Once again the corrupt party is going to try to ram a healthcare rout down our throats tomorrow. It's every day now that Americans have to fight for their very lives against the people we elected to represent us. Please call your Senators and tell them we will meet them with torches and pitchforks if they pull this marxist coup on us. They better snap out of it.
At townhalls and tea parties, rallies, in emails, calls, etc the people have spoken.
UPDATE: Converge on the Capitol to Stop Harry Reid's Health Care
Bill!
Harry Reid has introduced the Senate version of the so-called
"health care reform" bill. Just like the bill that passed in the House, Reid's
version will increase health care costs, kill medical care in America, and
explode the deficit.
Harry Reid knows Americans don't want this bill, which is
why he has scheduled the cloture vote for 8 PM on Saturday!
It's not too late to kill the bill -- but you must unite
right now with your fellow Americans to show each and every Senator the
massive opposition to this latest attempt at controlling your health
care.
Patriots from across America will meet on Saturday,
Nov. 21 at 1 PM on the East Lawn of the Capitol Building to protest this
dangerous bill.
That is across the street from the Cannon House Office
Building, along Independence Avenue. For a map, click
here.
If the cloture vote passes, debate will begin on the health
care bill, and it will be more difficult than ever to stop the bill from
passing. That's why you must take a stand on Saturday!
How hard will the corrupt activist media work to bury this explosive story? Many of us have exposed the hoax of climate change as revealed by legitimate, responsible scientists for years, but still the elites rob us blind and torment us with legislation, regulation on "the greatest threat facing humanity" (akbar!). The Goreacle stuffs his gourd with his "carbon footprint" ill gotten gains (110 million and counting).
TC sent this: "Unknown alleged Russian entity allegedly hacked into computers of a major center of 'global warming' hoax manufacturing (the Hadley Climate Research Unit of U. of East Anglia, England)
obtained 1079 emails and 72 files containing nearly 4000 documents on 'global warming,' which if true - will prove that this is the greatest of all hoaxes ever
posted and documentation on the internet. (Get this - the file name containing the allegedly hacked info was FOI2009 = ref to 'freedom of information' act ...) That site/webpage has been shut down, not to worry - here are three more sources for the entire 61 mb file (these may be shut down soon too).
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5171206
http://www.filedropper.com/foi2009
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=003LKN94
Caution: legal action is already being threatened by the "global warming" scammers against anyone who posts/reprints/distributes any of their allegedly hacked emails and or documentation (thereby confirming veracity and their guilt -- these guys are scientists?)"
Legal action is threatened for uncovering the biggest theft in human history. Got that?
"Attached file contains a few examples (screen shots) of the emails alleged to have been hacked from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (a.k.a. Hadley CRU) computers. The hack originates from somewhere (still apparently unknown) in Russia. The hacker(s) have released 61 megabites of confidential files. You can see the hacker(s)' original internet notice to all interested ('This is a limited time offer, download now...'). That site (apparently originating in Tomsk, (Siberia) Russia, is now down/closed).
Links to stories already in public view:"
There's big news for
climate change students.
A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain's largest climate
research institute and a proponent of global warming, and seems to have
uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the "evidence" on global
warming; the unlawful destruction of records to cover up this fraud
,conspiracy,and deceit in the entire operation.
While hacking into the
institute's records is inappropriate if not illegal, the activities disclosed
appear illegal and damaging to science and the economies of the world.
At first many of us were inclined to dismiss
the posted emails from the Institute as fraud, but the
head of the institute admits the records were hacked and the emails seem
genuine.
Here is a sample of the
purportedly hacked material (1079 emails and 72 documents) available online:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley
,mann@XXXX, mhughes@XXXX Subject:
Diagram for WMO Statement Date:
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000 Cc:
k.briffa@XXX.osborn@XXXX
Dear Ray,
Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today
or first thing tomorrow.
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of
adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981
onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the
other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999,
while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global
estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments,
Ray.
Cheers Phil
Prof. Phil Jones >Climatic Research Unit
Telephone XXXX School of Environmental Sciences Fax XXXX University of East Anglia Norwich *******************************************
From: Kevin
Trenberth To: Michael Mann Subject: Re:
BBC U-turn on climate Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37
-0600 Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott ,
"Philip D. Jones" , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt
, James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer
Well I have my own article on where the
heck is global warming ? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken
records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of
snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it
smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and
also a record low, well below the previous record low.
This is January weather
(see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played
last night in below freezing weather).
>Trenberth, K. E., 2009: An imperative for
climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy. Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability, 1, 19-27, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001.
[1][PDF] (A PDF of the published version can be obtained from the author.) ***
>The fact is that we can't account for the
lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data
published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even
more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is
inadequate.***
Thomas Lifson adds:
One interesting hacked email childishly insults American Thinker, by calling us
"American Stinker."
Nor do they question their hunch — the idea doesn’t even rise to the level of theory — that CO2 emissions are causing climate change even as there are ample reasons to doubt it.
Anticipating such alarmist efforts, Dr. Ross McKitrick, the brilliant University of Guelph Economics Professor who helped debunk the Hockey Stick fraudulence of Mann et al, called their bluff in this June 12, 2007 Op-Ed. McKitrick’s full argumentation, including his mathematical modeling can be read here(McKitrick, Ross. “A Simple State-Contingent Pricing Rule for Complex Intertemporal Externalities,” July 1, 2008, at the Social Research Network site).
McKitrick’s premise is simple—and wait for this—evidence-based!
Why not tie carbon taxes to actual levels of warming? Both skeptics and alarmists should expect their wishes to be answered
Below are the salient points of McKitrick’s proposal. Again, the entire June 12, 2007 Op-Ed can be read here, and his full discussion of the proposal can be evaluated here..
The IPCC [Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change] predicts a warming rate in the tropical troposphere of about double that at the surface, implying about 0.2C to 1.2C per decade in the tropical troposphere under greenhouse-forcing scenarios. That implies the tax will climb by $4 to $24 per ton per decade, a much more aggressive schedule of emission fee increases than most current proposals. At the upper end of warming forecasts, the tax could reach $200 per ton of CO2 by 2100, forcing major carbon-emission reductions and a global shift to non-carbon energy sources.
Global-warming activists would like this. But so would skeptics, because they believe the models are exaggerating the warming forecasts. After all, the averaged UAH [University of Alabama-Huntsville] / RSS [Remote Sensing Systems] tropical troposphere series went up only about 0.08C over the past decade, and has been going down since 2002. Some solar scientists even expect pronounced cooling to begin in a decade. If they are right, the T3 tax will fall below zero within two decades, turning into a subsidy for carbon emissions.
At this point the global-warming alarmists would leap up to slam the proposal. But not so fast, Mr. Gore: The tax would only become a carbon subsidy if all the climate models are wrong, if greenhouse gases are not warming the atmosphere, and if the sun actually controls the climate. Alarmists sneeringly denounce such claims as “denialism,” so they can hardly reject the policy on the belief that they are true.
Under the T3 tax, the regulator gets to call everyone’s bluff at once, without gambling in advance on who is right. If the tax goes up, it ought to have. If it doesn’t go up, it shouldn’t have. Either way we get a sensible outcome.
But the benefits don’t stop there. The T3 tax will induce forward-looking behavior. Alarmists worry that conventional policy operates with too long a lag to prevent damaging climate change. Under the T3 tax, investors planning major industrial projects will need to forecast the tax rate many years ahead, thereby taking into account the most likely path of global warming a decade or more in advance.
And best of all, the T3 tax will encourage private-sector climate forecasting. Firms will need good estimates of future tax rates, which will force them to look deeply, and objectively, into the question of whether existing climate forecasts have an alarmist bias. The financial incentives will lead to independent reassessments of global climate modeling, without regard to what politicians, the IPCC or climatology professors want to hear...
UPDATE: Seefeutal comments:
I have just spent an hour going through Craig's List : employment: non profit for a dozen towns and cities in the US. In almost all cities there are ads for paid activists for greenpeace and the like to promote awareness of global warming, work for change, grassroots campaign and the like, if you have a close look at it you will see that father Christmas has come early for the "liberals". Someone somewhere is financing a massive campaign.
Another Atlas exclusive essay written by the indefatigable historian Fjordman. This the third and final part of his history of geology and planetary
science. Part one can be read here and part two here.
A History of Geology and Planetary Science Fjordman
Auroras in the
Northern Hemisphere are called
northern lights; in the Southern Hemisphere southern
lights. They appear as arcs, clouds and streaks
which move across the night sky. The most common colors are green and red,
although other colors may occur, too. Auroras have been observed on some
other planets such Jupiter and Saturn as well, caused by their strong magnetic
fields. They become more spectacular the closer you get
to the Arctic or Antarctic regions, which is one of the reasons why their nature
was finally worked out in Scandinavia.
The Swedish
astronomers Anders Celsiusand Olof Hiorter (1696-1750) in 1741
studied the aurora borealis and noticed that it
disturbed magnetic compass needles, although they could not fully explain why. While in Paris,
Celsiushad become acquainted with
the French naturalist Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis (1698-1759) who supported
Isaac Newton’s theory that the shape of the Earth swelled near the equator and
slightly flattened near the poles.
To settle the matter, in 1736 the French
Geodesic Mission sent one expedition to Scandinavian Lapland under Celsius and
Maupertuis and another to Ecuador close to the Equator. Their measurements
proved that Newton’s theory was correct. Maupertuis is also remembered for
advocating the physical principle of least action and for his work on heredity
before the nineteenth century theories of evolution by the naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in France and those of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
Wallace in Britain.
At Göttingen in Germany, the
physicist Wilhelm Weber (1804-1891) cooperated closely with
the brilliant mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The
German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt
in 1805 reported that magnetic intensity varied across the Earth’s surface and
encouraged the establishment of an international network of magnetic
observatories. By the 1830s Gauss and his younger collaborator Weber took over from Humboldt as leaders in geomagnetism. Accurate measurements
were emphasized by both of them as they realized that these were crucial for
developing and verifying physical laws.
During the Enlightenment it
had been established that air can be electrically charged. In 1752
the Danish-Norwegian professor and bishop Erik Pontoppidan (1698-1764) suggested that the aurora borealis is an
electrical phenomenon. The Scottish physicist Balfour
Stewart (1828-1887), who studied
terrestrial magnetism, in the 1880s proposed the existence of electrical
currents in a high, conductive layer in the atmosphere to explain geomagnetic
variations.
Orthodox Priest Known For Missionary Work Shot in Moscow
"The main theory is that religious motives are
behind the crime," a prosecutor's office spokesman told reporters.
Sysoyev routinely denounced Islam and actively
reached out to Muslims and various religious sects to convert them. In a recent
interview with a Russian newspaper, Sysoyev boasted that he had baptized 80
Muslims.
But with his ambitious missionary work came death
threats.
"They've threatened to cut my head off 14 times,"
Sysoyev told Komsomolskaya Pravda in the interview. "The FSB [Federal Security
Service] got in touch with me a year ago to say they had uncovered a murder plot
against me."
He told a television interviewer in February 2008
that he considered it a sin not to preach to Muslims, according to the Interfax
news agency.
Sysoyev was originally from Russia's
republic of Tatarstan, where a large majority of the population is Muslim. He
published books titled "An Orthodox Response to Islam" and "Marrying a Muslim,"
which were critical of the faith and drew fierce responses from Muslim
organizations.
Natassia queried, "Russian muftis, of course, have condemned the killing and asked people not to
jump to conclusions. (Geez, who does that sound like?"
UPDATE: TC gives us more.According to this video report Sysoev was
35, leaves behind a wife and 3 children, followers interviewed claim
that he was well liked, well known.
Bush kept his visit a secret, but you can't keep real goodness under wraps. Check this out: (hat tip sjb)
Down in Dothan, Alabama a man had a TV on in his office when the news of the military base shootings came on. The husband of one of his employees was stationed there.
He called her into his office and the minute he told her what was going on, she got a text message from her husband saying, "I am okay." The cell phone started ringing right after that. It was an ER nurse. She said, "I'm the one who just sent you a text, not your husband." She thought the message would be comforting, but she immediately knew she had to let the wife know what was going on. She said, "I am sorry but your husband has been shot 4 times and he is in surgery."
The wife left Southern Clinic in Dothan and drove all night.
Here is the photo I just received from my brother that was taken today in the hospital room. He is awake and will recover. His wife, who lives in Dothan, made it to Ft. Hood about the time he was waking up. Thought I'd share this great outcome.
Wow.... I am scheduled to sit on a panel led by Robert Spencer tomorrow with Dr. Andrew Bostom. Just landed in Palm Beach and it's fookin bee-yoo-teefull.
Read the news account in the Princetonian. Cowards. Pathetic cowards. And have these ivy league know nothings done their homework? Have they studied Islam? Jihad? Have they read Dr. Bostom's Legacy of Jihad and his Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism? Do they have a clue at the Princetonian what they are dealing with?
Look at how the cancellation went down. Look at the systematic bullying. Freedom of speech in the age of jihad.
Reader Kam notes, "Muslim Chaplain Sohaib Sultan" is the one who pressured Princeton to uninvite Nonie.
Interesting point: he's the author of the book, the "Koran for Dummies."
In it, he writes (p. 324) that ibn Kathir is "one of the most famous" and the "most referred to in the Muslim
world today." On page 96 he writes that ibn Kathir offers "an excellent collection of historical analysis on the Koran and his mastery of Islamic law makes his insights especially interesting."
ibn Kathir, of course, minces no words about many topics of jihad, including this one:Jews and Christians should feel "disgraced," "humiliated," "belittled," and "miserable."
Whig-Clio president Ben Weisman ’11 said the society withdrew its sponsorship
and did not permit the event to take place in Whig Hall as planned because of
the withdrawal. “Our decision to co-host the event was based on our belief that
by extending an offer to speak to Ms. Darwish, members of TFI deemed her views a
legitimate element of the mainstream discourse and in part agreed with her
incendiary opinions,” Weisman said in an e-mail. “By rescinding their offer, TFI
indicated their understanding that Darwish’s views have no place in the campus
community, essentially rendering irrelevant our attempt at opening them up for
debate.” Weisman is also the director of national sales and development for The
Daily Princetonian.
But Grinberg, who was in charge of organizing the event, said he did not
agree with the decision to withdraw the invitation. “Despite my disagreement as
co-vice president, I had no control over it,” he said. “You need the majority of
the board members.”
After TFI and Whig-Clio withdrew, Grinberg found another campus organization
willing to sponsor the event — conservative political magazine The Princeton
Tory. “But since Public Safety had been told the event was cancelled, there
would have been no security, and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate
Students failed to respond to the new co-sponsorship,” so the event could not
occur, Grinberg said.
“The reason there is so much controversy about her is people have taken her
quotes out of context,” Grinberg said, adding that he thought Darwish was first
and foremost a human rights activist, promoting minority rights — including
those of women and gays — in the Middle East.
Coordinator of Muslim Life Sohaib Sultan and CJL director Rabbi Julie Roth
both said they played a role in changing TFI’s opinion of Darwish. Sultan said
he contacted Roth on Monday and discussed with her why Darwish’s appearance on
campus could offend the Muslim community.
“[Darwish] fails to make any distinction between extremism and mainstream
Islam,” Sohaib said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “She has
branded the entire faith as backward and violent and against women’s rights.
That type of rhetoric goes beyond academic discourse and into the demonization
of a people.”
Sultan noted that he assumed that Roth and the board of TFI were not fully
aware of the strong objections concerning Darwish. “I have a very good
relationship with the CJL,” he said, adding that he aimed to share with Roth and
the TFI “what types of feelings and divisions” Darwish’s visit could foster on
campus. Lerner and Mensch said TFI then decided to withdraw sponsorship of the
event upon learning more about Darwish’s opinions.
Grinberg, however, said he thinks Darwish was not permitted to speak because
TFI feared a large-scale protest. “In my opinion, it has become an issue about
whether or not this is allowed to happen at Princeton,” he said. “This is a big
step backward, because basically students are taking their preconceived notions
of this person to protest and not to listen, instead of going to the lecture and
seeing for themselves.”
On Wednesday, the board of the Muslim Students Association sent an e-mail
informing members of plans for a protest. “In the event that Ms. Darwish does
speak tomorrow, we refuse to stand silent as our faith is attacked,” the e-mail
said. “In response, we will gather in protest at the event, dressing in white to
express our solidarity with one another and the peaceful message of Islam. We
will speak our minds by holding signs and assert our discontent by standing with
our backs to Ms. Darwish.”
But Lerner and Mensch both said the possibility of a protest was not what
convinced TFI to withdraw its sponsorship of Darwish’s talk. “Tigers for Israel
has not been intimidated in the past by opposition, nor is it now,” Mensch said,
adding that he did not think the cancellation of the talk signified a stifling
of free speech.
Roth echoed Mensch’s sentiment. “This should be seen as an affirmation that a
wide range of conflicting political views can be aired on campus, but that there
are boundaries on both sides where political views become anti-Islamic or
anti-Semitic in ways that neither promote constructive education nor move
towards a goal shared by the majority of Israelis and Palestinians,” she said in
an e-mail.
Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) president Yoel Bitran ’11 said PCP did
not ask either TFI or Whig-Clio to cancel the event. “It makes sense that hate
speech wouldn’t be something encouraged on campus,” he noted.
But PCP was planning a campaign “to inform the community about Darwish and to
encourage people to go to the event and challenge her by asking questions,”
Bitran explained.
On Monday, the Arab Society of Princeton held a meeting, attended by Arab
Muslims and Arab Christians, to discuss the issue, Arab Society president Sami
Yabroudi ’11 and former president Sarah Mousa ’10 said in a joint statement.
“Nonie Darwish is to Arabs and Muslims what Ku Klux Klan members, skinheads and
neo-Nazis are to other minorities, and we decided that the role of her talk in
the logical, intellectual discourse espoused by Princeton University needed to
be questioned,” they said of the meeting.
On Wednesday afternoon, Lerner sent an e-mail to the members of the Muslim
Students Association apologizing for the initial decision to invite Darwish to
campus and explaining that the event had been canceled. “I sincerely apologize
for offending any person or group on campus, especially the Muslim community,”
she said in the e-mail. “Tigers for Israel deeply regrets the initial
sponsorship, and we do not in any way endorse [Darwish’s] views.”
Tigers for Israel? More like lambs to slaughter. Shameful.
Our rally for Rifqa generated yet another fallacious hit piece by the useful idiot and Islamic apologist Meredith Heagney over at The Columbus Dispatch, entitled 120 Rally for Rifqa outside courthouse. (The police count was 220, mine was a bit higher, but Heagney lowballs it in the headline, kabish?) And notice how Heagney ignored that folks came from Michigan, New York, Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida, Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Toronto, California...
Nonie Darwish, apostate and speaker at the rally, takes Heagney to task for spreading deception and lies about sharia law and apostasy. Meredith will traffic in any obfuscation to return this Christian convert to a devout Muslim household. If anything happens to Rifqa, Heagney and her fellow trolls are indeed responsible.
Photo: Conducting her reporting at the mosque she was photographed sporting her hijab along with her Dispatch ID card (hat tip my pet jawa)
Dear Meredith,
Thank you for writing the following article, however, I have a comment on what Alan Godlas said:
"120 Rally for Rifqa outside Columbus Courthouse"
Alan Godlas, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Georgia, said in a phone interview that Islamic law
does permit the execution of a person whose betrayal of the faith would likely result in the deaths of Muslims, but
Rifqa's conversion does not qualify. If you kill someone unjustly, you're a murderer under Islamic law, Godlas said.
Mr. Godlas is not accurate in the statement he gave Ms. Heagney. According to Islamic Law, all schools of Sharia agree
that a Muslim who leaves Islam must be killed immediately and I think Mr. Godlas agrees with that. However, what the
professor failed to mention is that according to mainstream Shafi law, there are three murders where a Muslim will not be
punished, which means that a Muslim is forgiven if he kills under 3 conditions, one of which is killing an apostate.
The Middle East studies professor can open the mainstream Shafi Law book Reliance of the Traveler. law number o5.4 page
number 593. to see that such a law encourage vigilante street justice against apostates. Killers of apostates are often defended by
none other than top Al Azhar Sheikhs.
Mr. Godlas also stated under Islamic Law "If you kill someone unjustly, you're a murderer. That is correct but it only
applies if a Muslim kills another Muslim, yes they are murderers and get the death penalty. However, he failed to mention
Sharia states . "There is no retaliation if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim". Ref. o1.2 (2)page 584. Therefore,if a
Muslim kills another Muslim he gets the death penalty, but if he kills a non-Muslim he will not get the death penalty. Under
Islamic law, the law does not protect everyone equally from murder, example apostates, adulterers and non-Muslims.
I wonder why Mr. Alan Godlas failed to mention that.
More gifts from the muhammadan president. Hussein is cutting back the Chanukah celebration at the White House. Consider this in light of the elevated and giant Ramadan dinner he made a couple of months ago. And the giant Iftar dinner at the State department on 911 ...............
He does not even hide his animus towards the Jewish people.
The White House's forthcoming state dinner with the Prime Minister of
India is expected to be larger than those of President Barack Obama's
predecessor, George W. Bush. But another upcoming White House event will be smaller than in years past: The White House's annual
Hanukkah party.
The guest list is expected to be shrunk by more than half, according to the Jerusalem Post. "Though several Jewish leaders expressed
understanding for the economic and other reasons behind the cut, they
acknowledged that it would likely help feed feelings in some quarters of the
American Jewish community that the White House is giving them the cold
shoulder."
The move comes on the heels of Obama's cancellation of an appearance before
the General Assembly of North American Jewish Federations last week.
The White House's decision is likely a response to tough economic times and a
desire to keep the holiday festivities reasonable.
UPDATE: Observations from Atlas reader Davod:
"The White
House's forthcoming state dinner with the Prime Minister of India is expected to
be larger than those of President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W.
Bush." (here)
This is not consistent with the statement that the
reductions in the WH Hanukka event are an austerity move.
"Though several Jewish leaders expressed understanding for
the economic and other reasons behind the
cut..." (here)
Not from a President and wife who splurge without
restraint at the taxpayers expense at every turn. And who received countless
millions from Jewish donors who put him in the WH.
Such BS
At a time like this, it behooves us to remember and
re-internalize the lessons of Hannukah
RALEIGH, N.C. – The U.S.
Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at
Fort
Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against
President Barack Obama,
officials said Thursday.
Fort Bragg spokesman Tom
McCollum told The Associated Press that the military post's garrison commander
and other Army officials had decided to keep media away from Palin's book signing, which will not include
a speech. He said the Army did not want the Monday event to become a platform to
express political opinions "directed against the commander in chief."
"The main reason is to stop this from turning into a political platform," he
said. "There are Army regulations that basically prohibit military reservations
from becoming political platforms by politicians."
He said only one politician can use that platform, "and that person does it
as our commander in chief."
Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican
vice presidential nominee, has already agreed not to give a speech at
Fort Bragg, McCollum said. Officials said Palin will only sign her books at the
event and will not stop to pose for photographs or personalize the books.
But McCollum worried that Palin's supporters might use the media to express
political opinions from the sprawling military installation that serves as a
base for some 35,000 soldiers.
"This will stop someone from grandstanding," he said. Other members of the
public would be permitted to attend the event.
Palin's spokeswoman didn't immediately return an e-mail message seeking
comment and a spokeswoman for Palin's publisher, HarperCollins, did not
immediately return a call.
McCollum said it's not clear if military officials consider Palin a
politician but noted that she has been critical of Obama while promoting the
book. She said in an interview with ABC News that Obama should provide more
troops to Afghanistan.
"It frustrates me and frightens me — and many Americans — that President
Obama is dithering around with the decision in Afghanistan," she said.
Palin doesn't appear to be using her book-signing events to explicitly
promote her politics. She spoke briefly to supporters outside an event in
Michigan on Wednesday, saying it was great to be there and not mentioning
Obama.
At least one person in the crowd yelled: "Palin power. 2012, yes."
Many wonderful Atlas readers have been emailing Princeton and Harvard on the cancellation of apostate Nonie Darwish. Check out this email exchange between Atlas reader and Princeton alum Lyn and Janet Gruschow, Assistant to the President.
The Jewish group that sponsored Darwish caved to Islamic pressure. Shame, shame shame -- Tigers for Israel, my eye. Their name mocks them.
The Whig-Clio Society, gentile in origin, co-sponsor of the Darwish lecture, is the oldest debating society in the U.S., founded by James Madison in 1765. These are the students who are supposed to be the leaders of the future. What a joke.
It
is my understanding that the Nonie Darwish lecture was organized by the student
organization “Tigers for Israel.” Tigers for Israel and the Whig-Clio student
debate society rescinded their sponsorship of the Darwish lecture on Tuesday
evening. The president’s office was unaware of the lecture or the
cancellation. The president of Tigers for Israel provided us with the following
statement about their actions:
"On Tuesday evening
Tigers for Israel and Whig-Clio rescinded our cosponsorship of today's Nonie
Darwish Lecture. Tigers for Israel accepted the opportunity for her to speak
based on a misconception about what she actually believes. After her anti-Islam
position was brought to my attention on Tuesday afternoon by the Center for
Jewish Life director Rabbi Julie Roth and the Muslim Chaplain Imam Sohaib
Sultan, I conducted extensive research and discussed the issue with TFI and
Whig-Clio leadership, and we decided to rescind our cosponsorship after
concluding that Tigers for Israel disagrees with and does not condone Ms.
Darwish and her beliefs on Islam.
As President of TFI I take full
responsibility for not vetting Ms. Darwish from the beginning, and I sincerely
apologize for offending any person or group on campus, especially the Muslim
community. Tigers for Israel deeply regrets the initial sponsorship and we do
not in any way endorse her views.
Addie Lerner
'11"<
As
I am certain you are aware, there are dozens of lectures offered by outside
speakers at Princeton each week representing a broad spectrum of political
views. These lectures are organized and sponsored by student
organizations, academic departments, centers, institutes, etc., and as such,
they are not vetted by the president’s office.
Thank
you for writing.
Sincerely,
Janet
Gruschow
**************************************
Janet
Gruschow
Assistant
to the President
Office
of the President
One
Nassau Hall
Princeton
University
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From: Lyn Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:16
AM To: gruschow@princeton.edu Subject: Nonie
Darwish
Ms. Gruschow,
I am Princeton '63 and an attorney in San Diego. I was
advised that Nonie Darwish's speech at Princeton was canceled and would like to
know why. This is surely an assault on free speech and an obvious cave-in to
Muslim interests and demands a rational explanation. If anything, her voice
demanded to be heard, especially after the recent massacre at Ft. Hood. I look
forward to receiving a timely response from you. Thank
you.
UPDATE: Jonesey in the comments:
"After her anti-Islam position was brought to my attention on Tuesday afternoon by the Center for Jewish Life director Rabbi Julie Roth..." Well, if you would like to contact the Rabbi that advised the student organizations to cancel her appearance send her a constructive email. Seeing she is at an institution of higher education she may appreciate some education when it comes to Nonie's beliefs. I wouldn't hold my breath though. julroth@princeton.edu Whig-Clio president, Benjamin Weisman's email. bweisman@princeton.edu Author of the cancellation letter on behalf of the "Tigers of Israel" (more like lambs) Addie Lerner. alerner@princeton.edu
Yes, that's what the commander-in-chief said to his troops today in South
Korea. Well, give the bas**** credit for being honest for once.
Buried at the end of a Washington
Post report on his decision to not decide on Afghanistan until after
Thanksgiving is this George Washington moment for Barack Obama:
Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard
Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms,
many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.
"You guys make a pretty good photo op," the president said.
Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of
troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed "the gratitude of
the American public" and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in
Asia will help deliver a "safer more prosperous world for all of us."
What a blessing this great American woman is. She is a blessing to Obama's curse. Her position on Israel counters Obama's anti-semitic policy of ethnically cleansing Israel of the Jewish people. Polite folks won't call Obama's contempt for Israel vile and nazi-like, but I will.
Palin supports the Jewish homeland against Islamic jihad and has been consistent on this. Here and here and here ....I have many links. Jewish leadership was wrong not to back her - they actually disinvited her to anti-Ahmadinejad rally in NY before the election. Move over, kapos!
I am so behind Palin for president because she represents America's true hope of a noble, moral, exceptional country. The GOP needs a fookin cluebat.
Sarah Palin says she disagrees with the Obama administration's demand that
Israel halt settlement construction, although her reason for that opinion is
puzzling (or at the least demonstrates she's not familiar with the term "natural
growth" that much of the debate has revolved around). She tells Barbara Walters
that she disagrees with the White House because all the Jews moving to Israel
need a place to live. From ABC
News:
I disagree with the Obama administration on that," Palin told Walters. "I
believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon,
because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish
people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I
don't think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the
Jewish settlements cannot expand.
J Street responded by
releasing a lengthy statement which condemned Palin's comments and accused her
of pandering and ignorance. An excerpt:
J Street rejects Sarah Palin’s comments attacking President Obama’s sensible
policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank yesterday during an ABC News
interview with Barbara Walters.
Palin’s pandering to her right-wing base
comes at the expense of the security of the State of Israel, the lives of those
actually living the conflict, and the fundamental American interest in achieving
a two-state solution in the near term. Her words reveal a glaring ignorance of
damaging facts and a callous disregard of past and present U.S.
policy.
*M'chayeh in yiddish means a pleasure, "to bring life to", a joy ....
UPDATE: GO see her “Going Rogue” Book
Tour -- via her Facebook page:
Sarah Palin on her Fort Hood visit:
I’m especially looking forward to meeting our brave men and women in
uniform at Fort Hood. I’m joining the efforts of many others by donating my
royalties from the book sales during our stop at Fort Hood to the families of
the victims whose lives have been forever changed by the tragic events of
November 5th. I am humbled to be able to join the larger effort called
“Community Response to 11/5,” which was established by the Central Texas-Fort
Hood Chapter of the Association of the US Army (AUSA). You can read more about
their great efforts here: http://www.forthoodausa.org/.
Obama's home boys and propaganda machine (NBC) and recipient of Obama bucks is going Islam. Big time. Your stimulus taxpayer dollars at work.
Shariah Finance Watch writes, "GE’s involvement with promoting Shariah, the barbaric doctrine of the
enemies that seek to replace capitalism, end free speech, eliminate
rights for women and phase out self-determination, should come as no
surprise given their shameful business partnership with the Jihadist
regime in Iran, which ended only after media and shareholder scrutiny
just resulted in too much heat for GE’s management."
DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones) -- General Electric Capital Corp. plans to sell
up to $1 billion of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, as early as next week, a
banker aware of the deal said Sunday.
GE Capital will meet investors in London following a roasdshow [sic] in Dubai
today and in Asia last week, the banker told Zawya Dow Jones.
"The size isn't final yet but it's a benchmark sukuk so we're talking around $1 billion," he said.
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs were mandated as lead arrangers of the bond, he said
The cynics, and the lobbyists, and the
special interests who've turned our government into a game only they
can afford to play. They write the checks and you get stuck with the
bills, they get the access while you get to write a letter; they think
they own this government, but we're here today to take it back. The
time for that politics is over. It's time to turn the page.
That line from candidate Obama is worth recalling in light of an interesting AP story today about Treasury Secretary and Bailoutmeister Tim Geithner, headlined, "Mr. Geithner, Wall Street is on line 1 (again)":
They are a small cadre of businessmen who
have known and worked with Geithner for years, whose
multibillion-dollar companies all survived the economic crisis with
help from U.S. taxpayers....
The calendars, obtained by the AP under
the Freedom of Information Act, offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at
the continued influence of three companies -- Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan
Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. -- whose executives can
reach the nation's most powerful economic official on the phone,
sometimes several times a day.
Understanding
Shariah law is integral to understanding the dangers of
Shariah-compliant finance. Shariah law is Islamic law dating back to
the 7th century and is today the law of the land in Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Sudan and the law under which the Taliban operates.
Shariah
law authorities, some of whom are now being paid handsomely by
Barclays, Dow Jones, Standard & Poors, HSBC, Citibank, Merrill
Lynch, Deutschebank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse
and others have the power to dictate Shariah compliance as deemed by
“scholarly consensus” on matters of finance, family, penal law,
apostasy, and war. Examples of authoritarian Shariah
law include: requirement of women to obtain permission from husbands
for daily freedoms; beating of disobedient woman and girls; execution
of homosexuals; engagement of polygamy and forced child marriages; the
testimony of four male witnesses to prove rape; honor killings of
those, principally women, who have dishonored the family; death to
apostate Muslims who chose to leave Islam; inferior status of
non-Muslims, and capital punishment for those “slander Islam.”
Barack Obama told CNN yesterday, “I’ve restored America’s standing in the world… History will bear me out, or not.”
“No. 1, I think that we’ve restored America’s standing in the world,” Obama said, citing polls about public confidence in the United States around the world.
“We’ve seen very specific areas of cooperation around the nuclear issue,” he said. “At the time of my inauguration, the world community was still divided on what Iran’s intentions were… We mobilized the international community… You now have validators like the International Atomic Energy Agency, you’ve got the P-5 plus one, which includes Russia and China, all saying to Iran, you’re on the wrong side of history here.”
“There is no doubt that, in the same way that on domestic policy our
first job was to stabilize the situation and prevent disaster, on the
international stage our first job was to stabilize the situation to
allow us to move forward,. A lot of our initiatives have not borne
fruit… The question is, are we moving in the right direction. There is
no doubt we are.”
This is right up there with: "The check is on the mail" "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"
"I'll respect you in the morning"
And while Eric Holder called us a nation of cowards and was horribly wrong, he now calls Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a coward. Again he is horribly wrong. The jihadis are savage, barbaric, brutal, and bloody, but they are not cowards.
In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today,
Eric Holder will say, according to the Associated Press, that "I have every
confidence the nation and the world will see him for the coward he is....I'm not
scared of what (Mohammed) will have to say at trial and no one else needs to be
either." And, "we need not cower in the face of this enemy. Our institutions are
strong, our infrastructure is sturdy, our resolve is firm, and our people are
ready."
I suppose we should be grateful Holder is calling Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed a coward, rather than describing the American people as "a nation of
cowards" (as he did earlier this year). But
is anyone else struck by the tinny bravado of Holder's prose? When politically
correct careerists start beating their chests and proclaiming their own
courage--you know they're in deep trouble. Let's see how Holder does today when
he finishes posturing and has to answer the intellectually serious and morally
compelling criticisms of his plan to grant KSM and his fellow terrorists a trial
in federal court in New York. And if he does badly (as I expect), let's see if
some congressional Democrats have the courage to break with the administration
and join in passing legislation to block Holder's plan.
In the most egregious violation of Rifqa's Bary's civil rights, Rifqa is being denied essential contact with the outside world.
Her laptop has been confiscated. And now friends of hers are being denied the right to see her. And the couple of people who were allowed to see her in the past were fingerprinted.
She has been in Ohio for two weeks, and still there is no "pre-approved list" of visitors for Rifqa. On more than one occasion Rifqa has asked and been denied her request to see friends. At a previous almost covert hearing that was held, Mohamad and Aysha Bary moved to restrict her visitation, and it seems they succeeded.
Can any outside pressure be applied? How do we know she is all right? How do we know she is not being psychologically pressured?
She has not been granted pastoral care. She is being denied the freedom to practice her religion. Where are Rifqa's protectors? Who speaks for Rifqa?
Inmates in prison get visits from their clergy. She is not being afforded the right of prisoners. She has not committed any crime. Why can't friends see her? One of the people who spoke to me on the record was Jamal Jivanjee (the others, who feared retribution for Rifqa and themselves, asked to remain anonymous). He has been denied visitation. Why can't Jamal Jivanjee see her? He has requested a visit and Rifqa requested a visit from Jivanjee. He called Rifqa's lawyers, Franklin Child Services, and got the run around again and again. He calls daily.
Bottom line. No one knows whats going on. Why the secrecy? Why the cloak and dagger? Why the unintended enforcement of sharia law?
UPDATE: I asked John Jay, a former prosecutor in Juvenile court, to help track down the new court dates. Here is his frustrating report:
i was more than a little shocked when her trial on the merits in the dependency case was set for november 16, 2009 feeling that this setting following so quickly upon the transfer of her case from florida gave neither counsel, nor the social agencies and police agencies who might be charged with investigating the facts and circumstances of the case little time for preparation of authorities and arguments.
i really wasn’t too surprised when word leaked out, the afternoon of tuesday, november 10th, just two (2) court/business days before trial that the case was to be continued. this seemed a bit calculated to avoid the rally planned by the proprietor of atlasshrugs for the same date, but the avoidance of public controversy is not entirely new to courts & court proceedings, nor was the lateness of the continuance. i called the clerk’s office late tuesday afternoon, and was told no papers with regard to court settings had been filed with the clerk as of that date, again not surprising, because the physical transfer of such things takes time.
i was totally shocked, however, about subsequent events as i tried to confirm the continuance, and tried to find out the new court settings from the franklin county juvenile court clerk’s office.-- shortly before noon on thursday (franklin county having been shut down on veteran’s day, wednesday the 11th), i called the clerk’s office at 614.462.4411, and inquired of the clerk if i might receive confirmation of the striking of the hearing on dependency on the 16th, and also confirmation of the date to which the hearing had been continued.
i was informed over the phone that i could not be told that information, either with regard to confirmation of the striking of the hearing, or any date to which it had been continued. the clerk went out of her way to tell me that the matters involving the dependency were confidential as to the juvenile, and that such information could not be released to me in the juvenile dependency case, franklin county juvenile court case no.: 09JU12299. i inquired of the court about the companion “incorrigible child” proceeding, juvenile court case no.: 09JU12090, and the clerk of the court told me without hesitation that the 16 november hearing was stricken, and that the case had been reset for hearing on 22 december 2009.
i informed the court that i had practiced law for 25 years in washington state, much of it in juvenile criminal and dependency proceedings, and that while matters in juvenile “social files” were most certainly confidential, e.g., those things pertaining to case worker reports on abuse and negligent, and psychological evaluations and such like, … , those matters relating to court pleadings and orders were open to the public, as were all court proceedings unless specifically closed by the court.
the clerk softened a bit, and changed her tune, considerably.
she said that she would search the files, and look to see if any orders or clerk’s minutes had come up with the files indicating either a striking of the hearing, or a continuance date.
none had.
we chatted a little bit. it became obvious from discussing this with the clerk that the dependency proceeding was regarded as a high profile case, and that edicts had come down from the court to put the quietus on the proceedings. this was obvious when i asked the clerk, why, if the dependency proceedings were confidential because involving a juvenile was it o.k. for the clerk’s office to release the striking of the hearing and its resetting to the 22nd of december in the incorrigible child case? the clerk as much admitted to me, that that was the way the court wanted it.
she suggested i call again friday afternoon, late.
i called again, the afternoon of 13 november, friday, to see if i could get the hearing situation clarified. i spoke to the same clerk, and inquired of the hearing settings. she said that no paper work, either clerk’s minutes or court orders had come up with regard to the dependency case, that she could find upon inspection of the file. she did, however, confirm that the hearing set for 16 november had been stricken. she did not, however, find it either humorous or insightful of me when I asked her how this could be known to the clerk’s office, in the absence of written orders striking the hearing being entered into the file. she also reiterated the previous position of the clerk’s office that no documents from the court had found their way into the court clerks file, some two full business days from when i first made inquiry into this subject.
friends, this is disingenuous at best.
this is the way a court docket works. first, nothing is done in court on a case without the court’s file being present at the bench, usually in possession of an in-court clerk, and the file is handed up to the judge as the case is called. secondly, nothing is done that is not memorialized by a paper trail, and this applies first and foremost to court settings and dates. if a continuance hearing was held by agreement of the parties, it is memorialized by paper, and if a hearing is stricken upon either motion of the parties or by the motion of the court, that is memorialized by a brief order, if a notation order only. thirdly, and this is very important, cases are not left hanging in the void, or in hiatus: when the case is finished for the day, and before it leaves the purview of the judge, it has a new date agreed upon, entered, by written order or notice of hearing signed by the judge, and signed and distributed to the court and the parties. finally, when the matter is concluded, the originals of all of this are entered into the file by the in-court clerk if the court is efficient, or attached to the same pile of files that are taken back to the main court clerk’s office for re-filing. before the files go back into the stacks, the orders are in the file jackets, court clerk’s minutes are filled out, and any court orders or dates are entered into the computers, and docket entries made.
it must be done that way. look to the court clerk’s case number on rifqa’s dependency case. it is file number 12,299 for calendar year 2009 in juvenile court, columbus ohio. that’s a lot of files. there is nothing random about the way these things are handled, else it is absolute chaos.
the inescapable conclusion, therefore, and the worst case scenario, is that the judges of the franklin county juvenile court told the juvenile court clerks to lie about, or to withhold information about, the status of rifqa bary’s case. when the clerk on friday refused to tell me the settings with regard to 09JU12299, the dependency case, she either had all relevant documents with regard to settings before her in the file, or upon the computer screen where such entries are also placed.
she lied to me when she said there was no information on this. this is never, ever “no information” in a court file on settings. it may take a while for the substance of a court order to be drawn up, presented to all parties with notice, and signed by a judge on matters of substance and on the merits, … , but as to court setting dates, … , uh uh, that stuff is signed, dated and entered immediately.
files go nowhere without this information. this information is never absent from a file.
the conclusion is, again, inescapable. the judges have put the gloms on this dependency case. they are suppressing information that should be available to the public.
22 december 2009 -- yes, the "unruly" trial,
on incorrigibility -- case no.: 09-JU-12090 __ ________ ___
-- don't know the date for the dependency -- case no.:
09-JU-12299
UPDATE: New video from Miles Video of the Rifqa rally
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Columbia, where Ahmadinejad was welcomed like a returning king.
Just hours before she was scheduled to speak, the groups (the Debate Society and Tigers of Israel) succumbed to student Muslim groups and canceled her speaking event. Nonie called me from her NY taxi, shocked that just weeks after an Islamic attack on a military base on US soil, the largest in US history, that activists who speak the truth about Islam are being shut down and marginalized.
I will post the speech Nonie was going to make at Columbia and Princeton and Nonie's account of this assault on free speech as soon as she gets to her machine -- she is on her way to the airport.
For those of us chronicling the advancing islamisation of America, things have gotten decidedly worse since Obama took over. We have entered a dark age.
Born in Egypt, Darwish is the daughter of an Egyptian Army lieutenant general, who was called a "shahid" by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser,[4] after being killed in an Israeli raid. Darwish blames "the Middle EasternIslamic culture
and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth" for his
death, which she describes as an "assassination". In 1978, she moved
with her husband to the United States, and converted to Christianity there. After September 11, 2001 she has written on Islam-related topics.[4]
UPDATE: Here's more from a Columbia student:
My name is Daniel Hertz, and I am a senior at Columbia University. I came across your article today regarding Nonie Darwish's events, and I was very happy to see that someone had picked up on the story.
I am the CAMERA fellow for Columbia and the President of Campus Media Watch. We are the group that tried to bring Nonie Darwish to speak yesterday . It was very unfortunate that we had our event canceled due to "security risks," and I am still dealing with ways to respond to what happened. Regardless of them shutting down the event, last night I took about 20 students and professors to a restaurant and reserved a private area. Nonie was able to give her speech and we all had amazing intimate conversations with her over dinner.
It is truly sad what is happening on our campus in terms of intimidation from many of the other groups/people, and I hope to combat it in any way possible.
"An
Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at
Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid conflicting reports of a
heart attack, a car
accident or suicide — raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old
was killed.
Revelations that protesters detained in Iran's postelection crackdown were
tortured, some to death, were a deep embarrassment to the country's clerical
rulers. Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani was pressured to change the death certificate of
one of the most well known victims and later spoke to a parliament commission
investigating the abuse, opposition Web sites reported."
A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail
sentence to a man accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and
allegedly swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda (more here)
A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to one of five
men convicted of plotting to blow up the tallest building in the United
States, Chicago's Sears Tower, and swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda.
US
District Judge Joan Lenard found that Burson Augustin, 23, played a
minor role in the conspiracy gave him a far lighter sentence than the
30 years that prosecutors had been seeking.
In handing down the
sentence, Lenard said "Islamic terrorism is one of the most tremendous
problem that this country now confronts ... this defendant took an oath
to Al-Qaeda," she said, but added that his actions might have been
affected by other factors, such as "lack of education or lack of
direction."
Augustin's attorney Louis Casuso, had asked for
leniency, telling the court that "when you are young, you say a lot of
stupid things and you go through a lot of stupid things."
A US
jury in May convicted the group -- members of the so-called Liberty
Five, named after the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City where they
lived -- of seeking to contact Al-Qaeda and plot a series of attacks,
including blowing up the Sears Tower, which since has been renamed the
Willis tower, and FBI buildings, in hope of bringing down the US
government.
In court filings prosecutors called for the group's
leader Narseal Batiste to be given the maximum penalty of 70 years in
prison, 50 years for another member Patrick Abraham, and 30 years for
the other three.
At the time it was built in 1973, the 108-story
1,450 feet (442 meter) skyscraper was the tallest building in the
world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York.
A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in
Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200
people.
A judge working for the militant group al-Shabab said she had had an affair
with an unmarried 29-year-old man.
He said she gave birth to a still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery.
Her boyfriend was given 100 lashes.
It is thought to be the second time a woman has been stoned to death for
adultery by al-Shabab.
The group controls large swathes of southern Somalia where they have imposed
a strict interpretation of Islamic law which has been unpopular with many
Somalis.
'Lenient'
According to reports from a small village near the town of Wajid, 250 miles
(400km) north-west of the capital, Mogadishu, the woman was taken to the public
grounds where she was buried up to her waist.
The Islamists want to impose a strict version of Sharia on
Somalia
She was then stoned to death in front of the crowds on Tuesday afternoon.
The judge, Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, said her unmarried boyfriend was given
100 lashes at the same venue.
Under al-Shabab's interpretation of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been
married - even a divorcee - who has an affair is liable to be found guilty of
adultery, punishable by stoning to death.
An unmarried person who has sex before marriage is liable to be given 100
lashes.
Private guards return fire to help US container ship evade hijack, while pirate says captain of a seized vessel is dead
Somali pirates attacked the container ship Maersk Alabama today for
the second time in seven months. Private guards on board the US-flagged
ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.
A
US surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its
destination, Mombasa in Kenya, while a pirate said the captain of a
chemical tanker, the Theresa, hijacked on Monday with 28 North Korean
crew had died of his wounds.
Pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama
last April and took ship captain Richard Phillips hostage, holding him
at gunpoint in a lifeboat for five days. Navy Seal sharpshooters freed
Phillips while killing three pirates in a night-time attack.
Four
pirates in a skiff attacked the ship again today at about 6.30am local
time, opening fire with automatic weapons from about 300 yards away, a
statement from the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain said. A security team
repelled the attack by using evasive manoeuvres, small-arms fire and a
Long Range Acoustic Device, which can beam earsplitting alarm tones.
Vice
Admiral Bill Gortney of the US naval forces central command said the
Maersk Alabama had followed the maritime industry's best practices in
having a security team on board. "This is a great example of how
merchant mariners can take proactive action to prevent being attacked
and why we recommend that ships follow industry best practices if
they're in high-risk areas," he said in a statement.
Roger
Middleton, a piracy expert at the Chatham House thinktank in London,
said the international maritime community was solidly against armed
guards, but that American ships have taken a different line.
"Shipping
companies are still pretty much overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of
armed guards," he said. "Lots of private security companies employ
people who don't have maritime experience. Also, there's the idea that
it's the responsibility of states and navies to provide security. I
would think it's a step backward if we start privatising security of
the shipping trade."
A pirate who gave his name as Abdi Nor told
the Associated Press from the Somali town of Haradhere that colleagues
at sea had called at about 9am – two hours after the attack. "They told
us that they got in trouble with an American ship, then we lost them.
We have been trying to locate them since."
A US Navy P-3
surveillance aircraft "is monitoring Maersk Alabama and has good voice
communication with the vessel," said Lieutenant Nathan Christensen,
spokesman for the 5th Fleet in Bahrain. "Everything is safe and secure
and Maersk Alabama is proceeding to their intended destination," he
said.
Rifqa Bary had a forced marriage in her future as well. Europe has been fully colonized, so they know sharia law. Here in America the law is making things safe for the likes of Rifqa's father, Mohamed Bary.
A devout Muslim who launched a hate campaign against his own daughter because
she refused to enter into an arranged marriage has been banned from contacting
her for life.
Businessman Aurang Zeb, 43, threatened to kill Rozina Akhtar and cut out her
mother's tongue after claiming she had brought 'dishonour' on their family by
refusing to marry her cousin.
Zeb bombarded Rozina, 22, and her mother with abusive and threatening phone
calls accusing them of having affairs and began secretly spying on their
movements.
Earlier this year police obtained a Forced Marriage Protection order - only
the seventh of its kind - banning Zeb from forcing Rozina to marry his brother's
son in Pakistan after she was ordered to become engaged to him in 2006.
But he broke the order by continuing his campaign of harassment against his
daughter.
At Blackburn magistrates court yesterday he was ordered to abide by a
lifetime restraining order - believed to be the first to be imposed following a
Forced Protection Order.
During his campaign against his family Zeb also talked of 'killing people and
how he would only get five to seven years.'
He also pursued his son, Nasir Khan in his car, almost forcing him off the
road.
The whole family were said to be so terrified of what the father might do
they checked all the doors and windows were locked at night before they could go
to sleep.
And Palin is coming out guns blazing with America in her hip pocket, and I like it, I like it, yes I do do. I think America can breathe a little having someone speak for us against the invaders.
Palin cited the contrast between Obama's comportment in bowing to Japanese
royalty and the leadership style of former President Ronald Reagan.
"There is where his steel spine strengthened our entire nation," she said of
the Republican icon. "The leadership he provided, where he allowed us to believe
in ourselves as a superpower — not in an abusive way as a superpower, but as a
power and a light and a hope for the rest of the world.
“That allowed us to be a healthier, safer, and more generous nation to help
other nations. So those things that Ronald Reagan did . . . he said on national
security issues, he said you know: 'We win. They lose.' Leadership like that we
need today. [It] allows a very clear path in front of us we'd be foolish not to
follow."
In criticizing the bow, Palin underscored the distinction between Reagan's
view of American exceptionalism and President Obama's efforts to cast America as
but one member of the community of nations.
"That [bow] made me and many of us uncomfortable, and I don't think it was
just an accidental breach of protocol, because we've seen it before with one of
the Saudi leaders, too," Palin told Newsmax. "I think it goes along with that
same mode of operation that was apologizing for who America is. In order to
build relationships with other countries and strengthen our allies and allow
more alliances across the globe, we don't need to apologize for who we are. In
fact, I think we would be respected to an even greater degree if we exerted more
of the diplomatic power that, again, Ronald Reagan did."
Palin, who was a lightning rod for criticism during the presidential
campaign, warned that America is in "a dangerous place economically" because
Congress is debating healthcare reforms that would affect up to one-sixth of the
U.S. economy, without keeping the public informed about exactly what provisions
are being proposed. And she doesn't think that void of information is
accidental, either.
"There are so many questions right now that I'm like every other American,"
Palin told Newsmax, "just kind of scratching my head saying, 'When are we going
to get the answers so that we can debate this very responsibly and very
intelligently?'
"I think it's purposeful that some in Washington, D.C., don't want us to have
all of the answers, so that the debate is more nebulous and puts more of the
generalities out there. Even knowing what we do know about it though, I think it
is a very dangerous place for Americans to be, to be told that the only
solutions to the healthcare challenges in our country . . . is that government
has to take it over."
Palin, whose book was a runaway best-seller before it was even released,
charged that Obama has broken his promise to take a transparent, bipartisan
approach to governance.
She noted the efforts of GOP Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner and Rep.
Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and others in Congress: "They're saying, 'Hey, we've
got some common-sense conservative solutions that we've put forth and were shut
out of the discussions.
"That's a broken promise of Obama's and others in Congress, who promised an
open, transparent, bipartisan approach to finding these solutions, and that's
unfortunate. But these common-sense conservatives have put forth solutions
suggesting the intra- and interstate competition amongst healthcare providers,
and the tort reform, and the waste and fraud measures that can help address the
rising cost problems right now.
"Those things aren't even being considered in the bills pending before
Congress. Very frustrating for a lot of us as Americans, saying wait a minute,
this isn't what we've bargained for."
Palin also gave Newsmax a behind-the-scenes account of her candid reaction
after she saw the controversial, critical Newsweek cover story, which she has
criticized as "out of context" and "sexist." The magazine took an image of Palin
posing in short running shorts, which she did for Runners World magazine to
promote the benefits of exercise, and splashed it on its recent cover.
Palin told Newsmax she was mortified.
"I fired off an e-mail to my daughters, to my sisters and my mom, and I said
you know I almost feel like I have to apologize for some of these surprises that
happen in our lives here," she told Newsmax. "I don't know why I felt like I had
to apologize because I didn't do anything wrong with it, but I didn't like it.
But it was a bit of a shot there by Newsweek that I thought was unnecessary and
I didn't like it."
Asked why some journalists in the mainstream media have attacked her, she
responded: "Maybe some people are really threatened by just a normal everyday
average American who is very blessed to have a megaphone right now, and doesn't
want to squander or blow this opportunity to get a common-sense conservative
message out there heard across the nation. I'm very blessed to have the
opportunities that I have in speaking up for normal Americans."
Palin predicted that, in the 2010 mid-term elections, Americans will look
back at what Reagan did for the country and vote against big-spending
incumbents.
Enough! The un-indicted co-conspirator front for Hamas has gotten a free pass long enough while they bully, harass, sue, and infect the national dialogue with taqiyya and dawah.
They are so afraid of being called a bigot by jihadists. How about traitor? Do they prefer that? You are either with us or against us.
These American heroes deserve our props: Thank you Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and members of the
House
antiterrorism caucus, Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., John Shadegg, R-Ariz., Trent
Franks, R-Ariz., Paul Broun, R-Ga., and Patrick McHenry, R-N.C.
G-d bless you!
Call your Congressmen! PUSH BACK AGAINST THE BULLIES.
Group's
lobbying activity illegal, members of Congress believe
A senator and five Congress members are urging the Internal Revenue Service to
investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations to
determine whether the controversial Muslim group's lobbying activities on
Capitol Hill violate its nonprofit status.
The letter to IRS Commissioner
Douglas H. Shulman is signed by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and members of the
House
antiterrorism caucus, Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., John Shadegg, R-Ariz., Trent
Franks, R-Ariz., Paul Broun, R-Ga., and Patrick McHenry, R-N.C.
The Washington, D.C.-based CAIR – which had its relationship with the FBI cut
off this year after being named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest
terror-finance case in U.S. history – has been under increased scrutiny since
the release of "Muslim Mafia: Inside the
Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," a WND Books
publication by former Air Force special agent P. David Gaubatz and "Infiltration"
author Paul Sperry. The authors present firsthand evidence CAIR is acting as a
front for a well-funded conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent
of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate the U.S. and help pave the way for
Saudi-style Islamic law to rule the nation.
The letter, also addressed to the House clerk, Senate secretary and Senate
superintendent of records, points to evidence uncovered in "Muslim Mafia" that
CAIR may be in violation of both the anti-excessive-lobbying provision of its
501(c)(3) nonprofit status and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 by failing to
register with Congress as a federal lobbying organization.
As CAIR's own website states, the group's Governmental Affairs Department
"conducts and organizes lobbying efforts on issues related to Islam and
Muslims."
CAIR says its department is "active in monitoring legislation and government
activities and then, responding on behalf of the American Muslim community.
CAIR representatives have testified before Congress and have sponsored a number
of activities designed to bring Muslim concerns to Capitol Hill."...
"We know what the problem is and we are trying to fix it,'' said Pound. Asked why recipients would pluck random numbers - 26, 45, 14 - to fill in for their congressional district, Pound replied, "who knows, man, who really knows. There are 130,000 reports out there.''
It's kinda breathtaking - the contempt they have for our money. Debauched.
Cairo (AINA) -- 15-year-old Egyptian girl Dina el-Gowhary, who converted from Islam to Christianity, has sent a plea to President Obama, complaining of mistreatment by the Egyptian Government and asking for his mediation. "Mr President Obama," she writes, "we are a minority in Egypt. We are treated very badly. You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well, so why are we not treated here likewise? We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison,we are imprisoned in our own country."
The best, most qualified ex-prosecutor to speak to Obama's latest kick in our head, Andy McCarthy (who successfully prosecuted the worst jihadis), rips O to shreds in his latest piece at NRO. Me? I have gotten to the point where I am grateful that Obama didn't set Khalid Sheikh Mohammed up in the Bahamas in his own little ice cream store with his Uighur pals .... give him time.
The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four
other top al-Qaeda terrorists to New York City for a civilian trial is one of
the most irresponsible ever made by a presidential administration. That it is
motivated by politics could not be more obvious. That it spells unprecedented
danger for our security will soon become obvious.
The five 9/11 plotters were originally charged in a military
commission. Military commissions have been approved by Congress and the courts.
Eleven months ago, the jihadists were prepared
to end the military case by pleading guilty and proceeding to
execution. Plus, the Obama administration is continuing the commission system
for other enemy combatants accused of war crimes. If we are going to have
military commissions for any war criminals, it is senseless not to have them for
the worst war criminals. In sum, there is no good legal or policy rationale for
transferring these barbarians to the civilian justice system. Doing so will
prompt a hugely costly three-ring circus of a trial, provide a soapbox for
al-Qaeda’s anti-American bile, and create a public-safety nightmare for New York
City.
There is, however, a patent
political rationale behind Obama’s decision.
The terrorists are clearly committed members of the al-Qaeda conspiracy to wage
a terrorist war against the United States — so much so that KSM cannot help
himself, bragging about his atrocities against our country, including the 9/11
massacre of nearly 3,000 Americans. Further, controversy surrounds the
intelligence-collection measures used by the Bush administration after 9/11 —
measures such as enhanced interrogation that, though they saved countless lives,
have been stridently condemned by the antiwar Left. This antiwar Left, President
Obama’s base, has demanded investigations and prosecutions against Bush
officials.
The Obama Justice Department
teems with experienced defense lawyers, many of whom (themselves personally or
through their firms) spent the last eight years volunteering their services to
America’s enemies in their lawsuits against the American people. As experienced
defense lawyers well know, when there is no mystery about whether the defendants
have committed the charged offenses, and when there is controversy attendant to
the government’s investigative tactics, the standard defense strategy is to put
the government on
trial.
That is, Pres. Barack Obama and
Attorney General Eric Holder, experienced litigators, fully realize that in
civilian court, the Qaeda quintet can and will demand discovery of mountains of
government intelligence. They will demand disclosures about investigative
tactics; the methods and sources by which intelligence has been obtained; the
witnesses from the intelligence community, the military, and law enforcement who
interrogated witnesses, conducted searches, secretly intercepted enemy
communications, and employed other investigative techniques. They will attempt
to compel testimony from officials who formulated U.S. counterterrorism
strategy, in addition to U.S. and foreign intelligence officers. As civilian
“defendants,” these war criminals will put Bush-era counterterrorism tactics
under the brightest public spotlight in American legal history.
This evening I witnessed an act which was both disturbing and appalling. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch,
an erudite scholar on Islam and patriotic defender of our freedom was
giving a talk on the ever-growing threat to the West of Islamists. In
the midst of describing the ends of Jihad as promulgated by one of the
foremost radical Islamic scholars of the 1970s, a grungy looking fellow
stood up and yelled at Spencer "Should we just go bomb all the
Muslims!?" and attacking him with other vitriolic and hysterical words.
In creating this diversion, a few members of the audience ran up and
threw pies at Mr. Spencer and another panelist. The campus authorities
quickly intervened, and as the officers dragged the cowards away from
the stage, another (presumably accomplice) student filmed the the
officers on his phone.
Spencer wrote of the event prior:
The Jihad Still Threatens America
Even as many Americans grow complacent, the enemy that struck us on
9/11 grows stronger. Eight years since that fateful Tuesday, the
enemy--the Islamic totalitarian movement--stands undefeated and
continues to threaten our lives and our freedom, from overseas and from
within.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the resurgent Taliban and their
Islamist allies are waging a fierce comeback. They are actively
fomenting plots against America and the West. The Islamist regime in
Iran--which began the anti-American holy war decades prior to
9/11--appears poised to acquire its own nuclear weapon. Meanwhile,
within America and the West, there is an overlooked drive by
pro-Islamist activist groups to impose Islamic law--without guns or
bombs--in the West. Their incremental advances would subvert our
freedom of speech and the very foundations of our political system.
What is the Islamic totalitarian movement? What are its goals and
means? Why, despite America's military response to 9/11, does it remain
a threat to us? What can be done to counter this menace--at home and
overseas?
UPDATE: Spencer described it to me his way:
They created a diversion
Security guys were at the side door
A guy in the middle of the room started yelling
They went over to him
Then the pie guys ran in that side door
I jumped aside
They missed me
They got Elan Journo, however, but only on the shoulder
Earlier this evening I spoke at NYU
on a panel with Elan Journo. I had just started explaining the jihad
doctrine and Islamic supremacism when a young man in the middle of the
audience stood up and started yelling and refused to be quiet. When the
security guards went over to start moving him out of the room, they
left a side door by the stage unsecured -- and sure enough, the yelling
guy turned out to be a diversion. Two other young men rushed in that
side door and threw pies at Elan Journo and me. They hit Dr. Journo on
the shoulder but missed me altogether, as I had jumped aside when I saw
them coming.
Of course a pie in the face is a staple of American comedy going
back to the Marx Brothers (by far my favorite Marxists), but this was
no joke. In the first place, it is yet another manifestation of Leftist
thuggery, antipathy to the freedom of speech, and alliance with the
global jihad; it also shows yet again the degeneration of our nation's
universities into propaganda mills in which those with opposing views
are hounded out or intimidated into silence. (And then there is this.)
As we continued the event with pie splattered all over the curtain
behind us, it was a vivid object lesson in how much free inquiry
threatens the Left, and created a nice backdrop for our discussion of
the Organization of the Islamic Conference's war on free speech, which
is, of course, intended to enable the global jihad to advance without
challenge.
Palin sounds very good here. Very good indeed. I am enormously encouraged. She gets better and better. Here's an issue no politician will touch: so fearful are they of being labeled bigot, they will throw our troops on an IED and our nation under a bus. Palin has cojones and they are growing :) We love that.
I spoke to Governor Palin by phone this afternoon. Lots of interesting
material, but to me the most interesting takeaways were the following:
1) I asked about Palin's upcoming visit to Ft. Hood. "We had planned on that
before the tragedy struck," she said. She commented on the trail of evidence
linking the alleged Ft. Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, to militant Islam.
"There were such clear, obvious, massive warning signs that were missed," she
said. "This terrorist, even having business cards" that identified him as an
"SoA" or soldier of Allah. Palin blamed a culture of political correctness and
other decisions that "prevented -- I'm going to say it -- profiling" of someone
with Hasan's extremist ideology. "I say, profile away," Palin said. Such
political correctness, she continued, "could be our downfall." If the upcoming
investigations into the attack reveal bad decision-making on the part of senior
officials, Palin continued, those officials ought to be fired.
Palin visits Ft. Hood on December 4. She plans to donate all the royalties
from her book-signing there to the families of the victims.
2) I also asked Governor Palin about Attorney General Holder's decision to
try September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohamed in federal court in New York
City.
"Does KSM deserve constitutional rights?" I asked.
Palin's response: "Not no, but hell no."
And she went on: "That was an atrocious decision," she said. "And it makes a
mockery of our judicial system." She focused in particular on the fear that "war
criminals" like KSM and his accomplices will use the trial as a "platform" to
denigrate America.
More Palin to come, including her thoughts on President Obama's trip to Asia
and the role of the tea-party movement in the GOP ...
Imagine this. You are a great American fighting the jihad overseas. You have seen the savagery and barbarity of Islamic jihad first hand. You come home. The army assigns you a shrink - an avowed and proud devout Muslim, Major Muslim Nidal Hasan. You tell him your troubles ............. and sharia law demands war crimes get filed.
This is the enforcement of sharia law in our schools, workplaces, public schools and the military. Heads should roll, and I don't mean that in the Islamic sense. This is egregious to an unthinkable degree. As a proud American, I am outraged at how sick and cowardly our elites have become.
Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasansought
to have some of his patients prosecuted for war crimes based on
statements they made during psychiatric sessions with him, a captain
who served on the base said Monday.
Other psychiatrists
complained to superiors that Hasan's actions violated doctor-patient
confidentiality, Capt. Shannon Meehan told The Dallas Morning News.
One day after the Nov. 5 attack that killed 13 and wounded 29, a Fort
Hood official said she had never received complaints about Hasan's job
performance. Col. Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of clinical
services at the base's Darnall Army Medical Center, also said he was a
"hardworking, dedicated young man who gave great care to his patients."
Fort Hood officials did not respond to interview requests
late Monday. They have declined in recent days to say anything about
the major, citing the ongoing investigation.
Meehan said
he learned of Hasan's prosecution requests from another base
psychiatrist. That psychiatrist could not be reached for comment
Monday.
[...]
It wasn't clear Monday what information Hasan received from patients
and what became of his requests for prosecution. ABC News, citing
anonymous sources, reported that his superiors rejected the requests,
and that investigators suspect this triggered the shootings.
Lynne Stewart, queen of the pig people, got away with murder and never served. She should have gotten 30 years; instead, she got two and never served (and this is where Obama says Khalid Sheik Muhammad will be brought to justice). Finally, some small measure of justice.
Stewart, along with co-defendants and co-workers Ahmed Abdel Sattar and
Mohammed Yousry, was found guilty of helping her 1995 client, Sheik Omar
Abdel
Rahman (the blind sheik), communicate with his Egyptian-based organization, the Islamic
Group.
Muslim cleric with decades of involvement with terrorist groups
"Spiritual leader" of Osama bin Laden
Mastermind of 1993 World Trade Center bombing and numerous other murderous plots
Deems the West in general, and the United States in particular, responsible for all of the world's evils
Islamic jihad lawyer Lynne Stewart ordered to prison after conviction upheld
By BRUCE GOLDING and CLEMENTE LISI
November 17, 2009
A federal appeals court today ordered a convicted terror-coddling civil
rights lawyer to begin serving her prison sentence.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld Lynne Stewart's
conviction upon announcing its ruling.
Stewart, 69, was convicted in February 2005 of conspiracy and providing and
concealing material support of terrorism for her actions in smuggling messages
from "blind sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman to his followers in the Islamic terror
group Gama'a al-Islamiyya.
Stewart was sentenced to just two years behind bars.
But the appeals court also ordered her resentenced -- saying the judge must
consider whether she committed perjury at trial.
At the time of her sentencing in October 2006, Stewart faced a maximum
30-year prison term for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorist
organizations, making false statements and defrauding the government.
Stewart’s lawyer Joshua Dratel did not immediately have a comment.
“To say that I am disappointed after 7 1/2 years would be an understatement,”
Stewart wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
She said she had not yet spoken to her lawyer, but that she was planning a
news conference for later today.
A jury found Stewart wrongly issued public statements for Abdel-Rahman, a
mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, that helped him communicate
with Egyptian-based terrorists.
Following the nine-month trial, Manhattan federal Judge John Koeltl imposed a
drastically reduced sentence based on Stewart's lack of criminal history.
In what can only be described as one of the most brutal, savage mass Islamic attacks on Western and Jewish targets in India, new information is coming that adds an even more horrific (is that possible?) dimension to last year's worst Islamic jihadi attack.
The jihad has no borders, no nationality and no humanity. The Muslim who cased the Chabad house was an US based Muslim.
Mumbai, Nov. 14: David Coleman Headley personally visited every target site of the 26/11 terror strikes last year, carrying out a recce on behalf of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, a police source said today.
Posing as a Jew, he even visited Nariman House, the Jewish Chabad centre, in July 2008.
The Mumbai police today carried out raids in Bandra, its adjoining suburb Khar and BPO hub Goregaon in search of Headley’s local acquaintances and contacts.
“He (Headley) mapped the Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus, Taj and Trident hotels and Nariman House. We are interrogating (filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s son) Rahul to find out when he went to Leopold Café. That he did is certain — when he did that is what we need to know,” a top officer said.
Headley had visited the Mumbai home of Rahul, who contacted police after learning of the terror suspect’s arrest by America’s Federal Burau of Investigation (FBI) last month.
The source said Headley, a Pakistani-born US national, and his associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana stayed in Hotel Outram, a seedy motel in Mumbai’s Fort area, for about a fortnight in July 2008.
Born Daood Gilani, Headley, who changed his name and passport in 2006, posed as a Jewish American during his Mumbai stay. A source close to Rahul too confirmed that Headley had claimed to be a Jew.
“It is a mystery how he got into that building (Nariman House) just posing as a Jew. We are probing if he had anybody helping him locally. The FBI seized a book called How to Pray Like a Jew from him at the time of his arrest in Chicago. He had prepared himself thoroughly to pose as a Jew,” the officer said.
[...]
Between 2006 and 2009, Headley ran a firm called Immigration Law Centre out of Tardeo AC Market in south Mumbai with the help of a local Parsi woman. Late last night, officials of the federal National Investigating Agency, which has now joined the probe with Mumbai police, visited Headley’s immigration firm.
“A lot of facts have emerged from the interrogation of his co-worker/partner at the firm. She has been very co-operative. We now know Headley rarely used mobile phones and computers; but he did have a Tata Indicom landline number that he used while operating this immigration business. His mobile number is also with us and is leading us to some of his local contacts/acquaintances,” the source said.
Officially, Headley’s job was to facilitate US and Canadian visas for semi-skilled and unskilled workers. The investigators are trying to find out whether he had any contacts in local consulates.
Headley preferred to pay salaries, or make other payments, in cash. He rarely used banking channels and spent limited time at the office —“hardly two hours in the morning and a couple of hours
Rep. Judge Stone (R-TX) seems to have defeated early dem leadership efforts
to kill this. Obama has got to fuming - it opens the door for greater scrutiny
of the terrorist-act-committed-by-a-nonterrorist.
Here's the press release:
WASHINGTON, DC) – Army and civilian personnel who were wounded or killed in the
shooting attack on Fort Hood would be granted the same legal status as combatant
casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, if bipartisan legislation introduced today
by U.S. Representative John Carter (R-TX31) passes into law. Carter was joined
by U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX10) for a news conference unveiling
the bill in the House Radio-TV Gallery in the U.S. Capitol this afternoon.
“Our Fort Hood casualties should receive the same benefits and recognition as
other combat casualties,” says Carter, who represents the Fort Hood area in the
House, “as this was a planned terror attack on U.S. military personnel. It
should make no difference in our care for the wounded and the families of the
slain whether it occurred on an Army base in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Texas.”
While many military and survivor benefits are the same regardless of the
status of the casualty, combatant status allows military personnel to receive
the Purple Heart, and civilians to receive the equivalent award, the Secretary
of Defense Medal of Freedom. Combatant status would also guarantee that the
beneficiaries of all military personnel who lost their lives in the attack would
receive the maximum life insurance available, extended family housing
privileges, and other benefits.
“This bill is not about investigations or assigning blame,” says Carter. “It
is about taking care of our troops and their families first. That’s why we have
such strong support from both sides of the aisle, and why we hope and expect
this to move quickly.”
Over 30 House Members nearly evenly split between parties joined Carter as
original co-sponsors on the legislation. Carter is Co-chairman of the House Army
Caucus for the 111th Congress, and is Secretary of the House Republican
Conference.
"You are a wonderful fighter for liberty" -- Bat Ye'or
"Well, I read Atlas Shrugs, Power Line, National Review blogs" ........ "Atlas Shrugs breaks more news than dozens of liberal blogs combined." ...... ... Ambassador John Bolton
"I'm a fan!" - Mark Steyn
"Fearless, intelligent, beautiful --- Pamela Geller wears her Supergirl
costume well."
"Pamela Geller is a dynamo of energy and
a paragon of courage and fearlessness.
-- Robert Spencer, JihadWatch in his book Stealth Jihad
"You do great work with your blog". -- Geert Wilders
"Courageous insights from a pulchritudinous pundit!" Dr. Andrew Bostom, Leading Scholar on Islam
"Great site," Dick Morris
"Indeed, some of Israel's best friends and most articulate defenders can be found in the blogosphere .... Atlas Shrugs, [et al] all provide a refreshing alternative to the moral relativism and politically correct anti-Israel blather of the media. Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
"She does more in one week than most of us do in a frickin' lifetime -- Pamela Geller!" -- Jaz McKay, Talk Radio WKNZR
"The best there is," Beryl Wajsman, President Institute of Public Affairs
Speaking to the unnamed, unchampioned, beating heart of her new land, Ayn was to say: 'Yours is the glory.'"
A man whose ability and independence leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. Man as an individual, as a creator. What's the most depraved type of human being? Not a sadist or a murderer or a sex maniac or a dictator; "The man without a purpose." Yet most people seem to go through their lives without a clearly defined purpose.
Life has Loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fires that sways and swing,
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has Loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of Gold,
Scent of pinetrees in the rain,
Eyes that love you,
arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy stars that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of Peace
Count many a year of strife well lost
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
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