Tuesday, 20 November 2012
News............
Budget Cut Strikes Brits and Russians
Hamas says a "land war" would cost israel & netanyahu dearly ...
Operation Pillar of Defense (Day Six)
Quebec construction project leaves hydro pole in middle of highway
The ugly truth about Benghazi and Team Obama
DQ Owner Holds Copper Thief at Gunpoint , Waits 3 Hours For Police
Claim: Obama hid ‘gay life’ to become president
Programmer Testifies About Rigging Elections With Vote Counting Machines?
Al Nusrah Front claims yet another suicide attack in Syria
France stripped of prized 'AAA' credit rating
DRC rebels in streets of Goma
Russia squares off against US in UN deadlock over Gaza
Muslim Brotherhood May Be Ready to Send Egyptian Jihadists into Israel
Former Israel UN Ambassador: 'Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood' Emboldened Hamas
Obama in Burma: 'I Wish I Could... Impose My Will on Congress'
US warships turn around toward Israel for possible evacuation of Americans
Big Obama is Watching You
"WHO SAYS AMERICANS ARE STUPID?"
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill
Very Sad
Monday, 19 November 2012
Special Thanksgiving Webisode - America's Heartland
Thanksgiving is a time when we focus on family, community, and food. So, we wanted to share some stories from our current season of America's Heartland that touch on all of these.
Late News..........
CDR Salamander: It's a Jacksonian thing Euroweenie, you wouldn't understand
Why smart people do dumb things online
West Seeks Emergency Hearing
So You Want to End the Israel-Hamas War? Here’s How To Do It
State Dept. Official to Attend OIC Meeting Today on Banning ‘Defamation of Islam’ UPDATE: OIC Scrubs Website, Screenshot Added, Cover-Up Begins
Chambliss: WH had to have changed CIA talking points on Benghazi
Eerie Discovery: Gene Predicts What Time We'll Die
Obamawar - By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
'Barack Obama blunders again on the world stage'
Gaza conflict: senior Islamic militant killed by Israeli strike
Tuscany up in arms over plans to mine antimony
Hamas Rockets Hit their Own Civilians Twice as Often as They Hit Israelis
State Dept Ready To End Diplomatic Isolation of Hamas
Obama Undercuts Israel War Effort
Averting a Civil War in Afghanistan
Obama’s War With The Military
Putting Family First and ‘First Family’ last
More (real) news
General Dynamics' Stryker may replace Bradley APC
Revenge of the Mediterranean Man
Turkish PM Erdogan: Israel Is a ‘Terrorist State’
Nevada brothel owner wins county race
PJTV: Biden Running U.S. As Obama Behaves Oddly Overseas
To the dismay of human rights activists, President Obama referred to Burma as Myanmar out of respect for the authoritarian military junta that once ran the country. Don't fear, because Vice President Biden is running the country as Obama travels overseas. Hear more on the PJ News Break with Scott Ott.
Wash, rinse, repeat.......................from Rico
Apparently unnoticed by the CFTC regulators, and unremarked by the teleprompter readers of FTV, EVERY DAY last week Gold and Silver were raided upon the COMEX open.
Today, as soon as the CRIMEX opened Gold went vertical and hit $1730, rising fast until the Cartel capped it at the level they set all last week. Silver, however blew through the $33-level where it has been capped.
- Should be an interesting short week in the spot metals market.
'Managing' the market price is not exactly the same as 'controlling' it, however.
- For now, the parody of wash-rinse-repeat continues in these heavily manipulated markets where 'perception is reality' (until it isn't).
News............
Nudity as Free Speech
What does the david petraeus "affair" really tell us about how we are led? ....
Media ... how much do they adore obama ... how much you like your mama? ...
Operation Pillar of Defense (Day Five)
Capretta and Levin: Why ObamaCare Is Still No Sure Thing
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore: America Has Strayed From Constitution
Chinese blogger jailed for 'spreading terrorist information'
Hamas Interior Minister Boasts of Using Elderly and Children as Human Shields
Obama’s Gaza War - How Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood pandering made war inevitable.
Iranian arms ship carries fresh, improved Fajar supplies for Gaza
A watershed moment against the sadistic Twitter mob
Here is the (real) news
List of Obamacare taxes that target the rich, middle class and the poor!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
This list of new taxes in Obamacare may surprise you. What shouldn't surprise you is that these taxes hit the rich, the middle class and the poor going against the promise Barack Obama made to the the American people!
Imagine that!
Read the article at The Political Commentator here.
Overnight News...........
BLACKFIVE: Jacksonian America
WH: Benghazi talking-point changes? Don't look at us
Michael Wolff: Election alters media landscape
How the Union Bled Hostess to Death
007 joins UK Forces in Afghanistan for Skyfall screening
After Petraeus Scandal, Tampa Strip Clubs Look For More Biographers
The United States: post-elections, myopia and Latin America
Oklahoma Doctors Versus ObamaCare
In Montana, Crow tribe sees perils to 'fiscal cliff'
More NHL lockout, more sex toys?
Salaries For Union Bosses Who Killed Twinkies
Parade where vets killed used route for 3 years
Fiscal Cliff Isn’t Steep Enough
Great moments in gov't-subsidy history
Marijuana use illegal on Colorado military bases
COED’s Ultimate Guide to 2013 NFL Cheerleader Swimsuit Calendars
Picture: If this was happening to your country, what would it do?...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Political cartoon that asks the question of what your country would do if what's happening in this picture was happening to you?
Voice your opinion at The Political Commentator here.
Obama Opposes Israel Ground War
No surprise, I guess.
See: "Obama, Muscling Netanyahu, Presses Israel Against Ground Invasion."
But here's the update, with video: "Israel Prepares Gaza Ground Incursion."
Heidi Montag Shows Off Her Massive $30,000 Fakies in Sparkling Blue Bikini Photo Shoot
Again, it doesn't look like Ms. Montag is having regrets about her multiple reconstructive surgeries. I think she looks good, any any case, so why worry?
See: "New Heidi Montag Bikini Pics!"
Gawd, those breasts are huge!
Sunday, 18 November 2012
de Tocqueville: we have finally arrived where he said we would...
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." ― Alexis de Tocqueville
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." ― Alexis de Tocqueville
"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." ― Alexis de Tocqueville
"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." ― Alexis de Tocqueville
"Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." ― Alexis de Tocqueville
H/T Shelly
Tehran, the Terror Capitol of the World
By Alan Caruba
In ancient times the expression was
“All roads lead to Rome.” An impressive network of roads had been built to
maintain the Roman Empire, but it eventually broke apart and failed. These days
all roads lead to Tehran, the capital of Iran, the terror capitol of the world,
and to its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The attacks on Israel were ordered by
Khamenei and the support for Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad come from Khamenei.
Perhaps inspired by the success of the al Qaeda attack on a U.S. consulate in
Benghazi, Libya, on the anniversary of 9/11, Hamas—a proxy for Iran in
Gaza—increased its rocket attacks on Israel.
Among the rockets raining down on
Israel is a Fajr-5 that is made in Iran.
It is important to keep in mind that
these rocket attacks have been made for a decade. However, following the
reelection of President Obama, they increased and it is my view that the
Iranians have taken his measure of the four years of his first term and
concluded that he would do little to support Israel and that they could increase
their efforts to create nuclear weapons with which to destroy Israel and
threaten the Middle East and the world.
DEBKA File, an Israeli news agency
reported on November 17th
that President Obama had called Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to reiterate
“his support for Israel’s right to defend itself.” In addition, he called
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to urge him “to persuade Hamas to accept
Israel’s terms for a ceasefire.”
The reality is that there has been no
ceasefire from Hamas since it seized control of Gaza from Fatah, as the
Palestinian Liberation Organization is also known. The PLO governs the West
Bank, an area Israel secured as the result of an earlier war.
Israel is under fire as the direct
result of Obama’s actions and statements during his first term. This is what
happens when sixty years of support and cooperation are abandoned in an effort
to curry acceptance by Middle Eastern regimes and people.
It is useful to consider the record
of wars waged against Israel since it declared its sovereignty in 1948. The
announcement was followed immediately by the 1948 Arab-Israeli War that ended in
July 1949. Military actions were carried out against Israel throughout the 1950s
and 60s from Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. There was conflict when Israel joined
Britain and France after Egypt announced its intention to occupy the Sinai
Peninsula and take over the Suez Canal. The Six-Day War in June 1967 was
triggered by Egypt and joined by Jordan and Syria. Israel won a decisive
victory, expanding its territory to include the West Bank, the Golan Heights,
and Gaza.
Another war of attrition followed
from 1967 to 1970. In October 1973 Israel was attacked on its holiest day, Yom
Kippur, by Egypt and Syria. From 1971 to 1982 led to an invasion of Lebanon in
1978. In 1982, another war was fought with Lebanon which had become a staging
area for the Iranian proxy, Hezbollah. More conflict continued from 1987 to
2000. From 1987 through to 2005, a Palestinian uprising known as the Intifada
continued. And in 2006 another war with Lebanon was triggered by the abduction
of two Israeli reserve soldiers by Hezbollah.
The first Gaza war, December 2008 to
January 2009, was waged against Hamas, an Iranian proxy, and now, as the result
of months of rocket attacks on Israel, it has been renewed.
The Iranians are within months of
achieving their long time goal of creating a nuclear arsenal. On October 19
DEBKA File reported that its intelligence sources had learned that Iran “had
finished installing in Fordo the last set of advanced centrifuges for enriching
uranium to 20 percent purity” which will give the ability to enhanced these
stocks to the 90 percent bomb-making level.
“American experts,” said DEBKA File,
“now estimate that this jump would take no more than two to three weeks from the
moment a go-ahead order came down from Khamenei.”
Writing in the November 16 Wall
Street Journal, Saul Singer said “Even the debate over sanctions and military
action against Iran’s nuclear program largely misses the point. The solution is
for Iran’s regime to fall, and the key to that isn’t sanctions or even military
action. It is for Western governments to star saying to Iran’s leaders what they
told Egypt’s Hosni Mubarack, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, ad Syria’s Bashar Assad:
You must go.”
Singer said that “There is a reason
why Iran is desperately trying—with money, personnel and weapons—to keep Assad’s
brutal regime afloat in Syria. What the mullahs fear more is the Arab Spring
spreading to Iran.”
Even former Secretary of State, Henry
Kissinger, writing in a recent issue of the Washington Post, said, “The most
urgent decision facing the president is how to stop Iran from pursuing a
military nuclear program.”
World War II began because the
nations of Europe sought appeasement with the Nazi regime. They delayed
preemptive action until it was too late. The U.S. and the nations of the world
have followed the same path with Iran. The Obama “apology tour” to the Middle
East has been a total failure and has brought the world to the brink of a war
there that could spread to wherever there are nations with large Muslim
populations. And Europe has large Muslim
populations.
All this is happening as a U.S.
government in gridlock faces a “fiscal cliff” that would require huge cuts to
our defense budget at the worst possible time. A profligate Obama regime has
increased the national debt to $16 trillion and large numbers of Americans are
unemployed. This mirrors the 1930s in which a recession from which the nation
could have recovered was so badly botched that it became the Great
Depression.
The only option the U.S. and the West
has is to join with Israel to destroy or significantly disable Iran’s nuclear
program and attack its military capabilities. The Gaza attacks on Israel are
part of the Iranian effort to test and “soften up” its defenses, to engage the
Israeli Defense Force in a ground war that will deplete its armed forces.
Americans and Israelis embrace life,
but our enemies embrace death. They are taught from birth that dying in a holy
war—a jihad—opens the gates to paradise.
We are on the brink of a Third World
War intended to bring about a new Islamic caliphate, the control of the world by
Islam.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Late News..............
One great leap: IHMC, NASA working on robotic exoskeleton that could help paraplegics walk again
Navy's strategy in Pacific will mean re-strategizing at home
Huntington Ingalls not threatened by U.S. fiscal cliff
Baroness Uddin - Justice Denied By Political Correctness
Arizona Gun Store Tells Obama Voters to ‘Turn Around and Leave’
Teachers 'could face sack' for refusing to promote gay marriage
Spanish ships have entered Gibraltar waters 178 times in last year
Bloggers Spot More Dead Child Fakery by Hamas; CNN Fooled
White House Throws CIA Under the Bus
Arms race explodes as neighbours try to counter China
Grover Norquist Sees the Fiscal Cliff and Guns It
Shipping containers to become condos in Detroit
Congress to investigate Benghazi 'talking points'
This video explains the terrorist tactics that Hamas employs
Indian textbook slams non-vegetarians as liars, potential criminals
Don Cherry's Fashion Statements
Paula Broadwell’s big mistake
Hamas' Claims: True or False? (Part 3)
And again, Hamas has made a number of extraordinary claims in the past day. Let's go through some of them.
Sports Sunday videos that draw perfect analogies to the Obama administration!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Video of a basketball blooper that provides the perfect analogy for the ineptitude of the Obama administration. Watch the video at The Political Commentator here.
The American people facing 4 more years of the Obama administration could be compared to the hit on Reggie Bush in this video! Watch the video at The Political Commentator here.
Gaza Answers.....................frm Dan Friedman
Q. How long before Obama gets in touch with his Islamic side and turns “I have Israel’s back” into “now I’m in Israel’s face?”
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