"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, January 29, 2011

MORE PROOF THAT IRAN AND ISLAMISM ARE BEHIND THE ARAB UPRISINGS?

VIA HOT AIR:
AP

Hammam Saeed says Arabs have grown disgruntled with U.S. domination of their oil wealth, military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and its support for “totalitarian” leaders in the region.

NYTIMES:
Hopeful that the protests sweeping Arab lands may create an opening for hard-line Islamic forces, conservatives in Iran are taking deep satisfaction in the events in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, where secular leaders have faced large-scale uprisings.

While the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confronted its own popular uprising two years ago — and successfully suppressed it — conservatives in Iran said they saw little similarity between those events and the Arab revolts, and instead likened the recent upheavals to Iran’s own 1979 Islamic revolution.

“In my opinion, the Islamic Republic of Iran should see these events without exception in a positive light,” said Mohammad-Javad Larijani, secretary general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights and one of the most outspoken figures among Iran’s traditional conservatives.

He made it clear that he hoped that the “anti-Islamic” government of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in Tunisia, would be replaced by a “people’s government,” meaning one in which conservative Islamic forces would gain the upper hand, as they did when Iranian people overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing a quasi-theocracy.

I HAVE A HUNCH IRAN IS DOPING MORE THAN MERELY APPLAUDING FORM THE SIDELINES.

I HAVE A HUNCH THAT IRAN AND ITS ISLAMIST ALLIES AND STOOGES IN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAVE INSTIGATED, AND INFILTRATED AND FINANCED THE RECENT REVOLTS IN TUNIS AND EGYPT AND WILL SOON UNLEASH ONE IN JORDAN.
(UPDATE: THE HOUSE OF SAUD AGREES.)

(IRAN USED OTHER MEANS IN LEBANON!)

IOW: I AM CONVINCED THAT THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION SWEEPING THE ARAB WORLD.

THIS IS A JIHADO-LEFTIST REVOLT. THAT'S RIGHT - AND YOU READ IT HERE FIRST.

YES: LEFTIST.
  • ONE OF THE BASIC THEMES RUNNING THROUGH ALL THE UNREST IS THE IDEA THAT THE RULERS AND THEIR FRIENDS - ESPECIALLY THEIR AMERICAN ONES - HAVE MADE THE PEOPLE POOR, AND THAT THIS IS WHY THERE'S SO MUCH UNREST - AND WHY THEIR DIRECTING THEIR FRUSTRATION AGAINST THE RULING REGIMES.
  • THE PEOPLE REBELLING BLAME THEIR SAD SITUATION ON THEIR REGIMES AND THE USA.
  • AS IF HAD THE EGYPTIANS AND TUNISIANS AND JORDANIANS AND YEMENIS ONLY BEEN LEFT ALONE THEY'D HAVE BUILT A PROSPEROUS AND LIBERATED SOCIETY WITH "ECONOMIC JUSTICE".
BAH HUMBUG. IOW: TFBS.
  • EGYPT HAS 35 MILLION STRONG YOUTHFUL CITIZENS WHO - DESPITE 30 BILLION IN AMERICAN AID - HAVE PRODUCED NO DECENT ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR THE LAST 35 YEARS WHILE DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME THE ONCE DIRT-POOR AND WAR-RAVAGED SOUTH KOREA HAS BECOME A HUGE PROSPEROUS ECONOMY.
SURE: MUBARAK IS A TYRANT, BUT THE EGYPTIANS WHO WANT MORE SHOULD LOOK IN THE MIRROR - AND AT THEIR CULTURE.

IF THEY DO SO HONESTLY THEN THEY MIGHT SEE THAT THEY HAVE TO RID THEMSELVES OF MORE THAN MUBARAK AND MUBARAK'S CRONY-CAPITALISM.

THEY NEED TO RID THEMSELVES OF ISLAMISM - AND EVEN ISLAM.
  • ISLAM IS FUNDAMENTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY - AND THAT MEANS ISLAMIC NATIONS WILL PROBABLY NEVER EVOLVE TO MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY AND PROSPERITY WITHOUT JETTISONING OR AT LEAST TOTALLY CONTAINING ISLAM.
  • ATTATURK KNEW THIS.
  • TURKEY EVOLVED TOWARD MODERNITY FOR ONLY AS LONG AS ATTATURK'S SECULAR STATE EXISTED. NOW, TURKEY IS SLIPPING BACK INTO ISLAMISM.
AS IS EGYPT, I PREDICT, AND SOON JORDAN AND SOON LEBANON. AND AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ WHEN OBAMA MAKES US LEAVE.

ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE TALIBAN AND IRAN UNDER THE MULLAHS TO REALIZE THAT THE LIVES OF THOSE LIVING UNDER ISLAMIC RULE WILL BE AWFUL.

WHAT BOTHERS ME MOST IS THAT IF THESE MUSLIM NATIONS ALL BECOME ISLAMIST NATIONS, THEN THEY'LL POSE AN APOCALYPTIC THREAT TO THE REST OF US.

ONE THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY COME TO A HEAD MUCH SOONER THAN ANYONE NOW THINKS.

STAY TUNED...

LOOTERS DEFILE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TREASURES

Well, you knew this was coming, with 2 buildings nearby on fire, and the protesters obviously including Islamist fanatics for whom the pre-Mahometan history of Egypt is anathema. The AP reports:

CAIRO (AP) — Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday.

Zahi Hawass said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum's antiquities, and that the prized collection was now safe and under military guard.

With mass anti-government protests still roiling the country and unleashing chaos on the streets, fears that looters could target other ancient treasures at sites across the country prompted the military to dispatch armored personnel carriers and troops to the Pyramids of Giza, the temple city of Luxor and other key archaeological monuments.

Hawass said now that the Egyptian Museum's collection is secure from thieves, the greatest threat to the collection inside is posed by the torched ruling party headquarters building next door.

"What scares me is that if this building is destroyed, it will fall over the museum," Hawass said as he watched fire trucks spray water on the still smoldering NDP headquarters.

The museum, which is home to the gold mask of King Tutankhamun that draws millions of tourists a year, also houses thousands of artifacts spanning the full sweep of Egypt's rich pharaonic history.

Even though they are proud to call themselves Egyptians, the jihadist barbarians have no more respect for the antiquities of their own history, than the Taliban had for the Bamiyan Buddhas.

RAND PAUL LETS THE MASK SLIP

The son of the horrific Ron Paul, the wolf in the flock on the conservative side, has told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the US should cut foreign aid, including to Israel. He's already been panned by the RJC:
“We share Senator Paul's commitment to restraining the growth of federal spending, but we reject his misguided proposal to end US assistance to our ally, Israel,” said RJC Executive Director Matthew Brooks. "We are heartened to know that, with very few exceptions, congressional Republicans understand and appreciate the importance of this alliance to America's national security. And we are confident that few - if any - of Senator Paul's Republican colleagues will cosponsor a plan that reneges on an agreement with a critical ally."

Brooks also raised questions about Paul’s “grasp of the fundamentals of our alliance with Israel” based on his comments to Blitzer. “Any concern that US assistance might undermine Israel's security is groundless.”

When Blitzer asked about continuing aid to Israel, Paul replied, “When you send foreign aid, you actually [send] quite a bit to Israel's enemies, Islamic nations around Israel get quite a bit of foreign aid, too.”

He was apparently referring to aid to countries such as Egypt, which receives money as part of the peace treaty it signed with Israel.

“I don't think funding both sides of the arm race, particularly when we have to borrow the money from China to send it to someone else, we just can't do it anymore,” he said.
Hot Air's got a video available. If my calculations are correct, he may be blurring the differences here between Israel and its enemies in the Islamic world. It's so morally equative, and similarly so blatant, I'm devastated that anyone would associate themselves with this man who, like his own father, gives "libertarianism" a bad name.

I think some of the people who supported Rand Paul in his campaign may owe an apology now. He certainly does.

EL BARADEI IN BED WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS CAROLINE GLICK AND HOT AIR BY 2 YEARS!

CAROLINE GLICK TODAY VIA HOT AIR:
Caroline Glick

Elbaradei’s support for the Iranian ayatollahs is matched by his support for the Muslim Brotherhood. This group, which forms the largest and best organized opposition movement to the Mubarak regime is the progenitor of Hamas and al Qaida. It seeks Egypt’s transformation into an Islamic regime that will stand at the forefront of the global jihad. In recent years, the Muslim Brotherhood has been increasingly drawn into the Iranian nexus along with Hamas. Muslim Brotherhood attorneys represented Hizbullah terrorists arrested in Egypt in 2009 for plotting to conduct spectacular attacks aimed at destroying the regime.

Elbaradei has been a strong champion of the Muslim Brotherhood. Just this week he gave an interview to Der Spiegel defending the jihadist movement. As he put it, “We should stop demonizing the Muslim Brotherhood. …[T]hey have not committed any acts of violence in five decades. They too want change. If we want democracy and freedom, we have to include them instead of marginalizing them.”

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS:

2 YEARS AGO:

Sunday, December 06, 2009

EL BARADEI PROMOTING REFORMS WHICH WOULD AIDE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN EGYPT
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE'S A LEFTIST DUPE OR A CRYPTO-ISLAMIST, THE RESULT OF THE "REFORMS" EL BARADEI ADVOCATES WOULD BE THE SAME: STRENGTHENING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

WHAT EGYPT REALLY NEEDS IS MORE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR CHRISTIANS AND LESS ISLAMISM.
  • EL BARADEI DID NOTHING TO REDUCE THE THREAT OF IRAN'S SHIA NUKES OR NORTH KOREA'S COMMIE NUKES.
  • THE WORLD IS LESS SAFE NOW THEN WHEN HE TOOK OVER THE IAEA.
  • THE ONLY MAJOR STRIDES MADE TO HALT ROGUE NUKES WERE MADE BY BLAIR AND BUSH - DETHRONING SADDAM AND DEFANGING GADDAFY AND UNCOVERING THE PAK' NUKE SMUGGLING OPERATION.
  • EL BARADEI SHOULD NOT BE REWARDED WITH ANY DISTINGUISHED OR CRITICAL POST ANYWHERE.
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS 7 MONTHS AGO:

Thursday, June 03, 2010

SURPRISE! SURPRISE: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BACKS EL BARADEI - IRAN'S IAEA ENABLER - TO CHALLENGE MUBARAK
BBC:
Muslim Brotherhood says it will back ElBaradei campaign

Egypt's biggest opposition group has said it will back the former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei's political change campaign, reports say.

The Muslim Brotherhood failed to win any seats in elections to the upper legislative house on Wednesday.

It alleged the vote for the Shura Council had been rigged.

Mr ElBaradei has launched a campaign for political change in Egypt, but has not officially declared he will contest elections next year.

The Muslim Brotherhood said it would help Mr ElBaradei collect signatures in his efforts to gather a million names to demand changes to the constitution and emergency laws, news agency Reuters said.

IT TOOK VIOLENCE - AND APPEASEMENT FROM LIBERAL JIMMY CARTER - FOR THE JIHAD TO TAKEOVER THE SHAH'S IRAN IN 1979.

IN TURKEY, THE AKP DID IT BY STEALTH AT ELECTIONS AND IN JUDICIAL AND MILITARY PURGES OVER 8 YEARS.

IT LOOKS LIKE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WILL TRY THE AKP ROUTE... WITH THE HELP OF EL BARADEI, THE FELLA WHO RAN THE IAEA AND LET NORTH KOREA AND IRAN AND LIBYA AND SYRIA ( THE OLD AXIS OF EVIL! THE NEW ONE INCLUDES TURKEY!) GET AWAY WITH "MURDER".

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD KNOWS THIS MAN WELL.

AND ANYONE WHO CONTINUES TO THINK EL BARADEI IS PRO-WEST OUGHT TO HAVE HIS HEAD EXAMINED.


STAY TUNED...
AGAIN THAT MONTH!:

Saturday, June 26, 2010

EL BARADEI AGITATING AGAINST MUBARAK GOVERNMENT
EL BARADEI - WHO AS HEAD OF THE UN'S IAEA SPENT YEARS ENABLING IRAN'S NUKE PROGRAM AND ATTACKING THE USA - MIGHT AS WELL ANNOUNCE HE'S PART OF THE GLOBAL JIHAD: NOW HE'S ACTIVELY PROTESTING MUBARAK, OUR 2ND BEST ALLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

(THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAS ALREADY ENDORSED HIM TO RUN AGAINST MUBARAK - AND HE ENDORSED THEM.)
REGULAR READERS KNOW WE ARE WAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE AND WAY AHEAD OF ALMOST EVERY OTHER COMMENTATOR LET ALONE BLOGGER - ANYWHERE - WITH SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY.

SPREAD THE WORD.

BUSH ERRORS HELPED BRING ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIPS TO GAZA AND LEBANON. IS EGYPT NEXT?

The Bush administration forced the Palestinian Authority to allow Hamas to participate in the electoral process. That was a big mistake. Hamas is not a political party. It is a terrorist army that has never hesitated to use its armed force to achieve its Islamist ends.

The same thing is happening in Lebanon. Hezbollah is not a political party, it is an armed insurrectionist gang of terrorists. To allow Hezbollah and Syria to seize control of the Lebanese government is a tragedy.

The same thing is happening in Egypt. Under the pretense of seeking more democracy, armed Islamist terrorists are moving towards a coup d'etat that will put them in control of the most populous Arab country.

Remember: it was the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that spawned Zawahiri and the other masterminds of Al Qaeda.

DID AGW HYSTERIA CONTRIBUTE TO RIOTS IN TUNIS & CAIRO?

Bookworm asks the interesting question:

1. With help from Al Gore, Hollywood, and the entire Leftist panoply, global warming fears reach hysterical levels.

2. As part of their apocalyptic battle against rising seas and dying polar bears, warmists declare ethanol is one of the answers (never mind that it turns out that it takes 1.5 gallons of fossil fuel to produce a gallon of ethanol).

3. Did I mention that ethanol comes from corn? In the old days, people used to eat corn. Now they drive it.

4. To satisfy the panic-stricken need for drivable corn, food crops are diverted into fuel production.

5. The cost of staples rises substantially around the world.

5. In 2008, food riots break out, including riots in Egypt. (Here are three links supporting the ethanol/riot connection, one from a free market site, one from a technology site, and one from an organic food site.)

6. Although food riots haven’t been in the headlines lately, what do you bet that, with ethanol production still causing producers to divert food crops into the energy market, marginal economic societies such as Egypt continue to feel the effects of food shortages?

7. Voila — riot conditions. For history aficionados, remember that, in the 1790s, the French had suffered aristocratic depredations for centuries; it was the food shortages that triggered revolt (a la “Let them eat cake,” not that Marie Antoinette actually said that). The same pattern showed up in Russia, with rising discontent reaching a fever pitch with WWI shortages.

The fact that rising food prices are contributing to unrest in the Middle East has been noted recently. Two weeks ago, the Washington Post reported:

The state of emergency in Tunisia has economists worried that we may be seeing the beginnings of a second wave of global food riots.

Battered by bad weather and increasing demand from the developing world, the global food supply system is buckling under the strain. This month, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported that its food price index jumped 32 percent in the second half of 2010 -- surpassing the previous record, set in the early summer of 2008, when deadly clashes over food broke out around the world, from Haiti to Somalia.

An FAO report noted that "recent bouts of extreme price volatility in global agricultural markets portend rising and more frequent threats to world food security."

In Jordan, too, rising food prices are fueling the protests. According to the Los Angeles Times:

In an unprecedented development in Jordan, protests similar to those that have rocked Tunisia and Algeria in recent weeks erupted in the Arab kingdom Friday.

Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Amman, and several other cities to protest rising food prices and unemployment, media reports say.

Aside from complaints, they also pointed rare and stinging criticism toward the Jordanian government, headed by Prime Minister Samir Rifai.

But are rising food prices linked to AGW and the ethanol for fuel movement? There's a lot of evidence that points to this connection. Money Morning noted:

"With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015," the president said in his speech to members of Congress. "[I]nstead of subsidizing yesterday's energy, let's invest in tomorrow's."

This commitment to clean energy investment increases the importance of biofuels like ethanol, made from corn and other agricultural products. About 40% of U.S. corn is used to make ethanol, and increased ethanol production leads to higher corn and food prices.

There is a definite correlation between an increase in biofuels production, especially bioethanol, and corn prices. U.S. corn prices surged 52% last year, and helped push the Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price Index to an all-time high in 2010. The index tracks the prices of 55 food commodities and climbed for the sixth consecutive month to hit 214.7 points in December, its highest reading since the measure was first calculated in 1990.

The last time food prices spiked was June 2008 when the Food Price Index hit 213.5. Corn reached its highest price in July 2008, climbing over $7 a bushel and squeezing the profit margins of ethanol producers. Most of the plants were built in 2006 when the commodity pulled in about $2 a bushel, making the industry so profitable that plants could be paid off in as little time as six months. But after corn's price surge, ethanol plants were shut down and later that year corn fell to around $3 a bushel.

Then U.S. farmers in 2009 produced the biggest bumper crop of corn in the nation's history - in excess of 13.11 billion bushels. While this usually pushes prices down, corn demand skyrocketed partly due to U.S. government subsidies for ethanol, which reached as high as $7.7 billion in 2009. In December 2010 the U.S. government voted to extend ethanol subsidies for another year, despite the protests of environmentalists and livestock producers who argue the tax credits drive up livestock feed prices and increase fertilizer and pesticide runoff in farmlands.

And as the Bangor Daily News noted, it's all based on nonsense:

Forty percent of American corn goes into ethanol as a gasoline additive. Yet this Hamburger Helper-style mix reduces fuel mileage, has little effect on petroleum imports, causes little or no reduction in air pollution or greenhouse gases, raises food prices, and will cost taxpayers $30 billion in the next five years in ethanol subsidies,

Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expanded this misuse of a vital farm product by increasing the ethanol proportion to 15 percent for cars and trucks with model years of 2001 and later. The EPA needed to increase the ethanol mix because demand was falling short of the man-dated ethanol production level that will rise to 36 billion gallons year by 2022.

It does appear that what prompted the insurrections in Tunisia and Egypt, and the growing insurrectionist movements in Yemen and Jordan, at this time, was a rise in basic food commodity prices caused in large part by the global warming hysterics.

Friday, January 28, 2011

MORE PROOF THAT IRAN IS BEHIND THE RECENT MIDDLE EAST UNREST?

IMHO IT IS.

MY GUESS/HUNCH:

THE IRANIAN MULLAHS LEARNED FROM THEIR OWN REBELLION AND THEY HAVE MANIPULATED/CO-OPTED THE YOUTH IN OTHER NATIONS VIA THE INTERNET: PLANTING RABBLE-ROUSING TWEETS AND THE LIKE.

EGYPT MIGHT BECOME ANOTHER IRAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS JPOST AND SEVERAL ISRAELI GENERALS BY 3 DAYS

ISRAELI GENERALS, TODAY IN THE JPOST:
‘We’re living on a volcano,’ experts warn

As with Iran in ’79, Islamists could hijack pro-democracy movements; ex-IDF research chief: “We're on thick ice, but even that melts eventually."

Israeli security experts are casting an uneasy eye at the civil unrest spreading through the region.

On Thursday, Yemen joined the list of Arab states experiencing unprecedented demonstrations calling for authoritarian leaders to step down, and Egypt braced for more civil unrest.

While no analysts here predict any immediate ramifications for Israel’s national security, some said mass protest movements that begin as pro-democracy uprisings could easily be hijacked by Islamists.

“We need to understand that we are living on a volcano,” said Maj.- Gen. (res.) Ya’acov Amidror, former head of the IDF’s Research and Assessment Directorate.

“Conditions can change from today until tomorrow. We must ask ourselves, what is the worst case scenario,” he said. “We are on thick ice, but even that melts eventually."

“Advice we have heard from certain countries in Western Europe [suggesting that the uprisings could lead to a wave of democratic revolutions] should not be followed,” he said. “There’s no immediate fear of any security escalation. The main question is: In the long term, will we be ready for all scenarios?” Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser, and a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), said, “There’s a reasonable chance that if a revolution takes place in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood would rise to power. That would be bad not just for Israel but for all democracies.”

The true struggle in Egypt was not between “Mubarak and pro-democracy elements, but between Mubarak and the Muslim Brotherhood,” Eiland said.
TAB EARLIER THIS WEEK:
WHO KNOWS WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW...

BUT I HAVE A PREDICTION: THE MUBARAK'S DO EVENTUALLY FLEE.

AND EL BARADEI TAKES OVER IN A COALITION WITH MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (AS HARIRI DID WITH HIZBALLAH).

EL BARADEI IS ALREADY CLOSE TO THEM.

THEN EL BARADEI IS OUSTED - LIKE IRAN'S BANI SADR OR BAZARGAN,

AND EGYPT GOES THE WAY OF IRAN - JUST AS LEBANON SEEMS TO BE GOING.
REGULAR READERS KNOW WE REGULARLY BEAT THE EXPERTS WITH SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY . EVEN ISRAELI GENERALS. SPREAD THE WORD.

IMPOSING SO-CALLED "ECONOMIC JUSTICE" IS BASICALLY TYRANNICAL & ANTI-LIBERTARIAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS BELMONT CLUB BY 6 YEARS

TODAY , VIA GLENN:

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:

Liberation under the Piven doctrine effectively becomes a choice by the serfs of which aristocracy they believe will do best by them, since worth is determined by the political process anyway. Which side do we back by our “mass actions”? Liberation becomes the process of putting the “right” people in charge of the masses.

It is not — it is never — putting the masses in charge of themselves.

Why not put the masses in charge of their own lives? Because that would require facilitating innumerable transactions and contracts between individuals. That would require self-interest and economic calculation to propel the system. That would mean a market, whose job it would be for the state to keep fair, and that were too little a role for such as Piven thinks should rule the roost.

ME 6 YEARS AGO:

The Democratic Revolution – started in the USA in 1776 – is still the most revolutionary revolution of all time.

What Leftists think of as revolutionary – namely socialism – (in all its forms: Marxism; Fascism; Nazism; Maoism; Stalinism; Castroism; Mugabe-ism; Ho-Chi-Minhism; Pol-Potism; Trotskyitism) – is nothing more than a tyranny by the state over the individual; (many even called it, “the DICTATORSHIP of the proletariat” – not even feigning that democracy was even an intention; in fact, communism merely substituted one aristocracy – one of inherited birthrights – for another: that of orthodox adherence to a false ideology).

All people and movements which stand in the way of the advance of humanity from tyranny to democracy, and from serfdom to liberty (and the prosperity that ONLY liberty produces) – are reactionary.

ALL: Leftists and jihadists.

They’re birds of a feather.

THE TERM "DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT" WAS THEIRS - ONE THEY WERE PROUD OF. AND IT WAS ACCURATE.

They wanted to replace the tyrannical ARISTOCRACY with a tyrannical mob.

As Glenn says, meet the new boss, just like the old boss: it's still tyranny just by different folks.

Socialism was not and can never be about LIBERATION because it is fundamentally anti-libertarian: it doesn't end feudalism; it merely up-ends of it.

THIS IS WHY HAYEK SO WISELY CALLED SOCIALISM "THE ROAD TO SERFDOM": SERFS WERE DIRT POOR AND BECAUSE THEY WERE TYRANNIZED BY A STRONG CENTRAL STATE GOVERMENT, HAD NO RIGHTS AND NO LIBERTY.

25 Years Ago Today

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch.

President Ronald Reagan's eloquent address to our nation:

THESE CAN'T POSSIBLY BE RABBIS

Dan Friedman at Big Peace writes about some alleged "rabbis" who're part of a group called "Jewish Funds for Justice" that attacked Glenn Beck for exposing George Soros' collaborations with the nazis during WW2. Their site doesn't have much about Judaism or history, if at all, and is clearly just another leftist front. Plus, where did they get their funding from?

Thursday, January 27, 2011

A MOON OF SATURN MIGHT HAVE A CARBONATED OCEAN - WITH LIFE...

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MORE INSANITY FROM THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS: "IT'S WARMER NOW IN GREENLAND THAN DURING THE MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD"

REUTERS:

The summer water temperatures, reconstructed from the makeup of tiny organisms buried in sediments in the Fram strait, have risen from an average 5.2 degrees Celsius (41.36F) from 1890-2007 and about 3.4C (38.12F) in the previous 1,900 years.

The findings were a new sign that human activities were stoking modern warming since temperatures are above past warm periods linked to swings in the sun's output that enabled, for instance, the Vikings to farm in Greenland in Medieval times.

ER, UM... THEY WERE FARMING IN GREENLAND BACK THEN DURING THE MWP - AND YOU CANNOT NOW - (DESPITE "MAN-MADE CO2 AND SUV'S!); ERGO: IT IS NOT WARMER NOW THAN THEN.

IDJITS.

AND ANOTHER THING: WARM WATER MIGHT BE THE RESULT OF UNDERSEA VOLCANOES.

MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM SCRAPES THE BARREL FLOOR ATTACKING ISRAEL

News Real Blog reports there's a new variation on Spielberg's Munich in the works depicting British police pursuing "Jewish terrorists" in 1940s Israel, titled "The Promised Land":
The movie is about the Zionist underground that opposed British rule in Mandatory Palestine in the early 1940s and will be set in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Colin Firth is starring in the movie. Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Sturgess play British police officers tasked with stopping the Zionist underground. The story is told from the British point of view; Zionist hero Avraham/Yair Stern is the main target. This is a story never told before in any major movie production. The British labeled Stern and his comrades as terrorists and criminals. The group eventually called itself the LECHI, or Fighters For the Freedom of Israel. It was maligned as the Stern Gang by the Brits.

Stern was driven by a desire to rid Israel of British rule at all costs. He knew that the British opposition to European Jewish immigration into the Mandate meant that his brothers and sisters would be left in the hands of the Nazis and would lead to horrific tragedy.

As in Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005) Israelis will be depicted in such a way as to produce a strong sense of moral equivalence. There are no real good guys. Everyone has done wrong. All religions have their violent extremists.

What’s worse is that British director Michael Winterbottom revealed in an interview with ComingSoon.net that he brought a significant bias to the project. He labeled Stern a terrorist and is claiming it’s a true story. He stated in his interview “…right now, we’re wanting to do a film set in Palestine in the 1930s about British police chasing Jewish terrorist groups. There’s a guy called Avraham Stern, who was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground from when Britain was controlling Palestine, so it’s set in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and it’s about police trying to capture Stern and Stern trying to kill the police. It’s based on a true story.”
But not based on a fair viewpoint. Clearly, the British are still seething at our victory of throwing them out after all the trouble they caused us with their dhimmitude and betrayal. Their moonbat elitists have not changed a bit. They've never recognized us as a true entity, and it's clear they don't intend to. No wonder Winterbottom uses the demeaning P-name the Romans came up with to reference Israel as he does.

And we've come a long way since the time of 1960s Exodus, although that was an American production. But would you see a movie like that today even in Hollywood? I doubt it.

EDWIN BLACK'S NEW BOOK, "THE FARHUD"

Big Peace has a video interview from CBN's Stakelbeck show with Edwin Black, which focuses on the Islam-nazi alliance, and also a horrific case largely unknown in the west, the massacre of Iraqi Jews in Baghdad in 1941. The book takes its title from the name of that horrific massacre.

2 "HONOR" MURDERERS GO ON TRIAL THIS WEEK

Pamela Geller writes in the American Thinker (via Jihad Watch) about the opening trials of Islamofascists Muzzaimmil Hassan and Faleh Almaleki, who murdered their wife/daughter in cold blood. There's more on the first case here. Geller says:
In Buffalo, the moderate Muslim beheader and bridge-builder to the West, Muzzammil Hassan, was granted the right Monday to act as his own attorney. That should make for some interesting trial transcripts. Hassan had an attorney, Jeremy Schwartz, but Schwartz told the judge that he met with Hassan on Friday and they had an impasse and "irreconcilable differences and opinions" that go to the heart of the defense.

[...]

And in Arizona, an Iraqi Muslim named Faleh Almaleki went on trial this week for murdering his daughter for being too "westernized." The Almaleki trial damn near didn't happen. They were negotiating a plea deal for this cold-blooded adherent to the sharia. But readers of my website AtlasShrugs.com called, wrote, and e-mailed, and in a huge victory for Atlas readers who fought the impending plea deal, it was withdrawn.
Thank goodness. As she also tells in the article, the Muslim community knew of this yet nobody said anything, and it's clear then they're unreliable.

Both Hassan and Almaleki should receive the death sentence for their violent crimes, and everything must be done to prevent further tragedies like this from occurring.

DHIMMI BATMAN COMIC STRIP AUTHOR, DAVID HINE, SPEWS MORE DHIMMITUDE

The British-born writer who wrote that whitewashy, morally equivalent story of Batman recruiting an Algerian Muslim in France gave an interview to the leftist Graphic Policy site, where he continues to be as insular as ever, and sees conservatives as merely manufacturing the news. He begins by defending his standings with the following:
I have lived in Paris and spent a lot of time there. My partner is French, my son attends French school here in London. So France, and specifically Paris, was the obvious location.
Well duh, plenty of British have spent time in France, and vice versa. The problem here lies within his political viewpoints, veering left on the superhighway at 900 miles per hour, and what he really thinks of the French as a whole. I've been to France too, but do I adhere to the kind of socialist leanings and contempt he probably has? Nope.
GP: During the creation of the character, was there any discussion at all as to how the public might react to him?

DH: Only within the fictional world of the story itself. There is a lot of hostility towards the French Algerian community from some sections of the French public and we planned to explore the complications that might arise. We certainly envisaged right wing and racist reaction to a character who, because of their prejudices, would not be regarded as a true Frenchman. We talked about a scene where Nightrunner would unmask and declare himself to be a proud citizen of France. For the moment he’s going to remain masked and anonymous. There’s an irony to his being viewed as part of the establishment by his own community. It makes for some interesting potential for the development of a conflicted character. Honestly though, it never occurred to me for a moment that the very fact of choosing a fictional character with French Algerian, or Muslim background would in itself be controversial.
Wow, he really thinks even I'd care if the character was Algerian. I don't care about his race and/or ethnicity. What I care about is his default religion, Islam, whose Koran/Hadith contains creepy verses like, "Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like" - Sura 2:223. And, lest we forget, there's also the matter of "prophet" Mohammed's marriage to a 9-year-old girl, Ayesha. (See also this topic and this one for more insight). I assume Hine considers that "normal"? If this were an Algerian Christian, maybe even an apostate from Islam, who was the protagonist, all this disgust at Hine and company's subtle insult wouldn't have been.

His ambiguous reference to "some sections" of the French public is insulting, as is his dislike of conservatives, and it makes no difference whether "Nightrunner" is thought by his own community as a member of establishment; it's the whitewash of Islam that's concerning, not to mention how the story otherwise depicts the French law enforcement as the aggressor (shades of how anti-Israelists depict our own authorities).
GP: In another interview you said you’d like Nightrunner be a character the French would like to see. How’s their reaction been to him? Has there been any controversy over his introduction there?

DH: We’ve had a lot of very positive reaction. Most people in France are very pleased to see their country get its own hero and particularly its own Batman. It’s always tough to depict a country and culture, as an outsider. There will always be nit-picking about how accurate our depiction of Paris has been, just as we British always examine every element of a comic written by an American, set in the UK. I did my best to make sure locations were accurate, although I’m sure a few errors will have slipped through.
And what's that supposed to mean? That the French are stupid and have no knowledge of how to judge a story, and will take what's offered no matter what? It figures that such a Briton would be so murky and otherwise contemptible. I may not be French, but if I were, I can assure you I wouldn't take kindly to this, and it's got nothing to do with whether or not the character is indigenous. It's just his chilling religion.
GP: What’s your reaction been to the controversy surrounding the character?

DH: It was really unexpected. The character doesn’t strike me as particularly controversial. I thought we had moved on from a time when a non-white Anglo-Saxon character might be seen as unusual. I realize this is part of an anti-Muslim sentiment in a tiny segment of the online community, as much as a racial thing. I get the impression that there are people who spend their time trawling the internet to find any mention of Islam that they can get outraged about. But it feels like a manufactured outrage and I don’t take it too seriously.
Again, he fogs it all up as "racial", in his failure to distinguish between race and religion. A man or woman who cannot distinguish between race and religion is not a very well educated person, IMHO. He should also consider the rage manufacturing his own country's spent its time doing, like that there was ever a "palestinian Arab people" who existed. Or how about what may be the first anti-Jewish pogrom in Europe, which, as Melanie Phillips wrote in City Journal, took place in none other than England:
[...] Britain has always had an ambivalent relationship with the Jews. Medieval England actually led the European charge against them. The blood libel is thought to have originated in twelfth-century England; and in 1290, after numerous pogroms against its Jewish citizens, it expelled them altogether. It was not until 1656 that, for a variety of economic and religious reasons, Oliver Cromwell allowed Jews to return to England.
This occured during the time of King Edward I of the Plantagenets, well before Spain and Russia instigated their own pogroms. On a related note, is this horror not something that requires outrage? Maybe he should take some time to think before he says we're not supposed to be angry about what a religion and Koran he clearly hasn't studied teaches and leads to. But I doubt he ever will.

Oh, and I thought we'd moved on from a time when it seemed as though indigenous Bulgarians, Ghanians, and Armenians didn't exist in entertainment, but do you actually see them seriously emphasized in entertainment today? Not really. Not even the Ainu of Japan seem to get much attention; it's as though they don't exist either! What's so special about a religion like Islam that isn't so special about a race like the Armenians? And why is Mannix one of the very few protagonists of his background in showbiz ever since the series ended its 1967-75 run on TV?

Hine goes on to say:
GP: Have you been following the bloggers at all? Or do you ignore such comments?

DH: Normally I would ignore them, but once this started spreading across the net, I did have a look at some of the sites. So much anger, so much hate, so much unfocussed rage and fear. I found them profoundly depressing.
Is that also his opinion on 9-11 Families for a Safe & Strong America and their opposition to the Ground Zero mosque abomination? No surprise he would merely dismiss the movement against the whitewash of Islam so cynically.
GP: The coverage of the story has been worldwide. Where the most surprising place you’ve seen it covered or had to do an interview with?

DH: I’ve been approached by all kinds of people, from the BBC to Arabic radio and TV, French radio and TV and even The Daily Show in the USA. I’ve avoided most of it, because I don’t think this is a truly controversial topic and is best ignored. But I am fascinated by the viral nature of the story’s spread. It even made Wikileaks.
But it didn't make sales, and hasn't really spread in media coverage that widely either. Not for long anyway. But I think he did appear on BBC radio, that most awful of the apologists for jihad.

The following Q&A, however, is really disturbing:
GP: With the tragic events in Arizona fresh on everyone’s mind, have you received threats over the character?

DH: No. It’s all hot air. A few verbal ‘insults’ have been thrown my way, but being called ‘Leftist’ or ‘Politically Correct’ doesn’t bother me.
What is this supposed to be? What's the tragedy in Arizona got to do with this? Is this some sort of attempt to hijack something unrelated as part of the left's effort to demonize the right over something that leftist ideology actually caused? But if that's how he and they feel, what do they think of the cases of Tea Party members who've been receiving death threats? I'm really disappointed, but not surprised, at how contemptible they are of people who oppose violent mindsets and the trivializing of the same, which is just what this pretentious man from the UK has engaged in.

As it so happens, it's very fortunate that he hasn't recieved any threats. Let us be clear: it would be wrong to do what the Islamofascists have tried doing to Lars Vilks.

One more thing: about that claim they were thinking of introducing a French crimefighter called the Musketeer? I'll bet he and they contrived that as a defense because of how goofy it could sound. If I were creating a French vigilante for a book like the Dark Knight's, "Musketeer" wouldn't be at the top of my list; I'd want it to be something more straightforward. Speaking of which, "Nightrunner" is actually pretty weak for a code name too.

THE ULTIMATE FIX FOR OBAMACARE: CONGRESS SHOULD JUST GRANT EVERY CITIZEN A WAIVER!

Because Obamacare is fundamentally flawed, Obama is granting waivers left and right: 729 so far.

The GOP controlled House has already voted to repeal it, but - as long as Harry Reid controls the Senate, and Obama is in the White House - it's not going anywhere fast.

Instead of spending a lot of time tinkering with it, Congress should just treat all of us regular folk the way Obama treats his cronies: by granting us all waivers.

YEAH: NOT JUST 729 WAIVERS, BUT 330 MILLION WAIVERS.

It's the ULTIMATE FIX!

OBAMACARE DEMOLISHED IN 30 SECONDS

Demolished by Richard Foster, the top official at Medicare (hat tip to Mike's America):


Obama so-called health care reform is an epic fail and a series of lies perpetrated upon the American people.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

WESTERN FLEETS HEADED TOWARD LEBANON

HMMM...:

The United States, European countries, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and many other countries have been conducting around the clock consultations on the highest level to abort this vicious Syrian-Iranian scheme.

The Syrian-Iran full control of Lebanon will impose a dire threat to all the Arab countries, Israel, and Europe.

Gheriafi learned from reliable European Intelligence sources in Brussels that at least two well-equipped Western military fleets were urgently ordered to move from the Arabian Gulf to positions close to both Syria and Lebanon in the Mediterranean Sea.

They carried strict instructions to fully monitor and watch the unfolding events in Lebanon, especially in case Hizbullah, backed by Syria and Iran, succeeds in taking over the new Lebanese government.

The intelligence sources did not unveil the identity of the Western fleets but confirmed that they comprise two nuclear aircraft carriers with 210 jet fighter planes on board, and more than 30 ships carrying about 5,800 marines armed with the latest technologies.

The same sources said that the Israeli air and navy forces have been on a high alert status since last Friday after Lebanon's Druze Leader, MP Walid Jumblatt, decided to join Hezbollah and Syria with his parliamentary bloc. His support gave them the upper hand and a parliamentary majority that enables them to form a new pro-Syrian and -Iranian government, killing all chances for caretaker PM Sa’ad Hariri to return as a prime minister.

A new Hizbullah-controlled government will cut all Lebanon’s legal and financial relations with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) and force the country to fully join the Axis of Evil terrorist front comprised of Syria, Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah. The STL is expected to indict members from Hizbullah, Iran and Syria for the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and dozens of high ranking Lebanese politicians, clergy, journalists and intellectuals.

WE GET RESULTS: WE DEMANDED THE FLEET LAST WEEK. (AND 9 MONTHS EARLIER.)

THE REGION IS AT A PIVOT POINT. A HINGE OF HISTORIC IF NOT EPOCHAL PROPORTIONS.

IF EGYPT AND LEBANON FALL INTO THE IRANIAN HEGEMONY IT WILL ENDANGER THE ENTIRE WORLD.

IMHO: ALL THIS TROUBLE IS BEING FOMENTED BY IRAN, AND THEREFORE A PREEMPTIVE ATTACK ON IRAN'S REGIME AND NUCLEAR ASSETS WOULD END THIS NOW.

HIZBALLAH AND HAMAS AND SYRIA WOULD HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO APPEASE US.

THE CONSITUTION CALLED IT THE "STATE OF THE UNION" AND NOT THE "STATE OF THE NATION"

THE PRESIDENT IS THE CHIEF OF THE UNION OF THE STATES AND HIS ADDRESS SHOULD JUST BE ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE UNION:
U.S. Constitution - Article 2 Section 3
Article 2 - The Executive Branch
Section 3 - State of the Union, Convening Congress

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; ...

OBAMA'S PLAGIARIZED ADDRESS IMPLICITLY PRESUMED THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EQUALS THE NATION, AND HE PROCEEDED TO TALK ABOUT THE NATION AS IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD RUN THE WHOLE DANG THING.

IT'S SHOULDN'T - AND IT'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TRIES TO.

THE CONSTITUTION SET UP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS A LIMITED GOVERNMENT WHICH GOT IT'S LIMITED POWERS FROM THE STATES AND THE PEOPLE.

OBAMA AND THE LIBERALS CONFLATE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE NATION AS A WHOLE.

THIS IS ONE OF THE ROOT CAUSES OF A LOT OF THE LEFT'S AWFUL STATIST POLICIES AND WHY THEY THINK THE POTUS SHOULD USE THE SOTU TO TELL US WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN NEARLY ALL FACETS OF OUR LIVES.

IT'S BS.

IT'S BS WHEN FOLKS SAY "OUR NATION IS IN DEBT"; IN FACT IT AIN'T THE NATION, IT'S THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS GET THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BE MORE LIMITED AND LESS EXPENSIVE.

THAT WILL MAKE OUR NATION MORE PROSPEROUS AND FREER.

REPRISE POST: CAN "BUSH'S WARS" BE JUSTIFIABLY BLAMED FOR THE DEFICITS? Nope.

THIS REPRISE POST NEEDS TO BE DRUMMED INTO EVERY LIBERALS ANTI-BUSH HEAD:

Friday, June 11, 2010

CAN "BUSH'S WARS" BE BLAMED FOR THE DEFICITS?

Liberals are blaming the HUGE Obama deficits on Bush and "Bush's Wars".

CAN "BUSH'S WARS" BE JUSTIFIABLY BLAMED FOR THE DEFICITS?

NOPE.

The huge deficits of the US federal government are not the result of what liberals call Bush's Wars, or fighting "two wars at once".

The Iraq War and the Afghanistan War have not caused the federal deficit to go completely out of control.

SOCIALIST SPENDING HAS.

Need proof?

HERE:

"Bush's Wars" can't have caused the deficits that EUROPE is experiencing or JAPAN or CALIFORNIA and MICHIGAN and NEW JERSEY or NEW YORK and so on.

What caused ALL these deficits?

SOCIALISM. That's why it's called THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.

If Bush can be blamed in any way it's because it turns out "compassionate conservatism" is code for LIBERAL and Bush spent too dang much money on socialist crap like his education policy and his pharmaceutical entitlement plan. FACT: Bush spent more money on domestic crap than any POTUS since LBJ.

OBAMA has spent more even recklessly than LBJ.

And it's exactly the wrong thing to so IF you want to rebuild the USA.

WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING?

Well, Europe and Japan have announced austerity measures.

Many USA states have too.

WE NEED THEM AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, TOO.

We can have them if we vote GOP this November.

The alternative is economic and fiscal collapse - and the collapse of the dollar.

Either we restore sanity via austerity, or the USA is kaput.

UPDATE - (VIA GLENN): MORE PROOF:
Pension Plans Go Broke as Public Payrolls Expand

Bloomberg reports:
Seven states will run out of money to pay public pensions by 2020. That hasn’t stopped them from hiring new employees.

The seven are Illinois, Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, Hawaii, Louisiana and Oklahoma, according to Joshua D. Rauh of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Combined, they added 9,700 workers to both state and local government payrolls between December 2007 and April of this year, says the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
More detail:
Illinois running out of pension-fund assets in 2018; Connecticut, Indiana and New Jersey in 2019; and Hawaii, Louisiana and Oklahoma in 2020.
SOCIALISM - NOT DEFENDING THE FREE WORLD - IS WHAT'S CAUSED THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN.

END. OF. STORY.
Posted by Reliapundit @ 11:19 PM ; PERMALINK

BOTTOM-LINE:

GREECE AND SPAIN AND IRELAND AND ITALY AND BRITAIN ARE NOT HAVING HUGE FISCAL PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF BUSH'S WARS OR THEIR DEFENSE BUDGETS.

AND NEITHER IS THE USA.

IT'S THE SOCIALISM, STUPID!

REMINDER: THE REAL PHILISTINES WERE NOT ARABS

THE REAL PHILISITINES (PALESTINIANS AS WE IN THE WEST NOW CALL THEM) WERE NOT INDIGENOUS TO THE HOLY LAND.

(ARABS WHO CLAIM TO BE NATIVES OF THE HOLY LAND REFER TO THEMSELVES AS FILISTINES BECAUSE THEY DON'T USE THE LETTER "P".)

WIKI:
Philistine origins are traced to the arrival as conquerors of a group of people on the coast of Canaan and Gaza. They were culturally related to the Mycenean or proto-Greek world and came from a point of origin in the Aegean thought by most scholars to have been Crete.[2][7] They conquered the local Caananite western-Semitic speaking population of the coast, and together the conquered people and
AND BTW, EGYPTIANS WEREN'T ARABS, EITHER - THEY WERE CONQUERED, TOO.

THE ARABS IN EGYPT AND LEBANON AND ISRAEL AND GAZA ARE ALL DESCENED FROM NON-NATIVE INTERLOPERS - INVADERS.

THE ISRAELITES "INVADED" CANAAN AND KILLED ALL THE PEOPLE THERE - SO THERE IS NO EXTANT PEOPLE WITH AN EARLIER MORE LEGITIMATE CLAIM.

JUST SAYING.

IF ARABS WANT A 'RIGHT OF RETURN" THEN THE ONLY PLACE THEY CAN RETURN TO LEGITIMATELY IS THE ARABIAN PENINSULA.

SURPRISE-SURPRISE-SURPRISE: Cameron raised taxes in Britain and they got a Double Dip‏

Cameron - A THIRD WAY CONSERVATIVE - STUPIDLY raised taxes - and they got a Double Dip‏:
Britain’s Economy Stalls, in Setback for Cameron

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government received a sharp political jolt on Tuesday with the release of official figures showing that Britain’s economy contracted slightly in the last three months of 2010, prompting some economists to warn that the country was at increased risk of a “double dip” recession after four consecutive quarters of modest growth.
WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN?

LUCKY FOR US THE GOP RE-TOOK THE HOUSE AND PREVENTED THAT FROM HAPPENING HERE.

IS EGYPYT'S MUBARAK GOING THE WAY OF THE SHAH OF IRAN?

There's massive unrest now in Egypt.

As I predicted here - on 1/22.

And it's getting so bad many think that the regime is being toppled.
WHO KNOWS WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW...

BUT I HAVE A PREDICTION: THE MUBARAK'S DO EVENTUALLY FLEE.

AND EL BARADEI TAKES OVER IN A COALITION WITH MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (AS HARIRI DID WITH HIZBALLAH).

EL BARADEI IS ALREADY CLOSE TO THEM.

THEN EL BARADEI IS OUSTED - LIKE IRAN'S BANI SADR OR BAZARGAN,

AND EGYPT GOES THE WAY OF IRAN - JUST AS LEBANON SEEMS TO BE GOING.

UPDATE: KING ABDULLAH OF "JORDAN" IS WORRIED AND SO IS TRYING TO CO-OPT THE REFORM MOVEMENT BEFORE HE LOSES HIS THRONE.

TONY BLAIR'S SISTER-IN-LAW TURNS AGAINST HIM

The Muslim convert Lauren Booth has actually declared she wants him tried for war crimes (via Big Peace):
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law Lauren Booth, a rights campaigner and Muslim convert, said on Wednesday that he should be tried for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq.

Booth, the half-sister of Blair's barrister wife Cherie, is in Malaysia for lectures organized by Viva Palestina, a British-based organization associated with controversial politician George Galloway.

Asked whether Blair should be arrested and sent to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for war crimes, Booth replied: "Absolutely. He misled the British people and took Britain to war on a lie."

The conflict in Iraq was "an offense", she told reporters after a speech at a Malaysian university, saying it was organized well in advance between Blair and the United States leadership.

Booth has been a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, and a supporter of the Palestinian cause, and in 2008 travelled with other activists to Gaza by ship to protest against Israel's blockade of the territory.
And to top it all off, she lets out a backwards claim:
"Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed... Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."
Somehow this doesn't surprise me coming from a British convert to the RoP.

And just look at that, lefty Blair can't please even his own relatives.

WHY AL JAZEERA'S "DOCUMENTS" ARE LIKELY PHONY

Melanie Phillips writes about the "leaked" documents published by al Jazeera, that Fatah supposedly gave up their claim to Jerusalem and other parts of Israel, and estimates that they're likely phonies. Barry Rubin's also written about them. What all this suggests is that al Jazeera's got an axe to grind with Fatah, and that no matter what their stand is on Israel, al Jazeera doesn't have much respect for Fatah.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Hamburg´s Jihadi Legacy – German Town Invaded by Islamists | Jih@d

"Last week a picture emerged on a German Jihadi website. “Dirty Jew” the text read. On the picture there was a man crossed out with red paint. “Be careful so Allah is not punishing you in this life with death”, the text said, “Allah´s punishment can reach you anywhere!” The threat is even more concerning as the identity of the man seen on the website is widely known in Pinneberg – it is Wolfgang Seibert, head of Pinneberg´s Jewish Community."
READ IT ALL!!

The "Peace" Activists of the Mavi Marmara

“(The assailants were) pulling off my helmet, strangling me, sticking fingers into my eyes to gouge them out of their sockets, pulling my limbs in every direction, striking me in an extremely harsh manner with clubs and metal rods, mostly on my head,” recalled soldier no. 1. “I truly felt that I was about to die, way beyond what we define as life-threatening.” “I felt that at any moment I would take a blow to the head which would kill me.”

Monday, January 24, 2011

WILL PAPER BOOKS SURVIVE?

JUST ASKING.

WILL THEY SURVIVE ONLY AS LONG AS THE GENERATIONS THAT WERE RAISED ON THEM SURVIVE?



WILL CHILDREN'S COLORING BOOKS? OR ARE LITTLE KIDS GOING STRAIGHT TO VIDEO/COMPUTER GAMES?

JUST ASKING...

AGW ALARMIST'S FOOD PRODUCTION PREDICTION RAPIDLY LOOKING AS STUPID AS IT EVER WAS

9 YEARS AGO FAMOUS AGW ALARMIST GEORGE MONBIOT BET THAT WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FEED THE WORLD NEXT YEAR - 2012.

IN 12 MONTHS THIS WILL BE PROVEN TO BE TFBS.

JUST AS GORE'S RIDICULOUS SEA LEVEL PREDICTION WILL BE ONE DAY -

AND JUST AS EVERY OTHER PREDICTION MADE BY THE AGW ALARMISTS WILL BE ONE DAY - AND SOONER THAN THEY THINK!

WILL THEY THEN STFU?

PERHAPS - BUT ONLY WITH REGARD TO MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE.

AND THEN THEY WILL MOST PROBABLY JUST INVENT SOME OTHER HYSTERICAL AND UTTERLY FALSE REASON TO PUSH FOR THEIR SOCIALIST AGENDA.

BRRRRRRR!: CANADA IS HAVING ITS COLDEST WINTER IN DECADES!

BBC:

Wind chill warning are in place across much of east and central Canada as Canadians brave some of the lowest winter temperatures in decades.

Quebec City temperatures fell to -25C. Wind chill made it feel more like -40C.

Other parts of east and central Canada are experiencing similar lows and the severe temperatures were set to remain until Tuesday morning.

Despite being a country used to extreme weather, many residents are finding the latest cold snap hard to bear.

Last year's relatively warm winter had raised expectations according to David Phillips, Senior Climatologist with Environment Canada, who told the BBC: "I think we were seduced into thinking this was what winters were going to be."

IOW: AGW = TFBS.

AND THESE FREAKIN AGW ALARMISTS HAVE THE NERVE TO TELL US THAT OUT WEST AND NORTH IN CANADA IT'S "BALMY" BECAUSE IT'S "JUST" -1C:

Some of mildest weather is currently being seen in the northern Arctic regions.

The city of Whitehorse in Yukon was enjoying a relatively balmy -1C on Monday.

IDJITS. MUST BE ON ACCOUNT OF THAT "ARCTIC FENCE" THINGY/MEME THEY JUST INVENTED! WHICH MUST BE THE FAULT OF RETHUGLICAN CARBON BURNING ZIONISTS!

Answering Muslims: Terrorist Training Camp in New York

Mozlem Americans, mainly blacks, talking on a video about how mozlems are the majority of people in the States, they fought the British and now the powers that be(?) have taken away their freedom!

The video shows black mozlems training in various forms of warfare.

Are the men mainly ex-convicts, converted to izlam in jail?

Obama's "children".

THE KINGDOM OF JORDAN CONTINUES TO DEVOLVE - PERHAPS INTO ANOTHER TUNISIA

AL BAWABA:

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday held a series of consultations with representatives of various political forces in the kingdom to learn more about the demands of the Jordanian people. The Palestinian Al Quds newspaper quoted a Jordanian source as saying: "The king held a series of consultations with senior officials in the country, including political activists, trade unionists and Islamists and listened to complaints in order to find out the needs of the Jordanian street."

The source added that "the King paid unannounced visits to the poorest regions of the Kingdom in order to learn about the needs of its sons."

In spite of the government taking a series of measures to curb price hikes, demonstrations against the dire economic situation in the Kingdom have been continuing over the past two weeks. The protestors have demanded the dismissal of the government headed by Prime Minister Samir Rifai.

A number of Jordanian cities witnessed last Friday protest rallies with a wide participation of thousands of citizens. These protests were led by opposition parties and trade unions. They demanded the sacking of the government and implementing economic reforms.

THE SITUATION IS NOT GETTING BETTER... STAY TUNED...

(PREVIOUS POSTS HERE AND HERE TOO - ANS ALSO HERE.)

(ASIDE: YOU WON'T READ ABOUT THIS ANYWHERE ELSE FOR A WHILE: TOTTEN AND THEN INSTAPUNDIT THE REST OF THE BLOGGER HORDES WON'T LINK TO THIS OR COMMENT ON IT TILL THE END OF THE WEEK... REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS.. SIGH...)

BRITISH CHILDREN NOT ALLOWED INTO BRITISH CLASSROOMS BECAUSE THEY'RE BRITISH: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS MOONBATTERY BY A WEEK

WHAT'S AT THE GREAT MOONBATTERY TODAY...
British Children Not Allowed in British Playgroup

Posted by Van Helsing at January 24, 2011 3:15 PM

Britain under the rule of moonbats is not the best place to be British:

Emma Knightley, 25, and Kimberley Wildman, 27, turned up at the 'Making Links' playgroup with their children Imogen, 21 months, and Olivia, 18 months.
But they were stunned when organisers at the centre in St Neots, Cambs., ordered them to leave after being asked 'what country are you from' and they answered "British".
The best friends were told that only foreign mums and children are welcome at the council-funded playgroup…

Local mothers try to get their kids into the playgroup because it is free — i.e., financed through taxes by the very Britons who are not allowed to take part.

WAS AT TAB LAST WEEK.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WORD.

THE SAD THING IS THAT RAHM RAN THE WHITE HOUSE THE WAY HE RAN HIS MAYORAL CAMPAIGN

RAHM WAS FINALLY OUSTED FROM CHICAGO'S MAYOR'S RACE.

HE COULD'VE KNOWN BETTER, IF HE DIDN'T ALWAYS THINK WITH HIS GONADS.

HE RAN THE WHITE HOUSE THE WAY HE RAN HIS CAMPAIGN - LIKE A LOUDMOUTH AND A CAD AND A JERK AND A LOUSE AND A BULLY.

HIS ABSENCE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE - AND BILL DALEY'S PRESENCE - MAKES OBAMA AND THE WHOLE ENTIRE CHICAGO MACHINE AND THEIR LEFTIST ALLIES - MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER.

CLIMATE ALARMISTS INVENT ANOTHER FACT: THE "ARCTIC FENCE"

NTIMES: "Topsy-Turvy Weather Tied to Weaker Arctic ‘Fence’:"
For two winters running, an Arctic chill has descended on Europe, burying that continent in snow and ice. Last year in the United States, historic blizzards afflicted the mid-Atlantic region. This winter the deep South has endured unusual snowstorms and severe cold, and a frigid Northeast is bracing for what could shape into another major snowstorm this week.

Yet while people in Atlanta learn to shovel snow, the weather 2,000 miles to the north has been freakishly warm the past two winters. Throughout northeastern Canada and Greenland, temperatures in December ran as much as 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. Bays and lakes have been slow to freeze; ice fishing, hunting and trade routes have been disrupted.

Iqaluit, the capital of the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut, had to cancel its New Year’s snowmobile parade. David Ell, the deputy mayor, said that people in the region had been looking with envy at snowbound American and European cities. “People are saying, ‘That’s where all our snow is going!’ ” he said.

The immediate cause of the topsy-turvy weather is clear enough. A pattern of atmospheric circulation that tends to keep frigid air penned in the Arctic has weakened during the last two winters, allowing big tongues of cold air to descend far to the south, while masses of warmer air have moved north.

The deeper issue is whether this pattern is linked to the rapid changes that global warming is causing in the Arctic, particularly the drastic loss of sea ice. At least two prominent climate scientists have offered theories suggesting that it is. But many others are doubtful, saying the recent events are unexceptional, or that more evidence over a longer period would be needed to establish a link.

.... A handful of scientists point to that extra heat as a possible culprit in the recent harsh winters in Europe and the United States.

Their theories involve a fast-moving river of air called the jet stream that circles the Northern Hemisphere. Many winters, a strong pressure difference between the polar region and the middle latitudes channels the jet stream into a tight circle, or vortex, around the North Pole, effectively containing the frigid air at the top of the world.

“It’s like a fence,” said Michelle L’Heureux, a researcher in Camp Springs, Md., with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A Google of this term, "arctic fence", finds NO MENTION of it before this news-item leading me to believe that it's a post facto rationalization in an attempt to maintain the fiction that despite the enormous cooling we have experienced of late the earth is still cooling.

ARGUMENTS LIKE THE ONE THE NYTIMES AND L'HEUREUX ARE MAKING - THE "ARCTIC FENCE" - ARE WHY THE AGW/CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA IS NOT REALLY SCIENTIFIC: THEIR CLAIMS ARE UN-FALSIFIABLE:

THE CLIMATE CHANGE ADHERENTS ALWAYS HAVE SOME EXCUSE OR NEW WRINKLE AND INVENT A NEW MEME WHENEVER THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THEIR ARGUMENTS TO BE WEAK.

IT WON'T WORK!

AGW = TFBS.

BTW: SINCE NOBODY WAS IN THE ARCTIC TAKING ICE-EXPANSE MEASUREMENTS DURING WITHER THE MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD OR THE LITTLE ICE AGE, WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING WHAT THE ICE EXPANSE WAS THEN.

(ICE EXPANSE - OF ICE ON WATER - CANNOT BE MEASURED BY ICE CORES BECAUSE THE ICE CAN DISAPPEAR LEAVING NO RECORD.)

Lebanon has become another Gaza - and the Israelis and the Saudis and Jordanians and Egyptians can't be happy

UNREAL: HIZBALLAH --- WHICH ASSASSINATED THE PREVIOUS PM OF LEBANON, THE FATHER OF THE CURRENT PM --- HAS NOW SELECTED THE NEWEST PM:
Hezbollah and its allies was poised Monday to form Lebanon’s next government, unleashing angry protests, realigning politics here and in parts of the Mideast and culminating the generation-long ascent of the Shiite Muslim movement from shadowy militant group to the country’s pre-eminent political and military force.

A practical impact may be the realignment of Lebanon away from the United States, which treated the government of Saad Hariri as an ally. Hezbollah and its own allies now have the votes to back as prime minister Najib Miqati, a billionaire and former prime minister. The government he forms may in the end look much like past cabinets in this small Mediterranean country and, indeed, Mr. Miqati struck a conciliatory tone, calling himself a consensus candidate.

But the symbolism of Hezbollah choosing the country’s prime minister was vast, potentially serving as the beginning of a new era for a combustible country whose conflicts have long entangled the United States, Iran, Syria and virtually every country in the region.
IT'S INSANE.

THE INSANE IMMORAL FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT.

OBAMA INVOKES RONALD REAGAN

Desperation just before the State of the Union Address? More revisionist history? Typical Leftist hypocrisy? In the final paragraph, Obama states:
When the future looked darkest and the way ahead seemed uncertain, President Reagan understood both the hardships we faced and the hopes we held for the future. He understood that it is always "Morning in America." That was his gift, and we remain forever grateful.
Is Obama actually promoting American exceptionalism now?

Read the op-ed essay (note byline), and decide for yourself.

IS THE FRONT NATIONAL STILL ASSOCIATING ITSELF WITH DIEUDONNE M'BALA?

Marine le Pen, the daughter of the awful Jean-Marie le Pen, has taken over as leader of the Front National this past week. She may have said that she intends to change the party's image, and perhaps make it more friendly to Jews, for example, and even oppose Islamofascism. But there's still some very disquieting questions left unanswered. Commentary's Benjamin Weinthal has written about the Front National's associating with the repugnant "comedian" Dieudonne M'Bala, who just 2 years ago formed an anti-Zionist party. So far, there's no telling if they've actually distanced themselves from him yet.

I think it can be very easily said that, if Sarkozy and the UMP don't make a more serious effort to deal with the problems of Islamofascism, for example, they do risk allowing Marine le Pen to accomplish what her terrible father never could. And that wouldn't be good at all.

According to this post on GalliaWatch, some conservative sites are wary of the possibilities she'll let the mask slip. And this one tells even more alarming news, translated from Novopress and Infos Bordeaux:
Even though several journalists from publications, such as Minute, that advocate the same political positions as the Front National were not authorized to cover the convention in Tours, and other journalists were banned entry and even molested, the right hand man of the imam of Bordeaux received an accreditation in good and due form! Camel Bechikh (above) was in fact covering this weekend's convention of the Front National in Tours for the bimonthly journal Flash, a journal described by Jean-Yves Camus as the "organ of anti-globalization of the extreme Right", and in which essayist Alain Soral, who as we all know is very concerned about the "Zionist" question", writes a column. The international political news is supervised by Christian Bouchet, a radical supporter of Marine Le Pen within the Front National, and another adversary of "Zionism".

But Camel Bechikh is not a "journalist" like the others. He's not a journalist at all. A close associate of Tareq Oubrou, imam of the Bordeaux mosque and author of Profession Imam (published by Albin Michel), Camel Bechikh is in charge of public relations for the CBSP (Center for Aid to the Palestinians), an association connected to the UOIF (Union of Islamic Organizations of France) and high on the official list of terrorist organizations in Canada and the United States (both countries blame the CBSP for financing Hamas).

Camel Bechikh, who is head of the Muslim Scouts of France in the Aquitaine region, was the key figure in the April 2009 conference in Bordeaux that brought together Alain Soral and imam Tareq Oubrou.
Good god. So has the leopard changed its spots? Not by a longshot. There may be lawsuits being filed because of the assaults, and if the FN's allowing that kind of obnoxious behavior to go around in their headquarters, they deserve to be sued. The FN will definitely have to be monitored closely.

Update: John Rosenthal does some work on Pajamas Media, and discovers that not only is the Front National drawing a lot more support on the left, their hostility to free trade is really no different from the older le Pen's rhetoric from years before.

MOSCOW AIRPORT STRUCK BY TERRORIST ATTACK

Terrorist attacks in Russia are increasing:
An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing 31 people and wounding about 130, Health Ministry officials said.

Russian news agencies reported the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber and that the device was packed with shrapnel.
More at Jihad Watch. This is truly terrifying.

Update: the AP Wire (via Hot Air) notes that the airport's security is terrible:
Domodedovo is generally regarded as Moscow’s most up-to-date airport, but its security procedures have been called into question.

In 2004, two suicide bombers were able to board planes at Domodedovo by buying tickets illegally from airport personnel. The bombers blew themselves up in mid-air, killing all 90 people aboard the two flights.
But who knows if this'll serve as a wakeup call to the public about how their leaders - Putin and Medvedev - have let them down? If I were Russian, I'd certainly be angry that they did nothing to improve airport security, which they're tragically in charge of ever since they reinstated old communist tactics.