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.
Choices, choices! Who said convert or die? There are options!
(Pakistan) Battagram Hindus told to embrace Islam or pay tax -- "Chief of the
Hindu community in Battagram said on Sunday that the Taliban had threatened them
to pay Jazia (tax) or accept Islam" -- "'It depends on you to choose between
Jazia and Islam otherwise you would face abduction and suicide attacks,' Dr
Oam Parkash quoted the Taliban as saying."
Honduran soldiers rousted President Manuel Zelaya from his bed and
exiled him at gunpoint Sunday to Costa Rica, halting his controversial
push to redraw the constitution but spurring fresh concerns about
democratic rule across Latin America. The U.S. and other countries condemned the coup. President
Barack Obama said he was "deeply concerned" and called on all political
actors in Honduras to "respect democratic norms." Venezuela President
Hugo Chávez, a close ally of Mr. Zelaya and nemesis of the U.S., said
he would consider it an ''act of war" if there were hostilities against
his diplomats. "I have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert," Mr.
Chávez said.
Honduras's Supreme Court gave the order for the military to detain
the president, according to a former Supreme Court official who is in
touch with the court.
Later, Honduras's Congress formally removed Mr. Zelaya from the
presidency and named congressional leader Roberto Micheletti as his
successor until the end of Mr. Zelaya's term in January. Mr. Micheletti
and others said they were the defenders, not opponents, of democratic
rule.
Obama refuses to "meddle" in Iran, where individuals are courageously risking life and limb for the idea of free elections. Brutal Islamic nazis are crushing dissent, and Obama talks about "lively debate". But in Honduras, Obama and the whores at the UN have no qualms about interfering to back a Chavez proxy (of course).
The real story behind the chaos in Honduras is a huge story that needs to be exposed to the world.
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.
(hat tip Howard)
The collective negation of humanity (aka the UN) at Turtle Bay weighs in immediately on Honduras (after weeks of silence on the murdering Mullahs in Iran) and backs .... the axis of evil, of course.
7:17 pm: Intelligence Minister says some of the arrested “will not be released.”
2:42 pm: Twitters from Iran are reporting that Iranians are protesting news that Iran's
Guardian Council confirmed the results of the elections.
Daneshju Park is full of Basij and special guards and
militia forces are being organized in the park 4 dealing human chain People have
"come out on the streets... [they] are in the various city squares,"
Police and plain clothes forces are settled across the
Valiasr street to disallow the protesters to make a humanchain
Two weeks after the elections, it seems that the Iranian regime has managed
to suppress the protest movement. This report examines the reasons for the
waning of this movement.
1. Violence by the Regime
In attempt to quell the protests, which were mostly peaceful, the Iranian
regime has employed brutal violence. IRGC and Basij units, some of them in
plainclothes, used both cold weapons (clubs and knives) and live fire against
the protestors. In addition to employing violence against the demonstrators in
the streets, the security forces also raided student dorms, especially in
Tehran; arrested protesters, political activists, journalists and intellectuals;
and persecuted owners of homes from which the call of "Allah Akbar" was heard in
the nights. The heads of the regime made threats against anyone who participated
in the demonstrations, blocked websites and media outlets supportive of the
protest movement, and waged a media campaign against this movement by describing
the protestors and their leaders as hostile elements collaborating with Iran's
enemies. Permits for political and party activities were revoked, and a special
court was establish to prosecute the protestors.
2. Unlike Some of the Demonstrators, the Protest Movement Leaders Never
Advocated a Regime Change in Iran; Their Campaign Is Part of a
Struggle between Two Streams within the Regime
The leaders of the protest movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and
Mohammad Khatami, called on the demonstrators to keep their protests peaceful,
and stated that they would negotiate with the regime to attain their goals,
which are the holding of a new election or the establishment of a committee of
ayatollahs, acceptable to all sides, to examine the election results. Unlike
some of the protestors, these leaders are not interested in a change of regime
in Iran, and have never called to topple Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. [1]
[...]
3. Absence of International Support
The policy of the West during this crisis has been one of non-intervention in
the events in Iran.
Conclusion:
The events in Iran following the elections were a public outburst of rage
that encompassed many sectors of Iranian society. This outburst was made
possible by the emergence of a comprehensive common denominator, namely anger
over the rigged elections. The protestors sought a leadership, but did not find
one.
The regime's power and brutal suppression of the protests, the absence of a
religious leadership, and the silence of the world meant that the protest
movement could not maintain its momentum, and started to crumble after two
weeks. However, it is safe to assume that another, more effective, protest
movement will arise when the necessary "ingredients" are present, namely - a
public of protestors, a compelling ideological agenda presenting an alternative
to the regime, a religious leadership that will head the movement and will be
willing to pay the price, and international support.
It can also be assumed that the present Iranian protest movement is likely to
impact the Sunni Arab societies in the countries neighboring Iran, which are
also no strangers to election fraud.
12:07 pm: Iranian press reports: Debate reportedly turns physical in Iran's parliament. The news site Baztab reports that Iranian MP Pezeshkian was physically confronted while urging the regime to show tolerance towards critics. (hat tip Nico Pitney)
12:00 pm: Iran election: faces of the dead and detained (hat tip jan)
Bless the Guardian, which has created an interactive grid to identify the courageous fighters arrested, beaten and/or killed. Please go.... click each face.
Terrific protest in support of the protesters in front of CNN - perhaps because they are the only network who covered it. Good job, FOX! Josh Weiss grabbed some great snaps here.
11:54: Is Mousavi selling out? There were reports
earlier that Iran's Guardian Council, "a 12-member clerical panel
charged with vetting and authenticating the June 12 vote, said on
Monday that Mr. Moussavi had offered proposals to 'rebuild public
trust'".
If he pursues this, the people will turn on him. Remember, the last revolution took two years. There is no saying how long this one will take, but the mullahcracy is going down - and taking Obama with it :)
More than 2,000 Iranians have been arrested and hundreds more have
disappeared since the regime decided to crush dissent after the
disputed presidential election, a leading human rights organisation
said yesterday.
This article from Times Online shows how out of touch and utterly without heart these zombies are. The left and their flying monkeys are only too anxious to write the post
mortem on the Iranian revolution, but the Iranians continue to defy the
cynics and the toadying totalitarians in their fight for freedom.
For more than a week, IranElection was the most popular “trending” topic on Twitter, and as journalists were expelled or arrested the microblogging site became one of the top sources of news — or at least gossip — from Tehran.
Until June 12, the tweeters had been ordinary people sharing their thoughts with friends, but suddenly they acquired tens of thousands of “followers” and became de facto journalists, trying to keep track of deaths, arrests and protests. But the truth or otherwise of tweets was always difficult to verify and the accounts came from just a handful of young, anti-government urbanites in Tehran; the Iranian internet phenomenon was largely propelled by non-Iranians piling in.
In any case, either internet blocks or arrests have reduced the trickle of information to virtually nothing. Names such as persiankiwi and Change_for_Iran, for a brief moment apparently the voices of democratic Iran, may prove untraceable now that they have had their 15 minutes of cyberspace fame.
Judith Evans, the author of this deadly propaganda, should be flipping burgers. Those of us actually reporting on the events in Iran for 12 weeks came to know these citizen journalists. They were doing the real reporting, the dangerous work. For this Evans to call them a handful of young anti-government urbanites is an insult to humanity.
The videos, audios, pictures backed up their accounts. Judith and her ilk are history. Actually, this bitter old harridan would be lucky to get a job flipping burgers. She couldn't flip mine.
Oh, those pious mullahs! So righteous! Is this what they mean by sharia finance? I guess this is their idea of a "green revolution". And you have to love those little Swiss piggies. Neutral? Yes, just like during World War II. Neutral for Nazis. Neutral on the bloody backs of millions.
1) Ali Khamenei
- Sparkasse Bank (Frankfurt/Germany) Acct.# 234075617: DM 112.1 Millions
- Corner Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct. # 217824: US$ 97 Millions
- Banque Cantonale (Lausanne/CH) Acct. # 71713: US$ 73.2 Millions
2) Ali Akbar Hashemi Rasfandjani
- Union Bank Suisse (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 223870390:SF 532.5 Millions
Societe Generale (Zurich/CH) Acct.# 30064183: DM 477.2 Millions
- Sparkasse (Ciborg/Germany) Acct. # 2957132: DM 238.2 Millions
3) Mohammad Ali Tasskhiri
- Societe Generale (Geneve/Ch) Acct.# 500032654: DM 280.7 Millions
- Midland Bank (London/UK) Acct.# 832-150270: BP 12.2 Millions
- Dressdner bank (Dusserdolf/Germany) Acct.# 8354783: DM 48.3 Millions
4 ) Mohammad Golpayegani
- Credit Bank Suisse (Geneve/CH) Acct.# CEO7680: SF 85.7 Millions
5) Bijan Namdar Z angene
- Union Bank Suisse (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 314380320: US$ 141.7 Millions
6) Habibollah Asgar Aladi
- Corner Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct. # 3983BHK: US$ 180 Millions
7) Ahmad Jannati
- Midland Bank (London/UK) Acct.# 92114016: BP 54.2 Millions
8) Abdollah Nategh Nouri
- Union Banque Suisse (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 2102120321ND: USD 123.9 Millions
- Deutsh bank (Hamburg/Germany) Acct.# 03223486: DM 64.1 Millions
9) Mohsen Rafighdoost
- Union Banque Suisse (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 2183130687: USD 122.7 Millions
10) Mohsen Hashemi Bahremani
- Deutsh bank (Munchen 3/Germany) Acct.# 1732736: DM 370.7 Millions
- Credit Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 928530FC: USD 178.2 Millions
11) Abbas Vaez-Tabassi
- Corner Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct.# FAH7272: SF 97.2 Millions
- Sparkasse (Hamburg/Germany) Acct #. DFH72251660:USD 216.7 Millions
12) Hossein Shariatmadari
- Midland Bank (London/UK) Acct.# 34414011: BP 37.8 Millions
13) Mohsen Rezai
- Union Banque Suisse (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 442760430: USD 78.2 Millions
- Credit Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct.# FAH7967: SF 52.7 Millions
14) Massood Movahedian
- Commerz Bank (Koln/Germany) Acct.# 3528817: DM 287.8 Millions
15) Kamal Kharrazi
- Corner Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct.# AMF4567: USD 18.2 Millions
16) Ali-Reza Mo-ayeri
- Societe Generale (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 50024814: USD12.6 Millions
17) Hossein Kordi
- Corner Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct.#14710025: USD 14.7 Millions
18) Abbas-Ali Forooghi
- Corner Bank (Geneve/CH) Acct.# 12930034: USD 10.7 Millions
This is too gorgeous, too beautiful, too rich and delicious!
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New
Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a
decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court
judge.
The MSM downplayed Obama's 20 years as a member of racist
Rev. J. Wright's American hating church and look what America has gotten for
it.
Will Congress ignore all the racist signs surrounding Ms Sotomayor,
like the one above, her comments about Latina woman and white men, her
membership in LaRaza a racist organization?
And can we stop with the affirmative action racism? Lowering the bar for non-whites ..... is racist. It assumes they have a lower intelligence. What insanity.
The FBI leadership, over the professional objections of its agents based on facts and evidence, wants outreach with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood front groups (which, in and of itself, is evidence of complete malfeasance on the part of FBI leaders).
CAIR, MPAC, and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) have been the folks the FBI has used for years, and FBI leadership has defended them, especially CAIR - despite the fact that the FBI has been investigating them for fifteen years. Now that the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas front CAIR is taking heat (from everyone but the FBI), the FBI has made ISNA their primary POC - the same Muslim Brotherhood /Hamas front - same family different names.
Founded in 1928 by the Egyptian activist Hasan al-Banna,
the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest, largest and most
influential Islamist organizations. Egypt has historically been the
center of the Brotherhood's operations, though the group maintains
offshoots throughout the Arab-Muslim world -- including in Afghanistan,
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, the Palestinian territories (Hamas), Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Sudan -- and is also active in the United States and Europe. Islam expert Robert Spencer has called the Muslim Brotherhood "the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda."
There should be a unified call for the removal of the FBI Director and the top leadership, as well as charges of Obstruction of Justice, Aiding and Abetting, Misprision of Treason, and, in the cases of Miller, Persichin, and Tidwell, charges of Treason:
Executive Assistant Director for National Security Arthur Cummings, Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Michael Heimbach, Assistant Director for Public Affairs John Miller, Assistant Director (retired) Steven Tidwell, Assistant Director, Washington Field Office, Joseph Persichini, Former (retired) Executive Assistant Director for National Security Willie Hulon.
June 26, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Today the FBI strongly
denied a claim made earlier this week [see, FBI initiates official outreach to
Hamas [here], that there has been an,
"official decision by FBIHQ to use ISNA as their official point of contact with
the American Muslim community."
"Today, FBI Executive Assistant Director Tom Harrington is
meeting at FBIHQ with Imam Majid of the ADAMS Center in Sterling,VA. Imam Majid
is also the Vice-President of the Islamic Society of North America - a known
Muslim Brotherhood entity and un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
Foundation Trial in Dallas in which all defendants were found guilty of leading
the Hamas front group. This was the largest terrorism financing trial in the
history of the United States.
This meeting today follows yesterday's official decision by FBIHQ to use ISNA
as their official point of contact with the American Muslim community. ISNA is
one of the largest and most prominent Muslim Brotherhood entities in the US. The
Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 with two objectives (which are their
same two objectives today): implement Islamic Law and re-establish the global
Islamic Caliphate. Their creed, which is still their creed today, includes
"...martyrdom in the way of Allah is our highest inspiration."
Agents and attorneys aware of this decision believe it obligates them to
violate US law by forcing them to work with a front group for a designated
terrorist group (Hamas). It is worth reminding you all that the Hamas Covenant
states Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood entity, and that Hamas is a designated
terrorist organization by the US government.
The controversy is understandable from a national security standpoint, since
the establishment of a formal relationship with ISNA would mean that America's
premier domestic law enforcement agency was partnering with a known wing of the
terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, in effect providing it with an official seal of
approval and much undeserved legitimacy.
Contacted by PipeLineNews.org, John Miller, FBI Assistant Director, Office of
Public Affairs. TX., speaking for the Bureau, vigorously denied any new
relationship, stressing that the "FBI official" named in the story, " oversees
the criminal and cyber programs and was in no way related to the meeting."
"1. The information as reported is factually inaccurate and generally
misleading.
2. There has been no "official decision by the FBI to use ISNA," or any other
organization, "as the official point of contact with the American Muslim
community."
3. Imam Magid, who leads the ADAMS center in Herndon, Virginia, is a
longstanding liaison contact of the FBI's Washington Field Office, and a
respected member of the national capital area religious community. He met with
an FBI community relations official as part of that liaison relationship.
4. The FBI official identified in the story oversees the criminal and cyber
programs and was in no way related to the meeting.
5. The FBI meets with contacts from many diverse groups as part of our
mission to both understand and protect the communities we
serve."
From the above article, Miller states, "3. Imam Magid, who leads the ADAMS center in Herndon, Virginia, is a longstanding liaison contact of the FBI's Washington Field Office, and a respected member of the national capital area religious community. He met with an FBI community relations official as part of that liaison relationship."
Imam Magid is the Vice President of ISNA, so Miller is admitting a long-standing, already-established relationship with the leader of ISNA (understanding that Ingrid Mattson is a figurehead). Miller's own words show that he is a full of shitnik.
As the AD for Public Affairs for the FBI, he has a professional duty, and he swore an oath to the Constitution to protect and defend it. He has based his relationship with the Muslim community on a completely counterfactual understanding of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islam in general. When he decided to use a third party (the Muslim Brotherhood) to give him and the FBI an understanding of the enemy, he decided to become a traitor. AD Persichini (Washington Field Office) and AD Steve Tidwell (retired, formerly in LA) should be charged along with Miller. Focus should be on Obstruction of Justice and Aiding and Abetting. Treason, while it can legitimately be charged, won't be in this climate.
There's a lot of this:
There are many other examples: The Case of Yahya Hendi –
The State Department spent $178,144 from 2003- 2007 for Hendi to speak
on behalf of U.S. across Africa, Europe, and South Asia. Hendi had ties
to an Al Qaeda front when he made these trips. The Benevolence
International Foundation (BIF), which Hendi had served as a moderator
at a 2000 fundraiser, had been designated a financier of terrorism for
supporting Al Qaeda.
The Muslim imam who gave a closing benediction at the Democratic
National Convention in Boston also served as a character witness to
Sami al-Arian, the Florida professor indicted by the U.S. Justice
Department on 50 counts of terror-related charges.
On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Imam Yahya
Hendi said the closing prayer of the night with some verses from the
Quran.
Yet, last July, the 9-11 commission heard testimony from
terrorism expert Steven Emerson that Hendi, one of the top Islamic
clerics in the U.S., backed al-Arian – head of the Palestinian Islamic
Jihad in North America.
2008 Director’s Community Leadership Awards
Baltimore, Maryland
Imam Yahya Hendi
Islamic Society of Frederick
Imam
Yahya Hendi is the Imam of the Islamic Society of Frederick in
Frederick, Maryland and the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University.
He also serves as a member of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of
North America. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at Johns
Hopkins University, Fordham University, and Hartford Seminary. Imam
Hendi also teaches a very popular course at Georgetown University,
“Inter-Religious Encounter.”
Imam Hendi was one
of the Muslim leaders who met often with President George W. Bush in
the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy. Imam Hendi frequently visits
and lectures at churches and synagogues hoping to create positive
relationships. In his lectures, he focuses on issues related to gender
relations, world peace, political justice, and inter-religious and
interfaith issues.
From the ISNA website -- one of their events, this is right off their website.
Check out the Muslim America Society MAS -
Ahmad Elkadi: General Guide for Muslim Brotherhood in the US
BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN US, FOUNDER OF MUSLIM AMERICA SOCIETY, MAS
UPDATE: More on the FBI's cordiality with tainted Muslim groups. The FBI has a Citizen's Academy. Prominent community members are invited to attend. The sessions are at the nearest Field Office and are usually Friday evenings after what is usually a work day. The sessions last for eight Fridays. The last session takes the participants to the FBI's firing range to practice on the types of guns used during field operations.
Hussam Ayloush of CAIR LA fame was invited in the October 2006 session.
The ultimate question is what a regime change, or even modification of
the regime with a Mousavi as president, would mean to Iran's nuclear
program. More
It articulates quite clearly my take and thinking on Iran and what it all means.
Despite the cynics, tens of thousands took to the streets today. This is too key an issue, critical and historic, for the West to take such a passive position. It is an opportunity we have never seen the likes of. Squandering it is foolish and suicidal, and plays into the hand of the mullahs. Everyone is so anxious to bash it, scorn it and write the post mortem. Why?
And please spare me the lectures on Mousavi. I know who he is and what he is and said so first at Atlas on June 12th and 14th, and again in the American
Thinker on the 17th. Things have changed, and perhaps so has the man.
The torture. I'd rather be waterboarded. Remember the days when you were never forced to think of Islam? Those were the days, my friends. Their conversion campaign kicks off in the nation's capital (how appropriate) tomorrow.
Infidels in Washington, D.C. – be prepared for Monday morning – you’ll be
seeing a lot of this:
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“Why are so many people like you becoming Muslim?”
“1.5 billion and growing. Do you know why?”
“We eliminated racism 1400 years ago”
“We went green 1400 years ago”
Previous posts on the continuous stream of Islamic
dawah infiltrating the United States including this info:
WhyIslam is project of the Islamic Circle of North America, or ICNA, and
ICNA’s Director of the Why Islam campaign – Sabeel Ahmed has written:
“…showing happiness and joy on Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Good Friday is
like shaking hands with Satan and telling him to carry on the good work.
Indeed Islam came to tear down the pillars of kufr and replace them with
the pillars of Islam"
Can I just say something? I am watching FOX looking for any Iran coverage and Geraldo Rivera is hosting "an investigative hour" on the suspicious death of Michael Jackson. I kid you not.
The man was a hopeless drug addict for years and died at 108 pounds. Jackson admitted his drug abuse problem on the stand back in 2003. Friends thought he would be dead in six months, so heavy was his
addiction to painkillers, but Geraldo is pointing to foul play.
What irks me is that Rivera is suggesting that Jackson may very well have been murdered. There was a motive to murder him, according to Rivera. Yes, those greedy folks behind Michael's big comeback in England could recover their losses if Jackson was murdered and the murder was made to look accidental. And who are those "goons" with whom Michael surrounded himself?, Rivera accuses. And then goes on to suggest, "he [Jackson] dies accidentally, you get all your money back."
Now why does this irk me (apart from the obvious idiocy and industry this filth will give life to)?
Because a year ago I broke an explosive story when I ran an exclusive analysis from a leading digital forensic examination scientist, meticulously documenting that the certification of live birth that Obama released to his website, Fight the Smears.com, was a "horrible forgery".
What it meant is anyone's guess. I welcomed peer review. No one would touch it. Needless to say, a year later so many questions remain unanswered and millions of Americans want to know, but FOX has never touched the subject matter. Never. Not a word.
But they will allow some second rate assclown to start a dangerous rumor with scurrilous accusations based on nothing but the lure of sensationalism and ratings. That's OK?
They won't cover Iran because they are so few "journalists" in Iran and "so many restrictions, it is difficult to get information".As if the actual demonstrators getting beaten, arrested, and killed aren't legit sources.
7:28 pm: Perhaps the impotent and perfidious media can stop saying alleged. Check out this video, where you see the Basij firing at people from rooftops. It was shot on the 20th, giving a stark aerial view of the chaos at the start of the brutal crackdown.
Witnesses said riot police used tear gas and clubs to break up a crowd of up to 3,000 protesters who had gathered near north Tehran's Ghoba Mosque in the country's first major post-election unrest in four days.
Some described scenes of brutality, telling The Associated Press that some protesters suffered broken bones and alleging that police beat an elderly woman, prompting a screaming match with young demonstrators who then fought back.
The reports could not be independently verified because of tight restrictions imposed on journalists in Iran.
3:00 pm: My piece inCanada Free Press on the media's silence on Iran. It seems the media and Obama share the delusion if they don't cover it, then it ain't happening. Sort of like ....if a tree falls in the forest. This is, if a news story isn't covered, did it happen?
Video from today
John Jay on why there are no stringers in Iran(apart from the fact that most Middle Eastern stringers are Palestinians, and we know whose side they're on).
2:55 pm: Tightening the fiscal screws: Insurance companies are not paying for the damages to people's home or car. Insurance companies are telling people, "We are asked not to help 'rioters'".
The woman -- whose identity is being withheld by CNN -- said Sunday
that on the previous day "the streets were full of guards and
policemen."
"They were hitting everyone, and everywhere was fire because of the tear gas they throw at us," she said.
She was walking to Freedom Square in Tehran
with a group of fellow demonstrators, but the Basij -- voluntary
paramilitary forces that answer to the government -- wouldn't let them
get through, she said.
They warned the group to turn around.
"They said, 'Just run, and don't even walk.' We were just running away
-- and we were hit, of course," she said.
"He hit me and he was twice [as big] as me -- he was so big. And I
said, 'You want to hit me?' And he said, 'Yes' and then he hit me with
a club."
She told CNN a Basij member hit her with a club, and then her foot was hit by a stone.
"Today I couldn't go out because my foot was injured and I couldn't run
anymore. And I was sure: If I go out, I'm going to die. So I didn't go
out today."
The group fought back by throwing stones at the
soldiers, she said. "We had nothing to defend ourselves. Just the
smallest stones we throw at them."
There were many women among
the crowd of demonstrators trying to get to Freedom Square, she said.
"We gave the boys the stones because we can't throw them so far. We
gave them the stones, and we said the slogans."
The young woman said many in Iran
think Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is lying about the results
of the June 12 election, in which incumbent President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was declared the winner with more than 62 percent of the
vote.
"We don't care who is the president now," she said. "We
had rather [opposition candidate Mir Hossein] Moussavi, but now when
our leader says it was fair and we know that it's not, I think that
it's about our country. We want the truth."
She said her father, after learning of all that had transpired, said to her, "I'm so lucky that you're alive."
1:50 pm: Mousavi is dropping the ball. I hope the Iranian people follow suit and drop him and get behind a real reformer. They need a leader.
Continuing the campaign against Great Satan 2.0,
in a move evocative of the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis three decades
ago. "Britain assails Iran over embassy staff detentions," by Karin
Laub for the Associated Press, June 28:
Iranian authorities have detained several local employees
of the British Embassy in Iran, a move that Britain's foreign secretary
Sunday called "harassment and intimidation."
Iranian media reported Sunday that eight local embassy
staff were detained for an alleged role in postelection protests, but
gave no further details. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said
the employees were detained Saturday, but did not say how many were
taken into custody.
TEHRAN,
Iran (CNN) — About 5,000 protesters marched slowly and silently through
Tehran on Sunday near a mosque where the government was allowing a
demonstration for the first time in days.
Twitter is reporting tens of thousands, many sources.
Authorities are riding on motorcycles alongside the marchers, who
are telling each other to walk slowly and drag their feet. Police are
telling the demonstrators to move faster.
The marchers are walking from north to south down a major street,
Shariati Street, near the Ghoba Mosque, where a memorial is being held
in honor of a hero of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Some of the
protesters are telling the police that they have the legal right to
protest in peace.
"Suzanne", a female
caller to Mark Levin's show on June 25th, revealed the ominous secret of the
Democrat health care reform effort.
I want to tell you that last week
I attended a conference on health care reform sponsored by La Raza. And I will
tell you that what they had to say, Mark, is scarier than anything that's been
said so far on the health care plan.
The kind of comments that were
made and the notes that I took... they started the conference out by saying
"America does not need health care reform, but Latino
immigrants need health care reform."
And someone from
Menendez' office [Ed.: Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ] promised that he would make
sure that "the useless barriers of citizenship would not be in this bill" and
that he would make sure that they would use keywords like
"streamline"...
It was La Raza, the Childrens Defense Fund and
Senator Menendez from New Jersey, a representative from his office...
...Yes [they said they would get free health care for illegal aliens], these are
my notes, Mark. They actually got up and said "Latino children need health care more than
whites". And then they would say things like "you must go out
into your communities, use words like 'streamline', use phrases like 'all
workers' and 'all families'," because they said -- and I quote -- "If the
American people find out that this bill is about giving health care to
non-citizens, they will rise up against it."
...One of the quotes
they said was, "We want to make sure we take care of barriers like verification,
but we can streamline programs to the more affluent" and, quote, "Useless
treatments for the elderly can be gone because we don't need to spend money for
people who are going to die anyway..
Cont on link ================== Sotomayor ‘La
Raza member’
Posted on May 28, 2009
Barack Obama
has picked a radical for his nominee to the Supreme Court. If her own statements
are not enough to convince you of her racist attitude, perhaps the fact she
belongs to an anti-white extremist group known as La Raza...........
In a blatant attempt to stop the march of progress, now comes this outrage. If newspapers are dying, good riddance to bad rubbish. The death of propagandists and disinformationalists can't come soon enough. America is in trouble. The inadequate traitor in the White House could never have been elected had it not been for the greatest act of perfidy in the media history. They have long abdicated their role as public servants. They are guilty of high treason.
Of all the misguided
schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments!blame
Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most
jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be
outlawed.
No, Posner does not work for the Associated Press (which also has some strange
ideas on linking). He is (normally) considered to be one of the great legal
minds of our time. Posner is a United States Court of Appeals judge in Chicago
and legal scholar who was once considered a potential Supreme Court nominee. He
is someone who should know better. Yet in a blog
post last week on the future of newspapers, he concludes there may be only
one way to save the industry:
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without
the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted
materials without the copyright holder’s consent . . .
Let me repeat that. He wants to “bar linking” to newspaper articles or any
copyrighted material without the “copyright holder’s consent.” I am sorry Judge
Posner, but I don’t need to ask your permission to link to your blog post or to
a newspaper article online. That is just the way the Web works. If newspapers
don’t like it, they don’t need to be on the Web.
UPDATE: And I failed to add - what about all the stories newspapers steal from the bloggers. Big media too. This happens all the time. Where is out restitution?
I have a piece today in the Canada Free Press on the perfidy of the media in their lack of coverage of the Iranian revolution. This historic event has cataclysmic implications for the course of human events; instead, the media obsesses over the cocktail of drugs has-been Michael Jackson was using to assuage the pain of his oh so tragic life. Ugh.
Despite Obama’s passivity, Iran and its henchmen are blaming America for the
uprising. Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said Thursday: “The
extent of Western and American involvement in Iran’s internal affairs is now
clear. What is going on in Iran is not a simple protest against the results of
the presidential election. There are riots and attacks in the streets that are
orchestrated from the outside in a bid to destabilise the country’s Islamic
regime.”
As that regime strikes back hard, I do not believe the movement has been
quelled, but I do believe it has been silenced. And this is partly due to the
failure of the Western media. The mainstream media fearlessly took on Bush,
Rumsfeld, Cheney. They were so tough on those who didn’t share their ideological
views. They had no fear of those they ridiculed, marginalized, tongue lashed
mercilessly. Who can forget how they climbed all over each other to get embedded
into Iraq so that they could make America look terrible?
But when it came to really doing their job, they have been absent on Iran.
Why weren’t they clamoring to get into Iran to cover an historic, cataclysmic
event? CNN has been the only news network to cover Iran in any depth. FOX has
been negligent in its lack of coverage. Left leaning sites on the Internet have
been leading the way – notably the Huffington Post, whose reporter Nico Pitney
has been almost a singular voice in speaking up for the Iranian protesters. And
blogs like Revolutionary Road and Get Honest Third Eye deserve commendation for
doing the job the mainstream media has not been doing. Get Honest Third Eye had
the first video that showed an Iranian being shot on camera by government
officials. The shooting occurs while the person filming is quite far away, but
the video then shows closer images of his body.
It is indelible images like those that reveal the full horror of what
has been going on in Iran. But now, Iran’s citizen journalists have gone dark.
The tweets are not coming in. “New” twitters, pro-Ahmadinejad (twitters with
ironic names like “antifascista”) have been tweeting vile propaganda. The media
can talk about
Michael Jackson all day, with no news coming out of Iran to distract
them.
The only losers are those who are yearning to be free.
UPDATE: THE ARTICLE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE! CLICK BOTTOM LINK AT POST TO READ THE WHOLE THING.
"Even the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually
assaulted and their genitalia mutilated". Remember, the Rabbi's wife was pregnant.
There is a stunning piece in today's Mail of the actual phone intercepts between the Muslims killing indiscriminately in the name of Allah during the Islamic attack on Mumbai back in November. They targeted the Jewish Chabad study center, murdered and sexually mutilated the rabbi and his wife, and many of the Westerners at the Taj Majal.
It's all about Allah.
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.'
Akasha: 'Insh'Allah' (God willing).
I will never understand why India did drop a few MOABs on the Muslim training camps and jihad schools in Pakistan. That's where central command was for the Mumbai jihadis.
They should have attacked Pakistan with disproportionate force and taken out their nukes while they were in defense mode.
This is Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, caught on film as he unleashed a devastating and indiscriminate attack in Mumbai that left 166 people dead. But this picture is not the most dramatic record of that day. During the raid, the Indian intelligence services intercepted mobile phone calls between Kasab, his terrorist comrades and a mysterious handler hundreds of miles away, who issued commands to shoot civilians without mercy. These shocking tapes reveal the sinister mind control used to turn young men into killing machines - and the casual, off-hand brutality of the men who masterminded the massacre
Kasab: 'Oh... It's
Lashkar-e-Taiba.'
When asked about the massacre at the railway
station, Kasab is equally direct.
Kasab: 'They told us we had to do this
job.'
Interrogator: 'What do you mean by
job?'
Kasab: 'I was supposed to kill
people.'
Interrogator: 'Which people?'
Kasab: 'Whoever was there.'
Interrogator: 'What kind of people did
they tell you to kill?'
Kasab: 'Just ordinary people, no one
in particular.' Next, the policeman tries to figure out the terrorists' exit
strategy.
Interrogator: 'After completing your
job today, where were you going to go?'
Kasab: 'We were all going to
die.'
Interrogator: 'How's that?'
Kasab: 'He told us we'd be going to
heaven.'
Interrogator: 'How many people did you
kill?'
Kasab: 'I don't know.'
Interrogator: 'OK, how many rounds did
you fire?'
Kasab: 'Er... dunno. Two-and-a-half
magazines.'
Interrogator: 'And how many people did
you kill?'
Kasab: 'I don't know. I just kept
firing and firing.'
Interrogator: 'And this job. What time
was it supposed to finish?'
Kasab: 'They said as long as you're
alive, keep killing, keep killing, the dogs.'
Gunmen caught on CCTV at the Taj Hotel - behind the double doors, 300 guests are sitting silently in a function room.
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.'
Akasha: 'Insh'Allah' (God willing).
Wasi: 'I'll stay on the line.'
There's silence for 15 seconds. No gunshots.
Akasha: 'Hello?'
Wasi: 'Do it. Do it. I'm listening. Do it.'
Akasha: 'What, shoot them?'
Wasi: 'Yes, do it. Sit them up and shoot them in the back of the head.'
Mumbai railway station, where 52 people were killed
Back when sanity was in order, fine, decent men governed. Today they stand on the sidelines, hoping against hope that free men will wake up and heed their words of caution, much like Churchill when he too was cast into the wilderness. John Bolton wrote such words yesterday in the LA Times in his exceptional OpEd: The only answer for Iran is regime change, posted at Atlas here.
Today in the Wall Street Journal, Jose Maria Aznar, former prime minister of Spain (1996-2004), takes up the mantle for freedom. Bravo!
The Islamic Republic that the ayatollahs have created is not just
any power. To defend a strict interpretation of the Quran, Khomeini
created the Pasdaran, the Revolutionary Guard, which today is a true
army. To expand its ideology and influence Iran has not hesitated to
create, sustain and use proxy terrorist groups like Hezbollah in
Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. And to impose its fundamentalist vision
beyond its borders, Iran is working frantically to obtain nuclear
weapons.
Those who protest against the blatant electoral fraud that handed
victory to the fanatical Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are in reality demanding a
change of regime. Thus, the regime has resorted to beating and shooting
its citizens in a desperate attempt to squash the pro-democracy
movement.
This is no time for hesitation on the part of the West. If, as part
of an attempt to reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, the
leaders of democratic nations turn their backs on the dissidents they
will be making a terrible mistake.
President Obama has said he refuses to "meddle" in Iran's internal
affairs, but this is a poor excuse for passivity. If the international
community is not able to stop, or at least set limits on, the
repressive violence of the Islamic regime, the protesters will end up
as so many have in the past -- in exile, in prison, or in the cemetery.
And with them, all hope for change will be gone.
To be clear: Nobody in the circles of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or
Ahmadinejad is going to reward us for silence or inaction. On the
contrary, failing to support the regime's critics will leave us with an
emboldened Ahmadinejad, an atomic Iran, and dissidents that are
disenchanted and critical of us. We cannot talk about freedom and
democracy if we abandon our own principles.
Some do not want to recognize the spread of freedom in the Middle
East. But it is clear that after decades of repression -- religious and
secular -- the region is changing.
Daniel in The Netherlands serves up this halal morsel: Prisoners in several jails around the Netherlands will only receive Halal food from now on. This is the result of a trade agreement between the Justice Department and cheap food delivery services which "happen to be" Halal.
The Justice Department says it is too expensive to offer prisoners a variety of menu's so instead they will only offer Halal food. One detained individual is now trying to bring the department to court: he believes being forced to eat Halal food is an extra punishment.
The film is unusual for its period, as the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, the latter of whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
The film stars Chaplin as Hynkel and the barber, Paulette Goddard as Hannah, Jack Oakie as Napaloni, Reginald Gardiner as Schultz, Henry Daniell as Garbitsch and Billy Gilbert
as Field Marshal Herring, an incompetent adviser to Hynkel. Chaplin
stars in a double role as the Jewish barber and the fascist dictator
(or "Phooey", parodying "Führer") clearly modeled on Adolf Hitler.
The names of the aides of Adenoid Hynkel are parodies of those of
Hitler's. Garbitsch (pronounced "garbage"), the right hand man of
Hynkel, is a parody of Joseph Goebbels, and Field Marshal Herring was modeled after the Luftwaffe chief, Hermann Göring. The "Dig-a-ditchy" of Bacteria, Benzino Napaloni, was modeled after Italy's Il Duce, Benito Mussolini. Benzino is played with arrogant buffoonery by Jack Oakie.
Much of the film is taken up by Hynkel and Napaloni arguing over the
fate of Osterlich (Austria). Originally, Mussolini was opposed to the
German takeover since he saw Austria as a buffer-state between Germany
and Italy. The international community (in particular, France and Britain, Mussolini's Stresa front partners) did not share Italy's concern over German annexation of Austria and even supported League of Nations sanctions against Italy. In 1936, Mussolini submitted to Hitler's will, withdrew Italian troops from the Brenner Pass
along the Austrian border, and moved closer to Germany, as Hitler did
not apply sanctions against Italy. This conflict is almost forgotten
today given Italy's alliance with the German Third Reich during World War II.
The film contains several of Chaplin's most famous sequences. The
rally speech by Hynkel, delivered in German-sounding gibberish, is a
caricature of Hitler's oratory style, which Chaplin studied carefully
in newsreels.[4] The German words schnitzel, sauerkraut and liverwurst can be made out, as well as "Katzenjammer Kids"
and English phrases such as "cheese'n'crackers" and frequently "lager
beer", in the fake German Hynkel speaks during the rally and at other
points in the film when he is angry (though he normally speaks
English). Billy Gilbert as Herring is also required to improvise this
fake German at times, and at one point (where he is apologizing for
having accidentally knocked Hynkel down the stairs) he comes up with
the word "banana".
Chaplin is clearly taken by surprise and repeats, "Der banana?" before
incorporating the word into his own reply. Chaplin, as Hynkel, has a
tendency to remove Herring's medals when he gets angry. In the scene
where Hynkel receives news that Napaloni mobilized his troops along the
Osterlich border, Hynkel not only removed all of Herring's medals, but
removed all of his buttons on his shirt, revealing a striped shirt with
suspenders and then slaps Herring.
Chaplin, as the barber, shaves a customer in tune with a radio broadcast of Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5, recorded in one continuous take. The film's most celebrated sequence is the ballet dance between Hynkel and a balloon globe in his palatial office, set to Richard Wagner's Lohengrin Overture,
which is also used at the end of the film when the Jewish barber is
making the victory speech in Hynkel's place. The globe dance had its
origins in the late 1920s, when Chaplin was filmed at a Hollywood party doing an early version of the dance, with a globe and a Prussian military helmet (this footage appears in the documentary Unknown Chaplin).
The film ends with the barber, having been mistaken for the
dictator, delivering an address in front of a large audience and over
the radio to the nation, following the Tomainian take-over of Osterlich
(an obvious reference to the German Anschluss of Austria on March 12, 1938). The address is widely interpreted as an out-of-character personal plea from Chaplin.
Some of the signs in the shop windows of the ghettoized Jewish population in the film are written in Esperanto, a language which Hitler condemned as a Jewish plot to internationalize and destroy German culture.[5]
John Bolton in the UK magazine Standpoint (July - August 2009):
"The euphoria is over. It is time for a serious critique of Barack Obama’s foreign policy"
John Bolton: The Post-American PresidencyStandpoint
(UK) (6-25-09)
Judging a new
American President's national security policies after six months in office is a
perilous enterprise, especially in the case of Barack Obama, where constant
incantations of "change" and serial criticisms of his predecessor are the order
of the day.
Nonetheless, during the 2008 primaries, Democratic candidates
fiercely debated their respective abilities to handle the "3am call," and Joe
Biden later warned that the inexperienced Illinois Senator would be "tested"
early in his tenure. Now there is a partial record, and, more importantly, a
worldview on which we can grade Obama's performance.
Obama is the first
post-American President. Central to his worldview is rejecting American
exceptionalism and the consequences that flow therefrom. Since an overwhelming
majority of the world's population would welcome the demise of American
exceptionalism, they are delighted with Obama.
One student interviewed
after an Obama town hall meeting during his first presidential trip to Europe
said ecstatically, "He sounds like a European." Indeed he does.
Of
course, as a successful politician, Obama is never going to admit expressly that
he rejects a unique US role in the world. Asked during his trip about this very
subject, Obama responded, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I
suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe
in Greek exceptionalism." This answer, of course, proves precisely the opposite
of what Obama is ostensibly saying. If every country is exceptional, none is.
Obama is too smart not to know this and just slick enough to hope that US
listeners would tune out after his first phrase.
It fell to an admiring
media commentator to lift the cover more fully, and indeed unknowingly since he
intended a compliment. Following Obama's D-Day 65th anniversary speech, Newsweek
editor Evan Thomas contrasted him with Ronald Reagan in 1984...
Blow to Islamic supremacism: Texas Islamic Groups argued that Internet speech should be less protected than print, radio, or television speech. They lost.
Congratulations to the attorneys on the case for Plaintiff Joe
Kaufman (who won), who were:
Brandon Bolling, Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Thomas Brandon, Whitaker Chalk, Ft. Worth, TX
William J. Becker, Jr., The Becker Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA
Manuel Klausner, Los Angeles, CA, Individual Rights Foundation
Good news: In a 36-page opinion in Kaufman v. Islamic Society of
Arlington County, Texas, et al., signed by Justice Terrie Livingston for a
3-judge panel, dated June 25, 2009, the Texas Court of Appeals (Second District,
Fort Worth) ruled as follows:
1. Found that "an [I]nternet communicator may qualify as a member of the
media" and denied the motion of the seven plaintiff/appellee Muslim
organizations to dismiss Kaufman's interlocutory appeal before trial. In a
significant ruling that may have impact beyond Texas, the court expressly
rejected the contention that Kaufman is not a "media defendant" under the Texas
statute that "gives procedural protection to "electronic or print media"
defendants. The court found that (a) Kaufman's journalistic experience, (b)
his" extensive notoriety" through his TV appearances, (c) his substantial
readership, (d) "the inherent public interest in the terrorism issues he
reports," and (e) his publishing his article online in Front Page Magazine, an
Internet publication with "broad readership and its existence as a
news/commentary medium that is independent from Kaufman’s article," entitled him
to the statutory protection to seek dismissal of an unmeritorious libel claim
before "the time-consuming and expensive trial phase"); and
2. Found the trial court erred in denying Kaufman's motion for summary
judgment contending that the Muslim organizations' defamation claims were barred
as a matter of law because Kaufman's article and his graphic were not
specifically directed towards the seven Muslim organizations -- and therefore
did not "concern" them as required under Texas defamation law -- and reversed
the trial court's order denying Kaufman's motion for summary judgment; and
UCLA law professor, Eugene Volokh, a prominent first amendment
scholar, posted the following item on Volokh.com concerning the court's opinion:
Texas Islamic Groups Argue That Internet Speech Should Be Less
Protected Than Print, Radio, or Television Speech:
The
Texas Court of Appeals disagrees, holding that a Texas statute that gives
procedural protection to "electronic or print media" defendants covers Internet
journalists on par with print journalists (and reaffirming that the First
Amendment does as well). The case is Kaufman v. Islamic
Society of Arlington, Texas; Kaufman is the defendant in the
underlying libel action, even though his name is listed first in the appeal --
the plaintiffs, who made the argument, were Islamic Society of Arlington, Texas,
Islamic Center of Irving, DFW Islamic Educational Center, Inc., Dar Elsalam
Islamic Center, Al Hedayah Islamic Center, Islamic Association of Tarrant Count,
and Muslim American Society of Dallas.
Here's
the core legal issue: A Texas statute allows pretrial appeals
of, among other things, an order that
denies a motion for summary judgment that is based in whole or in part
upon a claim against or defense by a member of the electronic or print media,
acting in such capacity, or a person whose communication appears in or is
published by the electronic or print media, arising under the free speech or
free press clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, or
Article I, Section 8, of the Texas Constitution, or Chapter 73.
Jailed Iranian reformists have been tortured in an attempt
to force them into TV "confessions" of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic
regime, it was alleged today, as the country's guardian
council buried hopes for any significant revision of the disputed
presidential election.
According to Iranian opposition websites, the "confessions" are aimed at
implicating Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi
Karroubi, the defeated reformist candidates, in an alleged conspiracy.
Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh and Mohsen Aminzadeh, all Mousavi
supporters, are reported to have undergone "intensive interrogation" sessions in
Tehran's Evin prison since Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.
They are among several hundred activists, academics, journalists and students
detained
in a crackdown coinciding with the brutal suppression of street protests.
Prisoners
reportedly heard screams from Tajzadeh and Ramezanzadeh in Evin's section 209,
which is reserved for political prisoners and is run by the hardline
intelligence ministry. Aminzadeh, a former deputy foreign minister, was heard
shouting: "I am not going to give interviews."
Amnesty International said the reports came from "very credible sources".
8:40 pm: Streets of Tehran like a garrison. People are depressed and angry.
8:13 pm Dissident Hoda Saber, of the Freedom movement, and journalist Reza Alijani were freed. Taghti Rahmani was also released earlier. (hat tip Chad)
What is happening to the less visible political prisoners?
7:54 pm: Unconfirmed, but I am getting this repeatedly off the tweetdeck....that the most prolific and courageous twitter poster, Persian Kiwi, has been arrested. This is looking more like genocide. Where is the world? Where is America? Many of us who were following Persian Kiwi felt as if we knew PK personally. Another one of us ..........disappearing.
One of the many PK tweets: : I'm so sorry.I recived [sic]the persiankiwi arrest news from a honest source but I hope it's been incorrect.
Ali Hejvani & Ali Mosleh arrested. They are bloggers.
When Obama campaigned on change!, who could have imagined that he meant change from freedom lover to freedom snuffer.
Mahtab Nasirpour Homar Rusta (right)
7:25 pm: Tweeters getting arrested. Latest off the tweet deck: At least two actresses arrested : Homa Rusta & Mahtab Nasirpour.
7:01 pm: Ahmadinejad mocks Obama here. Perhaps this will galvanize the left and they will come out against Ahmadinejad in a furious way (ya know, they way they destroy Republicans). Ahmadinejad ridiculing their messiah? Let's see how BO's hos take off the jihad loving gloves and lace into the poison dwarf.
5:49: The illegal brutal government of Ahmadinejad has succeeding in quelling the street protests by mowing peaceful protesters down in the street over the past two weeks.
Groups of "hacktivists" — Web hackers demanding Internet freedom —
say they are targeting Web pages of Iran's leadership in response to
the regime's muzzling of blogs, news outlets and other sites.
It's
unclear how much the wired warriors have disrupted official Iranian
sites. Attempts by The Associated Press to access sites for state news
organizations, including the Islamic Republic News Agency and Fars, were unsuccessful — with a message saying the links were "broken."
Heh.
According to twitterers:Trading has come to a halt today and the Bazaar is virtually closed. Bazaar is are on strike
4:12 pm: Great American Rich Davis took up the cause of the brave in Iran at his weekly West Chester Victory rally on the corner of High and Market Street in West Chester, PA. oorah!
Rich writes me:
Today the American Sheepdogs, home of the Chester County Victory Movement
wore green wristbands as a show of solidarity with the brave protestors in Iran
who are being beaten and shot and taken away at night because they are standing
up against the brutal rdictator and mullahs that are running their
country.
All of us wore green wristband in the hope it will inspire other Americans
to show similar support for the courageous people in Iran. For years American
leadership has encouraged the people to rise up against the brutal Ahmadinejad
regime, and when they finally do, they got a tardy and weak response from Obama
who they were counting on for support. Most distressing is the way the
barbarian regime is going after the Iranian women. Shooting them (like Neda).
Our hearts are wrenched as we watch them being massacred. The press is
unwilling to cover the killings, but we hope our little show of support will
bring awareness to the atrocities being committed to those who seek freedom.
Going Green, the Sheepdogs show support for Freedom Fighters.
Great group shot, everyone has the green
Military moms: Evie, (left) her son is an army combat medic fresh off a tour of Afghanistan, Mary (in the middle) her son is young Marine officer, fresh from Iraq, Mary Lou (on the right) - her son is serving in Iraq as we speak. He is with the PA national guard. Great Americans all!
Tehran building attacked by security forces
Twitter Amnesty International claims Mousavi aides tortured to extract confessions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian paramilitary Basij forces stage nightly raids in Tehran, invading private homes and beating residents in an attempt to stop protests against Iran's disputed election, Human Rights Watch reported.
"Witnesses are telling us that the Basijis are trashing entire streets and even neighborhoods as well as individual homes trying to stop the nightly rooftop protest chants," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a June 26 report by the New York-based group.
"On June 22, while we were shouting 'Allahu Akbar' from the rooftops
... the Basiji entered our neighborhood and started firing live rounds
into the air, in the direction of the buildings from which they believe
the shouting of 'Allahu Akbar' is coming from," a middle-aged resident
of Vanak district said, according to the report.
A woman said Basijis climbed over walls to enter homes after they
failed to kick down doors in Velenjak district when people were
shouting from rooftops on June 23.
"When they entered the homes, they beat the residents. The neighbors
took to cursing the Basijis and throwing stones at them to divert them
from beating the residents, but then the Basijis attacked those
neighbors' houses and tried to enter them," she was quoted as saying.
Another resident said Basijis spray-painted a sign on the doors of
houses in a central district where they thought protesters had fled.
"A few minutes later, they came back and attacked the marked houses,
breaking down the doors and entering them. They beat the owners, and
broke the windows in the house and of their cars," the resident said,
according to the report.
3:10 pm: I take it back. It is better when FOX doesn't cover Iran. The very little coverage they are giving it today serves the interests of Ahmadinejad. They keep talking to Kayvon Biouki, "freelance journalist," who claims there is no torture going on (we have video, schmuck), and there is no unrest. The guy is clearly a pro-government tool, so why would FOX give him such a platform?
2:17 pm: The left can't muster the same enthusiasm for supporting those being slaughtered in Iran as they could for their anti-America, anti-Iraq war efforts. Vigilant squirrel has full coverage here. At least these poorly attended efforts are not for Ahmadinejad.
The right should be staging big rallies. It is a mistake not to get behind these people.
The Brigade went to the two commie-sponsored rallies on the 26th of June in
Manhattan.
The first 'event' by the Worker Party-types at the Islamic
Republic of Iran's Consulate was about 7 people from the Workers Party with no
Iranians; basically a non-event. (will post a few pictures later)
The
Big Display was later at Columbus Circle.They do know how to put on a display
with lots and lots of green and candles and speakers and music..... However,
the most prevalent aspect (besides their supposed support for "free" elections)
was their out-reach via Revolution newspapers, very Leftist speakers and
Commie-sponsored flyers from the Workers Party and Amnesty International. (will
also post the flyers later)
Mixed in with their support for "Free"
elections, were plenty of slams at America and praise for the "Big Zero".
1:156 pm: Mousavi rejects bogus gesture to recount 10% of the vote.
Unfortunately, as you witness in the international media, contrary to
the letter of the constitution, and the stated freedoms in the Islamic
Republic, all my communication with the people and you has been cut
off, and people’s peaceful objections are being crushed. The national
media which is being financed with public funds, with a revolting
misrepresentation is changing the truth, and labels the peaceful march
of close to three million people as anarchist, and the media that are
being controlled by the government have become the mouthpiece of those
who have stolen the people’s votes.
I’d like to thank you again
for your peaceful objections which have received widespread coverage
across the world, and would like to ask you that by using all legal
channels, and by remaining faithful to the sacred system of the Islamic
Republic, to make sure that your objections are heard by the
authorities in the country. I am fully aware that your justified
demands have nothing to do with groups who do not believe in the sacred
Islamic Republic of Iran’s system. It is up to you to distance yourself
from them, and do not allow them to misuse the current situation.
A good statement, no doubt, and who knows the pressure he is under, but it appears that Mousavi is faltering. Big mistake.AP reports:
Iran's increasingly isolated opposition leader said he'll seek
government approval for future protests, even as he complained of
unfair restrictions - a new sign that he is backing away from
confrontation with Iran's rulers over a bitterly disputed election.
This is a complete turnaround from his position just the day before when he said that the attempt to steal the election would be crushed.
Obama has drafted an executive order that would reassert
presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely. If he is releasing the Islamic terrorists at GITMO, reaching out to Hezballah and Hamas, who exactly are the "terrorism suspects"? The "right wing extremists" outrageously and falsely accused in this report? Vets, tea party attendees, Jews and great American patriots like .....moi?
Who exactly would Obama lock up indefinitely? I don't care how the BO's hos in the media frame it, this executive order is not for Islamic terrorists. Don't spit in my face and tell me it's ocean spray. I would sooner let every terrorist go than give that maniac in the White House this kind of power.
The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall
plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert
presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according
to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House
deliberations.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) says jump, and BO says, how high, master? Obama had the OIC head, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, at the White House, where he "urged the U.S. to quickly appoint an envoy to the Islamic bloc" -- which prompted BHO to create "a new office that is responsible for outreach with Muslims around the
world".
In keeping with instituting Obama's US MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT, a charter of dhimmitude, we are to be conditioned to respect Muslim immigrants and accept their culture. President Hussein is more than comfortable with this deal with the
devil as he seeks to institute an Islamo-Christian ethic, destroying
the very foundation of this great country.
Never mind that Muslims go after and annihilate the Christians in every
country they finally dominate. This is of no import.
Since
taking office Obama has focused on three things - the transformation of
our capitalistic economy to a form of socialist statist fascism, the
abdication of American sovereignty to a trans-nationalism (one
world-er) and the advancement of the worldwide domination of Islam, the
ultimate goal of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). There is
conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact - the global jihad is conspiracy
fact. And the OIC is behind it.
Obama invited the "secretary general" to the White House on the Islamic leg of his apology tour of Europe. Obama refused Sarkozy's offer to visit Normandy, choosing instead to tour the mosques of Turkey and attend the second forum of the OIC arm, the "alliance of civilizations" (AoC).
The Alliance of Civilizations [was] created to oppose the clash of civilizations, that is jihad. On 13 November 2006, the High-Level Group of the Alliance of Civilizations presented its report which sums up the request of the OIC at its Mecca Summit 9, in 2005, after the Cartoons affair. First, it adopts the Islamic view of history and politics by claiming that everything was fine between the three monotheistic religions until the 19th century, when the evil of European colonialism and Zionism destroyed this harmony. Then it affirms that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the main source of Christian-Muslim antagonism, not the jihadist war and ideology that deny for others the right to exist. It proclaims that this conflict “remains one of the gravest threats to international stability” and formulates recommendations that again echo the OIC requests. Such views mirror Hitler accusing the Jews of fomenting World War II, or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, praised in the Hamas charter, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood which denies Israel’sright to exist. (Bat Ye'or)
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
(OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, reconnoitered with Obama during the official reception of the AoC given by the Turkish
Prime Minister, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (who famously said that "there is no moderate Islam" just days before Barack Hussein's visit). Obama
reiterated to the Secretary General the willingness and readiness of
the US Administration to explore areas of cooperation with the
Organization of the Islamic Conference.
New U.S. Special
Representative Announced for Muslim Outreach
Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has appointed
Farah Pandith to serve as special representative to Muslim communities, in
charge of a new office that is responsible for outreach with Muslims around the
world.
According to a notice
published by the State Department June 23, Special Representative Pandith and
her staff will carry out Clinton’s efforts to “engage with Muslims around the
world on a people-to-people and organizational level.”
(CNSNews.com) – Buoyed by the presence in the White House of a
president who wants to prioritize relations with the world’s Muslims, the head
of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) visited both Washington and
Brussels this week, and urged the U.S. to quickly appoint an envoy to the
Islamic bloc.
OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was in
Washington on Tuesday when the State Department, in an internal memo, announced
that it has selected a “special representative to Muslim
communities.”
The department chose not to announce the move publicly, but
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly on Thursday acknowledged that Farah Pandith
has been chosen for the position. Pandith, a Muslim of Kashmiri origin, served
as “senior advisor for Muslim engagement to the assistant secretary for European
and Eurasian affairs” in the Bush administration. hsanoglu told the Turkish Anadolu state news agency this week that he had told
Clinton that the U.S. should immediately appoint a special envoy for its
relations with the Islamic world.
The two were scheduled to have met, but
the event was cancelled because of Clinton’s recent elbow fracture and
surgery.
Instead they held a “comprehensive” telephone conversation and
“exchanged views as to the ways and means of furthering the engagement between
the OIC and the U.S. in the coming period,” the OIC said in a
statement.
[...] From Washington,
Ihsanoglu went to Brussels where he announced plans to open a representative
office to the European Union, with a key function of combating
“Islamophobia.”
The OIC, a 57-member bloc of Muslim majority states that
wields increasing clout at the United Nations, already has permanent missions in
the U.N. cities of New York and Geneva, and “OIC groups” in Washington, Vienna
and Paris.
Headquartered in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the OIC has existed
for 40 years, but in recent times has become much more visible in the West,
largely as a result of its controversial
It has
steered more than a dozen resolutions on the subject through the U.N. Opponents
of the drive, including religious freedom and free speech advocates, see it as
an attempt to shield Islam and Islamic practices from
criticism.
Ihsanoglu, a Turk, told the Turkish newspaper Today’s
Zaman that “fighting anti-Islam propaganda” will be among the main aims of
the office in Brussels.
The paper noted that major incidents considered
to be “Islamophobic” had occurred in Europe, citing the furor over Danish
newspaper cartoons satirizing Mohammed.
While in Brussels, Ihsanoglu met
the E.U.’s external relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, and said
they discussed Obama’s speech in Cairo. Ihsanoglu had been in the audience when
the president spoke.
“Obama’s speech was historic and did not resemble
any other speeches in the past,” he told the Anadolu agency on Wednesday. “There
has never been a speech delivered to the Muslims that was so constructive and
positive as Obama’s speech.”
OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu speaks to Saudi Foreign
Minister Prince Saudi al-Faisal during the Islamic bloc’s third extraordinary
conference in Mecca in December 2005. (Photo: OIC)
‘The most democratic religion’
While in the U.S. this week,
Ihsanoglu met with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a member of a
“leadership group” driving the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project and a strong
backer of Obama’s outreach.
In April, Albright was quoted by the Voice of
America as telling a meeting of OIC ambassadors that she had no doubt Islamic
countries could be democracies.
“Actually, in my study of religions, in
many ways Islam is maybe the most democratic religionbecause there is nobody
between you and God. So I do not think that is something that can be used as
reason not to have Muslim democracies.”
Madeline Albright's impossibly stupid remark reflects an illogical, frightening dhimmitude at the "leadership level". How does one look at an Islamic country and make a statement like that?
Where's Muslim outreach to the West -- where is the self criticism? It's all their way or the highway.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member-states at the Durban
II gathering in Geneva is pushing for "a new world order" that would expand and
impose "nondemocratic and illiberal values on the West," says the Danish editor
who in 2005 commissioned and published a series of cartoons, one of which
depicted the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that led to worldwide
Muslim rioting.
Flemming Rose, editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's
largest-circulation newspaper, is visiting Israel under the auspices of the
Hebrew University's Shasha Center for Strategic Studies, headed by former Mossad
director Efraim Halevy. He's here to lecture on how nations need to find the
right balance between religious sensitivities and freedom of expression.
Rose says the OIC is trying to use Durban II to rewrite the rules of human
rights and international law in a way that undermines the values of liberty
enshrined in the Western canon - including the US Bill of Rights, the French
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
It's all part of an ongoing Muslim campaign that has been making significant
strides, says Rose.
Bat Yeor wrote of the OIC:
The OIC is one of the largest intergovernmental organizations in the world.
It encompasses 56 Muslim states plus the Palestinian Authority. Spread
over four continents, it claims to speak in the name of the ummah (the
universal Muslim community), which numbers about 1.3 billion. The OIC’s
mission is to unite all Muslims worldwide by rooting them in the Koran
and the Sunnah — the core of traditional Islamic civilization and
values. It aims at strengthening solidarity and
cooperation among all its members, in order to protect the interests of
Muslims everywhere and to galvanize the ummah into a unified body.
The
OIC is a unique organization — one that has no equivalent in the world.
It unites the religious, economic, military, and political strength of
56 states. By contrast, the European Union represents half as many
states and is a secular body only, and the Vatican — which speaks for
the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics — is devoid of any political power.
Many Muslims in the West resist the OIC’s tutelage and oppose its
efforts to supplant Western law with sharia. But the OIC’s resources
are formidable.
[...]
The OIC regularly reiterates
its commitments to protecting the political, historical, religious, and
human rights of Muslims in non-OIC states, especially Muslims who form
the majority in specific regions of non-Muslim countries — such as the
southern Philippines, southern Thailand, and western Thrace in Greece —
as well as Muslims in places like the Balkans, the Caucasus, Myanmar,
India, and China. The OIC supports
Hamas and the Palestinians in their struggle to destroy Israel, as well
as the Muslim fight for “legitimate self-determination” in
“Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.” It has condemned the “continual
Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan,” and it expresses its full
solidarity with “the just cause of the Muslim Turkish people of Cyprus”
and with Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, whom many hold
responsible for encouraging the massacres in Darfur. The seat of the
OIC is in Jeddah, but the organization regards that location as
temporary: Its headquarters will be transferred to al-Kods (Islamized
Jerusalem) when that city has been “liberated” from Israeli control.
In its efforts to defend the “true image” of Islam and combat its defamation, the organization has
requested the UN and the Western countries to punish “Islamophobia” and
blasphemy. Among the manifestations of Islamophobia, in the OIC’s view,
are European opposition to illegal immigration, anti-terrorist
measures, criticism of multiculturalism, and indeed any efforts to
defend Western cultural and national identities. The OIC has massive
funding from oil sources, which it lavishly spends on the Western media
and academia and in countless “dialogues.” It influences Western
policy, laws, and even textbooks through pressures brought by Muslim
immigrants and by the Western nations’ own leftist parties. Hence, we
have seen Kristallnacht-like incitements of hate and murder against
European Jews and Israel conducted with impunity in the cities of
Europe — where respect for human rights is supposed to be one of the
highest values.
The ratings were ............. sickly. heh. 4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating - it had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour (against NBC's "The Philanthropist" debut
and a repeat of "CSI: NY" on CBS). The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy
repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.
The American people better wake up and fast. The media is betraying them, the country, our future. Turn everyone you know on to the interwebs ;)
A goodbye on Facebook. "I got a
very disturbing good bye message on Facebook from my cousin (who has
been active in the Tehran protests). Please share my cousin's words
with the world because I don't think people will know how many people
are being killed and tortured until years from now (this is what
happened during the crack down after the revolution) and please share this website with the people in Iran who need to know how to protect themselves." (hat tip Huff Po)
The note from her cousin:
Hey guys,
I would not be around that much,we have real security issues over here
and I have confirmed news that a lot of people are being arrested
through Cyber stuff like videos,photos and internet posts.
They r monitoring everything closely now that they are a little bit free.
We will try to somehow pass the news as much as we can,but things
are getting too risky over here,there is a lot that you guys don't know
about how they r arresting ppl and what happens to some of them,where
they are taken and how they are tortured(all I can say is that it is
worst than what happened in revolution).
Don't talk about any of this stuff over the phone when you call Ir.I
know it sounds scary,but it is true.The way they r monitoring is not a
trick just to scare us,they are taking actions against the info they
have found.So I am just going to lay low for a while.
Take care all and wish us luck.
2:59 am Saturday: Twitter: Why don't we Iranians just reject Islam and go back to what we were before arabs forced this allah akbar thing on us? #iranelection 2 minutes ago from web
9:300 pm “How long does it take the U.N. to get together to have a resolution if the subject would be Israel? It takes 12 hours,”Rabbi Hier said, describing a double standard used by the U.N. in addressing human rights violations.
“Here, not a single country from the EU, not a single country from the Arab world, from the United States, Canada, has come forward asking for an emergency meeting of the security council of the U.N. to discuss a fraudulent election.”
Back on June 8th female supporters of Iranian reformist Mousavi, with green ribbons around their wrists, hold up
posters and release green balloons during a pro-reform
electoral campaign rally at Badr stadium in southern Tehran
Today
Iranian blogger posted this picture of green balloons about to be launched into the air above Iran as part of Friday’s “green sky” protest
9:20 pm: NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar - twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter
- has e been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several
hours. He is very careful in choosing his tweet
sources. Here are a couple of blurbs from his reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from tweets. No news
media outlets have been used.
These are the important happenings that Shahryar can positively confirm from Friday, June 26 in Iran.
No large rallies or prostests were held today. There were
unconfirmed reports of small gatherings in isolated areas of the city,
but for the most part, Tehran didn't seem to witness the same as it has
been for the past two weeks. Sources indicated that it was in no way a
sign of giving up, but rather a brief interval in more protests that
are to come. They added that currently, the Sea of Green is organizing
and regrouping as well as coming up with new ways to defy the
authorities and also know of the fate of their leaders in order to
progress.
At 1 PM, however, a large number of people in Tehran took to roofs
and released green balloons to show solidarity with the Sea of Green
and to commemorate protesters who've died so far. (Link showing the
balloons: YouTube - IRAN RIGGED ELECTIONS: Green balloons were used as a form of protest all over Iran 6/26/2009
) At night, the people again took to the roofs and chanted "Allah o
Akbar" and "Death to the Dictator". They also burned candles and held
vigils. There was confirmation of the death of one protester who was
fired upon by security forces as he chanted from his rooftop. Reports
of vigils also came from Mashhad.
Meanwhile, on the government's official English News channel, Press
TV, George Galloway, a British MP representing the constituency of
Bethnal Green and Bow, spent several hours denouncing the protests,
Israel and Zionism. He called upon the world to accept Ahmadinejad's
re-election and called on the protesters to go home and accept the will
of the people. He did not indicate which people he meant when he made
that statement.
A reliable source indicated that Khomeini's family has thrown its
lot behind the protesters. Although they denied calling out for a
protest tomorrow, they indicated that they were with the protesters and
claimed to be supporting the protesters lawful demands and don't
consider Ahmadinejad's government legitimate anymore. This, coupled
with Montazeri's statements and Larijani's lethargy, is a strong
indication that the clergy are divided in what to do with the
protesters and that there is a considerable level of public support now
for the protesters among the religious elite.
The spokesperson of the Guardian Council announced today that a
commission had been formed to recount 10% of the ballots cast with
representatives of the candidates present. The commission includes Ali
Akbar Velayati, Hadad Adel, Eftekhar Jahromi, Aboutorabi Fard, Dari
Najafabadi and Hossein Rahimian. He also gave candidates 24 hours to
appoint representatives that would join the commission in the recount.
As reported before, the government is heavily charging people for
the return of their dead family members' bodies who were killed during
the protests. Families are being charged thousands of dollars and are
also required to sign a waiver that states they won't sue the police
and that Mousavi is the reason behind the death of their loved ones.
More people were arrested today including Mohammad Mostafaie, who is a
prominent lawyer and important reformist.
The government is continuously attacking and arresting Iranians who
are using twitter to get the message out to the world. Several of our
sources have so far been arrested or have stopped using twitter
altogether, yet the remainder have pledged to continue until the last
minute. Amidst the somber mood, some emotional moments can also be
seen.
Iran embassy in Switzerland was hit by a firebomb. Apparently, "it was a peaceful demonstration until someone
threw a molotov cocktail at the wall of the Iranian embassy." The man who threw the explosive is standing in the background (next to the fire): More pics here via Huff Po
5:10 pm: Glenn Beck is wearing a green shirt and a green tie on his show today. Solidarity brothers (and he is holding up a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged). heh.
Now, if only Glenn would talk about Iran. He's not talking about Michael Jackson, that's a start.
The Iranians who are resisting the electoral putsch are not only being
humiliated and beaten by the batons and bullets of the Pasdaran but also by the
inaction of the so-called freedom-loving world: no call for a special session of
the UN, no threats of sanctions, no boycott declaration, no economic embargo,
not even the smallest warning—let's just not take sides or make any commitments
as long as the result of the struggle in Iran remains open. So Obama doesn't need days but weeks to slowly
pull back his outstretched hand, while the German Foreign Ministry argues all
the more emphatically for a dialogue with the putsch-regime. Undauntedly, the
German-Iranian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Tehran advertises the
building of a German-Iranian Business Center in Berlin, while the German-Iranian
Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg reported today that its upcoming seminar on
"Export Certification in Iran Trade" (July 13) is already overcrowded. And
haven't we gotten along somehow or other with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the
past four years?
But this time this optimistic hope that things will just go on is a
self-deception.
[...]
About two years ago, Nicolas Sarkozy warned of a "catastrophic alternative":
either the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran. He proposed negotiations as the
last resort. Yet this path is blocked because Khamenei does not want to
negotiate.
Today the uprising in Iran sheds new light on the nuclear dispute. Since
June 12, defusing the bomb is now linked to the victory of the democracy
movement. The help that the West withholds today will turn back on it as nuclear
terror tomorrow.
Whatever the outcome of the current power struggle in Tehran, one thing is
certain: the ruling establishment is split down the middle, with little
possibility of reconciliation in the near future.
[...]
The military are equally split.
Some, like Defense Minister General Mostafa Muhammad Najjar and Interior
Minister General Sadeq Mahsouli have sided with Khamenei's new hard-line stance.
Others like Admiral Ali Shamkhani, a former defense minister, and General
Yahya Rahim Safavi, a former Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
(IRGC), have indicated support for the opposition.
The split in the IRGC may be deeper than many suspect.
According to unconfirmed reports, at least 17 mid-ranking IRGC officers have
been relieved of their posts. A senior commander, General Ali Fazli, who led the
elite "Master of the Martyrs' Division", has been "reassigned" after refusing to
order troops to crush the demonstrators.
Some people from the demonstration stormed the embassy area. Embassy
personal used som kind of electronic weapons (tasers) iron batons, and
knives against demonstrators. One person were taken to hospital due to
knife stab from embassy personal another because of heart attack due to
tumult outside the fence. They were all armed from the embassy and
really violent. The demonstrators smashed windows of cars and smashed
some windows of the buildings and tried to defend themselves against
the heavily armed, embassy personal who didn't even hesitate of using
their weapons against people.
Video shows when protesters enters the embassy area and get beaten by the staff of the embassy.
Obama's policy, and that of the United States, should be the overthrow
of the Islamic revolution of 1979. The massive resistance to the June
12 elections is just another fact supporting that conclusion.
The
Tehran regime -- not just Ahmadinejad but the entire Islamic revolution
superstructure -- is enormously unpopular for three major reasons.
First, the regime's economic mismanagement has brought the economy of a
country rich in oil and natural gas to near-gridlock. Periodic but
piecemeal strikes have been put down, but the prospect of a
simultaneous, sustained, nationwide strike remains a potent threat
Second,
Iran's young people -- two-thirds of the population is under 30 -- know
they could have a much freer life if they could only overturn the
mullahs' strict rule. The young are educated and sophisticated, and
they know there are alternatives to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's velayat-e faqih, the system of "guardianship of Islamic jurists" that imposes harsh Sharia law on Iran today.
Third,
Iran is only about 50% Persian. Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and
others resent the ethnic, political and religious discrimination they
face constantly and have little or no love for the Islamic revolution.
Of
course, these various sources of discontent are not entirely
reinforcing, and are sometimes in conflict, which indicates how
difficult it is for a purely internal Iranian opposition to coalesce.
Had the U.S. and others over the last 30 years done more to help
Iranian dissidents, overtly and covertly, we might be in a different
place today. The question is whether we are prepared to do now what we
should have been doing for some time. To date at least, the
Obama administration's answer remains a resounding no. Obama wants
negotiations with Tehran, not regime change. Given that the
Revolutionary Guard and the hard-line mullahs -- and not the people --
are increasingly likely to be the short-term winners of the current
Battle for Iran, supporters of regime change must now make longer-term
plans. We have missed a huge opportunity because of Obama's
error (and that of his predecessors), but the continuing threat of
Iranian nuclear weapons and support for international terrorism make
the imperative of regime change no less compelling. The Iranian people
will continue their opposition no matter how inconvenient it is for
Obama's hoped-for negotiations. We should support them, and not just by
rhetoric.
About an hour ago they brought in an young man in his early twenties who was
severely beaten by the Basij. His CPK was 118000, which is a big deal in
medicine. CPK is a measure of muscle lysis so guess how badly he must have been
beaten for such an incredibly high CPK. In fact so much muscle was lysed and
myoglobulin was released that he went into renal failure (an expected aftermath
of rhabdomyolysis or extensive lysis of the muscles). One of the attending
cardiologists said that he would give him his kidney if need be… We all felt the
same… The clashes are now sporadic… But the chants of Allah o Akbar are higher
than ever…
1:59 pm: Iran media: Obama sent secret letter of support to Khamenei before election.
12:13pm: Khatami said during nationally broadcast Muslim sermon on Friday that the government should punish "leaders of the riots, who were supported by Israel and the U.S., strongly and with cruelty."
Iran's increasingly isolated opposition leader effectively ended his role in street protests, saying he'll seek permits for future rallies. A senior cleric demanded in a nationally broadcast sermon Friday that leaders of the unrest be punished harshly and that some are "worthy of execution."
The official Web site of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main tool of communicating with his supporters, was hacked Friday, leaving it blank, an aide said.
[...]
Hundreds have been detained since the vote, including journalists, academics and university students, and a special court has been set up to put them on trial.
Story continues below
In Friday's central Muslim sermon at Tehran University, a senior cleric, Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami, called for harsh retribution for dissent.
"Anybody who fights against the Islamic system or the leader of Islamic society, fight him until complete destruction," he said in the nationally broadcast speech.
The cleric alleged that some involved in the unrest had used firearms.
"Anyone who takes up arms to fight with the people, they are worthy of execution," he said. "We ask that the judiciary confront the leaders of the protests, leaders of the violations, and those who are supported by the United States and Israel strongly, and without mercy to provide a lesson for all."
Khatami said those who disturbed the peace and destroyed public property were "at war with God," and said they should be "dealt with without mercy."
The uncompromising words emerged as the Group of Eight countries, including the United States, fired a fresh broadside Friday saying they “deplored” the post-election violence and demanding that the “the will of the Iranian people is reflected in the electoral process.”
(photo hat tip Banafsheh)
2:27 AM: Makeshift Tehran Hospital Accepting Injured Protesters (uploaded the 25th)
By official count, some
450 people have been arrested in opposition protests against Iran’s
presidential election results. Many sources inside Iran put the count
in the thousands. To those arrested 10 years ago, in Iran’s last great
wave of student demonstrations, what the new detainees face next is
already clear. Ali Fathi (a pseudonym) was one of those students
arrested in 1999. This is his story.
What will happen to the people who have been arrested in the protest rallies in Iran? I can tell you.
I was arrested during the 1999 student demonstrations in Tehran, exactly 10 years ago.
What
I did was as trivial in terms of real crime as what the protesters in
Iran have done now by expressing rage over the presidential election
results.
Eight traitors to the principles of the Republican party handed the Democrat-communists a victory which may lead to the greatest tax increases and most far-reaching centralized (dictatorship) control over every aspect of American life.
(hat tip TC)
The vote was 219 - 212. The 8 RINO votes would have stopped this marxist-transnationalist legislation in its tracks.
On a good note - 43 democrats rejected the insanity.
The
Democrats in the House of Representatives have voted to destroy the
United States economy unilaterally. The vote was 220-203. 5 people did
not vote. (As of 7:15 p.m.)
The vote was extremely close. 8 Republicans voted yes. 43 Democrats voted no.
Your persistent phone calls kept the margin very narrow and now make it extremely difficult to pass the Senate.
We must keep up the pressure in the Senate. We also now have a lot
of momentum going into the healthcare fight. Democrats cannot expect to
hold the same economy destroying coalition together.
Also, several Democrats are now dead men walking. We will clean their clocks next year.
UPDATED: Both James Inhofe and Harry Reid predict the legislation is dead in the Senate.
Republicans voting yes:
Congressman Mary Bono, California 202-225-5330 Congressman Mike
Castle,Delaware 202-225-4165 Congressman Mark Kirk Illinois 202-225-4835 Congressman Frank Lobiondo
New Jersey
202-225-6572 Congressman Leonard Lance New Jersey 202-225-5361 Congressman John McHugh
New York 202-225-4611 Congressman Dave Reichert Washington State 202-225-7761 Congressman Chris
Smith Trenton New Jersey 202-225-3765
Daryl wrote me earlier:
Did our government
surrender to Beijing without telling us?
If this bill passes, it will have the
effect on America the Versailles Treaty had on Germany.
De-industrialization.
We are going to receive a double-whammy
because the treaty exempts the worst polluters, the ChiComs, from mandatory
emission controls, but WE get to help foot the bill for whatever pollution
controls the despots in Beijing decide to deploy.
Our manufacturers are mandated to pay for
their own investments in pollution control technology and, indirectly through
higher taxes for foreign aid, for THEIRS.
How come the world's biggest debtor nation
has to raise taxes and borrow more money to pay for aid to the biggest creditor
nation?
Naturally, this will only further
the transfer of manufacturing to China.
After the greenback goes the way of the
Deutschmark, the middle class has lost its savings to hyper-inflation, and all
our non-government jobs have gone to China, how will we avoid the rise of an
American Hitler?
Atlas reader TC asks, do you remember the Democrats who lobbied Iraq? In the summer of 2008 the destroy-USA Democrats, led by "Chuck" Schumer, corralled then Secretary of State Condi Rice, forcing her to pressure Iraq into canceling six contracts that had been previously awarded to Western oil companies - Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Total, BP, etc.
Thanks to these leftists, their ally and model of "progressive utopian dictatorship" - communist China - has reaped the rewards enabled by Democrat treason and has purchased 550 million barrels of oil at $16/barrel:
Well let’s see - The US has spent $1,000,000,000,000 fighting in Iraq and thousands of our soldiers have died and we have secured ZERO barrels of oil for ourselves. China was not part of the coalition of the willing but, for just $8.8Bn, they are getting 550 Million barrels of oil, almost the size of the US’s entire strategic petroleum reserve, through the purchase of Addax Petroleum, and 20% of those reserves are in Iraq . While Bush filled our reserve up "at any price" and became the single largest buyer of crude in the world, filling our SPR at a rate of 2-3Mb a week at times, China simply waited patiently on the sidelines and is now coming in and buying wholesale. That’s pretty smart!
And America is turning over energy to these assclowns? A 1,300 page bill that no one has even read is being rammed down our throats?
Despite repeated warnings to "Say No to Koh", Harold Koh was confirmed. This is a dark day. American sovereignty, R.I.P. Say no to Koh? With a vote of 62-35, we didn't even say maybe. This is an indication that so few knew what was at stake, and once again the media abdicated its role of public servant, not Obama's slave.
The future of American jurisprudence hung in the very balance. Koh opposes national self-interest. He is dogged and
determined to advance his views. He believes traditional
sovereignty is obsolete. He has written critically of the very notion
American exceptionalism.
Yale
Law School Dean Harold Koh was confirmed as the State Department Legal Advisor
in a roll call vote, 62-35.
We needed 51 votes.
Koh was tapped for the job nearly four months
ago, but has faced criticism from some conservatives for an alleged
"transnational" approach to the law. But ranking Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Republican Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) threw his support to
Koh, in a statement Thursday: "After reading his answers to dozens of
questions, attending his hearing in its entirety, meeting with him privately,
and reviewing his writings, I believe that Dean Koh is unquestionably qualified
to assume the post for which he is nominated."
UPDATE: Here are the traitors in the Republican party who helped usurp
American sovereignty and who voted for the pro-sharia dhimmi
“transnationalist” and far-left radical Koh:
UPDATE! 6:15 PM FILIBUSTER! Just thought you might all might want to tune in to CSPAN. House Republican Leader John Boehner is taking the liberty of reading the entire 300-page amendment added to the Waxman-Markey energy bill THIS MORNING at 3am. Democrats want to pass the largest tax in American history, slipping amendments in in the dark? Republicans won’t stand for this. Check it out. His commentary is pretty good too, and Waxman isn’t happy.
Cap and trade vote expected today, time, detailsInternational Business Times It's crap and trade. Cap and Trade is a fancy word for tax increase. Worse,
it is a tax on the middle class to subsidize the affluent. States that
rely heavily on energy pay more. Miami, Ohio will subsidize Miami,
Florida. Why not tie actual warming to carbon taxing based on
evidence? Considering that it has been decreasing since 2002, the
gubmint might wind up owing us money.
So much going on - breathless. BUT STOP AND LISTEN.
Atlas readers! Call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them that they oppose this energy tax. This is a 1,200 page document with an addendum of 300 pages which was added at 3am last night! They are expected to vote on this today. It is a very close count so far.
This must be stopped. The vampires must get their teeth out of the American taxpayer's neck. This is a crushing blow to capitalism and free markets, to say nothing of the advancement of junk science. This will bankrupt the nation. The massive 'cap and trade' legislation will mean
up to a 90% eventual increase in your electricity bill...check out
the facts - THIS IS BEING VOTED ON IN THE HOUSE TODAY! CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND
TELL HIM OR HER TO VOTE NO ON CAP AND TRADE!
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.
Gore has scored 100 million dollars in "global warming" hoax.
Al Gore’s venture
capital firm has invested $6 million in a software
company that stands to make billions of dollars from cap-and-trade
regulation — further fueling controversy that Gore lied
about his profiteering from cap-and-trade to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
and the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee during testimony in April.
Hara Software sells software to help track greenhouse gas emissions. The
market for such software is now about $2.5 billion dollars in size, and is
expected to grow by a factor of ten to $25 billion if cap-and-trade legislation
is enacted, according
to Hara CEO Amit Chatterjee.
Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm in which Al Gore is a partner,
invested in Hara just last year. Chatterjee told Reuters that,
CAIR is inviting US leaders to convert or ................. here's the latest from one of the US fronts of the Islamic supremacist group the Muslim Brotherhood. Let's hope it's the unedited version that jihadis are inspired by. Who's translating this version? Are these leaders free to do what they want with their CAIR provided quran?
U.S. Muslims to Offer Qurans to 100,000 American Leaders
Major educational initiative prompted by president’s quoting of Islam’s
revealed text
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/26/09) - On Tuesday, June 30, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a news conference in Washington,
D.C., to announce the launch of a major campaign to distribute free copies of
the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, to 100,000 local, state and national
leaders.
WHAT: CAIR News Conference to Announce Launch of “Share the Quran”
Campaign WHEN: Tuesday, June 30, 11 a.m. WHERE: CAIR
National Headquarters, 453 New Jersey Ave., S.E., Washington,
D.C. CONTACT: CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper,
202-488-8787, 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com
CAIR’s “Share the Quran” educational campaign was prompted by President
Obama’s recent address to Muslims worldwide in which he quoted from that holy
text.
In the multi-year initiative, American Muslims will sponsor Qurans for
distribution to governors, state attorney generals, educators, law enforcement
officials, state and national legislators, local elected and public officials,
media professionals, and other local or national leaders who shape public
opinion or determine policy.
Devote this weekend to standing up for freedom and getting an education on Islamic law. Try to attend a rally in support of those fighting and dying for freedom in Iran. Robert Spencer says the movie is excellent, surprising in its accurate portrayal of an Islamic stoning for adultery. Well, not so surprising, in fact, as Spencer consulted on the movie, vetting the script for Islamic accuracy.
It is a great movie. GO THIS WEEKEND. Let's give it some fiscal legs.
And while the film is accurate, apparently the actress (!) in the film was asked about stoning. I don't know why an actress would be asked anything outside the realm of her "craft". The combined IQ of all the actresses (and actors) in Hollywood would barely break the hundred mark, so why ask them anything that requires an education and some intellectual breadth and depth. They are experts at nothing but their own navels. If we want leftist/Islamic bullet points, go to Media Matters.
On such key questions, why not ask Ibn Warraq, Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali? Instead, they ask bimbos who spread dangerous and false information. The bottom line is that actresses are paid to recite the words of others not their own. So why ask their opinions on such grave matters?
The Stoning of Soraya M. is a great film; I attended an
advance screening of it last year in Los Angeles, and strongly
recommend that you see it. It is a powerfully moving indictment of the
Islamic practice of stoning adulterers, and indirectly of the Sharia in
general -- however, those connected with the film are doing their level
best to avoid giving the impression that the film has anything to do
with Islam at all. The latest to do this, but by no means the only one,
is actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, who portrays the victim's close friend.
This is understandable in today's politically correct Obamoid climate,
but it is unfortunate for the Muslim women who are victimized by this
barbaric practice: they will never get justice as long as the world is
busy making excuses for what victimizes them, instead of calling to
account those who are responsible.
Anyway, Aghdashloo makes a number of factually false statements in
this article -- not just false, but misleading, and ultimately enabling
those who perpetuate the practice of stoning.
"MOVIE PROFILE: Shohreh Aghdashloo of 'The Stoning of Soraya M.,'" by Todd Hill for the Staten Island Advance, June 25 (thanks to James):
"It's been happening since the Stone Age, in Judaism,
Christianity, Islam. Other nations and religions have gotten rid of it,
and all of a sudden, after 2,000 years of monarchy we're facing it in
Iran. What makes me feel devastated is the fact that it's happening
there, the cradle of civilization," said the actress.
"It's been happening since the Stone Age, in Judaism, Christianity,
Islam." In fact, no. The Hebrew Scriptures mandate stoning but it has
not been carried out in Judaism since the destruction of the Temple in
70 A.D., or before that. Islamic tradition contains stories of Muhammad
confronting Jewish rabbis who try to conceal the fact that the Torah
teaches stoning -- they seem to know that Muhammad was a brutal
flat-footed literalist who would demand they carry out these teachings
literally, when they understood them in a quite different way. I will
include some of this at the end of this post.
As for Christianity, stoning has never been practiced except among
those strange Christians one encounters only in TV dramas. Jesus
famously raised the bar for stoning beyond human reach when he said to
a crowd that was poised to stone an adulteress, "Let him who is without
sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her" (John 8:7).
"Along with enriching uranium they're stoning people, and this is what I cannot get, I cannot put the two together."
Aghdashloo stressed that stoning isn't mentioned in the Koran.
"It has nothing to do with Islam. It's under the category of
superstitions and traditions, but obviously those who have hijacked
Islam are manipulating people and using this as an Islamic law. It is
not, really," said Aghdashloo, who prepared for her role by watching a
real stoning on videotape.
Stoning has everything to do with Islam and Islamic law. The caliph
Umar, one of Muhammad's closest companions, even maintained that it was
originally in the Qur'an:
'Umar said, "I am afraid that after a long time has passed,
people may say, "We do not find the Verses of the Rajam (stoning to
death) in the Holy Book," and consequently they may go astray by
leaving an obligation that Allah has revealed. Lo! I confirm that the
penalty of Rajam be inflicted on him who commits illegal sexual
intercourse, if he is already married and the crime is proved by
witnesses or pregnancy or confession." Sufyan added, "I have memorized
this narration in this way." 'Umar added, "Surely Allah's Apostle
carried out the penalty of Rajam, and so did we after him." (Bukhari, vol. 8, bk. 82, no. 816)
Freedom Movement Rally this weekend in support of those marching for democracy in Iran.
Location: Liberty State Park. (flag plaza) 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday Flag Plaza, Liberty State Park Bayone, New
Jersey Saurday: June 27th,2009 Time: 2pm Questions: 202- 470-3272
Council of Iranian Cultural Renaissance
IRANIANS ASK AMERICANS TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR FREEDOM MOVEMENT Rally
Scheduled Saturday in New Jersey’s Liberty Park
Most Americans don’t know the
significance of Derafsh Kaviani.
But they do know the significance of their
own Statue of Liberty, powerful symbol of freedom to both those born here and
those seeking a new home. On Saturday an international Iranian group seeking
freedom for Iran is asking Americans to gather with them near Lady Liberty to
show their support for Iran as group members unfurl and fly their own potent
symbol of freedom, unity, and defiance against oppression, the ancient flag
known as the Derafsh Kaviani. The flag, royal standard of the Sassanid
Emperors which has been repressed since Muslim invaders conquered Iran about 600
A.D., represents Iranian independence and resistance against foreign tyranny,
according to Babak Iran, spokesman for the Council of Iranian Cultural
Renaissance which is sponsoring the rally. Iranians will gather from 2 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. Saturday at Flag Plaza, Liberty State Park, in Bayone, New Jersey, and
are appealing to Americans to join them. The rally will begin with the flying
of the Derafsh Kaviani over the Statue of Liberty; the plane will fly the flag
after first tipping its wings above the site of the former Twin Towers in
tribute to the Americans who died there at the hands of terrorists on September
11, 2001. “We’d like to fill the park with 50,000 people, with Americans from
all walks of life who support freedom and abhor the repression going on in
Iran,” Babak Iran said. He said the group especially hopes for the support of
young Americans, since large numbers of young Iranians are braving the wrath of
Iranian authorities to stand up for their freedom. He cited Neda Soltan, the
27-year-old Iranian woman who has become a symbol of the movement for freedom
after being killed last week in Tehran while peacefully protesting.
Obama has called settlements "illegitimate." And he has said
that Israel "has obligations under the road map," while referring disparagingly
to "settlements that, in past agreements, have been categorized as illegal."
[...]
By characterizing its demand that Israel prohibit Jews from
building homes in Israel's capital city and its heartland as a legal
requirement, the Obama administration portrays Israel as an international
outlaw. After all, if building homes for Jews is a crime, and Israel is not
prohibiting Jews from building homes, then Israel is at best guilty of enabling
a crime to take place, and at worst, it is a criminal state.
It makes good political sense for the Obama administration to
make its case against Israel in this fashion. According to a survey of US public
opinion published in early 2006 by the Boston Review,
whereas only 7 percent of Democrats support going to war to spread democracy -
versus 53% of Republicans; 71% of Democrats - versus 36% of Republicans -
support going to war to help the United Nations "uphold international law." What
this poll shows is that for Obama supporters, the idea that Israel should be
treated poorly because it is in breach of international law resonates deeply.
[...]
Like the US, Israel is a signatory to the 1976 International
Convention for Civil and Political Rights, which among other things prohibits
all forms of discrimination against people on the basis of religion and
nationality.
Consequently, Israel is barred from discriminating
specifically against Jews who wish to build homes on legally controlled lands in
Judea and Samaria. As a binding treaty, this convention takes precedence over
the nonbinding road map. Indeed, given the road map's prejudicial position on
Jewish building it can be reasonably argued that the road map itself calls for a breach of international
law.
Finally, there is always the claim made by Israel's critics
that Jewish communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines are illegal by
dint of the Fourth Geneva Convention from 1949. That convention prohibits an
occupying power from transferring parts of its population to occupied territory.
Legal authorities have long disputed whether this convention is applicable to
Judea and Samaria, but even if it is applicable, according to Prof. Avi Bell
from Bar-Ilan University Law School, it "only proscribes state actions."
Bell explains, "The Fourth Geneva Convention does not purport
to limit in any way what individual Jews may or may not do on their legally held
property or where they may or may not choose to live."
WHEREAS UPON examination it is clear that the Obama
administration is wrong in insinuating that Israel is in breach of its
international legal commitments through its refusal to bar Jewish construction
in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, the Obama administration's own policy toward
the Palestinians places it in clear breach of both binding international law and
domestic US law.
On September 28, 2001, the UN Security Council passed binding
Resolution 1373. Resolution 1373, which was initiated by the US government, and
was passed by authority of Chapter VII, committed all UN member states to
"refrain from providing any form of support, active or passive, to entities or
persons involved in terrorist acts." Resolution 1373 further required UN member
states to "deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit
terrorist acts or provide safe haven" to those that do.
In 1995, the US State Department acknowledged that Hamas fits
the legal definition of a terrorist organization. Today, due to its policies
toward Hamas, the Obama administration is in breach of both Resolution 1373 -
that is, of international law - and of US domestic law barring the provision of
support and financing to foreign terrorist organizations.
According to an internal State Department document cited
Wednesday by the Atlas Shrugs Web site, the US has already
transferred or is in the process of allocating $300 million dollars to Gaza
through USAID and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Since Hamas
controls "humanitarian" organizations in Gaza, and Hamas has openly and
repeatedly stolen "humanitarian aid," there is little doubt the transfer of
funds to Gaza constitutes indirect assistance to Hamas and is therefore
prohibited by Resolution 1373 as well as by US statute.
The Obama administration is further in breach of international and domestic US
law due to its attempts to coerce Israel into opening international passages
between Israel and Gaza to enable trade and commerce with Hamas-controlled Gaza
and to end or curtail travel restrictions for people between Gaza and Israel.
Resolution 1373 stipulates that all states must "prevent the movement of
terrorists or terrorist groups by effective border controls." Given the fact
that the Gaza side of the border is controlled by a terrorist organization, any
significant relaxation of Israeli border controls puts Israel at risk of
facilitating the movement of terrorists and permitting direct and indirect
support to terrorists.
A court in Great Britain has found that a
religious Jewish school engaged in racial discrimination by applying the
traditional definition of who is a Jew as part of its admissions
policy.
Traditionally, whether one is Jewish is determined by maternal lineage. If one's mother is Jewish, one is
Jewish. When the mother is a convert to Judaism, Orthodox Jews consider the
child Jewish only if the conversion was in accordance with Orthodox conversion practices. Among non-Orthodox Jews,
at least in the United States, the test is completely muddled, and among
progressive Reform congregations, the standards for conversion are
quite lenient.
In the case at issue, reported in The Independent, the Orthodox religious school gave
preference in admissions to students who were Jewish using the Orthodox
definition and standards for conversion. The school denied admission to a
student whose mother had converted at a Progressive synagogue. The Court held
that such preferences were discrimination on the basis of race:
In a far-reaching judgment, three judges found the well known JFS
(formerly the Jews' Free School) in Brent, north-west London, racially
discriminated against a 12-year-old boy by denying him a place at the school
because his mother was not a recognised Jew.
The ruling was immediately attacked by the Chief Rabbi,
Jonathan Sachs, who said he supported an appeal to the House of Lords to try to
overturn the judgment so that Jews could "be true to the Jewish faith" by
upholding the existing criteria for membership of the Jewish religion.
JFS argued that its admissions policy giving preference to Jewish children
when the school was oversubscribed was lawful because it was based on religious
and not racial criteria.
But the judges said that "the requirement that if a pupil is to qualify for
admission his mother must be Jewish, whether by descent or by conversion, is a
test of ethnicity which contravenes the Race Relations Act".
