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US State Dept: Israel "can't be found and may have moved"

While  visiting the State Department's official website, curious to see if Hillary or Obama would post a Good Friday/Passover message to the Jewish community, as he is so fond of recognizing other foreign national holidays, I  clicked onto the "Countries & Regions" tab at the top, a list of search options drop down, the first is the "A-Z List of Countries and Regions." I clicked on it, then clicked 'I' for Israel. It took a while, then came the headline:

"We’re sorry. That page can’t be found and may have moved" IN BOLD RED LETTERS.

So, I then clicked on random countries, friends & enemies of the US -- no such problem with any of them. Country information, map and any related state department news/press all available.

Then I manually typed in Israel in the 'search the site' box -- and waited and waited, and then a page popped up that was an overlay of other pages. It was basically unreadable. (Thanks to Merri)

But the State Department's sire for the Fakestinians in Jerusalem is working just fine, thankyouverymuch: US State Department: Jerusalem for Islam UPDATED: It's "the de-facto “embassy” to the Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza.

Left Madness: Racism, Jew-Hatred, 911 Truthers and Anti-American Incitement

Ignore this at your own risk. No one paid it any mind for years (lord knows, we on the blogs have been chronicling it) Alinsky, Ayers, Dohrn, Codepink .... this is what students' brains are marinated in.

The corrupt media ignores these nazis and instead focuses on smearing and slandering good Americans demonstrating for constitutional values. Got that?

Here is a small sampling. There are scores more pics. Ringo was on scene for this left wing orgy of racism and hate: (hat tip Laura)

I am not going to run them all -- go and look for yourself. There were Communists, Marxist and Socialist moonbats of every stripe. And hundreds, upon hundreds, of the variety commonly known as "truther moonbats". This particular species seems to be interbreeding with the others, and now the symbols of the "trutherbats" can now be seen on almost every other variety.

There were also countless "keffiyeh-bats" on the street. Keffiyeh-bats are moonbats that show their solidarity with the enemies of America and Israel by wrapping their necks and faces with the traditional Palestinian scarf known as the "keffiyeh". Also on hand were "anarchy-bats" and "dirtypunk-bats"; their faces wrapped up in filthy bandanas. And, this being California, there were hundreds of "La Raza-bats". I also saw a few of the shy and nervous, "chemtrail-bats". Chemtrailbats usually stay indoors to avoid contact with the mind altering chemicals that the government sprays from commercial aircraft. 

There were "stonerbats", "crazybats", "CodePinkerbats" and extremely noisy "raving bullhorn-bats".

We’ll start this photographic journey with the elusive "Jew-hater" moonbat. This variety of moonbat is far more common than one might realize. They are elusive because they usually conceal their true plumage. But if one looks hard enough you can always find some unafraid of showing their real colors." Have a look at the following picture of moonbats gathered in front of the stage to watch other moonbats chant slogans and scream speeches…There’s his sign, right in the center of the crowd.

Bolton: Nuclear Treaty Threatens American Sovereignty

The crucial existential idea of national sovereignty is under assault around the globe in virtually every realm of Obama's policy.

Bolton expands upon this in the foreword of my book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America -- have you ordered it yet?

John Bolton, critical of the  New START, is correct in urging us to pressure politicians on sovereignty issues. “We have to insist on getting clear answers from candidates for Congress, from incumbent members of Congress, from the presidential candidates as we get into the presidential season in the not-too-distant future,” Bolton said, “to make it clear that we view sovereignty and the preservation of American sovereignty as a high priority.”

Bolton belongs in the White House.

If you missed the live broadcast of Ambassador John R. Bolton on Protecting National Sovereignty in the Age of Obama, click on the link.

In an address at the Heritage Foundation John Bolton claims that national sovereignty is undermined by the partnership between the United Nations and the Obama Administration. Bolton argues that policies made under the U.N. impose a foreign influence that weakens America’s ability to govern itself.

Bolton Suggests Nuclear Treaty Threatens American Sovereignty

Accuses Administration of 'Stunning Naivete'

Bolton, an influential conservative foreign policy official for decades, accused the Obama administration of harboring “a very different view of American sovereignty than a long line of presidents, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt.” Relying on portions of quotes by senior officials and an undefined category of people he characterized as the “international left” and the “academic left,” Bolton said the administration attaches a “near theological significance” to the power of international institutions whose actions threaten the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution.

Tying ratification of the treaty, which cuts American and Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles by 30 percent, to the broader question of the survival of American sovereignty raises the stakes for a key Obama administration priority. In his announcement of the treaty on Friday, President Obama linked it to his vision of a world ultimately free of nuclear weapons, a priority conservatives have derided. Ratification, already an uncertain prospect in a fiercely partisan Senate, will require the votes of at least eight Republican senators, a task made more difficult by the influential Bolton’s portrayal of the treaty as commensurate with a broader assault by Obama on constitutional values.

Advances in arms control would have “a cumulative impact on our sovereignty,” Bolton argued. While he declined to address the merits of the treaty — whose text has not yet been released — Bolton said it reflected Obama’s “almost religious view in the obligations and implications of treaties.” He scoffed at the president’s statement that the U.S.-Russian reduction in their countries’ nuclear stockpiles, which represent over 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, would strengthen global arms control efforts, and suggested that it would spur rogue-state nuclear proliferation.

“I think the people in places like Teheran and Pyongyang say, ‘Fantastic — the United States is coming down, let’s ramp up our production efforts to get to the [nuclear] capability even more quickly,’” Bolton said. “The rhetoric of the arms control advocates often is very divorced from important and legitimate American security concerns.”

Beyond the so-called New START treaty itself, Bolton tied Obama’s foreign policy to what he called a “globalist” effort at replacing ultimate fidelity to the Constitution with fealty to international accords and institutions, a longtime conservative bogeyman, and contrasted it with his own “Americanist” perspective.

“I think if you ask most international law scholars, they’d say, ‘Of course international law trumps the Constitution,’” Bolton said, yoking Obama to that position and suggesting that the administration will never abandon it. “This is a decisive question that we ought to be asking politicians: In the priority, in the hierarchy of legal systems, where does the Constitution fit?”

At least one administration official, State Department legal counsel Harold Koh, came under attack last year for allegedly privileging international law above the Constitution, although Koh last week defended the administration’s legal right to launch drone strikes on al-Qaeda targets far from the battlefields of Afghanistan.

Bolton’s framing comes amid the growing influence of Tea Party activists who frequently question Obama’s devotion to the Constitution, and who are seething over the administration’s recent victory in passing health care reform. It also comes as Republicans in the Senate consider whether they ought to sign the New START treaty or to deal the administration’s agenda an embarrassing international setback.

Senate Republicans have yet to coalesce around a position on New START, especially as Congress enjoys a two-week recess. But the early signs from Senate GOP leaders have not been positive. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) wrote a letter to Obama the day the treaty was announced, warning that even preambular language remotely linking European missile defense to the treaty is unacceptable, despite public declarations from senior Obama officials flatly stating that the treaty will not hinder missile defense. The early strategy from multiple administration officials to pass the treaty is to remind Republicans, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton did Friday, that nuclear weapons treaties with the Russians historically sail through the Senate with over 90 votes.

Jamie Fly, the executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative, a conservative foreign policy messaging and advocacy organization, said that while skepticism of the treaty’s verification mechanisms and relationship to missile defense is pronounced, he was unsure “anyone on the right is really ready to say [the treaty] shouldn’t be ratified.” Fly said his organization would await the actual text of New START before taking a position, though he added that FPI was “not huge fans of the Russia Reset,” the Obama administration’s effort to revitalize bilateral relations with Russia. “Everyone I’ve talked to on Capitol Hill and around town is in a wait-and-see mode,” he said.

The Biggest Hustle in Human History

The media chased down every Bush doc, and when they couldn't find dirt, they advanced fake docs. That was only the preview. Their masterstroke was creating and advancing a fake president.

This is beyond media corruption; it is criminal.

Big media has a garbage detail to sift through Sarah Palin's garbage. Why has there been no investigative journalism on this impostor?

The Blogging Professor has the whole dirty, hot mess here:

Chicago Law School faculty hated Obama "because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool"

The smartest genius President evah is nothing more than a carboard cutout. A fraud. Doesn't exist. We don't even know how he did in school because to this day his transcripts are sealed. Turns out now that when he was an instructor at the Chicago, his colleagues who were actual Professors didn't like him and didn't want him. Obama's position was obtained through political channels. From Doug Ross: To be (a lawyer) or not to be...

Is the President's resume accurate when it comes to his career and qualifications? I can corroborate that Obama's "teaching career" at Chicago was, to put it kindly, a sham.

I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about "Barry." Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn't even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn't have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).

Consider this: 1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a "lawyer". He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he "fibbed" on his bar application. ...

4. A senior lecturer is one thing. A fully ranked law professor is another. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, "Obama did NOT 'hold the title' of a University of Chicago law school professor". Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Chicago.

5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March, 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) "served as a professor" in the law school, but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.

6. "He did not hold the title of professor of law," said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law.

7. The former Constitutional senior lecturer cited the U.S. Constitution recently during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

Here was that video that I posted back in January: Video: Former Constitutional Law Professor Obama makes up quotes in SOTU not found in the Constitution:

10. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named them unalienable rights. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

11. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech?

When you are a phony it's hard to keep facts straight.

For a constitutional senior lecturer, it's also noteworthy that Obama doesn't know what car insurance covers.

UPDATE: Doug Ross updates with this: Most Transparent President Ever Has Bar Records Redacted This Week, Leaving Only Traces of His Existence Some Betamax Videos and a Fraternity Pin

President Obama's Occidental College transcripts have never been released. His Columbia transcripts are, likewise, AWOL. And his Harvard Law transcripts also haven't been made public. Finally, it's reported, he never published any articles while at Harvard, yet somehow served as Editor of Law Review. That would make him unique among editors, according to insiders.

Even John "D Student" Kerry was guilt-tripped into releasing his transcripts.

Curiously, since I relayed a report of Obama's "teaching career" at Chicago (he was apparently never a law professor, as some have claimed), the Illinois Bar has decided to partially redact what little public information it had available on its website related to the President's legal status.

There's more.

U.S. Supports Islamic Terror Against Russia

Julia Gorin on an increasingly jihad-supporting US. Please read the whole thing here.

We don’t yet know the whole story behind the two female suicide bombers who killed 38 people in Moscow and injured scores of others. Although their affiliation is unclear, the working assumption is that the bombers were tied to the Chechen rebel movement in the North Caucasus.

There is, however, something which we do know for sure, and which we paid no attention to despite its clear connection to the kind of terror Moscow witnessed yesterday morning.

There was a little-noted meeting that took place in December 2009, in Tbilisi, the capital of U.S. ally Georgia. That month Georgia hosted a conference of jihadists to plan “operations” against Russia. There was no news coverage of the event, and so it took a paid advertisement in the Washington Times to make it known. Stubbornly, still no news organization or blog picked up on it. And so here we are.

Below are the relevant parts of the paid-for article from last month, titled “The Georgian Imbroglio — And a Choice for the United States.” (Original emphasis preserved.) It was penned by James George Jatras, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer as well as foreign policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee.

Americans must be made aware of Saakashvili’s extending refuge to jihadists responsible for countless acts of terror in southern Russia and his regime’s extraordinary coordination efforts to permit them to step up attacks in the Caucasus region.

Specifically, according to reliable sources [with lines to two foreign intel services], in December 2009 a secret meeting took place in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, with representatives of numerous jihad groups based in various Islamic and European countries for the purpose of coordinating their activities on Russia’s southern flank. The meeting was organized under the auspices of high officials of the Georgian government; while Saakashvili himself was not present, officials of his ministry of internal affairs (allegedly G. Lordkipanidze) and others acted as hosts and coordinators. Georgian Ambassador to Kuwait Mayering-Mikadze purportedly facilitated travel for participants from the Middle East. In addition to “military” operations (i.e., attacks in southern Russia) special attention was given to ideological warfare, for example, the launching of the Russian-language TV station “First Caucasian.”

Are we to believe that U.S. intelligence agencies were unaware of this meeting and other similar actions? The question then is unavoidable: has Washington decided to turn a blind eye — or even worse, to encourage our “ally” Saakashvili to play the “jihad card” against Russia? Could such a thing be possible at a time when the world’s media are filled with reports of jihad attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Israel, Philippines, and other countries — not least the United States (Fort Hood, Fort Dix)? The threat comes from the same ideology that motivated the 9/11 attacks against our country and which seeks to create through violence a worldwide Islamic caliphate governed by Sharia law.

Every day American troops fight jihadists in Afghanistan, where prospects for cooperation between NATO and Russia are increasingly promising. But many in the West prefer to look the other way regarding attacks against Russia, or when an unstable politician masquerading as a Georgian reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson offers his country’s territory as a terrorist base.

We should have learned this lesson a long time ago. During the 1980s, American support for Afghan mujahidin fighting the Soviets seemed to make sense — but it eventually gave us Islamic “scholars” known as Taliban and the al-Qaeda group headed by one of our most adept proteges, Osama bin Laden. The 9/11 Commission Report is replete with references to U.S.-supported jihadist activity in the Balkans in the 1990s, allowing al-Qaeda to emerge from its birthplace in the Hindu Kush and morph into a global force capable of striking the American homeland. Will we now, having learned nothing, repeat the same mistake in the Caucasus — at the cost of scuttling improved ties with the world’s second most powerful country, which faces one and the same enemy we do?

In a brief email interview with Jatras, I asked if he was surprised that such a newsworthy item received virtually no attention. He replied:

“Newsworthy”? Why? We supported jihadists in Bosnia and Kosovo, and it was still the right thing to do, right? This meeting in Tbilisi wouldn’t have been hosted by Saakashvili without our knowledge and at least implicit green light.

The idea is, it’s ok to use jihadists against countries we don’t like. First, the USSR. Then Serbia. Is it ok to use jihad against Russia, if we can? China? Iran? North Korea? In principle, if we can do it, what would the objection be?

As we should have learned, we can’t turn them on and off like a spigot, and the monster we’ve been feeding has a mind of its own. I’d tend to think of supporting jihadists like poison gas or bio war: something you don’t do even when it might seem advantageous.

A March 23rd ad by Jatras appeared in the same space and appealed to the Obama administration to not host Saakashvili when he comes here in April, citing the Georgian president’s latest mischief:

Saakashvili’s newest expression of his provocative and obsessive hostility to Russia unfolded the evening of Saturday, March 13, when Georgia’s Imedi television station broadcast what was designed to look like live coverage of an actual Russian attack on Georgia. The “coverage” included file footage of the August 2008 fighting shown as current and the “report” that Saakashvili himself was missing and may even have been killed. President Obama is shown with a Georgian-language voice-over warning Russia to stop its military action.
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Despite official denials, claims that the Saakashvili administration had nothing to do with the “mockumentary” are implausible. Imedi, formerly critical of Saakashvili, was shut down in 2007 and then reopened under strong government influence, if not direct control.
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Most pressing for us as Americans, however, is to make sure we are not drawn into Saakashvili’s misadventures. It is now being reported that some officials of the former George W. Bush Administration favored U.S. military action (or at least the threat of it) against Russia in August 2008, risking a direct Washington-Moscow military confrontation that, thankfully, had been avoided during the Cold War. No American interest could possibly have justified such a hazard, nor can any American interest be served by helping to prop up Saakashvili’s sliding standing among his own people.

No matter how much lobbying money he spends — and given the level of U.S. assistance to Georgia, we can perhaps catch a glimpse of our own recycled tax dollars — Saakashvili needs to be told he is not welcome. Having wisely taken the initiative to begin resetting our ties with Russia, a natural American ally against global jihad ideology, President Obama should make it clear to Saakashvili that he’s worn out his welcome in Washington.

To ward off the puzzlingly cynical eye that some cast on those who today try to foster better relations between the U.S. and a post-Soviet Russia, it’s worth summarizing Jatras’s background, which I asked Jatras for. While working at the State Department in the time of Reagan, Jatras was close to a then-famous dissident named Vladimir Bukovsky. He elaborates:

In some ways, we [Bukovsky, Jatras, and their friends] were the heart of the Administration’s anti-communist line and the “fathers” of the National Endowment for Democracy. (As opposed to the prevailing view that communism was forever and we needed permanent detente with the Soviet regime. Looking back from today, it’s hard to believe how ingrained that view was). We never could have imagined that after the fall of communism the US would keep and even step up an anti-Russian line — in the name of “democracy”.

Vladimir has gone in the direction of Kasparov, Kasyanov, Limonov and those guys [State Dept. puppets], and we have not been in contact with him for years. But [my friends and I] (like those working in Ukraine with me) have taken the line that the US needs to take a positive and cooperative line with Russia against the jihadists, starting with no NATO expansion and no “color revolutions”. “Northern Civilization” (North America, Europe, Russia) needs to stick together. Pushing a new cold war (to what purpose?) is destructive and suicidal.

We’ve been working hard here in DC, with whatever support we can find, to try to build good relations between Washington and Moscow. That keeps getting harder as the US imperial line became stronger. We hope a change of course is possible under Obama. It can’t be worse than Bush, but we still have some big problems in this administration too: Biden, Hillary, and especially Richard Holbrooke (whose people are planted in key positions). But now that the US is almost bankrupt and losing two wars, that line — hopefully — has no place to go.

Indeed, most Americans would be shocked to realize that rather than worldwide jihad, our government is still fighting the Cold War. It continues to be our M.O. to use al Qaeda operatives and other jihadists as a stick against rival world powers, most notably Russia. We still believe that “our” jihadists can be controlled, as if they don’t have their own agendas. But the notion is continually contradicted, its counterproductive effects most recently illuminiated when in December India learned that David Headley, “the Chicagoan arrested in October for suspected involvement in the Mumbai terrorist siege and plots against other countries, may have been a double agent for the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Lashkar e-Taibe and US intelligence,” DEBKAfile reported Dec. 18. More:

This suspicion is severely straining relations between New Delhi and Washington. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report New Delhi suspects the CIA knew in advance about the Mumbai attack, in which 177 people died and 500 were injured, and were aware of Headley’s links with its LeT perpetrators, al Qaeda’s operational arm in Pakistan, but omitted to forewarn Indian authorities for fear of touching off a military showdown between India and Pakistan.

Israel was not tipped off either although the Chabad Center of Mumbai, where six people were [tortured and] killed, was a special target.

Chicago Muslim Indicted -- Planned August 2010 attack against U.S. large sports stadium, "Boom, Boom, Boom"

"Boom, Boom" Khan's idea of a hot time in the city. Running wild and lookin' purty. 

Obama say, respect it!

Chicago cab driver indicted – also planned August 2010 attack against U.S. large sports stadium

29 March 2010: A federal indictment charging Raja Lahradib KHAN, a Chicago Muslim cab driver with two counts of providing material support to al Qaeda was unsealed Friday. The indictment also exposed a plan to bomb a “large sports stadium” in the U.S.” in August.

KHAN was born in Pakistan and immigrated to the United States in the late 1970’s. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988, taking a job as a cab driver in Chicago. Federal authorities became aware of KHAN in 2008,  and his 15-year relationship with Pakistani al Qaeda terrorist Ilyas KASHMIRI.

In September 2009, international news media reported that Kashmiri had been killed in a drone attack in Pakistan. In October 2009, according to an article posted on the Asia Times Online, KASHMIRI granted an interview to an Asia Times Online reporter purportedly to disprove the accounts of his death. According to the Asia Times Online article, KASHMIRI claimed that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were “nothing compared to what has already been planned for the future.”

Excerpted from the indictment: (Read the entire indictment in PDF format here.)

KHAN: If, if their countries, every, every day, you know, we are bombing somewhere …kill fifty people, a hundred people, seventy people here, other state, other state…eventually they get the message… other things, KHAN described the location as a “big stadium” where security did not check cars.

Individual B: OK. You thinking take the car or [unintelligible]? How, how is it going to do?

KHAN: When you had to take in the car, you can not you know, put on your bag, when you go there, take ‘em out. You know, put one bag here, one there, one there, you know three, four, five different places, you know, boom, boom, boom, boom. You know I guess there is remote control, you know. Just walking and bomb. Walk fifteen, twenty feet, bomb. You know?

KHAN: Like that, like the [unintelligible] garbage can, or something like that, it can hide it. Oh, yeah, there’s lot of garbage cans. Yeah. You don’t have to just [unintelligible], so many people. So many people, you know like just leave the bag here.

Individual B: Ask Lala.

Brides of Allah Homicide Bombers

This is the culture. Science, medicine, technology, healing, advancement, this is not the aspiration of Islam. Conquest and death - this is the goal. Respect it!

And the hallmark of Obama's presidency is "outreach" to intolerant, oppressive, misogynist, and violent regimes. Shameful.

 

THESE chilling images of the dead "black widow" Moscow bombers were revealed yesterday - as it was claimed that 21 MORE may be ready to strike.

The Muslim women's suicide attacks killed 39 on the Russian capital's metro on Monday.

Investigators said they may have been among 30 women who trained as suicide bombers in Turkey.

Nine of the group are now thought to have died in attacks - and officials are racing to track down the others.

Said Buryatsky - dubbed the Russian Bin Laden - is thought to have trained the women from the war-torn Caucasus region. He was killed by security services last month.

More pics of the jihadis faces of evil at the Sun.

29 March 2010: At least two female Islamic homicide bombers killed over three dozen people and injured scores more Monday.  The two bombings were spaced forty-(40) minutes apart. The first explosion ripped through the second car of a metro train just before 8:00 am at the Lubyanka station, which is located close to the headquarters of Russia’s main domestic security service, killing at least 23 people.

The second bombing took place at about 8:40 am in a subway car at the Park Kultury metro station (more here)

More Bloody Muslim Terror in Russia, 12 Dead

Fresh on the bloody heels of the "brides of allah" homicide bombings which killed 39 people and injured 70.

These are the same soulless Islamic savages who ripped through the children's school in Beslan -- murder, rape, torture. 

Joseph Stalin deported the entire Chechen (Muslim) people from their homeland in 1944 as punishment for their collaborating with the Nazi invaders during the Second World War. The whole Muslim world aligned with Hitler, and they continue with their evil imperialist goals.

At least 12 killed in suicide blasts in Russia Washington Post

MOSCOW -- Two suicide bombers, including one wearing a police uniform, killed at least a dozen people Wednesday in a coordinated attack in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, authorities said, just two days after a pair of female bombers struck the Moscow subway system and raised fears of a fresh wave of terrorism in the country.

The explosions, which also injured at least 23 people, took place in Dagestan, the province east of Chechnya, where militants linked to an Islamist insurgency in the region have stepped up attacks over the past year and where shootings and bombings occur almost daily.

Officials said the first blast occurred as traffic police approached the bomber's car in the town of Kizlyar, near the Chechen border. As investigators and onlookers gathered, a second bomber wearing a police uniform pushed through the crowd and set off another explosion. Nine police officers were among the dead, including the town's police chief, authorities said.

In televised remarks, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the attack may have been committed by "the same gang" responsible for the double bombing in Moscow, which killed 39 people and injured more than 70 others.

Related: Jihad in Russia: Female Muslims Blow Themselves up on Moscow Subway, Death Toll 37 and Climbing

Obama Lifting Moratorium on Oil Leases in the Gulf

Long overdue, I'd say. And only a radical left President could get away with a move like this and be lauded by the left -- if this were a Republican president, the eco-animals would be blowing up buildings and parading nekkid in da streets.

I think it's a great thing -- anything to stop funding Islamic terror. But let's understand this. He is lifting a twenty-year moratorium imposed by the paralyzing left. This is not new drilling. The good news is, when a Republican gets into the White House, he/she will be able build on it and finally take off the leftist shackles.

Obama to Propose More Oil Drilling in Gulf

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration will propose allowing offshore oil and natural-gas exploration and development in a large swath of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, after months of criticism from Republicans who have made expanded offshore drilling a political rallying cry.

In addition, the administration plans to announce new steps to determine how much oil and natural gas is buried off the coasts of Middle and Southern Atlantic states, where oil-reserve estimates are decades out of date.

The News Hub panel discusses a controversial offshore drilling plan put forth by President Barack Obama, a disappointing ADP jobs report and whether an epic bond rally is coming to an end.

At the same time, Mr. Obama's plan wouldn't allow new oil and gas development off the coasts of Northern Atlantic states or California, whose political leaders have long opposed offshore drilling. The administration will call off a plan drafted by the administration of former President George W. Bush that would have given oil companies access to Alaska's Bristol Bay, an area teeming with wild sockeye salmon and many commercial fishing interests concerned about the impact of drilling on their livelihoods.

I am anxious to see what egregious piece of legislation this move is tied to.

How funny to read the NY Times and the Puff Ho lauding this -- as "brave."

The Puff Ho: Obama's Brave Decison to Drill Offshore

Obama to clear way for offshore drilling for oil and gas ...‎ - Washington Post
Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time‎ - New York Times
Obama to unveil offshore drilling plans for oil, natural gas‎ - Los Angeles Times

Bottom line, Obama wants cap and trade tax -- to the tune of an extra 600 to 700 billion a year in taxes to American families.

UPDATE: Obama also urged Congress to complete work on a climate change and energy bill, which has remained elusive. The president met with lawmakers earlier this month at the White House about a bill cutting emissions of pollution-causing greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020.

UPDATE: Stuart Varney on FNC- "Obama will order environmental studies that will take several years." More snake oil from the man

Mastercard............. Slavecard

If they don't want to live under the most advanced humane civilization in the history of man, let them go back to those barbaric countries that live under sharia.

I am cutting up my mastercard tonight. Master, my ass. Bloody slaves. Financing jihad and anti-western economics.

I am calling dhimmitude on Masterslavecard

MasterCard offers card aimed at Muslims   National Post hat tip Jane

A new interest-free credit card, the first of its kind in North America, aims to reconcile Islamic canonical law and Western consumer culture

Pamela Geller, Big Journalism: In Cantor Case, Media Fanned Flames of Violence: ‘There Will Be Blood’

Check out my latest in Breitbart's Big Journalism: In Cantor Case, Media Fanned Flames of Violence: ‘There Will Be Blood’

His threats to Cantor come after the congressman’s office was hit by what police called a stray bullet, and he received anti-Jewish threats from left-wingers.

A difficult Pesach for the Cantor family, I am sure.

But if you are waiting for the mainstream media to cover this, put down the bong. Leftist media propagandists and their despotic leaders continue to smear and slander good, decent Americans who are trying to save the country from subversives, traitors, overthrowers and savages. While the left and their media handmaidens rammed a bone-crushing, freedom-killing Obamacare bill though Congress, Americans had to listen to the wailing and caterwauling of the media over fake threats to Democrat criminals.

I called it last weekend in my piece at Big Journalism and at my blog AtlasShrugs.com: a specious charge was made that a protester shouted “ni**er” at the Congressional Black Caucus and “spat” at another. These were lies. I am not sure why Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Black Caucus deliberately chose to walk through the crowd as it shouted “kill the bill,” but it sure sounded like a set-up from the beginning. And it was.

Meanwhile, the media has no interest in real death threats coming from the left. For example, last Friday a series of tweets by leftists called for murder and mayhem against Sarah Palin, her family, the tea parties and…Eric Cantor.

About Palin, one wrote: “some one needs to kill that silly hoe.” Another added: “Is Sarah Palin still alive, please feel free 2 domecheck that bitch!” To “domecheck” Palin woulod be to hit her on the head. Hard.

But as with the arrest of Leboon and his threats to Cantor, as far as the mainstream media is concerned, this is not news. No need to investigate. It’s all good.

The same pattern was repeated when two bricks were thrown through the window of Republican Party offices in the Charlottesville, Virginia, area. The media yawned: the victims were the wrong kind.

It would be laughable, if the stakes weren’t so high.

Meanwhile, you can’t help but think the left and the O-bots are secretly hoping that one of these nuts does succeed in killing somebody, so that the patriots will stop talking about their Second Amendment rights and walk willingly into serfdom.

Senior Islamic Cleric Adopts "Firm Stance" Against Synagogue Opening Time for Reciprocity: Stop Mosque Openings

Islam's racism against synagogues and churches in Israel and Muslim lands must be met with fierce opposition. This bigotry and ugly supremacism and oppression must be met with NO. The relentless persecution of Copts, Jews, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Nigerian Christians, Biafrans, Ethiopians, Serbs, et al must be repudiated like nazism was.

Close all the mosques in Israel. Make Muslims in Israel as welcome as the Jewish people are welcome in islamic countries. Basta!

The whole of man cannot tolerate the intolerant, the racists, the misogynists and jihadists. End Islamic supremacism now. Boycott the UN and the OIC.

Top cleric urges 'firm stance' against Synagogue

A senior Iranian cleric has called on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to adopt a "firm stance" on the reopening of a Jewish synagogue near the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

On March 15, Israel reopened the Hurva Synagogue close to the highly revered al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of East Jerusalem (al-Quds). Al-Aqsa is widely revered as Islam's third holiest site after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

Tel Aviv's reopening of the synagogue provoked widespread protests by Palestinians [Muslims] against what they maintain to be an Israeli scheme to demolish the holy city's Islamic sites in an effort to Judaize the region.

In a statement released on Sunday, Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani said that US-led arrogant powers have established the fake and occupying Zionist regime (Israel) to disturb peace in the region through crimes, massacre and destruction, Fars News Agency reported.

He added that their move displayed a grudge the enemies of Islam hold against Islam and Muslims.

We have no grudge against Islam. We have a grudge against Islam's grudge against basic humanity and goodness.

The cleric condemned Israel's plot to reopen the Jewish synagogue and said, "We announce that all Muslims across the world and the OIC member states in particular should be cautious about the ongoing situation."

Nouri Hamedani called on Muslims to strengthen unity and prevent more Israeli plots.

The Future

Second night of Pesach ......... fortify yourselves.

Lenny speaketh.........

Following are excerpts from an interview with Anjem Choudary, head of Islam4UK, which aired on Press TV on February 3, 2010. The interview was held in English. Or watch the video

Anjem Choudary: Our main objectives are to invite the societies in which we live to think about Islam as an alternative way of life, to command good and forbid evil wherever we are, and ultimately, as well, to establish the shari'a on state level – which is the caliphate system of governance – in order to be a beacon again in the world, an example of how people should live their lives.

[...]

Interviewer: Let's talk about some of the statements coming out from your Islam4UK website. They were very incendiary, they've inflamed a big debate in the United Kingdom. One of the photos that you released showed, for example, the Buckingham Palace – the home of the British royal family – converted into a mosque. Is that your aim, and how did you expect the British public to react, by releasing photos like that?

Anjem Choudary: One of our campaigns, in fact, was to invite Britain to adopt the shari'a as an alternative. Part and parcel of that was to give them an example of how Britain may look, had the shari'a been implemented. For example, under the shari'a, there is no monarchy system, so Buckingham Palace certainly would not be the home for the monarch who is in existence today, which is Queen Elizabeth II.

Rather, we can have an alternative – not necessarily cast in stone – but one of the options, for example, is to have a masjid – which, in the past, used to be a hospital, a place of refuge, and had many other functions.

As well, there will be no idolatry in Islam. Therefore, Nelson's Column would not exist, and we propose an alternative as, perhaps, a place where people could be called to prayer.

But all of this process was on the one hand, to engage the British public's mind in Islam's alternative to man-made law, and on the other hand, to engage in a public discussion on what is the future for mankind.

I do believe, and as Muslims, we do believe, that there is a clash between two civilizations today. One civilization is based upon Man – that believes that Man is sovereign, and they believe they have the right to legislate – and one civilization that believes that sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God.

[...]

The people in the past used to worship the idols which they used to make with their hands. Nowadays, people worship idols which are more intellectual – like democracy, liberalism, freedom, and so on. So these need to be destroyed as well, and replaced with worshipping and obeying Allah.

[...]

Interviewer: Two million people turned out on the streets of the UK several years ago, to protest British troops going to Iraq in the first place. Why not join with them?

Anjem Choudary: No, because I don't believe that their call was correct. They were calling for socialist and Communist ideas, and many people are pacifists.

We do believe, as Muslims, that every Muslim has a right to defend himself, his life, honor, and property.

[...]

Interviewer: The issues of freedom of speech are represented by many organizations around the UK. Who do you think that you represent in the United Kingdom? Who are you giving a voice to?

Anjem Choudary: You know, I don't believe in the concept of freedom of expression. I don't believe in democracy. I don't believe in secularism or liberalism. I believe these are idols that the people are worshipping nowadays, taking them away from worshipping our lord, Allah. I believe that sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God, but I will function within the realms of their so-called "freedom," to expose their own fallacies.

[...]

Interviewer: The media has, however, said that you are living off benefits. If that's not correct, you can say that here.

Anjem Choudary: No, it's irrelevant. Prime Minister Gordon Brown takes child benefit, and he takes child tax credit. So why can't I take the same thing?

You know, the Prophet said... In his time... In the time of the Prophet, they used to have a tribal system, where they gave money to the Muslims. Omar Ibn Al-Khattab said, in fact, to the Prophet: "Oh prophet of Allah, they give us money, but we attack their system." The Prophet said: "To whom does the money belong? The wealth belongs to Allah. Take it, but don't lie, and don't cheat." I don't lie, I don't cheat. If I am given wealth, I will take it. It is allowed for me, it is halal for me Islamically.

[...]

Let's strip away Islam and the shari'a, and just talk about what we are calling for. We want a system providing the basic needs for the people. Gas, electricity, water, etcetera, will be free-of-charge, because they are resources and the Prophet said that we're partner in them. We want a system where people are not exploited. Industries like pornography, alcohol, gambling, and usury will be completely eradicated.

We're calling for a system which treats human beings like human beings. I do believe that if the people wake up from the slumber and the darkness in which they are living, and they see the beauty, the perfection, and the justice of Islam – they will be drawn towards it.

But we have many obstacles – the physical obstacles of the regimes, and the intellectual obstacles of the demonizing of Islam and the shari'a.

Eyewitness -- That Spit Don't Fly

Americans are under attack by the Democrats in power.

Regular Atlas reader -- eyewitness to the spit that didn't happen --

To my point, I was there and within feet of this alleged spitting and I can tell you without any hesitation whatsoever that this did not happen--period. I would never allow anyone to say anything racial about anyone. If that were the case I would have singled him/her out so the police could conduct due process. Further, if any person dared to spit upon another American in my presence I would have tackled that person immediately and held them until the police arrived.

Please look at the video that you have on your web site and watch the alleged "spitter" who is cupping his hands to apparently channel his effectiveness so that he could be heard (something that has us all outraged, that they are ignoring the majority of Americans) OK, you can see the man cupping his hands as most of the Congressmen walked to the center of the steps as he was leaning over as he was shouting -" kill the bill" -as we all were. Look at Jesse Jackson Jr. as he walks by, he holds up (not one) two cameras as he passed by and simply antagonizes us by sticking the cameras in our faces. Clearly he was not the only Congressman who had cameras rolling--they were others and of course the hundreds in the crowd.

Now, watch Congressman Cleaver walk directly into the man cupping his hands--this was an intentional collision--look at it again. He had a police escort and if anything had been said or done it would have resulted in an immediate arrest. If spittle is a crime then I have a lot of arrest warrants out for my students.

Most telling of all was the fact that Cleaver stayed there and continued to argue and the man continued to shout. Further, when he reaches the top step ( in front of camera...hmm) he looks at his hand and apparently sees foreign matter and proceeds to wipe his mouth with it. Not sure about you but if I step in a pile of dung I don't take my shoe off and proceed to sample it with my face.

Regarding the use of "N" word, I can tell you that I have been to 4 Tea Parties and I have never heard that word. IT DID NOT HAPPEN at this scene. This is all part of Saul Alinsky's tactic when you have no sound principles. Thier ploy is to ridicule, marginalize, isolate and associate informed dissent with racism--not working anymore. The media is now CORRUPT and it is disgusting. THE TRUTH IS NOW A CRIME.

Earlier in the day Congressman Obey walked from the Longworth towards the Capitol and he got ten times attention of these gentleman. I for one lost my voice as I expressed my First Amendment to him in particular.

The only crime intentionally being committed currently is this blatant abuse of power by this Rogue and Radical administration that is ignoring the majority of Americans. Our traditional checks/ balances are null and void because of a corrupt and complicit media.

My commitment to Liberty is unwavering, my gratitude to all great Americans who have fallen in the name of freedom is endless and my love my country, for our Founders and the Constitution is simply indefatigable Thank you Pamela

White House Vistor List: CEO Inquisition -- GE's Immelt Frequent WH Guest, Verizon? Never

The White House visitors list of CEOs being called to testify by Santino “Sonny” Waxman, vs. GE's Immelt, who claims that GE will have “no impact” from obamacare reform…and is the recipient of untold gazillions of O-green bucks.

GE – 12 visits

AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere, Verizon, Valero, AK Steel, 3M – 8 visits combined

Ivan  Seidenberg has been chairman and CEO of VZ for a while, a lot longer than BHO has been Pharaoh – no White House visits recorded for Ivan in the visitor logs, reflected in the latest excel file…

As an aside, many of the traditional phone companies did not back B. Hussein during his campaign, but most of the cable companies did back him – this has been manifesting itself via issues like early termination fee investigations (ETFs), broadband stimulus restrictions, handset exclusivity issues, etc…FCC doing his dirty work…

Wonder what kind of “offer” GE got from Don Vito Hussein that they “couldn’t refuse"?...  (hat tip Mark)

 

Despot Dems Intimidate/Threaten Businesses Because of Their Staggering Obamacare Losses

ATT, Verizon, Deere, Caterpillar Suffer Bloody Billion Dollar Bill -- Deadly Obamacare Kills Business, Jobs

UPDATE: Auntie Maddie writes,

"read the four-part news story linked to below. Written in May 2009, it explains how GE, Gingrich, Immelt and others stand to make gazillions on nationalized health care and crap & tax, and how all of this has been in the works and more or less inevitable for some time before the 2008 elections."

Part I Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle 

Part II Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle part II

Part III Obamagate – The tangled web of Obama, GE, Immelt, Cap & Trade, GE Healthcare and Daschle Obamagate part IV -The ‘3 Congressional stooges’ of Healthymagination – Daschle, Gingrich and Frist

War Zone NYC -- But Do Not Insult Islam!

In light of the Islamic bomb attacks on the Moscow subway yesterday, NYC went into lockdown mode.

New York City subway, March 31, 2010

Obama says, respect it!

 

Do not insult Islam!

Armed officers police subways (Penn Station)

52nd and Lexington 

Stand clear of the submachine guns. NY Post

In an unusual move, a heavily armed NYPD security battalion with enough firepower to wipe out Downtown Brooklyn descended onto the city's subway trains yesterday in response to suicide bombings in Russia that killed dozens of passengers in Moscow's subway.

Bleary-eyed New Yorkers began their work weeks with a morning rush hour that featured city cops in full military gear, including helmets, goggles, body armor, sidearms and M16 assault rifles.

The underground arsenal startled sleepy straphangers, many of whom wondered whether the extra security was overkill.

UPDATE: This security theater was to benefit whom, exactly? A shaheed (homicide bomber) like the "brides of allah" yesterday in Moscow is dying for allah.  Is a gun, machine gun, etc., going to stop them?

Fatal Thinking

Ahmadinejad: Israel can't do 'damn thing' to stop Iran's nuclear program By News Agencies

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Israel could not do a "damn thing" to stop the Islamic state's nuclear program, which the West suspects is a front to build bombs.

"The Zionist regime (Israel) and its (western) backers cannot do a damn thing to stop Iran's nuclear work," Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech in the central city of Isfahan.

The conventional thinking around the beltway and its parameters is that we still have time to address nukes. Obama is too busy stealing from the working, from the private sector, and from our children to fund his communist revolution to be concerned with national security. That is just so last century. The individual built, the collectivist dismantles.

The idea of watered-down sanctions is a circle jerk. Saying something, anything for the sake of saying something, anything. Obama is prepared to live with a nuclear Iran. Would Obama have accepted a nuclear nazi Germany?

Back in 2007, George W. Bush was, for all intents and purposes, cut off at the knees. Whatever plan he may have had for de-nuking a brutal jihadist regime was all but scuttled when the NIE issued a fallacious report on Iran's cessation of their nuclear program. It was a thinly veiled attempt to change the direction on how we were going to handle Iran's nukes. And it clearly succeeded.

Foreign officers at the Office of the Director on National Intelligence, un-american, disloyal and seditious, were not elected by the people of this great nation, but they have imposed their foreign policy agenda on this country. It was, in fact a coup on the White House. There should be no permanent diplomatic institution, even at the federal level. They're too readily converted into bastions for America's enemies.

It was treachery at the highest levels of government -- a stall until their man seized power. Back in January of 2008, I warned of this in the Obama candidacy here.

That was an end run around the administration and easily provided the much needed out to everyone on the security council, the EU3, the Democrats and everyone who had been loathe to take any action on the development of Iran's nuclear weapons. The NY Times and the left wing media hungrily devoured the bait.

And now we have the CIA finally admitting Iran's nuclear capacity:

Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report.

"Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision is made to do so," the annual report to Congress states.

A U.S. official involved in countering weapons proliferation said the Iranians are "keeping the door open to the possibility of building a nuclear weapon."

"That's in spite of strong international pressure not to do so, and some difficulties they themselves seem to be having with their nuclear program," the official said. "There are powerful incentives for them to close the door completely, but they are either purposefully ignoring them or are tone deaf. You almost want to shout, 'Tune in Tehran.'"

The CIA report is the latest official study expressing concern over Iran's continuing nuclear activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency on March 3 issued a report warning that continuing nuclear activities in violation of U.N. resolutions raise "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile."

The U.S. report was produced by the CIA Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center, known as WINPAC. It is called the 721 report for the section of a 1997 intelligence authorization law requiring it.

The report also says that North Korea, based on a nuclear test in May 2009, now "has the capability to produce nuclear weapons with a yield of roughly a couple of kilotons TNT equivalent." A kiloton is a measure of a nuclear bomb's power and is equal to 1,000 tons of TNT.

On Iran, the report says that it is "keeping open" its options for building nuclear arms, "though we do not know whether Tehran eventually will decide to produce nuclear weapons."

The report reflects the published conclusion of a controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that stated Iran had halted work on nuclear weapons in 2003. The report, posted on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Web site, was written before a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program, which is nearing completion and is expected to revise the earlier estimate, although details have not been disclosed.

According to the report, Iran expanded nuclear infrastructure and uranium enrichment in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that since 2006 have called on Tehran to halt the enrichment.

During the first 11 months of last year, the main uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz produced about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride, compared with about half a ton the previous year.

The number of centrifuges at Natanz increased from about 5,000 to 8,700 last year, although the number reported to be working is about 3,900, indicating the Iranians are having problems with the machines. The centrifuges enrich uranium gas by spinning it at high speeds.

Last year, Iran disclosed it is building a second gas-centrifuge plant near the city of Qom that will house an estimated 3,000 machines. U.S. officials have said the Qom facility, which was discovered in 2007, is a clear sign Iran's nuclear program is geared toward producing weapons, because the facility is too small for nonmilitary uranium enrichment.

Iran also continued work last year on a heavy water research reactor.

 Most people know this and shrug. The left loves to regurgitate the mantra that we can't be sure, that we got the intel wrong in Iraq. But I say, so what? Saddam was removed. The threat of  his despotic regime  was destroyed.

Here we are taking the opposite approach. Inaction based on bad intel is a deadly formula.

This is not Israel's problem. This is the non-Muslim world's problem. It is the world's complicity with Islamic barbarism that catapults the Jewish issue to the fore, because of the fierce Jew-hatred commanded in Islam. But the hate and the prescribed conquest is against all infidels and non-believers, devoutly followed and promised by the mullahcracy in Iran.

Even the godless cannot escape this religious war declared on the world by Islam. The fact is, it is a values issue. Right and wrong. Good and evil. And what side you are on in the war between the civilized man and the savage speaks volumes about your character, your credibility and your morality. The well developed obfuscation used by the haters of good -- words like nuanced, gray area, complicated -- are tools to confuse and confound lazy thinkers. But in this, the opposing sides could not be more clear. Yes, there is a very definite good and a very definite evil. If national self-interest converges, all the better. But at the end of the day, if your national self-interest aligns itself with evil, your country is on a one-way trip to nowhere. History is proof of that.

Americans know this. Time and time again they have demonstrated their support for Israel (invariably support for free men) even if their political leaders have not.

The clock is ticking; must we wait for the catastrophe?

UPDATE: 'Iranian nuke scientist defected to CIA'

Moscow Jihad Bomb Attack: One Bride of Allah Failed to Detonate -- allah fubar!

It is particularly disgusting to watch the alphabet nets and cable nooz cover this story and never hear them  utter the word jihad or islam when reporting on Moscow's 911. S.I.C.K.

The railway celebrates its 75th anniversary in May and is a particularly symbolic target. It was built under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who deported the entire Chechen (Muslim) people from their homeland in 1944 as punishment after accusing them of collaborating with the Nazi invaders during the Second World War. (here)

Widows' eyed in Moscow blasts NY Post hat tip Van

Another woman, killed at the Park Kultury station below famed Gorky Park, had an undetonated explosives-packed belt similar to those believed to have been used by the two bombers

 The "black widows," also known as the "brides of Allah," are Muslim women who have carried out dozens of suicide attacks in Russia since 2001

Muslim Charged in Carnival Bomb Threat On Cruise: "We Are Jihad!"

"A bomb scare caused a five-hour delay in Sunday's return to Port Canaveral for the Carnival Cruise Ship Sensation, authorities said. No bomb was found and Brevard County deputies arrested a Virginia man accused of starting the scare."

Carnival Bomb Threat On Cruise: "We Are Jihad!"

There has been a bomb threat on board the Carnival Sensation Sunday morning, where a man claimed to be a member of "Jihad."

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, a drunk, 31-year-old Virginia man was heard yelling "We are jihad," and "Come to the top deck and watch the bomb," onboard the Carnival Sensation early Sunday morning.

The man, Ibrahim Khalil Zarou, was arrested and released on 10,000 bond.

Muslim Attack on Kindergarten Thwarted in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan: Jihadist plot against kindergarten, school foiled Jihadwatch

Thwarting a new Beslan. "Azerbaijan Says Thwarts Plot to Attack School," from Reuters, March 29: BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan said on Monday it had..

Only Islam returns to its own vomit:

Beslan lessons five years on

MOSCOW. (Maxim Krans, RIA Novosti political commentator) - On September 1, 2004, The North Caucasus town of Beslan became know to the world for a tragic reason. A terrorist group took hostage 1,128 people who gathered at a local school on that day; two days later, 319 hostages including 187 children were killed in the storming of the building. Hundreds of schoolchildren and their relatives were injured.

The Opinionator November 19 2008
By Deborah Schurman-Kauflin

From the days of Prophet Muhammad, sexual terror has been an integral part of Islamic Jihad. The siege of the Beslan School by Islamic Jihadis in 2004 was no exception as reveals Dr. Schurman-Kauflin. -- Editor, MA Khan

Excerpt from Chapter 1, “Disturbed: Terrorist Behavioral Profiles” (2008)

On September 1, 2004, terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, Russia, and perpetrated one of the most heinous terror attacks in history. Though many people may have heard of this attack, it is very likely that most do not know what really happened there. The reality is so dark that few dare speak of what went on.

On September 1, 2004, terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, Russia, and perpetrated one of the most heinous terror attacks in history. Though many people may have heard of this attack, it is very likely that most do not know what really happened there. The reality is so dark that few dare speak of what went on.

There are predators in wait lurking everywhere searching for unsuspecting victims. If a person has a proclivity or a secret desire, that inclination can easily come out if an opportunity arises. And that is what happened at Beslan. The terrorists immediately killed the men because they wanted no resistance for their plans. Then, when they saw the helpless girls in front of them, the temptation became too much. Their perverse dreams came true.

Beslan was clearly a sexual homicide/sexual suicide. That is, the offenders wanted more than simple terrorism. Some of the terrorists at Beslan were hired guns who did not plan on dying that day. They had not thought things through and did not realize that the Russians would not let them out alive.
Then, once they were inside, and the realization dawned on them, plans changed.

Things had deteriorated when the media reported that there were only 354 victims. Wanting to have a dramatic impact, the terrorists exploded with anger. There were 1200 victims, and the Russians were trying to down play the incident. The terrorists said they would have to eliminate victims to fit with what the media had reported. Their demeanor worsened, and they got really mean.

It was then that they began raping the girls. They wanted sex as they killed, and this is sexual homicide. A sex killer gets excited when he thinks about forcing himself inside an unwilling victim, but the rape itself does not produce the ultimate excitement. It is the rape followed by the killing that is arousing. This is what happened at Beslan.

One by one, females were targeted. The sex killers looked for the perfect victims, and after zeroing in, they grabbed and disrobed the little girls in the middle of the gym. There were muffled cries as the girls were humiliated in front of everyone. They were stripped, raped, and sodomized by several men. Not content to simply rape, the terrorists used their guns and other objects to penetrate the screaming victims while the other hostages were forced to watch. And the terrorists laughed. They laughed as they violated the children and made them bleed. What few people know is that some of the girls died as a result of being raped with objects. The internal damage was so severe that without immediate medical attention, the girls bled to death. Those who managed to survive required extensive reconstructive surgery and painful recoveries.

But raping the girls was not enough for the deviants who had entered the school. The terrorists beat the other children. In fact, beatings took place regularly, and as they pummeled the little ones, the terrorists smiled and laughed. It was said that they would strike a child and then watch the child cringe. When the youngsters recoiled, their captors laughed. This says the offenders enjoyed inflicting the suffering. They wanted their victims to suffer. Such behavior is sadistic. Bringing others pain brings the sadist pleasure. And the terrorists tortured the victims in many ways.

Along with causing paralyzing fear, the terrorists had an ally in the weather. It was extremely hot outside, but the school had no working air conditioner. As the heat raged, the hostages begged for water, and at first, some was given. Time crept on, and the terrorists became increasingly cruel. They drank in front of the hostages and mocked the children who were crying out for water. Things got so bad that the victims were forced to drink their own urine. In some cases, the hostages poured urine over one another in a feeble attempt to keep cool. Seeing the suffering enhanced the joy of the perpetrators. In a twisted, ghoulish game, the terrorists put water in front of the children who were desperately thirsty and told them if they reached for the water, they would be killed.

Still, this horror wasn’t enough for the hostage takers. Raping, beating, torturing, and mocking were just not evil enough. Thus, to further frighten the victims, one terrorist stated “we came here to die.” Russian Tagirovich Khuchbarov was called the “colonel.” When the children asked for water or to use the restroom, he simply stated “I’m not your uncle, I’m a terrorist … I came here to kill." Up until this point, the hostages most likely believed they could survive, but then…hearing these words…it meant they were to die too. This surely would have made the victims scream in their minds. If they cried out loud, they risked being beaten or shot.

As a crowd gathered outside the school, several terrorists goaded the townspeople. It was said that they “took delight” in egging the crowd on. They fired shots. They taunted. And again, they laughed. This psychopathic, sadistic behavior continued into the night as they ordered hostages to throw naked dead bodies out to the west yard. Yet, the Russian government did not want to negotiate with these offenders. Russian officials knew what they were dealing with: men intent on murder. However, in any hostage event, negotiations are necessary, but negotiations at Beslan were very difficult. When offered food, the terrorists refused because they feared poisoning. They had learned from Nord Ost and other terrorist standoffs. They would not make the same mistakes at Beslan.

Knowing that the elite Alpha and Vympel (Russia Special forces) would be called, the terrorists made it clear that if gas was used or electricity shut off, they would kill hostages immediately. The offenders had studied prior attacks and Russian counteroffensive techniques. So, they knew that Russia would stop at nothing to end the siege. With this knowledge, the terrorists had brought amphetamines with them to help stave off fatigue. This made them more wild and unpredictable. At one point, the terrorists allowed some hostages to leave. They told some mothers that they could get out with their babies and leave behind an older child or stay with both children. Those who left a child behind will certainly be tormented for the rest of their lives. At least one child who had been left behind survived the ordeal. One can only imagine that she could develop feelings of anger and maybe even hatred for the parent who abandoned her with psychopathic sexual sadists.

There's more of Raping for Allah at Beslan here.....

Despot Dems Intimidate/Threaten Businesses Because of Their Staggering Obamacare Losses

The bloodsucking Dem despotic government is threatening retribution to businesses for filing reports required by law.

Maxed out mama explains:

As readers may or may not know, publicly traded companies are required to be audited and to file a number of disclosures with the SEC. These disclosures include quarterly and yearly financials, and 8-Ks, which are disclosures of anything material affecting the company such as management changes, debt or profits. The theory behind that is that anything the management knows it must disclose to the public.

Now it is standard practice when filing an SEC statement to also release a press statement, because the last thing any company wants is for some enterprising reporter to go looking through the SEC filings and start writing articles with his or her interpretation of them. No, the company wants to control the narrative as far as it is possible and legal.

Okay, so last week a bunch of companies made "statements" regarding the health care legislation that passed. They were required by law to recognize accounting effects and file an 8-K as soon as they knew of the effects. They did so.

Here's the gestapo "invite":

The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on April 21, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to examine the impact of the new law on AT&T and other large employers. We request your personal testimony at this hearing.

To assist the Committee with its preparation for the hearing, we request that you provide the following documents from January 1,2009, through the present: (1) any analyses related to the projected impact of health care reform on AT&T; and (2) any documents, including e-mail messages, sent to or prepared or reviewed by senior company officials related to the projected impact of health care reform on AT&T. We also request an explanation of the accounting methods used by AT&T since 2003 to estimate the financial impact on your company of the 28% subsidy for retiree drug coverage and its deductibility or nondeductibility, including the accounting methods used in preparing the cost impact statement released by AT&T this week.

We ask that you provide the requested information by April 9, 2010. For purposes of this request, the term "senior company officials" includes all company officials at the level of Vice President and above for the company or any subsidiary. Attachments to this letter provide additional information about responding to Committee document requests and testifying before the Committee. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact Meredith Fuchs with the Committee staff at (202) 226-2424. ~a.~

Henry A. Waxman

Democrat Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce,, infinitely more beautiful on the outside than the inside

Democrats threaten companies hit hard by health care bill   Byron York, Washington Examiner

Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, has summoned some of the nation's top executives to Capitol Hill to defend their assessment that the new national health care reform law will cost their companies hundreds of millions of dollars in health insurance expenses.  Waxman is also demanding that the executives give lawmakers internal company documents related to health care finances -- a move one committee Republican describes as "an attempt to intimidate and silence opponents of the Democrats' flawed health care reform legislation."

On Thursday and Friday, the companies -- so far, they include AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, Deere, Valero Energy, AK Steel and 3M -- said a tax provision in the new health care law will make it far more expensive to provide prescription drug coverage to their retired employees.  Now, both retirees and current employees of those companies are wondering whether the new law could mean reduced or canceled benefits for them in the future.

The news is an embarrassment for Democrats. As President Obama and congressional leaders tout the purported benefits of the new health care law, some of the nation's biggest companies are saying it will mean higher costs and fewer benefits -- not exactly what Democrats want to hear in the days after their historic victory.

So Waxman has ordered the executives to explain themselves at an April 21 hearing before the Energy and Commerce Committee's investigative subcommittee.  That subcommittee just happens to be chaired by Rep. Bart Stupak, the Michigan Democrat who held out his vote on health care reform until a few hours before final passage on March 21, giving the bill's opponents the unfounded hope that he might vote against it.

Waxman's demands came Friday in letters to several executives. "After the president signed the health care reform bill into law, your company announced that provisions in the law could adversely affect your ability to provide health insurance," Waxman wrote to Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T.  A few hours before Waxman sent his letter, AT&T announced it will take a $1 billion charge against earnings because of the tax provision in the new health bill. AT&T also said it will be "evaluating prospective changes" to its health care benefits for all workers.

Muslims Attack Christianity At Trinity University

Muslims tormenting Christians for a change. These Islamic supremacists can't stop themselves. Why are these jihadis going to Texas "Trinity" if they can't bear the thought of Christianity? They want Christianity removed from the American public square and replaced with Islam.

Texas Muslims Want Diplomas Sans Our Lord The Right Perspective

“A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes,” said Sidra Qureshi, a Muslim student and president of Trinity Diversity Connection, who is leading the charge to tweak the wording.

“By having the phrase In the Year of Our Lord,’ it is directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not everyone believes in Jesus Christ.”

Agreed, and the Christians are not chopping your head (or clit) off, either. They want any reference to Christianity off their diplomas? "In the year of our lord?" I want any reference to allah, the koran or islam out of my taxi cabs and my restaurants. I want those stinky footbaths out of my airports and universities. Get the sharia out of our finance.

Attack On Christianity At Trinity University Rhymes with Right

When one attends a school with a Christian heritage, a connection to a Christian denomination, and an obviously Christian name, should one be surprised – or offended – by a reference to Jesus Christ on one’s diploma? And should "one expect that the reference be deleted from every student’s diploma because a minority of students take offense at it?

One would think that the answers to such questions would be obvious. Indeed, one would think that the need to even ask the questions is laughable. But that is not the case at San Antonio’s Trinity University.

A group of students at Trinity University is lobbying trustees to drop a reference to “Our Lord” on their diplomas, arguing it does not respect the diversity of religions on campus.

“A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes,” said Sidra Qureshi, president of Trinity Diversity Connection. “By having the phrase ‘In the Year of Our Lord,' it is directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not everyone believes in Jesus Christ.”

Qureshi, who is Muslim, has led the charge to tweak the wording, winning support from student government and a campus commencement committee. Trustees are expected to consider the students' request at a May board meeting.

Frankly, it seems to me that the PC ideology has been taken way too far here. Respect for diversity is one thing – but respect for the history of the institution and the religious affiliation it still retains is also important.

What next – excising the Bible from the school seal, on the theory that not every student is a believer in that divinely inspired book? Or at least the removal of the motto – E Tribus Unum (From Three, One)? Indeed, can this sort of PC lunacy even allow for maintaining the name “Trinity”? After all, there are no doubt all sorts of non-trinitarian folks on the campus who should not find themselves daily confronted with that theological negation of their own beliefs.

So to the trustees of Trinity University, I offer this piece of advice – keep “In the Year of Our Lord”, or accept that you will have no basis upon which to maintain any aspect of your school’s Christian heritage. After all, dropping that phrase will constitute nothing less than an abject surrender to the forces of anti-Christian diversity and secularism.

UPDATE: Dhimmi sicknessat Trinity: Rashid Khalidi to speak at Trinity April 12th. Stealth jihadist and Jew hater. Good luck with the lions, Christians. Discover the Networks has this:

• Professor of Middle East Studies at Columbia University
• Former PLO operative
• Has justified as legitimate Palestinian "resistance" that results in death of armed Israelis
• Rejects the possibility of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Director of the Middle East Institute (MEI) at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. In his role as MEI Director, Khalidi presides over a $300,000 annual grant from the federal government. He ranks among the most prominent members of the Middle Eastern studies community in the United States. His books are among the most frequently assigned works on the Middle East in American college syllabi. Arab and American media outlets alike seek him out regularly as a leading authority on the Middle East.

Khalidi is also a Board of Trustees member of the non-governmental organization MIFTAH; a notable fellow Board member is Khalil Jahshan, President of the Washington, DC-based National Association of the Arab Americans.

Khalidi was born in New York in 1950, the son of a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a Ph.D. from Oxford in 1974. During the Seventies, Khalidi taught for a brief time at a university in Beirut, where he often spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Khalidi was a professor at the University of Chicago, where he served as Director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies.

Khalidi has long cited the late Edward Said as his major academic influence. Following the latter's death in 2003, Khalidi penned an obituary that valorized Said for "giving a voice to the voiceless" via his "eloquent espousal of the cause of Palestine." In this context, Khalidi likened Said to another of his idols, Noam Chomsky:

"Like Noam Chomsky and very few others, he [Said] managed not only to reshape his own field of scholarly endeavor, but to transcend it, influencing other fields and disciplines, and going well beyond the narrow boundaries of the American academy to become a true public intellectual, and a passionate voice for humanistic values and justice in an imperfect world."

As with Said before him, Khalidi's involvement with the Palestinian cause goes beyond mere support. News reports -- including a 1982 dispatch from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times -- suggest that he once served as Director of the Palestinian press agency, Wikalat al-Anba al-Filastinija. Khalidi's wife, Mona, was reportedly the agency's main English-language editor between 1976 and 1982. Khalidi so strongly identified with the aims of the PLO, which was designated as a terrorist group by the State Department during Khalidi's affiliation with it in the 1980s, that he repeatedly referred to himself as "we" when expounding on the PLO's agenda. Additional evidence of Khalidi's intimacy with the PLO can be seen in his involvement with the organization's so-called "guidance committee" in the early 1990s.

Khalidi's 1986 book, Under Siege: P.L.O. Decision-Making During the 1982 War, was dedicated to Yasser Arafat. Opening with a glowing tribute to anti-Israel fighters ("to those who gave their lives during the summer of 1982 … in defense of the cause of Palestine and the independence of Lebanon"), the book offered an airbrushed account of PLO-instigated violence against Israelis and Lebanese. By contrast, Syria's brutal occupation of Lebanon elicited no criticism from the author.

In 1995 Khalidi and his wife founded the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), noted for its view that Israel's creation in 1948 was a "catastrophe" for Arab people.

Sarah Palin Endorses Lt Colonel Allen West, Major Vaughn Ward, Captain Adam Kinzinge

Sarah Palin is endorsing Lt Colonel Allen West. Regular Atlas readers know, love, adore and support West. Putting Palin power behind great candidates -- honorable, brave patriots like West.

If you missed Lt Colonel Allen West's columns when he was stationed in Kandahar in 2007, go here.

Sarah Palin is da woMAN!

American Heroes Ready and Willing to Serve in Congress Sarah Palin

America, if you love your freedom, thank a vet! And if you’re looking for leaders who believe in integrity, service, and country first, look to our veterans.

Last week I campaigned for a true American hero, John McCain, and this week I’d ask you to join me in supporting a new generation of heroes who are heeding their country’s call for leadership in Washington.

There are a number of great veteran candidates running for office this year, and there are some excellent organizations dedicated to helping them, including: Iraq Vets for Congress and Combat Veterans for Congress (please click on the links to visit their websites).

There are three veterans in particular I’ll be supporting this week.

The first is Major Vaughn Ward, a fourth-generation Idaho native who grew up on his family’s farm in Shoshone and is running in Idaho’s 1st Congressional District. Coming from a family with a proud military tradition, Vaughn joined the Marine Corps after college and was finishing up his service when the September 11th attacks occurred. He put his life on hold and heeded his country’s call – serving first as a CIA Operations Officer and later volunteering with the Marine Corps for a combat tour in Iraq, during which he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V. After returning from Iraq, Vaughn went to work for the McCain/Palin campaign. I was grateful for his support then, and I’m happy to support him now because I know that he believes in the same commonsense conservative ideals that we cherish. Vaughn knows that real job growth comes from the private sector, not government. He believes in free market reforms, tax relief for families and small businesses, and a return to a constitutionally limited government that lives within its means. He’ll carry the conservative banner to Washington and will rein in the reckless growth of government to get it back on our side. And remember, a vote for Vaughn is a vote to remove the gavel from Nancy Pelosi’s grip. Please visit Vaughn’s website here to make a donation to his campaign, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

The second veteran is Captain Adam Kinzinger, a decorated special-operations pilot who flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Adam is running for Illinois’ 11th Congressional District against a freshman incumbent congresswoman who seemed to pull a bait and switch on voters to get elected. She sounded like a blue dog on the campaign trail, but didn’t vote like one in Washington. Instead, she voted in lockstep with the Pelosi agenda – on Obamacare, the stimulus, cap-and-tax – and the list goes on. She’s part of the reason for Congress’ 11% approval rating. Adam is a strong fiscal conservative with a proven track record as a reformer from his years serving on his local county board. Adam started out in local office, and, like many of us, believes in making government more accountable to the people. When you serve in local office, your constituents truly are your neighbors. Adam understands this, and I know that he will listen to his constituents and work for us, not against us, in Washington. Please visit Adam’s website here to make a donation to his campaign, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

The third veteran is Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, a decorated war hero who’s served with distinction in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of you may have heard of Allen from a speech he gave last year that became a viral video on YouTube with over 2 million viewers. Allen’s personal story is a testament to the commonsense conservative belief that our nation’s greatness is rooted in freedom, because with freedom comes equal opportunity, and that, coupled with hard work, leads to success. Allen is a small government fiscal conservative running against a leftwing ideologue who’s marched to the beat of Nancy Pelosi on every issue from cap-and-tax to the stimulus, TARP, and, of course, Obamacare. It’s time to send Allen to Washington in his place. Please visit Allen’s website here to donate to his campaign, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

I believe that these great veterans will fight for us in D.C. to uphold and defend our constitution as courageously in the halls of Congress as they did on the field of battle. I’m so honored to offer my support to these American heroes, and I hope you’ll join me in helping them so that they can serve us all in Washington.

- Sarah Palin

Death Threats Against Jewish Republican Whip Eric Cantor UPDATE: Muslim Obama Donor Arrested and Charged with Threatening: "Remember Eric . . . our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you’re a Lucifer, you're a pig"

Muslim anti-semitism.

UPDATE: Obama Donor Charged With Threatening to Kill GOP Whip Eric Cantor

A Philadelphia Muslim man was charged today with threatening to kill GOP Whip Eric Cantor and his family.
TPM reported:

Today, a two-count complaint and warrant was filed charging Norman Leboon with 
threatening to kill United States Congressman Eric Cantor and his family, and threatening to kill Congressman Eric Cantor, who is an official of the United States, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy and FBI Special Agent in Charge Jan Fedarcyk. As set forth in the affidavit to the complaint and warrant, in or about late March, 2010, Leboon created and then transmitted a YouTube video to Google over the internet, in which he threatened to kill Congressman Cantor and his family. No harm came to the Congressman or his family as a result of Leboon’s threats.

UPDATE: Here is his devoutness:

Leboon posted the video last Wednesday.
Philly.com reported:

According to the affidavit, Leboon allegedly said in the video: “Remember Eric . . . our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you’re a Lucifer, you’re a pig, a greedy [expletive] pig. You’re an abomination. You receive my bullets in your office. Remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer’s abominations.”

The video was reported to the FBI in San Francisco on Friday and Leboon allegedly told agents he posted it on Wednesday.

A difficult pesach for the Cantor family, I am sure.

The left fulla shitniks and their despotic leaders continue to smear and slander good decent Americans,  spitting racist invective and issuing death threats dismissively, while America is under attack by subversives, traitors, overthrowers and savages.

This is after his office was shot up over the weekend: GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor's Office Shot at, Anti-Jewish Threats From Left wingers

If you are waiting for the media to cover this, put down the bong.

Fox News: Man Arrested Over Death Threat Against Rep. Eric Cantor

Fox News just ran a short story announcing a man was arrested for threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)and his family. If I heard correctly, the threat was made in a YouTube video.

Nothing on the wires yet...

UPDATE: More fascism from the party of subversion: Bricks Through Windows at GOP Headquarters in Virginia

I blame Donny Luzatto and his hate inspired rhetoric in the Virginian Pilot.

Jihad in Russia: Female Muslims Blow Themselves up on Moscow Subway, Death Toll 37 and Climbing

An image from Lifenews.ru shows victims of a bomb explosion in a damaged coach at Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. Two female suicide bombers killed at least 37 people and injured 38 on two Moscow metro trains in the rush hour on Monday, officials said. The blasts took place at Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stations. REUTERS/Reuters TV/Life News

Female suicide bombers blew themselves up Monday in twin attacks on Moscow subway stations packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 60, officials said. The carnage blamed on rebels from the Caucasus region follows the killings of several high-profile Islamic militant leaders there. (read more)

According to STRATFOR sources in Moscow, the two locations of the attacks on the subway in the city are symbolic. The first attack in Park Kultury is symbolic in that it is one of the city’s cultural centers being located near Gorky Park. The second location of the attack at the metro station of Lubyanka is nearly under the Federal Security Bureau’s headquarters—former KGB headquarters—the security hub of Russia. According to media reports, the attacks were caused by suicide bombers at the peak of rush hour in Moscow.

AP Photo - In this image from a security camera bodies lie in the passageway of Lubyanka subway station in central Moscow after a bomb blast Monday

Two female suicide bombers strike Moscow subway, at least 37 dead Jihadwatch

Jihad in Moscow. "Double suicide bombings kill 37 on Moscow subway," by David Nowak for the Associated Press, March 29:

MOSCOW - Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow's subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing at least 37 people and wounding 102, officials said.

The head of Russia's main security agency said preliminary investigation places the blame on rebels from the restive Caucasus region that includes Chechnya, where separatists have fought Russian forces since the mid-1990s.

The first explosion took place just before 8 a.m. at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB's main successor agency.

A second explosion hit the Park Kultury station about 45 minutes later.

Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu said the toll was 37 killed and 102 injured, but he did not give a breakdown of casualties at each station, according to Russian news agencies.

"I heard a bang, turned my head and smoke was everywhere. People ran for the exits screaming," said 24-year-old Alexander Vakulov, who said he was on a train on the platform opposite the targeted train at Park Kultury.

"I saw a dead person for the first time in my life," said 19-year-old Valentin Popov, who had just arrived at the station from the opposite direction.

In a televised meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Security Service head Alexander Bortnikov said body fragments of the two bombers pointed to a Caucasus connection. He did not elaborate.

"We will continue the fight against terrorism unswervingly and to the end," Medvedev said. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on an official trip to Siberia, was being kept informed of developments, news reports said.

The blasts practically paralyzed movement in the city center as emergency vehicles sped to the stations.

In the Park Kultury blast, the bomber was wearing a belt packed with plastic explosive and set it off as the train's doors opened, said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's top investigative body. The woman has not been identified, he told reporters.

A woman who sells newspapers outside the Lubyanka station, Ludmila Famokatova, said there appeared to be no panic, but that many of the people who streamed out were distraught.

"One man was weeping, crossing himself, saying 'thank God I survived'," she said.

Black widow Muslims:

Chechen terrorist groups have regularly recruited women to act as suicide bombers or “Black Widows”.

The women are willing, even eager, to become “martyrs” for the Islamist jihad, or holy war, driven by a burning desire for revenge on Russia after witnessing the deaths of children, husbands or family members at the hands of the military during the two Chechen wars of the 1990s.

The prolonged war on insurgents over the past decade has added to the pool of recruits among women enraged at seeing security services kidnap, torture and kill male relatives, or destroy their family homes as punishment for alleged involvement with terrorist groups.

The principle of “blood revenge” is extremely strong among ethnic groups in the volatile North Caucasus and surviving family members often see it as their duty to avenge the killing of relatives. Distrust of the state means that few leave the issue to local law enforcement – and it is usually the state security services that are responsible.

UPDATE: From Moscow to Manhattan China Confidential

Wishing all a Sweet Pesach

It is with an extraordinarily heavy heart that I look forward while reflecting back on this year. Events so extraordinary and frightening, one cannot believe one's eyes. But we must. On this erev Pesash (eve of Passover), the US president threatens to stand against Israel in that collective negation of humanity, the UN.

The US is considering abstaining if the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution against Israeli construction in eastern Jerusalem, the BBC reported Sunday.

For decades, Israel has depended on the US to veto UNSC resolutions aimed against it. A change in this US policy could be very perilous for Israel.

The Muslims are the "settlers" not the Jewish people.

Dan Friedman wrote me:

The Last Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto

This could make a stone cry. But not our enemies in the White House, the EU, and Iran. Forgiving people, they've forgiven themselves for what they've done, or denied ever doing it. The slate is clean and it's time to turn against the Jews again. The Seder warns us "In every generation they rise up to destroy us." That's what's happening now, and only Israel stands in their way. So they attack us in Jerusalem, knowing that if our stronghold falls the rest will easily be overrun. Every Jew, Israeli and decent gentile must understand that simple fact. It's happening before our very eyes, and if we ignore it, or abet it, like last time, there will be Hell to pay.

Photo hat tip Israeli reader Herb, who "recently photographed this as the sun was setting on our beautiful Tel Aviv beach promenade - enjoy!"

SAVED FROM SCRAPS, MUSIC FROM THE CAMPS Telegraph

Ruth King wrote of Passover:

...... I will gather with my family to celebrate and commemorate the Exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt to Israel our ancient nation and the locus of the faith that sustained our brethren through millennia of dispersion and persecution and harassment and forced conversions and genocide.

At our seder we close with a remembrance of Passover in the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943. Hungry, cold and wretched Jews rose up against the Nazis and with no military training, using stolen guns, iron rods, knives and crafted explosives they held off the Nazis for twenty eight days.

The resistance commenced with the ominous statement: “Our hour has come with no hope of rescue.” As the SS troops led by Gruppenfuhrer Jurgen Stoop rushed into the ghetto on the morning of April 19th which coincided with the first day of Passover, the bombs, grenades and makeshift explosives so carefully hidden for months, ambushed the Nazi troops, set tanks afire and killed and wounded over 200 Nazis.

Battles continued, home made bombs were detonated under Nazi troop columns, trucks carrying Nazi soldiers were torched and the Nazis retreated and called for reinforcements. Within weeks ammunition was almost used up and the Nazis began their destruction of the ghetto…building after building…reducing all to rubble.

On May 16th, 1943- Gruppenfuhrer Jurgen Stoop announced "180 Jews, bandits, and subhumans were destroyed. Tbe Jewisb quarter of Warsaw is no more!"

However, the damage to Nazi prestige was enormous and the few survivors that escaped the ghetto inspired other rebellions by the Jews.

Elie Weisel has written: “Where did they draw the strength, the knowledge, to go out in battle against the most awesome army in Europe?..... There are limits to human endurance. One must break at last” He continues: “The ghetto, half-a-million souls, for the most part did not become a jungle. Quite the contrary; people tried to help each other.” “One must marvel even more at the fighters and couriers. Instead of falling into despair, they found reasons and strength to help others.”

Fast forward .....................

This statement was sent today to leaders of the major Jewish organizations. We welcome your response, and please forward as you see fit.

A CALL FOR JEWISH LEADERSHIP TO STEP FORWARD NOW

By Beth Gilinsky and Rabbi Aryeh Spero

We have been receiving numerous communications from the People of Israel expressing how demoralized and abandoned the Jewish People in Israel feel by the lack of any strong and meaningful statement and vigorous, public demonstrations sponsored by any of the major and established Jewish organizations in support of Israel's position regarding Jerusalem.

They feel that the treatment of Israel during the last three weeks by President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and spokesmen for the Administration has been an unprecedented humiliation of the Jewish State and a willful isolation of it among the community of nations.

In addition, they are alarmed at the silence of the Jewish community in light of how the Obama Administration has been making statements and taking measures that everyone knows give license for the Arab population within Israel and on its borders to renew intifada and rioting that will severely harm the individual Israeli, as is already being done.

Furthermore, the brazen and humiliating way in which the Prime Minister of Israel, the de facto representative of the entire Jewish People, was treated by the entire staff of the White House in front of all the eyes of the world should not be tolerated. It is encouraging other Western countries, as well as Arab countries, to treat Israel as a diplomatic pariah and even question Israel's legitimacy as a state itself.

The Israeli People are not looking for yet another statement from the establishment Jewish community as to how we are in favor of a peace process, a "two-state solution", or that the last three weeks of humiliation "disrupts" further peace negotiations. What they are looking for, and what the establishment Jewish organizations should do, is to express their outrage at the mistreatment and humiliation of the Jewish State and attempts to portray the Jewish State as being the sole entity blocking a successful War on Terror. This is reminiscent of previous blood libels throughout history, where the Jewish People have been accused that their existence, rituals, or means of survival has been the cause for the loss of Muslim or Christian life.

The Jewish world is awaiting your affirmation that the entire city of Jerusalem is to be under Jewish sovereignty and is its eternal, united capital.

Furthermore, it is apparent that the Obama Administration, from the President to Mrs. Clinton, to David Axelrod, and the President's spokesmen are engaging in an attempt to overturn the will of the Israeli People who voted for the current Prime Minister and his coalition partners. They view it -- and rightly so -- as a belittlement not only to their sovereignty, but also to their right to determine who their leaders should be.

On so many fronts, the past three weeks have been an absolute and unwarranted, yet purposeful, humiliation of the Jewish People and the State of Israel. We would expect that the establishment Jewish organizations and leaders would have the courage to stand up, with pride, for the Jewish People and its state. Instead, we are witnessing a silence that conveys the message that the leadership of the Jewish community is more interested in being friends with the Administration than doing its duty by announcing to the world that this cannot be tolerated. We look for the Jewish organizations and its leaders to speak Truth to Power.

The silence of the established Jewish organizations on this matter, in contrast to the outspokenness from J Street, has elevated and allowed J Street to become the most visible and prominent organization speaking out about these issues within the Jewish community. No doubt, many of our leaders are working behind the scenes to repair the rupture of the last three weeks. In this case, however, that is simply not enough and evades the real issue. The world at large has seen a public humiliation and rebuke of the State of Israel go unanswered. Unless it sees a profoundly public rebuke of such treatment, it will assume that such humiliating treatment of Jews and the Jewish State are now acceptable and de rigueur.

The World must hear. The World must see. It takes little courage to meet with other leaders behind closed doors. The courage that is needed now is one where the world sees that Israel, its representatives and the Jewish People cannot tolerate that which no other nation or community would tolerate. Failure to do so openly and in public will guarantee that this will happen again, even if this particular crisis is "smoothed out."

Leaders are not simply men and women who work behind the scenes. Leaders of a community are those who have enough conviction and pride in the profile of their community that they boldly, with enthusiasm, defend their People when unjustly humiliated. Doing so stops the slide of demoralization in its people and restores their confidence in themselves as a People, a people with a legitimate destiny. The American Jewish Community expects that type of leadership from those who claim to be its leaders.

Senator Smalley Unhinged: "You Have to Shut Up!"

If people get the government they deserve, then the American electorate is lower than the low:

Franken Unhinged: Shutting Up Staffers and Journalist Big Government

Al Franken became famous as a comedian. A long-time writer for Saturday Night Live, he developed routines and characters that made us laugh. But, as my latest video reminds us, even funny people can be humorless. Not only is Franken a jerk to Mattera, who is admittedly asking tough questions about ObamaCare, but he’s a jerk to his own hapless staff. The job market in DC can’t be bad enough to put up with this.

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"Looking past the smoke and mirrors spin wafting out of the White House"

Serious analysis on the state of America cannot be found outside the blogs. Americans must go across the pond to get away from the relentless pounding and shilling of O-ganda. Niles Gardiner writes in the Telegraph, UK:

Looking past the smoke and mirrors spin wafting out of the White House, the future looks far more grim. Under Barack Obama the United States is drowning under $13 trillion of debt, with the health care bill likely to significantly add to that burden. The $787 billion stimulus package has failed to create jobs, and unemployment levels are at their highest in a generation, with one out of every ten Americans out of work. The housing market remains extremely weak, with little sign of a significant recovery.

On the world stage, Barack Obama has looked like a deer in the headlights in the face of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the biggest state-based threat to world security since the end of the Cold War. The president has no real plan in place to stop the Mullahs in their tracks, and seems content to live with a genocidal, Islamist, nuclear-armed Tehran. He has also shown little interest in developing an effective global missile defense system to protect the United States, or increasing levels of US defence spending. He has invested a great deal of his energy on the dream of a nuclear-free world, while all around him hostile states are developing their nuclear weapons programmes. As Nicolas Sarkozy aptly put it, referring to Obama’s stunning naiveté – “we live in the real world, not in a virtual one”.

At the same time, President Obama has weakened America’s alliances while kowtowing to America’s enemies. Great Britain and Israel, Washington’s closest allies in Europe and the Middle East, have been treated with sneering contempt, while hostile regimes have been greeted with the extended hand of friendship. When a great nation turns on its own friends and embraces its adversaries you know there is something fundamentally wrong with its leadership.

There is more than just the whiff of arrogance surrounding the Obama administration. It is shrouded in an imperial  triumphalism that is blind to criticism and failures of leadership while Rome begins to burn in the background. In reality, Barack Obama is ushering in a period of American decline, both economically and in terms of world leadership, a decline that is wholly self-inflicted.

President Obama’s dangerous emphasis upon big government solutions in a nation whose historic success rests upon economic freedom and limited government, is destined to fail. And his refusal to invest in America’s long-term security and her alliances, as well as confront her enemies on the world stage, will make the United States weaker and more vulnerable to attack. The damage inflicted now to American global power will take years, even decades to repair. It must eventually be reversed by future presidents, not only for the sake of the American people, but for the sake of the free world.

Read it and weep.

Paris, France: Muslim and Leftist Nazis Revolt at H&M Store, Faux Guns, Threats, Agitation Against Jews

Anti-Jewish groups urge H&M boycott after Israel branch opens

Once again the haters, inciters, genocide enablers and barbarians took to the civilized arena and defecated their racist poison over the innocent and the unsuspecting ..........in this case, H & M shoppers. 

Muslims and their leftist whores (who never met a violent, collectivist ideology they didn't love) are demonstrating against H&M. Of course they had to close the store:

Officials of the shop quickly decided to evacuate and then close the doors. The demonstrators then stayed at the entrance to inform passersby about their work while preventing a possible reopening. Around 18.20, a dozen police officers arrived to carry out surveys of identities without conducting arrests. After discussions between the lieutenant asked, and some participants, the procession gradually dispersed while the store remained closed. (translation here)

Nidra Poller, who sent me the video, added,

"This is on rue de Rennes, near Montparnasse. (if I'm not mistaken) Notice how cheerful they are! They don't have to slink around corners or hide in dark alleys. These boycott demonstrations have been going on for more than a year. It's illegal in France to call for a boycott but no one stops them. I don't suppose it's legal to brandish or even carry fake guns. But if your banner says Boycott Israel Apartheid State, you are above the law."

Haaretz reports:

More than 24 European and Middle Eastern pro-Palestinian organizations on Thursday condemned the opening of H&M's flagship store in Israel and called to boycott the clothing chain's stores in Europe in response.

he call to boycott the European stores came as hundreds of Israelis stormed the new 2,000 square meters store on the third floor of the Azrieli shopping mall in Tel Aviv.

The Swedish clothing chain plans to open seven stores throughout the country, the first of which opened in Tel Aviv, and the second is due to open in Jerusalem, followed by Haifa, Petah Tikva, Netanya, and Rehovot.

Pamela Geller, Big Government: Deadly Obamacare Kills Businesses, Jobs

To the buzz, I love you right back.

In case you missed my column today at Big Government:

Deadly Obamacare Kills Businesses, Jobs

Notice how Obama bad news always drops on Friday nights. But the Democrats will not forever be able to keep quiet the reality and the consequences of Obama rule.

Meanwhile, as the health care putsch continues, the world goes to hell in handbasket. The sinking of the South Korean warship near the North Korean border Friday was almost certainly an act of war, even as South Korean officials played down that possibility. Nonetheless, it reeks of the North Koreans. North Korea never would have pulled something like this under Bush. Never. But they know Obama will do nothing and that South Korea is on her own. Barack Hussein Obama ain’t Harry S Truman.

With Obama at the helm, expect hell to break loose. Iranian nukes? Yawn. Pakistan jihadis with nukes? Crickets chirping. Abandonment of Israel? Check! Socializing healthcare? Job 1!

And as they take over seventeen percent of the American economy, how cocky the Democrats are — full of contempt for the hard-working American. In order to fund Obama’s counter-insurgency in America, the enemy must be cut off of supplies, succor and support. And who is the enemy? He is us. The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has ordered the closing of numerous fast-food outlets on bases. Command Sgt. Maj. Michael T. Hall explained that “some of the morale, welfare and recreation facilities throughout Afghanistan” for troops would be cut: “In the coming weeks and months, concessions such as Orange Julius, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen and Military Car Sales will close their doors.”

Trillions on the backs of our kids, but no cheezboigers for the troops. But there is plenty of money for Kobe steaks for King O. Date nights in Manhattan with Michelle for a million. $600 sneakers for her as well. And remember that taxpayers footed the $101,000 bill for in-flight parties on Air Force jets arranged by Nancy Pelosi: according to journalist Bob Unruh at WorldNetDaily, “it reads like a dream order for some wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.”

Read it and weep.

Despite Record Levels of Islamic Terror in U.S., FBI raids Christian Groups

In a word, nuts. Seven people have been arrested for allegedly selling pipe bombs in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, Fox News has learned.

How about raiding Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.?

Was the armed camp in New York, Islamberg, raided? The Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR) is already crowing about it.

Amidst record levels of Islamic terrorism in U.S., FBI raids Christian militia groups

FBI “Small Army” Raids Michigan Militia…won’t tell press why America 20xy

ADRIAN, Mich. — The FBI confirmed to Local 4 that there were several law enforcement activities in the Lenawee/Washtenaw County area late Saturday night.

“The federal warrants are sealed and we can not comment at this time,” said Sandra Berchtold, media/applicant coordinator for the FBI in Detroit.

Local 4 crews could see FBI helicopters flying over the area.

Michigan State Police said the raids are not terror related, but would not comment further.

Police said one person driving up from Toledo, Ohio was arrested and then taken in for questioning.

Police also said they were looking for at least one person.

Massive Federal Raid in Lenawee County

WXYZ

3/28/10

ADRIAN, Mich. (WXYZ) – The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force are all involved in raids around Adrian that may be connected to a militia group.

The FBI conducted multiple raids throughout Saturday and into Sunday, with one of them centered on a property where known members of a militia live. The land is owned by a man who lives in a house on the property. His sons live in two mobile homes that are also on the property. Saturday’s raids were concentrated on those mobile homes.

Helicopters were spotted in the sky for much of the night, and agents set up checkpoints throughout the area, including in Sand Creek and Clayton in Lenawee County. Witnesses tell Action News that it was like a small army had descended on the area.

A command center, including two satellite trucks and a radio tower, had been set up at the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department in Ann Arbor. It has since been dismantled.

Federal agents will not comment on the investigation, only saying that they are serving a number of search warrants and that the warrants are sealed. Action News has learned that an unknown number of arrests have also been made. An unconfirmed report indicated that at least six people were arrested coming into Michigan from Ohio.

Members of a number of militia groups say that the raids are connected to raids in Indiana and Ohio. However, the FBI has not confirmed that.

FBI raids in Washtenaw, Lenawee counties tied to Michigan militia group

Ann Arbor.com

3/28/10

By Lee Higgins

The FBI conducted raids Saturday night in Washtenaw County and Lenawee County in an investigation involving members of Hutaree, a Christian-oriented militia group based in Lenawee County, AnnArbor.com has learned.

The nature of those raids has not been made public. FBI Special Agent Jason Pack, who is based in Washington, D.C., said he did not know how many people were taken into custody. Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit, could not be reached for comment today.

“I can confirm that there is ongoing law enforcement activity in the Ann Arbor general area,” Pack said in a written statement. “Since the federal warrants are under court ordered seal, legally we cannot provide further comment at this time.”

Local Michigan militia member Jimmy Schiel said he was told five people were arrested – including one known member of Hutaree. Schiel said the five were reportedly arrested during a raid at a service in the Ann Arbor area for a Hutaree member who died recently. Schiel was told about eight Hutaree members were present. Schiel, who said he was invited but did not attend, spoke to a Hutaree member who was at the service, he said.

Hutaree members couldn’t be reached for comment today. As AnnArbor.com reported last week, several Hutaree members were recently involved in searches in Bridgewater Township after two residents went missing in separate incidents. Schiel worked closely with Hutaree members during those searches.

The Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia has not been targeted in any of the raids, spokesman Mike Lackomar said.

The FBI set up a command post at the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department late last week. Sheriff’s spokesman Derrick Jackson could not be reached this morning.

Several other raids took place around the same time in Sandusky and Huron in Ohio, but it’s not clear whether those raids are related.

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As of Sunday morning, the operation was not reported by national media, although it was covered by local media in Michigan.

UPDATE: The Muslim Brotherhood is calling on its members to recommit to Islam:

One of the Hutaree members called a Michigan militia leader for assistance Saturday after federal agents had already began their raid, Lackomar said, but the militia member -- who is of Islamic decent and had heard about the threats -- declined to offer help. That Michigan militia leader is now working with federal officials to provide information on the Hutaree member for the investigation, Lackomar said Sunday.

"They are more of survivalist group and in an emergency they withdraw and stand their ground. They are actively training to be alongside Jesus," he said.

Sources from the Michigan militia community said one of the FBI raids took place Saturday during a wake for a Hutaree member who had died of natural causes. A Hutaree leader was arrested during the wake while at the same time agents were conducting raids at other locations.

The Associated Press is reporting that FBI spokesman Scott Wilson in Cleveland said agents arrested two people Saturday in northwest Ohio. A third arrest was made in Illinois on Sunday, a day after raids in northwest Indiana.

Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on Islamic-American Relations of Michigan, made an announcement Sunday during the group's 10th anniversary banquet about receiving a call from a network journalist about the alleged threat against Muslims.

"Don't allow this news to scare you away from practicing your faith," said Walid.

Long Time Ally, England, Distances itself From Obama's Post America -- British leaders told not to speak of a "special relationship"

An influential multi-party group of British parliamentarians on Sunday called for British leaders not to speak of a "special relationship" with the U.S. because the transatlantic relationship, while still strong, is cooling.

Of course the pre-election O-ganda from the supplicant O-media said that B. Hussein was supposed to repair our relationships abroad. And now after little over a year of Obama, the British have gotten the message and they're making the necessary adjustments -- downward.

Get the book now: The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America

Dan F sent this, "I am sure a similar 'reset' is happening in capitals across the globe - among friends and foes alike."

British MPs: Don't use 'special' to describe U.S. relations WSJ Market watch

"The U.K. foreign policy approach this Committee is advocating is in many ways similar to the more pragmatic tone which President Obama has adopted towards the U.K.," Gapes said.

"He is an American who grew up in Hawaii, whose foreign experience was of Indonesia and who had a Kenyan father. The sentimental reflexes, if you like, are not there," added David Manning, the former British ambassador to the U.S., in testimony used in writing the report.

The Foreign Affairs Committee, which has members from all three of the country's major parties, said the U.K. has "a special relationship with the U.S., but we must remember that so too do other countries including regional neighbours, strategic allies and partners. British and European politicians have been guilty of over-optimism about the extent of influence they have over the U.S."

Testimony from the report also shows a perception that the Obama administration isn't interested in promoting democracy abroad.

"If one thinks of what [Republican candidate] John McCain had to say about the league of democracies and so forth, I think that perhaps there would have been a stronger interest in a McCain Administration in reaching out particularly to like-minded democracies around the globe. That is something that the Obama Administration do not seem too concerned about," said Nick Witney, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Media Liars! Turn off the O-ganda

More media lies piling up: LIARS! ............... they can't help themselves, the pigs. CNN reported dozens have showed up for Nevada tea party. O-ganda!

Tea Party Rally to Oust "Dingy Harry" Reid
Searchlight, Nevada -- March 27, 2010 (hat tip Katherine)
Photos © 2010 - American Border Patrol

American Border patrol shot these pics above and below. Check out the highway an hour after the rally started ....folks were still pouring into town trying to get to the tea party.

 
The media must have all of their resources covering Cindy Sheehan's camp outside the Bush Crawford ranch.

NewsBusters has this on CNN’s O-ganda:

“Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people - we haven’t gotten a count of how many people turned out there. We heard Sarah Palin talk about everything about the campaign, to unseat Sen. Reid to what she calls ObamaCare, on the heels of that health 

Stacy McCain is right there.

Parrothead Jeff is on scene here.

Calls for GOP Assassinations Met With Media Silence, Faux Dem Threats Front Page News

"Some one needs to kill that silly hoe"

I hope people start turning off their TVs (FOX included), stop their subscriptions to their local newspapers, and start making informed news choices, because this O-ganda is out of hand.

Whilst the left and their media handmaidens rammed a bone-crushing, freedom-killing obamacare rout though the couped congress, Americans had to listen to the wailing and caterwauling of fake threats to Democrat criminals. LIARS!

Laughable ...... but not.

Real threats, real sickos have a free run on the public arena, and you can't help but think the left and the O-bots are secretly hoping that one of these nuts gets one off, so the patriots will just STFU and walk willingly into serfdom.

Here, for example, is a twitterer and a series of tweets anxiously calling for murder and mayhem against Sarah Palin, her family, Eric Cantor and the tea parties (TP).

Read through this leftists threats... he/she claims to be MS13 too, along with the death threats.

Not news, no investigation...all good (hat tip TR1)

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NY Demo-rats Extort $50K from Union Leaders for "Access" and Favor

They may have hid it in the past, but with gangstas holding power in DC -- hellzapoppin. Generally I stay away from local politics, but as the saying goes, all politics is local. The fish stinks from the head down -- and here in New York, the stench is intolerable.

Here is another prime example of the Obama corporate culture trickling down.

The foxes are guarding the henhouse. The question is, where can good, decent, freedom loving people go?

Freefalling. The Dems have destroyed the greatest nation in the history of mankind. 

Mike rips pay-to-play amid push for probe NY Post

ALBANY -- Mayor Bloomberg yesterday branded efforts by state Senate Democrats to extract $50,000 campaign contributions from union leaders "the ultimate pay to play," as outraged good-government groups urged a criminal probe of the blatant fund-raising demand.

"Pay to play is just something we shouldn't have," declared Bloomberg.

He had been asked about The Post's disclosure yesterday that Senate Democrats promised top union leaders special access in exchange for $50,000 donations.

Labor interests have expressed fear that the Legislature will make massive cuts to their favored programs in the new state budget.

The Democratic effort was also blasted by Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau County), who said extracting money from labor leaders with business before the Senate "may get the attention of prosecutors" seeking to determine "whether it's 'pay to play.' "

"If there's a quid pro quo involved in it, that's illegal," Skelos continued on Albany's Talk 1300-AM.

Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey called for a probe, which he said should be conducted by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo or Albany County District Attorney David Soares.

"Given the timing of the cuts, this looks like either blind incompetence or a clumsy attempt at extortion," Dadey said.

"No matter how loose our campaign-finance laws are, I would think that the attorney general or the district attorney should take a look to determine if any laws were broken."

Henry Stern, a former city councilman who heads New York Civic, called the Democrats' action "a complete and utter outrage" and said, "This is a question of public ethics that the attorney general should decide the legality of."

Neither Cuomo nor Soares would comment.

Cuomo? Ha! Another Obama pimp.

New York Public Interest Research Group head Blair Horner, who called the Democratic action "brazen," said his group was considering "filing a formal complaint with the Legislative Ethics Commission or the Public Integrity Commission."

Common Cause Executive Director Susan Lerner said the letter was "breathtakingly bold in the current climate, especially at the [Joseph] Bruno trial," a reference to last fall's conviction of the former Republican Senate majority leader on federal charges of using his office to secure personal gain.

Meanwhile, Gov. Paterson, who contends he's committed to reforming the state's notorious money-influenced political culture, initially ducked a question about the letter as he insisted, "I haven't read it."

But after being told its contents by a reporter, Paterson responded, "The way you just explained it would worry me."

Genius!

Stop the Islamisation of Poland: Protest Against the Construction of Giant Muslim Brotherhood Mosque "Political Islam is threat to Europe"

The Muslim Brotherhood is expanding into Poland -- home of the Jewish death camps. How fitting.

Protests were staged this Saturday against a mosque and centre of Muslim culture, mainly financed by Saudi Arabia.  This is how the devout Muslim ideology cradled and wet-nursed by the Sauds spreads its poison.

One of the protesters, a Muslim, wrote me this:

"I was the only muslim person against the construction of mosque. Indeed it was a big shock to them, as well as the supporters of mosque construction have described me as racist and fascist. Some described USA in terrorist country. There were two Arab women and an idiot Arab where they attacked me through bad words and despised me, and even that idiot Arab guy insulted me and has spat on me "Arab and muslim culture"; asked me who sent you?!

But police was around him. I was trying to be as much as possible quiet and polite, A journalist from USA did interview with me and some Polish as well. boards that I carried them did not showed by Polish media, because, maybe they described as very racist despite I was attacked by cameras a moment I showed them in the demonstration. Of course it were in attention by attendees. I asked the regulator to go together next week to meet the president of Warsaw and the Mayor in order to prevent the construction of the mosque or at least, minaret. Ditto I asked them to support Mr Wilders through writing the Dutch embassies where I will send them all address of Dutch Embassies I received from Mr Wilders. or someday we will do an demonstration near Dutch embassy in Warsaw.

Muslim Brotherhood to construct new mosque in Warsaw EuroIslam.pl by Jan Wójcik

Officially it is claimed to be Muslim Cultural Center, but unofficially by opponents and supporters it is referred to as mosque because the plan includes a praying hall and even a minaret. But it is not the building itself that worries the citizens of Warsaw, but preaching that could be spread inside.

The investor of the mosque is Liga Muzulmañska w RP (Muslim League in Republic of Poland), a member of Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), which is known as umbrella organization for Muslim Brotherhood organizations across the Europe.

LM does not hide its affiliation and on its pages often quotes not only FIOE official statements but also fatwas and teachings of Jusuf Al Qaradawi, widely known Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader. Although LM tries to keep PR of moderate Muslim faction some of its leaders already exposed their views. Ali Abi Issa, head of imam council, translated and disseminated hadiths where the killing of apostates and adulterers is justified in Muslim state. Samir Ismail the head of LM wrote article about FGM where he presents Muslim jurists' opinions justifying or allowing FGM to be in decision of parents.

 

A Polish group calling itself "Europe for the Future" is using the  Swiss poster against minarets to demand a halt in the construction of another new mosque in the capital of mainly Catholic Poland.

More on the protest against the enormous mosque:

Dozens of people rallied Saturday in Warsaw to protest plans by the country's Muslim community to build a second mosque in the city.

Poland's Muslim population, though growing, is still tiny and such protests are unusual. The event offered evidence that anxieties gripping the rest of Europe are now also taking root in this former communist country, as well.

The emotional rally drew a small group of counter-protesters. Police forming a barrier between the two sides, which had gathered at the mosque's construction site in an outlying Warsaw neighborhood.

The anti-mosque protesters said they feared that radical Muslims would use the mosque to gain a foothold in Polish society. They were particularly disturbed by rumors that Saudi money is funding it _ a claim that could not be immediately confirmed.

"We oppose a mosque built with Saudi money when it's illegal to have a Bible or cross in Saudi Arabia," said Rafal Zak, a 31-year-old real estate agent.

The protesters chanted "Radical Islam, no thanks" and held up banners saying "Stop the Radicals" and "Political Islam is threat to Europe."

Here is on the scene reporting of the protest from Jos (a former Muslim) -- the English may be a bit awkward, but you'll get the point:

Dozens of people are protesting plans by the country's Muslim community to build a second mosque in Warsaw Ochota near the Blue City. Raised the slogan: "Tolerance is not naive," Blind Tolerance kills common sense."

Protest at the roundabout Siberian exiles organized by the Association of the Future of Europe “Polish group has refashioned a Swiss poster against minarets to demand a halt in the construction of a new mosque in the capital of mainly Catholic Poland” . Its chairman John Wojcik said that the organizers are demanding the signing of the Charter of the Muslim community in which he renounces it, inter alia, violence and the use of force in the name because of the sense of injustice. they do not believe in the peaceful intentions of the Muslim community.

inter alia, the "common fight against terrorism," including to "observe and monitor the sermons in the mosque and other programs We are afraid of radical Islam and we have such a right - said Wojcik, the organizer. He added that the mosque will be funded from Saudi Arabia. He stressed that to build the mosque Muslim League.

The protesters chanted "Radical Islam, no thanks" and held up banners saying "Stop the Radicals" and "Political Islam is threat to Europe".

A tiny group of counter-protesters turned out carrying banners reading: "Warsaw is for everybody" and "Stop Islamophobia."

During the demonstration, on the other side of the roundabout have set up a group of members including Employee Democracy. Chanted: stop racism, stop intolerance. Between the two group has set a row of policemen.

We respect the right to freedom of speech, of expression. Themselves practice the constitutional right to freedom of conscience and religion "- said the president of Muslim League Samir Ismail. - We are citizens of Poland, as evidenced by our actions - he added. He stressed that there appeared on the demonstrations and appealed to the Muslims that did not organize a counter demonstration. "They have a right to protest, we have the right to freedom of religion" - he added.

On its website Muslim League called for "the Polish Muslims, and (...) the Polish community to maintain the highest level of calm and reason and to avoid any kind of provocation". Informed that "the project of building a Center for Islamic Culture in Poland, passed all the legal procedures in force in the relevant state institutions'

Ninety percent of Poles say they are Catholic while the country's Muslim population numbers between 15,000 and 30,000 people, about 10,000 of whom are in the capital. They include immigrants from Arab countries, Chechens and Tatars who have been based in Poland since the 17th century.

The new mosque is expected to be able to accommodate about 10,000 worshippers. At 12 metres (40 feet) high, it will be topped by a minaret of 18 metres. most of them are Tatars - settled in Poland for over 600 years.

Built a mosque in the capital will be the fifth Islamic temple in Poland. Muslims pray in the three mosques: The Bohonikach (eighteenth century), Kruszyniany (probably from the second half of the eighteenth century) and in Gdansk, houses of prayer: In Bialystok, Suchowoli, Lodz, Katowice and Poznan, as well as Islamic centers in Bialystok, Lublin , Wroclaw, Warsaw, Poznan and Katowice.

The case is quite simple. While the was settled with the city, this mosque is likely to arise - said a spokesman of the Muslim Religious Union Musa Czachorowski. - Under the Constitution everyone has the right to profess their religion, beliefs - he stressed.

- If we recognize that the mosque violates human rights, then tomorrow could say that the construction of the church or synagogue in breach of those rights - he said. In his opinion "there is no reason to worry about the supply of radical Islam."

The Islamic Culture Center in Ochota, in addition to the prayer hall, has also arise, inter alia, a library and art gallery. Center will be open not only for Muslims according to his claim.

Protesters accused of intolerance, racism and even fascism. - It was this supposedly "civilized world" violates human rights, as evidenced by even the war in Afghanistan, which are also participating Poles - say representatives of the Socialist Workers' Democracy grouping. - Down with the racist policies, stop fascism, Warsaw, for all - opponents chanted demonstration, claiming that the fight against intolerance. - Have you in such a case, you to love your woman and read a little about how they are treated in Muslim countries - the construction of a mosque opponents responded.

But the fight against intolerance, opponents also said the construction of the mosque. - We want an agreement with Muslims. At the same time, we can not agree on the violation of women's rights, as well as representatives of sexual minorities, who are in Muslim countries are sentenced to death - said the organizer.

Interestingly, both demonstrations some passers-by seemed too radical. - Supporters of Islam are wrong, because what kind of racism, fascism and even more so in the views of opponents of the construction?

The mosque and the centre of Muslim culture are financed by Saudi Arabia, a country which violates human rights and where the mere possession of a Bible constitutes a crime," the association said.

In a petition address to the mayor of Warsaw, the group called for "an immediate halt to the work."

AMERICA TO GOP: Please, Save Us!

America knows she is under siege by traitors. Everyone must get involved in some way, in any way, in the November rout of the treasonous.

CBS Poll: Most Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill

A CBS

CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge parts of the health care reform bill.

MARCH UPDATE: J [Jihad] Streeters, Soros, Zogby Frequent White House Vistors, AIPAC not

The White House visitors list was updated yesterday indicating, yet again, the influence of malevolent corrupting forces, as displayed here: WHITE HOUSE EXPOSED: Farrakhan, Ayers, Wright, Sharpton, Jackson are in the house.

In the March update, notorious Jew-hater George Soros and J Street jewicidals, and pro-jihad arabist James Zogby were frequent visitors in December -- a veritible anti-semites' orgy. (Big thanks to Mark)

 

The J-Street leaders vastly outnumber the AIPAC visits (half of which are from the downsized, downgraded  Hanukkah party).

Another poisonous Jew-hater and would-be Israel annihilationist, James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute, brother of the pollster who runs Zogby International and member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee, appears to have decked the White House halls in December quite a bit. 

Perhaps Zogby was plotting with the White House how to spin the fierce support (near record high) for Israel across America.

Zogby inverted that support and ran a typical pro-jihad spin piece at anti-semite central, The Huffington Post -- the puff ho. This anti-semite runs regular Jew-hating screeds at the Puff Ho: James Zogby: How Israel's Propaganda Machine Works

And here is today's Zogby invective:

New Poll on American Attitudes Toward the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

A new poll out this week shows that while Israelis retain strong US public support, Americans are deeply concerned that the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict puts US interests at risk across the Middle East and the public, therefore, supports President Obama's stand against Israel's settlement plans. These are but a few of the top line findings of a Zogby International poll of 2,471 Americans conducted between March 17-19, 2010. The poll, commissioned by the Arab American Institute, had a margin of error of 2.0%.

Upon closer examination of the poll's findings, observations can be made pointing to lessons that should be learned.

Israeli ratings are high, but dropping; so are the Palestinians.

In 2009 71% of Americans had a favorable view of Israelis with only 21% rating them unfavorably. In 2010 the favorable/unfavorable ratings have shifted to 65%--29%. This is largely due to a significant drop among Democrats who now hold a 42% favorable, 49% unfavorable view of Israelis. The Israeli Prime Minister's rating among Democrats is an even worse 20% to 63%.

Now here comes the new leftraitor spin. Israel is putting our troops in harm's way -- as if the jihad weren't gunning for us for the past 234 years, from the Barbary coast to the Mufti's axis with Hitler:

Americans are deeply concerned that the continuing conflict puts the US at risk across the Middle East.

This was the one area where there was broad national consensus. With over 80% of all Americans agreeing that the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is important and the same number expressing the view that the continuing conflict puts US interests at risk.

With American troops still in Iraq and after witnessing the destabilizing consequences of repeated flare ups in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Americans are worried. They still do not fully understand the region's history and have little awareness of the Palestinian's story, but like the famous line in a once popular Bob Dylan song "they know something is wrong, but they don't know what it is."

Muslim operatives spinning the war -- blaming the Jews. Americans ain't buying, but if they do to Israel what they did to Bush on Iraq ..................

In this context the warning recently issued by the US Commander of CENTCOM, General David Petraeus becomes important to consider. By observing the degree to which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict puts the US at risk in the region, Petraeus created the opening for a public discussion on the importance of resolution of the conflict. But the outcome of this discussion is not guaranteed unless Arabs take advantage of this opportunity to engage the public, tell their story and provide acceptable solutions they find acceptable.

Pluralities know settlements are wrong, should be stopped, and support President Obama's efforts; but a significant number of Americans still do not understand the issue.

This is the new genocidal Jew-hatred meme. It's old anti-semitism -- America is doing Israel's bidding, but this time they are implying that America is expending blood for the Joos. Zogby goes off in typical anti-semite fashion here.

Race baiter and hater Jeremiah Wright and blackmailer Jesse "hymietown" Jackson were back in March as well.

Anti-semites abound, particularly in the extensive list of Muslim names. For example:

Salam al-Marayati, head of MPAC, very sleazy character

Worse yet, he is apparently working with or for the State Department now. He blamed Israel for 9/11:

But such extreme rhetoric is nothing new for MPAC either. Most notoriously, on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, MPAC’s Salam al-Maryati added fuel to the wildest, most paranoid conspiracy theories on a Los Angeles radio show: “If we’re going to look at suspects we should look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what’s happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies.”

More here.

And then there's Omar Shakir -- lovely, isn't he?

This is the White House. Shocking.

UPDATE: Jihadist bedfellows -- idelogy before country!

Samah Al-Reyes Norquist (Grover Norquist's Palestinian wife)  & James Zogby---

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DAVID G. LITTMAN ADDRESSING UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: ON PALESTINE PARTITION PLANS (1922 &1947) REFUGEE

Tuesday, 23 March 2010, Human Rights Council, Thirteenth session, 9:00 - 12:00 - 36th Plenary Meeting3/27/10 8:24:09 AM World Union for Progressive Judaism.

David G. Littman addressing UN Human Rights Council:

on Palestine Partition Plans (1922 & 1947) and Refugees

1922 UK Partition of Palestine & 1947 UN General Assembly Partition Plan Facts and figures on Arab & Jewish Refugees after 1948 Arab League Jihad

Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative to the UN in Geneva for the Association for World Education (AWE) and the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ)

The following oral statement was prepared and delivered by DGL for the WUPJ; I was stopped by the Chair (a vice-president) after 2 minutes, 16 seconds – the microphone was cut off at 2 min. 26 sec. (two NGOs soon after were allowed 2 min. 33 sec. and 2 min. 37 sec., respectively). Member and Observer States are never stopped when their delegate exceeds the 3 or 2 minute official limit, sometimes taking twice as long when haranguing Israel; NGOs are usually treated very leniently by the Belgium president).

Our two concluding lines, comparing the treatment of Jewish and Arab Palestinian refugees could have been completed within about 10 seconds (i.e. up to 2min. 25 sec.): They received no international aid, whereas a Palestinian ‘refugee’ and his descendants still do, via UNRWA, if the “normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 or June 1967” – or that of their grandparents or great grandparents.” This is unique in the world.

If you missed David Littman's latest remarks to the United Nations Human Rights Council (see below). Littman is an international treasure. He knows were all the bodies are buried, figuratively and literally.

WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL – 13th session (1 – 26 March 2010) Statement by Representative David G. LITTMAN – Monday (12:50) 22 March 2010

“Human rights situation in Palestine…. (Gaza-Goldstone Report: follow-up)

[The words in square brackets were not pronounced in the two minutes time limitation]

[Thank you, Mr. President. Five months ago at the 12th special session, the Council adopted a follow-up resolution on the Goldstone-Gaza Report sponsored by the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference), the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) & the African & Arab Groups – with the usual automatic majority] which stresses: “that the right to life constitutes the most fundamental of all human rights.” A/HRC/S-12/L – 14 October 2010]

Sir, we wish to stress again that the “right to life” is contradicted by a blatant omission in the 452 page Goldstone Report [A/HRC/12/48], which is the root cause of the Gaza tragedy. I am referring once again to the Hamas Charter which simply calls for Jews to be killed and Israel to be eliminated; a text which, like Mein Kampf, refers at length to a crude forgery [The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion]; a text that inspires a Jihadist-terrorist regime – with links to Hezbollah and Iran – to teach systematically a culture of hate and death to children and adults in schools, the media and on TV. We recommend last week’s Report by MEMRI,1 which provides scores of links to Hamas-controlled Al-Aqsa TV clips that show how Gaza children are taught to become ‘Jihad martyrs’, while killing Jews and anyone near them. These bloodthirsty TV ‘shows’ are there for all those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

[The titles are clear: “Dispatch those sons of apes and pigs to the hellfire on the wings of Qassem rockets” / “The Jihad against the Jews will continue until their annihilation / A Palestinian who kills one Jew will be rewarded as if he killed 30 million / Killing all Jews will not be satisfactory compensation for the ‘Real Holocaust’ in Gaza. On this visual irrefutable evidence, the U.S Treasury Department last week imposed sanctions on Al-Aqsa TV. Officials from the UK, France, Germany, Italy… have been briefed on all this. (MEMRI, also PMW; and Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center: ‘Response to the Goldstone Report: ‘Hamas & the Terrorist Threat from the Gaza Strip.2 ]

Sir, millions of Germans (not just Nazis) read Hitler’s Mein Kampf – his Aryan ‘struggle’ mainly against Jews that led to the monstrous ‘final solution’– but very few others persons worldwide felt concerned by such incitements. Today, there is also little interest shown in this genocidal Hamas Charter, a Jihad / ‘struggle’ to kill Jews and wipe Israel off the map (with help from all and sundry), which we have been denouncing here since 1989 in vain. Few have bothered to read how Jews, Judaism and Israel are targeted:

“Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Muslim people. ‘Let the cowards never sleep.’” (Article 28), or that Article 7 quotes a ‘saying’ (hadith) still widely preached in talks and sermons worldwide that call on Muslims to fight & kill all Jews; 3 and that article 8, the Hamas ‘slogan’, is taken from the Muslim Brotherhood Charter, inspiring ‘Jihadist Martyrdom Bombers’ worldwide, and including U.S. convert ‘Jihad Jane’; 4 and that the preface quotes its founder Hassan al–Banna’s politicidal call: “Israel will exist & continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” Cf. written statements. 5] [1st time quoted by David G. Littman at the 45th session, Commission on Human Rights, 31st January 1989]

Mr. President, we would ask: how can Judge Goldstone, his colleagues, the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN officials, UNESCO, UNICEF, the OIC and this Council, and the ‘international community’ willingly ignore such blatant calls for children to kill [a “direct and public incitement to commit genocide” that are punishable under articles 3 and 4 of the 1948 Genocide Convention] and shrill defamations of religion: Judaism – all in the name of Allah and of Islam, while the Council prepares to adopt another resolution on “Combating Defamation of Religions” [first initiated in 1999 by the OIC]?

Sir, future historians will ask: why this weird silence; this eerie faculty for forgetfulness of past and planned horrors via direct and public incitement to both politicide and genocide? Next week Christians will celebrate Easter and Jews Passover – the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land of Israel [Cf. Koran, The Table, Surah V: 23-26], followed by the official Shoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day on 11 April. Now is the time, sir, for this Council to denounce all this and the Hamas Charter and not keep silent – while seeking true peace rather than one more ‘resolution’. A last word from Shakespeare’s Othello: “Silence that dreadful bell.” [II. iii. 175]

Thank you, Mr President.

1. MEMRI: Hamas. Special Announcements N° 107 (18 March 2010)

2. http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/content/t1.asp?Sid=13&Pid=334

3. “HAMAS aspires to implement Allah's promise, whatever time it may take. The Prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The Hour [Day of Judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim O Abdallah [slave of Allah], there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. This will not apply to the Gharqad tree which is a Jewish tree.’”

4. “Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its Constitution; Jihad is its path, and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.” (Article 8).This ‘saying’ – from the 1928 Charter of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is a wing, according to its 1988 Charter, article 2 – is recorded from al-Bukhari and Muslim, both considered by serious Islamic scholars as highly reliable sources for the hadith or ‘sayings’ of the Prophet Muhammad.]

5. See detailed written statement E/CN.4/2003/NGO/226: The 1988 Genocidal Charter of HAMAS: an evil legacy for ‘Jihadist- Martyrdom’ bombers. See also: A/HRC/S-1/NGO/4 (2006);A/HRC/S-9/NGO/3 (2009)

UPDATE: Jihadwatch has more from Littman here.

Saturday Night CinemaI Have Never Forgotten You

Tonight's extraordinary film, I Have Never Forgotten You, is a comprehensive look at the life and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter and humanitarian. Narrated by Academy-Award®-winner Nicole Kidman, it features interviews with longtime Wiesenthal associates, government leaders from around the world, and friends and family members -- many of whom have never discussed the legendary Nazi hunter and humanitarian on camera. What was the driving force behind his work? What kept him going when for years the odds were against his efforts? What is his legacy today, more than 60 years after the end of World War II?

Please watch it. It was an eye-opener for me.

ATT, Verizon, Deere, Caterpillar Suffer Bloody Billion Dollar Bill -- Deadly Obamacare Kills Business, Jobs

You think Obama has been a nightmare? You ain't seen nothing yet. That was just the previews.

Have you seen the commercials yet for people who have maxed out their credit cards, have loans over ten thousand that they can't pay back, urging them to apply for stimulus dollars? It's enough to make you puke. For those who played by the rules, worked hard, did the right thing -- you're screwed, the man has you and your wallet and your kids' wallet by the throat. Welcome to the era of the degenerate -- they will be sucking your blood and your children's blood and your children's children's blood for decades to come, or however long America lasts.

American business, the motor of the global economy, was dealt a deathblow by the marxist putsch delivered by the Demo-rat party. The numbers are staggering. AT&T, the largest telephone company in the country, will take a one billion dollar hit in the current quarter as a result of this economic attack on America.

Verizon Communications, the second biggest U.S. phone company, told employees that tax burdens under the new law would likely filter down to employees.

Other companies that announced health care reform related charges include Deere, a maker of farm equipment, which sees a US$150-million charge for its current quarter, and Caterpillar, which warned of a US $100-million charge.

Who do you think will pay for this? We will pay. Business is not something in the abstract, or the evil force the leftists and the communists deceptively smear it to be -- business is work, business is people, it is jobs, it is production. When business pays, we pay. Jobs pay. Consumers pay.

Notice how Obama bad news always drops on Friday nights. You won't be able to keep the reality and the consequences of Obama rule.

Why wasn't this made public before the vote?

AT&T will take $1B non-cash charge for health care Forbes

AT&T Inc. will take a $1 billion non-cash accounting charge in the first quarter because of the health care overhaul and may cut benefits it offers to current and retired workers.

The charge is the largest disclosed so far. Earlier this week, AK Steel Corp., Caterpillar Inc., Deere & Co. and Valero Energy announced similar accounting charges, saying the health care law that President Barack Obama signed Tuesday will raise their expenses. On Friday, 3M Co. said it will also take a charge of $85 million to $90 million.

All five are smaller than AT&T, and their combined charges are less than half of the $1 billion that AT&T is planning. The $1 billion is a third of AT&T's most recent quarterly earnings. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the company earned $3 billion on revenue of $30.9 billion.

AT&T said Friday that the charge reflects changes to how Medicare subsidies are taxed. Companies say the health care overhaul will require them to start paying taxes next year on a subsidy they receive for retiree drug coverage.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday that the tax law closed a loophole.

Under the 2003 Medicare prescription drug program, companies that provide prescription drug benefits for retirees have been able to receive subsidies covering 28 percent of eligible costs. But they could deduct the entire amount they spent on these drug benefits - including the subsidies - from their taxable income.

The new law allows companies to only deduct the 72 percent they spent.

AT&T also said Friday that it is looking into changing the health care benefits it offers because of the new law. Analysts say retirees could lose the prescription drug coverage provided by their former employers as a result of the overhaul.

LIARS!

I called it over the weekend -- in my piece at Big Journalism and here at Atlas. Tens of thousands took to the great lawn, after a year of similar peaceful actions, to right a government gone off the rails. The peaceful, patriotic millions who marched over the course of the year were virtually ignored by the media and certainly ignored by the President. Big media only deemed fit to cover the people's revolution to libel and sexually smear them ("tea baggers").

This campaign of destruction culminated over the weekend when a specious charge was made that a protester shouted "ni**er" at the Congressional Black Caucus and "spat" at another. LIE. I am not sure why Nazi Pelousy and the Black Congressional Caucus deliberately chose to walk through the crowd as they shouted "kill the bill," but it sure sounds like a set-up.

These protesters are the salt of the earth. The best of America, our salvation, if it is to be had.

The Washington Post: “Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said that racial epithets were hurled at them Saturday by angry protesters who had gathered at the Capitol to protest health-care legislation, and one congressman said he was spit upon. The most high-profile openly gay congressman, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was heckled with anti-gay chants.”

The media were frenzied, like vampires to human blood. And the lefty blogs like the Puff Ho (HQ for Jew-hating incitement to genocide) was epileptic with joy. We've been down this road before with the Puff Ho; they have concocted slander against the tea parties before (watch that Atlas vlog here).

What it is, is a degenerate tactic to drive the national dialogue away from what is really important (the rout)  to a mendacious  discussion about the "racist," "homophobic," "tea baggers." Garofalo laid out this strategy in April 2009 when she said that the tea partiers were "a bunch of teabagging rednecks," adding that "this is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up." 

Let's go to the videotape:

Video Of The Spitting Incident Appears On Youtube March, 25, 2010 — nicedebhat tip MJ

In a news break during the Rush Limbaugh Show, Kansas City’s KMBZ reported that a video that proved Mo Rep Emanuel Cleaver was spat upon ( with the clear implication that it was purposeful) had appeared on You tube, and you could find the link at the KMBZ website.

Well, here it is, and what it shows is a guy cupping his hands around his mouth to form a makeshift megaphone, hollering ” kill the bill!” as the black caucus entourage walked by. The spittle that sprayed on Cleaver was clearly unintentional:

As you could see, the guy was yelling the entire time, and there were Capital police officers accompanying the entourage the whole time. If there had been any criminality whatsoever, they would have acted.

Of course, Cleaver didn’t press charges.

Palestinian Muslims Kill Two Jewish Soldiers

More of the poisonous fruit of Obama's "leadership" ........empowering Islamic jihad in Gaza, from which, everyone fails to mention, the Jews unilaterally withdrew. Obama's intifada. Good job.

Two IDF soldiers killed in Gaza border clashes Free Republic via Haaretz

Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed Friday in clashes with Palestinian militants near the Kissufim crossing on the Gaza border, the IDF spokesperson confirmed. One of the soldiers killed was the regiment's deputy commander. 

The soldiers have been named as Major Eliraz Peretz, 31, from Kiryat Arba and Staff sergeant Ilan Sviatkovsky, 21, from Rishon Lezion. 

Peretz' brother, Staff sergeant Uriel Peretz, was killed in south Lebanon in 1998. 
Two more soldiers were wounded in the incident, one of whom is in serious condition. 

Palestinian sources said five Israeli tanks and two armored bulldozers advanced from the east into Gaza following the clashes, firing shells at targets near the town of Khan Yunis in the centre of the narrow coastal enclave. 

During the incident, IDF troops shot and killed four Palestinian militants near the Gaza security fence as they allegedly attempted to plant an explosive device near the border. 

According to the Palestinian news agencies, heavy crossfire was held between the IDF soldiers and the Palestinians near the Kissufim crossing east of Khan Yunis, during which the two Palestinians were killed. 

"Hamas is accountable for any activity that takes place from Gaza to Israel. It doesn't matter if it took responsibility or not," an IDF spokeswoman told reporters in a briefing. 

The incident began on Friday morning when IDF troops identified Palestinian militants moving towards the security fence north of Kissufim crossing. After several hours the Gaza military command decided to send IDF troops into the Gaza strip to scan the area. 

From an initial military investigation, the troops under Peretz' command encountered the terrorists and opened fire from short range, GOC Southern Command Yoav Galant said Friday. 

Apparently, one of the bullets fired in the soldiers' direction hit a hand grenade lodged in Staff sergeant Sviatkovsky's vest, who was then killed by the detonation. 

Hamas said its gunmen fired on Israeli soldiers who crossed into the Gaza Strip. 

"An Israeli army force raided 500 metres (yards) into Palestinian territory, and was confronted by our gunmen," said Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Hamas armed wing. "This was our work, but was carried out for defense." 

Witnesses said Friday's exchange of fire began when an explosion, possibly caused by a anti-armor rocket fired from the nearby Palestinian town of Khan Yunis, hit an Israeli army patrol on the central Gazan border. 

Backed by tanks, the troops fired back at their assailants and entered Gazan territory, the witnesses said. Such pursuits are common practice for the Israelis, who try to maintain a buffer zone within the border fence off-limits to Palestinians.

Baby it's ...........an open thread

ACTION ALERT: Defend the freedom of speech at Florida State University College of Law

Action Alert: Please defend the freedom of speech at Florida State University College of Law

Robert Spencer is scheduled to speak at the Florida State University College of Law on March 30 at 12:30PM, but the Leftist and Islamic fascists are working overtime to try to silence him -- and the truth about Islamic jihad, Islamic supremacism, and Sharia. Many students are being intimidated and pressured into not attending.

That's why it's important for lovers of freedom to act.

Please contact the FSU law school and politely and calmly voice your support for my upcoming presentation there, and for the principles of free speech and free inquiry embodied in the flier for the event, which has become a focus of the faux and manipulative outrage of the enemies of free speech.

Here's the info:

Florida State University College of Law
425 West Jefferson Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306

The contact information for all the deans can be found here. Donald Weidner (dweidner@law.fsu.edu) is the principal dean, and the ones who met with student Eric Giunta, who organized the event, were Wayne Logan (wlogan@law.fsu.edu), Nancy Benavides (nbenavid@law.fsu.edu), and Janeia Daniels (jdaniels@law.fsu.edu). The faculty adviser for the Federalist Society is Fernando Tesón (fteson@law.fsu.edu), and that of the Muslim Law Students Association Rob Atkinson (ratkinso@law.fsu.edu).

Funding Obama's Revolution ....... Hold the fries

Kobe steaks for king O. Date nights in Manhattan for a million. $600 sneakers for Meesh. And nothing's too good for SEIU and his thug army. Trillions on the backs of our kids, but no cheezboigers for the troops.

In order to fund Obama's counter insurgency in America, the enemy must be cut off of supplies, succor and support:

"One of the ways we're going to do that -- in order to accommodate the troop increase and get re-focused on the mission at hand -- is to cut back on some of the non-essentials. That includes some of the morale, welfare and recreation facilities throughout Afghanistan. In the coming weeks and months, concessions such as Orange Julius, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen and Military Car Sales will close their doors."

Tim Hortons escapes U.S. fast-food purge in Afghanistan National Post hat tip Jane

  'This is a war zone -- not an amusement park,' U.S. commander says after ordering most fast-food outlets in Kandahar base shut

Canada's Tim Hortons coffee shop at Kandahar Airfield will remain open despite a shutdown of Pizza Hut, Burger King and other U.S. outlets deemed too luxurious by top American commanders of NATO troops.

"Kandahar Airfield Tim Hortons is an initiative to support our men and women in uniform for serving in Afghanistan," Defence Department spokeswoman Megan MacLean said. "There are no plans to close the Tim Hortons."

Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who leads the International Security Assistance Force, has ordered most fast-food outlets on the boardwalk inside the airfield base shuttered. Command Sgt. Maj. Michael T. Hall revealed the plan in a post on an ISAF blog last month.

"Many of you have heard that there are plans to shut down some of the ‘amenities' throughout Afghanistan," he wrote. "This is not rumour. It is fact. This is a war zone -- not an amusement park."

Sgt. Maj. Hall said he and Gen. McChrystal had been looking for ways to do things more efficiently and to optimize ISAF resources from the moment they arrived in Afghanistan last summer. Gen. McChrystal is overseeing the surge in U.S. troops and resources over coming months.

"One of the ways we're going to do that -- in order to accommodate the troop increase and get re-focused on the mission at hand -- is to cut back on some of the non-essentials. That includes some of the morale, welfare and recreation facilities throughout Afghanistan. In the coming weeks and months, concessions such as Orange Julius, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen and Military Car Sales will close their doors."

............ it's a grueling schedule:

Just hanging out with friends: The president and the first lady don 3-D glasses to watch the Super Bowl at a Super Bowl party in the family theatre of the White House

The presidential snack: Carrots, pear, cheese and Pepperidge Farm crackers - with the Butterfly crackers carefully positioned at the top. Pepperidge Farm's Butterfly crackers

All-American kind of guy: President Obama tosses an American football in the Oval Office in April

The presidential golf swing: Secret Service agents stand watch as Mr Obama practises before an event in Los Angeles in March

And the president takes in some afternoon putting with Joe Biden on the White House putting green in April

War Declared? South Korean Ship Sunk UPDATE: 40 Missing

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (C, seated at table) presides over a national security-related ministerial meeting after receiving news of a sinking naval ship at the presidential Blue House in Seoul March 26, 2010. Several South Korean sailors were killed and one of its naval ships with more than 100 aboard was sinking on Friday after possibly being hit by a North Korean torpedo, South Korean media reported.

40 missing as South Korea warship sinks near North Korea's border

This is an act of war, no doubt. With Obama at the helm, expect hell to break loose. It reeks of the NORKS. North Korea never would have pulled something like this under Bush. Never. They know Obama will do nothing and South Korea is on her own. Hussein ain't Truman.

Weekly Standard reporting:

In case you haven't seen it elsewhere, what could be the most important story in a long, long time:

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Military officials say a South Korean navy ship has sunk off an island not far from North Korea.

An official with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said early Saturday that the ship sank some four hours after it began taking on water. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with department policy.

The official said at least 58 of the 104 crew members have been rescued. There was no immediate confirmation of casualties. A rescue operation was still under way. ...

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported an explosion in the rear of the 1,200-ton ship and said the military had not ruled out the possibility of an attack by North Korea. However, the military official said the exact cause was not immediately clear and said he could not confirm the Yonhap report.

UPDATE: South Korean reader Femme reports:

I am in South Korea right now and this does not look good at all.  I have lived in this country for 5 years non-stop, and I can definitely tell you that things have gotten worse with regards to North Korea since Obama was elected. 

We only had one nuclear bomb tested (which then let the world know they had nuclear weapons) back in October of 2006.  No missile testing, no real threats.  Everything was so amazing when Bush was in office.  Then, when it looked like Obama was going to win, the North started to get provocative.  There have been dozens of missile tests and launches in the past 16 months.  The firing of cannons between the South Korean navy and the North Korean one, back in November, happened 30 minutes out to sea from Daecheon Beach, which is part of Boryeong City, 90 minutes from the city I was in called Nonsan.  I was only 2 hours away from the exchange of cannon fire.

I remember having to tell my students at the all-boys middle school (American grades 8-10) what had happened and their duty to help the military families in the area.  Nonsan is also near the KATC (Korean Army Traning Center) of Yeonmu Dae (a 10 minute drive by taxi).

Anders Gravers, Danish Leader of SIOE, Threatened with Arrest

My dear friend and colleague in the war for the West, Anders Gravers (Danish leader of the Stop the Islamisation of Europe movement and now a political party), was threatened with arrest for trying to exercise his right to free speech. Europe is reverting to a medieval approach to "governance." Geert Wilders' trial is for all intents and purposes a heresy trial, and this silencing of free men who demonstrate against Islamic supremacism is fascism in action.

Of course it is always in the name of protection against fascism that the fascists institute their anti-freedom policies. The UAF (the notoriously fascist UK organization mockingly self-identified as "Unite Against Fascism") best illustrates this stunning obfuscation and duplicity.

Andres Gravers came to the US for the inaugural event of the Freedom Defense Initiative. A DVD of the entire conference will be available shortly.

Here is Anders Gravers' report on what happened, written exclusively for Atlas.

Anders Gravers threatened by arrest

The police has forbidden our demonstration in front of the mosque on Vibevej in Copenhagen, which is to be rebuilt into a huge mosque.

The police has forbidden the demonstration according to §79 in the Danish constitution

§ 79 "Citizens shall, without previous permission, be at liberty to assemble unarmed. The police shall be entitled to be present at public meetings. Open-air meetings may be prohibited when it is feared that they may constitute a danger to the public peace."

But no one has  anything to fear from our demonstration - in other words we constitute no danger to the public peace. No violence will originate from us. Violence - if any - will come from  illegal counter demonstrators such as muslims and leftwing thugs that call themselves  autonomes (anarchists) and/or (believe it or not!) "anti-fascists". Therefore the police cannot legally use §79 to order our demonstration cancelled.

Our former minister of justice, Lene Espersen, has made it clear that  peaceful demonstrations cannot be prohibited, only violent counter demonstrations can. So the police has violated the Danish constitution by its prohibition against our demonstration.

Shortly we shall file a complaint against this police violation of our constitution. When we have made the complaint ready we will ask everybody to sign the document and mail it to the Danish minister of justice.

The police has told us that if we show up in front of the mosque anyway, they will arrest us. So now the situation is that the police protects mosques against public criticism. But we don't want president Ahmadinejad's mosque in the capital of Denmark under any circumstances and we have a constitutional right to  protest publically. If the police deny us to show our anger and frustration openly it will pop up in other ways. That happend during the Second World War when police and government didn't want any criticism of the German occupying power. People then started to annoy the occupying power in all kinds of ways. That is a natural reaction when freedom is suppressed.

Flying the Gangsta Colors at the White House: SEIU, The Color Purple

The color purple: Obama signs health-care bill. President Obama signed the bill into law in the East Room of the White House after addressing an audience that included lawmakers who supported the measure. (Associated Press, edited by The Washington Post)

Yes, it seems this can no longer be written off as pure coincidence. The color purple is the fighting color of this administration. It is painfully clear who and what is running the show. Historically the color purple has signified royalty which, ironically, is exactly how the power mad pres thinks of himself. But this is SEIU, all the way. The Chicago way.

Stella Paul writes exclusively for Atlas: 

OFFICIAL GANGSTA COLORS OF THE GANGSTA GOVERNMENT

Every gang of thugs needs its own official color scheme and now our gangsta government has its: SEIU purple. The increasingly brazen thugs in charge have junked the red white and blue and now festoon themselves for historic occasions in the purple color of their most intimate ally, Service Employees International Union (SEIU). After Robert Gibbs showed up at a press conference with a purple bracelet matching that of his best bud, SEIU head, Andy Stern, was there really any doubt what color Nancy Pelosi would wear for the health care vote or what color ties her fellow congressional gangstas would choose? Did you need to turn on the TV for the signing ceremony to know Obama would wear a purple tie?

It's increasingly clear who's the power behind Obama's gangsta throne. George Soros provides the money, but Andy Stern and SEIU provide the muscle. And by the Democrats' blatant signaling to their purple-shirted men in the street, it's clear they have already planned and coordinated their next crime spree.

Obama signs health care law in purple tie - here.

Obama wears purple tie to lobby for health care - here.

Nancy Pelosi in purple suit and shoes with gavel and other Dems in purple ties - here.

Gibbs and Andy Stern wear matching purple bracelets

The bracelet is kind of a signal to tell Stern that the administration has it under control and ObamaCare will be delivered.  Just a few more Democrats need to be shown the Chicago way.

YouTube of SEIU beating Kenneth Gladney

WHITE HOUSE EXPOSED: Farrakhan, Ayers, Wright, Sharpton, Jackson are in da house

There are consequential, disturbing revelations to be found when flipping through the visitors list at the White House. Bill Ayers is there no less than three times, Louis Farrakhan at least once, but there is also a separate visit for his family, and the infamous hater Jeremiah Wright is there at least five times (four times under Jeremy, one under Jeremiah). Contemptuously, Farrakhan’s visit is tagged as “MEETING WITH SCIENCE CLUB MEMBERS”…Al Sharpton is there twice, and Jesse "hymietown" Jackson is a regular (six times).

It bears noting that despite solid evidence that Obama was tight with these haters, inciters and revolutionaries and traitors, he distanced himself from them during the campaign and outright lied about his ties to them. Mr. Ayers, for example, was dismissed as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”

Obama lied about his friends and nefarious colleagues because he knew that his connection to them was deadly. He knew these were bad characters, and that his being involved with them would not sit well with the American people. He knew. And so he lied. And now they are regulars at the White House (while the Dalai Lama and Netanyahu are begrudgingly ushered in the side door or seen chilling with the trash).

These are terrorists, inciters to genocide, America haters, the underbelly of an ugly America -- and they are in the House.

Much thanks to Mark.

Excel sheet:

Scary priorities

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