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Saturday, July 04, 2009

BREAKING: SAUDIS GREENLIGHT IDF ATTACK ON IRAN

SAUDIS GREENLIGHT THE ATTACK TO DESTROY IRAN'S NUKE ASSETS:
Saudi Arabia has indicated to Israel that it would not protest use of its airspace by Israeli fighter jets in the event the government resolves to launch a military assault against Iran, according to a report which appeared in the British Sunday Times.

According to The Sunday Times, Mossad chief Meir Dagan held secret meetings with Saudi officials who gave their tacit approval to Israel's use of the kingdom's airspace.

"The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia," The Sunday Times quoted a diplomatic source as saying last week.

The report also quoted John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, as saying that it would be "entirely logical" for Israeli warplanes to fly over Saudi Arabia en route to bombing nuclear targets in Iran.

Though any Israeli attack would be roundly condemned by Mideast leaders at the UN, Bolton said Arab leaders have privately expressed trepidation at the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran.

"None of them would say anything about it publicly but they would certainly acquiesce in an overflight if the Israelis didn't trumpet it as a big success," Bolton told The Sunday Times.

GOOD.

TOO BAD THE USA WON'T DO IT. TOO BAD AND SHAMEFUL.


MY POINT: WE BEAT THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME. REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS. SPREAD THE WORD; BLOGROLL US; BOOKMARK US.
Posted by Reliapundit at 11:28 PM 4 comments

MUST SEE TV: SHARIA COMES TO AMERICA: ISLAMOTHUGGERY AND INTIMIDATION IN DEARBORN

UNBELIEVEABLE!



WATCH ALL 10 MINUTES!

THIS IS AMERICA, FOLKS - 2009!

IT HAS BEGUN.

THIS MUST BE STOPPED!
Posted by Reliapundit at 10:24 PM 3 comments

BREAKING: PALIN PUTS SEVERAL MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS ON NOTICE THAT DEFAMATION SUITS MAY BE PENDING

AWESOME!

MAKE THEM PAY, SARAH! MAKE THE PAY!
Posted by Reliapundit at 10:08 PM 1 comments

UK: Report condemns "Sharia courts"

From the Solicitor's Journal:

30 June 2009

The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) and an estimated 85 "Sharia courts" have been condemned in a report for think-tank Civitas for issuing rulings which are contrary to "UK legal norms and human rights legislation."

In a report on Sharia law, Denis MacEoin, former lecturer in Arabic and Islamic studies at Newcastle University, said: “The fact that so many Sharia rulings in Britain relate to cases concerning divorce and custody of children is of particular concern, as women are not equal in Sharia law and Sharia contains no specific commitment to the best interests of the child that is fundamental to family law in the UK.”

David Green, director of Civitas, said Sharia courts, including the MAT, should be excluded from recognition under the Arbitration Act 1996.

“The reality is that for many Muslims, Sharia courts are in practice part of an institutionalised atmosphere of intimidation, backed by the ultimate sanction of a death threat,” Green said, in an introduction to the book.

“The underlying problem is that Sharia law reflects male-dominated Asian and Arabic cultures. It cannot therefore be accepted as a legally valid basis even for settling private disagreements in a country like ours, where our law embodies the equal legal status of everyone, regardless of race, gender or religion. 
Our system is based on moral and legal equality or it is nothing.”

Posted by Pastorius at 10:04 PM 0 comments

MAJOR MULLAH GROUP CALLS ELECTION ILLEGITIMATE

MAJOR MULLAH GROUP CALLS ELECTION ILLEGITIMATE:
The most important group of religious leaders in Iran has called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.

The statement by the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum represents a significant, if so far symbolic, setback for the government and especially the authority of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose word is supposed to be final. The government has tried to paint the opposition and its top presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, as criminals and traitors, a strategy that now becomes more difficult — if not impossible.

“This crack in the clerical establishment and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic republic,” said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. “Remember they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.”

IT AIN'T OVER YET!

THERE'S ONE MAJOR MULLAH WHO HASN'T YET COME OUT FORCEFULLY AGAINST THE IRANIAN REGIME, WHOSE SUPPORT FOR THE REBELLION WOULD BE CRITICAL FOR THE REBELLION: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

HEH.

OKAY: HE'S NOT A MULLAH... YET.

BUT HIS UNMITIGATED SUPPORT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO THE REBELLION.

WHY IS HE HOLDING BACK?

IT'S EITHER STUPID OR IMMORAL.

OBAMA AIN'T DUMB, SO I GUESS HE'S IMMORAL.

UPDATE: THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MEANS THAT OBAMA IS TO THE RIGHT OF HALF THE MULLAHS IN IRAN!

(UPDATE: ONE HOUR LATER AND INSTAPUNDIT POSTS A LINK.)
Posted by Reliapundit at 9:21 PM 3 comments

THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN: O.A.S. KICKS OUT HONDURAS AND LIFTS BAN ON CUBA

THE FOLKS AT THE OAS ARE EITHER IGNORANT & INSANE, OR EVIL.

I LEAN TOWARD EVIL: THE LEADERS OF THESE NATIONS ARE NOT DUMB; THEY ARE CONSISTENT: SUPPORTING THE BAD GUYS AND HURTING THE GOOD GUYS.

THAT MAKES THEM EVIL IN MY BOOK.
Posted by Reliapundit at 2:01 PM 6 comments

Iranian tyrants getting more forced confessions from leaders of rebellion

Sickening. (More here.)

EXCERPT:
Iranian leaders say they have obtained confessions from top reformist officials that they plotted to bring down the government with a “velvet” revolution. Such confessions, almost always extracted under duress, are part of an effort to recast the civil unrest set off by Iran’s disputed presidential election as a conspiracy orchestrated by foreign nations, human rights groups say.


What's even MORE sickening?

Obama hasn't sufficiently supported the rebellion and won't take further steps to support the rebellion.

Obama is turning his back on our nation's central values - a central value of democracy and of our foreign policy for over a hundred years: self-determination for all nations and peoples.

Obama is evil.
Posted by Reliapundit at 10:35 AM 2 comments

TRIAL OF HIZBALLAH AND AL QAEDA TERRORISTS TO BEGIN IN AZERBAIJAN

ARMENIAN NEWS:
Two Lebanese and four Azerbaijanis have gone on trial on terrorism charges in Baku for planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan's capital.

Karaki Ali Muhammad, Ali Najmeddin, Vidadi Rasulov, Mushvig Amanov, Afghan Babashov and Javad Mammadov are accused of treason and spying.

The suspects are reported to be "connected to" the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah and the Al-Qaeda network.

The two Lebanese were under orders to recruit Azerbaijani citizens and devise a plan to attack the Israeli and U.S. embassies, as well as the strategic Gabala missile-detection radar station in the north of the country. They are also believed to have connections with Iran's powerful ideological army the Revolutionary Guards.
AL QAEDA AND HIZBALLAH ARE ALLIES IN GLOBAL JIHAD -

AND SINCE IRAN BACKS HIZBALLAH IT MAKES IRAN AN ACTIVE ALLY OF AL QAEDA.

ACCORDING TO AN ACT PASSED BY CONGRESS AND SIGNED BY THE PREVIOUS POTUS, THIS IS SUFFICIENT GROUNDS FOR A USA ATTACK ON IRAN.

THE AUMF 9/18/01:

Authorization for Use of Military Force
September 18, 2001

Public Law 107-40 [S. J. RES. 23]

107th CONGRESS

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.

Whereas, on September 11, 2001, acts of treacherous violence were committed against the United States and its citizens; and

Whereas, such acts render it both necessary and appropriate that the United States exercise its rights to self-defense and to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad; and

Whereas, in light of the threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by these grave acts of violence; and

Whereas, such acts continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States; and

Whereas, the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This joint resolution may be cited as the `Authorization for Use of Military Force'.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.

(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

(b) War Powers Resolution Requirements-

(1) SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION- Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.

(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS- Nothing in this resolution supercedes any requirement of the War Powers Resolution.


Approved September 18, 2001.
IRAN'S AID FOR HIZBALLAH AND HIZABALLAH'S AID FOR AL QAEDA MIGHT HAVE COME AFTER 9/11/01.

THIS MAKES THEM JUST AS CULPABLE - IF NOT MORE SO:

  • THE CURRENT IRANIAN REGIME HAS CHOSEN TO FORGE AN ALLIANCE WITH THE PERPETRATORS OF 9/11 (WITH AL QAEDA VIA HIZBALLAH),
  • AND THESE PARTIES HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO MAKE FURTHER ATTACKS ON THE USA;
  • (AN ATTACK ON A USA EMBASSY IN AZERBAIJAN IS AN ATTACK ON THE USA).
Posted by Reliapundit at 10:15 AM 0 comments

McCAIN ON INDEPENDENCE DAY AND IRAN

THIS SPEECH ALONE PROVES HOW AWFUL OBAMA IS AND HOW MUCH BETTER - INFINITELY BETTER - MCCAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN.

THESE ARE THE WORDS OUR AMERICAN PRESIDENT SHOULD BE SAYING.

(INSTEAD, ALL OBAMA HAS OFFERED IS EQUIVOCATION, FALSE EQUIVALENCES, APPEASEMENT AND AS A RESULT SHAME.)

EXCERPT:

... Our wealth and power, unequaled by any nation before or since, are not the cause of our greatness. Our ideals have made us great. We are strong and prosperous because we are free, not the other way around. We have marched, in fits and starts, toward the right side of history and have ascended to a most exalted station in the affairs of mankind – ‘leader of the free world.’ It’s a great tribute to us, but also a great responsibility.

We share a kinship of ideals with every man and woman on earth who struggles for their God-given rights. The world must never doubt where we stand in the liberation struggles of our time. We stand with those who risk the anger of tyrants and their lives for the proposition that just government is derived from the consent of the governed; that all people are entitled to equal justice under the law.

Today, we stand with the millions of Iranians who brave batons, imprisonment and gunfire to have their voices heard and their votes counted. They do not ask us to arm them or come to their assistance with anything other than public declarations of solidarity, and public denunciations of the tyrants who oppress them. We have a moral obligation to do so.

There are those among us who warn that a strong and unequivocal declaration of moral support for Iranians would be used by the cruel regime in power there to convince their subject people that the United States is behind the civil unrest they have attempted to hide from the world. But the regime will make that claim no matter what we say or do. Do they really believe Iranians don’t know why they’re protesting and who is oppressing them? Do they think Iranians whose votes were discarded, whose voices have been ignored, whose lives have been threatened by the regime they wish to be rid of will think America has put them in that position; that the CIA caused a brave and idealistic young woman to step out of her car to join their protest, only to be instantly murdered by the henchmen of the regime?

Iranians know the truth. They know who is oppressing them and why. It’s a government that governs without their consent, which beats them, imprisons them and threatens their lives to preserve its own hold on power, and not to resist some imagined foreign enemy.

They are not fools, these brave and determined Iranians. They are on the right side of history, and the cynics among us, who think them fools, are on the wrong side. Liberty and justice will someday be theirs. Let us hope they will have reason to remember then, who their friends were in their struggle for freedom.

This is John McCain, wishing you a happy and meaningful Fourth of July.

WATCH THE WHOLE THING:




UPDATE: WHAT DID OBAMA TALK ABOUT ON THE FOURTH? SOCIALISM.
Posted by Reliapundit at 8:40 AM 0 comments

PALIN ABSOLUTELY DOMINATES THE NEWS CYCLE

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE:

ONE NEWS ITEM TAKING UP THE ENTIRE MEMEORANDUM FRONT PAGE!

THIS PROVES THAT SARAH PALIN IS TRULY AWESOME -

(UPDATE: and it explains why many other politicians don't all like her: she sucks all the air out of the room!):

memeorandum

Top Items:
KTUU-TV:
Gov. Sarah Palin to resign her office — Updated: — ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning. — Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at Pionner Park …
RELATED:
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: PALIN RESIGNATION ‘DAMAGE CONTROL’ FOR COMING ‘ICEBERG SCANDAL’ ... MORE: EMBEZZLEMENT INDICTMENTS COMING? — [See update below for exclusive source details from Alaska...FURTHER UPDATE now added below: AK sources say ‘embezzlement’ scandal related to Palin's house, federal indictments may be in offing.
Erik Sean Nelson / The Huffington Post:
Palin Will Run In '12 On More Retardation Platform — In Sarah Palin's resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the “world needs more Trigs, not fewer.” That's a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: A Contrarian Take — If Palin wants to run in 2012, why not do exactly what she announced today? It's an enormous gamble - but it could be a shrewd one. — After all, she's freeing herself from the duties of the governorship. Now she can do her book, give speeches …
The Daily Beast:
Did a Scandal Sink the U.S.S. Palin? — Blogs and Stories — The suddenness of Sarah Palin's resignation raises questions about whether a coming scandal caused her to leave office. Max Blumenthal looks at one possibility. — Plus: Read more of The Daily Beast's coverage of Palin's resignation and the GOP implosion.
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign? — Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called …
Rachel Sklar / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin, You Owe The Media An Apology — “I told you so” moments are pretty sweet — and thanks to Sarah Palin, now I've got one. Ten months to the day after her speech at the Republican National Convention, I would like for this woman to eat her words:
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
First Signs What Happened — Okay, we're getting our first indication of what happened. It seems like a colossal sulk on Palin's part, or perhaps better to say an effort on her part to ingeniously combine anti-liberal media bias agitation with Christianist politics by portraying herself as having been crucified by the liberal media.
The Huffington Post:
GOP Official Who Emailed With Palin Moments Before Decision, Explains Her Move — The head of the Republican Governor's Association said on Friday that in emails sent to him moments before she announced her resignation as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin discussed expanding the role she played in the Republican Party.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
HuffPoster: 'Palin Will Run In ‘12 On More Retardation Platform’ — This is about as disgusting as Palin Derangement Syndrome can get. — A blog just published at the Huffington Post is disgracefully titled “Palin Will Run In '12 On More Retardation Platform.”
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Surreality Only Beginning — As David noted below, many commentators have taken little more than an hour to proceed from slack-jawed bewilderment to belief that Sarah Palin's unexplained resignation may be a political masterstroke. — For the moment there's no clear evidence of or explanation …
CNN:
Palin won't run for re-election in Alaska, source says — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is expected to announce Friday that she will not seek a second term, a Republican source close to Palin tells CNN. — Palin has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference at her home in Wasilla.
New York Times:
Palin Resigning Governor's Job; Future Unclear — Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska abruptly announced on Friday that she was quitting at the end of the month, shocking Republicans across the country and leaving both parties uncertain about whether she was leaving national politics or laying the groundwork for a presidential run.
CNN:
ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES — AP: Diprivan Found at Michael Jackson's Home; Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Steps Down — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: And, if you're just joining us …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Miniseries Ends — I guessed right, which I suppose reflects …
Discussion: Jack & Jill Politics
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12, 13, 14 Palin Theories
Mark Halperin / TIME.com: 10 Possible Reasons for Palin's Decision
The Caucus:
Palin to Resign as Governor of Alaska
Matthew Cooper / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Three Theories of Palin's Resignation
Steve / Sweetness & Light:
Palin To Resign - ‘State Media’ Wins!
Discussion: RADAMISTO, Emptywheel and The Hill
Quin Hillyer / AmSpecBlog:
Palin's Dereliction of Duty
Discussion: MyDD and Ben Smith's Blog
CNN:
DNC reacts: Palin decision ‘continues a pattern of bizarre behavior’
Discussion: The Other McCain
Kimberly Krautter / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin — What a Schmuck
Shannyn Moore / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin Resigning as Alaska's Governor (VIDEO)
Discussion: Open Left and Firedoglake
Washington Wire:
Transcript of Palin's Announcement
Discussion: Don Surber
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
My Letter To Sarah Palin
Discussion: National Review
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Cutting bait — With respect to many of the Palinologists below, I think they're getting way too hepatomantic over the entrails. As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. And I'm not sure it's a plus for the Senate - and …
Discussion: BizzyBlog
SHE'S A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH.

MAYBE NOW, MAYBE NOT UNTIL 2020.
Posted by Reliapundit at 8:12 AM 1 comments
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