Somali Muslims in Greely, Colorado have filed a civil rights complaint with federal and state
officials about their supposed mistreatment at the Swift & Co. meatpacking
plant which employs about 300 of them.
Complaints center around alleged mistreatment by Hispanicsupervisors, while Swift & Co. is scrambling to give the
Somalis what they demand. Apparently bidets for Somalis
were not enough to satisfy them!
GREELEY — State and federal civil-rights officials
are investigating claims that Somali workers at the JBS Swift Beef Co.
meatpacking plant were mistreated.
Complaints have been filed with state officials
and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said Steve Chavez,
director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division.
Chavez met with Somalis in Greeley last week. He
said federal officials are taking the lead on the investigation.
EEOC officials declined to comment.
Concerns surfaced last year after JBS managers
refused to let late-shift Somalis pray at sunset during the Islamic holy month
of Ramadan. Workers walked off the job, and more than 100 were fired.
Somali workers have since claimed ongoing issues with their Latino
supervisors, Chavez said.
“They believe they were treated differently
because they were Somalis,” he said.
JBS spokesman Chandler Keys said the
company has attempted to accommodate religious practices by installing foot
washes in locker rooms for foot-cleansing prior to prayer and bidet-type spray
devices on toilets to assist with cleansing after using the rest
room.
Be sure to see my
post last night on the strategy being used to disrupt communities to bring
about “change.”
Greeley and the historical roots of radical
Islam.
The irony of all of this happening in Greeley, CO is surely not lost on the
Islamists driving these demands for religious accommodation. I have speculated
before that they are having a good laugh over the fact that Greeley is
considered the birthplace of some of the most extreme Islamic fundamentalism
rampant in the world today.
Here is the answer to my comment at this morning’s
post about what role Greeley played in the birth of Al Qaeda. Sayed Qtub had
come for a visit:
Communism had Karl Marx. Al Qaedaism has Sayed
Qtub. Who’s he, most people would ask. The ideology that nurtured modern Islamic
extremism, and spawned every violent movement from Hezbollah to al Qaeda, was
born in 1952 when Qtub, an Egyptian writer, returned from studying American
literature at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo.
The tipping point from detached observer to
extremist ideologue took place at a church dance in Greeley when, as Qtub
recalled in “The America I Saw,” the pastor dimmed the lights and put on the
come-hither number “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” a hit tune from the MGM movie
“Neptune’s Daughter” — a guy, girl and bathing suit lemon — with Esther Williams
and Ricardo Montalban.
“The room,” Qtub wrote “became a confusion of feet
and legs; arms twisted around hips; lips met lips; chests pressed together,”
That was the scene that turned him off American culture in particular and
Western culture in general — and onto Islamic fundamentalism.
Read more
here and consider how Greeley could just be an excellent
target city in which Shariah might be planted in America. The irony.
(On a personal note, I cannot help but notice that the hags that the mullahocracy drag
out to "rally" for Ahmadinejad are pasty faced, lipstickless sows. Just sayin')
We will imprison our women and you will like it! The religion of peace promises a reign of terror as France strands up for their women. They want women in polyester prisons - let them stay in Islamic countries. Don't bring that shiz to free countries.
The religion of peace, doin' a'what comes naturally.
Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing threatened on Tuesday to
take revenge on France for its
opposition to the burka, calling on Muslims to retaliate against the country,
the US monitoring service SITE
Intelligence reported.
Earlier this month, President Nicolas
Sarkozy said the burka, which covers the whole face, was not welcome in the
strictly secular country.
"Yesterday was the hijab (the Islamic headscarf long banned in French
schools) and today, it is the niqab (the full veil)," Abu
Musab Abdul Wadud, head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was quoted as
saying.
We will take revenge for the honour of our daughters and sisters against France
and against its interests by every means at our disposal."
The group also called on Muslims to retaliate for what it called French
"hostility" against the community and its attempt to obstruct Islam's practice
on its territory.
"For us, the mujahedeen ... we will not remain silent to such provocations
and injustices," Abdul Wadud
said without elaborating, according to SITE.
"We call upon all Muslims to confront this hostility with greater hostility,
and to counter France's efforts to divide male and female believers from their
faith with a greater effort ... (by) adherence to the teachings of their Islamic
sharia."
He said Muslims in France, who are estimated at around five million, are
"increasingly concerned about the practices of French politicians and leaders
and their harassment".
On June 22, Sarkozy said the burka was not a symbol of religious faith but a
sign of women's "subservience," adding that the head-to-toe veil was "not
welcome" in staunchly secular France.
Israel's grand Twitter conspiracy.Via NIAC, a major hard-right newspaper in Iran, Kayhan, "reports" that Israel posted 18,000 Twitter messages urging people to complain about voter fraud two days before
Nico Pitney reported earlier that "Host quits Iran's Press TV over 'bias' after election.
"It is called Press TV, is funded by the Iranian regime, and opponents
say that from its nondescript offices off Hanger Lane in northwest
London the 24-hour news station is beaming pro-Tehran propaganda into
homes across Britain. Nick Ferrari, a leading British radio presenter, quit his show on the station yesterday in protest
at the regime crushing dissent after the Iranian elections, but Press
TV continues to employ plenty of other Britons -- including MPs and
Cherie Blair's sister."
8:38: I linked to this yesterday but I want to recirculate it:
Iason Athanasiadis, a Greek journalist based in Istanbul, is
being held by the Iranian authorities. He was arrested 17 June 2009.
The arrest seems particularly perverse since Iason, on assignment for
the Washington Times and GlobalPost, is a long time Iran-hand,
Farsi-speaker, and Iran-lover, who spent 2 years at Tehran University.
Efforts to secure his release are being managed by the Greek Foreign
MInistry, and the Greek embassy in Tehran.
12:26
am Tuesday morning: IHRDC Calls on the World to Prevent Iran from
Executing Prisoners Arrested in Connection with the June 12
Presidential Election (hat tip Paul)
June 29, 2009
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Today, ILNA, an official Iranian news outlet,
announced the creation of a special commission to “determine the fate
of recent arrestees.” If history is any barometer, the creation of this
commission and the men appointed to it, are ominous signs that the
regime intends to severely punish, and execute, demonstrators and other
human rights activists. The world cannot stand by and watch.
Ayatollah Shahroudi, the Head of the Judiciary who is appointed by the
Supreme Leader, directed that members of the commission will include
Hojatoleslam Dorri Najafabadi (Iran’s General Prosecutor), Ibrahim
Ra’isi (Deputy Judiciary Chief), and Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (Head of
the General Inspection Organization). He also directed the commission
to coordinate its activities with the Prosecutor of Tehran, Saeed
Mortazavi.
This announcement followed closely on the heels of Friday’s sermon by
senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami in which he stated that
demonstrators are muharib, a status that makes them subject to the most
severe punishment, including execution. The sermon and creation of the
commission follow a familiar deadly pattern, particularly given the men
involved.
Mortazavi has been implicated in the death of photo-journalist
Zahrah Kazemi, and the arrests and torture of other journalists and
bloggers. Two of the named commissioners, Pour-Mohammadi and Ra’isi,
were members of special commissions that were created in July 1988 on
the orders of the then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Those
commissions, known as Death Commissions, sent thousands of already
sentenced political prisoners throughout Iran to their deaths based
solely on their responses to a few questions. The Iranian government
secretly executed the prisoners and has never acknowledged that they
took place. To this day, the exact numbers and identities of those
executed remain unknown.
In a pattern eerily similar to today, as the executions were beginning
in 1988, the then-Chief Justice Musavi Ardebili delivered a sermon
claiming that “[t]he people say they should all be executed without
exceptions.”
Given this history involving many of the same powerful men, the
creation of special commissions coupled with a call for executions, are
clear signs that Iran intends to severely punish, and execute,
demonstrators and other human rights activists. The IHRDC calls on the
United Nations to prevent this from happening.
Ever since the revolution and especially after the hostage crisis,
the western media, unconsciously perhaps, pictured Iran as a hostile,
threatening country with uncivilized people. The western media were not
alone in this; they had an accomplice in the Iranian government, who
embraced this villain-ized picture of Iran. To them, the more alienated
the world was from the true Iran, the less they cared about what goes
on in the country. In fact, it was not until its secret nuclear
facilities were discovered that western governments took a real
interest in Iran.
I remember September 11, 2001. I remember watching TV all day
worried and sad. I remember holding candlelight vigils with my friends
for the victims. Then George W. Bush went on to declare us as one of
the “Axis of Evil.” I remember asking myself, “Why?” Not a single one
of the terrorists was Iranian, and I wondered why he didn’t bother to
make a distinction between the government and the people. In fact, in
all of the Middle East I don’t think there is a more pro-American
nation than Iran, but no one made such a distinction. Consequently, the
Iranian people were viewed with an aura of suspicion in every airport
and embassy around the world for the rest of the Bush administration.
But all of that unfounded negative stereotyping came to an end when,
in the aftermath of the elections, the nation stood up to the
manipulative authorities and separated its account from that of the
government. We shattered the stereotype with the amateur photos and
videos taken with our own mobile phones. We captured the true picture
of the Iranian nation and relayed it to the world, a picture of a young
and highly educated nation yearning to be free.
Now I must tell the people of the world: Thank you! To the western
media: Thank you for believing in us and in our cause. To the drinkers
in the pubs of London: Thank you for supporting us and for lending us
your voice.
The workers of the Khodro automobile company in Iran today issued the following declaration (translated for The Field from the original Farsi by Iraj Omidvar):
We declare our solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran.
Autoworker, Fellow Laborers (Laborer Friends): What we witness today, is an insult to the intelligence of the people, and disregard for their votes, the trampling of the principles of the Constitution by the government. It is our duty to join this people's movement.
We the workers of Iran Khodro, Thursday 28/3/88 in each working shift will stop working for half an hour to protest the suppression of students, workers, women, and the Constitution and declare our solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran. The morning and afternoon shifts from 10 to 10:30. The night shift from 3 to 3:30.
Obama, wrong on Honduras, wrong on Iran. He's consistent, no?
The UN, media leftopaths and the radical US President are trying to paint what happened in Honduras as a coup. It was not. It was a democracy at work, saving itself from a Chavez-backed takeover.
Obama is on the same side as Chavez, Noriega and the Castro twins. Good luck with that!
Chavez, Zelaya complicit
"Micheletti is our President"
Atlas read JC writes:
My brother lives in Honduras.
says that anti-Zelaya demonstrations are huge. The people support the actions of the congress and supreme court.
Obama does not understand democracy or the meaning of a Constitution.
(Pro-Zelaya demonstrations small and sporadic)
This is widely reported in Spanish-language press but not here in the US
Take this hypothetical: Imagine Obama announced that he was going to
hold a referendum on legalizing a third term for himself. Imagine that
even his attorney general Eric Holder advised him that it was illegal.
Imagine that the Supreme Court ruled that holding the referendum was
unconstitutional. In spite of that, let's imagine that Obama coerced
the FEC to hold the referendum any way. Then we found out that the
referendum was being financed by Hugo Chavez. What should the Joint
Chiefs do? That is exactly what has occurred in Honduras to a tee. The
Honduras Attorney General and their Supreme Court did exactly that.
Their Generals did what they had to. Of course Obama and Clinton
express outrage on our behalf. Thank God that another domino wasn't
toppled. But Chavez wants blood.
Obama, always on the side of evil.
UPDATE Speaking of evil, the UN General Assembly condemns coup in Honduras:
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously condemned the military coup in Honduras and demanded President Manuel Zelaya's immediate return to power, a decision the ousted Honduran leader called "historic."
The world body adopted a resolution by acclamation, calling on all 192 U.N. member states not to recognize any government in Honduras other than Zelaya's.
WTF? This is the problem with international law. It's wrong.
They won't recognize the will of Honduran people and the sanctity of their Constitution?
They won't recognize the will of the Iranian people and the sanctity of one man one vote?
Back on June 18th, I reported that Resolution 1281 was passed overwhelmingly by the New York City Council Education Committee. It called on the “New York City Department of Education to incorporate the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as observed school holidays in the school calendar for the city school district of the city of New York” and also asked that the state legislature “pass, and the Governor to sign into law," a measure calling for this. CAIR was euphoric. It was absolutely silent on the mullahs murdering Iranians who were fighting and dying for freedom in Iran, but positively giddy on the news that the NYC Council had caved on Muslim holidays. Today Bloomberg said no to Muslim school holidays.
Atlas readers know that I have my issues with Mayor Bloomberg and I have been vocal about it. I was outraged that Bloomberg would not remove CAIR-New York President
Omar Mohammedi from the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
Mohammedi was appointed to the Commission in October of 2002.
We protested the Mayor's appointment here, after Mohammedi took after the Jane and the John Does in the "flying Imams" episode.
Terror lawyer Mohammedi represents a number of organizations that are the defendants in a 9/11 lawsuit for the murder of 3000 innocent people. One of the organizations he is the lawyer for is the World Assembly for Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi-based group with offices around the globe that publishes incendiary materials against Jews and openly supports Hamas and violent jihad.
Mohammedi also represents the six imams who were removed from a plane that was headed for Arizona in November of 2006, in a lawsuit against the airline (and originally also the passengers who reported the imams’ suspicious behavior).
Mayor
Bloomberg has stated that he disagrees with Mohammedi's private actions
in exposing the "John Does" in the "Flying Imams" lawsuit, but a human
rights commissioner is appointed by the mayor and serves at the mayor's
pleasure.
Another member of the Human Rights Commission, Rabbi Haskell Lookstein, raised questions about Mr. Mohammedi's appointment.
"If
in fact CAIR does have close ties to known terrorist organizations,
then the presence of its general counsel on the Human Rights Commission
of New York City would seem to me very problematic," said Rabbi
Lookstein. "The most elementary human right is the right to live and
not to be blown to bits."
BUT he did the right thing in this case. Separation of church and state. Bravo Bloomberg.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's City
Council has passed a nonbinding resolution asking the Education Department to
observe two important Muslim holidays. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city
is so diverse schools can't observe every holiday.
The city has the nation's largest school system. A 2008 study by Columbia
University's Teachers College estimates at least 10 percent of its 1.1 million
students are Muslim.
The resolution was passed Tuesday. It asks the Bloomberg administration to
observe the holidays in schools and for the state to require it by amending
education law.
The hatred of the good for being the good. Ayn Rand
Sarah Palin scares the guts out of RINOs, leftopaths and freedom haters. She embodies all that good and fine and decent, and they vomit. You couldn't have written a more charismatic honorable character in a Victor Hugo novel. They will do anything and say anything to destroy this woman. They are so low, so corrupt .... their depravity continues to shock even the most jaded.
It really is hard to understand why some adults feel the need to
make fun of Trig Palin, a one-year old who has Down Syndrome. Politics alone
cannot explain it. If you don't like Sarah Palin, fine, but why go after
Trig?
The controversy regarding the Photoshop of Trig by Alaskan blogger
Linda
Biegel is only the tip of the iceberg. Ever since Sarah's nomination, Trig
has been a target. Last fall, the popular DC-based "gossip" website Wonkette
joked how Trig must have wished he'd been aborted.
Now Wonkette has taken Biegel's Photoshop antics as an excuse to go after Trig
anew.
In a recent post,
Wonkette promoted and joked about even cruder Photoshops of Trig at the
Something Awful web forum, where people can post anonymously (examples below).
Wonkette even included one of these photoshops in its post (above right) while
mocking Trig as the "New Jesus," "Holy Infant" and "Sacred One."
All the
attacks on Trig are Sarah's fault, according to the Wonkette post, since Sarah
had the audacity to bring Trig on stage at the Republican National Convention
(where the original photo in question was taken), which Wonkette calls using
Trig as a "cheap political prop." I guess that makes the Obama kids fair game
according to Wonkette since they were brought on
stage at the Democratic National Convention.
Sarah is to blame for
all the new Photoshops of Trig, according to the Wonkette post, because Sarah
complained about Biegel:
The Virgin Palin, Our Lady of Eternal Anger, gave birth to the New
Jesus at some point last year — or not, who knows, and now Andrew Sullivan just
cares about Iran (which is a good thing!) so we’ll never find out the truth —
and ever since it has been both a Cardinal/Venial Sin and Sharia Law that no
mortal shall “desecrate” an image of the Sacred One … no one but Sarah Palin
herself, because Allah both allows and encourages the use of the Holy Infant as
a cheap political prop as long as such cruel hackery is performed by the Virgin
Palin herself.
Palin’s fury was such, when she found out some blog “on
the Internet” had combined a picture of her cradling one of her Magic Babies
together with a picture of her Jedi Master, some dingbat old radio talk-show
clown in Alaska, that she did verily send her dumbest disciple, “Brother Meg,”
to start a Jihad against the Entire Internet.
But we know what happens
when a fear-and-anger crazed Snow Witch starts a vain war she can never hope to
win: The Internet Strikes Back.
Which is to say, Palin basically poked a
stick in the world’s largest beehive filled with cheap & tireless insanity,
and the SomethingAwful.com goons have unleashed a pack of Photoshop Dogs From
Hell to make the most incredible collection of Sarah Palin Desecration Images in
the History of Time, the end.
Here are two of the milder
Photoshops in the Something Awful forum, which are Sarah's fault according to
Wonkette:
What a riot. It takes small people to stoop this low.
[Note: Accordingly to one of the commenters, the face imposed on the photo
immediately above is that of a convicted sex offender, Brian Peppers, which
makes that Photoshop particularly sick.]
UPDATE:
Huffington Post blogger Jason
Linkins has joined Wonkette in blaming Sarah for the crude Photoshops
because Sarah complained and used the word "desecrate":
And now, all of these people that you had heretofore never heard of
are famous, because Sarah Palin wouldn't let the stuff slide. Even dumber, she
said that the photoshopping was a "desecration," which means she believes Trig
had been "divested of her sacred character." Now I think Trig Palin is an
awesome kid, but COME ON. That's a really pretentious thing for a parent to say.
Can't the Editors at Wonkette or bloggers at HuffPo check the dictionary?
Desecrate has more than one meaning, and is not limited to someone being
"divested" of "sacred character." The Merriam-Webster
online dictionary includes "to treat disrespectfully, irreverently, or
outrageously" in the definition of the term. Sounds right to me. More important,
regardless of which words Sarah used, why does that justify attacks on Trig?
As if that weren't terrible enough, Vanity Fair has a hit piece coming out filled with lies and propaganda. Worse, they were aided by the cancerous liberals of the Republican party.
There is a struggle in the Republican party for the heart and soul of our future. The RINOs (McCain, Romney etc. vs true individualists and conservatives). You must get involved in this struggle.
The GOP wants to knock her out, for the same reasons that they don't back the formidable, courageous Lt. Colonel Allen West.
Steve wrote:
Vanity Fair is loaded with Obama lovers and Palin-haters. It's right up there with MSNBC. My friends, this is more than a struggle to keep Sarah viable. It's a battle for the Republic. Ferocity, please!
The McCain Campaign was abominable in every way imaginable -- no strategy, low-quality support staff, pathetic fundraising, and a top-of-the-ticket candidate who was more interested in preserving his Beltway status than in winning the election. The low point in the campaign was when McCain essentially told the woman in Wisconsin who "feared" Obama that she had nothing to fear from an Obama presidency.
As a 3-year-speechwriter, I found it obvious that Sarah needed a topflight speechwriter/advisor (Elaine Lafferty would have been fine, and I would have done it for nothing) with her; she had no such person. Biden did. Sarah didn't. McCain clearly resented the fact that Sarah drew huge crowds . . . and he couldn't draw flies.
The GOP is trying to knock her out.
Below is to give you a taste of what is to come. There is a devastating hate piece in Vanity Fair, in what can only be a pathetic attempt at complete and total character assassination.Vanity Fair on Palin: 'It came from Wasilla'
- reporter Todd Purdum relies heavily on quotes from unnamed McCain campaign officials.
The same shills that laud Obama for dropping a cool $100,000 on a "dinner and a show with Meesh in NYC, are aghast that Sarah spent $150,000 of donated bucks on her wardrobe for the presidential campaign.
By the time Election Day rolled around, the staff had been serially
pummeled by unflattering press reports about the gaps in Palin’s
knowledge, her stubborn resistance to direction, and the post-selection
spending spree in which she ran up bills of $150,000 on clothes for
herself and her family at high-end stores.
"Whatever her political future, the emergence of Sarah Palin raises
questions that will not soon go away," Todd Purdum writes in a long
piece that ranges from her campaign for governor to her current status
as the "sexiest and riskiest brand" in GOP politics. "What does it say
about the nature of modern American politics that a public official who
often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but
applauded? What does her prominence say about the importance of having
(or lacking) a record of achievement in public life? Why did so many
skilled veterans of the Republican Party-long regarded as the more
adroit team in presidential politics-keep loyally working for her
election even after they privately realized she was casual about the
truth and totally unfit for the vice-presidency?" ...
As Palin makes her way slowly across the crowded ballroom—dressed
all in black; no red Naughty Monkey Double Dare pumps tonight—she is
stopped every few inches by adoring fans. She passes the press pen,
where at least eight television cameras and a passel of reporters and
photographers are corralled, and spots a reporter for a local community
newspaper getting ready to take a happy snap with his pocket camera.
For a split second she stops, pauses, turns her head and shoulders just
so, and smiles. She holds the pose until she’s sure the man has his
shot and then moves on. A few minutes later, the evening’s nominal
keynote speaker, the Republican Party’s national chairman, Michael
Steele, who has been reduced to a footnote in the proceedings,
introduces the special guest speaker as “the storm that is the
honorable governor of the great state of Alaska, Sarah Palin!”
[...]
In the aftermath of the November election, the conventional wisdom
among Palin’s supporters in the Republican establishment was that she
should go home, keep her head down, show that she could govern
effectively, and quietly educate herself about foreign and domestic
policy with the help of a cadre of experienced advisers. She has done
none of this. Rather, she has pursued an erratic course that, for her,
may actually represent the closest thing there is to True North. Her
first trip to Washington since the election was to attend the dinner of
the Alfalfa Club, an elite group of politicians and businesspeople
whose sole function is an annual evening in honor of a plant that would
“do anything for a drink.” Some of her handlers first said she had
accepted—though she then went on to decline—an invitation to speak at
the annual June fund-raiser for the congressional Republicans. She
created a political-action committee—Sarahpac—with the help of John Coale, a prominent Democratic trial lawyer. But just months into its existence the pac’s
chief fund-raiser, Becki Donatelli, a veteran of Republican campaigns,
suddenly quit. One person familiar with the situation told me that
Donatelli could not stand dealing with Palin’s political spokeswoman in
Alaska, Meghan Stapleton, who has drawn withering fire from Palin
friends and critics alike for being an ineffective adviser. Also with
Coale’s help, Palin formed the grandiosely named Alaska Fund Trust, to
defray a reported half million dollars in legal expenses arising from a
slew of formal ethics complaints against her in her home
state—prompting yet another formal complaint, that the fund itself
constitutes an ethical breach. Onetime supporters have become harsh
critics. Walter Hickel, 89, a former two-term governor and interior
secretary, and the grand old man of Alaska politics, who was co-chair
of Palin’s winning gubernatorial campaign, in 2006, now washes his
hands of her. He told me simply, “I don’t give a damn what she does.”
Palin is unlike any other national figure in modern American
life—neither Anna Nicole Smith nor Margaret Chase Smith but a
phenomenon all her own. The clouds of tabloid conflict and controversy
that swirl around her and her extended clan—the surprise pregnancies,
the two-bit blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and common-law kin caught
selling drugs or poaching game—give her family a singular status in the
rogues’ gallery of political relatives. By comparison, Billy Carter,
Donald Nixon, and Roger Clinton seem like avatars of circumspection.
Palin’s life has sometimes played out like an unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure.
Another aspect of the Palin phenomenon bears examination, even if
the mere act of raising it invites intimations of sexism: she is by far
the best-looking woman ever to rise to such heights in national
politics, the first indisputably fertile female to dare to dance with
the big dogs. This pheromonal reality has been a blessing and a curse.
It has captivated people who would never have given someone with
Palin’s record a second glance if Palin had looked like Susan Boyle.
And it has made others reluctant to give her a second chance because
she looks like a beauty queen.
Soon Palin will take a crack at her own story: she has signed a book
contract for an undisclosed but presumably substantial sum, and has
chosen Lynn Vincent, a senior writer at the Christian-conservative World
magazine, as co-author of the memoir, which is to be published next
year not only by HarperCollins but also in a special edition by
Zondervan, the Bible-publishing house, that may include supplemental
material on faith. During the presidential campaign, Palin’s deep
ignorance about most aspects of foreign and domestic policy provided
her with a powerful political reason not to submit to interviews. The
forthcoming book adds a powerful commercial reason.
Palin is a cipher by choice. When she chooses to reveal herself,
what she reveals is not always the same thing as the truth. Her
singular refusal to have in-depth conversations with the national
media—even Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney, among the most saturnine
political figures in modern American history, each submitted to
countless detailed interviews over the years—has compounded the
challenge of understanding who she really is. There has been Hollywood
talk that Palin could star in a reality-TV show about running Alaska,
but nothing has come of it yet. Recently, Palin did star in a week-long
seriocomic feud with David Letterman over some of his borderline jokes.
Meanwhile, she has begun sharing insights several times a day on
Twitter, with chipper reports on her own doings and those of her
husband, Todd, and the rest of what she calls the “first family.” “Look
forward to today’s staff discussion re: my 3rd justice appt to highest
court in 3 yrs. Supreme Court truly effects AK’s future,” reads one.
And another: “Picking up my handsome little man to rtrn to Juneau, Trig
got 1st haircut so my little hippie baby’s ready for AK sunshine on his
shoulders.”
The top McCain aides who had
tried hard to work with Palin—Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist;
Nicolle Wallace, the communications ace; and Tucker Eskew, her
traveling counselor—were barely on speaking terms with her, and news
organizations were reporting that anonymous McCain aides saw Palin as a
“diva” and a “whack job.”
This quote, irritating as it is, is merely a setup for a later assertion:
Some
top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was
experiencing postpartum depression? (Palin’s youngest son was less than
six months old.)
"Like any politician at this level, I've got a healthy ego."
However,
quoting anonymous sources to imply that a national political figure
may, in fact, have been mentally unstable during a campaign is beyond
any stretch of journalistic integrity. And yet, Purdum is not content
to smear Palin with the ethereal possibility of postpartum depression:
More
than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without
prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several
told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the
definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of
grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of
empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly.
It is
amusing to consider the idea that random, unidentified constituents
would, unbidden, pick up the copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders that they just so happened to have sitting
on the bookshelf, and wonder if Sarah Palin suffered from a mental
disorder.
For the sake of argument, however, let us simply
settle on the fact that failing to identify these people – or their
expertise in the field of psychiatric medicine – leaves this paragraph
as a near-libelous attack on the mental state of a public figure.
I am unclear as to why the government chooses to keep this from the American people. The easy answer is that "we don't want people to panic". Understood, but blissful ignorance is not a strategy; wouldn't we be better off knowing and educating ourselves as to who the enemy is, the ideology that motivates him and what is his objective?
While the following explosive revelations are unnerving, it pales in comparison to the recent moves Obama has taken to dismantle the very safeguards we have in place to track terrorists. Further, law enforcement is now focusing on outreach, not investigation. We extend a hand, they chop it off.
This from a confidential source of mine, Jan P:
I once had a client “The Rule of Law consortium” headed by the late
David Braunheim. The rule of Law Consortium had an AID contract to
help former Soviet countries establish new, Democratic legal
systems.
I was in their office one day when they came back from a seminar
given by a former KGB agent. This agent said that 10 or 12
suitcase nuclear bombs had disappeared from Russia and were
presumed to be in the hands of the Arabs. This article from 1997 claims that
100 were missing. The date of the story, 1997, is about the time
that I heard about the seminar.
JFK Terminal Plot
The second attempt that I know of is the JFK terrorist plot. When
the plot was announced to the public, we were told that the
terrorists planned to blow up fuel tanks at JFK and that the fire
would spread through the pipelines into Brooklyn. I have had
enough science classes (college level) to know that this could not
possibly happen.
Reports mentioned an Arab terrorist named Shukrijumah.
Shukrijumah’s name came up in some news reports. I did research
and found references to him on the island of Trinidad. At least
one of them had Shukrijumah talking about having a nuclear bomb on
the north end of the island. Some of those sites have disappeared.
The terrorist was last seen in Mexico, where, on Nov. 1, 2004, he
allegedly hijacked a Piper PA Pawnee cropduster from Ejido
Queretaro near Mexacli to transport a nuclear weapon and nuclear
equipment into the U.S. The plane's tail number was XBCYP.
An indirect source in Ha’aretz Bitahon b’ Artzot habrit said that
at least one nuclear bomb was captured in the JFK plot.
Another source, whom I know personally, told me that at least one
nuclear bomb was captured as part of the JFK Plot.
The official said the plotters had conducted surveillance on giant jet
fuel tanks at JFK and the pipeline. They had taken surveillance video
of the targets and took it to Trinidad to review the tape, the official
said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the arrests were not
yet announced.
These Islamic terrorists have been tentatively tied to Jamaat Muslimeen -- "struggle for Islam" -- originating from Trinidad (the Caribbean is now a hot spot.) Places you least expect.
It seems that a Parliamentarian was involved in this plot. Yes, a government official.
One suspect, a U.S. citizen who is a native of Guyana and who once
worked at the airport, was described by a source as "a very angry
Muslim extremist."
In all, four individuals, including the former Guyana parliament
member, Abdul Kadir, and Russell
Defreitas, a U.S. citizen and native
of Guyana who worked as an airport cargo worker, have been charged with
conspiring to attack JFK. (Photo: Abdul Kadir - on the left)
Also in custody are Kareem Ibrahim, a citizen of Trinidad held in
Trinidad, and Abdel Nur, a citizen of Guyana. The United States is
planning to seek their extradition.
Roslynn Mauskopf, US attorney for the Eastern District of New York: "The
most chilling plot imaginable." The damage and carnage impossible to
fathom. The devastation that would be caused is just unthinkable."
Plot spread from NY to Guyana and Trinidad.
" Huge concern about the fuel line. The feeding tube that feeds
international commerce, airport, residences." "The Buckeye Pipeline
(orginates from Allentown Pa.), a 40 million fuel line, runs from New
Jersey to Nassau (JFK) ......" It is the central fuel line.
"This plot similar and different to ones in the past (the Lincoln
tunnel planned blow up, the '93 stock exchange plot, the Financial
District plot) . It is different as it is tied to the Caribbean. Similiar in that it is a self radicalized New Yorker plotting to betray his country with a catastrophic event."
The plot began in the US and then spread to Trinidad and Guyana, officials
said.
The group had shown unusual persistence, seeking finance and expert advice
and gathering photographic and video surveillance as well as satellite images,
said Mr Mershon.
"This is a very determined group," he said. "Look at the world through the eyes, through the prism of September 11th."
One of the suspects (Defreitas - sp?) was quoted as saying: "the attacks would result in the destruction of the whole of JFK and destroy whole parts of Queens. Few people would survive."
"Even the twin towers can't touch it. This would destroy the whole US economy"
The complaint adds that an informant and Defreitas discussed the war
in Lebanon in August 2006 and agreed, "Muslims always incur the wrath
of the world while the Jews get a pass."
It was at that point, court records say, Defreitas shared with the
informant "that he had a vision that would make the WTC attack seem
small."
Jamaat Muslimeen (in Trinidad) is the terror group behind the JFK plot
Al Qaeda's so-called nuclear whiz kid - a "tantalizing terror figure" with a $5
million bounty on his head - was the radical big shot investigators had hoped to
snag in their 18-month JFK-plot probe, The Post has learned.
The name of "invisible hand" Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, reportedly the man
Osama bin Laden tapped to lead a previous scheme to detonate nuclear bombs
simultaneously in several U.S. cities, came up at several points in taped
conversations during the probe, according to law-enforcement sources familiar
with the investigation.
Shukrijumah grew up in Guyana, according to terror expert and author Paul L.
Williams. Shukrijumah's late father, Gulshair, an Islamic scholar, once served
as a temporary imam at Brooklyn's al-Farouq mosque, which is well-known in
radical circles, Williams said.
The mosque has connections to a scheme to fund an al Qaeda-linked sheik as well
as one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.
[...]
Some terror experts think 31-year-old Shukrijumah is among a handful of
up-and-coming leaders of al Qaeda handpicked by Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the
mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, to keep the terrorist network running.
Apparently hoping to be part of that network was suspected JFK-plot
mastermind Russell Defreitas, 63.
Defreitas, a native of Guyana and former cargo worker at the airport, landed on
the authorities' radar after approaching a drug dealer-turned-informant at a
mosque at Bedford Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, allegedly seeking help.
[...]
Kareem Ibrahim, of Trinidad, and another suspect, Abdul Kadir, of Guyana,
were in custody in Trinidad awaiting extradition hearings. Kadir is a former
mayor of the Guyanese coal-mining town of Linden and a one-time radical member
of the country's parliament.
Kadir was arrested as he boarded the plane to Venezuela - where his family said
he planned to pick up a travel visa to attend an Islamic religious conference in
Iran.
Adnan Shukrijunah the son of Saudi funded Wahabi cleric in Miramar, Florida USA was named by US law enforcement as 'Mohammed Atta's sucessor' based on information from Khalid Sheik Mohammed the 9/11 mastermind who was captured in Pakistan in 2003. Adnan is a former resident of Miramar, South Florida, where he attended computer and English classes at Broward Community College in 1997. A native of Guyana, El Shukrijumah's father, Gulshai, died in Miramar on June 2004.
Being the father of an aspiring dirty bomber with terrorist ties to terrorist going back 20 years, and having one's name on the Saudi payroll appears to have been a job asset for Adnan Shukrijumah's father Gulshair. After the Al Hirjah mosque next to his Miramar home supposedly asked him to step down, due to unwanted publicity, Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, the director of AMANA- The American Muslim Society of North America, ,and a Shukrijumah family friend offered "the Sheik' a place on the board of directors of the Shamshuddin Islamic Center.
In 2003 Gulshair intimated that losing his $500 dollar a month position as Imam at Al Hijrah would bring financial hardship to him and his family. He sniveled to the press that "I feel very said because I have done no wrong", and declared that "if my son is suspect in something it does not mean that I too am also suspect."
According to Michael Isikoff's and Mark Hosenball's April 2004 Newsweek investigative articles into Saudi government terror funding:
"The Florida based Imam (Gulshair Shukrijumah), has been on the FBI radar screen for some time."
"In response to the U.S. calls for tighter controls the Saudi government terminated payments to Gulshair El Shukrijumah, along with a number of other clerics being supported by the embassy."
Gulshair Shukrijumah collected $19,400 dollars in checks from the Saudi embassy between 2000 and 2003 . He also acted as interpreter for the 'Blind Sheik' Omar Abdel Rahman who masterminded the 1993 WTC bombings, as well as plots to bomb other U.S. landmarks, and instigated attacks abroad.
Shukrijumah, described as a pilot and bombmaker, and is also known by several aliases and nicknames, including "Jaffar the Pilot”, was among several suspected al-Qaeda figures who met in the northwestern province of Waziristan in Pakistan during March 2004, according to the Los Angeles Times and other publications. Pakistani officials said that meeting also was attended by Osama bin Laden lieutenant Abu Eisa al Hindi, an Indian convert to radical Islam and surveillance specialist living in Britain, Mohammed Junaid Babar, a Pakistani-American who arrived at the summit with cash, sleeping bags and ponchos and communications engineer Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, whose computer discs allegedly contained surveillance reports for a planned attack on buildings in the United States and Britain.
Accoridng to the FBI Report, two of the suspects arrested, Abdul Kadir &
Abdel Nur, were members of Jamaat al-Muslimeen (JAM), based in Trinidad.
Implicated in the JFK terror plot Jamaat Muslimeen LEADER YASIN ABU BAKR -
Yasin Abu Bakr when he bailed out of Trinidad jail, same bodyguard with the beard seen in both photos.
JAMAAT al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr is expected go on trial later
this month on terrorism and sedition charges. Bakr has been charged
with sedition, promoting a terrorist act and inciting others to breach
the peace stemming from his November 2005 Eid sermon at his Mucurapo
mosque.
Nov. 2005 Government's drastic anti-crime initiative paid off yesterday, when a
large contingent of police and army officers from the Special
Anti-crime Unit (SAUTT) and other sections of the Police Service raided
the Jamaat al Muslimeen compound at Mucurapo Road.
Washington DC, within the last two years
The same source as above told me about this attempt to attack
Washington, DC with a nuclear bomb. Authorities got word about a
plan to fly a bomb into the airport on Tangier Island and sent out
a team to intercept the attack. There was a shootout at the
airport. The terrorists were killed and the bomb captured.
Tangier Island is in the Chesapeake bay about 90 miles south of
Washington, DC.
My source said that her/his source was involved in the shootout and
killed one of the terrorists.
Another source, involved with law enforcement, who would not put
it in writing, was able to confirm the story. (This source also
said that if Americans knew what was going on, they would panic.)
An old friend with “connections” said that incidents occur that are
immediately classified secret. He said that if the general
population knew, there would be panic.
Boston
I saw a few stories about a failed nuclear bomb attempt on the
Republican National Convention in New York in 2004 on the
Internet. They, like so many other stories of this type, have
disappeared. I mentioned this to an investigative reporter. He
replied:
The incident in 2004 was at the Dems convention, not the GOP
convention – and it involved a friend of mine.
He went on to tell me that the bomb was a dud and did not go off.
Other Nuclear things of note:
Don’t forget Jose Padilla, who is in jail on charges of a dirty bomb
plot.
The Port of Seattle was shut down when nuclear alarms went off for
two containers on August 16, 2006. We were later told that the
containers contained oily rags. The U.S. has enough oily rags that
we don’t need to import them. Considering spontaneous combustion,
you would not ship a container of oily rags unless you wanted to
set the ship on fire.
On August 12, 2007, there was a minor car crash in Hoboken, NJ.
The driver of one car ran off. When the police searched the car,
they bound a box of radioactive materials in the trunk.
"....the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated," said a senior officer of the investigating team, not wishing to be quoted.
Part I
Part II
Part III
The other day I ran some of the telephone intercepts between the Muslim terrorists in Mumbai and their Islamic masters in Pakistan. Motivation and encouragement to murder and bomb for the sake of Allah.
It was all about Allah, jihad and Islamic Jew hatred.
.
Moshe Holtzberg was snatched to safety by his Indian nanny from under
the noses of the gunmen who brought carnage to India last November. His Rabbi father and mother were
killed the day before his second birthday when Muslims took
over the Chabad House they ran in Mumbai, one of several targets they
laid siege to in the city during the devastating terrorist raid in
which more than 170 people died.
Telephone intercept:
'Do you want them to keep the hostages or kill them?' asks Brother Wasi of
someone else in the control room.
The person replies with a casual grunt, barely audible through the background
babble of the news channels playing on a nearby television.
At the other end of the line, 500 miles away, Akasha, a 25-year-old
Pakistani, is squatting on the floor inside a besieged building in the centre of
Mumbai with a murdered rabbi's mobile phone in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the
other.
He knows with complete certainty that this will be his last night on Earth.
For his mission to be a success, he must be killed.
The two women hostages are on a bed nearby, trussed up and blindfolded.
Another gunman, Umer, is dozing.
Now Wasi comes back on the phone. His manner is warm and paternal - the kind
of calm, commanding voice you instinctively trust.
Wasi: 'Listen up...'
Akasha: 'Yes sir.'
Akasha speaks in a gentle, dopey murmur. He
sounds exhausted.
Wasi: 'Just shoot them now. Get rid of
them. Because you could come under fire at any time and you'll only end up
leaving them behind.'
Akasha: 'Everything's quiet here for
now.'
Wasi: 'Shoot them in the back of the
head.'
Akasha: 'Sure. Just as soon as we come
under fire.'
Wasi: 'No. Don't wait any longer. You
never know when you might come under attack.'
For the second time in as many weeks Obama went into negative territory again, Rasmussen reports. This is a trend that will continue. America is just waking up to what was elected. As unemployment soars, along with taxes and government interference in our lives ......... you are going to see a steep slide -- unprecedented, I predict. I mean how many real kool-aid drinkers are there?
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday
shows that 31% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way
that Barack Obama
is performing his role as President. Thirty-three percent (33%)
Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating
of -2. That matches the lowest level yet recorded (see trends).
Over the past two weeks, the Presidential Approval Index has stayed in
a narrow range between +2 and -2. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of
Democrats Strongly Approve while 60% of Republicans Strongly
Disapprove.
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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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