelius hitting Obama campaign trail again after violation
Sukhoi and MiG military and Russian military equipment to Iraq
New Marine Corps bench in place at Veterans Memorial Park
Rangers relive tragedy, annual trek to memorial reinforces lessons learned
Maliki security consolidation prompts Kurdish outcry
No Vetting Needed
Oil falls as debt crisis escalates
AEGIS Combat Weapon System Test & Integration
WaPo's Cillizza Tells Us Why Republicans Are Losing
Win One for the Fibber: Biden Misleads Ohio on College Football Career
BIG $ Job : "Diversity Forever"
'Hate' Crime Hoax:Compton Cookout
McCain: "It was obvious . this was a planned attack"
Why isn't the FBI investigating the Benghazi terrorist attack?
Recession Looms: GDP Revised Down to 1.3%, Durable Goods Collapse 13%
17% Fewer Believe US Winning War on Terror Since Obama Inauguration
'Game Changer': New Revelation About Warren Law License Shocks Defender
The Sure Cure for Voter Fraud
Ahamadinejad Spokesman Gets Behind Kicked on NY Street by Iranians
Americans care far more about Magna Carta than we do
Argentina continues to lie about the Falklands
'I'm playing tennis, tell Obama I'll call back'
Europe’s betrayal of Spain
Was Obama straight over the Benghazi riot?
China and Japan: military conflict 'looming'
Ahmadinejad plays the apocalyptic card
Robert Mugabe sets out plans for Zimbabwe elections
Cyberwarfare Emerges From Shadows for Public Discussion by U.S. Officials
From Haile Selassie to Bibi Netanyahu
By Alan Caruba
On June 20, 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia addressed the League of Nations following the annexation of his nation by Italy the previous year, after Mussolini’s army had invaded. Both nations were members of the League. It condemned the invasion and had imposed economic sanctions that were weak and ignored by its members.
In the wake of having been driven from Ethiopia, Selassie warned the League’s assembled diplomats “It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
World War II would begin three years later when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.
There are lessons to be drawn from history if one is inclined to learn history. On Thursday, September 27, just as he has for the last few years, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Natanyahu again addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and again warned that time was running out for a confrontation with an Iran intent on producing its own nuclear weapons to fulfill its repeated threats to destroy Israel.
The fact that Netanyahu was back again in front of the General Assembly, essentially giving the same warning tells you how weak the United Nations is, much like its predecessor, the League of Nations. Stalin once asked how many divisions does the Pope of Rome have, mocking his moral authority, and Iran is doing the same, but it is mocking the entire world.
Netanyahu said, “If the Western nations had set red lines in the 1930s, I believe World War II would have been avoided.” He said that a clearly stated “red line” forbidding the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade levels would induce Iran to stop. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say, he hopes for that outcome.
“Today a great battle is being waged between modernity and the medieval,” said Netanyahu in the opening minutes of his address, warning that what was at stake was “not just the future of my country, but the future of the world.”
He asked of a nuclear Iran, “who would be safe in the Middle East, in Europe, in America, anywhere?” Just as Selassie had told the League of Nations, Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly a blunt truth, but it has not stirred many, including the U.S., to action except to park warships in the Persian Gulf, a familiar warning.
Netanyahu produced a simple chart in the familiar shape of an old-fashioned bomb and discussed the role and outcome of enriched uranium, noting that seven years of diplomacy has not deterred Iran from its continued, relentless program. “Sanctions have not stopped Iran ever.”
And then he said something that I suspect many in the Assembly and those watching on television probably missed. He talked of the plants in which the enrichment process is taking place and said, “These plants are visible and vulnerable.”
“The relevant question,” said Netanyahu, “is not at what point Iran will get the bomb, but when they can be stopped from getting it.”
This observer thinks Israel is on its own and knows it. There may be cooperation from other nations who take the Iranian threat seriously, but whatever steps Israel must take to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon, it will largely have to do while the diplomats and leaders of Western and other nations cower in their embassies, chancelleries, consulates, and seats of government in storied capitol cities.
Israel will be tasked to save the West because the West, once again, cannot find the courage to save itself, just like in 1936.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
"Free" Phone...................from Rico
I just read the Drudge headline "He Has My Vote, He Gave Me a Phone" and went to the linked YouTube video from 9/26 in Cleveland, Ohio of a complete imbecile explaining 'why' Barry needs to be re-elected (he gives free phones).
- We are witnessing the death of the Republic at the hands of people nearly too stupid to draw breath.
LBJ and the Democrats (C) knew exactly what they were doing with their War on Poverty!
- By using taxpayer-money they bought a constituency of dependents to keep them in power.
Harry Browne said it best with: "The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."
- To which many would add "It's free, swipe yo' EBT!"
The Sky Isn't Falling (Just Yet).................from Dan Friedman
[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly today at 12:45pm (ET). C-SPAN will cover it live – if you can find it on their dreadful website. df]
The Commentator (UK), 27 September 2012
It won't be the end of the world if Israel strikes Iran
Whatever view we take of a nuclear-armed Iran and Israel’s right to self-defence, the alarmist argument constantly invoked – fear of a wider conflagration – simply isn’t credible
Video: Cleveland voter on why Obama gets her vote and why Mitt Romney sucks!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Video of an Obama supporter at a Romney rally in Cleveland telling why Obama gets her vote and why Romney sucks. In a word: phones!
Watch at The Political Commentator here.
Quarterly trifecta of market-rigging.............from Rico
Drinking breakfast coffee & chicory, it was obvious that the Cartel attacked the COMEX open with mucho gusto yesterday morning.
I had been 'expecting' the quarterly trifecta of market-rigging from these cynical bastards, and they did not fail me.
- Silver was clobbered from $33.90 to $33.25, and Gold was driven from $1765 to $1738 within minutes.
No, this is not the 'free market' setting price by discovery, offer-and-acceptance.
The TRIFECTA:
1. This happens to be the end of the third quarter, 3Q. Mark-to-market manipulations as books are 'squared' (and made to look not-as-bad-as-they-are) are by now routine in the abnormality of the market action. No matter how much they wiggle and dance, the last few drops fall down their pants, er...balance sheets.
- Those who get to see the 'real' books must be absolutely pissing themselves.
2. Don't overlook that today 9/27 also marks the CRIMEX Gold expiry, another favorite 'target' for our cynical raiders to hit. This happens like clockwork, repeatedly.
- It's merely a 'coincidence' that price-suppression discourages anyone from taking physical delivery, btw. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
3. For all practical purposes, the markets are unregulated and criminally fraudulent market 'rigging' has absolutely no consequences right now.
- Money for nothing, and get out of jail free cards for all my 'connected' friends sing the Banksta Gangsta's.
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