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Video: Police Shoot #Woolwich Terrorists During Attempted Ambush

Whoa!

This is rad!

See: "VIDEO: #Woolwich Terrorists Shot by Police After Attempting to Ambush First Officers at Scene of Islamic Beheading."

The footage obtained by the Daily Mirror reveals how, after beheading the soldier, they hatched a plot to ambush and murder the first police officers to come to his aid.

Boy Scouts Goes Gay

The board of directors of the Boy Scouts of America voted to accept homosexual boys and young men as members. This runs counter to its long-standing expectation that Scouts be "morally straight" and longtime policy; one upheld by an earlier Supreme Court decision. It is yet another sign of decline in American values.

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Late News................

Waffle House grants veteran's special Memorial Day request

Eglin’s new flight rules should mean less noise

Two squadrons move from Eglin to Hurlburt

Flying Today vs. 50 Years Ago

In London as in Boston, terrorist-killers were known to security services

Obama’s Aides Protected Him – and Blew His Credibility

Tehran’s Designs on Afghanistan

Is China Inserting Itself Into the Taiwan-Philippines Spat?

Airsea Battle With Chinese Characteristics

Inside China’s thriving hacking culture

Woolwich attack: Were the suspected killers influenced by Nigerian terrorists?

Did the Pentagon cry wolf over sequestration?

WSJ: Say, who's running the government​?

Holder, the AP, and CIA: Subpoena Subterfuge​?

IRS Abuse Scandal: Evidence Suggests White House Knew Far Earlier than It Admits

IKEA style Truck for the Developing World

Tuatara Supercar’s Engine Test Complete; Could Reach 1,700 HP

Team Obama Dumps Unseen Obama Prom Pictures To Humanize Scandal-Ri​dden Obama

Denial is still a river in Londonistan by Melanie Phillips

RIP: Drummer Lee Rigby

Sadly I do not know who wrote this beautiful tribute.

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PJTV: Real People

Bill Whittle shows you an iconic image of a rainy day when a U.S. Marine held an umbrella over the head of President Obama. Is this photograph a metaphor for President Obama's actions in Benghazi and his Administration's targeting of the AP, Fox News and the Tea Party? Hear what Bill Whittle thinks.

Pre-Mortem​: The Coming Death of England.........................by Dan Friedman

A fuller picture of the two London men who hacked a serving British soldier to death is starting to develop. It appears both killers were motivated by their relationship with Islam. One sure sign of this is that David Cameron, PM of Britain, is already denying it. He’s bending over backwards to preemptively exonerate the Muslim religion. According to the BBC, this is how Cameron put it:

Speaking outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday, Mr. Cameron said: "One of the best ways of defeating terrorism is to go about our normal lives." He said there was no justification in Islam for the attacks, which were "solely and purely" the responsibility of the individuals involved.

Of course, there’s no reason for Americans to be smug. Running interference for Jihad has become a trademark of today’s liberal Western leaders, most notably our own Barack Hussein Obama. However, in the case of a small country like England there is a very small margin for error. And with cringers like Cameron at the helm, the UK could tip over much sooner than expected.

Interactive Game: Lufthansa's Virtual Pilot

Click on the picture to play

H/T Pete H

JESUS VS. MUHAMMAD!! (Qur'an Challenge II) - Steven Crowder

Delta Bravo Sierra

Cartoon Round Up....

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What did the American General say to the Iranian Ambassador? (Humor)...from TPC

Political humor with the Iranian Ambassador to the UN asking an American General a simple question and is given a predictive answer.  

At The Political Commentator here.

Slow Motion Butterflies - Pavilion of Wings

News.....................

A LTjg Captures Miss Virginia’s Eye

Liberals Are Now Shocked, Shocked at Obama’s Culture of Intimidation

Amphibians dying off at alarming rate

Holder says four U.S. citizens killed in drone strikes

Lois Lerner, IRS disaster

Florida city owners battle over treehouse

Man find Superman Action Comics No. 1 in his walls, sells for $100,000

West Pointer busted for taking nude photos of cadets

N.J.: Bars put cheap booze in premium bottles

Lerner May Have Waived Right to Take the Fifth

Massive Attack - Israeli general warns air force will strike Syrian weapons facilities if nation collapses

Stratfor Email: Brennan Behind 'Witch Hunt' of Journalists Reporting Leaks

House Lawmakers Sprint Through Nuclear Arms Spending Debate

It's come to this: Venezuela approves funds to relieve the toilet-pap​er shortage

FAO: Ukraine may become world's sixth largest wheat exporter by 2021

Issa: Lerner waived her rights by giving an opening statement, so we're bringing her back before the committee

Cruz: No, "I don't trust the Republican​s" with the debt ceiling

Video: Former IRS commission​er isn't quite sure if targeting scheme violated American values

White House scandals stem from politics at the top

Commander warns about potential Fort Drum brigade loss

Protests on Okinawa aren't always what they appear to be

Marine Unit Forced Back From Sea Deployment After Encounteri​ng Biological Weapon

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Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

By Alan Caruba

From its earliest days, even before the Revolution, Americans valued their newspapers and understood they played a crucial role in the issues and events of the times in which they lived. It would take a while, however, before newspapers evolved from highly partisan advocates of the early political factions to their role as watchdogs of government.

A literate population depended on them for news that revealed the increasing futility of dealing with a British monarchy and parliament that found new ways to tax the essentially independent colonies. Newspapers became the glue of the new nation, eagerly read in every state, providing news of Congress and the presidency.

By contrast, authoritarian governments understood the need to keep a tight control over the news and none more than the Third Reich of the Nazi Party and in the Soviet Union.

On May 21^st, Kirsten Powers, writing in the Daily Beast.com, borrowed from words of pastor Martin Niemoller, a German who witnessed their rise to power and who framed the manner in which the Nazis targeted, jailed and killed all those they deemed enemies of the state.

His poem, “First they came” was echoed by Powers who wrote “First they came for Fox News, and they did not speak out—because they were not Fox News. Then they came for government whistleblowers, and they did not speak out—because they were not government whistleblowers. Then they came for the maker of a YouTube video, and—okay we know how this story ends. But how did we get here?”  The “we” to whom she referred are the nation’s journalists.

“Turns out,” said Powers, “it’s a fairly swift sojourn from a president pushing to ‘delegitimize’ a news organization to threatening criminal prosecution for journalistic activity by a Fox News reporter, James Rosen, to spying on Associated Press reporters.”

“Where were the media when all this began happening?" asked Powers. “With a few exceptions, they were acting as quiet enablers.”

This is what I and many other conservative observers and analysts of the President and his administration have been saying since 2009 and earlier. “These series of ‘warnings’ to the Fourth Estate,” said Powers, “were what you might expect to hear from some third-rate dictator, not from the senior staff of Hope and Change, Inc.”

In his book, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler demonstrated his contempt for the public. “The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”  Obama’s 2008 slogan was “hope and change.” He was vague about the change he had in mind, but we have been learning about it since his election.

Hitler and his minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, set up a department that dealt solely with newspapers. An instructive history of the press in the Third Reich can be found on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“When Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazis controlled less than three percent of Germany’s 4,700 newspapers.” The elimination of the German multi-party political system ended hundreds of newspapers that would offer any opposition to the Nazi Party. What followed in the first weeks of 1933 was the systematic use of radio, press, and newsreels to stoke fears of a pending “Communist uprising.”  This occurred in a pre-television and, of course, pre-Internet era, but it was effective when backed up by the thuggish behavior of Hitler’s paramilitary units that were used to “brutalize or arrest political opponents and incarcerate them in hastily established detention centers and concentration camps.”

Not unlike the popularity and influence of Fox News, the well-known Berlin daily, the Vossische Zeitung, was targeted, along with the Berlin Tageblatt. The former employed 10,000 people, but in 1933, its owners, the Ullstein family, were forced to resign and, a year later, sell the company assets. The latter newspaper was owned by the Mosse family that published a number of major liberal papers “much hated by the Nazis.” When Hitler took power, the family fled Germany.

This is not to suggest that Fox News or the Associated Press will suffer a similar fate, but it is no accident that their reporters are being intimidated by an administration that has seized telephone records as a message to their owners and editors to curb any criticism, any investigation of what they are doing.

Asserting that James Rosen, a Fox reporter, engaged in criminal behavior for doing what any reporter would do, seek out information about the government, has outraged many in the press, but whether they will stand firm or buckle under remains the real question. In Germany, the press became an arm of the Nazi regime.

If history is any guide, we have real cause to fear the intent of the Obama administration—one now distinguished by its leadership for having no memory of any steps they have undertaken to oppress organizations that oppose its agenda, mobilizing the IRS and Department of Justice.

We are looking into a tyrannical abyss and it is time to be afraid, be very afraid.

© Alan Caruba, 2013

No Illusions: Israel Prepping For Protracted War....................from Dan Friedman

General says Israel ready to attack Syria should Assad fall

 

* Israel faces possible conflict on three fronts

 

* Fears "strategic looting" of Syria's advanced weaponry

 

HERZLIYA, Israel, May 22 (Reuters) - Israel is prepared to attack Syria to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Israel's air force chief said on Wednesday.

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Soldier beheaded in Woolwich,UK with bloodied man issuing warning! (Video)...from TPC

A soldier is killed in Woolwich, UK in what many said appeared to be a beheading. The video shows a man with a cleaver and bloody hands telling the camera that 'you people will never be safe'. 

Watch at The Political Commentator here. 

No 'surprise' here - QE4EVA...................from Rico

After a 'private' meeting with Rep Issa (the weathiest member of Congress; I wonder what his marching orders were?), the Bernank 'read' a statement to Congress then asnwered some questions.

Cue the PPT (Plunge Protection Team).

Take a look at these COMEX spot charts for Gold and Silver and 'guess' the time this happened.

- It was purely 'coincidental' that the Cartel took the opportunity to 'hit' the markets.

On the other hand, this was pure, unabashed' in-your-face criminality in action for all to see.

- A classic "market operation"...so what are you gonna 'do' about it punks?

Late News..............

'Soldier beheaded' in Woolwich machete attack: latest

Interview with Douglas Bader

Turkey and Iran in an 'Undeclare​d Struggle over Iraq'

Iraq's Kurdistan announces plans for second oil pipeline to Turkey

Sources challenge White House claim of all-hands-​on-deck pursuit of Benghazi suspects

Inventor: I've Cracked Cold Fusion - Hold your applause: Paper has not been peer-revie​wed

The IRS storyline after the Senate hearing yesterday

Treasury, White House talked about how to release news of IRS targeting scandal

Think You're Pretty Hot? You're Probably Wrong

Trayvon Martin's Final Hour

Catastrophic Consensus: A Dissent from Spengler and Mead

Sailor Runs World Record 1.5 Mile, Fails Pushup Portion of Fitness Test

Benghazi Suspects ID'd, But Administra​tion Won't Nab Them Because It Doesn't Want to Send Them to Gitmo

House Oversight e-mails: IRS IG report was originally supposed to be released last September?

DOJ Denies it Hacked Attkisson’s Computer

Obama’s ‘Iron Curtain’ descends on America

Obama Administration Now Favors Muslim Clerics for Christian American Military Burial Services

Two terrorists behead a British soldier on a London street, first such Islamist outrage in the West

The Sheiks and WMD

Undermining Iran’s Islamic Republic From Within

Stocks drop as Fed minutes hint at cutback

Apartheid This!..................from Dan Friedman

Palestinian Media Watch, 5/22/2013

 

 

Official PA daily acknowledges Israeli hospital's medical care for Palestinian children and training of doctors

 

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

 

The official PA daily reported on a visit by the PA Minister of Health, Hani Abdeen, to Israel's Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The daily noted that 30% of the child patients in Hadassah are Palestinians and that the Israeli hospital is training "60 Palestinian medical interns and specialist physicians who will be returning to the [Palestinian] Authority areas to carry out their work." The hospital has a special program to train Palestinian doctors to treat cancer among children, reported the PA daily.

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NRA LIFE OF DUTY PATRIOT PROFILE "FROG DOG" DEBUT

NRA Life of Duty presented by Brownells and Smith & Wesson have teamed up to release "FROG DOG" – the incredible journey of a Navy SEAL and his war dog from.

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H/T Jeff