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

Saturday, April 02, 2011

OBAMA, IMMELT, GE, AND THE HUDSON RIVER

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT HOW GE - RUN BY OBAMA PAL AND CHAIR OF HIS JOB CREATION COMMISSION, AND RECIPIENT OF BILLIONS IN FED AID - PAID NO TAXES.

NOT MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT HOW GE HAS BENEFITT4ED FROM LAX EPA ENFORCEMENT IN THE HUDSON RIVER CLEAN-UP (OF THE PCB'S GE DUMPED THERE).

ONLY WE COVERED IT.

IT'S TIME SOME OF THE BIGGIES DID SOME INVESTIGATING.

BACKGROUND:

A National Academy of Sciences committee has stated that "Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) pose the largest potential carcinogenic risk of any environmental contaminant for which measurements exist."

Since 1929, over one million pounds of PCBs have been released into the Hudson River. Dumping and leakage from General Electric (GE) plants at Fort Edward and Hudson Falls have resulted in PCB contamination of the water, animal and plant life, and sediment in the Hudson River. This contamination is present from Hudson Falls to New York City -- 200 miles that compose the nation's largest non-government Superfund site.

AND OBAMA'S EPA IS GOING EASY ON THEM.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... I WUNDA WHY?

TRUMP, WHOOPI, BIRTHERS, THE RACE CARD - AND FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS?

LIKE MOST LIBERALS, WHOOPI PLAYS THE RACE CARD WHEN SHE GETS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE TRUTH AND ACCUSES TRUMP OF BEING A RACIST AND GOING AFTER OBAMA ON THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE ISSUE BECAUSE OBAMA IS BLACK.

SKIP TO 3:30 MARK:



HUFFPOST HAD IT APPROVINGLY HERE:
Whoopi Goldberg got into a furious argLinkument with Donald Trump about President Obama's birth certificate on Wednesday's "The View."

Trump, who has been talking about running for president, has been drawing attention for his comments about Obama's citizenship. He repeated some of them on "The View."

"Why doesn't he show his birth certificate?" Trump said. "Why should he have to?" Whoopi cut in.

"Because I have to and everybody else has to, Whoopi," Trump said. He continued that he believed Obama has a birth certificate, but that he should show it to clear the "pall" hanging over him. Then, he said that it was odd that "nobody from [Obama's] early years remembers him," and that there was "something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like." This last comment seemed to be the final straw for Whoopi—and for Barbara Walters.

"That's a terrible thing to say," she said, as Whoopi exclaimed, "oh my God...that's the biggest pile of dog mess I've heard in ages." She continued, "it's not 'cause he's black, is it?" Trump said it had "nothing to do with that."

"Because I've never heard any white President asked to be shown the birth certificate," Whoopi said heatedly, pounding her fist into her hand. "When you become the President of the United States of America, you know that he's American. I'm sorry. That's B.S."
USA TODAY COVERED IT, TOO:

They grilled him about Obama's birth certificate because of remarks he has made questioning it. "I want him to show his birth certificate! There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like," said Trump.

Said Whoopi, getting angry: "That's the biggest pile of dog mess I've heard in ages. It's not 'cuz he's black is it?"

"Has nothing to do with that," said Trump.

"Because when you become president of the United States of America, you know he's American. I"m sorry, that's BS."

THIS IS PROVEN FALSE HERE - BY WILLIAM A. JACOBSON: Saturday Night Card Game ("Your race card narrative does not fit, so you must acquit")

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

Donald Trump has pushed the issue of Barack Obama's birthplace and citizenship back onto the front pages.

I'm not going to revisit the merits of the issue, but I will note the continuing tendency to treat any questions as to the issue of Obama's eligibility as inherently a reflection of racism.

This time from Leonard Pitts, Jr., writing in the Detroit Free Press (emphasis mine):
"So it is time to call this birther nonsense what it is -- not just claptrap, but profoundly racist claptrap....

It is telling that the white candidate who was, in fact, not born in the U.S.A. (Sen. John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone) did not face these questions, while the black one who was born in Hawaii has been unable to escape them....
Frankly, I wish Trump and his fellow birthers would just go ahead and call Obama an N-word. Yes, it would be reprehensible and offensive.
But it would be a damn sight more honest, too."
Actually, John McCain was challenged on the issue of whether he was a natural born citizen. It's even on the internet, so it should not have been very difficult for Mr. Pitts to find.

And such questions didn't start in 2008, McCain was challenged on the issue in the run-up to the 2000 primaries, as reported in the early days of the internet by a columinst for The Washington Post:
John McCain has more pressing worries than eligibility on the road to the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. After his lead role in pushing campaign-finance and tobacco legislation, both anathema to the Senate GOP leadership, the Arizona senator may have to spend a lot of time trying to prove his party credentials before he ever gets to Iowa or New Hampshire.

But is he constitutionally qualified to become president?
OKAY... NOW: THIS IS THE PART I MOST AGREE WITH TRUMP ON:
Then, he said that it was odd that "nobody from [Obama's] early years remembers him," and that there was "something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like."
SO... WHAT IS OBAMA HIDING?

MY GUESS: THAT HIS FATHER IS FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS. [SCROLL DOWN AND READ THEM ALL!]

MARXIST COLUMBIA PROF' - AND OBAMA BOOSTER - DIES JUST BEFORE HIS OPUS ON MALCOLM X IS PUBLISHED

NYTIMES: On Eve of Redefining Malcolm X, Biographer Dies

For two decades, the Columbia University professor Manning Marable focused on the task he considered his life’s work: redefining the legacy of Malcolm X. Last fall he completed “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” a 594-page biography described by the few scholars who have seen it as full of new and startling information and insights. Link

The book is scheduled to be published on Monday, and Mr. Marable had been looking forward to leading a vigorous public discussion of his ideas. But on Friday Mr. Marable, 60, died in a hospital in New York as a result of medical problems he thought he had overcome. Officials at Viking, which is publishing the book, said he was able to look at it before he died. But as his health wavered, they were scrambling to delay interviews, including an appearance on the “Today” show in which his findings would have finally been aired.

The book challenges both popular and scholarly portrayals of Malcolm X, the black nationalist leader, describing a man often subject to doubts about theology, politics and other matters, quite different from the figure of unswerving moral certitude that became an enduring symbol of African-American pride.

It is particularly critical of the celebrated “Autobiography of Malcolm X,” now a staple of college reading lists, which was written with Alex Haley and which Mr. Marable described as “fictive.” Drawing on diaries, private correspondence and surveillance records to a much greater extent than previous biographies, his book also suggests that the New York City Police Department and the F.B.I. had advance knowledge of Malcolm X’s assassination but allowed it to happen and then deliberately bungled the investigation.

SO JUST WHO IS THIS GUY MARABLE? HERE: NEW ZEAL:

Obama File 62 Obama "Understands What Socialism Is", Works With "Socialists With Backgrounds in the Communist Party"

Obama file 61 here

A leading US Marxist claims that president elect Barack Obama has read some of his books and "understands what socialism is."


Columbia University professor of African American Studies, Manning Marable, writing in the December Issue of British Trotskyist journal Socialist Review, also alleges that Obama works with socialists "with backgrounds in the Communist Party"

According to Dr Marable;

Obama represents a generation of what might be called post-racial black politicians-by which I mean they espouse a politics that minimises matters of race. They do not like to talk about race and subsume it under the rubric of poverty and class. So they are generally left of centre, or liberal, on social and economic policy. Obama is a progressive liberal.

What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organiser. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years...


Manning Marable is certainly in a position to know about Obama's views and reading habits. Whether Dr Marable and Barack Obama have ever met I'm usure, but they have been "close" for many years.

Since the 1980s Dr Marable has been a regular speaker at DSA's annual Socialist Scholars Conference, usually at held Cooper Union in New York. In the early 80s, Obama "went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn".

Perhaps Dr Marable inspired Obama then, just as Obama inspires Dr Marable today?
UPDATE:

AND THERE'S THIS CONNECTION TOO:

MARABLE WAS A LEADER IN THE NEW PARTY - A SOCIALIST PARTY - AND THE FIRST PARTY OBAMA WAS EVER ASSOCIATED WITH AND ON WHOSE PARTY LINE HE RAN FOR CONGRESS.


FACTS:
In the fall of 1994, Marable was identified in a New Party (NP) publication as being one of 100+ activists “who are building the NP.” Other notable names on the list included John Cavanagh, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Randall Forsberg, Maude Hurd, Frances Fox Piven, Zach Polett (who later became a national political director for ACORN), Wade Rathke, Mark Ritchie, Gloria Steinem, Cornel West, Quentin Young, and Howard Zinn.
UPDATE #2:
  • ONE OF MARABLE'S CONTRIBUTORS ON A BOOK ENTITLED "BLACK ROUTES TO ISLAM" WAS MUSTAFA BAYUMI - WHO EDITED THE EDWARD SAID READER. ED SAID WAS RAHSID KHALIDI'S MENTOR - KHALIDI NOW HAS THE "EDWARD SAID CHAIR" AT COLUMBIA.
  • EARLIER IN HIS LIFE, RASHID WORKED FOR THE PLO -- DURING THE ARAFAT ERA. AND HE ALSO BABYSAT FOR THE OBAMA'S IN CHICAGO.
  • A PROBLEM THAT OBAMA ALLIES APPARENTLY POOH-POOH AND THINK IS JUST GRAND. SHEESH.
(END UPDATES)

MARABLE - ALONG WITH OTHER MALCOLM X ALLIES - LIKE PERCY SUTTON AND JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND BILL AYERS - WERE MAJOR INFLUENCES ON OBAMA, AND HELPED HIM FOR DECADES BEHIND THE SCENES.
Link
THIS LEFTIST-CHICAGO MACHINE AXIS EXPLAINS WHO OBAMA REALLY IS, HOW HE OPERATES AND WHAT HE WANTS TO DO TO THE USA.

OBAMA IS A BREZHNEV SOCIALIST WHO WANTS TO MAKE US MORE LIKE CUBA. [MORE ON THE BREZHNEV COMPARISON HERE.]

AND HOW DID OBAMA - A KID FROM HAWAII AND INDONESIA GOING TO COLLEGE IN LA - GET MIXED UP WITH THE POWERFUL LEFTIST-CHICAGO MACHINE AXIS?

VIA FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.


MEMEORANDUM'S ROUNDUP HERE.

VANITY FAIR AND HOT AIR WRONG: TRUMP'S HAIR IS REAL, AND NO COMB-OVER

HOT AIR: Solved: The mystery of Donald Trump’s hair
My baldly-stated thesis: this could be evidence of a rarely-sighted, possibly unprecedented “double comb-over.” It looks as if a length of hair growing from the part on the left side of Trump’s pate has been combed left-to-right over the crown of his head, while a second length of hair, growing from the back of his head, has been combed back-to-front over the first length of hair. Salon-strength hair products likely play a role in the final construction of this lattice-like structure—which could also explain the “ship’s prow” look one sometimes sees in side views of Trump.
TRUTH:



PROOF AT THE :29 SECOND MARK.

HOT AIR OFFERED THE LINK TO THE LEFT-WING LIE-SHEET VF WITHOUT ANY RESEARCH OR CRITICISM.

IDIOTS.

FACEBOOK FACING LAWSUIT OVER INTIFADA INCITEMENT PAGE

Even if they've taken down any followups to the jihadist pages that were still there till now, this lawsuit filed against them is exactly what they deserve:
WASHINGTON — Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages over a page on the social network which called for a "Third Intifada" against Israel.

Facebook this week shut down the "Third Intifada" page, which had almost 500,000 fans, but the lawsuit filed in a court here claims that the social network showed "negligence" by not quickly responding to appeals to remove the page.

Besides awarding damages, the complaint calls on the court to bar Facebook "from allowing the Facebook page titled 'Third Palestinian Intifada,' and other related and similar sites, which advocate violence and death to Jews."

The suit, a copy of which was obtained by technology blog TechCrunch, was filed in DC Superior Court by Larry Klayman, who describes himself in the complaint as "an American citizen of Jewish origin" who is "active in matters concerning the security of Israel and all people."

Klayman also identifies himself as the founder of Freedom Watch, whose website describes it as a political advocacy group dedicated to protecting privacy, free speech and other rights and "our national sovereignty against the incompetent, terrorist state-controlled United Nations."
A billion bucks. I hope they do have to pay in the end. But even if they don't, I figure they'll really be damaged financially. If they were really serious, they would have taken down that page immediately, unlike their erasing the videos about the horrific murder in Itamar just a short time after they were posted. Facebook deserves whatever they get.

THE RAPE OF THE TAXPAYER BY THE PUBLIC UNIONS IS OVER


YUP, THAT'S WHAT IT AMOUNTED TO: RAPE.

AND IT'S FINALLY ENDING.
  • NO LONGER WILL 7% OF THE WORKFORCE BE ABLE TO RAPE THE OTHER 93% OF THE WORKERS IN THIS COUNTRY.
  • NOW - BECAUSE OF GOVERNORS LIKE WALKER AND KASICH - THE SWEETHEART DEALS PUBLIC SERVICE WORKERS GOT ARE FINALLY COMING TO AN END.
  • FINALLY THE PUBLIC SERVICE UNION WORKERS WILL HAVE TO PAY A FAIR SHARE OF THEIR BENEFITS AND PERHAPS EVEN GET PAID BASED ON PERFORMANCE, LIKE THE REST OF US.
  • THE LEFT - AND THE MSM AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY THEY CONTROL - IS DESPERATELY TRYING TO PAINT WALKER AND KASICH AND THE GOP AS ANTI-UNION, BUT THIS IS BULLSHIT.
  • THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD AND BRING AN END TO THE OVERLY RICH CONTRACTS THE PUBLIC SERVICE UNIONS GOT BECAUSE THEY WERE OFTEN BARGAINING WITH THE POLITICIANS THEY CONTROLLED: DEMOCRATS!
  • IF THE LEFT - AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE UNIONS AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY THEY CONTROL - THINK THEY CAN TURN THIS INTO A WINNING ISSUE FOR THEM, THEN THEY HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING TO THEM.
  • THINK ABOUT IT: CAN 7% OF THE WORKFORCE FORCE THE OTHER 93% (OR AT FEWEST 86% OF THE NON-UNION WORKERS IN THIS COUNTRY) TO CONTINUE TO PAY THESE RIDICULOUSLY RICH CONTRACT BENEFITS!?
NO EFFIN WAY.

MORE PROOF HERE.

GOLDSTONE ADMITS TO GRAVE MISTAKES. OR SO IT SEEMS

The South African pro-apartheid judge who conducted a biased report against Israel is now belatedly admitting he made mistakes, but not that he lied and conducted a deliberately biased, alleged investigation:
The head of a U.N.-appointed expert panel that investigated the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas in the winter of 2008-2009 said in a newspaper article that new accounts by Israel's military indicate that it did not deliberately target civilians, his report's central and most inflammatory accusation.

Israel's prime minister said the military was vindicated by Richard Goldstone's acknowledgment in an op-ed piece published Friday by The Washington Post that his conclusion appeared to have been wrong. The Goldstone Report's findings, released in September 2009, triggered outrage in Israel, which refused to cooperate with the investigation on the grounds that the panel he led was biased.

"We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war," Goldstone wrote. "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."
But he did know, he's just not willing to admit he's a bigoted, pro-jihad lunatic.
In Friday's article, the South African judge wrote that a follow-up report by a separate U.N. committee of independent experts found that Israel has carried out investigations into more than 400 allegations of misconduct in Gaza.

Those investigations, he said, indicate that "civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy," though they backed the validity of some cases involving individual soldiers. Hamas, by contrast, has not carried out any investigations, according to the follow-up committee.

In the article, Goldstone regretted the loss of civilian life in Gaza, even if it was not intentional. He also said "it goes without saying" that Hamas commits war crimes by aiming rockets at civilians and continues to do so.
Is this supposed to mean he's having a change of heart and regretting his older ways? I wouldn't bet on it. He could go right back to his old habits at the drop of a hat.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Goldstone Report should be formally nullified.

"Everything we said has been proven to be true," Netanyahu said. "Israel does not purposely target civilians and its investigative institutions are competent, while Hamas intentionally fires at innocent civilians and doesn't investigate anything."

"The fact that Goldstone has backtracked means the report should be buried once and for all."
You can say that again. But why do I get the feeling they won't do it? They're practically run by Islamic entities now, who could decide otherwise. Goldstone has done severe damage that'll take centuries to repair. He should be shunned and ostracized by sane society for the vicious blood libels he's committed.

Update: Joel Pollak sums it up correctly about the repulsive Goldstone.

FIRST GOP CONGRESSMAN CALLS FOR POLLARD CLEMENCY

The first Republican Congressman to ask this is Michael Grimm:
Congressman Michael Grimm from New York has become the first Republican in the House of Representatives to express support for Jonathan Pollard and call upon President Obama to grant him clemency.

Grimm, a first-term legislator representing Staten Island, joins a growing list of American politicians and other public figures calling for Pollard’s release.

In a YouTube video posted this week, Grimm relates that he visited Pollard in prison about two weeks ago, and that “26 years of his life are gone, and he won’t get them back.”

“As a former FBI agent,” Grimm continues, “and someone who has fought for justice most of my life, we have to acknowledge that the penalty does not necessarily meet the crime; most would say that it was excessive.” He said that many public figures "close to the investigation" have gone on record that Pollard has served his time and should be released. “I am working with many people in Washington to have justice prevail [and] to have him released. There is no question that what he did was wrong, but he has paid his debt to the United States…, and at this point, we are looking to the president to do the right thing and grant him the opportunity to resume his life and return to Israel.”
There's a list of more people who've joined the call for Pollard's release at the link. Among them, surprisingly enough, is Henry Kissinger. I assume he wants to try and make amends years after the damage he caused?

Unfortunately, the list does not include Donald Rumsfeld, who's taking a negative stance on the whole issue. Well in all due honesty, I can't say I've ever thought much of him.

Friday, April 01, 2011

HOWARD FINEMAN SLURS ERIC CANTOR AND TEA PARTY WITH LIES

HOWARD FINEMAN (VIA WZ):
Howard Fineman: Eric Cantor is Just Dumbing It Down for Tea Partiers

MSM contortions and distortions.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Yes, because the Tea Party is nuttin’ but dumb toothless hicks, der-r-r. Hey, I know a couple ‘toothless hicks’. What they lack in higher education, they make up for with common sense.

HERE'S THE EFFIN' TRUTH: TEA PARTIERS ARE SMARTER THAN MOST AMERICANS, AND RICHER:

CNN:
Activists in the Tea Party movement tend to be male, rural, upscale, and overwhelmingly conservative, according to a new national poll....

According to the survey, roughly 11 percent of all Americans say they have actively supported the Tea Party movement, either by donating money, attending a rally, or taking some other active step to support the movement. Of this core group of Tea Party activists, 6 of 10 are male and half live in rural areas.

Nearly three-quarters of Tea Party activists attended college, compared to 54 percent of all Americans, and more than 3 in 4 call themselves conservatives.
GALLUP: Tea Partiers Are Fairly Mainstream in Their Demographics

Skew right politically, but have typical profile by age, education, and employment

PRINCETON, NJ -- Tea Party supporters skew right politically; but demographically, they are generally representative of the public at large. That's the finding of a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 26-28, in which 28% of U.S. adults call themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement.


SCUM LIKE FINEMAN SHOULD KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT INSTEAD OF LYING. ADDED BONUS: WE'D NEVER HEAR FROM THEM AGAIN.

JULIAN SCHNABEL'S GOT NO GOOD MANNERS

Julian Schnabel's anti-Israel screed called "Miral" hasn't done well at the box office (only $66,000 bucks according to the charts) and got just as bad reviews, which is very fortunate. But alas, Schnabel's taken to this very rudely, and at a screening, he cursed at the film critics:
Artist-director Julian Schnabel today blasted critics of his controversial new film, “Miral,” hinting at a conspiracy underlying some of the movie’s poor reviews.

“I actually think that there’s a plan to undermine this thing because people wish that it would go away,” Mr. Schnabel said after being asked whether some of the harsh reviews of “Miral” were politically motivated. A politically charged film about three generations of Palestinian women, the story is adapted from a semiautobiographical novel by Rula Jebreal, who wrote the film’s screenplay.

“And people don’t want to get fired from their jobs,” said Mr. Schnabel, one-time enfant terrible of the New York art world and director of critically acclaimed films such as “Before Night Falls” (2000) and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (2007), which earned four Oscar nominations (including best director).

“There’s a woman that was fired from her place, Nina Rothe. She wrote a beautiful review of this movie,” explained Ms. Jebreal, the stunning Palestinian journalist with whom the divorced Mr. Schnabel now lives in New York.
She can't be that stunning if she supports that anti-Israel garbage!

And Schnabel would do well to take a mirror check before he accuses reviewers of political motivations, though it actually has happened in the past with left-wing critics, Roger Ebert included, basing their opinions on their political standings.
According to the film review aggregation site “Rotten Tomatoes,” 80 percent of the reviews of “Miral” have been negative.

“I went to the Angelika theater the other day,” reported Mr. Schnabel, “and I said, ‘Why are you here? The reviews are terrible.’ And they said, ‘We don’t believe in the reviews. This movie is great.’ So I said, ‘(Expletive) the critics,’ and everybody went ‘Yeahhhh!’”
The point here must be Schnabel's own method of reacting to the critics' pans, which is definitely disgusting, ditto the audience's embrace of his language.

Schnabel's also done us a courtesy of citing a few showbiz persona we don't need to waste our time on anymore:
Mr. Schnabel then recited aloud a “review” sent to him by actor Josh Brolin [...]

“And he’s not the only person that can write intelligently about this movie, so I don’t need the critics,” Mr. Schnabel said, citing other supportive notes, from actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Johnny Depp, as well as directors Paul Haggis and Jonathan Demme.
I fail to understand just how actors and directors count. And if they're going to back up this offensive anti-Israel mishmash for him, then I think I can do without their work. I was recently trying to watch some recordings of 21 Jump Street, where Depp first became recognizable, but the only really great thing about that TV series is co-star Holly Robinson Peete. I'm not much into westerns today, but even if I were, I doubt I'd care to watch Brolin in The Young Riders, one of his early roles, either. And I think I could also do without any of the works of Hoffman, Haggis and Demme too.

In fact, here's Michael Medved's column from 2002, where he writes about showbiz stars risking their popularity for politics. When he first wrote it, he probably had no idea just how much that would be.

SO MUCH FOR UPHOLDING THE OATH OF OFFICE



Article HERE.

MARX WAS RIGHT!!!!


Scientists at MIT, while using the latest nanotechnology to explore Climate Issues, have stumbled upon proof that Marx was right.


MILITARY WOMEN SHOULD NOT EVEN BE "ENCOURAGED" TO WEAR A HIJAB

The Daily Caller (via The Jawa Report) has a very troubling report about servicewomen being "encouraged" to wear Islamic headscarfs while on missions in Afghanistan, only it's closer to ordering them to wear it:
In an effort to get closer to the local population, American female soldiers stationed in Afghanistan are being encouraged to wear a Muslim headscarf when interacting with civilians. But some question whether the practice constitutes cultural sensitivity or a form of appeasement that is degrading to U.S. soldiers.

Major Kyndra Rotunda, executive director of the Military Law and Policy Institute and AMVETS Legal Clinic, told The Daily Caller that while the women are not being ordered to wear the head scarf, encouragement is tantamount to a demand.

“They say they are encouraging women to wear the headscarf when they are out and about and on patrol. But the problem is — and I think anyone who has been in the military understands that being encouraged to do something is about the same thing as being ordered — it really puts them in an uncomfortable position when their commander says, ‘We really want you to do this, technically you don’t have to, but we really want you to do this,’” she said. [...]

Retired Col. Martha McSally, whose grievance about being forced to wear the Muslim abaya while stationed in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s resulted in 2002 legislation outlawing the practice of making female soldiers wear Muslim religious garb in Saudi Arabia, told The Daily Caller that the sanctity of the uniform should not be sullied with outside accessories like the hijab.

“Another thing that makes this inappropriate is that they are wearing it with their uniform,” she said. “All the services have several-hundred-page regulations about what is appropriate and is not appropriate to wear with the uniform, and we have very strict guidelines … You are representing the United States government. You are wearing the U.S. military uniform, and it confuses what you are representing when you add this to the uniform.”

In mid-February one of the sponsors of the 2002 legislation that outlawed the practice of making female soldiers in Saudi Arabia wear the abaya, Rhode Island Democratic Rep. James Langevin, wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates requesting more information about soldiers in headscarves.

“I understand the mission in Afghanistan is drastically different than the situation our female troops faced in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 10 years ago,” Langevin wrote. “However I am interested to know the precise policies or operating instructions that are currently being employed with regard to the garments worn by female service members in Afghanistan and other Muslim nations.”

Langevin continues to wait for a response.

Female service members are not the only ones concerned. Retired Navy SEAL Scott Taylor told TheDC that he has been troubled by reports of women wearing the headscarves with their uniforms.

“I am completely oppose appeasement to a culture rather than respecting it,” Taylor wrote in an email. “My personal Middle Eastern experience in a very conservative country has taught me that Muslims can feel respected without submitting to an impersonation of their culture. There is little or nothing gained by an American woman in a Hijab, in what is deemed by some as cultural sensitivity. Women in Female Engagement Teams can successfully complete their stated mission without utilization of the Hijab. Encouraging (which coming from leaders is basically an order within the military) this approach is against what the American soldier in uniform stands for. Soldiers operating covertly are a different story.”

Colonel Martha McSally is hopeful that the experience she had in Saudi Arabia being forced to wear the abaya will not be repeated in Afghanistan with the hijab.

“I am a civilian now, I retired from the Air Force, these things will not apply to me, so there is no personal connection in that sense. But as an American and someone who went through this with the abaya … I feel on principle, for the same reason the abaya was wrong, this is wrong,” she said. “It is important to be sensitive to the local culture in any mission, and understand the culture but this is not about shaking with your left hand or showing the bottom of your feet … this symbolizes that women have a lower status than men.”

Major Rotunda is hopeful that Congress will get involved to ensure that female soldiers are no longer pressured to comply.

“It is clearly within Congress’s realm to pass another provision like what they passed in 2002,” she said. “If the military on its own doesn’t stop this nonsense.”
All women serving in the army should be concerned about this, and steps must be taken to ensure that the senior officers do not even ask the female members to wear such a degrading piece of cloth. I'd say this is another serious case that demands serious attention.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

"Israeli map pinpoints more than 1,000 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon": THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR AND THE AP BY A DAY

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AFDI WINS IN DETROIT

Pamela Geller's movement for helping Muslims to leave their violent religion has scored in their case against the transportation company in Detroit. It's also a score for the 1st Amendment. Their next destination is San Francisco.

GERMANY'S DOUBLE STANDARDS WITH IRAN, AND VIKING MENTALITY IN SCANDANAVIA

Two items of note here: First, P. David Hornik reports about Germany's still entrenched anti-semitism, and besides the disturbing poll taken recently, there's also the government's willingness to allow business with Iran to continue without opposition:
Whatever the case, it would be pleasant to report that, despite popular antipathy to the Jewish state and the Jews, the current conservative government of Angela Merkel is doing much better. But its record, too, at least toward Israel, is fraught with problems.

Much of this concerns a Hamburg-based entity called the European-Iranian Trade Bank, or EIH. As Fox News reported last month, the U.S. Treasury Department states that “EIH has acted as a key financial lifeline for Iran as one of Iran’s few remaining access points to the European financial system.” Earlier in February, eleven U.S. senators wrote to the German foreign minister “asking that he stop EIH from doing business with Iran” and expressing concern about EIH’s “continued financial support of Iran’s nuclear proliferation activities.” To no avail.

Iran’s geopolitical aggression and nuclear program are recognized by now as a threat to the West and not just to Israel — hence the U.S. effort to coordinate sanctions against Iran. But, considering that Tehran has often boasted of its imminent annihilation of Israel and is sponsoring terrorist activity on its borders, the threat to Israel is most acute — making Germany’s abetting of that threat all the more striking.

Indeed, Fox News also reports that Treasury says “EIH facilitated the sale of more than $3 million in materials for Iran’s missile programs.” And it goes beyond EIH, since “Germany is Iran’s biggest European trade partner. German exports to Iran totaled $4.7 billion from January through November of last year. This was a 5 percent increase over the same period in 2009.”

Israelis could be forgiven for wondering if, the more things seemingly change, the more they stay the same.

And on the diplomatic front, too, Germany — Holocaust remembrance and education events notwithstanding — has been doing Israel harm. Late last month, the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution that would have condemned all Israeli building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as “illegal.” The resolution originated with the Palestinian Authority as part of an effort to eventually force Israel out of the West Bank without a peace agreement ensuring Israel’s security and rights. It was sponsored by Lebanon, a country dominated by Hezbollah — an Iranian-backed terrorist organization also sworn to Israel’s destruction.

Only a U.S. veto — reluctant, and under pressure from Congress — stopped the resolution. Israel, however, was reportedly under the impression that Germany, too, would oppose it, and dismayed when Germany voted in favor. Branding Israeli communities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as “illegal” is not only false but intensifies the atmosphere of delegitimization surrounding them. It was within that context of delegitimization that earlier this month an Israeli family of five, including three young children, were butchered on the West Bank.
And I ask myself, why exactly are Israelis for some still willing to buy German products when the public mindset is so disturbing, and their businesses so willing to do anything for money, putting higher value over that than human life? See, this is why I would very much appreciate it if the Israeli/Jewish public were to call it quits on German imports/exports. Stop buying Volkswagens, Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs, for example; we don't need their junk littering up our streets.

Then, we've got the case of Norway and Sweden's vicious anti-semitism, which Giulio Miotti writes about over here:
During the Second World War, the German universities banned many famous Jewish intellectuals such as T.W. Adorno and Albert Einstein. Now, three universities in Norway turned down the Jewish lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz, who had offered free lectures on Israel and international law.

Jews in Norway are just 0.003 percent of the total population, but Oslo is a bulwark of global anti-Semitism and Israel- slandering. What is the root of the Nordic hatred? Norway is the paradise of political correctness, multiculturalism and anti-war feelings. It's the country that, according to the Global Peace Index, for years has topped the list of the most “peaceful” places in the world. Oslo is, after all, the capital of the "Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord".

But last year, the Norwegian government divested from two Israeli economic giants who work in Judea and Samaria. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (that administers the oil profits) divested from the Israeli company Elbit, because it has worked on the Israeli fence that blocked the suicide bombers.

The author of the global literary phenomenon “Sophie’s World”, the national hero Jostein Gaarder, wished for the disappearance of Israel.

For years, anti-Semitic cartoons featured in the largest Norwegian newspapers. In the daily Dagbladet, the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared as the leader of a Nazi death camp.

Socialist leader Kristin Halvorsen is leading the campaigns to boycott Israel.

The state owned TV NRK has announced that it will screen the movie “Tears over Gaza”. The film’s director, Vibeke Løkkeberg, said in an interview, “I cannot see any difference between the Israeli warfare in Gaza and the massacres Qaddafi is conducting against Libyan insurgents”.

The hatred against Israel is spreading also in Sweden, another Scandinavian utopia, the ultra-secularized, ultra-liberal and anti-nationalistic beacon (the Danes are detested there as “chauvinists”), proud of its “lack of prejudice”.

Sweden handled its Soviet neighbour with kid gloves, despite the lack of civil rights there. This is the country that the Guardian described as “the greatest success the world has known”. Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are the dark side of the “folkhemmet”, which in Swedish means “the house of all the people”. It’s the multicultural ideology on which Stockholm has built its model of integration.

Sweden is a country that liked to call herself a “moral superpower” and where the welfare state pays for equipment for women who decide to change gender.

Sweden not only ranked among the world’s handful of richest countries, but also provided the world’s most lavish welfare state. It married solidarity to prosperity. But in the suburbs of the largest cities there are now “intifada against the police”.

Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, the capital of the prosperous province of Scania, has 270.000 inhabitants. But the city has a population that is almost 40 percent foreign and the Jews are leaving the city.

The Israeli national team of Taekwondo was forced to cancel its trip to Sweden due to “security reasons”.

If the burgeoning of anti-Semitism in Norway has a long tradition, in the twentieth century Sweden was one of the most welcoming lands to Jews. Many Jews took refuge in Sweden fleeing the Third Reich and almost all the Danish Jews found a safe haven in Sweden.

Now the slandering of the Jews and Israel is part of the national consensus. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has even suggested that Israeli soldiers are transplanting organs from dead Palestinians.

In the Swedish streets we hear again “Jävla jude”, whch means “damn Jew”. Meanwhile, the most famous Swedish writer, Henning Mankell, who spends much of his time working to fight AIDS and illiteracy in Mozambique, sailed to Gaza aboard the ship of Turkish terrorists.
In all due honesty, who knows if Sweden ever had any common sense to begin with? Raoul Wallenberg was a wonderful man, but he was but one person, and though Jews in Scandanavia during WW2 may have found a lucky place to live thanks in part to his efforts, it's possible that long term, the public mindset wasn't entirely to their favor.

I call this whole case "Viking mentality", because, let us consider, Scandanavia was the part of Europe where the Viking barbarians came from, including Iceland. I would wager that their vicious culture from remote times is what led to their modern anti-semitism. The Vikings were also a fairly sexist society, and if Sweden is actually going to pay for transvestism operations, let's just say that this too could stem from that ancient culture they had.

And aside from that, I think it's high time a boycott of their imports/exports was in order too. We could do without their Volvos, Saabs and Scanias, for example. And, we could do well to avoid buying clothes at H&M, a department store chain owned in Sweden, which now operates a chain in Israel. Indeed, why are Israelis not avoiding their products too?

ABC NEWS EXPOSES OBAMA'S CRONY CAPITALISM AND HIS BREZHNEV SOCIALISM...‏

...AND HOW THE "GREEN ECONOMY" IS REALLY ALL ABOUT MAKING OBAMA'S RICH LIBERAL PALS RICHER - IOW: THE CHICAGO MACHINE AT ITS WORST:

ABC TV NEWS:
When the White House announced the federal government would loan $465 million to Tesla, a California start-up company with plans to develop an all-electric sedan, President Obama called it an "historic opportunity to ensure that the next generation of fuel-efficient cars and trucks are made in America."
The loan also represented a lucrative opportunity for Steve Westly, a major investor in the car company who had raised more than $500,000 for the president's campaign.

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy directed more than half a billion dollars in loans and grants to companies backed by Westly's California venture capital firm. In 2010, the White House tapped Westly for a seat on a special energy advisory panel that gives him regular access to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Westly boasts on his website that his firm is "uniquely positioned" to take advantage of the Obama administration's interest in green energy.

Congress has given the Energy Department authority to distribute billions of dollars in public funds to help stimulate the economy and seed a new generation of clean energy firms. A joint investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity that will air on World News with Diane Sawyer tonight has found that Westly is just one of several political allies of the president who have ties to companies receiving chunks of that money through loans, grants, or loan guarantees.

OBAMA IS THE MOST CORRUPT POTUS IN HISTORY.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

IDF LEAKS LOCATION OF 1000 HIZBALLAH MILITARY SITES TO WASHINGTON POST

BREAKING:
The IDF has released an aerial map of Lebanon revealing the location of some 1,000 different Hizbullah military sites and facilities. The map was published on Wednesday in The Washington Post.

According to the map, which the newspaper said it obtained from the Israeli military, Hizbullah has around 550 underground bunkers throughout Lebanon, around 300 surveillance sites and another 100 or so additional installations.

The bunkers are likely being used by Hizbullah as command posts as well as storage centers for the large amounts of weaponry Syria and Iran have transferred to Lebanon since the Second Lebanon War in 2006.

According to the map, most of the facilities are located in southern Lebanon where Hizbullah stores most of its short and medium-range rockets inside close to 200 different villages. Hizbullah is believed today to have over 40,000 rockets and missiles, including several hundred long-range missiles that can hit targets in Tel Aviv with superior accuracy.


... Israel’s interest in revealing the information is part of a public diplomacy campaign aimed at preparing the world for the widespread devastation that will likely occur in Lebanon in the event of a new Israeli war with Hizbullah due to its decision to station its assets inside populated villages.

AND THE NEXT WAR MIGHT BE COMING VERY SOON - LIKE HIZBALLAH WILL ATTACK IF ASSAD GETS IN ANY MORE TROUBLE.

STAY TUNED.

MORE PROOF THAT TOM FRIEDMAN IS A MORON

TOM FRIEDMAN:
There is an old saying in the Middle East that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. That thought came to my mind as I listened to President Obama trying to explain the intervention of America and its allies in Libya — and I don’t say that as criticism.
WIKI:
a camel is a horse designed by committee; this has been attributed to Vogue magazine, July 1958, to Sir Alec Issigonis and also to University of Wisconsin philosophy professor Lester Hunt.[3]
TOM FRIEDMAN IS A MORON.

WHY I'D RATHER NOT HAVE A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT

There's been a just outrage this week over a page formed by anti-Israelists, calling for palestinians to take up weapons against Israel. As told here, it's been removed:
JERUSALEM (AP) - Facebook on Tuesday removed a page calling on Palestinians to take up arms against Israel, following a high-profile Israeli appeal to the popular social-networking site.

The affair highlighted how Facebook is increasingly involved in charged political conflicts, balancing between protecting freedom of expression and defending against hate speech.

The page, titled "Third Palestinian Intifada," had more than 350,000 fans when it was taken down. It called on Palestinians to take to the streets after Friday prayers on May 15 and begin an uprising. "Judgment Day will be brought upon us only once the Muslims have killed all of the Jews," a quote from the page read.

Facebook said the page began as a call for peaceful protest, even though it used the term "intifada," which it said has been associated with violence in the past.

"However, after the publicity of the page, more comments deteriorated to direct calls for violence," said Andrew Noyes, Facebook's public policy communications manager. He said the creators of the page eventually made calls for violence as well.

"We monitor pages that are reported to us, and when they degrade to direct calls for violence or expressions of hate - as occurred in this case - we have and will continue to take them down."
Or do they? As the following info tells:
Palestinian Authority activists have recreated the Third Intifada page that was banned by Facebook on Tuesday in response to thousands of member requests.

An Israeli Cabinet minister, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a massive Internet campaign were only some of the measures used to pressure the popular social networking site into removing the page, which promoted violence against Jews in Israel.

But the story doesn't end there, because angry Palestinian Authority sponsors of the page ensured the fight would continue.

A Muslim page similarly entitled "Subscribe now to the Palestinian Intifada," on its logo but which is innocuously entitled "Make the Prophet Number One on Facebook" on the heading is listed under Non-profit Organizations.

Easily the largest and most popular Muslim page on Facebook, it espouses peace and offers myriad beneficent comments about Allah and Islam's founder, the Prophet Muhammed. But the Rassoul Allaah page also directs readers to directs readers to a wealth of links to other pages promoting the Third Intifada and a massive attempt to carry out the destruction of the State of Israel.

By Wednesday afternoon, the page had garnered more than three million -- 3,293,252 -- votes of support from Facebook members around the world.

Organizers have summoned millions of Arabs from across the Middle East to march into Israel and forcibly attempt to implement a de facto “Right of Return,” the Arab euphenism for the mass immigration of several million Arabs.

The date for this march has been set for May 15 – the anniversary of what the Arabs refer to as the “Nakba” or “Tragedy“ -- the date of the establishment of the State of Israel.

Although some of the pages promoting this campaign have warned its readers to maintain a peaceful demeanor, others do not bother with such niceties.

At least one is a complete re-creation of the original Third Palestinian Intifada page that was removed.
If Facebook hasn't removed this new page yet, and more importantly, the offending "activists" behind it, then how do we know they're serious? Facebook's interface discourages me already since it's got very complicated controls, but this news is the real problem.

And that's why I don't think I'll ever want a Facebook account, because I can't bring myself to support a social network site that's allowing this kind of monstrous activism to run around.

And of course, there's also this matter here. If they're going to forbid videos detailing horrific murders in the name of jihad, yet allow calls for jihad instead, then what's the use of supporting Facebook?

The "Arab Spring" Smells Like a Pile of Camel Crap

From Yahoo News:
Al Qaeda: Arab revolts herald "great leap forward"

Al Qaeda's most influential English-language preacher said revolts sweeping the Arab world would help rather than harm its cause by giving Islamists freed from tyranny greater scope to speak out.

Western and Arab officials say the example set by young Arabs seeking peaceful political change is a counterweight to al-Qaeda's push for violent militancy and weakens its argument that democracy and Islam are incompatible.

But al Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, in an article published online on Tuesday, said the removal of anti-Islamist autocrats meant Islamic fighters and scholars were now freer to discuss and organize.

"Our mujahideen brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and the rest of the Muslim world will get a chance to breathe again after three decades of suffocation," he wrote, using a term that refers generally to Islamic guerrilla groups or holy warriors.

WE CAN END THE LIBYAN WAR WITHOUT ANOTHER MISSILE LAUNCHED OR ANOTHER BOMB DROPPED OR BULLET FIRED: PAYOFF KHADAFFYTO GO INTO VOLUNTARY EXILE

Instead of waging war against Gadafi, we should offer him $2 billion to split, and give him and his clan transportation out of the country.

This would be cheaper than waging war and lose fewer lives. And take less time.

Of course, once out of the country we couldn't guarantee his safety.

UPDATE: Britain, Italy hold out Gaddafi exile prospect

Apparently Gaddafi is a bad enough guy that the UN will bomb this piss out of him but his crimes are not bad enough for an arrest.

If Gaddafi is allowed to go into exile how much of Libyas weath will go with him and if this happens how much money from the taxpayers of the west be required to “rebuild” and “stabalize” Libya?

YAHOO NEWS

LONDON (Reuters) – More than 40 governments and international bodies gathered in London on Tuesday to plan for a Libya without Muammar Gaddafi, with Italy and Britain suggesting he might be allowed to go into exile.

With fighting raging between rebels and Gaddafi loyalists, Italy has put forward a proposal for a political deal to end Libya’s crisis, including a quick ceasefire, exile for Gaddafi and dialogue between rebels and tribal leaders.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague also implied exile might be a way to take Gaddafi out of the picture and settle the six-week-old uprising against his 40 years in power.

“We want him to leave power and that’s what we’ve consistently said to the Libyan regime. We are not in control, of course, of where he might go,” Hague told the BBC, adding he believed Gaddafi should face the International Criminal Court. Read More »

I THINK THIS WOULD BE OKAY.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Images of the Post-Apocalypse, Or China's Booming Economy?

You be the judge.

Entire cities are uninhabited in China.




One sentence tells you everything you need to know about the "booming" Chinese economy, and possibility that China will one day eclipse the United States as the world's economic powerhouse:
"All the shops in this mall are empty, not that that worries the government, because they're simply more concerned with maintaining economic growth, and one way of achieving that is building cities like this one."

QUESTION: IS OBAMA/ARAB SPRING : DUBYA :: REAGAN : GHWBUSH/THE FALL OF THE USSR?

QUESTION: Is Reagan: GHWBush/fall of the USSR :: Dubya : Obama/"Arab spring"?

Yes: iff the Arab spring doesn't lead to jihadist/Iranian-style takeover instead of more self-determination/democracy.

UPDATE:

IF THE ARAB SPRING TURNS OUT TO BE MORE LIKE THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION - WHICH SEEMS MORE AND MORE LIKELY, THEN THIS FORMULA WOULD BE MORE TRUE:

OBAMA : ARAB SPRING :: JIMMY CARTER : IRAN & TRUMAN : CHINA.

DURBIN'S MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN TO AID JIHAD

Senate hearing to spotlight anti-Muslim bigotry
Discrimination against Muslims in the USA will be the topic of a Senate subcommittee hearing today, less than three weeks after a House panel focused on the terror threat posed by the radicalization of Islam.

There are an estimated 2.6 million Muslims living in the USA.

Sen. Dick Durbin, the assistant Senate majority leader, called the
hearing as chairman of the Judiciary Committee's panel on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. He stressed in an interview this morning on CNN that his session is not a response to the controversial House hearing held by Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y.
TRUTH:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most recent hate crime statistics, released Monday, show that crimes committed due to racial biases are the most prevalent and that — despite a great deal of rhetoric to the contrary — for crimes committed due to a religious bias, it is still safer to be Muslim than it is to be Jew.

According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program in 2009 there were 8,336 victims of hate crimes. 48.8 percent of those victims were targeted because of a racial bias, 18.9 percent because of a religious bias, and 17.8 percent because of a bias against a person’s sexual orientation.

There were 4,057 victims of racially motivated hate crimes. Over 70 percent of those victims were targeted because of an anti-black bias. The second highest group targeted because of race were victims of an anti-white bias (16.5 percent).

Of the 1,575 victims of a religious bias, over 70 percent were victims of an anti-Jewish bias. The second highest group, at 8.4 percent, were the victims of an anti-Muslim bias.

DURBIN IS DOING WHAT ALL GOOD LITTLE LEFTISTS ARE DOING: AIDING JIHAD.

THAT'S WHY I HAVE LONG SAID THAT TO DEFEAT GLOBAL JIHAD WE MIST FIRST DEFEAT THE LEFT.

MORE HERE:
Spencer: Durbin Hearing to Fuel the Muslim Victimhood Myth

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In Human Events today, I discuss the PC charade of the Durbin hearing:

The FBI reports that anti-Jewish hate crimes are nearly eight times more common than anti-Muslim attacks—yet Sen. Richard Durbin (D.-Ill.) announced last week that he was going to hold a Senate hearing not on the resurgence of anti-Semitism, but on “anti-Muslim bigotry.”

For the truth-adverse Left, it was just another day at the office.

Monday, March 28, 2011

MANY TERROR SUSPECTS SEEM TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN COURT

Today, Khalid Aldawsari, arrested for buying chemicals for bomb building, was brought to court and entered a plea that I may have noticed quite a few of his kind filing:
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A Texas college student from Saudi Arabia accused of buying chemicals and equipment to build a weapon of mass destruction pleaded not guilty Monday.

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, his hands and feet shackled and wearing dark blue jail clothing, entered his plea at his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Koenig at the federal courthouse in Lubbock, Texas. Koenig set a May 2 trial date.

If convicted of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction he faces up to life in prison and a $250,000 fine. [...]

Court documents allege he hatched plans to attack various U.S. targets, including in New York City and at former President George W. Bush's Dallas home. [...] Aldawsari, who was legally in the U.S. on a student visa, was arrested Feb. 23. [...] Court records indicate authorities traced Aldawsari's online purchases, discovered extremist online posts he made and secretly searched his apartment, computer and email accounts, and read his diary.

The terrorism case detailed in court documents was significant because it suggests that radicalized foreigners can live quietly in the U.S. without raising suspicions from neighbors, classmates, teachers or others. It also showed how quickly U.S. law enforcement can move when tipped that a terrorist plot may be unfolding.

Federal authorities said a chemical company, Carolina Biological Supply of Burlington, N.C., reported $435 in suspicious orders by Aldawsari to the FBI on Feb. 1. Separately, Ann Arbor, Mich.-based shipping company Con-way Freight notified Lubbock police and the FBI the same day with similar suspicions because it appeared the order wasn't intended for commercial use.

Prosecutors said that in December, he bought 30 liters of concentrated nitric acid from QualiChem Technologies in Georgia, and three gallons of concentrated sulfuric acid that are combined to make TNP. The FBI later found the chemicals in Aldawsari's apartment as well as beakers, flasks, wiring, a Hazmat suit and clocks.

Aldawsari entered the U.S. in October 2008 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to study chemical engineering at Texas Tech University. He transferred this year to nearby South Plains College, where he was studying business. A Saudi industrial company, which was not identified in court documents, was paying his tuition and living expenses in the U.S.

Aldawsari wrote that he was planning an attack in the United States for years, even before coming to the U.S. on a scholarship. He said he was influenced by Osama bin Laden's speeches and that he bemoaned the plight of Muslims.
My estimation is that many vicious characters like him will deny any guilt out of their hatred for the west. All the more reason to hope he'll get the slammer forever.

The Saudi company mentioned may not be named, but we can assume it was government run, realizing how, just like in many commie/fascist run regimes in Europe, this was the precise situation. And if he went to study chemistry first, shouldn't that be reason to suspect he was up to no good?

Not only must foreign exchange students from the House of Saud be shut out, there should be restrictions placed upon what studies they can take in the US: if chemistry could avail their jihadist desires, that's why they simply can't be allowed to learn and work on it.

2 MORE COMMENTARIES ON THE FOGEL MURDER AND THE BOMBING

The Blaze blog has an op-ed by Gary Rosenblatt, the editor of the Jewish Week, where he cites an inner problem:
Is the relatively muted response due to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan that dominated the international news at the time? Or because we expect Palestinians to act in inhuman ways in expressing their hatred of Jews? Or maybe it was because the brutality element of the Israeli story was soon eclipsed by the political and diplomatic angle, with Jerusalem announcing that in response to the murders it would increase settlement building in the West Bank.

All of the above may be true, but I fear that a significant factor in the relative inattention to this shocking and heartbreaking story was that the Fogel family members who were killed were religious Israelis living in a small West Bank community. Had the victims been secular Jews living inside the Green Line, I believe the outrage would have been far greater.

The sad reality is that, as small as our people are in numbers, we are all-too guilty of thinking of certain segments as second-class Jews.

And in today’s political climate, when the West Bank settlements are seen by Washington as the central cause of the breakdown in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, “the settlers” are viewed widely – including among many Jews here and in Israel – as operating outside the norm of Israeli society, an embarrassment to those in Tel Aviv cafes, a few miles away, prepared to displace tens of thousands of their countrymen for the prospect of peace with the Palestinians.

Once admired as brave pioneers embodying the spirit of the early Zionists in working the land, those Jews living beyond the Green Line are portrayed in the media as, for the most part, radical fundamentalists whose actions and very existence are jeopardizing the future of a Jewish democratic state living peacefully alongside a Palestinian state.

The facts are more complicated, though.
Yes, they are. Even today, there is tragic hostility to the pioneers within leftists in Tel Aviv and of course, the MSM in Israel.

Then, there's Caroline Glick's op-ed, where she reveals that no one has taken credit for the bombing near the central bus station in Jerusalem:
What are we to make of the fact that no one has taken credit for Wednesday's bombing in Jerusalem?

Wednesday bombing was not a stand-alone event. It was part and parcel of the new Palestinian terror war that is just coming into view. As Israel considers how to contend with the emerging onslaught, it is important to notice how it differs from its predecessors. On a military level, the tactics the Palestinians have so far adopted are an interesting blend of state-of-the-art missile attacks with old fashioned knife and bomb-in-the- briefcase attacks. The diverse tactics demonstrate that this war is a combination of Iranian-proxy war and local terror pick-up cells. The attacks are also notable for their geographic dispersion and for the absence thus far of suicide attacks.

For the public, the new tactics are not interesting and the message they send is nothing new. With our without suicide bombers, Israelis understand that we are entering a new period of unremitting fear, where we understand that we are in danger no matter where we are. Whether we're in bed asleep, or our way to work or school, or sitting down on a park bench or at a restaurant, whether we're in Rishon Lezion, Sderot, Jerusalem, Itamar or Beersheba, we are in the Palestinians' crosshairs. All of us are "settlers." All of us are in danger.
It shouldn't be that surprising if now, no terrorist gang wants to identify themselves as the culprit, if they see that as a strategy.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

MESSAGE TO MISGUIDED YOUTHS CALLING THEMSELVES "ANARCHISTS"

IF YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING FOR CONTINUED ENTITLEMENTS OR FOR MORE GOVERNMENT AID AND FOR AND FOR HIGHER TAXES ON FREE ENTERPRISE AND ON THE RICH, THEN YOU ARE NOT AN ANARCHIST; YOU ARE A SOCIALIST.

THEREFORE, THE THUGS WHO RIOTED IN BRITAIN WERE NOT ANARCHISTS; THEY ARE SOCIALISTS.

AND THE LAME-STREAM MEDIA SHOULD STOP CALLING THESE SOCIALISTS "ANARCHISTS, TOO.

UPDATE: MORE PROOF FROM THE GREAT DONALD DOUGLAS:

THE PINKOS ON THE USA LEFT - AKA "THE PROGRESSIVES" - INSTINCTIVELY RECOGNIZE THEIR OWN AND ENDORSE THE BRITISH "ANARCHISTS".

UPDATE#2: MEMORANDUM:
Daily Mail:
200 arrested as hardcore anarchists fight police long into night in Battle of Trafalgar Square after 500,000 march against the cut — Over 200 people were arrested as extremists brought violent chaos to central London yesterday after hijacking the much-heralded trade union protest against public spending cuts.
THE DAILY MAIL GETS IT WRONG: THESE THUGS WERE NOT ANARCHISTS; THEY ARE SOCIALISTS.

LETHAL EGYPYTIAN ON THE LOOSE IN NYC!

HIS ATTACK IS ALMOST ALWAYS LETHAL, AND HIS EXACT WHEREABOUTS IN NYC ARE NOW UNKNOWN!

WHICH IS THE TRUE "APARTHEID" STATE, ISRAEL OR FATAH CONTROLLED SAMARIA AND HAMAS CONTROLLED GAZA?







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MORE POSTERS HERE.

THE ARABS PRACTICE APARTHEID; ISRAELIS DO NOT.



FACT:
Judea and Samaria have been known by these names for unbroken centuries, and were registered as such on official documents and maps, by international institutions and in authoritative reference books right up to about 1950. When the correct names became a problem for Palestinian Arabs trying to make their newly-minted claim on the land, it somehow became "politically correct" to use "West Bank" or "occupied territories" instead of the historically accurate names Judea and Samaria.

Some examples of reference works using the names Judea and Sama
ria:

A map published by the US State Department designating the Middle East's "Military Situation" on July 18, 1948 calls the "Arab held" area north of Jerusalem "Samaria"

In A Survey of Palestine prepared by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in December 1945 and January 1946 the authors used the titles "Judea" and "Samaria" as a matter of course when referring to what
later became the "West Bank"

In United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 adopted November 29, 1947, the world body referred to Judea and Samaria by those historical names

Every edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, up to the latest (1994) writes extensively concerning the areas politically called the West Bank, and calls them by their historically accurate names: Samaria and Judea. The fact that the "West Bank" is not mentioned once in the 1954
edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica indicates just how recently this title entered popular usage, and just how quickly, and deeply, it has taken root.
THE ARABS IN GAZA AND JUDEA AND SAMARIA ARE THE ONES WITH AN APARTHEID STATE:

THE ARABS IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND GAZA NO MORE DESERVE A STATE THAN AL QAEDA DOES.

THOSE WHO ATTACK ISRAEL AS AN "APARTHEID" STATE ARE EITHER
LEFTIST DUPES OR LYING SCUMBAG JIHADISTS.


DON'T BE FOOLED BY THEM.