Saturday, April 12, 2008

OPEC: OIL PRICES SHOULD DECLINE BY SUMMER

REUTERS:
High oil prices in recent months are due more to financial market developments than fundamental growth in demand, Mohammad Alipour-Jeddi, OPEC's head of petroleum market analysis, told the International Monetary Fund's steering committee. The higher prices have coincided with a falling dollar and rising speculation in paper oil contracts, he said.

"While financial market dynamics have been a contributing factor to record high prices, oil market fundamentals point to a market which is currently well supplied and the balance is expected to soften further due to lower seasonal demand in the coming months," Alipour-Jeddi said in a statement to the committee.
  • I PREDICT $80/BARREL BY SUMMER
  • WE COULD REDUCE THEM FURTHER BY LICENSING SOME NUKE PLANTS AND SOME COAL PLANTS
  • AND ALLOWING DRILLING IN ANWR AND OFF THE COASTS OF CA AND FL.

OBAMA: HARD-CORE FOLK MARXIST


Barack [middle name redacted] Obama's self-revelatory comments continue to be discussed.

As Reliapundit noted, Obama's disdain for ordinary people is part and parcel of his underlying folk marxism.

To explain why he can't garner support of working people in Pennsylvania, Obama shared his marxist theories of proletarian false consciousness to an audience of latte-drinking San Francisco sophisticates:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic Monthly thinks that:
Obama was sketching out a variation of the Thomas Frank argument about working class voters who seem to choose candidates whose policies cut against their economic interest.

But it isn't Thomas Frank's argument, it is straight up Marx & Engels.

And Obama's comments also reveal, once again, his deep and underlying cynicism and hypocrisy.

He criticizes working-class Pennsylvanians for "anti-trade sentiment" while he blithely opposes free trade with Colombia. (He only wants increased trade with his communist hero, Fidel!)

He criticizes working-class Pennsylvanians for "antipathy to people who aren't like them," when he of course attended for two decades a church that preached James Cone's distorted theology of hatred: "If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”

And of course Barack [middle name redacted] Obama thinks that ALL white people are afraid of anyone different, anyway:
“But [my grandmother] is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there is a reaction. That has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.”
And he criticizes working-class Pennsylvanians for "religion," when he has never shied away from claiming to be a man of faith, himself.

The leading candidate for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination is a first-term Senator with a completely nugatory record. Obama is also a liar, a hypocrite, a snob, a self-centered folk-marxist who socializes with anti-American terrorists and terrorist-supporters, and a racist.

Updated to add the logo. Hat tip: Chrissie via Knowledge Is Power.

PHOTO ESSAY PROVES OBAMA IS PROJECTING WHEN HE BLAMES PEOPLE'S BITTERNESS FOR THEIR MISGUIDED POLITICAL VIEWS

HERE. NOW. (FEATURES REV. WRIGHT, SHARPTON, HUNTER THOMPSON, BOBBY SEALE, DAILY KOSSACKS AND MR. & MRS THURSTON HOWELL III. VIA GLENN.)

YES: OBAMA IS PROJECTING:
In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others.
  • BOTTOM-LINE: OBAMA IS BITTER; HIS POLICIES ARE AN OUTGROWTH OF HIS OWN BITTERNESS; HIS CAMPAIGN IS A CYNICAL ATTEMPT TO EXPLOIT THE DESIRE FOR CHANGE AND SUPPLANT THIS BENIGN DESIRE WITH HIS OWN LEFTIST WORLDVIEW. DON'T FALL FOR IT.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

MORE UNREST INSIDE IRAN: BOMB BLAST IN MOSQUE IN SHIRAZ

BBC:
Deadly blast strikes Iran mosque

At least nine people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in an explosion at a mosque in Iran, local media reports say.

The blast reportedly occurred during an address by a prominent local cleric in the southern city of Shiraz.

The city's Law Enforcement Force commander, Col Zamani, told the semi-official Fars news agency that the explosion had been caused by a bomb.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
I HOPE ANTI-JIHADISTS WERE BEHIND IT...

MORE HERE.

Chavez pitches Africa on Nationalizing the Oil Industry

Venezuela's deputy foreign minister has counseled African governments to emulate Venezuela and nationalize the oil industry.

...Reinaldo Bolivar speaking in Senegal has advised African nations to nationalize their oil resources in order to fight poverty and follow the example of Venezuela.

Africa currently produces 15% of the world’s oil and according to Bolivar “Africa's oil is plundered by multinationals: they sell it very expensively even here" he suggested that by pooling resources Africa could supply its own market.

Bolivar went on to say "There are some things for (African countries) to learn: the principal of nationalization of our basic industries, our natural resources in Venezuela, is something we consider necessary for our riches to benefit the people..."

Rather than look to Chavez' failed economy -- which has nationalized the oil, steel, and cement industries, to name but a few -- Africans should closely examine Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. Mugabe nationalized a far simpler enterprise than oil: land use for farming. The result was an utter disaster.

Mugabe's land reform program was supposed to redistribute among poor blacks large commercial farms owned by about 4,500 whites that covered 80 percent of Zimbabwe's best land. Instead, he used the farms to extend his patronage system, giving them to ruling party leaders, security chiefs, relatives and friends.

Zimbabwe had been a major food exporter until then, but its agricultural sector collapsed and the economy started unraveling. Today, a third of Zimbabweans depend on international food handouts, and another third have fled abroad looking for work or political asylum...

AlertNet adds:

Zimbabwe is in the grip of its worst humanitarian crisis since independence. Twenty years ago the country was hailed as an African success story and dubbed the "breadbasket" of southern Africa. Now its economy is in tatters and the World Food Programme (WFP) estimates a third of the population faces food shortages...

...Zimbabwe now has one of the lowest life expectancies in the world and one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates. Just under 25 percent of people aged 15-49 are HIV-positive, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

And with the economy in shreds, unemployment is running at an estimated 70 percent. Inflation is also rampant, standing at 164.3 percent in the year to June 2005...

Yes, it's another success story for socialism!

And remember: when Democrats advocate ever greater government control -- of the oil industry or increased taxes -- they are putting America on the road to economic disaster.

How many case studies do we need before Democrats get the point?

HEZBOLLAH SYMPATHISERS WERE ARRESTED BEFORE THEY COULD CARRY OUT POISON PLOT

In this disgusting news report, we learn that 2 Fatah collaborators who also side with Hezbollah were thankfully arrested before they could work on a plot to poison customers at a resturant they worked at:
Two Arabs from Nablus, Ahab Abu Riyal and Anas Salum, were arrested by Israeli Shin Bet officers last month before they could carry out their mission to poison Israelis on behalf of Hizballah. They are members of the Fatah-al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, part of Mahmoud Abbas' "moderate" Fatah organization.

The cell was led by two wanted terrorists, Hani Kabi and Husni Tsalag.

They were hired as kitchen workers by the Grill Express restaurant near the Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan, apparently after presenting Israeli-issued IDs allowing them to work in the country. Their orders were to dump a slow-acting colorless, tasteless and odorless poison in the food of customers. It would take effect after four hours, enough time to murder a large number of Israeli diners. The Shin Bet did not identify the substance.

One of the two men was detained on March 19, just days before the mission date. The second was picked up at the home of an Israeli Arab friend in Jaffa.

Israeli security forces consider poisoning diners at restaurants or cafes to be a "strategic attack". In the past, terror organizations have tried repeatedly to recruit Palestinian cooks and waiters to poison food at Israeli restaurants. Police note that the plan is a relatively easy means of carrying out a mass attack, as there is no need to smuggle sophisticated weapons into Israel and restaurant employees have free access to the attack site.
Businesses like resturants are going to have to consider the dangers of hiring people who adhere to Islam, since they could serve as agents who'd endanger the lives of their customers.

USA AND IRAN ARE ALREADY AT WAR

NYTIMES:
Iran is engaging in a proxy war with the United States in Iraq, adopting tactics similar to those it has used to back fighters in Lebanon, the United States ambassador to Iraq said Friday.

The remarks by the ambassador, Ryan C. Crocker, reflected the sharper criticism of Iran by President Bush and his top deputies over the past week, as administration officials have sought to trace many of their troubles in Iraq to Iran.

Mr. Crocker said in an interview that there had been no substantive change in Iranian behavior in Iraq, despite more than a year of talks between the Bush administration and Iran over how to calm Shiite-Sunni tensions in Iraq. He said that the paramilitary branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was continuing to direct attacks by Shiite militias against American and Iraqi targets, although he offered no direct evidence.

Asked if the United States and Iran were engaged in a proxy war in Iraq, Mr. Crocker said, “I don’t think a proxy war is being waged from an American point of view.” But, he added, “When you look at what the Iranians are doing and how they’re doing it, it could well be that.”
  • MORE ON IRAN'S INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ - AND THE BUSH ADMISTRATION'S SLOW "REAWAKENING" - HERE.
  • BOTTOM-LINE: WE SHOULD BE FIGHTING THE IRANIANS BACK MUCH MORE EFFECTIVELY.
  • FDR AND TRUMAN KNEW HOW TO WAGE WAR, AND WOULDN'T HAVE LET IRAN INFLICT SO MUCH DAMAGE ON IRAQ OR ON OUR FORCES.
  • EXCEPT FOR TARDY THE SURGE, ALL BUSH HAS PROVEN THE LAST FEW YEARS IS THAT DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP.
  • IF BUSH LEAVES OFFICE HAVING ALLOWED IRAN TO GO UNPUNISHED AND THEIR NUKE PROGRAM TO GO UNTOUCHED -- AND IF A DEM DOVE APPEASER FOLLOWS HIM IN OFFICE-- THEN BUSH WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE WORST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME.
  • A LOUSY, APPEASING, BIG GOVERNMENT LIBERAL.
  • HE ONLY HAS A FEW MONTHS MORE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Islamophobia is a disease?

The article below from the Middle East Times says it is. And Islamophobia may well be a mental illness. But first you have to find some Islamophobics. A phobia is an irrational fear. Fears about Islam are perfectly rational. Those crashing planes on 9/11 were not imaginary and they were all controlled by Muslims who justified their actions in the name of Islam. Muslims in Muslim countries are constantly shouting hate at the West and attacking Westerners and Christians wherever they can. To fear Muslims is perfectly reasonable.
"The question that seems to bother many Americans is not so much if Senator Obama is a Muslim or not, rather, the issue is centered more on a question stemming from a disease which has been plaguing the United States ever since September 11, 2001. The disease is called Islamophobia. The symptoms consist of the false belief that everything relating to Islam is tied to terrorism.

Source


Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your summary of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

The Left is terminally miserable

After blogging for the last five years I've come to realize that perhaps the greatest problem we have in this country is people like we see at FDR, the Daily Kos, DU and other terminally miserable websites. Quite frankly I believe they attract a lot of visitors in the way that crap attacks flies, by the smell of fear and decay. Liberals have been miserable for decades, complaining about this and that. You can hardly talk to one without them going off on a tangent about something negative. Most time one of them takes a picture they are always mad or yelling and screaming about something.

God they must corner the market on Pepto-Bismol, chugging down bottle after bottle as they find even more things to criticize and complain about. I think it's another reason that many of them are so damned ugly. Not only on the inside - where it really counts - but on the outside as well. Again, if the tree is bad the fruit is going to be rotten, and rotten fruit doesn't do anything but - you guessed it - stink and attract more flies.

To be blunt, you might wonder why they take their "screw them" mentality and simply put their heads into a collective oven, or even retire to a compound in, oh I don't know, some far away country and sip some Koolaid, and thus do the world a favor by cooling the planet down. With all that hate and anger they've got to be at least partially responsible for a few degrees of temperature rise.

The one thing miserable people hate is happy people. I wondered what a Kos Convention was like and actually asked someone who attended. He told me it was one of the most downer events he ever attended, mostly because of the anger and negativity there.

Source

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your summary of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Humiliating America and Colombia

The treachery of the Democrat Party seemingly knows no bounds. Nancy Pelosi's reversal this week of a long-standing agreement between a Congress and a President to permit so-called "fast track" trade negotiations has left the United States damaged in a way that belies the injuries it has caused for our staunchest ally in Latin America, Colombia. This was an absolute and naked betrayal of the most obscene kind.

Recall that Senate Republicans were castigated roundly for even considering the so-called "Nuclear Option" when it came to the unprecedented blocking of the President's appellate court judicial nominees--even by some members of his own Party. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and other "moderates" got together with some like-minded Democrats and formed the infamous "Gang of 14" --whose purpose was to divert the majority at all costs from changing the Senate's rules--which would have put a stop to the Democrat treachery, but also would have set a precedent of disregarding long-standing tradition of the Senate. This was why it was considered to be "nuclear"--and it would have been.

The Stalinist Democrats apparently had no such qualms. And there is no question this is "Nuclear". If a nuke goes off in the forest and the MSM is not all over it, did it make a sound?

Probably the best take I have yet seen on Pelosi's treachery was from the Editors of the Wall Street Journal yesterday:
The Democratic Party's protectionist make-over was completed yesterday, when Nancy Pelosi decided to kill the Colombia free trade agreement. Her objections had nothing to do with the evidence and everything to do with politics, but this was an act of particular bad faith. It will damage the economic and security interests of the U.S. while trashing our best ally in Latin America.

The Colombia trade pact was signed in 2006 and renegotiated last year to accommodate Democratic demands for tougher labor and environmental standards. Even after more than 250 consultations with Democrats, and further concessions, including promises to spend more on domestic unemployment insurance, the deal remained stalled in Congress. Apparently the problem was that Democrats kept getting their way.

So on Monday, President Bush submitted the bill to Congress over liberal protests, which, under a bargain between Congress and the White House for trade promotion authority, mandated an up-or-down vote within 90 days. Today Ms. Pelosi will make an ex post facto change to House rules to avoid the required vote, withdrawing from the timetable and thus relegating the Colombia deal to a perhaps permanent limbo.

Democrats say it would have failed anyway, but at least a vote during the next three months would have forced them to show the courage of their protectionist convictions. Instead, they chose to shelve the bill in an election year while paying off organized labor and other antitrade yahoos. The gambit is especially humiliating for Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, a free-trader who has been trying to strike a deal with the Administration but keeps getting rolled by Ms. Pelosi.

For good measure, the double-cross dismantles the only process that allows any Administration to conduct good-faith negotiations with foreign nations. No one is going to take the U.S. at its word if Congress is going to change the rules when it has second thoughts and renege.

The latest Democratic objection is that Bogotá isn't doing enough to protect labor activists. But the murders of trade unionists have fallen by almost 80% since 2002, in part because of special protection programs, and Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has reduced other violence by nearly every measure, particularly against narco-traffickers. But any excuse will do. Yesterday Ms. Pelosi said the bill would harm "the economic concerns of America's working families." Yet over 90% of Colombian imports enter the U.S. duty-free, while the agreement would open the Colombian market to American goods that face tariffs as high as 35%.
Even the ardently liberal San Francisco Chronicle is aghast that Pelosi has changed the House Rules in the middle of the so-called "game", with the result of denying our strongest ally in Latin America a seat at the trading table. This is not merely bad form; it is a new low from these dishonorable American apostates.

There is heavy irony in the fact that the most grievous wound from Nancy Pelosi's betrayal is not merely the long standing relationship between the Executive and Legislative Branches; for it is US Companies who are now at a financial disadvantage, because killing this deal with Colombia has ensured that it will continue to be prohibitively expensive for Colombians to purchase American goods (thus creating jobs here);meanwhile Americans will be able to purchase Colombian goods virtually at cost. Translation: this is incentive for more American jobs to be cut here because the companies that hire them are denied the opportunity to sell.

Never mind that the reputation of the US as a negotiating partner is now blown to smithereens for the rest of Latin America and the world; all due to electoral politics and partisan disregard for agreements which had been made between the Legislative and Executive Branches; not to mention agreements between two Countries negotiating in good faith.

How does a country trying to trade with the world get its honor back once it has been shown to be dishonorable?

President Pelosi. That is what she thinks she is. She deserves to be slapped in the face--it shows what great restraint President Bush has not to have done so, in my opinion. She is worthy of that level of contempt. To say that I have never felt such deep destestataion for any group of collaborators in my life as I do for these fraudulent Americans--is an understatement. At least Putin remained true to an "ideal", even if that ideal was derived from Marxist party line of his youthful KGB days. But the Democrats are betraying America and its standing in the world with this blatantly partisan move. I believe this shows what contempt they enjoy for the Constitution they are sworn to uphold--and that they have a lot in common with the Marxists in the former Soviet Union.

Pelosi's political Alpha, Omega, and all points in between are about one thing and one thing only: acquiring unlimited power--not simply more power for Democrats in the House, but a Marxist President and a veto-proof majority in the Senate. This is the nightmare scenario, and the threat of it happening is very real.

And so we know what we have always known: like any good Marxist, the ultimate aim of Democrats is to maximize their power over you; how you live, what you can and cannot say under what circumstances, the garbage that your kids are indoctrinated with in the State's school--ultimately what you and they can and cannot do--and that includes not allowing you to defend yourself. From them or anyone else.

Sound familiar? King George would have recognized it. Mao and Castro would have too. Welcome to the Joseph Stalin "model" of governance. It fits them like a glove.

If they made a film about it, they would call it The Lives of Others II. If anyone is wondering why I am not going to vote for Obama or Clinton (or Barr...), welcome to it.

God help us all.

Friday, April 11, 2008

OBAMA: "IF YOU ELECT ME, THE THE REDNECKS WON'T WANT GUNS OR GO TO CHURCH OR WANT A BORDER FENCE."

That's essentially what Obama is saying and it's what all Marxists/leftists say. (AUDIO.)

INCREDIBLY, OBAMA HIMSELF MADE THIS LEFTIST ARGUMENT THE CENTERPIECE OF HIS ATTEMPT TO SPIN THIS GAFFE; (links to video at Hot Air).

Obama argued that the political debates over prayer in school and gun rights and secure borders - and even the GWOT - are deliberate distractions fomented by Rovian geniuses to alienate the evermore threatened working class folks from what's really in their interest: over-throwing the ruling class; IOW: the GOP.

He tried to spin it, but he actually just dug himself in deeper!

Contrary to what ultra-lib Toobin says, not only is what Obama said in SF (audio link) AND Indiana (video at Hot Air) essentially Marxist, IT IS FACTUALLY INCORRECT: many people want to go to church and want their 2nd Amendment rights and want secure borders even in good times.

People actually like to hunt and be able to defend themselves, and TRULY BELIEVE in God, and feel that protecting the borders and having LAWFUL immigration is good.

We do not believe these things because we are economically insecure.

If Hilary can't drive this point home to the good people of Pennsylvania, then she doesn't deserve to be in the Senate, let alone get the nomination!

IF CO2 IS A POLLUTANT, THEN SO IS WATER VAPOR

ICECAP:
Last year the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant.

This was an amazingly stupid ruling.

In doing so they gave the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) the legal power to control it’s emission into the atmosphere from cars, trucks and you name it probably lawn mowers, charcoal grills and cigarettes.

... The crazy part of all of this is that the Supreme Court made such a terrible ruling about CO2 in the first place. Carbon dioxide is NOT A POLLUTANT!

... do you know what a nursery will do to increase plant growth in their green houses? They pump it full of carbon dioxide, three times the levels that exist in the atmosphere.

How can something that makes things grow be “a dangerous pollutant”. The answer is it can’t! Carbon dioxide is essential for life on our planet. Carbon dioxide gives and makes life possible.

If carbon dioxide levels drop below 200 parts per million things stop growing. Carbon dioxide is plant food not poison, unbelievable. So something that makes life possible on our planet is now pollution apparently because it comes out of an exhaust of a car or some other motor that burns fossil fuels.

Well guess what else comes out of the exhaust of a car, yup water vapor. Oh it’s not very much, just a small amount but it’s still there. So what are we to do, I know lets call that pollution too! After all it makes things grow just like carbon dioxide. It’s at the root of all life on Earth just like carbon dioxide so what the hell let’s get water on the pollution list as well.

VIVE L'AMERICA

Via No Pasaran.

Our National Anthem.
All Four Verses.
Sung in Paris.
By Frenchies.
Nice.



Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause, it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

IN 2006, LEFT-WING "GREENIST" IDIOT TOM FRIEDMAN WISHED FOR $100/BARREL OIL

  • THIS PROVES - ONCE AGAIN - THAT EVERYTHING LEFTISTS DESIRE ENDS UP BEING BAD.
  • PROPSERITY IS A BY-PRODUCT OF LIBERTY . THAT'S WHY LEFTISM IS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.
  • THAT'S WHY I SAY: IF A LEFTIST PROPOSES IT, THEN I'M AGAINST IT.
  • (WHICH MAKES ME A MARXIST OF SORTS - YEAH: A GROUCHO MARXIST. SEE BELOW.)

OBAMA'S MASK SLIPS AGAIN: HIS DEEP-ROOTED MARXISM IS SHOWING

ACE:
Obama To Rural Pennsylvanians: Vote For Me, You Corncob-Smokin', Banjo-Strokin' Chicken-Chokin' Cousin'-Pokin' Inbred Hillbilly Racist Morons

Well, it is what he said, more or less:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

...

[ACE AGAIN:] This is pure leftist cant -- it's all "false consciousness" stuff, all what our Corporate Masters want us to think, playing us all against each other as they line their pockets with our sweat and tears.

Guns, border security, even religion itself aren't really legitimate points of interest. Instead they're all part of the "culture of fear" indoctrinated into us by the corporate emperors really running this country.

RTWT.

OBAMA IS MERELY A MIX MARX AND MALCOLM X, CLEVERLY PRESENTED BY A TALL MAN WITH A VERY SOOTHING BARITONE - WHO BRAGGED IN HIS MEMOIR THAT KNOWS HOW TO FOOL WHITE PEOPLE; HE VALORIZED HIS ABILITY TO BE PHONY IS IN HIS MEMOIRS:

As he wrote in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, Obama discovered a technique for allaying the suspicions of the white people with whom he came into contact:
It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time. (Pages 94-95).
THESE TRICKS ARE WHY OBAMA IS DOING WELL: BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, HE'S AN ADEPT ACTOR, A CHARLATAN, AND PHONY. AND A DISSEMBLER.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

ROUND UP AT MEMEORANDUM.

ADDENDUM: MARK LEVIN SUGGESTED THAT REV WRIGHT AND OBAMA ARE THE REAL BITTER ONES, AND THAT OBAMA IS PROJECTING...

OBAMA DECLINES TO USE CARTER FOR A "SISTER SOULJAH" MOMENT. GEE... I WONDER WHY?

CARTER IS GOING TO MEET WITH HAMAS.

A VIOLATION OF THE LOGAN ACT; CARTER SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR THAT AND ALSO CHARGED WITH TREASON:
  • The Logan Act is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years.

    The text of the Act is broad and is addressed at any attempt of a US citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority.
AND ALL OBAMA CAN MUSTER IN RELATION TO CARTER'S FELONIOUS AND TRAITOROUS ACT IS A FEEBLE COMMENT:
Obama Declines to Criticize Carter on Hamas

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter if he were to meet with Hamas, although Obama said he would not meet with the militant Palestinian group.
WHY SO WEAK? BECAUSE REALLY OBAMA AGREES WITH CARTER. BUT HE CAN'T SAY SO NOW: ATLAS:
It's hard to forget what Obama said to one "Palestinian" blogger when running for Senator, "

"Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.'
RICE CONDEMNED CARTER. SO SHOULD HILLARY.

MSM'S INCESSANT NEGATIVE SPIN IN ECONOMY TAKING ITS TOLL


REUTERS: April consumer confidence slumps to 26-year low
U.S. consumer confidence fell to its lowest in more than a quarter century in early April, diving deeper into recessionary territory on heightened worries over inflation and jobs, a survey showed on Friday. The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its preliminary index of confidence fell to 63.2 in April from 69.5 in March, well below economists' median expectation of a slight fall to 69.0, according to a Reuters poll.

The April result is the lowest since March 1982's level of 62.0, when the "stagflationary" period of low growth and high inflation was still fresh in the memory of many Americans.
THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED MSM PROVES THE BIG LIE TOLD OVER AND OVER STILL WORKS.

YES: BIG LIE:(VIA DOUG!)
AND THIS:

That Awful Economy [David Freddoso]

A Hill staffer sends this along:

It’s the Politics, Stupid:

Comparing Labor Market Data in 1996 and 2008

Democrats on the Economy in 1996:

“Our economy is the healthiest it has been in three decades.” (President Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996)

Democrats on the Economy in 2008:

“The bottom line is that this administration is the owner of the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover." (Senator Charles Schumer, Press Release, March 7, 2008)

Key Labor Market Statistics in 1996 and 2008

March 1996 March 2008
1. U.S. Unemployment Rate 5.5% 5.1%
2. Number of Long-Term Unemployed 1.33 million 1.28 million
3. Average Weeks Unemployed 17.3 weeks 16.2 weeks
4. Median Weeks Unemployed 8.3 weeks 8.1 weeks
5. Not in Labor Force because discouraged over job prospects 451,000 401,000
6. Democrats calling for Extended Unemployment Benefits? No Yes
7. President’s Party Affiliation Democrat Republican
BOTTOM-LINE: WHEN A DEM IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THEN THE GLASS IS ALWAYS HALF FULL (TO THE MSM) - EVEN WHEN IT'S EMPTY.

Children Told they are Dogs during Mosque Visit

A primary school in Amsterdam wished to provide its pupils with an understanding for other cultures. But during a visit to a mosque, the children were told they were dogs.

With a view to developing understanding and respect for other cultures among children, primary school De Horizon regularly organises outings to various religious organisations. The chairman of the El Mouchidine mosque told the children from group 7 (aged 10) and their chaperones however that non-Muslims are dogs.

In a letter to the children's parents, the school expresses its regret at the incident: "We are shocked that during the guided tour, the mosque's chairman told the children and chaperoning parents that non believers were dogs. We consider this statement as unacceptable since we allow our children to partake in this project to develop respect for freedom of religious choice".

In the meantime, the school's management has addressed the mosque on the undesirable behaviour of the chairman. Both parties will say nothing further on the matter. "We will resolve the matter amongst ourselves and I have no inclination whatsoever to discuss the matter with the media", as newspaper De Telegraaf quoted the school's spokesperson Mariet ten Berge. "We have been to the mosque before and it always went well".

Angry parents had sent the letter on to De Telegraaf but were reportedly rapped on the knuckles by the school's management. "The school wishes to play this down. That is precisely the problem", as one mother commented.

Source

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The Democrats continue to lurch further Left

Excerpt:

If there's any point to take away from this lobbyist-gotcha, it's just how far the Democratic Party has traveled down the protectionist and populist road. Take Mr. Podesta at his word last year, when he was quoted as saying that "I've never asked anybody on the Hill to do anything they didn't feel was good policy . . ." Let's assume he believes Wal-Mart - the largest private employer in the country - is good for the economy. Let's assume Mr. Penn knows free trade is crucial to the financial well-being of millions of Americans.

There was a day when Democrats could make these cases without fear of blacklist. Bill Clinton pushed for free trade. (Hey, it turns out he's even pushed for Colombia free trade!) Former Sen. John Breaux argued for competition in government-run health care. The late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed cutting the payroll tax and letting Americans use the money for private retirement accounts. Blue Dogs voted not just against raising taxes, but for lowering them. It was possible for Democrats to champion strong companies, competition and a strong economy, even as they pushed for a larger social safety net.

These days, corporate bashing, closed borders and class warfare have become staples of the left. The Obama and Clinton campaigns have pushed these positions to new heights, in the process setting litmus tests for what counts as being a good Democrat.

Pharma companies? Rich and greedy. Fossil fuel companies? Dirty polluters. Multinationals who "offshore" jobs? Traitors. Americans who strike financial success? Fat cats. Developing countries working to open their borders? Job stealers. It rarely is noted that this vilification is encouraged by yet another set of lobbyists, those representing unions and environmental groups.

More here

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The Horror, The Horror!: Unveiled Women!

Oh, the unveiled women are at it again.

Iran: Top Shia cleric says unveiled women turn men into beasts:
Mashad, 10 April (AKI) - A top Shia cleric in Iran has said that unveiled women are a serious danger to Iranian society as they cause men to be "transformed into beasts".

"Women without the veil are a danger that the authorities underestimate," said Hojatolislam Seyyed Ahmad Elmalhoda, a powerful cleric who leads the Friday prayers in Mashad, a site considered sacred for Shia Muslims as it houses the shrine of Imam Reza.

"This situation is very serious in that if men see these bad women, they will turn into beasts, and then the whole of society will have to pay the consequences."

According to the Shia cleric, women who do not respect conservative Islamic dress rules are "sources of all that is bad in society."
I do not know whether the top cleric has outed his opinion about the Iranian Police Chief who likes naked praying prostitutes.

May I suggest a solution on the Islamic Dress Code "problem"? Watch the video:



Related:
Sex Obsession And The Burqa
Muslim Fanatics Obsessive Suppression Of Women
Iran To Manufacture "Islamic Bicycle"

(Hattip: TheReligionofPeace)

Crossposted

INCREASED TERROR THREAT IN DENMARK


The danish intelligence agency PET, has announced a heightened terror threat level. Possible soft targets named are public transportation and shopping centers. Experts refer to "concrete" threats and increased border surveillance.


Meanwhile, Vollsmose terror-conspirators, who appealed their conviction to the Supreme Court, received harder sentences of up to 12 years in prison. These would-be terrorists had purchased large amounts of explosive precursors, and were in contact with terror cells in Germany.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

ARAB MUSLIMS KNOW OBAMA MIGHT AS WELL BE A MUSLIM ACTIVIST

VIA HYSCIENCE: Palestinians In Gaza Are Campaigning For Obama
Absolutely incredible; here's more evidence that "the Islamic extremists who monitor our resolve and remain vigilant for opportunities to attack innocent Americans are "hopeful" that Barack Obama will be elected as the next President" (HT). Remember, we're talking about these Palestinians, who now have 20,000 weapons to target Israel with:




STEVE SAILER: Obama studied under Edward Said
Edward Said, the late Episcopalian Palestinian intellectual, whose 1978 book "Orientalism" launched "post-colonial studies" and did so much damage to scholarship by teaching a generation of students that studying non-Western cultures was racist and that the only acceptable activity was to interrogate what earlier Western scholars had said about non-Western cultures for proof of their racism, taught Barack Obama at Columbia in the early 1980s, according to the LA Times.
GATEWAY: Obama Funneled Cash to Former PLO Operative's Anti-Israel Foundation

In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.

Rashid Khalidi today is a professor at Columbia University and is a close associate of Barack Obama. Free Republic member No Quarter reported more on this relationship:

Khalidi has direct ties to Obama. These are not imagined. Before getting his job at Columbia University Rashid Khalidi was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago, where he befriended none other than US presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama. In 2000 Khalidi held a successful fundraiser for Barack. I am not saying or inferring or suggesting that Obama did anything wrong in letting Khalidi hold a fund raiser. But I am willing to bet that it will become an issue in the general election. Barack also played a role in getting funding for Khalidi’s Arab American Action Network during his tenure on the board of the Woods Fund.
ATLAS:
It's hard to forget what Obama said to one "Palestinian" blogger when running for Senator, ""Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.'
LA TIMES:
[Obama's] presence at such events, as he worked to build a political base in Chicago, has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle East than either of his opponents for the White House.

"I am confident that Barack Obama is more sympathetic to the position of ending the occupation than either of the other candidates," said Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow for the American Task Force on Palestine, referring to the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that began after the 1967 war. More than his rivals for the White House, Ibish said, Obama sees a "moral imperative" in resolving the conflict and is most likely to apply pressure to both sides to make concessions.

"That's my personal opinion," Ibish said, "and I think it for a very large number of circumstantial reasons, and what he's said."
  • ARABS MUSLIM KNOW THE REAL OBAMA: THEY KNOW HE'S THEIR ALLY.
  • OBAMA IS FOOLING A LOT OF PEOPLE INTO THINKING HE'S MODERATE, AND ELECTABLE, AND EXPERIENCED ENOUGH TO BE POTUS.
  • BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.
WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT 51% OF THE PEOPLE AREN'T FOOLED IN NOVEMBER.

Some thoughts on Leftism from Gagdad Bob

Excerpt

Yesterday we discussed Voegelin's concept of political gnosticism, which first "condemns the existing world as broken and alienating, plagued by evil forces preventing a complete and happy restoration of man's spiritual and material life." This existential diagnosis is followed by the promise of "a mode of deliverance or salvation from the prison of the world for man through a secret gnosis" -- i.e., by the toxic political prescription of a secular priesthood. Progressives believe that by manipulating people with just the right coercive policies, the state can reconstitute paradise and create a "'kingdom of heaven on earth," for which Voegelin coined the ponderous term, "immanentizing the eschaton." ...

From Marx on down, the leftist fallacy follows from turning spiritual Truth on its head (or "inside-out"), so that man's spiritual crisis is seen as a material one (e.g. "robber barons," "global warming," "global cooling," "nuclear power," "income disparity," "corporate greed," etc.) instead of a psycho-spiritual one. This is the "fundamental assumption" which adherents of all the variant progressive systems within our epoch unconsciously presuppose.

For example, the progressive would say that Palestinians aren't evil, they're just poor. Which precisely inverts the truism that they are poor because they are evil (except for the few who are extraordinarily wealthy because they are evil, having been enriched by the largesse of Western progressives who give them money because they think it will stop them from being evil, when it always does the opposite, thus ensuring a constant cash flow from backward progressives).

So yes, secular progressives do begin with the same cognitive "deep structure" as those who are in touch with reality, but they promptly place their heads up their assumptions and de-spiritualize them, very similar to how the unconscious mind creates a sexual perversion. In order to create a perversion, the unconscious must "see" a truth it wishes to deny, usually revolving around the reality of sexual/generational differences. For example, many homosexual men compulsively attempt to incorporate the father's phallus in a direct instead of symbolic manner. An insecure heterosexual man might attempt the same thing by projecting this homosexual desire into women, thus having a compulsive need to "conquer" them in order to shore up his weak masculinity.

More here

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Canadian Conservative Blogosphere Under Attack

Post below recycled from STACLU .

Here is a quick summary of what's going on by Five Feet of Fury, one of the blogs being sued:
Richard “The Boy Named Sue” Warman has finally filed his statement of claim.

Canada’s busiest litigant, serial “human rights” complainant and — the guy Mark Steyn has called “Canada’s most sensitive man” — Richard Warman is now suing his most vocal critics — including me.

The suit names:

• Ezra Levant (famous for his stirring YouTube video of his confrontation with the Canadian Human Rights tribunal after he published the “Mohammed Cartoons”)
• FreeDominion.ca (Canada’s answer to FreeRepublic.com)
• Kate McMillan of SmallDeadAnimals.com
• Jonathan Kay of the National Post daily newspaper and its in-house blog
• and me, Kathy Shaidle of FiveFeetOfFury.com

Richard Warman used to work for the notorious Human Rights Commission, which runs the “kangaroo courts” who’ve charged Mark Steyn with “flagrant Islamophobia.”

Richard Warman has brought almost half these cases single-handledly, getting websites he doesn’t like shut down, and making tens of thousands of tax free dollars in “compensation” out of web site owners who can’t afford to fight back or don’t even realize they can.

The province of British Columbia had to pass a special law to stop Richard Warman from suing libraries because they carried books he didn’t approve of.

Richard Warman also wants to ban international websites he doesn’t like from being seen by Canadians.

The folks named in his new law suit are the very bloggers who have been most outspoken in their criticism of Warman’s methods…

…We can only fight this man’s attempt to silence conservative opinion if we have international support: both moral and financial.

This lawsuit will cost me at least $30,000 to fight.

And fight it I will.

Michelle Malkin has all the info you need to help these guys out.


Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your summary of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

UNADULTERATED REDISTRIBUTIONISM FROM THE DEMOCRATS

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more." – Michelle Obama, 2008


"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." – Hillary Clinton, 2004


“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” – Karl Marx, 1875*


*“Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen!“


  • REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES HAVE NEVER IMPROVED THINGS FOR THE POOR AND ALWAYS DAMAGE AN ECONOMY.
  • IF REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES WORKED, THEN THE USSR WOULD STILL BE AROUND
  • AND NORTH KOREA WOULD BE RICHER THAN SOUTH KOREA
  • AND CUBA WOULD BE RICHER THAN JAMAICA
  • AND ZIMBABWE WOULD BE RICHER NOW THAN RHODESIA WAS
  • AND THE GREAT SOCIETY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PROPERLY BLAMED BY MOYNIHAN FOR WRECKING THE BLACK FAMILY IN THE USA.

Proposed Murtha reelection poster

Since John Murtha has been in Congress since around the time of the Spanish-American War, I figured he may need some fresh new ideas for his next reelection campaign.

This seems to fit.

Back story here.

JEREMIAH WRIGHT WAS ONCE A MUSLIM

Very interesting revelation about Barack Obama's prejudiced pastor: Infidels Are Cool has discovered that Jeremiah Wright was formerly a Muslim himself. From this old article by Ryan Lizza in The New Republic:
From Wright and others, Obama learned that part of his problem as an organizer was that he was trying to build a confederation of churches but wasn’t showing up in the pews on Sunday. When pastors asked him the inevitable questions about his own spiritual life, Obama would duck them uncomfortably. A Reverend Philips put the problem to him squarely when he learned that Obama didn’t attend services. “It might help your mission if you had a church home,” he told Obama. “It doesn’t matter where, really. What you’re asking from pastors requires us to set aside some of our more priestly concerns in favor of prophesy. That requires a good deal of faith on our part. It makes us want to know just where you’re getting yours from.”

After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright’s church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for “Buppies”–black urban professionals–and didn’t have enough street cred. But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity’s guiding principles–what the church calls the “Black Value System”–included a “Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.’”

The crosscurrents appealed to Obama. He came to believe that the church could not only compensate for the limitations of Alinsky-style organizing but could help answer the nagging identity problem he had come to Chicago to solve. “It was a powerful program, this cultural community,” he wrote, “one more pliant than simple nationalism, more sustaining than my own brand of organizing.”

As a result, over the years, Wright became not only Obama’s pastor, but his mentor. The title of Obama’s recent book, The Audacity of Hope, is based on a sermon by Wright. (It’s worth noting, however, that, while Obama’s book is a coolheaded appeal for common ground in an age of political polarization, Wright’s sermon, “The Audacity to Hope,” is a fiery jeremiad about persevering in a world of nuclear arms and racial inequality.) Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his Senate victory in 2004, and he recently name-checked Wright in his speech to civil rights leaders in Selma, Alabama.
This raises a lot of interesting questions, such as - could it be that Wright is still more than attached to Islam despite his ostensibly converting? Good question.

Hat tip: Little Green Footballs.

BBC now a laughing stock

The BBC's retreat from balance in their global cooling story is now being laughed at all over the place -- e.g. here and here. One lot of mockers even squeezed a brief comment about it out of the BBC -- in which the Beeb calls balance "ambiguous". And we can't tolerate ambiguity, can we? According to received wisdom among psychologists, intolerance of ambiguity is a sign of narrow-mindedness, bigotry and dogmatism -- so who am I to argue with that?

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your summary of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

Another reason why McCain might win

America is NOT a libertarian country

Anxious conservatives this year are evincing a powerful nostalgia for Ronald Reagan, giving the former president credit for fathering the modern era of consistent Republican victories. Reagan, the myth goes, kept together the three "legs" of the GOP "stool": social conservatives, free marketeers, and national security hawks. As a result, Republicans held the White House for 20 of the last 28 years, broke the Democrats' stranglehold on the House of Representatives, cut income taxes, and won the Cold War.

But in 2008 the stool seems on the verge of breaking apart. Less than two years after holding the White House and both houses of Congress, the Republican Party is threatening to squander all three. Already down 33 seats in the House of Representatives, Republicans are losing 26 incumbents to retirement compared to the Democrats' five and as of early March were behind on congressional fund raising by a ratio of 5 to 1, according to The Wall Street Journal. Democrats are widely expected to extend their 51-49 advantage in the Senate....

In Comeback, one of several new whither-the-party books by traumatized Republicans, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum points out that the very Bush policies that fiscal conservatives like him despise-the prescription drug entitlement, the No Child Left Behind Act, campaign finance reform-were overwhelmingly popular among the American people. "On issues from Social Security to healthcare to environmental protection, conservatives find themselves on the less popular side of the great issues of the day," Frum writes.

The solution? Surrender: "There are things only government can do, and if we conservatives wish to be entrusted with the management of the government, we must prove that we care about government enough to manage it well." Republicans should cave on new spending and regulations, says Frum, in exchange for tax cuts. "This is not 1964," he writes. "The ideal under threat today is not the nation's liberty, but the nation's security, its unity, its effectiveness, and.its equality and beauty."

As Sasha Issenberg wrote in a perceptive Boston Globe story last November, "With Republicans no longer preaching suspicion of Washington, a new consensus has emerged, as both parties have come in their ways to stand today for a more robust, aggressive federal government. As a result, Goldwaterism is without a natural home in the two-party system." ....

More here

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MID-LEVEL BRIT TERROR CHIEF: AL QAEDA WORSE THAN IRA AND AIMS TO COMMIT MASS MURDER

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS:
Det Chief Supt Tony Porter painted a bleak picture of the threat from Muslim extremists when he addressed business leaders at a conference on security in Manchester.

But the head of Counter Terrorism Unit at Greater Manchester Police also spoke of his `optimism for the future' and his desire to make the region `the most hostile environment you can imagine' for terrorists.

The top detective warned delegates at the start of his speech he would outline `the scary bits' of the terror threat.

"Al-Qaeda have re-written the manual of attack," he said, explaining that the historic threat from the IRA was `somewhat easier to manage' because its targets were focused, warnings were issued before bombings and Republicans wanted to escape alive afterwards.

"They didn't want to commit suicide. The aim of the game now is mass murder," he added.
IF YOU WANT TO APPEASE MASS MURDERERS AND MAKE AN ATTACK HERE AND OVERSEAS MORE LIKELY, THEN BY ALL MEANS: VOTE DEMOCRAT!

FBI DIRECTOR: MOST US TERROR CASES START WITH INTEL FROM OVERSEAS

BBC:
The head of the FBI has said he believes the West can achieve victory over al-Qaeda within three-and-a-half years. Robert Mueller described how his organisation is working closely with British intelligence to confront ever-more-complex plots. ...

He said the key to confronting these threats lay in good human intelligence sources, wire-taps or eavesdropping, and international partnerships.

The vast majority of the FBI's terrorism cases, he said, originated from information developed by US partners overseas, particularly Britain.

Mr Mueller said FBI personnel had more than 20 face-to-face meetings every week with British counterterrorism officials in London.

He said: "We never know when a fragment of information uncovered in one country could unearth an entire network of terror in another."
IT'S A GLOBAL NETWORK.
  • THE DEMS DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS A REAL GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR.
  • THE WOULD END THE EAVESDROPPING AND MAKE US LESS SAFE.
  • VOTE DEMOCRAT IS YOU WANT THE USA ATTACKED AGAIN.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

DHIMMI CARTER: TRAITOR AND ANTI-SEMITE GOING TO VISIT WITH HAMAS IN DAMASCUS

FOX:
Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

... Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar Assad regime.

The State Department has designated Hamas a "foreign terrorist organization," and some groups hold Meshal personally responsible for ordering the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, "That's not something that we could possibly conceive of."

Some Carter critics called the latest reports typical of the ex-president.
  • CARTER IS VIOLATING THE LOGAN ACT AND SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR THAT AND TREASON.
  • WIKI:

    The Logan Act is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years.

    The text of the Act is broad and is addressed at any attempt of a US citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority.
  • IF BUSH HAD BALLS HE MAKE SURE MUKASEY INDICTED CARTER.
  • BUT BUSH WON'T; HE'S A WIMP; IN FACT, DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP.

Leftism and hate

I often point out the hate motivation that drives lots of Leftists. That does appear to upset some conservatives. Leftists are so constantly accusing conservatives of hate that some conservatives seem to think that it is not genteel to use similar language. "We should not stoop to their level" seems to be the thinking. Or maybe they hope that by not speaking about hate they will make all talk of it go away.

But that is exactly what preachers of Leftism want conservatives to do. Leftists know full well how much hate and anger burns in their own hearts but they also know that public awareness of that would discredit them. So they do all they can to prevent awareness of their motivations from rising to the surface -- by loud cries of good intentions, shallow arguments that what they want is all "for your own good" AND by accusing others of being what they really are -- using "projection", as psychologists call it.

And projection is a very effective and very old strategy for deflecting attention from your own weaknesses. Even Jesus was aware of it when he admonished people to get the beam out of their own eye before worrying about the speck in someone elses' eye (Matthew 7: 3-5).

We can see this hate of everything that is about them most clearly in the case of extreme Leftists. Communists and their ilk openly preach revolution -- destruction of the entire "system". And in their various campaigns in democratic societies they are often calling for something to be "smashed". I remember a time in Britain when "smash Maggie Thatcher's government" was a popular Trotskyist slogan.

And their chronic anger explains why Leftist policies are so uniformly boneheaded and fail to take account of all the factors involved. When you are angry, you haven't got the time or energy for calm and mature contemplation. You just seize on the simplest available alternative to whatever it is that you hate. And you don't really care if the alternative isn't a good one. All your energies are focused on attacking the status quo.

What it is that makes the Leftist so burnt up inside could be many things -- from being born ugly to a feeling that they are not getting the recogntion that they think that they deserve for their talents. And I should stress here that I am talking about the preachers of Leftism, not necessarily the poor schmucks who get conned into voting for them.

The Leftist hatred of the existing system can show up in all sorts of ways. Even I was a little surprised to see some freaky-looking female poindexter on the Leftist "Alternet" site getting all excited by some recent egghead pronouncement to the effect that the English language as we know it is dying out(!). The claim is that English will become fractionated into mutually unintelligible dialects in the next few hundred years. The Leftist lady comments:
"Although I am the daughter and granddaughter of English teachers and spent many years in an English department earning a PhD, I relish the prospect of my language changing and becoming incomprehensible to me. Maybe that's because I spent a year learning to read Old English, the dominant form of English spoken 1,000 years ago, and I realize how much my language has already changed. But my glee in the destruction of my own spoken language isn't entirely inspired by knowing language history. It's because I want English to reflect the lives of the people who speak it. I want English to be a communications tool"

"Glee in destruction". That's pretty clear, isn't it? And it's all an absurdity. First the printed word and now the broadcast media are making English more uniform. Far from fractionating into different dialects, English worldwide is becoming standardized on the usage of the world's largest English-speaking community: popular American usage. I myself used an Americanism above that would so far be not be generally understood in my own country of Australia: "poindexter" (meaning a geek or what the British would once have termed a "swot").

I am in fact a native speaker of a form of English that meets a lot of incomprehension in America. When I am writing and when I am overseas generally, I deliberately do not use the full range of Australian expressions -- but even then I quite often get tripped up. I use expressions which I think are standard but which are not. However, much as I love my native Australian language, it is constantly borne upon me that young Australians have lost a lot of their old Australian idioms and use American expressions instead (using "guy" instead of "bloke", for instance). English is quite plainly progressing towards worldwide uniformity, not fractionation into mutually unintelligible dialects.

So our sad Leftist lady will have to put up with something important NOT being destroyed. And note the characteristically pathetic rationalization she uses for her pervasive hatred of the status quo: She wants English to be "a communications tool". As if it isn't already!

Update:

An interesting email from an American reader:

"The internationalization of English doesn't come just from the spread of Americanisms. Last week I saw "gobsmacked" used by Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit. I first learned the term reading British blogs. I've also heard youngish Americans use "bloke." We've come a long way since the American distributors of Mad Max decided they would have to have the film dubbed into American."

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your summary of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

DEADLY "ACCIDENT" AT PAKISTANI NUKE PLANT

YAHOO/AP:
A gas leak sparked an explosion and fire Tuesday at a nuclear plant that is believed to produce enriched plutonium for Pakistan's atomic weapons program. Two workers were killed.

The Khushab heavy water plant was shut down while undergoing annual maintenance at the time, the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said. The commission evacuated the plant but assured the public that there was no risk of exposure outside the sprawling facility southeast of the capital, Islamabad.

The "situation was immediately brought under control, and two workers lost their lives while controlling the incident," the commission said.

It said the leaking gas was burned off by plant equipment and that the cause was under investigation.

The government claims Khushab produces electricity. Last year, the Washington-based Institute of Science for International Security said the plant has three reactors, including two that were still under construction last June. It cited satellite photos of the sprawling site that is under military control.

The development of the reactor and other nuclear-related activities "imply" that Pakistan has decided to "increase significantly its production of plutonium for nuclear weapons," the institute said in a report analyzing the images.

Police near the plant said they were advised by plant officials to prepare buses for a wider evacuation, but then were told they would not be needed. ...

Ghulam Muhammad, the mayor of the neighboring town of Khushab, said there was initial panic as the plant and the residential colony for workers were evacuated and roadblocks thrown up to cordon off the area.

Within three hours, plant management gave an all clear and removed the roadblocks, he said, adding he was unhappy that local officials were not immediately told of the incident.

BBC CHANGES NEWS TO ACCOMMODATE CLIMATE ACTIVIST

I noted two days ago the way the BBC had changed a climate story to make it more congenial to Warmists. Various other bloggers noted the change and we now have some details of what happened behind the scenes. Jennifer Marohasy reports:
I have been emailed the following correspondence, purportedly between an activist, Jo Abbess, and BBC Environment reporter Roger Harrabin. It would appear that the result of the email exchange between the activist and the reporter was that the BBC changed its story. In particular instead of reporting the story as received from the World Meteorological Organisation, the BBC modified the story as demanded by the activist who was concerned that in its original form it supported 'the skeptics' correct observation that there has been no warming since 1998.

The correspondence concerned is at Jennifer's site. In it we see a Warmist who appears to represent some Warmist group emailing Roger Harrabin in progressively more intimidatory ways, accompanied by a number of false or unsubstantiated assertions about climate events. Harrabin initially stands up under the criticism but when the Warmist in effect threatens to get him flooded with abusive emails he suddenly backs down -- possibly after having consulted with his bosses at the BBC. American Thinker notes that the article was in fact watered down several times.

The whole thing is of course more testimony to the susceptibility of the BBC to Greenie pressure and will always encourage questions about any BBC stories that have reference to Green/Left ideology. The BBC have in effect blown any residual reputation for integrity that they may have had. The Greenies may in fact come to regret their actions in this matter. They have in effect blown the cover of one of their more reliable mouthpieces. ALL BBC stories will from now on be readily ridiculable. All BBC stories will henceforth be easily dismissed as the product of political pressure. If I were a Greenie, I would be pressing for immediate reinstatement of the original story.

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your summary of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH