COMING TO A MARKET NEAR YOU: DOW 15,000!

THAT'S RIGHT: DOW 15,000. AND SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.

HERE'S WHY:

First, the strong dollar.

Second, plunging energy prices that will generate an economy-wide tax-cut effect.

And third, rapid money-supply growth after 18 months of flat money.

In fact, on this last point — which is so important — it looks like the Fed has un-pegged its fed funds target rate and is instead focused on pouring cash into the liquidity-starved global banking system.

Meanwhile, the Treasury purchase plan for toxic assets will get off the ground sooner, not later.

THAT'S PRETTY BASIC STUFF.

RIGHT NOW: STOCKS ARE CHEAP. THEY MIGHT GET CHEAPER, BUT NOT BY AS MUCH AS THEY HAVE ALREADY. MANY ARE DOWN 50%. OR MORE. THAT MEANS IT'S TIME TO BUY.

I PREDICTED WHEN OIL WOULD DROP AND BY HOW MUCH.

HERE'S MY PREDICTION: THE DOW WILL BE HIGHER IN APRIL THAN IT IS NOW - BY A LOT: ABOUT 20%.

OTHERS CONCUR:

Now some veteran investors, including G. Kenneth Heebner, a mutual fund manager who has one of the best long-term track records on Wall Street, say that the sell-off has gone much too far and stocks are poised to rally powerfully if the downturn is less severe than investors fear.

“The fact is, there are a lot of tremendous bargains out there,” said Mr. Heebner, who manages about $10 billion in several mutual funds. Indeed, by many measures stocks are as cheap as they have been in the last 25 years.

He pointed to Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas producer that he owns in his CGM Focus mutual fund. In July, Chesapeake traded for $63 a share. On Friday, it fell as low as $11.99.

... after falling 30 percent or more since early September, stocks in stalwart, profitable corporations like Nokia, Exxon Mobil and Boeing are trading at nine times their annual profits per share or less. Many smaller companies are even cheaper. Some of those stocks are trading at five times earnings or less.

Those ratios are historically low. Over all, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index is trading at about 13 times its expected profits for 2009, its lowest level in decades. In contrast, at the height of the technology bubble in early 2000, the stocks in the S.& P. traded at about 30 times earnings, the highest level ever. At the same time, the 10-year Treasury bond paid about 6 percent interest, compared with less than 4 percent today.

RTWT.

VIDEO: OBAMA'S INCONVENIENT FRIENDS - AND CONVENIENT MEMORY

ONE OF THE BEST OBAMA VIDEOS OF ALL TIME:


VIA GVDL.

1988 VIDEO OF FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS: HIS EARS ARE OBAMA'S EARS!

• GOT THIS FROM A COMMENTER AT ONE OF THE THREADS ON ANOTHER FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS POST.
• CHECK IT OUT.
• SEE IF YOU DON'T AGREE: BARACK JUNIOR LOOKS MORE LIKE FRANK DAVIS THAN OBAMA SENIOR.
• AND DAVIS HAS THE SAME BARITONE AS BARACK JUNIOR, TOO... HMMM...

IN 2007, OBAMA PROMISED ACORN A PROMINENT PLACE IN HIS WHITE HOUSE

UNBEFREAKINLIEVABLE (VIA ACE):



A FEW LEFTIES I KNOW ARE VERY VERY CONCERNED ABOUT ACORN'S VOTER FRAUD EFFORTS AND ROLE IN THE FANNIE MAE DEBACLE.

THEY DON'T KNOW - OR WANT TO BELIEVE - THAT OBAMA AND ACORN ARE CLOSE.

THAT'S WHY THIS ISSUE MUST BE BROADCAST - NAY, BLASTED EVERY DAY.

IF OBAMA IS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN, THEN WHY HASN'T HE PRODUCED ANY PROOF IN COURT?

• A LAWSUIT ALLEGING THAT OBAMA IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN AND IS THEREFORE NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN FOR OR BECOME POTUS HAS NOT BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST OABAM BY AN INCOMPETENT LOON.

• IT WAS BROUGHT BY THE FORMER DEPUTY AG OF PENNSYLVANIA AND A 31 YEAR DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADER.

WATCH THIS:

• IF OBAMA FAILS TO PRODUCE PROOF, THEN HE WILL BE STRUCK FROM THE BALLOT.
• THIS EITHER HAPPENS BEFORE THE ELECTION, OR AFTER.
• HOW DOES PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN STRIKE YOU!?!?!?

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VIA MEMEORANDUM AND TAT.

FINANCIAL MELTDOWN: CUI BONO? OBAMA AND IRAN...

THE WORSE THE STOCK MARKETS GET, THE HIGHER OBAMA CLIMBS IN THE POLLS.

JUST LIKE PRE-SURGE U.S. CAUSALITIES IN THE IRAQ WAR: THE BAD ECONOMIC NEWS BENEFITS THE DEMOCRATS.

FUNNY (NOT!): BAD NEWS IS GOOD FOR THE DEMS.

AND NOW.... THE IRANIANS ADMIT THEY LIKE IT, TOO; (BBC):

Amidst the financial wreckage around the world, one government is celebrating.

Watching the global gnashing of teeth, the Islamic Republic of Iran is enjoying the ride.

"We are very happy that America's economy is in jeopardy and they are paying the price for their misdeeds. God is punishing them."

That is the verdict from Ayatollah Jannati, one of the most senior clerics in Iran.

President Ahmadinejad has pronounced on the collapse of global capitalism, and announced that Iranians should stand ready to manage the world.

If there is a Persian word for "schadenfreude", this is it.

• OBAMA AND AL QAEDA AND IRAN ALL SEEM TO BENEFIT FROM THE SAME BAD NEWS.

• THINK ABOUT.

• WHO IS REALLY ON YOUR SIDE?!?

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

BARACK: THE AMERICAN BREZHNEV

BREZHNEV. He was one of the last dictators of the ol' totalitarian USSR - a socialist republic.

There's this famous Russian joke about him:

After his appointment as Chairman of the Politburo and as president and chief of the secretariat etc... he brings his momma to Moscow and shows her his HUGE apartment and his limos and then his fabulous dacha and his china and crystal and wine cellar and art collection and he asks her... "Momma, what do you think of your son Leonid!?"

She says, "It's wonderful Leonichkee!!! But what if the REDS come back!?"

That's the kind of socialist Obama is.

He's not a Bernie Saunders red. Bernie has run openly as a socialist.

He's not a Dennis Kucinich red. Dennis says what he believes; he's a leftie loon, but no phony.

He's not a Segolene Royal red or a Zapatero red or a Prodi red. They are all unabashed socialists.

He's Brezhnev red: a man who - in the name of "social justice" would do deals with Rezko - deals which totally SCREWED the poor in Chicago.

A Brezhnev red: who'd PROMISE to filibuster the FISA bill - and then vote for it.

A Brezhnev red: who'd worship with Jeremiah Wright for twenty years and then sell him down the river as soon as it became expedient.

A Brezhnev red: who'd march with Farrakhan and his "million man march" and then distance himself as soon as he became viable in the "mainstream."

A Brezhnev red: who'd swear up and down that he's for campaign finance reform and controls on campaign contributions and then opt out as soon as it seemed beneficial to HIMSELF.

A Brezhnev red: Who for a decade served alongside unrepentant/un-rehabilitated terrorist Bill Ayers in TWO foundations and blurbed his book, and then PURGED him when it was useful.

A Brezhnev red: who work for ACORN for years and then claimed he had nothing to do with them as soon as their criminal shenanigans became "troublesome."

SO I SK MY LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE/LEFTIST FRIENDS:

What is it about Obama that makes you so ENTHUSIASTIC!?!?!?!

He is not an honest or idealistic leftie like Kucinich or Saunders or Royal and Zapatero who say what they believe and act on it.

Obama is a corrupt leftie, who uses leftist policies to further himself and his corrupt allies.

Obama has accomplished not one single solitary thing for the left.

NADA. ZILCH. Nothing.

He has stood up for no one but himself.

If I was still a leftie - which thank G-D I am not - I would no sooner vote for Obama than Brezhnev or Mugabe or Chavez.

I would rather vote for McCain - a genuine centrist who has taken on BOTH parties and who has been on the liberal side of many MANY issues like immigration reform and GITMO and AGW.

THINK ABOUT IT MY FRIENDS.

Please think about who Obama really is - when no one is looking.

He's NOT to be trusted.

Not by the left.

Not by the right.

Not by anyone.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

THE POLLS ARE BULLSHIT: IT'S REALLY CLOSE!

NRO:

HORSERACE

Does Newsweek Really Stand By This Poll?

Dear friends at Newsweek...

Just to clarify...

You have McCain winning Republicans, 89 to 7. You have Obama winning Democrats, 91 to 5. (I'm a bit skeptical, but for now, for the sake of argument, I'll accept your assertion that PUMAs are extinct.) You have McCain winning independents by 2 percent, 45 to 43.

And this adds up to an 11-percent Obama lead in your latest poll.

We are to believe that McCain is losing among women by 9 percent, but losing among men by 14 percent.

We are to believe that the Hillary voters are lining up behind Obama, 88 percent to 7 percent.

We are to believe Obama is winning 18 to 34-year-olds by 10 percent, but he is winning 45 to 64-year-olds by 16 percent.

We are to believe the white vote is just about even, 46 percent for Obama, 47 percent for McCain.

And we are to believe the electorate in November will be 27 percent Republican, 40 percent Democrat, and 30 percent Independent.

If the over/under on the partisan breakdown on Election Day is 13 percent, I'd take the under. I wonder if anybody in Vegas would take that wager...

• DON'T STOP FIGHTIN' BABY!
• WE CAN WIN THIS THING!
  
• NEVER GIVE UP!
• NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.

AKKO RIOTS WERE PLANNED

The rioting by Muslims that took place in Akko two days ago appears to have been planned. According to the October 10 issue of Makor Rishon, which debunked an initial claim that stones were thrown by Jews at an Arab-owned car, it appears that all that really happened was that some passers-by brushed against the car while going by it, and this was all inflated into a planned blood libel.

The Muslim rioters have cost tons of money in damages to property. But who knows if any are going to pay for their crimes.

IF ELECTED - (GF!) - WILL OBAMA HAVE AYERS AND REZKO AND WRIGHT AND PFLEGER AND KHALIDI AND FARRAKHAN TO THE WHITE HOUSE?

• JUST ASKING.

• AFTER ALL, HE AND MICHELLE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS WITH THIS GROUP OF SCUM FOR DECADES, SO IT SEEMS POSSIBLE.

• I THINK IT WOULD GIVE THIS GROUP SCUM CREDIBILITY - REHABILITATE THEM, AND OBAMA AND HIS SUPPORTERS WOULD PROBABLY LIKE THAT.

• WILL HE COMMUTE MUMIA'S DEATH SENTENCE?

• JUST ASKING.

• AFTER ALL, THE CROWD OBAMA HANGS WITH HAVE BEEN AGITATING FOR JUST THAT FOR DECADES.

• WILL OBAMA CUT DEFENSE SPENDING - AS HE SAID HE WOULD, OR AID TO ISRAEL?

• DOES HE THINK WE NEED TO BE "MORE EVENHANDED" IN OUR MIDDLE EAST POLICIES?

• I WISH SOMEONE WOULD GET US ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS.

"Troopergate": Latest report just one biased opinion about Sarah Palin

Excerpt:

Democratic state senator and staunch Barack Obama supporter Hollis French of Alaska boasted in early September that he would provide an "October Surprise" which would upset the McCain-Palin campaign. Indeed, he originally planned to time it for October 31, four days before the election, for maximum impact, until other legislators forced him to abandon that particular strategy.

Today, however, in an episode of political theater that would make Josef Stalin blush, French gave it his very best shot: The investigator he hired and directed, Steve Branchflower, has labored mightily and given birth to a bloated and redundant 263-page report which boils down, for purposes of the ongoing presidential campaign, to two paragraphs that completely contradict one another. And the one of them that's unfavorable ignores the most important - indeed conclusive - evidence on point, but goes on to provide Branchflower's guess as to whether Gov. Palin has done anything improper.

Please understand this, if you take nothing else away from reading this post: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body. It contains no new bombshells in terms of factual revelations. Rather, it's just Steve Branchflower's opinion - after being hired and directed by one of Gov. Palin's most vocal opponents and one of Alaska's staunchest Obama supporters - that he thinks Gov. Palin had, at worst, mixed motives for an action that even Branchflower admits she unquestionably had both (a) the complete right to perform and (b) other very good reasons to perform.....

What's more incredible is that Branchflower utterly ignores the public admission made by Walt Monegan himself that ought to have ended this entire inquiry:

"For the record, no one ever said fire Wooten. Not the governor. Not Todd. Not any of the other staff," Monegan said Friday from Portland. "What they said directly was more along the lines of 'This isn't a person that we would want to be representing our state troopers.'"

That explains, of course, why it took a couple of weeks for Monegan to be persuaded that he'd been improperly "fired" (for supposedly refusing to fire Wooten) by an Alaska blogger, Andrew Halcro - a bitter loser whom Gov. Palin crushed in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race (he got less than 10% of the vote, proving that most Alaskans have long since figured out he's an untrustworthy windbag).

Instead, Branchfire has piled a guess (that the Palins wanted Wooten fired, rather than, for example, counseled, disciplined, or reassigned) on top of an inference (that when the Palins expressed concern to Monegan about Wooten, they were really threatening to fire Monegan if he didn't fire Wooten) on top of an innuendo (that Gov. Palin "fired" Monegan at least in part because of his failure to fire Wooten) - from which Branchflower then leaps to a legal conclusion: "abuse of authority." Branchflower reads the Ethics Act to prohibit any governmental action or decision made for justifiable reasons benefiting the State if that action or decision might also make a public official happy for any other reason. That would mean, of course, that governors must never act or decide in a way that makes them personally happy as a citizen, or as a wife or mother or daughter, and that they could only take actions or make decisions which left them feeling neutral or upset. This an incredibly shoddy tower of supposition, and a ridiculous misreading of the law.....

Branchflower, I'm told, is an attorney and a former prosecutor. If he thinks this kind of nonsense could support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, or even a finding of proof by a preponderance of the evidence, then he may be the worst lawyer I've ever encountered - and I've met a lot of awful ones in almost three decades before the bar.

More likely, however, Branchflower knows that his imaginary case will never be tested before any judge or jury - and instead, Branchflower's audience, and the audience of his political patron Sen. French, is a purely political one. They do not want you to read the 263 pages of his report, but I invite you to do so: By the end of it, you'll be thoroughly convinced that both Wooten and Monegan ought to have been fired! And if you're a person, as I am, who admires husbands and fathers who stand up for their families, you'll definitely want to shake First Dude Todd Palin's hand, and maybe even give him a (manly) bear-hug.

No, indeed, Sen. French and Mr. Branchflower dearly hope most Americans won't look past the headlines generated by this ridiculous farce of a report. French and Branchflower hope that Americans will be misled into thinking this report is from someone whose judgment or opinions actually count for something - instead of being from a hitman hired to complete a political hatchet job, as it actually is.

More here

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 roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH (2). Email me (John Ray) here

Nuts for Obama

ACORN voter fraud in North Carolina: "State Board of Elections officials are trying to determine whether about 100 voter registration forms submitted by a local chapter of a national grassroots organization to the Durham County Board of Elections are fraudulent. Similar accusations have been lodged across the country against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which goes by the name ACORN. In Durham, the claims were made last month after the group submitted about 5,000 voter registration forms to the county board of elections. "All of a sudden, I started seeing the same names over and over again," said Mike Ashe, county elections director. He said some forms had similar names but different addresses or dates of birth.

ACORN Under Investigation, Yet Again, This Time in Pennsylvania: "Right here in Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala confirms an investigation of potential voter fraud involving ACORN and other organizations. "ACORN is part of this but there are other applications which have been filed which appear to have fraudulent signatures and fraudulent identifications of individuals," Zappala said. Currently the election bureau is reviewing some 45,000 new registration applications and Zappala says some of them have forged signatures of people who may or may not exist. "There are clearly people on these applications who have not either been solicited or may not exist and the signatures are clearly not - they're forgeries," Zappala says.

Obama's Rotten ACORN in Missouri: "ACORN has an assorted history in Missouri when it comes to voter registration. In 2007, four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registration. In 2006, eight ACORN employees plead guilty. So you have 12 employees from the 2006 election cycle that were up to no good, that were violating our laws and it's the sort of behavior we've seen from ACORN. "Right now, there are seven ACORN workers registering voters, collecting names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of births of lots of people in my state and they have criminal records. So seven ACORN workers have criminal records and they're out there collecting that sort of sensitive information. "And we've seen some serious problems with registration cards submitted by ACORN. In 2003, for example, ACORN submitted in St. Louis in one submission, submitted more than that year and the course of that election cycle, but in 2003 out of 5379 voter registration cards, only 2013 of those appeared to be valid and at least a thousand were believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.

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 roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH (2). Email me (John Ray) here

VIDEO: HOCKEY MOMS FOR McCAIN-PALIN

I personally know one of the participants in the following video:



More information at this web site. Excerpt:

Hard work. Dedication. Sacrifice. These are just three things that John McCain has in common with the hockey moms of America. And Sarah Palin shares our early-rising, butt-freezing, glass-pounding commitment to our children and communities too!

ECONOMIC DOWNTURN IN THE GULF STATES

As indicated by the photo taken last spring when OPEC was holding the West over the oil barrel (Note the smug expressions), the oil sheikhs were swaggering around and bragging that the financial crisis couldn't affect them. Apparently, their braggadoccio has turned out to be premature.

From the October 9, 2008, Washington Post article "Gulf States Lose Their Swagger Amid Regionwide Sell-Off":

CAIRO, Oct. 9 -- The oil-rich princes and financial titans of the Persian Gulf went into the week touting their immunity from the financial turmoil of the West, but stock markets in the region ended it posting sharp losses....

Read the rest at Always On Watch.

BLACK MUSLIM LEADER FARRAKHAN'S MESSIAH - OBAMA - MOCKS THE BIBLE

OBAMA MIGHT MAKE A GOOD CALIPH FOR INDONESIA OR POCK-EE-STAHN OR IRAN OR KENYA, BUT HE'S UNFIT TO BE POTUS.

HE'S SMOOTHER THAN HIS PASTOR OF 20 YEARS, BUT THE MESSAGE IS THE SAME:



THIS MAN IS FIT TO BE POTUS:



BUT HE'S NOT ON THE BALLOT SO I GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN.

IT'S TIME DEMOCRATS LOOKED THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR

Democrats: it's time you took a good long hard TRUTHFUL denial-free look at yourselves - AND THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS.

• You opposed the Surge - and it worked.
  

• If you had gotten your way al Qaeda and Iran would probably now control 2/3rds of Iraq and have also won huge propaganda victories, which would have motivated them and every other hostile force in the world to ramp it up.
  

Bush prevailed over the Democrats and we defeated al Qaeda in Iraq. No thanks to you.

• You were warned repeatedly about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were under-regulated but ignored the pleas - from Bush and McCain and Greenspan and Snow and Falcon, attacked the messengers, and defended Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -and ACORN - as you took their "contributions." They proposed oversight, and YOU BLOCKED IT.

• You got your way and look where it got us and the world: the biggest financial crisis of ALL TIME.
• It didn't have to happen, but the Democrats in Congress ignored the warnings. And here we are.
  

It can get worse:

• Obama goes ways back with the Chicago Machine, and ACORN - a voter fraud machine.
• As a lawyer, Obama and ACORN sued banks to make sure they gave out more subprime loans.
• Obama opposed the Surge and STILL has a former Fannie Mae big shot as a key advisor - Jim Johnson.

Which means and Obama presidency will be more of the same crap that got us here - minus good stuff like the Surge.

IS THAT WHAT YOU REALLY WANT?

Do the Democrats really deserve MORE power?

We can't afford that.

No one can.

No where.

No how.

SO: Wake up.

We haven't much time left.

Wake up, and VOTE ACCORDINGLY!

Was that "Hijacked" Iranian Ship Really a Dirty Bomb Meant For Israel?

We've been reporting on this story here at IBA for the past week or so.

The news reports say that Somali "pirates" "hijacked" two ships, one of them Iranian and the other Ukranian.

The Iranian ship was carrying something that caused the men aboard, including the "pirates" to die, with symptoms which included skin burns and hair falling out.

That sounds like radiation poisoning to me.

I put the word hijacked and pirates in quotes, because I don't believe the ships were hijacked. I believe a cargo was being delivered to Jihadis for use in war.

I believe it could be that the Iranians needed plausible deniability.

I don't know what the Ukranians had to do with it. Likely nothing, but that hijacking happened at approximately the same time, and so we reported on it.

Hijacked Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Meant for Israel on Yom Kippur

On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.

The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) - a state-owned company run by the Iranian military that was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 10, shortly after the ship's hijacking.
According to the U.S. Government, the company regularly falsifies shipping documents in order to hide the identity of end users, uses generic terms to describe shipments to avoid the attention of shipping authorities, and employs the use of cover entities to circumvent United Nations sanctions to facilitate weapons proliferation for the Iranian Ministry of Defense.

The MV Iran Deyanat departed Nanjing, China, July 28, and, according to its manifest, planned to sail to Rotterdam, where it would offload 42,500 tons of iron ore and "industrial products" purchased by an unidentified “ German client”. The ship has a crew of 29 men, including a Pakistani captain, an Iranian engineer, 13 other Iranians, 3 Indians, 2 Filipinos, and 10 Eastern Europeans, stated to be Albanians.

The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of pirates - 50 onboard and 50 onshore. The Somali pirates attempted to inspect the ship's seven cargo containers but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did not have the "access codes" and could not open them. Pirates have stated they were unable to open the hold without causing extensive damage to the ship, and threatened to blow it up. The Iranian ship’s captain and the engineer were contacted by cell phone and demanded to disclose the actual nature of the mysterious “powdered cargo” but the captain and his officers were very evasive.

Initially they said that the cargo contained "crude oil" but then claimed it contained "minerals." Following this initial rebuff, the pirates broke open one of the containers and discovered it to be filled with packets of what they said was “a powdery fine sandy soil” ....

Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore.

News about the illness and the toxic cargo quickly reached Garowe, seat of the government for the autonomous region of Puntland. Angered over the wave of piracy and suspicious about the Iranian ship, authorities dispatched a delegation led by Minister of Minerals and Oil Hassan Allore Osman to investigate the situation on September 4. and they witnessed some of the deaths due to exposure to ‘something on that ship.’

The Somali pirates initially set the ship's ransom at $2 million and the Iranian government provided $200,000 to a local broker "to facilitate the exchange." The $2 million dollar ransom agreement, which was supposedly secured on September 6th, never took place for reasons unknown. After September 10th, sanctions on IRISL were applied specifically because the company was said to engaged in illicit operations on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Serious negotiations were broken off completely. Iranian authorities subsequently denied that it agreed to the price nor had paid any money to the pirates. Nevertheless, after sanctions were applied to IRISL on September 10, Osman says, the Iranians told the pirates that the deal was off. "They told the pirates that they could not come because of the presence of the U.S. Navy."

The region is patrolled by the multinational Combined Taskforce 150, which includes ships from the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. Subsequently, it was disclosed that the U.S. government had offered to pay $7 million to the pirates to "receive entry permission and search the vessel." Officials in the Pentagon and the Department of State have consistently refused to comment on the situation.

The exact nature of the cargo remains officially a mystery but officials in Puntland and Baidoa are convinced the ship was carrying weapons to Eritrea for Islamist insurgents. "We cannot inspect the cargo yet," Osman said, "but we are sure that it is weapons."

The US Navy (and the French and the Russians) have been hove to off the coast of Eyl, going anywhere once released, it will be seized once it gets to sea. The specific clauses that have been approved in both the UN and in Congress would allow the US Navy to seize the ship under the suspicion clause. The claims that there are weapons onboard, and the possibility there might be chemical weapons, has insured there is at the very minimum, an inspection of the ship by outside authority will be mandated. At this writing, the MV Iran Deyanat is at anchor, watched closely by American, French and Russian naval units.

Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. She was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.

Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the ship’s locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel. Not the expected rocket attacks (which could be intercepted by the Israelis) but an even more deadly and unexpected attack by sea.

It is very interesting to note that the Israeli government has in the past few weeks, been loudly demanding that the United States establish a naval blockade of Iran.

The reason for this blockade would be to prevent any more Iranian ships with deadly cargos from attacking either Israel or other targets from the sea.

DEMOCRAT OCTOBER SURPRISE: OBAMA "RYANIZES" PALIN: GETS ALASKAN LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE TO ISSUE REPORT ALLEGING "SOME ABUSE" DESPITE NO EVIDENCE

AP:

A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner. The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.

GOT THAT!?!?!

REPEAT: The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan

REPEAT: The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan

IOW: SHE HAD OTHER BONAFIDE REASONS.

Oh, there's also this: "SHE BROKE NO LAWS."

SOMEHOW - FOR SOME REASON - I THINK THIS WON'T BE HOW THE MSM SPINS IT.

MORE SERIOUSLY: THERE'S A SCARY PATTERN HERE:

• OBAMA GOT HIS ONLY SERIOUS OPPONENT FOR THE US SENATE (RYAN) TO DROP OUT BY GETTING RYAN'S SEALED DIVORCE PUBLICIZED.

• BY HOOK & CROOK, OBAMA KNOCKED ALL OF HIS 5 OPPONENTS FOR THE ILLINOIS SENATE OFF THE BALLOT.

• OBAMA GREW UP IN A MARXIST HOUSEHOLD - AND IN INDONESIA, AND WAS TUTORED IN POLITICS BY TWO MARXISTS: FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS AND SAUL ALINSKY.

• OBAMA WORSHIPED AT A WHITE-HATING, MIDDLE-CLASS-BASHING, AMERICA-HATING CHURCH FOR 20 YEARS.

• OBAMA WORKED FOR ACORN - AN ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST GROUP WHICH PROMOTES VOTER FRAUD AND PROMOTED SUBPRIME LENDING.

• ALL THIS ADDS UP: IT PROVES THAT OBAMA IS FUNDAMENTALLY AND INTRINSICALLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC.

AND HE IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE USA.

DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU...

*******UPDATE: Folks, I live in NYC. And over the last few weeks our BILLIONAIRE LIBERAL Mayor has made a deal with another BILLIONAIRE to get the city council to allow him - and anyone else - run for a THIRD TERM, despite TWO referenda which overwhelmingly showed that NY'ers want term limits of two years.

THIS IS A REAL ABUSE OF POWER. It's subverting the democratically expressed will of the people.

WHAT PALIN DID WAS NOT REALLY AN ABUSE OF POWER.

Intellectually honest people can admit that. Libs can't.

Why don't libs see it that way?!? Because they have no principles.

*******UPDATE #2: THE NYTIMES LIES:

HEADLINE

Inquiry Finds Palin Abused Powers

Carlos Barria/Reuters

Efforts to Oust Trooper Found to Violate Law

By SERGE F. KOVALESKI 32 minutes ago

Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation has concluded.

BUT - FROM THE ARTICLE:

the report concluded that “Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Walt Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.” It cites the Alaska Constitution, which says “the governor may discharge department heads without cause” and that department heads “serve at the pleasure of the governor.”

“In light of this constitutional and statutory authority, it is clear that Governor Palin could fire Commissioner Walt Monegan at will, for almost any reason, or no reason at all.”

The report states that, while there is no doubt that Mr. Monegan’s “failure to fire Trooper Wooten was a substantial factor in his own firing, the evidence suggest it was not the sole reason.”

BOTTOM-LINE: IT WAS LAWFUL.

• YUP: THE REPORT ACTUALLY CLEARS HER; YET THE HEADLINES CONDEMN HER.
• PROVING ONLY THAT THE MSM LIES THROUGH ITS TEETH.
• THEY HAVE NO SHAME.
• THEY DEFEND - NAY LAUD THE LEFT-WING RADICAL MENDACIOUS AND ANTI-SEMITIC OBAMA AND CONDEMN PALIN FOR WANTING A CHILD-ABUSING TROOPER FIRED.
• IT MAKES ME SICK.
  

*******UPDATE #3: FROM THE COMMENTS:

Ayers, move on.
Wright, move on.
Khailidi, move on.
Acorn, move on.
Logan Act, move on.
Castro, Chavez, Ahmedinejad, move on
Daley, move on
Rezko, move on
Said, move on
Davis, move on
Muslim, move on
Missouri ads, move on
Ohio fraud, move on
Illegal foreign donation, move on
Odinga, move on
Farrakhan, move on

Let's get back to that poor Monegan, that great civil servant Wooten, Hollis "The Marine" French and Kim Elton...don't forget her tanning bed!!!

• PALIN SHOOTS MOOSE AND USES A TANNING BED AND BELIEVES IN GOD; ERGO - TO THE MSM/DEMS/LEFT SHE IS UNQUALIFIED AND UNFIT.

• (JUST FORGET SHE TOOK ON THE CORRUPT GOP/BIG OIL COMBINE IN ALASKA AND WON!)

• MEANWHILE... OBAMA - WHO HAS NEVER PRODUCED A SINGLE SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY PROJECT OR A SINGLE IMPORTANT BILL - CAN CONSORT WITH TERRORISTS, RACISTS, ANTI-SEMITES, ANTI-ZIONISTS, SUPPORT INFANTICIDE, EQUATE GEORGIA AND RUSSIA, WORK WITH VOTER FRAUD RACKETS AND SAY ON TV THAT HE'D MEET WITH AHMDINEJAD, CHAVEZ, KIM WITHOUT PRECONDITION - AND HE'S "PRESIDENTIAL."

• PALIN IS ACTUALLY MORE PRESIDENTIAL.
• OBAMA IS UNFIT FOR ANY OFFICE.

Round up here.

IS GENESIS 12:3 WHY THE US MARKETS DIDN'T TANK UNTIL SEPTEMBER?

IN THE DJIA, THINGS STARTED TO GET REAL BAD 9/1/08.
WHY THEN?

Up until September, the US markets were struggling to maintain values with extremely high oil prices and with indigestion caused by 2 years-worth of idiotic anti-inflationary-Greenspan interest rate hikes, but the markets were still basically okay. Then came this announcement:

Last update - 19:54 21/08/2008

U.S. won't sell refueling jets to Israel, fearing strike on Iran

By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10

It emerged on Wednesday that the United States has refused to sell Jerusalem new refueling planes, fearing such a transaction could be interpreted as support for an Israeli attack on Iran.

IS THIS A COINCIDENCE, OR IS THIS WHY:

Genesis 12:3 (New International Version)

I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."

MAYBE IF THE USA ANNOUNCES IT WILL SELL THE IDF THESE REFUELING PLANES OUR ECONOMY WILL RECOVER.

IT COULDN'T HURT...

AND IT'S CHEAPER THAN A BAILOUT!

*******UPDATE: ACCORDING TO THE CHART ABOVE, THINGS STARTED TO GO SOUTH IN MAY 2008.

GUESS WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN MAY 2008? THIS (BBC):

US 'rejected' Israeli Iran strike

US President George W Bush told Israel's prime minister in May that the US would not back an attack on Iran, a UK newspaper has reported.

A spokesman denied Ehud Olmert had said the words attributed to him in a working meeting with a foreign guest.

The Guardian quoted unnamed European diplomatic sources as saying Mr Olmert had used a one-to-one meeting with Mr Bush in May to raise the issue.

Israel sees Iran's nuclear programme as its greatest threat.

CASE CLOSED.

IN CRISIS THERE'S OPPORTUNITY - NOW IS THE TIME TO PARTIALLY-PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY

With the market down, new opportunities are arising. The Dow is below 8000. It's time to buy.

And, you know who should be buying? 

Social Security.

Social Security funds don't yield much growth, because they are invested in only the most conservative places, such as T-bills.

Whoever becomes our next President ought to seriously consider taking visionary action. Now is the time to partially-privatize Social Security. Get some guys like Warren Buffet on board as advisors, and begin taking some of the money out of T-bills, and invest it in the best of the best American companies. 

Because America has freedom, we have ideas. Ideas are the beginning of innovation, and innovation is the foundation of a growing economy. Money chases ideas like guys chase babes with nice racks.

Betting against America is foolishness. It's like betting that guys will stop going for big-breasted women.

As long as we are free, we will always bounce right back up and come out on top.

It's time for our Social Security fund to follow in the footsteps of the great investors of the world. Bet on American business.

74% of CEOs Believe Obama Would Be Disastrous for the Nation

Yesterday, I heard Mark Steyn on the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show discussing the possibility of an Obama Presidency. Steyn remarked that he thought at least part of the reason the Stock Market continues to be besieged by the Bear is investors are concerned that an Obama Presidency is almost inevitable at this point.

Although I am a contributor here at Astute Bloggers, I am a lifelong registered Democrat. So frankly, Steyn's commentary impressed me a desperate Conservative's attempt to spin the story.

I am not a Socialist Democrat, so I recognize that almost all of the blame for the current financial crisis lies at the feet of my fellow Democrats. But, Democrat that I am, Steyn's analysis registered as preposterous to me ...

at first.

But then, I thought about it more and realized our economy is certainly made up of complex and conflicting forces. All investors get their vote. And certainly, the anti-Obama vote would start coming in at this point. 

It would seem impossible to determine what percentage of the Bear Market is a direct reflection of anti-Obama concern. However, if one can measure the level of big-investor confidence in the economy by the mood of CEO's, then this goes a long way to explain the second and third wave of our current Bear-mauling:

With the nation in the middle of what is being regularly reported as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, a new poll found that 74 percent of America's top business leaders fear "an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country."

Don't be surprised if you didn't hear about this, for virtually no major mainstream press outlet felt it was important to share with the public.

Do you think Obama-loving media would be so apathetic if this poll found an overwhelming majority of business leaders were scared about what a McCain presidency would do to the economy?

Despite the answer, our supposedly impartial press seem totally disinterested in Chief Executive magazine's just-released survey [1] which found some CEOs worried that if implemented "[Obama's] programs would bankrupt the country within three years" (emphasis added, h/t Jazz from Hell [2], photo courtesy Time.com):

Chief Executive magazine’s most recent polling of 751 CEOs shows that GOP presidential candidate John McCain is the preferred choice for CEOs.  According to the poll, which is featured on the cover of Chief Executive’s most recent issue, by a four-to-one margin, CEOs support Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama.  Moreover, 74 percent of the executives say they fear that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country. 

“The stakes for this presidential election are higher than they’ve ever been in recent memory,” said Edward M. Kopko, CEO and Publisher of Chief Executive magazine. “We’ve been experiencing consecutive job losses for nine months now. There’s no doubt that reviving the job market will be a top priority for the incoming president. And job creating CEOs repeatedly tell us that McCain’s policies are far more conducive to a more positive employment environment than Obama’s.” [...]

“I’m not terribly excited about McCain being president, but I’m sure that Obama, if elected, will have a negative impact on business and the economy,” said one CEO voicing his lack of enthusiasm for either candidate, but particularly Obama. 

In expressing their rejection of Senator Obama, some CEOs who responded to the survey went as far as to say that “some of his programs would bankrupt the country within three years, if implemented.”  In fact, the poll highlights that Obama’s tax policies, which scored the lowest grade in the poll, are particularly unpopular among CEOs.

Obama's Magic

Presto, change-o!



And now, America, we introduce the Great Obama! The world's most gifted political magician! A thing of wonder. A thing of awe. Just watch him defy politics, economics, even gravity! (And hold your applause until the end, please.)

To kick off our show tonight, Mr. Obama will give 95% of American working families a tax cut, even though 40% of Americans today don't pay income taxes! How can our star enact such mathemagic? How can he "cut" zero? Abracadabra! It's called a "refundable tax credit." It involves the federal government taking money from those who do pay taxes, and writing checks to those who don't. Yes, yes, in the real world this is known as "welfare," but please try not to ruin the show.

For his next trick, the Great Obama will jumpstart the economy, and he'll do it by raising taxes on the very businesses that are today adrift in a financial tsunami! That will include all those among the top 1% of taxpayers who are in fact small-business owners, and the nation's biggest employers who currently pay some of the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world. Mr. Obama will, with a flick of his fingers, show them how to create more jobs with less money. It's simple, really. He has a wand.

Next up, Mr. Obama will re-regulate the economy, with no ill effects whatsoever! You may have heard that for the past 40 years most politicians believed deregulation was good for the U.S. economy. You might have even heard that much of today's financial mess tracks to loose money policy, or Fannie and Freddie excesses. Our magician will show the fault was instead with our failure to clamp down on innovation and risk-taking, and will fix this with new, all-encompassing rules. Presto!

Did someone in the audience just shout "Sarbanes Oxley?" Usher, can you remove that man? Thank you. Mr. Obama will now demonstrate how he gives Americans the "choice" of a "voluntary" government health plan, designed in such a way as to crowd out the private market and eliminate all other choice! Don't worry people: You won't have to join, until you do. Mr. Obama will follow this with a demonstration of how his plan will differ from our failing Medicare program. Oops, sorry, folks. The Great Obama just reminded me it is time for an intermission. Maybe we'll get to that marvel later.

We're back now. And just watch the Great Obama perform a feat never yet managed in all history. He will create that enormous new government health program, spend billions to transform our energy economy, provide financial assistance to former Soviet satellites, invest in infrastructure, increase education spending, provide job training assistance, and give 95% of Americans a tax (ahem) cut -- all without raising the deficit a single penny! And he'll do it in the middle of a financial crisis. And with falling tax revenues! Voila!

Moving along to a little ventriloquism. Study his mouth carefully, folks: It looks like he's saying "I'll stop the special interests," when in fact the words coming out are "Welcome to Washington, friends!" Wind and solar companies, ethanol makers, tort lawyers, unions, community organizers -- all are welcome to feed at the public trough and to request special favors. From now on "special interests" will only refer to universally despised, if utterly crucial, economic players. Say, oil companies. Hocus Pocus!

And for tonight's finale, the Great Obama will uphold America's "moral" obligation to "stop genocide" by abandoning Iraq! While teleported to the region, he will simultaneously convince Iranian leaders to peacefully abandon their nuclear pursuits (even as he does not sit down with them), fix Afghanistan with a strategy that does not resemble the Iraqi surge, and (drumroll!) pull Osama bin Laden out of his hat! Tada!

You can clap now. (Applause. Cheers.) We'd like to thank a few people in the audience. Namely, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who has so admirably restrained himself from running up on stage to debunk any of these illusions and spoil everyone's fun.

We know he's in a bit of a box, having initially blamed today's financial crisis on corporate "greed," and thus made it that much harder to call for a corporate tax cut, or warn against excessive regulation. Still, there were some pretty big openings up here this evening, and he let them alone! We'd also like to thank Mr. McCain for keeping all the focus on himself these past weeks. It has helped the Great Obama to just get on with the show.

As for that show, we'd love to invite you all back for next week's performance, when the Great Obama will thrill with new, amazing exploits. He will respect your Second Amendment rights even as he regulates firearms! He will renegotiate Nafta, even as he supports free trade! He will . . .

Source


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Hope for defeating Obama

An email from PHForAmerica.com



Our TV ad, which went on the air last week, was on YouTube for 3 months and garnered over 4 million hits, far more than any other 527 TV ad. We have one-minute and two-minute ads featuring footage of Obama mocking and ridiculing the Bible, and condescendingly telling Americans that they don't understand the Bible as wisely as he [Obama] does. Despite being on the air, the Obama campaign incredibly is claiming in their "Fight the Smears" website that we are NOT really on the air and are scamming contributors. We hit them back with a press release [see attached] detailing where our ads are airing now and on which shows [if you are unable to open the attachment, please write back and we'll send it in the body of another e-mail]. This press release also exposed the Obama campaign as liars for claiming our ad would never air. We began airing in Pennsylvania, and are hoping to continue to raise enough money to go into more key swing states that are now leaning towards Obama.

Despite Obama pulling ahead of McCain in the last few weeks, he still only leads McCain by 5 points, and his lead in 11 key swing states [Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina] is five points or less in each state. All those voters who were with McCain a few weeks ago but have switched to Obama could easily switch back to McCain if they are given a compelling enough reason not to vote for Obama. Obama's support in all these swing states where he is currently leading is very soft.

The Obama campaign is petrified at the fact that our ad is now airing on TV after it received 4 million hits on YouTube in 3 month, far more than any other political ad. The Obama campaign also realizes that our ad is striking a chord. And they also realize that the other 527 ads being used against Obama, as well as the McCain camping ads are all very ineffective, mostly using ideological issues; whereas our ad will appeal to voters of ALL political persuasions who go to church or synagogue and read the Bible. The Obama campaign is going to do everything in their power to discredit our 527 group between now and the election, hoping when the truth comes out it will be too late.

We are going to air our ads in blue-collar states that are leaning towards Obama right now, but are possible McCain takeaways, since the swing voters who will decide who wins those states are white, blue-collar Democrats who sometimes vote Republican; what they used to call "Reagan Democrats." These voters are now leaning towards Obama, but they are leery of him and have their doubts. Hopefully this ad will convince enough of these voters in the key states to abandon Obama, once they see the side of him exposed in our ad that they've never seen before.

These white blue-collar voters in all the key swing states are church-going folks who take the Bible seriously. Because of this, we believe our ad is the only 527 ad that could make a difference in this election. Obama is pulling ahead day by day, and now has a slight lead in states that two weeks ago seemed a lock for McCain [Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina]. We believe the only thing that can stop Obama [besides McCain hopefully becoming more aggressive in his attacks against Obama] is our ad.

If this ad is seen by all the swing voters in all the key swing states, it would not only anger anyone who reads the Bible, but will make anyone who sees the ad re-think the Jeremiah Wright fiasco as well as Obama's remarks in April that "small town America" is so bitter that they have to "cling to their guns and religion."

Most Americans have thus far given Obama a pass on those two issues, but after seeing our ad, it will make many, if not most folks think "Now I finally understand why Obama would belong to such a radical church", and "Now I finally understand Obama's true contempt for people of faith regarding his 'cling to their guns and religion' remark."

I believe you will agree that this ad needs to be aired as much as possible in as many key states as possible in order to have any impact on the election and stop what today appears to be Barack Obama's inevitable victory.

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Farrakhan calls Obama "The Messiah"

Nice. Anti-Semites of the world Unite...



I am still stunned at the seeming epidemic of suicidal cluelessness which is seemingly so widespread in this country (far be it for the media to overstate Obama's true popularity.

Voting is a privilege, not human birthright; yet most Americans seem blissfully unaware that their votes are a 50/50 shot to be rendered worthless, should the Obammunists win. It is quite evident that they are spending money (foreign money?) massively trying to rig the game via ACORN and their other surrogates; just imagine what they can rig once they got to the catbird seat.

People seem to think that things cannot get any worse than they are now. Right.
Things could get a LOT worse, and not just economically. If America does not collectively snap out of it, and wake the hell up from this nightmare over the next three weeks, an economic crisis of confidence could quickly become an existential one.

And the most frightening thing is that Obama just the guy who can bring about that outcome; worse, the terminally clueless and their media cheerleaders seem poised to "make it so."

There is still time, but it is becoming very precious. As is, I fear, our very freedom itself.

UPDATE: RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: I'm glad this video is out. I posted on this speech EIGHT MONTHS ago here.

ARE MARK DAVIS AND BARACK OBAMA HALF-BROTHERS?

THEY SURE LOOK LIKE BROTHERS...

HERE'S WHY I SUSPECT IT.

ALSO: GOOGLE SEARCH OBAMA'S PARENTAGE AND "FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS" AT THIS BLOG.

HERE'S WHAT A PRAYER BREAKFAST WILL LOOK LIKE IN AN OBAMA WHITE HOUSE

ON THE SURFACE, IT LOOKS ECUMENICAL:

• THE PROTESTANT JEREMIAH WRIGHT.
• THE CATHOLIC FATHER PFLEGER.
• THE MUSLIM FARRAKHAN.
• AND AL SHARPTON, FOR GOOD MEASURE.

THEY ALL HATE AMERICA, HATE WHITES, AND THEY ALL LOVE OBAMA.

AND HE LOVES THEM.

• OBAMA WORSHIPED WITH WRIGHT FOR 20 YEARS.
• HE FUNNELED MONEY TO PFLEGER - WHILE HE WAS AT THE WOODS FOUNDATION AND AS A STATE SENATOR.
• HE MARCHED WITH FARRAKHAN IN THE MILLION MAN MARCH.

IF YOU WANT A NATION WHICH RESEMBLES THESE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, THEN VOTE OBAMA.

TERRORIST AYERS AND OBAMA: JOINED AT THE HIP; BIRDS OF A FEATHER; "CELLIES"

• EITHER OBAMA CONDONES AYERS AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR,
• OR OBAMA APPROVES IT.

• EITHER WAY, THIS RELATIONSHIP PROVES OBAMA IS UNFIT FOR THE SENATE, LET ALONE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.

• AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE USA AND THE FREE WORLD.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

SHOCKER: NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE GOES TO A WEST-HATING FRENCH HOMOSEXUAL

IT'S A FREAKIN' COMMIE TRIFECTA! FRENCH! WEST-HATER! QUEER!

BBC:

French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.

The 68-year-old has been honoured with the 10m kronor (£820,810) award for his distinguished life's work.

The Swedish Academy describes him as "an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy."

It goes on to call him "an explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation." British author Doris Lessing won last year's prize.

Le Clezio's breakthrough as a novelist came in 1980 with Desert, a work the Swedish academy praised for its "magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert."

REPEAT: "an explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation" - THIS IS CODE FOR ANTI-WEST AND ANTI-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN.

LIKE LESSING, HE HATES THE WEST - AND AMERICA.

PLUS... HE'S GAY.

THIS IS WHY THE COMMITTEE PICKED HIM. AN ITTY-BITTY COMMITTEE OF EFFETE SNOBS WITH A GRAMSCIAN AGENDA.

EFF 'EM.

ACORN SHOULD BE INDICTED UNDER RICO LAWS

• ACORN IS A NATIONWIDE VOTER FRAUD RACKET.

• OBAMA HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH THEM FOR DECADES.

• IT'S LONG PASSED TIME THEY WERE BUSTED... INDICTED - NOT JUST FOR THIS OR THAT VIOLATION, BUT AS AN ORGANIZATION WHICH HAS FOR YEARS SPONSORED AN ON-GOING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE (VOTER FRAUD TO BENEFIT THE LEFT AND THE DEMOCRATS) IN SEVERAL STATES AND IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

THEY SHOULD BE INDICTED UNDER OUR RICO LAWS - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act:

Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count.

• AND, YES: FRAUD IS ONE OF THE CRIMES COVERED UNDER RICO!

SOMEONE TELL MARK LEVIN!

UPDATE: IT MIGHT JUST BE ABOUT TO HAPPEN!

Will Obama Kill Science?

By John Derbyshire (Excerpt)

The science news this past few weeks has concentrated on the Large Hadron Collider, which officially began operations on September 10. So far not much of anything has actually been collided, but the physicists whose eight billion dollar toy this is are working their way up in baby steps to the big, glamorous experiments.

Still, anyone of a gambling inclination who wanted to bet on what the really sensational science headlines of the next few years will be, would not be looking to the LHC. As I commented in National Review three years ago:

[W]e are passing from the Age of Physics to the Age of Biology. It is not quite the case that nothing is happening in physics, but certainly there is nothing like the excitement of the early 20th century. Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.

The life sciences, by contrast, are blooming, with major new results coming in all the time from genetics, zoology, demography, biochemistry, neuroscience, psychometrics, and other "hot" disciplines. The physics building may be hushed and dark while its inhabitants mentally wrestle with 26-dimensional manifolds, but over at biology the joint is jumpin'.

Whether it will go on jumpin' may depend on the result of November's election. There is a widespread feeling in the human sciences - particularly in genetics, population genetics, evolutionary biology, and neurophysiology - that the next five to ten years will see some sensational discoveries. Unfortunately those discoveries will have metaphysical implications more disturbing than were those of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg, Schr”dinger, Pauli, and Dirac may have seriously upset our ideas about matter and energy, but at least they left our psyches and our political principles intact.

Those items may not remain intact much longer. The conceptual revolution among human-sciences researchers has in fact already taken place. This is not widely understood because (a) news outlets are very reluctant to report it, (b) powerful political forces have an interest in suppressing it, and (c) researchers prefer getting on quietly with their work to having their windows broken by mobs of angry protestors.

Most people still think of human-science controversies in terms of nature/nurture. As a matter of real scientific dispute, that is all long gone. Nature/nurture arguments were at the heart of the sociobiology wars that roiled the human sciences through the last third of the 20th century. (The 2000 book Defenders of Truth, by the Finnish sociologist of science Ullica Segerstr†le gives a full - and so far as I can judge, very fair - account.) The dust of battle has pretty much settled now, in science departments if not in the popular press, and nature is the clear victor. Name any universal characteristic of human nature, including cognitive and personality characteristics. Of all the observed variation in that characteristic, about half is caused by genetic differences. You may say that is only a half victory; but it is a complete shattering of the nurturist absolutism that ruled in the human sciences 40 years ago, and that is still the approved dogma in polite society, including polite political society, today.

While those sociobiology wars were going on - while E.O. Wilson was having a jug of ice water dumped over his head at an AAAS symposium by people shouting "Racist Wilson you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!" (1978); while Art Jensen looked set fair to be kicked out of the AAAS altogether following agitation by Margaret Mead et al. because of his 1969 paper on group differences in I.Q.; while Stephen Jay Gould was assuring his readers that "Human equality is a contingent fact of history" (1985) and Richard Lewontin was celebrating "the funeral of reductionism" (1983); while Charles Murray was being profiled in the New York Times Magazine as "America's most dangerous conservative" (1994) - while all that was happening, research results were steadily trickling in, building up the water pressure behind the nurturist dam.

That dam now has more cracks than the surface of Europa and water is spraying out all over. The only thing that could stop a complete collapse would be the power of government....

... Which might be forthcoming in the event of an Obama victory. The younger generation of human-sciences enthusiasts trend conservative/libertarian, and Obama has them worried....

More here

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More proof that a Democrat caused the Great Depression

He's got modern-day ideological descendants who are equally destructive

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA's Department of Economics. "We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."

In an article in the August issue of the Journal of Political Economy, Ohanian and Cole blame specific anti-competition and pro-labor measures that Roosevelt promoted and signed into law June 16, 1933. "President Roosevelt believed that excessive competition was responsible for the Depression by reducing prices and wages, and by extension reducing employment and demand for goods and services," said Cole, also a UCLA professor of economics. "So he came up with a recovery package that would be unimaginable today, allowing businesses in every industry to collude without the threat of antitrust prosecution and workers to demand salaries about 25 percent above where they ought to have been, given market forces. The economy was poised for a beautiful recovery, but that recovery was stalled by these misguided policies."

Using data collected in 1929 by the Conference Board and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cole and Ohanian were able to establish average wages and prices across a range of industries just prior to the Depression. By adjusting for annual increases in productivity, they were able to use the 1929 benchmark to figure out what prices and wages would have been during every year of the Depression had Roosevelt's policies not gone into effect. They then compared those figures with actual prices and wages as reflected in the Conference Board data.

In the three years following the implementation of Roosevelt's policies, wages in 11 key industries averaged 25 percent higher than they otherwise would have done, the economists calculate. But unemployment was also 25 percent higher than it should have been, given gains in productivity.

Meanwhile, prices across 19 industries averaged 23 percent above where they should have been, given the state of the economy. With goods and services that much harder for consumers to afford, demand stalled and the gross national product floundered at 27 percent below where it otherwise might have been.

"High wages and high prices in an economic slump run contrary to everything we know about market forces in economic downturns," Ohanian said. "As we've seen in the past several years, salaries and prices fall when unemployment is high. By artificially inflating both, the New Deal policies short-circuited the market's self-correcting forces."

Source

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TONIGHT ON KFNX TALK-RADIO

[Image courtesy of Stogie]

Thursday, October 9, at 8:00 P.M. Phoenix time, WC and I will host "Voices of Freedom," a one-hour weekly show on KFNX 1100. See this time-zone chart (Refresh the page!) if you are in a different time zone than Phoenix, Arizona; click directly on the word "PHOENIX" to get a world map of time zones.

Our scheduled guest is Walid Shoebat.

Tune in if you can! In addition to AM air time at the scheduled hour, KFNX offers live streaming at the station's web site.

VOICES OF FREEDOM: THE SHOW THAT MAKES JIHADISTS CRY.

Web site for VOICES OF FREEDOM

THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR -- Obama WAS member of Socialist New Party

John Hinderaker's post leaves little to the imagination:

This may be a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. The political, media, cultural and social establishments are determined to elect the pro-status quo, anti-change candidate, Barack Obama, as President. The power and money arrayed behind Obama seem unbeatable. At the same time, it is inconceivable that the American people would elect a socialist President. So, if this report is correct, something's got to give.

In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago "New Party". The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. ...

After allegations surfaced in early summer over the 'New Party's' endorsement of Obama, the Obama campaign along with the remnants of the New Party and Democratic Socialists of America claimed that Obama was never a member of either organization. The DSA and 'New Party' then systematically attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and the Socialist Organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a certified and acknowledged member of the DSA's New Party.

On Tuesday, I discovered a web page that had been scrubbed from the New Party's website. The web page which was published in October 1996, was an internet newsletter update on that years congressional races. Although the web page was deleted from the New Party's website, the non-profit Internet Archive Organization had archived the page.

Here it is:

So the New Party claimed Obama as a member as of 1996. Progressive Populist magazine agreed in this editorial:

New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.

The Democratic Socialist Party of America was slightly more modest in claiming Senator Obama as an adherent:

Still, it appears clear that as of 1996, the New Party and its parent organization the Democratic Socialists of America considered Barack Obama to be their guy--one of a handful of avowed socialists running for office at any level in the United States. It strikes me that Obama has some explaining to do.

(Who knew??)

More from Jawa, read it and weep (for your country):

From Ace. Via the Wayback Machine, evidence that Barack Obama was a member of the "New Party":

Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).

What was the "New Party"? It was a far-left "workers' party" fighting for:

full employment

a shorter work week

a guaranteed minimum income for all adults and a universal “social wage”

full public financing of elections with universal voter registration

“the democratization of banking and financial systems”, which included public control and regulation of banking

a more progressive tax system

reductions in military spending and an end to unilateral military interventions.

Will anyone in the mainstream media say 'boo' about this? Of course not. Will John McCain? Probably not. Will Sarah Palin? Maybe...

UPDATE: SH provides this from Ace:

About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in July....

Candidates must be approved via a NP political committee. Once approved, candidates must sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.

The political entourage included Alderman Michael Chandler, William Delgado, chief of staff for State Rep Miguel del Valle, and spokespersons for State Sen. Alice Palmer, Sonya Sanchez, chief of staff for State Sen. Jesse Garcia, who is running for State Rep in Garcia's District; and Barack Obama, chief of staff for State Sen. Alice Palmer. Obama is running for Palmer's vacant seat.

UPDATE 2 : Newsbusters asks (rhetorically, of course) "Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?"

Dan Riehl asks: Are you Connecting the Dots? :

As I've already said to some, that Obama was in the New Party isn't new. But keep in mind the ACORN connection I pointed out back in May, then connect the dot some seem to be missing.

ACORN and The New Party were somewhat one and the same because TNP relied on ACORN to become established in Chicago.

After a false start in New York, the New Party built modestly successful chapters in several states. Some of these chapters — such as those in Chicago and Little Rock — had their main bases of support in the low-income community organizing group ACORN, along with some support from various labor unions (especially ACORN-allied locals of the Service Employees International Union).

And at least in part, how did the mighty ACORN grow? That would be courtesy of Obama and Ayres via the CAC. In a very real sense, Obama took foundation monies that were supposed to improve education - failed at that, but managed to establish the very bedrock of Leftism which ultimately lifted him to his first elected office. Sweet deal, huh? Too bad it did nothing at all for the children it was supposed to help.

So, to whom did CAC's money go?

CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).

And then there is this from Bob Owens:

Reader Gus Bailey pointed this out earlier via email, and Ace breaks out the flaming skull.

I don't understand what the big deal is about.

So Barack Obama was a member of an extremist political party established by the Democratic Socialists for America, the Chicago New Party, and they cheered his victory in his uncontested run for his Illinois state senate seat as a step away from American values, towards socialism.

Does it really matter?

Barack Obama's most direct political godfather is a bomb-building terrorist still bent on undermining capitalism. His hostess for his first political fundraiser was once labeled "the most dangerous woman in America" and is a fan of how the Charles Manson "family" murdered their victims.

Barack Obama's cultish church of 21 years is built upon a combination of Black Panther rhetoric, racism against whites, and a Marxist Jesus Christ. If his pastor and mentor Jeremiah Wright had not shrieked " God damn America!" and had not tried to blame the AIDS virus on a government attempt at genocide against African Americans, Barack Obama would still being going to that church.

Barack Obama laundered millions of dollars in education funds to extremist groups in an attempt to indoctrinate children instead of educate them.

Barack Obama, while a member of the Joyce Foundation, attempted to undermine the integrity of legal scholarship in a shadowy attempt to subvert the Constitution and imperil the Second Amendment by conning the Supreme Court.

Folks, if being deeply associated with terrorist leaders and racists for more than two decades doesn't cause disgust in American voters, if they don't care how Obama funneled grant money to extremists, and tried to undermine the Constitution, will his membership in a political party that seeks to undermine the America way of life really stand a chance of changing their minds?

Owens is right: this sort of thing would have been on every front page in America 20 years ago; today the media merely yawns and ignores it.

How far we have come.

UPDATE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS FIRST POSTED ON THESE FACTS BACK IN MAY - 5 MONTHS AGO!