Alabama Right News: Nov 22, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

US Gets Punked, Taliban We Were Negotiating With Was a FRAUD

from YID With LID by Jeff Dunetz

US Gets Punked, Taliban We Were Negotiating With Was a FRAUD: "

Apparently President Obama had "reached out" to the wrong Guy. With great fanfare President Obama has directed US diplomats to join the Afghans in negotiations with Mullah Mansour, a senior commander of the Taliban. The NY Times, is reporting that the diplomats thought they were sitting down with Mullah Mansour, but the were punked, they guy they thought was Mansour was actually an impostor. Not before (as one of the diplomats commented) ”we gave him a lot of money.”

What's worse is that they ignored one of the most important rules of negotiation, if a deal seems as if it is too good to be true, it probably is.

But now, it turns out, Mr. Mansour was apparently not Mr. Mansour at all. In an episode that could have been lifted from a spy novel, United States and Afghan officials now say the Afghan man was an impostor, and high-level discussions conducted with the assistance of NATO appear to have achieved little.

“It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.”

American officials confirmed Monday that they had given up hope that the Afghan was Mr. Mansour, or even a member of the Taliban leadership.

Just wait a week from now they will admit that the fake terrorist was a thirteen year-old-kid from Bay Ridge Brooklyn.

The fake Taliban leader even met with President Hamid Karzai, having been flown to Kabul on a NATO aircraft and ushered into the presidential palace, officials said.

....Doubts were raised about the man claiming to be Mullah Mansour — who by some accounts is the second-ranking official in the Taliban, behind only the founder, Mullah Mohammed Omar — after the third meeting, held in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. A man who had known Mr. Mansour years ago told Afghan officials that the man at the table did not resemble him. “He said he didn’t recognize him,” said an Afghan leader, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The Western diplomat said the Afghan man was initially given a sizable sum of money to take part in the talks — and to help persuade him to return.

We have also been helping the faker out by providing him with safe passage, air transport, and securing roadways.

The discussion now is who exactly sent this fake Mansour, the Taliban as a way to tweak the 'great Satan,' or maybe the Pakistani intelligence service as part of their game of appearing to help NATO efforts to go after the Taliban while actually helping the Taliban.

Whoever sent the 'faker' we probably should have recognized it, because he was offering something too good to be true.

....The man claiming to be representing the Taliban laid down several surprisingly moderate conditions for a peace settlement: that the Taliban leadership be allowed to safely return to Afghanistan, that Taliban soldiers be offered jobs, and that prisoners be released. The Afghan man did not demand, as the Taliban have in the past, a withdrawal of foreign forces or a Taliban share of the government.

As we warned when Obama promised to reach out to the Taliban, we got our hand slapped away. Our American foreign policy is dangerously naive'. Its time our President understand that you cannot meet halfway, someone that does not want to meet you at all.

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Taliban leader in secret Afghan peace talks was an imposter - New York Times

TSA Chief Says Agency’s Screening Techniques Don’t Include Body-Cavity Searches… Yet (Video)

from The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

TSA Chief Says Agency’s Screening Techniques Don’t Include Body-Cavity Searches… Yet (Video): "

TSA chief John Pistole today met with reporters from the Christian Science Monitor. Pistole discussed why his agency’s aggressive screening techniques don’t include body-cavity searches …yet.

TSA Chief Pistole:

“We’re in the risk management business, being a risk-based intelligence organization. The information that I’ve seen out in public about body cavities for bombs I think is perhaps not accurate. There’s been reporting of one incident involving the Saudi Deputy Administrator of Interior. The forensics on that are not dis-positive and there is stronger indication that it was actually an underwear type bomb strapped to his upper thigh rather than a body cavity. That being, said even if it is a body cavity you still have to be an initiator. You have to have some external vice that cause that initiation such as having the TAPT that is closer to the PA10 that had a modified syringe. There has to be something external that initiates the device. That’s what the advanced imaging technology machine will pick up. Any anomaly outside the body. So we’re not going to get in the business of doing body cavity (searches) that’s just not where we are.”

A New Record… Obama Job Approval Dips to 39% in New Zogby Poll

from The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

A New Record… Obama Job Approval Dips to 39% in New Zogby Poll: "

Barack Obama’s job approval rating slid to 39% in the latest Zogby poll. Worse yet… Obama trails Romney, Gingrich and leads Sarah Palin by only one point in presidential match-ups.

Zogby International reported, via HAP Blog:

President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has dropped to the lowest point of his Presidency at 39%, and in potential match-ups with Republicans in 2012, he trails Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich and is just one point ahead of Sarah Palin.

The percentage of likely voters saying the U.S. is on the wrong track is now the highest since Obama took office at 69%.

The President continues to lose the job approval of Democrats, going from 78% on Nov. 15 to 72% in this Nov. 19-22, 2010 interactive poll. His approval among independents stayed at 39%, and is 6% among Republicans.

Woman who told Obama she was 'exhausted' loses job

from News from The Associated Press

Woman who told Obama she was 'exhausted' loses job: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- The woman who told President Barack Obama that she was 'exhausted' from defending him and his economic policies and waiting for the change she expected after voting for him has another reason to be put out: She's lost her job...."

Figures… Naked Body Scanner’s CEO Was Obama’s Special Guest on His Trip to India

from Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

Figures… Naked Body Scanner’s CEO Was Obama’s Special Guest on His Trip to India: "

Well what do you know?

The CEO of OSI Systems Deepak Chopra was Obama’s special guest on his trip to India.

Public Intelligence.net reported, via The Daily Paul:

“OSI Systems is the owner of Rapiscan Systems which manufactures the Secure 1000, one of the most commonly used backscatter x-ray machines. And, no it is not the Deepak Chopra you’re thinking of.

OSI Systems Chief Executive Officer Joins US Presidential Visit to India

HAWTHORNE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that Deepak Chopra, Chairman and CEO, was selected to accompany US President, Barack Obama, to Mumbai and attended the US India Business Entrepreneurship meeting, which was held by the US India Business Council (US IBC). The goal of the meeting was to promote further trade between US and India….”

CALL FOR DOJ PROSECUTION: Preponderance of evidence to establish Unindicted Co-Conspirator status for CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, NAIT et al

from Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Geller

CALL FOR DOJ PROSECUTION: Preponderance of evidence to establish Unindicted Co-Conspirator status for CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, NAIT et al: "

_{Map and report by Steve Merley here}

The Hamas-linked, Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR is deceiving, fabricating and twisting a recent ruling on its status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas terror funding trial in American history. Back in October, CAIR was awfully quiet when the verdict was read. It has since tried ti spin it, counting on Obama's Department of Justice dereliction of duty in not prosecuting the case against Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas-linked groups that are plotting on "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within" (according to the internal, captured document entered into evidence in that trial).

"The evidence has long suggested that CAIR is a criminal organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further its aims of stealth Jihad in the U.S.," Mr. Yerushalmi said, referring to the fact that CAIR has been named by the federal government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial.

District Court Judge Denies CAIR Motion to Dismiss Federal Fraud Complaints by African American and Pakistani-American Muslims

Recall that the 5th Circuit ruled that Judge Solis must unseal his earlier ruling in the collateral matter arising out of HLF criminal trial in which CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT sought to have Judge Solis rule that the USG’s listing them as UCCs and/or JVs publicly violated their 5th Am rights. But, in so doing, he ruled that he would not strike them from the list, and he apparently proceeded to go through the evidence connecting them to Hamas, IAP, etc. (I say “apparently” because we could only infer this from the 5th Circuit ruling.) Then, Judge Solis put his ruling under seal and the trial brief, but not before, of course, it was public knowledge. A pyrrhic victiry for the Hamas boys and girls, to be sure.

CAIR and ISNA decided to let well enough alone, but not NAIT. NAIT appealed to the 5th Circuit and wanted the appeals court to reiterate that its 5th Amendment rights were violated, wanted Solis’s earlier ruling unsealed and reiterated its request to have NAIT’s name expunged from the UCC/JV list. The 5th Circuit refused to expunge NAIT or otherwise strike the list altogether.

What the 5th Circuit did do was chastise Judge Solis a bit by saying that his characterization of the evidence relative to the justification by the gov’t putting these three groups on the list was irrelevant dicta and not necessary to have concluded that the movants’ 5th Amendment rights had been violated.

So, Friday Solis’s July 1, 2009 opinion was unsealed. Trust me when I say that this is how you lose when you “win” an appeal. CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT lose big time with this opinion now unsealed.

We can now fill in a few gaps…

After going thru standing issues (the court accepted CAIR amicus brief as a motion along with ISNA and NAIT’s motion) and indeed ruled that their 5th Am rights had been violated.

But then, beginning at page 14, Judge Solis defends his decision not to expunge their names from the list by delivering a devastating evidentiary analysis essentially ruling that there was a preponderance of evidence to establish UCC status (keep in mind it was this discussion the 5th Cir did not approve of but did not “vacate” the opinion as requested by NAIT). It is really good stuff.

Here are both docs. The first (2009-07-01) is the key. Worth reading beginning at p 14, Section IV to the end.
Download 2009-07-01 United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (D.N.Tx.)

Download 2010-10-20 United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (5th Circuit)

Federal Judge Agrees: CAIR Tied to Hamas

from Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Geller

Federal Judge Agrees: CAIR Tied to Hamas: "

Steve Emerson on the anti-CAIR ruling I blogged on here and here. Eric Holder could not be reached for comment.

Federal Judge Agrees: CAIR Tied to Hamas IPT

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been connected to the terrorist organization Hamas, a federal judge said in a July 2009 ruling unsealed last week.
"The government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, with NAIT, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas," U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis said in the July 1, 2009, ruling.

CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) had protested to Solis that they were incorrectly named as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2008 trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. Among the allegations, HLF was accused of having provided more than $12 million to Hamas. After a 2007 mistrial, five former HLF officials convicted on 108 counts, ranging from money laundering to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

Following the trial, CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT have argued that their inclusion on the list injured their standing in the community, and their image. They wanted their ties to Hamas removed from the trial records and the list sealed.

Solis agreed the list should not have been made public, saying that doing so violated the Fifth Amendment rights of the listed individuals and organizations. Criticizing the decision to publish the list, the judge explained that CAIR has been subjected to "annoyance, ridicule, scorn, and a loss of reputation in the community." (see the IPTs earlier coverage of the decision to publish the list here).

However, Solis refused to remove references to CAIR and the other groups from the trial record. That's because the government introduced extensive evidence tying CAIR to Hamas. "The public," he wrote, "may make its own judgment from evidence presented at trial."

Solis filed his July 2009 ruling under seal, and until recently, it was unclear what information was actually contained in the order.

NAIT attempted to have Solis' ruling revised, asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to unseal the order and strike any references that tied the organization to Hamas. "The District Court's analysis, NAIT argues, essentially tars it with the same brush of guilt by association that the government used in its pre-trial brief," explained the appellate court. The court agreed to unseal the lower court ruling, but refused to strike Judge Solis' explanation that the groups were tied to Hamas.

While Solis' ruling may provide new ammunition for the groups to claim their rights were violated when they were publicly named as unindicted co-conspirators, they also have to explain why a federal judge determined the government had "ample evidence" tying the groups to a designated terrorist organization.

"CAIR's status as a co-conspirator is a matter of public record," Solis explained. Examining the trial proceedings, he recounted the numerous ties between ISNA, NAIT, and CAIR.

During the trial, the government introduced documents detailing the Muslim Brotherhood's beginnings in the United States. Amongst those was the May 22, 1991, "Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America," authored by Mohamed Akram. The memorandum includes a section titled "Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America" which states that the work of the Ikhwan in the United States is a "kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions."

Also contained in the document was a list of the Muslim Brotherhood's "organizations and the organizations of our friends," which includes ISNA, NAIT, the Occupied Land Fund (HLFs former name, and others.

In another exhibit, titled "Preliminary vision for preparing future leadership," dated Dec. 18, 1998, ISNA is listed as an "apparatus" of the Brotherhood. When the Holy Land Foundation first began, it raised money and supported Hamas through a bank account it held with ISNA and NAIT. ISNA checks deposited into the account were often payable to "the Palestinian Mujahiden."

The Investigative Project on Terrorism has long chronicled the financial ties between ISNA/NAIT and Hamas, including coverage of the trial against HLF. Exhibits entered during the trial included an expense voucher from NAIT, an ISNA subsidiary, made out for $10,000 in the name of Musa Abu Marzook, as well as a check drawn on a NAIT account in the same amount made out to Marzook. Another check for $10,000 on the same account was made out to Marzook's wife, Nadia Elashi. Another check for $30,000 was made out to the Islamic University of Gaza (and has Shukri Abu Baker/OLF written on the memo line), a school long known to be controlled by HAMAS, and which counted such notables as former Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantissi and current Hamas leader Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar as professors, and the recently deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is a former dean of the University.

In addition to the financial connections, the trial also revealed cooperation between the organizations and their respective leadership. During the trial, the government introduced documents relating to the creation of the "Palestine Committee," which was established to support Hamas. The Committee was run by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, and included representatives from the Islamic Association of Palestine, the Holy Land Foundation, and CAIR, represented by founder Omar Ahmad.

Ahmad also attended the 1993 Philadelphia conference, where leaders of the organizations under the Muslim Brotherhood umbrella met to discuss the future of the Brotherhood in the United States. The Philadelphia conference was attended by several members of the Palestine Committee, which supported and collected money for Hamas.

Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas

"Red Dawn" - Not Just a Movie, a Warning

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

"Red Dawn" - Not Just a Movie, a Warning: "'Red Dawn' has been remade - but will it ever be released?

The original 1980s classic movie, was the story of an invasion of the US by Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan forces.

This time its Red China and their Russian allies.

From AOL's Daily Finance site

Set against the backdrop of contemporary politics, the film begins with an American withdrawal from Iraq. The President decides to redeploy troops to Taiwan, where escalating Chinese militarism is threatening America’s ally. At the same time, he also welcomes the former Soviet republic of Georgia into NATO, unleashing Russian worries that America is spreading its sphere of influence deep into Eastern Europe. Having destabilized relations with two of the world’s largest powers, the President then claims that the U.S. is only partly to blame for a global economic meltdown, further escalating tensions with China and ultimately leading to the invasion of the Pacific Northwest.

I do have a problem with this scenario, as it blames US ineptitude for provoking the invasion. In reality the Chinese and Russians have long been planning to take down America, regardless of what America does.

However, if it is released every American, every Westerner should see this movie - not for entertainment, but as a warning.

Here's an official video on the movie set in Michigan.

The film was scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, but is now in limbo due to MGM's current financial problems.

The film has also sparked major controversy in China. According to Film blog;

On the topic of the controversy brought up by the film (which hasn’t been shown publicly, mind you) there were strong words from a state-run Chinese paper after the script recently leaked out.

“U.S. reshoots Cold War movie to demonize China” and “American movie plants hostile seeds against China,” were the headlines last week in the Global Times, published out of Beijing. Articles went on to say that the film has roots in a deep American fear of Chinese power. “China can still feel U.S. distrust and fear, especially among its people. Americans’ suspicions about China are the best ground for the hawks to disseminate fear and doubt, which is the biggest concern with the movie ‘Red Dawn,’” went one piece.

No doubt Hitler would have protested an anti Nazi film made in 1938 as well.

Perhaps some patriotic American billionaire will buy the film from MGM and release it himself.

It would be a great service to free peoples everywhere.

USATODAYGALLUP: Tea Party support grows; USA divided...

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USATODAYGALLUP: Tea Party support grows; USA divided...: "
USATODAYGALLUP: Tea Party support grows; USA divided...

(Third column, 3rd story, link)

Obama Administration More Sympathic to Terror Suspects’ Rights than to Americans’ Rights

from Right Wing News by SusanAnne Hiller

Obama Administration More Sympathic to Terror Suspects’ Rights than to Americans’ Rights: "Originally posted at Big Peace The outrage caused by the TSA over the past few weeks continues to fuel questions of the Obama administration’s priorities and intentions when it comes to protecting and respecting the rights of American citizens as opposed to those of suspected/captured terrorists enemy combatants. Many stories and videos of groping, aggressive searches of [...]"

We're in the best of hands: Nuclear weapon drivers drunk

from theblogprof by The blogprof

We're in the best of hands: Nuclear weapon drivers drunk: "Looks like we know what happened to drunk pilots that were fired from the airlines - they were hired by the government to drive nuclear material around. From the AP via The Detroit News: Report: Nuclear weapon drivers sometimes got drunk

The U.S. Energy Department's watchdog says government agents hired to drive nuclear weapons and components in trucks sometimes got drunk on the job, including an incident last year when two agents were detained by police at a local bar during a convoy mission.

The Energy Department's assistant inspector general, Sandra D. Bruce, said her office reviewed 16 alcohol-related incidents involving agents, candidate-agents and others from the government's Office of Secure Transportation between 2007 through 2009. A new report today said the incidents 'indicate a potential vulnerability' in what it described as a 'critical national security mission.'

A potential vulnerability? Ya think? Next thing you know, they will hire Saudi Arabian nationals that want to learn to just drive the trucks, not stop them.

Rush Limbaugh: “Keep Your Hands Off My Teabag, Mr. President” (Video)

from The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

Rush Limbaugh: “Keep Your Hands Off My Teabag, Mr. President” (Video): "

Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the TSA gropings today.

“Keep Your Hands Off My Teabag, Mr. President.”

Via FOX Nation:

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

Spoken like a true patriot.

More from Rush on the government gropings:

RUSH: That’s a good point but I think it’s illustrative of the kind of people that — Napolitano is the kind of people we’re dealing with here. The American people are the ones who are guilty, the American people are the suspects, the American people are the ones who need to be controlled. This is not gonna be contained to airports, folks. Obama and the Department of Homeland Security are promising to start searching subways and buses and trains and people on them. These are the same people trying to force everybody into public transportation. These are liberals. None of this is accidental. None of this is for the betterment of anybody but them. This is all about control and illustrating power to control. That’s what this is. And when they say, “If you don’t like being patted down, don’t fly.” Remember, that’s your government talking to you. “You don’t want to be patted down, don’t fly.” It’s who they are. It’s who they are. People have been becoming more and more aware of it. Now the results of November 2nd indicate that, and they’re just, predictably, circling the wagons and they’re gonna punish you even more for the way you didn’t vote, the way you did vote. They’re not happy with you people. They’re not happy what you did on Election Day, and this is how you’re going to pay for it.

Experts Say Missile Fired off of West Coast was Chinese

from The Liberty Sphere by Welshman

Experts Say Missile Fired off of West Coast was Chinese: "2 military experts say that the missile fired off the California coast on November 8 came from a Chinese submarine submerged in U.S. waters.

Obama and the military claim it was the contrail of a 'jetliner.' Yet the FAA says there were NO PLANES in that area at the time.

The story is at Conservative Examiner.

Communist To Do List

from Moonbattery by Van Helsing

Communist To Do List: "

The following list of communist goals appeared in the Congressional Record for January 10, 1963. It was taken from Cleon Skousen's 1958 book The Naked Communist. Let's check on communists' progress toward their ultimate objective of enslaving the entire human race:

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to 'eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.'

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. 'Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.'

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them 'censorship' and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as 'normal, natural, healthy.'

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with 'social' religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a 'religious crutch.'

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of 'separation of church and state.'

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the 'common man.'

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the 'big picture.' Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture — education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [']united force['] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

Any of these goals that liberals haven't already accomplished, they are working on as busily as termites. The supposed fall of communism when the Soviet Union imploded doesn't seem to have set them back very far.

On a tip from Rich.

Things I didn’t need to know, nuclear weapons edition

from Sister Toldjah by Phineas

Things I didn’t need to know, nuclear weapons edition: "

Why do I get the feeling we’ve come closer to a Bad Thing happening with our nuclear weapons a lot more often than most of us know? Oh, maybe it’s the revelation that the men hired to transport them get drunk on the job:

The Energy Department’s assistant inspector general, Sandra D. Bruce, said her office reviewed 16 alcohol-related incidents involving agents, candidate-agents and others from the government’s Office of Secure Transportation between 2007 through 2009.

The memorandum said the incidents “indicate a potential vulnerability” in what it described as a “critical national security mission.”

The findings were detailed in a memorandum dated Nov. 17, which said that when agents had drunk alcohol overnight after checking into local hotels, their trucks were in “safe harbor” status.

(…)

The document said the agents take part in a 21-week training course designed to help them prevent “the theft, sabotage or takeover of protected materials by unauthorized persons.”

They were also meant to meet the “highest standards of reliability and physical and mental suitability,” it added.

However, under a section headed “Alcohol-Related Incidents,” the memorandum said “the number of alcohol-related incidents occurring over the last three years suggests that further action may be needed.”

“May be needed??”

After reading that, I think I may need a drink…

Via Legal Insurrection.

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

The Cost of the Debt Explosion

from The Corner

The Cost of the Debt Explosion: "

Here is what our future looks like if we don't cut spending dramatically.

This chart slices government spending into four main areas: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, interest on the debt, and other spending (which includes defense). As we can see, if we don't get our deficit and spending under control, most of our budget will be used to finance the interest we owe on our debt. Note how this share of the spending grows significantly faster than the Medicare and Medicaid part. That being said, the best way to reduce the amount of interest we pay on our debt is to reduce spending on other fast-growing budget items, i.e. entitlement spending.

And this is the best-case scenario. The CBO alternative projects an average interest rate of 4.6 percent from 2010 to 2084, with lower rates in the near future due to the recession. Interest rates in 2010 are estimated at 2.26 percent, slowly increasing through 2030 and leveling off at about 4.9 percent. These projected rates are historically low for the United States. What's more, these interest rates assume that investors look at these spending projections and don't change their perceptions of the country's solvency.

Veronique de Rugy

Terrorism Against Israel Applauded at UN – Obama Silent (Video)

from The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

Terrorism Against Israel Applauded at UN – Obama Silent (Video): "

On November 10, 2010, the Lebanese members of the UN Human Rights Council defended terrorist attacks against Israel.

The whole meeting broke out in applause.

The Obama Administration attendees at the meeting did nothing.

EYE on the UN reported:

On November 10, 2010, the UN “Human Rights” Council was engaged in another of its infamous “universal periodic reviews” – this time about human rights protection by Lebanon. For the occasion, Lebanon had produced a report objecting to the creation of the state of Israel.

Israel pointed out that, contrary to protecting human rights, Lebanon was actively hosting and collaborating with a terrorist organization.

In response to this Lebanese representatives stated that “If there were no Israeli occupation (of Palestinian lands) then there would be no resistance and resistance of peoples against foreign occupation is a legitimate right.”

The whole conference then broke out in applause. The Obama Administration attendees at the meetings sat by, watched the spectacle and remained silent.

Muslim Terror Imminent in Germany: Closes famous glass dome at Berlin's Reichstag to visitors as terror fears mount

from Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Geller

Muslim Terror Imminent in Germany: Closes famous glass dome at Berlin's Reichstag to visitors as terror fears mount: "

Let's pretend this isn't what it is. Let's strip search and terrorize little kids at the airport. That always works :)

And to think Germany was partners with the Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, (aka Amin al-Husseini), the leader of the Muslim world, during the Holocaust. (scroll)

Germany closes famous glass dome at Berlin's Reichstag to visitors as terror fears mount TELEGRAPH
The world famous glass dome atop the Berlin Reichstag has been closed to all visitors as fears mount of an impending terrorist attack in the capital.

German parliament closed the dome, designed by Lord Foster, which thousands of tourists usually visit daily for unparalleled views of the city on Monday

The 116-year-old Reichstag building houses Germany’s parliament and is now thought to be the number one target for a commando squad plotting a Mumbai-style massacre.

Security has been stepped around the Reichstag, Germany's parliament in Berlin. This comes after fears of an attack by Islamic extremists

Last week the interior minister announced 'concrete indications' of a terror plot about to come to fruition. Security spiked at all major airports and railway stations across Germany.

Police believe at least two members of a jihadi hit squad are in Berlin.

Al Qaeda and associated Islamist groups are planning to take hostages and fire at people in the Reichstag, said news magazine Der Spiegel, citing intelligence sources.

News of the plot reportedly came from a jihadist who contacted the German authorities.

Muslim on Homeland Security Advisory Council

from Moonbattery by Van Helsing

Muslim on Homeland Security Advisory Council: "

Everyone knows that the reason we have to take off our shoes, have our toothpaste confiscated, and get photographed naked or groped at the airport is because Religion of Peaceniks keep trying to kill us out of sheer evil. We go through these intensely irritating rituals so that our liberal rulers can make it clear that they would rather we suffer than profile the Muslims who commit terror attacks. Twisting the insanity another notch tighter, the very people who should be profiled reportedly get exemptions from the intrusive searches they have made supposedly necessary for the rest of us. It sure helps to have friends in high places:

Exemptions for Muslim women wearing traditional garb may be the brainchild of Mohamed Elibiary, who recently was made a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Mr. Elibiary is president and chief executive officer of the Texas-based Freedom and Justice Foundation and a self-styled "de-radicalization expert" whose star has risen during the Obama presidency. He previously was appointed to Homeland Security's Countering Violent Extremism Working Group and has testified before Congress as an expert on Muslim radicalism — a topic he seems to know well.

In December 2004, Mr. Elibiary spoke at a conference honoring the life and works of the 'great Islamic visionary,' Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In 2008, Mr. Elibiary denounced the conviction of Hamas-connected members of the Holy Land Foundation for material support of terrorism. Most alarmingly, Mr. Elibiary is an admirer of the work of Sayyid Qutb, the intellectual and spiritual godfather of modern jihadism. Mr. Elibiary argues that Qutb is greatly misunderstood. 'Many Westerners who've read Qutb's and many others' work,' Mr. Elibiary wrote, 'see the potential for a strong spiritual rebirth that's truly ecumenical allowing all faiths practiced in America to enrich us and motivate us to serve God better by serving our fellow man more.'

No one who has read Qutb's work can mistake it for anything but an all-out assault on the American way of life and a call for a global Islamic takeover. The 9/11 Commission noted Qutb's role as an inspiration to al Qaeda and concluded that, "No middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan. All Muslims — as he defined them — therefore must take up arms in this fight. Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction." Qutb — who lived in the United States as a student in the late 1940s — developed a comprehensive anti-American ideology that's widely cited as the basis for the contemporary violent Islamic extremism with which America is at war.

Maybe this makes sense after all. What would you expect a Muslim to do on the Homeland Security Advisory Council if not facilitate terrorism? Not even Big Sis should be taken by surprise. Going back a step, what would you expect the protégé of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers to do if not load the government with other fanatics motivated by anti-American ideology? As Tom Brokaw would say, Take this, America!

Mohamed Elibiary. Feel safe?

On a tip from Ummah Gummah. Hat tip: Jawa Report.

Proposal Accelerates State Opt-Outs From HC Law…But There’s a Catch

from The Blaze - Stories by Jonathon M. Seidl

Proposal Accelerates State Opt-Outs From HC Law…But There’s a Catch: "

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Scott Brown (R-MA) are hoping they’ve found a way for states to accelerate plans to opt-out of parts of the new federal health care law. But there’s a catch: states have to first complete a controversial provision in order to get out of some others.

The Senators, the Hill reports, introduced legislation on Thursday that would accelerate by three years a provision that would allow sates to seek waivers from controversial aspects of the legislation, including the law’s individual health insurance mandate.

Wyden, who originally voted for and helped craft the law, included the provision in the bill. Earlier this fall, he sent a letter so Oregon state health officials urging them to take advantage of that provision, a move seen by man as an admission that the bill was a mistake.

Now he’s hoping to accelerate that process. But as The Hill points out, there’s a catch:

In order to receive a waiver from the regulations, states would have to meet the healthcare targets that the federal law requires. States would need to set up a health insurance system that covers at least as many people as prescribed under the federal law, and the plans would have to meet requirements for affordability and comprehensiveness.

“It doesn’t make sense — especially given the current budget environment — to force states to put off or abandon health care innovations in order to fully implement the federal law,” Wyden said in a statement introducing the bill. “Bumping up the start date means that states can focus on ways to make the new health law work at its best from day one.”

Yet the Wyden-Brown bill may be a failed attempt because it goes against the all-out assault plan of Republicans. As new House Speaker John Boehner has made clear, he and fellow Repubs are not looking to change the bill, but rather repeal it completely.

From The Hill:

Republicans have already begun attacking the Wyden-Brown, saying it doesn‘t address major aspects of the Democrats’ bill such as requiring generous health coverage. Some conservatives have warned Republicans against seeking improvements to the health reform law, saying it is fatally flawed.

“You don’t want to improve the bill,” James Capretta, a former Office of Management and Budget staffer, said last month at a Hudson Institute event. “The bill is unredeemable.”

If the Wyden-Brown bill is successful, states would be allowed to request waivers as early as 2014 — when most of the law’s requirements go into effect — instead of 2017 as originally planned.

Bombshell evidence may make Waters an ethics nightmare for Dems (Ed Morrissey/Hot Air)

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Bombshell evidence may make Waters an ethics nightmare for Dems (Ed Morrissey/Hot Air): "

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Bombshell evidence may make Waters an ethics nightmare for Dems — Apparently, the Charlie Rangel ethics trial was just the warm-up act. The New York Times reported over the weekend that the House Ethics Committee suddenly postponed the trial of Maxine Waters on ethics violation because it found …

Religion of Peace: Afghan Christian faces death penalty for leaving Islam

from theblogprof by The blogprof

Religion of Peace: Afghan Christian faces death penalty for leaving Islam: "Religion of Peace alert from CNN via memeorandum:

An Afghan Christian, detained for months for allegedly converting to Christianity from Islam, could face trial as early as next week - and could face a potential death penalty, officials said Sunday.

Said Musa was arrested by Afghan Interior Ministry intelligence authorities near the German Embassy in Kabul because of the allegations, said Qamaruddin Shenwari, director of the Kabul courts' north zone. The exact date of his arrest is not known.

The case against Musa has not yet been finalized, said Mohammad Najim Hamidi, director of public security at Zone 3 of the Kabul courts. He could face trial next week if the case is prepared by then, Hamidi said. It was earlier thought Musa's trial would begin on Sunday.

The Afghan Constitution does not mention converting from one religion to another, so the judge will take Islamic law into account, officials said.

'According to Afghanistan's constitution, if there is no clear verdict as to whether an act is criminal or not in the penal code of the Afghan Constitution, then it would be referred to sharia law where the judge has an open hand in reaching a verdict,' Shenwari said.

Under sharia law, converting from Islam to Christianity is punishable by death.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is blasting Europe for not being even more open than it is to being Islamicized. The persecution of Christians is escalating even more in neighboring Pakistan. The Punjab province has been in the news recently for Muslim extremism: Religion of Peace: Muslims In India Burn Down Church To Protest Rumors Of Burned Koran In Michigan. Before that, Religion of Peace news: Christian In Pakistan Burned Alive, Wife Raped By Police, Because They Refused To Convert To Islam.

TSA Chief John Pistole: If Passengers Don’t Undergo Naked Screens or Gropings, “They Don’t Have a Right to Fly”

from The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

TSA Chief John Pistole: If Passengers Don’t Undergo Naked Screens or Gropings, “They Don’t Have a Right to Fly”: "

More hope and change…

TSA chief John Pistole told reporters this morning that if American passengers decide they don’t want to have screening, they don’t have a right to get on the plane.

ABC’s The Note reported:

ABC News’ Huma Khan reports: Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole today defended controversial new security procedures and argued that if passengers want to get on a plane, they have to undergo new screening procedures.

“I see flying as a privilege. That is public safety issue so the government has a role in providing public safety and we need to do everything we can in partnership with the public to inform them about what their options are,” Pistole said at a breakfast with reporters organized by the Christian Science Monitor. “Passengers have a number of options as you go through screening. Bottom line is if someone decides they don’t want to have screening, they don’t have a right to get on the plane.”

Some passengers have complained that the pat-downs, implemented Nov. 1, are too invasive. One ABC News employee said the security officer put her hand inside her underwear and felt her way around. Thomas Sawyer, a bladder cancer survivor, said he was left covered in his own urine after a pat-down broke his urostomy bag.

TSA Chief Pistole is a staunch defender of terrorist rights.

Predictable: ObamaCare forcing providers to merge hurting consumers, increasing costs

from theblogprof by The blogprof

Predictable: ObamaCare forcing providers to merge hurting consumers, increasing costs: "Has there been any good news at all in regards to ObamaCare since the unconstitutional boondoggle was passed? From The New York Times via memeorandum: Consumer Risks Feared as Health Law Spurs Mergers

When Congress passed the health care law, it envisioned doctors and hospitals joining forces, coordinating care and holding down costs, with the prospect of earning government bonuses for controlling costs.

Isn't that replacing profit for providing a quality service with taxpayer money? As usual, the liberal vision of some kind of Utopian commune is a fantasy of the mind.

Now, eight months into the new law there is a growing frenzy of mergers involving hospitals, clinics and doctor groups eager to share costs and savings, and cash in on the incentives. They, in turn, have deployed a small army of lawyers and lobbyists trying to persuade the Obama administration to relax or waive a body of older laws intended to thwart health care monopolies, and to protect against shoddy care and fraudulent billing of patients or Medicare.

Consumer advocates fear that the health care law could worsen some of the very problems it was meant to solve — by reducing competition, driving up costs and creating incentives for doctors and hospitals to stint on care, in order to retain their cost-saving bonuses.

It should be no surprise as logic predicted this very scenario. Everything we find out about ObamaCare continues to be all bad. The faster this monstrosity is repealed, the better. It is a net negative. We continue to keep finding out about ObamaCare and it's all bad. Insurance premiums are increasing even faster than they would have if ObamaCare hadn't passed (Connecticut is seeing a 47% increase this year, Boeing is paring back healthcare benefits for its employees, while even the White House admits that seniors will see higher costs and less benefits, and 700,000 seniors are losing their coverage as a result. Hospitals in Indiana are laying off staff citing ObamaCare. Also, there was this: CNN: Cost of your health plan to rise 14%, the opposite of what Obama promised in runup to ObamaCare), and Obama's minions are threatening insurance companies with bankruptcy for even hinting that ObamaCare is the cause (it is). Local cities like Mount Clemens MI are about to go bankrupt because of the increased cost of ObamaCare. That's in spite of the fact that Democrats have abandoned the claim that ObamaCare will reduce cost and deficit. Detroit area health insurance to jump 8.9% in 2011 due to ObamaCare. Texas is considering seceding from Medicaid entirely so they don't go into the red. The Obama regime via the FDA is deep-sixing miracle cancer drugs that extend life because they cost too much (ObamaCare begins early: FDA may pull Avastin approval OVER COST CONCERNS). The establishment media is admitting that you will end up seeing nurse practitioners, not doctors, for care. Insurance companies are being forced to cut coverage plans, the law is creating a huge doctor shortage, is cutting Medicare reimbursement rates thus removing doctors from the system via attrition, and to boot even the CBO admits that it discourages work. Obama's cronies are being exempted from the law via waivers. Every time socialized medicine has been tried, it's been a proven failure. ObamaCare is no different except that it can still be repealed before it's too late.

More on the merger news from Right Wing News and Left Coast Rebel

Jindal: Obama told us not to criticize him on TV

from The Right Scoop by therightscoop

Jindal: Obama told us not to criticize him on TV: "In an interview this morning on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Bobby Jindal said that at a meeting with the President during the gulf oil spill, that he and the President of Plackerman’s Parish were told specifically by Obama not to go on TV and criticize him. Jindal says that it was clear Obama was frustrated [...]"

4 members of the Alabama House of Representatives switch from Democratic Party to GOP

from Birmingham Real-Time News - al.com by Kim Chandler -- The Birmingham News

4 members of the Alabama House of Representatives switch from Democratic Party to GOP: "The four lawmakers said they felt their views were more aligned with the Republican Party."

Gallup poll: Democrats are mostly socialists

from USACTION NEWS by Editor

Gallup poll: Democrats are mostly socialists: "

A majority of Democrats and liberals say they have a positive view of socialism according to a recent Gallup poll. That socialist majority of the left is about 36% of the US.

Some call themselves progressives or liberals but some are proud to wear the socialist name. here is a little of what freedom lovers are up against.

MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell proudly proclaims that he is a socialist who is far to the left of liberals.

AFL-CIO leader and Obama ally Richard Trumka is proud to work with European socialists to create a global tax.

Left’s One Nation Rally in Washington proudly featured socialists and communists. The list of organizations offering their official endorsements for Saturday’s “One Nation” rally reads like a who’s who of the far-left in America, including some usual suspects.

The NEA teachers union was founded by socialists and promoted Marxist Saul Alinsky’s book ‘Rules for Radicals‘ on its website.

“Progressives for Obama, formed during Obama’s presidential bid. It was loaded with and even founded by some hardcore communists from the 1960s. Consider merely two of them: Tom Hayden, one of the group’s four founders, and Mark Rudd, one of the 94 original signers. Hayden and Rudd had been leaders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which subverted the policies and plans of Democratic presidents ranging from Vietnam to the 1968 convention. In 2008, both Hayden and Rudd suddenly reemerged as “Progressives for Obama.” – Paul Kengor at American Thinker.

“I believe most Americans find the ideals and principles of socialism, communism and progressivism repugnant, but by our sanctioning greater government centralization and its control over our lives, we become their dupes or, as Lenin said, “useful idiots.”” – Walter Williams.

The Gallup poll said:

“Socialism had the lowest percentage positive rating and the highest negative rating of any term tested. Still, more than a third of Americans say they have a positive image of socialism.

Exactly how Americans define “socialism” or what exactly they think of when they hear the word is not known. The research simply measures Americans’ reactions when a survey interviewer reads the word to them — an exercise that helps shed light on connotations associated with this frequently used term.

There are significant differences in reactions to “socialism” across ideological and partisan groups:

A majority of 53% of Democrats have a positive image of socialism, compared to 17% of Republicans.

Sixty-one percent of liberals say their image of socialism is positive, compared to 39% of moderates and 20% of conservatives.”

Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D MI), chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee has been caught on tape, meeting with members of the U.S.’s largest marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America.

Barbara Lee is a pro-socialist Democratic member of Congress.

A group of left wing radicals assembled at a conference in Washington, D.C. under the banner of the Campaign for America’s Future. This group was a Who’s, Who’s of the progressive/ socialist movement in America.

American unions have a history of association with socialism. Andy Stern former head of SEIU and most frequent visitor to the Obama White House wants to ’share wealth’ and uses the communist slogan ‘workers of the world unite‘. Stern also worked for AFL-CIO which became a progressive/ socialist organization when John Sweeney, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, took over.

And who could forget the self avowed communist who was Obama’s ‘Green Jobs Czar’ and on the White House staff Van Jones. When Jones’ communist background came to light he was moved over to the progressive/ socialist think tank Center for American Progress which is headed by Obama’s confidant and former advisor John Podesta.

Then there is Obama ‘Diversity Czar’ appointee at the FCC Mark Lloyd. Lloyd was caught on video praising the Chavez takeover of Venezuela. That video has been scrubbed from the internet but a Washington Times article notes that Lloyd praised socialist dictator Hugo Chavez’s rise to power in Venezuela as “an incredible revolution.”

And don’t forget the Mao Tse Tung Christmas ornament hanging on the White House Christmas tree. Or Anita Dunn, when she was the White House Communications Director, saying Mao Tse Tung was one of the two people she turns to most.

Here is an excerpt of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto’:

Manifesto of the Communist Party

‘The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to Communism.

We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.’

See anything familiar? A specter is haunting America – the specter of socialism.

HEADLINES

Monday, November 22, 2010

A majority of Democrats and liberals say they have a positive view of socialism according to a recent Gallup poll. That socialist majority of the left is about 36% of the US.

~ Editor

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