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Read the information and take action HERE at Brigitte Gabriel's Act! For America.Files provided by Colombian officials from computers they say were captured in a cross-border raid in Ecuador this month appear to tie Venezuela’s government to efforts to secure arms for Colombia’s largest insurgency.
Officials taking part in Colombia’s investigation of the computers provided The New York Times with copies of more than 20 files, some of which also showed contributions from the rebels to the 2006 campaign of Ecuador’s leftist president, Rafael Correa.
If verified, the computer files would offer rare insight into the cloak-and-dagger nature of Latin America’s longest-running guerrilla conflict, including what appeared to be the killing of a Colombian government spy who had microchips implanted in her body, a crime apparently carried out by the guerrillas in their jungle redoubt.
They would also potentially link the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador to the leftist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which is classified by Washington as a terrorist organization and has fought to overthrow Colombia’s government for four decades.
People keep asking me "Why don't the so-called "moderate Muslims" speak out against terrorism?"I think Islam is not about submission - as Muslims claim; it is about COERCION.
There are a number of ways one could explain this, and that's a good part of what we do here at The Jawa Report - try to make sense of an alien culture.
But some folks aren't getting the message, so I feel I must break this down to it's lowest common denominator.
This is why more Muslims do not speak out against terrorism:
THE WORD 'ISLAM' MEANS 'SUBMISSION'
The entire culture of Islam is geared towards accepting the "word of Allah" without question, not making waves and not using critical thinking skills.
What else would you expect other than a society of blindly devoted sheep?
BUSH IS 100% CORRECT: THIS IS IRAQ'S DEFINING MOMENT.Michael Yon called on his satellite phone to talk about what's going on in Iraq. I recorded it and it's up here for your listening pleasure -- nothing fancy, just a quick recording posted less than 20 minutes after it happened. Click here to listen.
A few key points:
(1) It's likely to get worse before it's better;
(2) No one seems to doubt Iranian backing for the violence;
(3) This isn't about religion, it's about money and power; and
(4) Unlike Al Qaeda in the north, this isn't so much a fight to the finish as violence as a negotiating tactic. It's not a civil war.
they want to take over the region. To do that they need us to leave with our tail between our legs. And to do that they need the Democrat in the White House, so they need help the Democrats - and a "TET OFFENSIVE" is how.Because the US election is only six months away, all Iran has to do is keep it going for six months. hen the Democrat's will win the White House (probably with Obama) and he will retreat.
The dollar hits new lows against the Euro and other currencies, yet there is little indication foreign corporations or governments are taking advantage of the situation to participate in the Yard Sale of the Century — that is, buying US equities.We posted this eleven days ago:
There is a double whammy in doing so. Stock prices are down, so is the dollar, and equities will participate in future economic growth, plus a recovery in the currency when relative interest rates readjust. Logic would suggest that the foreign surplus entities should be on a buying spree in the US. Indeed, the recycling of surpluses is an economic necessity for the system to function. So where are the buyers at the Yard Sale of the Century?
If Elected ... Clinton Details Premium Cap in Health PlanWhen the price of goods or services is set by the government - and is not based on costs in a free and competitive marketplace - then it is SOCIALISM.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview on Wednesday that if elected president she would push for a universal health care plan that would limit what Americans pay for health insurance to no more than 10 percent of their income, a significant reduction for some families.
In an extensive interview on health policy, Mrs. Clinton said she would like to cap health insurance premiums at 5 percent to 10 percent of income.
The average cost of a family policy bought by an individual in 2006 and 2007 was $5,799, or 10 percent of the median family income of $58,526, according to America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group. Some policies cost up to $9,201, or 16 percent of median income.
The average out-of-pocket cost for workers who buy family policies through their employers is lower, $3,281, or 6 percent of median income, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research group.
America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field
that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely
gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota
could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western
economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making
Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.
In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release a
new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formation
that covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana. With new
horizontal drilling technology it is believed that from 175 to 500 billion
barrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that was
initially discovered in 1951. The USGS did an initial study back in 1999 that
estimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present but with prices bottoming
out at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the higher
cost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed, estimated at
$20-$40 a barrel.
It was not until 2007, when EOG Resources of Texas started a frenzy
when they drilled a single well in Parshal N.D. that is expected to yield
700,000 barrels of oil that real excitement and money started to flow in North
Dakota. Marathon Oil is investing $1.5 billion and drilling 300 new wells in
what is expected to be one of the greatest booms in Oil discovery since Oil was
discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938.
The US imported about 14 million barrels of Oil per day in 2007 , which
means US consumers sent about $340 Billion Dollars over seas building palaces in
Dubai and propping up unfriendly regimes around the World, if 200 billion
barrels of oil at $90 a barrel are recovered in the high plains the added wealth
to the US economy would be $18 Trillion Dollars which would go a long way in
stabilizing the US trade deficit and could cut the cost of oil in half in the
long run.
"A violent cold front moved down from the Arctic. And places like Nikkaloukta in Northern Lappland experienced the iciest Easter in more than 100 years. 41 degrees below zero had the most hardened Nikkaloukta citizen contemplate, if it was really necessary to go outside."
"Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church."How's that for a forthright statement? It reveals with crystalline clarity Obama's obfuscation and avoidance of the issue.
A footnote regarding the title Fitna: An interesting choice...does Wilders expect a cleansing of the Islamoterrorists via an Islamic civil war? We've been waiting years for moderate Islam to step to the plate...
In an interview in conjunction with his big economic speech in New York, Senator Obama tells CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo he favors increasing the capital-gains tax rate.THAT'S JUST THE START.
Bartiromo reported after her interview: “Right now, as you know, the cap gains tax is at 15 percent. He has yet to give us a specific number. How high he wants that number to go? He has said, and he told me today, that he won't go above 28 percent. So we are talking about the possibility of a doubling in the capital gains tax. He was averaging at about 25 percent.”
The United States has escalated air strikes against Al Qaeda fighters operating in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas because of fears that support from the government may slip away, Reuters quoted a report published in the Washington Post as saying on Thursday.
US officials, who were not identified in the Post’s report, said Washington wanted to inflict as much damage as it could to Al Qaeda’s network now because President Pervez Musharraf may not be able to offer much help in the months ahead.
A two-week FOX News investigation, however, has uncovered where Wright will be spending a good deal of his time in retirement, and it is a far cry from the impoverished Chicago streets where the preacher led his ministry for 36 years.
FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.
While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.
“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said.
UNUSUAL!?!? SHEESH: IT'S TOTALLY FREAKIN' HYPOCRITICAL.
Wright did not respond to repeated calls for comment, and Trinity United refused to discuss the specifics of the home it is building for him and the way the deal was financed.RTWT.
Global Warming: Computer models used by environmentalists predict imminent
and disastrous climate change. But actual temperature measurements by high-tech
equipment show something completely different.
... the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed in 2003.
They amounted to a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took their
measurements mostly at the ocean's surface.
The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the oceans at a depth of
about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity and speed of
ocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing to the surface
readings taken at various depths. Once on the surface, they transmit their
readings to satellites that retransmit them to land-based computers.
The Argos buoys have disappointed the global warm-mongers in that they
have failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change. As Dr. Josh Willis,
who works for NASA in its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, noted in an interview with
National Public Radio, "there has been a very slight cooling" over the buoys'
five years of observation, but that drop was "not anything really significant."
Certainly not enough to shut down the Gulf Stream.
Climate-change promoters also are perplexed by the observations of
NASA's eight weather satellites. In contrast to some 7,000 land-based stations,
they take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily over the surface of the
Earth. In 30 years of operation, the satellites have recorded a warming trend of
just 0.14C — well within the range of normal variations.
If the Argos buoys and satellites had confirmed the greenie computer models
and Gore hype instead of natural temperature variations, it would have been big
news. The silence speaks volumes.
The Arab world will be united. Various anniversaries will be duly commemorated. And two different "Ragtimes" will be exhumed, one a musical and the other a Balanchine ballet. These were among the highlights of yesterday's announcement of the Kennedy Center's 2008-09 season.Then comes the information about the allotted budget:
Next year, the center's annual package-tour festival takes on, rather than a single country, the 22 nations of the Arab League, from Egypt to Somalia. The three-week festival (Feb. 25-March 15) is called "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World," and represents one of the center's most ambitious projects to date. It has a $10 million budget (well over the approximately $6 million for this year's Japan festival) and will entail, among other things, the construction of a souk on the Kennedy Center premises.Next, comes the Palestinian propaganda and the blatant Islamophilia:
Theater offerings include a play called "Alive From Palestine: Stories Under Occupation." Among the concerts is an evening of sacred music representing the broad range of religions actually present under the Arab umbrella.Here is the schedule for "Arabesque." The specifics are not yet available, but I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that "Arabesque" will offer performances specifically tailored for audiences of children. Many schools in the D.C. area take field trips to the Kennedy Center, as part of their curricula for appreciation of the fine arts.
Departing flights at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam were delayed due to continuing snow in the Netherlands, it was reported.AUSTRIA:
The number of departing flights was reduced from 60 to 45 per hour.
Train traffic was also affected by the snow. All train traffic to and from Rotterdam was suspended on Tuesday.
The second day of snowfall this winter season caused problems on the train tracks, a spokesman for the Dutch railways NS said.
Trains in the east of the country, between Zutphen and Winterswijk, were also suspended until the problems are solved. NS said the tracks were currently too slippery to be used.
In the night between Monday to Tuesday, 37 road accidents took place due to slippery roads, a spokesman for the Dutch police said.
A warning by the Dutch ministry of road infrastructure, traffic and waterways to stay home as much as possible did not prevent problems on the roads.
By 7 am several Dutch highways had already been closed down entirely or partially following accidents caused by the snow. By 8 am the total length of traffic jams amounted to 760 kilometres -almost seven times the daily average.
One person was killed and about 30 injured when a snowstorm provoked a huge pile-up involving up to 100 vehicles on a motorway in Austria.
The accident, which happened in the middle of this morning on the Seelwachen-St Georgen stretch of the Vienna-Salzburg A1 autobahn, left numerous motorists trapped inside their cars, the Austrian motoring club said. Up to 14 people were seriously injured in the pile-up, according to the Red Cross in the region.
Local hospitals were put on stand-by to deal with the casualties.
Around 40 Red Cross rescue vehicles have been sent to the scene, where they are working alongside the emergency services.
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Police said low visibility due to the snowstorm was to blame for the crash, and the Austrian motoring association OeAMTC said that up to 100 cars and lorries were involved.
One of the association's helicopters was at the scene this afternoon, but other helicopters had to abort their attempts to join the rescue mission because of continuing heavy snowfall.
Hague court has caused panic among some Syrian officials, say analystsIT'S FREAKIN ABOUT TIME!
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, is expected to announce soon that the tribunal is finally ready to start work.
"The aim is to send a political and legal message that criminals will not escape punishment," he declared.
Underlining the quickening pace, Daniel Bellemare, who is leading the UN investigation into the murder, is to submit a report to the security council today.
HOT AIR: An epidemic of forced marriages in Britain
A quiet epidemic of missing teenagers has Britain questioning its multicultural beliefs and asking why authorities have not acted to protect these children. Only a few weeks after the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested that the British allow for shari’a courts for Muslims, a new study indicates as many as 4,000 or more Muslim teens and young adults simply vanish every year — forced into arranged marriages by family members through abduction, rape, and threat of death:The figures have triggered a public debate about religion, archaic family traditions and British identity. The government now estimates that 3,000 forced marriages take place in Britain per year.
Even Khanum doubts these numbers. In Luton alone, each year sees 300 calls to an emergency telephone line for victims of forced marriages. “We’re dealing with something here that happens in secrecy,” Khanum says. She estimates that there could be about 4,000 cases nationwide each year of children and young adults who are forced to marry and taken out of the country, both against their will.
(Meanwhile, native Brits ow have their LOWEST marriage rate ever!)
They Muslims send their most assimilated children back to the worst areas to be forced into submission.
This practice is as bad as slavery.
IMHO: Islamo-misogyny is the sociological/psychological root cause of jihado-terror:
Children who are taught that it’s okay to do this and worse to their sisters (people of their own blood/their own family/their own tribe) will of course grow up to be able to commit genocide against infidels.
The civilized world must unite to ERADICATE islamo-misogyny.
This can be done without any wars:
Nations which permit islamo-misogyny should be shunned and banned from all international and multilateral organizations - including the UN, the WB, the IMF and WTO.
And then we might use coordinated international police force to interdict the perp's as they transport the victims: we need only remove all young Muslim women during their passage from one nation to another, and then isolate them in safety, and then offer them freedom and refugee status anywhere in the West if they claim to be traveling against their will.
It's that simple.
We can end this practice in a few years time.
With no bullets.
There is NO EXCUSE for the Left not to unite with the Right to achieve this.
There is NO EXCUSE for the Euros not to unite with the USA to achieve this.
I urge Bush and Rice and the GOP to adopt this policy.
We ended slavery; we can end forced marriage and islamo-misogyny.
OR LOOK AT IT THIS WAY:
Obama, Barack, D-Ill. 94 94 92 95.5 Whitehouse, Sheldon, D-R.I. 94 88 94 94.3 Biden, Joseph, D-Del. 94 86 98 94.2 Sanders, Bernie, I-Vt. 90 88 98 93.7 Menendez, Robert, D-N.J. 94 92 85 92.8 Lautenberg, Frank, D-N.J. 94 94 79 91.7 Leahy, Patrick, D-Vt. 90 88 85 90.2 Boxer, Barbara, D-Calif. 88 87 93 89.8 Reid, Harry, D-Nev. 72 94 94 89.2 Feingold, Russell, D-Wis. 79 94 76 85.5 Harkin, Tom, D-Iowa 79 76 94 85.2 Murray, Patty, D-Wash. 66 94 85 84.5 Durbin, Richard, D-Ill. 79 88 78 83.8 Reed, Jack, D-R.I. 94 84 68 83.5 Schumer, Charles, D-N.Y. 89 78 79 83 Stabenow, Debbie, D-Mich. 72 85 85 82.8 Clinton, Hillary Rodham, D-N.Y. 87 77 83 82.8 Cantwell, Maria, D-Wash. 63 92 84 80.5 Cardin, Ben, D-Md. 79 81 74 80.2 Kerry, John, D-Mass. 72 75 85 79.5 Klobuchar, Amy, D-Minn. 79 66 79 77.3 Kohl, Herb, D-Wis. 72 81 74 77.3 Dodd, Christopher, D-Conn. 62 94 71 77 Mikulski, Barbara, D-Md. 90 72 65 77 Wyden, Ron, D-Ore. 59 81 85 76.8 Levin, Carl, D-Mich. 79 79 65 76.5 Brown, Sherrod, D-Ohio 71 79 77 76.3 Kennedy, Edward, D-Mass. 66 64 94 76.2 Akaka, Daniel, D-Hawaii 66 70 79 73.3 Bingaman, Jeff, D-N.M. 77 70 68 72.7 Inouye, Daniel, D-Hawaii 70 73 70 71.7 Casey, Bob, D-Pa. 90 63 57 71.2 Feinstein, Dianne, D-Calif. 77 61 73 71 Nelson, Bill, D-Fla. 79 73 52 69.8 Rockefeller, Jay, D-W.Va. 65 66 72 68.7 Byrd, Robert, D-W.Va. 51 52 85 64.3 
OBAMA IS TO THE LEFT OF PAT LEAHY THE SENATOR FROM GITMO (REPRESENTING THE TERRORISTS THERE)- ER UM I MEAN VERMONT
OBAMA IS TO THE LEFT OF BARBARA BOXER, THE SENATOR FROM SAN FRANCISCO
OBAMA IS TO THE LEFT OF HARRY REID, THE SENATOR FROM "WE HAVE LOST"
OBAMA IS TO THE LEFT OF RUSS FEINGOLD, THE SENATOR FROM THE ACLU
OBAMA IS TO THE LEFT OF JOHN KERRY, THE SENATOR FROM NORTH VIETNAM
AND, OBAMA IS TO THE LEFT OF BOBBIE BYRD, THE SENATOR FROM THE KKKTHE DEMOCRATS MAY NOMINATE SOMEONE TO THE LEFT OF SAUNDERS AND KENNEDY, BUT AMERICA WILL NEVER ELECT SOMEONE WHO IS TO THE LEFT OF SAUNDERS AND KENNEDY.
