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Thursday, December 9, 2010

WIKILEAKED: Obama Tried to Stop Kenya Passing Armaments to Besieged South Sudanese

from Atlas Shrugs


WIKILEAKED: Obama Tried to Stop Kenya Passing Armaments to Besieged South Sudanese: "

And the Obama hits just keep on coming. If Wikileaks has done anything, it vindicated this blog on Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc.


This latest that Obama stopped the transfer of weapons to Souther Sudan, site of an Islamic genocide that has slaughtered over two million southern Sudanese over the past two decades.


Simon Deng walked barefott to 583 different congressional offices this week to warn of the ticking time bomb in Sudan ..........


VIDEO: Simon Deng: A Barefoot Walk for Freedom


OIC-Driven UN Tacit Support of Islamic Genocide in Sudan, Rejects Calls for Help Ahead of Vote for Independence


Bolton Calls Out Obama on Sudan: "Obama appeasement may rekindle genocide"


Sudan Freedom Walk 2010 Begins in NYC: "How many people have to die in Sudan in order for people to speak out?"


Obama, you don't know him


A Discreet Deal for the War in Sudan By Horand Knaup

US dispatches have cleared up one of the most baffling weapons affairs of the recent past. In 2008, pirates hijacked a ship full of tanks and other military hardware. Kenya apparently intended to send the materiel on to Southern Sudan. But they were unprepared for the US reaction.

Sometimes things get so bad they're almost funny. Take, for example, when criminals hold up arms traffickers, and when politicians subsequently lie and are abandoned by their supposed friends -- even though they secretly do the same thing themselves.


That's exactly what happened in the so-called Faina affair, one of the most baffling cases of weapons smuggling in recent memory -- an affair which has only now come to light due to the leaked US diplomatic cables.

On September 25, 2008, Somali pirates seized the Faina, a harmless-looking freighter, while it was making its way from Ukraine to the Kenyan port in Mombasa. But they were astonished when they looked in the holds and discovered what was on board: a treasure trove of weapons from Ukraine, including 33 T-72 tanks, each weighing about 40 tons -- enough to win a small war in Africa. The Somalian pirates thus blew the cover on a secret transaction that was even more sinister than their own activities.


After almost five months, the Faina was released after, it is thought, a $3.2 million (€2.4 million) ransom payment, and entered the port of Mombasa on February 12, 2009. The Kenyan government denied all speculation that the tanks were really destined for the autonomous government of predominantly Christian Southern Sudan, which rebels from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have been trying to break off from the Muslim northern part of the country. Kenya insisted that the tanks were meant for their own army.


Triggering US Sanctions


But the American documents now prove that that was false. While the Somali pirates were still holding the Faina captive, in faraway Washington, George W. Bush's second term as US president came to an end and Barack Obama moved into the White House.


On November 27, a cable classified as "secret" was sent to the US Embassy in Nairobi bearing clear instructions:



"Note to government of Kenya officials the United States government and the international community's concern with the potential destabilizing effect that the secret transfer of certain heavy military equipment and small arms and light weapons can generate in the region. Inform the government of Kenya ... that transfers of lethal military equipment to Sudan would trigger US sanctions against supplier governments."



On December 15 and 16, Ambassador Michael Ranneberger and senior US military officials based at the US Embassy in Kenya went to work. As he noted in a dispatch dated Dec. 16, 2009, Ranneberger encountered immediate resistance. During a meeting with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, he was informed "that the government of Kenya was committed to assisting GOSS (the government of Southern Sudan) and that there was 'intense pressure' from the GOSS to deliver the tanks." Odinga then went on to suggest that his government could deliver the tanks to Uganda, and that they could make their way into Sudan from there.


Ranneberger made his position to the prime minister clear: Washington would not tolerate such a deal. Delivering any tanks to Sudan -- whether via Uganda or any other country -- could result in sanctions against Kenya.


Finding Their Way to Sudan


The Kenyans were surprised. As they saw it, the Bush administration had always been kept informed about Kenya's arming of the SPLA rebels, had never opposed it and, in fact, had even contributed to it. When US military attaché David McNevin met with Jeremiah Kianga, the Kenyan chief of staff, and Philip Kameru, the head of Kenya's military intelligence, there was a tense exchange:



"Kameru mentioned that, in the government of Kenya's view, the tanks belong to the GOSS.... He added that (Kenyan) President (Mwai) Kibaki was personally very angry about this issue. During the meeting, Kianga commented that the government of Kenya was 'very confused' by our position … since the past transfers had been undertaken in consultation with the United States.... Kianga asked about the significance of what appeared to him to be a major policy reversal. … Kianga asked that the United States explain directly to the Government of Southern Sudan / Sudan People's Liberation Army why (they) are blocking the tank transfer."



Sudden Reversals


Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, who had retained his position even after the change in administrations, obviously didn't feel comfortable about the situation. In a carefully worded cable to Washington, he wrote:

"The government of Kenya is understandably confused, as transfer of these tanks, in their view, dove-tailed with the goals of the United States … (of) converting the SPLA from a guerrilla force to a small conventional force capable of defending Juba (the rebels' capital)."



Ranneberger also suggested that a bit of sympathy should be shown for the Kenyan position.



"Over the past two years, officials from Kenya's Ministry of Defense have shared full details of their engagement with the SPLA as we have shared details of our training program for the SPLA, including combat arms soldier training, under a May 2007 Presidential Directive. ... It is difficult to persuade the Kenyans that transferring this equipment ... will merit sanctions if completed when they are well aware that the United States is continuing military to military security sector reform assistance to the SPLA."



The American documents say nothing about what ultimately happened to the tanks. Experts believe they found their way to Southern Sudan.


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The tax deal cometh

from Michelle Malkin


The tax deal cometh: "


Harry “Who’s the loser now?” Reid had quite the week.


His DREAM Act illegal alien bailout was put on ice; his DADT deal went up in flames.


Tonight,he announced that the cloture vote on the tax deal has been scheduled for Monday at 3pm Eastern. He still intends to cram shamnesty into the lame-duck session and a stand-alone vote on DADT.


Phew.


Via Jamie Dupree, you can read highlights of the 74-page Reid-McConnell tax deal plan here.




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Van Jones Proves He's Still a Revolutionary

from New Zeal: Security Risk? More Evidence of Mary Jo Kilroy's ...

Van Jones Proves He's Still a Revolutionary: "From The Blaze

Communist and former Obama 'Green Jobs Czar' Van Jones proves he's just as much a revolutionary socialist as ever, at the Facing Race Conference, Chicago, September 28, 2010.
'We can't just leave the Federal Government in the hands of our enemies and expect to make a lot of progress....'

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OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Sen. Lindsey Graham plots return to energy talks

from TheHill.com

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Sen. Lindsey Graham plots return to energy talks: "

Graham said Thursday that he’s reviving his proposal to create a “clean energy” standard for utilities in the next Congress.

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Louisiana Senator Blocks NOAA Nominee Over De Facto Drilling Ban

from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Louisiana Senator Blocks NOAA Nominee Over De Facto Drilling Ban: "

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) announced today he would block the confirmation of Dr. Scott Doney to be chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration due to “concerns over scientific integrity at federal agencies and the White House.”


These concerns stem from the recent Gulf offshore drilling moratorium and the ongoing lag in permit issuance since the ban was lifted in October. In a letter sent to President Obama today, Vitter characterizes it “as a continuing de facto moratorium.”


Vitter also plans to hold a hearing before the Senate Small Business Committee on the Interior Department’s inspector general report that found a White House drilling safety report had been edited in a way that, “led to the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer-reviewed by the experts,” when it had not. The executive summary became part of Interior’s safety report that was used to justify the controversial moratorium.


In Vitter’s letter to Obama, he revealed his intention to call energy czar Carol Browner and Steve Black, counselor to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, as witnesses. Browner was named in the inspector general’s report as sending the edited versions of the executive summary to Interior, while Black, in charge of the report from Interior’s side, accepted the edited versions.


Vitter also requested a response from Salazar to a Nov. 21 letter outlining unresolved regulatory issues that have led to the permitting logjam.


This isn’t the first time an Obama administration nominee has faced scrutiny as a result of the moratorium and the subsequent lack of permitting in the Gulf region. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) blocked the confirmation of Jack Lew to head the Office of Management and Budget until the administration agreed to a meeting between oil and gas industry leaders and Salazar and Michael Bromwich of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.


But since that meeting took place last month in Houma, LA, the rate of permit issuance has continued to lag. Neither Vitter nor industry leaders feel their concerns about the “de facto moratorium” were adequately answered and remain frustrated.

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Levin to Republicans: We need leaders, not bean counters!

from The Right Scoop

Levin to Republicans: We need leaders, not bean counters!: "Levin puts on his strategist hat and lays out his take on what the Republicans should do with this whole tax deal. He shows, by example, just how huge their hand really is and what they should be able to get if they just work at it a little. Instead of taking the first deal [...]"

GOP senator: Funding bill a 'Trojan horse' for healthcare reform

from TheHill.com

GOP senator: Funding bill a 'Trojan horse' for healthcare reform: "

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) criticized the continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through next year.

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Why the TSA Can’t Back Down

from USACTION NEWS

Why the TSA Can’t Back Down: "

The goal of terrorism is to terrorize us: to make us afraid, and make our government do exactly what the TSA is doing.


Bruce Schneier at The Atlantic


EXCERPTS:


But now, the TSA is in a bind. Regardless of whatever lobbying came before, or whatever former DHS officials had a financial interest in these scanners, the TSA has spent billions on those scanners, claiming they’re essential. But because people can opt out, the alternate manual method must be equally effective; otherwise, the terrorists could just opt out. If they make the pat-downs less invasive, it would be the same as admitting the scanners aren’t essential. Senior officials would get fired over that.


So what’s next? Strip searches? Body cavity searches? TSA Administrator John Pistole said there would be no body cavity searches for now, but his reasons make no sense. He said that the case widely reported as being a body cavity bomb might not actually have been. While that appears to be true, what does that have to do with future bombs? He also said that even body cavity bombs would need “external initiators” that the TSA would be able to detect.


FULL ARTICLE

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Cyber warfare is happening now!

from USACTION NEWS


Cyber warfare is happening now!: "

K.T. McFarland weighs in on the national security aspects of the Wikileaks story and comments on North Korea’s role in the Middle East arms race


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AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’

from USACTION NEWS

AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’: "

Those who doubt the connection between the communist party and the unions need only to read accounts of a recent awards ceremony to see how both groups view each other.


Jonathon M. Seidl at The Blaze


EXCERPTS:


On Sunday, December 5, the Communist Party USA gave awards to a pair of labor leaders and a former assistant attorney. Among the recipients was Connecticut AFL-CIO head John Olsen, who not only gladly accepted the award, but garnered “loud applause” when he said he stands with CPUSA.


The article goes on to praise the union for its work, and explains how important the union is in fighting for CPUSA causes:


The AFL CIO and local unions are now developing their legislative agendas. For the first time in 22 years, a Democratic governor was elected in Connecticut. It is widely recognized that union members made the difference in voter turnout.


However, especially with the state budget crisis, grass roots organizing will be needed to forestall cuts and layoffs and to demand expanded revenues by taxing the very rich.


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Why Barack Obama doesn’t much care for Britain

from USACTION NEWS


Why Barack Obama doesn’t much care for Britain: "

What has he got against us? The conventional answer is that he is bitter about the way his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was interned during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. But this explanation doesn’t fit with what Obama himself has written.


Daniel Hannan at The Telegraph


EXCERPTS:


Let’s review the evidence. President Obama received from Gordon Brown a pen-holder made from the timbers of a Royal Navy anti-slavery vessel, and reciprocated with DVDs. He silkily downgraded the UK from “our closest ally” to “one of our allies”. He gave the Queen an iPod full of his own speeches. He used the Louisiana oil spill to attack an imaginary company called “British Petroleum” (it has been BP for the past decade, ever since the merger with Amoco gave it as many American as British shareholders). He sent a bust of Winston Churchill back to the British Embassy.


For example, Obama’s climate change policies make little sense either as an attempt to slow global warming or as a way to make the US more popular. But they make perfect sense as a mechanism for the redistribution of wealth from rich nations to poor. (D’Souza notes, as an instance, the way in which the Obama administration has banned offshore drilling in the US while sponsoring it in Brazil). The same is true of his enthusiasm for nuclear disarmament. It seems bizarre to be pursuing the elimination of atomic weapons in a forum that doesn’t include Iran or North Korea. But, argues D’Souza, this isn’t really about Iran or North Korea. It’s about making America a less warlike, less intimidating, less – in a word – imperial nation.


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Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S.

from USACTION NEWS


Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S.: "

Venezuela has agreed to allow Iran to establish a military base manned by Iranian missile officers, soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Venezuelan missile officers. In addition, Iran has given permission for the missiles to be used in case of an “emergency”.


by Anna Mahjar-Barducci at HUDSON NEW YORK


EXCERPTS:


Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources[1], according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit o Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on October19, 2010. The previously undisclosed contract provides for the establishment of a jointly operated military base in Venezuela, and the joint development of ground-to-ground missiles.


Venezuela has also become the country through which Iran intends to bypass UN sanctions. Following a new round of UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, for example, Russia decided not to sell five battalions of S-300PMU-1 air defence systems to Iran. These weapons, along with a number of other weapons, were part of a deal, signed in 2007, worth $800 million. Now that these weapons cannot be delivered to Iran, Russia is looking for new customers; according to the Russian press agency Novosti[2], it found one: Venezuela.


If Iran, therefore, cannot get the S-300 missiles directly from Russia, it can still have them through its proxy, Venezuela, and deploy them against its staunchest enemy, the U.S.


According to a study recently released by the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, Iran is presently aiming to perfect the already existing solid-fuel, medium-range missile that can carry a nuke to hit regional targets, such as Israel[4]. If a missile base can be opened in Venezuela, many US cities will be able to be reached from there even with short-medium range missiles.


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CanadaCare: Woman dies waiting 90 minutes in ER. “She was crying out, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’. . . Nobody attended to my daughter”

from theblogprof

CanadaCare: Woman dies waiting 90 minutes in ER. “She was crying out, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’. . . Nobody attended to my daughter”: "A peek through the looking glass as to what government-run ObamaCare will look like here in the US if it isn't struck down. From the Star via Instapundit:
It’s no surprise to Thelma Lee that emergency room wait times are not meeting provincial targets.

Lee said her 41-year-old daughter, Marlene Stephens, died Saturday after waiting nearly 90 minutes at the William Osler Health Centre’s Etobicoke campus emergency room with breathing problems.

Lee feels her daughter was not seen fast enough by medical staff.

They didn’t touch her,” said the grieving Lee. “She was crying out, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’. . . Nobody attended to my daughter.”

On Monday, Auditor General Jim McCarter released his annual report which found that despite putting an extra $200 million into shortening emergency room wait times over the last two years, “significant province-wide progress has not yet been made.”
Just go ahead and throw in another $200 million. And another $200M after that. The liberal solution is always to throw money at the problem. And after all that, nothing changes anyway:
“Complaints about overcrowding and delays in hospital emergency rooms have persisted for years,” McCarter told a news conference on Monday.
Emergency room waits for people with serious conditions sometimes reached 12 hours or more, the report said. That is far greater than the province’s 8-hour wait time target, the report found.
An 8 HOUR target? WHAT?!? And what else would you expect from government-run plans?We should have learned that lesson from Massachusetts
Exit question: will healthcare rationing bureaucrats use their cookie as a shield when asked why the system has gone to crap?:
Previously on Canada's (lack of) healthcare:
Video: Canadian official uses cookie as shield against answering questions of why healthacre system is failing
Reason TV: The Road to CanadaCare? Sally Pipes on The Truth About ObamaCare
Single-Payer Hell: Canada about to force seniors to pay for their own care because of soaring costs
Video: The tea party chronicles, episode 10 - Canada's healthcare and the US Constitution
Single-Payer Hell: Canadian brain cancer patient refused life-saving drugs because he escaped to US for treatment instead of dying
Single-Payer Hell: Canadian Premier That Came To US For Heart Surgery Says “It’s my health, it’s my choice”
Single-Payer Hell: disabled Canadian Lin Gilbert loses 2+ years fighting uncompassionate healthcare bureaucracy
Single-Payer Hell: Cheryl Baxter Escapes Canada To The U.S. For Care After 8 Years Of Pain
Video: Single-Payer Hell: The Cheryl Baxter Story
Videos: What Canadians Want You To Know About Their Healthcare System - Part 2
Videos: What Canadians Want You To Know About Their Healthcare System
Government-Run Healthcare Is A Prescription For Death
Video: Single-Payer Hell: The Lindsay McCreith Story
Single-Payer Hell: In Canada, Citizens Participate In Lottery To Determine Who Sees A Doctor
Detroit MSM starting to notice: Why are Canadians getting health care in Detroit?
Single-payer hell: Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver, leaked paper reveals
Deroy Murdock: Government medicine stumbles in Canada, U.K.
President of the Canadian Medical Association: 'health-care system is sick, imploding...'
British National Health Service Sends Patient With Chest Pains Home With Pain Pills, Patient Dies
Paul Krugman Gets An Unexpected Response Regarding Canadian Health Care
WSJ: 'Too Old' for Hip Surgery
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CanadaCare: Woman dies waiting 90 minutes in ER. “She was crying out, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’. . . Nobody attended to my daughter”

from theblogprof

CanadaCare: Woman dies waiting 90 minutes in ER. “She was crying out, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’. . . Nobody attended to my daughter”: "A peek through the looking glass as to what government-run ObamaCare will look like here in the US if it isn't struck down. From the Star via Instapundit:
It’s no surprise to Thelma Lee that emergency room wait times are not meeting provincial targets.

Lee said her 41-year-old daughter, Marlene Stephens, died Saturday after waiting nearly 90 minutes at the William Osler Health Centre’s Etobicoke campus emergency room with breathing problems.

Lee feels her daughter was not seen fast enough by medical staff.

They didn’t touch her,” said the grieving Lee. “She was crying out, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’. . . Nobody attended to my daughter.”

On Monday, Auditor General Jim McCarter released his annual report which found that despite putting an extra $200 million into shortening emergency room wait times over the last two years, “significant province-wide progress has not yet been made.”
Just go ahead and throw in another $200 million. And another $200M after that. The liberal solution is always to throw money at the problem. And after all that, nothing changes anyway:
“Complaints about overcrowding and delays in hospital emergency rooms have persisted for years,” McCarter told a news conference on Monday.
Emergency room waits for people with serious conditions sometimes reached 12 hours or more, the report said. That is far greater than the province’s 8-hour wait time target, the report found.
An 8 HOUR target? WHAT?!? And what else would you expect from government-run plans?We should have learned that lesson from Massachusetts
Exit question: will healthcare rationing bureaucrats use their cookie as a shield when asked why the system has gone to crap?:
Previously on Canada's (lack of) healthcare:
Video: Canadian official uses cookie as shield against answering questions of why healthacre system is failing
Reason TV: The Road to CanadaCare? Sally Pipes on The Truth About ObamaCare
Single-Payer Hell: Canada about to force seniors to pay for their own care because of soaring costs
Video: The tea party chronicles, episode 10 - Canada's healthcare and the US Constitution
Single-Payer Hell: Canadian brain cancer patient refused life-saving drugs because he escaped to US for treatment instead of dying
Single-Payer Hell: Canadian Premier That Came To US For Heart Surgery Says “It’s my health, it’s my choice”
Single-Payer Hell: disabled Canadian Lin Gilbert loses 2+ years fighting uncompassionate healthcare bureaucracy
Single-Payer Hell: Cheryl Baxter Escapes Canada To The U.S. For Care After 8 Years Of Pain
Video: Single-Payer Hell: The Cheryl Baxter Story
Videos: What Canadians Want You To Know About Their Healthcare System - Part 2
Videos: What Canadians Want You To Know About Their Healthcare System
Government-Run Healthcare Is A Prescription For Death
Video: Single-Payer Hell: The Lindsay McCreith Story
Single-Payer Hell: In Canada, Citizens Participate In Lottery To Determine Who Sees A Doctor
Detroit MSM starting to notice: Why are Canadians getting health care in Detroit?
Single-payer hell: Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver, leaked paper reveals
Deroy Murdock: Government medicine stumbles in Canada, U.K.
President of the Canadian Medical Association: 'health-care system is sick, imploding...'
British National Health Service Sends Patient With Chest Pains Home With Pain Pills, Patient Dies
Paul Krugman Gets An Unexpected Response Regarding Canadian Health Care
WSJ: 'Too Old' for Hip Surgery
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"The most satisfying video you will see today:" Alan Grayson Gets Hammered on MSNBC in Liberal Scream-fest

from theblogprof

"The most satisfying video you will see today:" Alan Grayson Gets Hammered on MSNBC in Liberal Scream-fest: "This is the 2nd most satisfying Alan Grayson news after the post where he got fired by voters in November (Savoring Victory: Alan Grayson (D-eranged) ousted in FL):
Nice circular firing squad. Stand back, pass the popcorn. Via BretbartTV. O'Donnell is correct that the hardest hit percentage wise by the tax increases if the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire would be the poor. It's interesting that for the last almost 8 years now O'Donnell and those like him insisted the Bush tax cuts were only for the rich, and are now doing a 180 so they can support Obama. Here's another O'Donnell segment that exposes liberals and ignorant of the tax code:
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Van Jones: We are coming for the media and that’s not all

from The Greenroom

Van Jones: We are coming for the media and that’s not all: "

Tell me something I don’t know. The big take-away that people are getting from this is how they want to take over the media. We already know that Al Not-So-Sharpton is meeting with the FCC soon to put pressure on them to create new ways of regulating talk radio for the explicit purpose of taking down Rush Limbaugh. It’s all about baby steps, and this is one of them. Once the new regulation is in place, then they will use it against those whoever they want to shut down, like Rush, Hannity, Levin, Beck, and so on. And part of that process will be figuring out a way to regulate cable, i.e. Fox News, so they can do the same with that.


Look, anyone who doesn’t think they are serious about this is foolish. But this is about much more than the media.


Honestly, the part that I thought was most important from this wasn’t about the media, but what he says about the next two years. They are gaming, and gaming hard to win the hearts and minds of the public. Think about it. Every time they mention Republicans behind a microphone they are demonizing them as racists, terrorists, hostage-takers, selfish white men, slurpee-drinking incompetent boobs, etc. And for the next 2 years, who will they say is governing? We all know that Republicans can’t pass major legislation because they don’t have the Senate or the Executive, but the Democrats will do their damnedest to make it look like the Republicans are so extreme that they can’t get anything done. They will work even harder to paint Republicans as extremists and will say they can’t work with them because they are outside the mainstream.


Mark Levin is so dead on the money with this that it’s pathetic. The radical message is being set up to be the moderate mainstream message, which will leave the conservative message looking extreme, especially to those who aren’t paying attention. This is why we need the Republicans to stop behaving passively like gentlemen opening the door for a nice lady, and to put on the camo and arm themselves with message cannons. The only way the public will resist this radical message is if Republicans give them a choice and start calling these people out for who they are, and with a very loud voice.


You may be thinking right now that they have the media and how can we overcome that? Well I would say just look at Chris Christie and tell me that his message hasn’t gotten out there in New Jersey. A lot of people nowadays are wanting to beat up on him because he continues to use his loud voice to tell the truth. Just look at the media, as they are trying to paint him as a bully. But the man knows what he is doing and is not going to let them control the debate. He will continue to hammer his message, that the Unions are corrupt and are stealing money from the citizens of New Jersey, and that a more fiscal, smaller government is the only way to get out of this mess. And that’s what we need in DC.


Look, we’ve done a great job so far over the last 2 years with the Tea Parties, but if we relax now because we have a Republican House, then we risk losing everything we’ve worked for. The next 2 years are the most crucial if we want to get our country back and we MUST carry the torch for freedom even higher. We must force the Republicans to use every available chance to hammer home the message that the radicals are in DC and they are trying to steal our liberty, our country. And we must fight them off. That means calling the President out for who he is to, because he is one of them.



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Senate Blocks Repeal of Bill Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy

from The Gateway Pundit


Senate Blocks Repeal of Bill Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy: "

The Senate failed to repeal Bill Cinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for gays in the military.

FOX News reported:


Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would have repealed the military’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and allowed gay troops to serve openly.


Democrats failed Thursday to cinch a procedural deal with Republicans in the waning days of the lame-duck session. The 57-40 test vote fell three votes short of the 60 needed to advance.


The vote could end months of political wrangling on the bill and makes congressional action on the repeal provision unlikely any time soon.


The 1993 law bans gay troops from publicly acknowledging their sexual orientation

. A repeal provision was included in a broader defense policy bill and passed last spring in the House.


Allahpundit added this on the vote today:


They had 60 votes in the bank, with Brown, Collins, and Murkowski all promising to vote yes if they could reach an agreement with Reid on debate time and amendments. He spent a day negotiating with them and then gave up, choosing to ignore their demands and force a vote by bringing the bill to the floor anyway. And it worked! … in Collins’s case. Brown and Murky voted no but she ended up voting yes, even though (a) Reid gave her nothing in return and (b) she pledged last week not to approve any bills until the tax cuts deal is settled. So not only is she exposed as a liar and a chump, she didn’t even get a successful repeal here as a consolation prize. That makes her our official sucker of the day, with Reid a close second for not delaying this vote until after the tax deal is done.

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MELTDOWN: Dem Lawmaker Mutters “F–k the President” During Closed Meeting

from The Gateway Pundit


MELTDOWN: Dem Lawmaker Mutters “F–k the President” During Closed Meeting: "



Big Government reported:


The frustration with President Barack Obama over his tax cut compromise was palpable and even profane at Thursday’s House Democratic Caucus meeting.


One unidentified lawmaker went so far as to mutter “f— the president” while Rep. Shelley Berkley was defending the package the president negotiated with Republicans. Berkley confirmed the incident, although she declined to name the specific lawmaker.


“It wasn’t loud,” the Nevada Democrat said. “It was just expressing frustration from a very frustrated Member.”


Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) was also overheard saying that “we can’t trust him” not to cave to Republicans and extend the tax cuts again in two years, according to a Democratic source.

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Gallup Poll: Obama’s Approval Hits All-Time Low With Liberals http://bit.ly/huDJPy

Gallup Poll: Obama's Approval Hits All-Time Low With Liberals http://bit.ly/huDJPy


Gallup Poll: Obama's Approval Hits All-Time Low With Liberals
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Holder to Senate: Strip language on Gitmo detainees from spending bill

The House-passed provision would prevent funds from being used to transfer detainees, making civilian trials of suspected terrorists impossible.








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House passes Obama-backed doc fix

The House approved a one-year "doc fix" Thursday afternoon that will prevent a dramatic cut in Medicare physician payments.








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Democratic Caucus Votes to Reject Obama Tax Compromise

Reports that House Democrats were warming up to President Obama's tax rate compromise with Republicans appear to be wrong. In a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic caucus, Democrats voted to reject the deal and are expected to do the same thing when the plan officially hits the House floor.

From The Hill:

The House Democratic Caucus on Thursday rejected the tax deal negotiated between the White House and Senate Republicans.

The non-binding vote held during a closed meeting of the caucus puts tremendous pressure on House leaders to fight for changes to the proposal.

"I don't think there's any doubt that [Speaker Nancy Pelosi] will follow the caucus," Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) told reporters.

This is a breaking story. Updates will be added.








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Ala. Businessman Under Fire for Sign: BBQ Pork Restaurants Are Safe Because ‘No Muslims Inside’

An Alabama businessman is coming under fire for a new sign outside his electronics store, which declares:  'BBQ pork restaurant is safest — no Muslims inside." Where did he get the bright idea for the new signage? His friend sent it to him as a joke in an e-mail.

Some, however, aren't laughing. ABC 33/40 reports:

The Electronic Repair Company in East Lake is getting a lot of traffic these days all because of a sign outside the business.

"I put jokes up there," owner Chuck Biddinger said.

Biddinger says the sign, which reads "BBQ pork restaurant is safest…no Muslims inside," is harmless.

"Muslims do not eat pork," he said. "It's a known fact that Muslims have tried to commit crimes in this country."

Biddinger says he received the quote in an e-mail. He says he tries to change the sayings on both sides of the sign once a week. …

But Biddinger claims it's not about race or religion. He says it's just a joke.

"I'm not a politically correct person and I don't claim to be," he said. "I never have been."








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How many Obama insiders will follow Orszag and Greg Craig to Wall Street

Obama budget chief Peter Orszag is now a VP at Citigroup, where his new bosses praise the "tremendous amount of knowledge as well as key private sector and government experience" he will bring, and the Financial Times hears he will be in a position "dealing with clients and top government officials." Greg Craig, Obama's former...









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Reid and Obama Giving $450 Million Stimulus Funds to CHINESE COMPANY/Democratic Sugar Daddies

Finally, one stimulus project that will create jobs. Unfortunately most of those created jobs will be in China. That doesn't mean no one in the US will profit from it. Top Democratic fundraisers and lobbyists with links to the White House are behind this project, a wind farm in Texas which stands to get $450 million in stimulus money. A Chinese company would operate the farm and its turbines would be built in China.
The farm's backers also have close ties with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who, at the height of his hard-fought re-election bid this fall, helped blunt congressional criticism over stimulus dollars possibly going to create jobs in China by endorsing a proposal by the Chinese company to build a factory in his home state. Although his campaign received thousands of dollars in donations from the wind farm's backers and Reid stood on stage with them at a campaign event they hosted, his office declined to answer any questions about the wind farm's organizers or their plans for Nevada.
The wind farm is planned to be huge, it would consist of 300 2-megawatt wind turbines, each perched atop a 26-story-tall steel tower and spinning three blades each half the length of a football field. The farm would span three counties and 36,000 acres in West Texas.  Dubbed the Spinning Star wind farm when completed the project to generate enough to power 180,000 American homes.

It is being planned by an unusual joint partnership between the U.S. Renewable Energy Group, a Dallas investment firm with strong ties to Washington and the Democratic Party, and A-Power Energy Generation Systems, an upstart Chinese supplier of wind turbines. Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate the Chinese are bringing financing and the turbines.
What the Americans are supplying is the understanding of the local market and the understanding of how to get money from US Taxpayers including billions in loan guarantees, stimulus grants and "green" financial incentives.  And they are going after what ever they can.
 To claim the stimulus grant it must arrange its financing and begin work on the wind farm by Dec. 31. Besides the $450 million stimulus grant, A-Power's SEC filings indicate the joint-venture also will pursue a Department of Energy-backed loan guarantee. According to the SEC filings, the project is waiting to hear if it will receive the loan guarantee before financing will follow to build the turbines.
The Americans involved in the project are a an all-star team of Democratic party sugar daddies.
The investment group's public face is often Cappy McGarr, a wealthy Texas philanthropist, investor and longtime fixture in Democratic politics, who has given heavily to Democratic candidates across the country and was an early backer of President Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Joining McGarr in Dallas is Ed Cunningham, a former executive for several large Western entertainment companies in China, a 2002 Democratic senatorial candidate and a former member of Obama's national finance committee.
Two registered lobbyists with a long history of involvement in Democratic politics, G. John O'Hanlon and Moses Boyd, are the group's anchors in Washington. O'Hanlon has been a party operative since the 1980s — a protégé of Democratic heavyweight Terry McAuliffe — and has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic causes. Boyd is a former senior Democratic Capitol Hill staffer turned lobbyist.

McGarr married into Democratic Party royalty — his wife's uncle is legendary Democratic power broker Robert Strauss — and has made his own name as a big-time donor to the party and candidates across the country. McGarr and his wife, Janie Strauss McGarr, have given more than $375,000 to various Democratic candidates and political action committees since 2006, according to Federal Election Commission records. That doesn't include the $50,000 he donated to Obama's inauguration and $50,000 to $100,000 in donations from others that he "bundled" for the Obama campaign.

All told, these four and their spouses have given more than $1.8 million in campaign donations since 1990, with McGarr and his wife accounting for more than half of that.
Those kind of donations to the party in power can get you a hell of a lot of giant windmills.
...The money that McGarr "bundled" in the last election — essentially working on a volunteer basis to solicit money for the Obama presidential campaign — is particularly significant, she said. It's an important and valuable role to play in a campaign, she said, and one that typically is acknowledged.
There is a lot more to this story of political pocket greasing and mis-directing stimulus dollars to China. All together it smells as does most of the projects associated with the $800+ billion dollar porkulus project.
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Persian Gulf Economists Are Giving Up On The Dollar, Encouraging Move To Gold

GCC states should boost their foreign reserve holdings of gold to help shield their billions of dollars of assets from turbulence in global currency markets, say economists at the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFCA).

Tom Arnold at The National

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Diversifying more of their reserves from US dollars to the yellow metal would help to offer central banks in the region higher investment returns, said Dr Nasser Saidi, the chief economist of DIFCA, and Dr Fabio Scacciavillani, the director of macroeconomics and statistics at the authority.

"When you have a great deal of economic uncertainty, going into paper assets, whatever they may be – stocks, bonds, other types of equity – is not attractive," said Dr Saidi. "That makes gold more attractive."

Declines in the dollar during recent months have dented the value of GCC oil revenues, which are predominantly weighted in the greenback.

Longer term, gold could play a more important role in the global monetary system as the shift from developed world to emerging markets intensified, the two DIFCA economists said in a report published yesterday.

The dollar's position as the leading reserve currency was likely to diminish as US dominance of the world economy dwindled.

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