THIS IS HOW THE LEGACY MEDIA WANT YOU TO VIEW THE ELECTION

UPDATE: MOONBATTERY AGREES.

MORE PROOF THIS LINE OF ATTACK WILL ACTUALLY BE USED HERE:

 Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Romney Trips On Contraception Question: 'It's Working Just Fine, Just Leave It Alone'  —  At tonight's ABC News/WMUR Republican presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney stumbled badly on a Constitutional question …

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Discussion: The Daily Caller, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Los Angeles Times and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

RELATED:

 Byron York / Campaign 2012:

Team Romney: Steph ‘obsessed’ with contraception  —  MANCHESTER, NH — Aides to Gov. Mitt Romney were left shaking their heads late Saturday night after a question directed to Romney by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on the issue of contraception.  After the debate, one top Romney aide …

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, NewsBusters.org and Instapundit

 Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Romney's A ‘Job Cremator’

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Reality-Based Community, The Raw Story andThe Political Carnival

BRRRRRRR: HUGE SNOWSTORM HITS AUSTRIA

Heavier than usual snowfall and high winds have caused chaos on roads and railways in many areas of Austria. 

Part of a major railway route has been shut down in the west of the country, and some villages and tourist resorts have been cut off. 

Up to 1.2 metres (4ft) of fresh snow has been recorded in some areas since Thursday.

AGW = TFBS

COULD IRAN BE PREPARING TO COUNTERATTACK AMERICA VIA VENEZUELA?

ONE THEORY:

AFTER ISRAEL, THE USA AND BRITAIN WHACK IRAN:

IRAN'S STOOGES, HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH WILL HIT ISRAEL

AND VENEZUELA WILL HIT THE USA.

THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY AHMADINEJAD HAS GOTTEN SO CLOSE TO CHAVEZ.

SUNDAY UPDATE: IN UNRELATED NEWS, THE USA EXPELS ONE OF CHAVEZ'S DIPLOMATS.


AND THEN THERE WAS THIS ITEM:

MONDAY, MAY 16, 2011 

UH-OH: OBAMA'S CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: IRAN BUILDING MISSILE LAUNCHING PADS IN VENEZUELA 

UH-OH: OBAMA'S CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: IRAN BUILDING MISSILE BASES IN HUGO CHAVEZ'S VENEZUELA:'Die Welt': Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela  

German paper says Iranians paid cash to build mid-range missile launch pads on Paraguana Peninsula; Iranian engineers visited site in Feb.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally.

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February. 

Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally. 

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February. 

Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.” 

Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February.  Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.” 

Amir al-Hadschisadeh, the head of the Guard’s Air Force, participated in the visit, according to the report. Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.”

HOW DO YOU SPELL BITCH IN DEMOCRATESE?

M-I-C-H-E-L-L-E.

RON PAUL IS THE SECOND MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN AMERICA

RON PAUL IS THE 2ND MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA BECAUSE RON PAUL MAY PLACE IN SECOND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE... PROBABLY DUE TO INDEPENDENTS VOTING IN THE GOP PRIMARY.

[UPDATE: MORE THAN HALF OF RON PAUL'S SUPPORT IS FROM INDEPENDENTS,]

RON PAUL KNOWS THIS - AND RELISHES IT.

I THINK THE WHOLE RON PAUL RUN THIS TIME AROUND IS ENTIRELY DEVISED TO HELP HIM BUILD SUPPORT AND RUN ON A THIRD PARTY LINE.

IF HE DOES, THEN HE WILL HAND THE WHITE HOUSE TO OBAMA - AS PEROT HANDED IT TO CLINTON.

DO PAULNUTS REALIZE THIS? MAYBE. I DIN'T THINK THEY CARE. THEY PROBABLY THINK IF OBAMA WINS AND RUINS THE COUNTRY THAT THIS WILL HELP THEM WIN IN 2016.

THEY'RE FREAKING IDIOTS. OR SABOTEURS.

OBAMA IS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA. BECAUSE HE HELPS OBAMA, RON PAUL IS PUBLIC ENEMY #2.

JOB NUMBERS ACTUALLY SUCK

THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE NUMBERS SHOW THAT JOB CREATION IS NOT SURGING, AND THE ECONOMY IS STILL NOT GROWING AT THE BARE MINIMUM IT NEEDS TO KEEP PACE WITH NEW WORKERS ENTERING THE MARKETPLACE.

DONALD AGREES.

LET'S MAKE A LIST OF ALL THE THINGS YOU NEED PHOTO ID FOR

THE CORRUPT OBAMACHINE (THAT COMBINES THE CHICAGO MACHINE WITH THE SEIU, THE AFL-CIO, THE NEA, THE NAACP,  ACORN, THE NLG, THE ACLU, AND OWS) OPPOSES VOTER ID LAWS.

THEY CLAIM THESE LAWAS ARE RACIST.

THAT TOTAL FUC**NG BUL**HIT.

I'M GONNA LIST A BUNCH.

PLEASE SEND ME OTHERS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!

1. TO BUY BEER.
2. TO BUY DRAINO.
3. TO BUY SUDAFED.
4. TO BUY CIGARETTES.
5. TO GET ON A PLANE.
6. TO GET INTO MOST LARGE OFFICE BUILDINGS IN NYC.
7. To use a Visa card for large purchases.
8. To get into Warner Bros., Sony Entertainment, and Universal Pictures.
9. To acquire a Visa to travel outside the country, and to re-enter the country at the border.
10. Open a bank account.
11. Cash a check at a bank.
12. Drive a car.
13. Tour a house for sale. 
14. buy a gun 
15. or ammunition, 
16. walk into Costco 
17. or Bjs, 
18. return a item to a retail store, 
19. oh yea I need to show it to register to vote 

OBAMACHINE GOONIONS GOT THE MOST OBAMACARE WAIVERS

Labor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president’s health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer. 

Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obama‘s signature legislation since June 17, 2011. 

By contrast, private employers with a total of 69,813 employees, many of whom work for small businesses, were granted waivers.

Obamachine's goonions got 10x as many waivers as private employers.

GEE, I WONDER WHY?

RICK SANTORUM: WRESTLER WHO CAN'T FIGHT ABOVE HIS WEIGHT

When the former senator, a Pennsylvania Republican, was seeking re-election in 2006, he appeared in a campaign advertisement standing in a ring surrounded by pugilists trading eye gouges and body slams. “It makes more sense to wrestle with America’s problems than with each other,” the candidate said. 

That ad, though, concludes with Mr. Santorum decking one of the wrestlers with a brutal elbow smash — a move that illustrates his no-holds-barred political style. People in both parties over the years have accused him of hotheaded name-calling, reliance on immature antics and attempts to reduce politics to steel-cage matches between people cast as heroes or heels.

“He would attack people in a smug way that was harder-edged and more insulting than was necessary, said Mark Salter, the former chief of staff to Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, adding that lawmakers in both parties shared this view. “He was a bully who was not a potent enough force to be a bully.”

THIS JIBES WITH MY GUT FEELINGS ABOUT RICK.

I LIKE MOST OF HIS POSITIONS ON THINGS - BUT NOT ALL.

I DO NOT LIKE HIS STYLE - AT ALL.

AND I CANNOT FORGIVE HIM FOR SUPPORTING SPECTER OVER TOOMEY.

THAT PROVED HE WAS REALLY AN ESTABLISHMENT INSIDER.

HMMM: BRITAIN IS ALSO SENDING A WARSHIP TO THE PERSIAN GULF...

The Royal Navy is sending its most advanced warship to the Persian Gulf, in a deployment intended to send a message to Iran following its threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the Daily Telegraph reported. 

According to the report, the HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer, will depart Portsmouth next Wednesday and has been equipped with new technology that will enable it to intercept any Iranian missile. It also reportedly possesses the world's most sophisticated naval radar.

IT WILL GET THERE JUST AS ISRAEL AND THE USA BEGIN THEIR LARGEST JOINT EXERCISE EVER - (SOMETHING WE RELATED TO OUR READERS ON WEDNESDAY - DAYS BEFORE OTHER BLOGGERS PICKED UP THE STORY).

HMMM... IS IT COVER FOR AN ATTACK?

ONE THEORY:

THE WIDELY BROADCAST SHOW OF FORCE IS NOT A MESSAGE TO THE IRANIANS TO GIVE IN; IT'S HOW THE WEST IS TRYING TO GET IRAN TO MOVE ITS NUKE ASSETS AS DEEP UNDERGROUND AS THE IRANIANS CAN NOW, SO THAT WHEN WE USE OUR AIR FORCE TO STRIKE THEM THIS SPRING AS LITTLE RADIATION ESCAPES AS POSSIBLE.

GAMBLING IN CHINA

I noticed an article that said that the gambling industry in Macau was a much larger than that of Las Vegas... and the growth of the gambling industry over the past few years - in Macau - has been phenomenal. 

Part of the explanation for this is that Macau is the only area where gambling is legal in China. 

But I noticed another comparison,  according to Aaron Fisher, while Americans are generally richer than the Chinese  wealthy Chinese gamble about 10x as much as their American counterparts. 

What does this tell us of what may lie ahead as the financial tsunami reaches China?  Frightening...

COPTS BEGIN ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN CAIRO...

Celebrations of Orthodox Christmas began with a late night Friday Mass at Cairo's main cathedral, which was attended by prominent figures from across Egypt's political spectrum. They included leaders of Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group whose associated political party has won nearly half the seats in parliament. 

Members of the ruling military council that took power after Mubarak's Feb. 11 ouster also attended, including chief of staff Lt. Gen. Sami Anan, as well as the visiting top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Jeffrey Feltman. 

Coptic Pope Shenouda III commended their presence and appealed for national unity for "the sake of Egypt." 

"For the first time in the history of the cathedral, it is packed with all types of Islamist leaders in Egypt," the 88-year old pope said. "They all agree ... on the stability of this country and in loving it, and working for it and to work with the Copts as one hand for the sake of Egypt." 

... The Coptic Orthodox celebration follows an escalation in violence against the minority, an estimated 10 percent of Egypt's 85 million people, over the past year.

THE SHOW OF UNITY IS JUST THAT: A SHOW.

ISLAM DEMANDS SUBSERVIENCE FROM IT MONOTHEISTIC ELDERS, AND THAT SECOND CLASS "DHIMMI" STATUS ALWAYS LEADS TO VIOLENCE AND EMIGRATION.

THE MIDDLE EAST WON'T BE PEACEFUL UNTIL ISLAM ACCEPTS JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AS FULL HUMANS - AND THAT IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH ISLAM.

ERGO: ISLAM MUST BE UTTERLY DEFEATED FOR THEIR TO BE PEACE.

UNTIL RON PAUL PROMISES NOT TO RUN ON A 3RD PARTY LINE, ALL REPUBLICANS WHO VOTE FOR HIM ARE TRAITORS

THE ONLY WAY OBAMA CAN WIN IS 

IF THERE'S A CREDIBLE 3RD PARTY CANDIDATE. 

 RON PAUL REFUSES TO RULE THAT OUT.

UNTIL RON PAUL PROMISES NOT TO RUN ON A 3RD PARTY LINE, 

ALL REPUBLICANS WHO VOTE FOR HIM ARE TRAITORS.

MICHELLE OBAMA WANTED TO STAY IN CHICAGO!?!?

MICHELLE OBAMA WANTED TO STAY IN CHICAGO.

UH-OH: RETAIL IN DECEMBER WAS ONLY SO-SO AND PROFITS SUCKED

Retailers salvaged their December sales figures with deep discounts, but the results released Thursday could spell trouble for the coming year for both the industry and the economy at large....  

The results show the American consumer has not bounced back from the recession, analysts said. Consumer spending accounts for the largest portion of the economy. But the shaky holiday results add to an already weak snapshot of the consumer situation, including flat incomes and a slow job market.... 

“Keep in mind, sales were O.K.,” Mr. Lejuez said; the problem was profits. ... “What’s more concerning is, this is December, and people are in the mall,” he said. “If you have to be this promotional to drive sales when you have captive traffic in the mall, what happens in January and February?” 

THIS AIN'T GOOD NEWS.

AND THE RECENT UPTICKS IN EMPLOYMENT ARE ALL TEMPORARY/SEASONAL.

WE ARE HEADED FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SERIOUS BELT-TIGHTENING.

IF ROMNEY VS OBAMA IS LIKE DUBYA VS KERRY, THEN... IS THAT REALLY SO BAD A CHOICE!?!?

SOME RIGHT-WINGERS ARE THREATENING TO STAY HOME IF MITT IS THE NOMINEE.

ALL THAT WILL DO IS HELP OBAMA.

SURE: MITT IS NOT AS GOOD ON ALL THE ISSUES AS DEMINT OR RYAN OR PALIN, BUT HE'S AS GOOD AS BUSH WAS ON MOST ISSUES AND BETTER ON SOME, TOO.

DUBYA WAS A LIB ON MANY ISSUES: MIERS, NCLB, THE PHARMA GIVEAWAY, AMNESTY - AND ALL THE ROP CRAP WHILE HE HAD US FIGHTING WITH ONE HAND BEHIND OUR BACKS!

BUT IF DUBYA WAS HEAD AND SHOULDERS BETTER THAN KERRY, THEN MITT IS HEAD AND SHOULDERS BETTER THAN OBAMA - WHO IS WORSE THAN KERRY EVER COULD HAVE BEEN.

SO I DON'T WANNA HEAR ANOTHER "I AIN'T EVER GONNA VOTE FOR THAT RINO" PEEP FROM THE RIGHT!

AND THAT MEANS YOU!

MCCAIN WOULD'VE BEEN BETTER THAN OBAMA AND MCCAIN LOST BECAUSE HE GOT OUTSPENT BY 8-1 AND BECAUSE MANY CONSERVATIVES STAYED HOME.

MITT WON'T BE OUTSPENT.

SO VICTORY DEPENDS ON YOU!

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF WHY OBAMA REALLY NEEDS A SECURE BLACKBERRY:

(TEXT ACTUALLY FROM HERE.)

SANDBURG PUTS THE MOVES ON MARILYN

Rick versus Mitt: Right to work laws etc. ...

Mitt supports right to work laws and Rick opposes them.

That makes Mitt more conservative than Rick.

Mitt also has a more conservative stand on immigration.

And spending. Rick supported spending increases and even earmarked $1,000,000,000,000! That's one BILLION folks. That's not very conservative.

Rick opposed NAFTA and free trade. That's not very conservative.

His stands on unions and immigration and spending and trade make Rick positively RINO-esque!

And Rick is a career politician who never did anything but politic - except lobby and lawyer. Three lousy occupations.

Mitt was in the private sector and ran a huge business and ran the Olympics and was a governor. The experience factor ain't even close. The executive factor ain't even close.

Mitt can out organize Rick and out-fundraise him --- maybe even raise more money than Obama.

Mitt is a better candidate for the nomination and will make a better nominee and a better president.

MORE HERE... AND HERE, OF COURSE.

Update: this is devastating:

WHAT OBAMA WAS REALLY THINKING WHILE LUNCHING WITH HIS SUPPORTERS...

WTF: OBAMA SENDS US NAVY TO SAVE IRANIAN HOSTAGES HELD BY PIRATES!?!?

WTF: Obama doesn't order the US Navy to do this for other countries!?!? WHY IRAN!?!? 

This takes appeasement to a whole 'nother level - and it disgusts me:

US navy rescues Iranian hostages held by pirates 

Pentagon: Navy redeems 13 Iranians held by pirates in Arabian Sea; rescuer is a member of the same US aircraft carrier group Iran threatened not to return to Strait of Hormuz; hostages released and on way home.

Percentage of Workers Looking For Work, Down - Percentage of People Who Have Given Up Looking For Jobs, Way, Way Up

From the Cato Institute:

If the unemployment rate drops because hundreds of thousands of jobs are being created each month, that’s obviously good news.

But if the jobless rate falls because the government estimates that lots of people have become discouraged and dropped out of the labor force, then that’s not good news.

In other words, sometimes the unemployment rate, by itself, doesn’t tell the full story.

That’s why one of the best statistics to look at is the employment-population ratio, which measures the number of people who have jobs and compares it to the number of people who could have jobs.

And by this measure, the Obama White House can’t be very happy. As illustrated in the chart, the job numbers have barely begun to recover.

This is a woefully under-reported piece of data. A few news outlets do mention the phenomenon of “discouraged workers” dropping out of the labor market, but only policy geeks like me seem to pay attention.

But the employment-population ratio does have real-world implications. The economy’s overall level of output (i.e., national income, gross domestic product, etc) depends on who many people are working. And that is what determines whether living standards are rising, falling, or stagnating.

This is why the Obama Administration can’t rely of a falling unemployment rate. As I’ve explained elsewhere, the American economy appears to have suffered a permanent loss of output in recent years.

TURKEY'S ISLAMIST ASSAULT ON SECULAR ARMY CONTINUES

A former head of the Turkish armed forces has been remanded in custody to face charges over an alleged plot to overthrow the government. 

Gen Ilker Basbug, who retired in 2010, is the highest-ranking officer to be caught up in a widening probe into the so-called Ergenekon network.

ERDOGAN IS A ISLAMIST WHO SEEKS SHARIA IN TURKEY AND HEGEMONY OVER THE CALIPHATE.

NOW THAT THE AKP CONTROLS THE ARMY, WE SHOULD THROW TURKEY OUT OF NATO.

UH-OH: More proof the Euro is going to collapse!

YIPES: GERMAN BONDS GO NEGATIVE AGAIN.

RON PAUL ISSUES AMAZING CHALLENGE TO SANTORUM AND ROMNEY!

Seriously, does Ron Paul wear Depends? If not... should he?

WHAT RICK AND MITT ARE REALLY THINKING...

Is this Mitt's running mate?

SHE'D BE GREAT - ONLY SHE'S TOO YOUNG.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: GOV. JERRY BROWN WANTS TO RAISE TAXES EVEN MORE - AGAIN

Gov. Jerry Brown called on California voters Thursday to approve $6.9 billion in temporary new taxes, including a surcharge on big earners, as part of yet another bad-news budget proposal, this one for 2012. He warned that without those tax increases, California would be forced to impose severe cuts in public schools that could reduce the school year by three weeks.

ALL TEMPORARY TAXES ARE BS. 

CALIFORNIA HA A LONG-TERM PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO MAKE CUTS TO GOVERNMENT UNION PAY AND BENEFITS AND PENSIONS.

OBAMA PRESSER ANNOUNCING ENORMOUS DEFENSE CUTS

MORE HERE AND HERE.

I GUARANTEE HALLE IS NOT HALAL

HALLE BERRY IS A "HYBRID" JUST LIKE OBAMA - 

1/2 BLACK AND 1/2 WHITE. 

IT LOOKS BETTER ON HER! 

(AND JETER IS A BETTER ATHLETE!)

(ON A USO TOUR IN 1986)

1986 - MISS OHIO

CHART REVEALS AMAZING COINCIDENCE: INTEREST RATES HAVEN'T BEEN THIS LOW SINCE... ER, UMM...

... SINCE THE DEPRESSION.

AND OBAMA IS MORE LIKE HOOVER THAN FDR.

IN 2013, OBAMA FLIES COACH!

I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL MICHELLE HAS TO GET PATTED DOWN BY A TSA AGENT!

DID THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT BEGIN WITH THE BALFOUR DECLARATION? NOPE.

IN THE MAIL: The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.Posted at 11:00 am by Glenn Reynolds  

THIS IS LUDICROUS. THE CONFLICT GOES BACK TO THE TIME OF MOHAMED. SO DOES THE WEST'S PRESENT CONFLICT WITH ISLAM - WHICH IS TRULY JUST A RENEWAL OF WW1 THAT BEGAN WITH THE FALL OF THE SHAH.

  

OLMERT INDICTED FOR ACCEPTING BRIBES

Ehud Olmert is in the news once again, and is now under indictment for taking bribes:

JERUSALEM – Ehud Olmert was once described as the finest politician Israel had ever produced — before his reputation, like many of his predecessors, was dragged through the mud by a succession of graft scandals.

On Thursday the former prime minister was indicted for allegedly taking bribes in a massive property scandal during his time as mayor of Jerusalem, adding to a lengthy charge sheet that has already seen him go on trial on three unrelated counts of fraud and bribery.

The announcement served as yet another humiliation for the debonair 66-year-old who was premier for three years from 2006 after his mentor Ariel Sharon lapsed into a coma from which he has never emerged. [...]

Olmert resigned from the premiership in September 2008 after police recommended that he be indicted in several other cases of graft, all relating to a period before he became premier in 2006.

He is accused of unlawfully accepting gifts of cash-stuffed envelopes from Jewish-American businessman Morris Talanski and of multiple billing for foreign trips.

He has also been charged with cronyism in connection with an investment centre which he oversaw when he was trade and industry minister between 2003 and 2006.

The stream of allegations dogged Olmert throughout much of his premiership. He actually resigned as premier in September 2008 but remained in office until March 2009, when Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in.

As prime minister, Olmert endured periods of dismal single-digit approval ratings — the worst to blight a sitting premier — and himself once said he was “a very unpopular prime minister.”

And now he's going to be remembered as a very corrupt, dishonest former prime minister, and deservedly so.

UNRELATED HEADLINES FROM THE BBC? HARDLY!

IF THESE ARE UNRELATED, THEN SUNLIGHT IS UNRELATED TO DAYTIME:

• BREAKING NEWS: Gunmen attack a church in north-east Nigeria, killing at least three people, pastor says
• Obama unveils smaller US military
• The US military will become "leaner" while maintaining superiority as it switches focus to the Asia-Pacific, US President Barack Obama announces.
• ·            Panetta on new US challengesWatch

• ---

• Iraq bombings leave scores dead
• At least 72 people are killed after attacks on Shia Muslims in southern Iraq and the capital Baghdad, the deadliest since the last US troops pulled out.
• ·            Many killed in Iraq explosionsWatch
• ·         In pictures: Bombs target Iraqi Shias
• ·         Iraqi militia offers body of Briton
• ·         Rift endangers unity government
• Death penalty sought for Mubarak
• Prosecutors demand former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak be executed if found guilty of ordering the killings of anti-regime demonstrators.

IT'S COME TO THIS: Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism

Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism

File-sharing is a religious ceremony according to the church leader
A "church" whose central tenet is the right to file-share has been formally recognised by the Swedish government. 

The Church of Kopimism claims that "kopyacting" - sharing information through copying - is akin to a religious service. 

The "spiritual leader" of the church said recognition was a "large step". 

But others were less enthusiastic and said the church would do little to halt the global crackdown on piracy. 

It doesn't mean illegal file-sharing will become legal, any more than if 'Jedi' was recognised as a religion everyone would be walking around with light sabres” 

The Swedish government agency Kammarkollegiet finally registered the Church of Kopimism as a religious organisation shortly before Christmas, the group said.

SERIOUSLY: THIS DECISION MAKES A MOCKERY OF REAL RELIGION. AND IT SHOWS THAT POSTMODERNISTS ARE AMORAL. IT MAKES ME FEEL THAT WESTERN CIVILIZATION MIGHT NOT WITHSTAND THE TWO-FRONT WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY ISLAMISTS AND POSTMODERNISTS. SIGH.

RESULTS OF OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT: MUBARAK NOW UP FOR DEATH PENALTY; SCORES KILLED IN BAGHDAD

OBAMA HAS STRENGTHENED THE ENEMY AND OUR ALLIES ARE UNDER ATTACK:

• Iraq bombings leave scores dead

• Hosni Mubarak: Egypt prosecutors seek death penalty

GREAT. THANKS OBAMA!

LEGACY MEDIA WRONG AGAIN: IOWA WAS GREAT FOR THE GOP

While Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul were all successful, the best news out of Iowa is that multiple indicators now point to the Hawkeye State being very competitive again in 2012 — despite long-held conventional wisdom that it is a state Obama’s re-election campaign will waltz away with.

Just what are those indicators? For starters, President Obama’s approval rating has been consistently in the low-to-mid forties in Iowa. No president has won re-election with an approval rating below 49, and many pollsters believe it must be above 50. 

Next, there are more Republicans and fewer Democrats in Iowa than in 2008. The Republican Party of Iowa has logged 33 consecutive months of registration gains. Since Obama’s election, one in every ten registered Democrats in the state left his party. 

And Iowa Republicans are hugely motivated to turn out. Tuesday’s caucuses saw a record-setting turnout of 122,225.

ASSHOLES LIKE BEGALA SPIN IT AS IF IT WAS A BAD DAY FOR THE GOP AND ROMNEY:

What can you say about an alleged frontrunner who could barely top the Man-on-Dog guy? If Mitt Romney can't beat Rick Santorum, he ought to find another party to run in.

OBAMA IS LESS RE-ELECTABLE THAN THE GOP UNELECTABLES ARE UNELECTABLE.

RICK SANTORUM IS TO 2012 ACROSS THE USA WHAT CHRISTINE O'DONNELL WAS TO 2010 IN DELAWARE

O'DONNELL WON THE GOP PRIMARY BATTLE, BUT THE GOP LOST THE "CONTROL OF THE SENATE" WAR.

SANTORUM IS THE SAME KIND OF CANDIDATE.

IF HE PULLS OFF A MIRACLE AND DEFEATS MITT, HE WILL SURELY LOSE BIG TO OBAMA.

SHIT: HE COULDN'T EVEN BEAT CASEY!

SANTORUM AND GINGRICH ARE EX-OLD INSIDERS POSING AS OUTSIDERS WHO WANT BACK IN

“Look at who is posing as an outsider — Newt Gingrich former Speaker of the House and Rick Santorum, a former senior member of the Republican Senate leadership. Those guys are not outsiders,” Hume said. “They are at least former insiders. That’s not to say there is anything wrong with that, but it’s an interesting bit of conventional wisdom.”

Read more and see the video here.

POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: MITT, THE MAVERICK AND RICK

IN 2008, WHEN THE CONTEST WAS MITT VERSUS MCCAIN, SANTORUM ENDORSED MITT OVER MCCAIN.

NOW, MCCAIN IS ENDORSING MITT OVER RICK.

IS IT MERELY PERSONAL, OR DOES IT REFLECT THAT MITT REALLY IS A GOOD CONSENSUS CANDIDATE FOR THE PARTY?

BOTH.

SEVERAL TICKETS COME TO MIND THAT MIND BIND THE DIVIDE:

MITT-RUBIO OR MITT-JINDAL OR MITT-DEMINT OR MITT-RYAN OR MITT-PERRY OR EVEN A MITT-SANTORUM TICKET - IF RICK DOESN'T GO OVERBOARD IN HIS ATTACKS - (LIKE NEWTRON BOMB GINGRICH!).

FINALLY: EU AGREES TO BOYCOTT IRANIAN OIL - IN PRINCIPLE, AND IN STAGES...!

MAYBE WE CAN BRING THE ISLAMO-FASCISTS RUNNING/RUINING IRAN TO THEIR KNEES BEFORE THEY GET NUKES AND WITHOUT ATTACKING THEM:

The countries of the European Union have taken their boldest step so far in the increasingly tense standoff with Iran over its nuclear program, agreeing in principle to impose an embargo on Iranian oil, French and European diplomats said on Wednesday.

A final decision by the European Union will not come before the end of January and would be implemented in stages to avoid major disruptions in global oil supplies. But the move by some of Iran’s most important oil customers appears to underscore the resolve of Western allies to impose toughest round of sanctions on Iran to date, increasing pressure on Tehran to stop enriching uranium and negotiate an end to what Western leaders argue is an accelerating program to build a nuclear bomb.

BUT I THINK WE NEED TO DO MORE: WE NEED TO BAN THE SALE OF GASOLINE TO THEM TOO.

STAY TUNED...

AN INTERNATIONAL GLADIATOR WHO IS GUARANTEED NOT HALAL: LEE-ANN LIEBENBERG

SHE DON'T WEAR NO BURQA; THIS SOUTH AFRICAN GLADIATES!

BURQAS SHOULD BE BANNED.

BURQAS ARE ANTI-WOMAN.

OBAMA REVERSES US FOREIGN POLICY TO APPEASE JIHADISM: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS JIHAD WATCH BY A DAY

THE GREAT - REALLY GREAT - JIHAD WATCH TODAY.


TAB LAST NIGHT (12:18A,M.).

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CHAIRMAN MAOBAMA BREAKS RECESS APPOINTMENT RULE - AGAIN

OBAMA DOES THIS BECAUSE AS AN EGOMANIAC AND NARCISSIST HE IS INHERENTLY TYRANNICAL BY NATURE.

AND ALSO, HE KNOWS THAT HE HAS ONLY ONE YEAR TO "TRANSFORM" AMERICA AND HE WANTS TO PUT IN PLACE AS MANY SOCIALISTS AS HE CAN BEFORE HIS TIME IS UP.

IT WILL NOT STAND.

UH-OH: LEBANESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL: AL QAEDA IN LEBANON

A top Lebanese government official warned his nation Tuesday night that the international Al Qaeda terrorist organization appears to be establishing, or already to have established, a base in Lebanon.

Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn told OTV in an interview broadcast that "extremists are sneaking into" Lebanon -- among them, Al Qaeda operatives.

THEY ARE COMING IN FROM SYRIA NO DOUBT AND GETTING READY TO ATTACK ISRAEL TO DEFLECT ATTENTION FROM SYRIA AND IRAN.

STAY TUNED...

UH-OH: MILITIA WARFARE ERUPTS IN TRIPOLI

BBC:

Four people have been killed and at least five injured in a firefight which erupted earlier in the centre of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

The clash centred on an old intelligence building bombed by Nato in last year's uprising against ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi.

A brigade from the city of Misrata tried to free prisoners held inside, leading to a confrontation with another armed group from Tripoli.

The casualties were from both brigades.

THIS IS THE START OF SOMETHING, NOT THE END. STAY TUNED...

CHINESE DICTATORS CUT ENTERTAINMENT ON TV BY 70%

Satellite broadcasters in China have cut entertainment TV by two-thirds following a government campaign, state news agency Xinhua has reported. 

An order by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) to curb ''excessive entertainment'' came into effect on 1 January.

The number of entertainment shows aired during prime time each week has dropped to 38 from 126, said the watchdog. 

The news came as the president warned of the influence of Western culture.

NANNYSTATISM IS JUST TYRANNY BY ANOTHER NAME.

GEE: I WONDER WHAT TOM "CHINA FOR A DAY" FRIEDMAN THINKS OF THIS.

Archaeologists discover ancient metropolis under St Louis

IT'S MUCH LARGER THAN THEY EVER KNEW OR EXPECTED:

The lost city of Cahokia: Archaeologists uncover Native Americans' sprawling metropolis under St Louis: 

... At its peak between 1100 and 1200, the city covered nearly six square miles and boasted a population of 100,000 people.   

... Residents built more than 120 earthen mounds. A total of 68 are preserved within the site, with the largest central one called Monks Mound. 

... At 1,000 feet long, 800 feet wide and 100 feet tall, an estimated 22 million cubic feet of earth was used to build it.

RTWT - AND LOOK AT THE VIDEO AND PHOTOS AND DIAGRAMS!

UH-OH: RICK SANTORUM SCAMMED PENNSYLVANIANS

SANTORUM DID EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD ACCUSED HIS VERY FIRST POLITICAL OPPONENT OF DOING: FALSELY CLAIMING HE LIVED N THE DISTRICT FOR PERSONAL MONETARY GAIN.

NOT EVERY SENATOR AND CONGRESSMAN DOES THIS.

AND SANTORUM GOT TUITION BENEFITS FOR HIS KIDS AS IF THEY WERE LIVING IN PENNSYLVANIA WHEN IN TRUTH THEY WERE LIVING WITH HIM IN VIRGINIA - FULL-TIME.

IT WAS MORALLY AWFUL FOR THE HOLIER THAN THOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS SANTORUM TO DO THIS.

HMMM...: USA & ISRAEL TO HOLD HUGE - LARGEST EVER - JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE THIS SPRING...

Washington and Tel Aviv have planned to hold what they call the largest-ever joint military exercise this spring.

JUST IN TIME FOR OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN!

DUCT TAPE: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN'T DO?!

Duct Tape Goes From Fix-It to Dress-Up: 

In an odd trend, duct tape has become the material of choice for creating fashions that showcase the wearer’s originality and ingenuity.

ELECTED DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO AVOID OBAMA LIKE HE WAS THE PLAGUE

"Meghan Dubyak, Brown’s spokeswoman, said Brown isn’t giving the president the cold shoulder. “Sen. Brown was already scheduled to be in Columbus when the presidential visit was announced,” Dubyak said."

NYT OP-ED SLANDERS POOR PEOPLE AS IT DENIES THE ROOT CAUSE OF NIGERIA'S CIVIL WAR

A LIBTARD PROFESSOR BLAMES THE ISLAMO-TERROR IN NIGERIA ON:

 In Nigeria, Boko Haram Is Not the Problem

... the root cause of violence and anger in both the north and south of Nigeria is endemic poverty and hopelessness.

... None of this excuses Boko Haram’s killing of innocents. But it does raise questions about a rush to judgment that obscures Nigeria’s complex reality.

SHE ALSO WRITES:

Getting involved in an escalating sectarian conflict that threatens the country’s unity could turn Nigerian Muslims against America without addressing any of the underlying problems that are fueling instability and sectarian strife in Nigeria.

SO ... ER UM LET ME SEE... THE TERROR IS CAUSED BY POVERTY!?!?!?

BULLS*IT. THIS IS A SLANDER AGAINST POOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE UP AND 20% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION - AND MOST OF THEM ARE NOT CRIMINALS LET ALONE TERRORISTS.

REMEMBER: NONE OF THE 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE POOR. NONE OF THE 7/7 BOMBERS WERE. NOR WAS THE TIMES SQUARE BOMBER NOR THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER, AND SO ON.

THEY WERE ALL MUSLIMS, THOUGH.

AND IS THE SITUATION IN NIGERIA REALLY "COMPLEX"?!?!?

NOPE. IT'S LIKE EVERY OTHER PLACE WHERE RADICAL ISLAMISTS ARE IN CONTACT WITH NON-MUSLIMS.

I THINK THE ONLY THINGS THAT ARE COMPLEX ARE THE GYRATIONS THIS LIBTARD PROFESSOR NEEDS TO PUT HER PUNY POSTMODERN BRAIN THROUGH TO SIMULTANEOUSLY ARGUE THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN NIGERIA IS NOT ISLAMIC-BASED AND YET TO ALSO WRITE THAT IT IS SECTARIAN.

THERE ARE SOME THINGS SO IDIOTIC ONLY INTELLECTUALS LIKE THE AUTHOR OF THE OP-ED CAN BELIEVE THEM.

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE REMAIN IN IDIOTIC DENIAL? IT'S SIMPLE:

THEY ARE IN DENIAL BECAUSE THE FACT THAT WE'RE IN A GLOBAL RELIGIOUS WAR WITH AMORAL BEASTS WHO WHO FLY JETS INTO SKYSCRAPERS AND VIDEOTAPE BEHEADINGS IS TOO FRIGHTENING FOR THEM TO ACCEPT.

THE FOLKS IN DENIAL ARE MOSTLY COWARDS.

AND TO HAVE ANY CHANCE AT WINNING, THE ENEMY NEEDS TO INCREASE THEIR NUMBERS.

THIS BLOG WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN WITHOUT A FIGHT.

THE LIBTARD PROFESSOR WHO WROTE THIS IDIOTIC OP-ED IS ARGUING THAT THE USA SHOULD STAY OUT OF THIS FIGHT.

THAT'S JUST WHAT THE ENEMY IS HOPING.

I SAY WE SHOULD GET MORE INVOLVED: WE SHOULD USE OUR AIR-POWER TO DEMOLISH THE BOKO HARAM - AND THE SOMALIAN PIRATES -- AND ANYONE ELSE WHO THREATENS WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

WE DID NOT CHOOSE TO HAVE THIS WAR. THE ENEMY WON'T JUST GO AWAY ON THEIR OWN.

WE CAN ONLY DO TWO THINGS IN THIS WAR: SURRENDER OR FIGHT.

LIBTARDS LIKE THIS PROFESSOR WANT US TO SURRENDER.

IF OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

THAT'S WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT IF WE ANT TO DEFEAT THE JIHADIST ENEMY ABROAD WE NEED TO FIRST DEFEAT THE LEFT AT HOME.

FINAL COUNT FROM IOWA: ???

AS OF 12:43 SANTORUM LEADS BY 5 VOTES.

Update: Mitt wins by 8, 

Even the NYTimes admits it - on their front page, no less: Yes, Obama has reversed USA policy and is siding with the islamists

NYTIMES: Overtures to Egypt’s Islamists Reverse Longtime U.S. Policy

... the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests.

The administration’s overtures — including high-level meetings in recent weeks — constitute a historic shift in a foreign policy held by successive American administrations that steadfastly supported the autocratic government of President Hosni Mubarak in part out of concern for the Brotherhood’s Islamist ideology and historic ties to militants.

MILITANTS IS HOW LIBS REFER TO TERRORISTS.

REMEMBER:

• ZAWAHIRI WAS PART OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. 
• THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ASSASSINATED SADAT. 
• THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ARE ISLAMISTS WHO WANT TO ENFORCE SHARIA 
• AND PUT THE PEACE TREATY UP FOR A REFERENDUM.

ESSENTIALLY OBAMA HAS REVERSED LONGTIME US POLICY AND IS NEGOTIATING AND APPEASING TERRORISTS.

AND NOT JUST IN EGYPT, BUT IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN.

SOME MIGHT ARGUE THAT OBAMA IS JUST INCOMPETENT AND NAIVE - AS IF HE DIDN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DIPLOMACY AND APPEASEMENT. 

• (DIPLOMACY IS TALKING TO A MAD DOG AS YOU SLOWLY KNEEL DOWN AND PICK UP A ROCK TO THROW AT IT. 
• APPEASEMENT IS LAYING DOWN AND THEN LEADING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE TO BITE.)

THE FACT THAT OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE CONSISTENTLY AIDED THE ISLAMISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD MAKES THE ARGUMENT THAT HE'S MERELY INEPT QUITE WEAK.


IF OBAMA WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM WHO WAS SECRETLY TRYING TO HELP IRAN AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?


NOPE.

UH-OH!!!!!!!: FEMALE CORPSE FOUND ON QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ESTATE...

... AND IT LOOKS LIKE FOUL-PLAY.

• THE BODY HAS BEEN THERE FOR BETWEEN 30-90 DAYS.

• IT WAS FOUND AT THE ESTATE WHERE THE ROYAL FAMILY SPENDS CHRISTMAS.

• MAYBE THIS IS WHY PRINCE PHILIP HAD A HEART ATTACK.

THIS WON'T END WELL FOR THE CROWN. GULP.

OBAMA-HILLARY 2012?

SOME THINK SO.

NOT JOE THO':

MORONS AND DUPES ARE ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW!

HMMM: CNN entrance poll suggests Ron Paul is winning the OWS vote in Iowa

ACCORDING TO CNN'S ENTRANCE POLL RESULTS SO FAR, PAUL IS GETTING:

• MORE THAN HALF OF THE 18-29 YR OLDS 

• AND ALMOST HALF OF THE INDEPENDENTS 

• AND ALMOST HALF OF THE LIBERALS.

• AND HE GETS MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR GOVERNMENT; (MITT GETS MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR)

AND - IF YOU ASK ME - 100% OF THE MORONS:

• ONLY 7% THINK HE CAN BEAT OBAMA 

• WHILE ALMOST HALF THINK ROMNEY CAN.

WHY ARE THEY VOTING FOR A FELLER THEY DON'T THINK CAN WIN!?!?

HERE'S WHY:

I THINK MOST OF PAUL'S SUPPORTERS ARE INDEPENDENTS AND DEMS AND OWS SCUM WHO HAVE INFILTRATED.

UPDATE: FURTHER CONFIRMATION OF MY THEORY, PERHAPS:

CNN: 8:56 p.m. ET - @DanaBashCNN: Paul winning 52% of young caucus goers and 38% of first time caucus goers.. according to the entrance polls #cnnelections


UPDATE #2: 


ACCORDING TO ABC NEWS MOST OF PAUL'S SUPPORTERS ARE INDEPENDENTS, NOT REPUBLICANS:

Paul did well among independents who came out in much larger numbers than usual.

Entrance polls found that 24 percent of tonight participants – twice as many as 2008 – identified themselves as independents.

The Texas congressman also did particularly well with young participants and the four in 10 voters who were attending their first caucus.

40% WERE FIRST TIME CAUCUS VOTERS...


HMMM: 


IOW/IMHO: OWS/DEM INFILTRATION.

RON PAUL IS THE GENE MCCARTHY OF OF 2012...

... ONLY HE'S IN THE GOP.


RON PAUL'S ISOLATIONIST ANTI-WAR VIEWS IGNORE IRAN AND GLOBAL JIHAD THE WAY THE DOVES IN THE 1960'S AND 1970'S IGNORED THE USSR AND THE COLD WAR.


HIS FOLLOWERS ARE IN DEEP DENIAL ABOUT GLOBAL JIHAD THE WAY MCCARTHY'S WERE ABOUT THE USSR.

HIS SUCCESS TO DATE PROVES THAT DEMAGOGUES CAN STILL GET VOTES BY PANDERING TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO REMAIN IN DENIAL BY BLAMING BOGEYMEN LIKE THE FED AND THE ZIONISTS AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS.

HIS SUPPORTERS HAVE MORE IN COMMON WITH THE OWS SCUM THAN THOSE OF ANY OTHER PERSON INCLUDING OBAMA.

HE IS UNFIT TO SERVE IN CONGRESS, LET ALONE THE WHITE HOUSE.

GOOD VIDEO COVERAGE OF THE LEAD-UP TO THE IOWA CAUCUS FROM THE BBC

SEVERAL WELL DONE REPORTS HERE.

IF RON PAUL GETS 20% OF THE VOTE IN IOWA, THEN THE MARGIN OF ERROR IS... 20% BECAUSE...

... BECAUSE ANYONE WHO WOULD VOTE FOR THIS ANTISEMITIC ISOLATIONIST CONSPIRACY-NUTCASE PIECE OF CRAP IS MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE.

UPDATE: 

MORE PROOF THIS ISOLATIONIST "BLAME AMERICAN IMPERIALISM" PIECE OF CRAP IS A NUTCASE: HE GOT THE SCHEUER ENDORSEMENT.

PAUL IS A PIECE OF CRAP.

JUST SAYING.

TWO OBAMA'S AND SEVEN SINS

ILLUSTRATED.

OBAMA'S THIRD PARTY STRATEGY: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS AMERICAN THINKER BY 7 MONTHS

AMERICAN THINKER TODAY.

TAB 7 MONTHS AGO.

AND MANY TIMES SINCE.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND BOOKMARK US, BLOGROLL US. AND/OR FOLLOW US.

GREECE THREATENS TO WITHDRAW FROM EURO

Greece’s government warned Tuesday that the debt-crippled country will have to ditch the euro if it fails to finalize a second, €130 billion ($169 billion) international bailout.

Spokesman Pantelis Kapsis said negotiations in the next three or four months with international debt monitors will “determine everything,” including whether Greece escapes a disastrous bankruptcy.

TICK... TICK... TICK...

UNREAL: OBAMA APPEASING THE TALIBAN

OBAMA WILL RELEASE SOME TALIBAN DETAINEES FROM GITMO.

THIS COMES DAYS AFTER SIGNING A BILL INTO LAW THAT WILL PERMIT HIM TO HOLD TERRORISTS INDEFINITELY.

IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A DOUBLE AGENT WORKING TO ADVANCE GLOBAL JIHAD WOULD HE DO ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

Do these guys look like "helicopter spotters"??

Totally unbelievable; two muslims get into an RAF base and take photos and they are released after 3 hours!!

Helicopter spotters spark terrorist alert after driving unchecked into RAF base and taking photographs

A pair of helicopter spotters sparked a major terrorist alert after driving into an RAF base 'to have a look around'.


Salesmen Max Awad, 30, and Addison Bridet, 29, were apparently waved through a military checkpoint and began taking photos of Chinooks and a Lynx.


It was ten minutes before officers at RAF Odiham, Hampshire, realised there had been a breach and assembled an armed response team.

Max Award (left) and Adison Bridet (right) were apparently waved through a checkpoint at  RAF Odiham...(...)

Alert: A Chinook at RAF Odiham, where the men said they took pictures of aircraft before armed guards descended on them
'We had no idea we'd done anything wrong,' Mr Awad, from Basingstoke, told The Sun. (...) 

'At the checkpoint there were loads of cars being let in. I presumed they were having some sort of open day.'
The two men decided to drive up to three of the helicopters for a better look.

But as they snapped away, they noticed that they were the only civilians in the area. 'Suddenly I realised it wasn't an open day - there were no refreshment stalls,' Mr Awad said.

'Then all hell broke loose. There were armed guards running everywhere and a tannoy blaring, "emergency, emergency, breach of code".' The men were locked up for three hours and interrogated before being released.

The MoD said that security had not been compromised. 

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