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The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
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Armstrong Williams Radio Show appearance Tuesday afternoon
Thank you very much for agreeing to be a guest on The Armstrong Williams Radio Show Tuesday, May 17 at 4:30 PM EDT. The topic will be your new book. We broadcast daily on WGCV Radio in Columbia
Scottish Politics: Independence
Excerpt: Was this a vote for leaving the union? Hardly. Neither independence nor the enhancements to devolution proposed in legislation currently wending its way through Westminster
The U.S. : Where Europe Comes to Slum
Excerpt: The newest slumlord in Los Angeles L.A.
Thirteen killed as Israeli troops open fire on Nakba Day border protests
The NLRB’s Ironic Lawsuit Against Arizona
Excerpt: While much of the nation’s attention in matters concerning the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been rightly focused on the affairs of Boeing in South Carolina Arizona Republic
Allen West for President? Some Hope So
Excerpt: Allen West enlisted in the Army nearly 20 years ago, but these days, a growing number of Tea Partiers and conservative Republicans want to draft the black GOP lawmaker from Florida
Study: 1 million sex crimes by illegals: Researcher estimates more than 100 offenders crossing border daily
Excerpt: Based on a one-year in-depth study, a researcher estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States Atlanta California had the most offenders, followed by Texas , Arizona , New Jersey , New York and Florida
In the Theater of the Absurd: US-NATO Support "Al Qaeda in Libya
Excerpt: In the Theatre of the Absurd, anything is possible. However, this latest scenario in Libya Tripoli and beyond, including Muammar Qadhafi’s compound, in a brazen attempt to assassinate the man and re-colonise Libya Libya
Did a Pakistani official sell info to CIA to settle in the West?
Did a Pakistani intelligence official sell the information about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden to the US
Obama Sends Wildfire Aid To Mexico , Not Texas
Excerpt: Just last month the U.S. sent two Air force cargo planes to help Mexico battle back wildfires in the northern part of it's country, fires that burned 386 square miles. It's a move that West Texas Congressman Francisco Canseco (R-Fort Stockton) thinks is a hypocritical one by the Obama administration as Texas
Stalemate in Libya
Excerpt: As the war in Libya enters its third month, forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have finally been pushed out of the rebel-held city of Misrata Washington Misrata Tripoli
Muslim Women Reformers
Interview about a new book. ~Bob
The Palestinians Manufacture Their Own “Catastrophe”
Excerpt: Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of Hamas in Gaza , told thousands of worshippers on Sunday May 15th to pray for the end of Israel , adding: “Palestinians mark the Naqba with great hope of bringing to an end the Zionist project in Palestine Gaza , the West Bank, Syria , and Lebanon Israel ’s creation), they streamed en masse to Israel Lebanon Lebanon from Israel
In the last few years, America
Do Victory Laps and Spiking the Football outweigh Operational (and Personal) Security?: Shut up about the SEALs already, please
Excerpt: This month’s successful kill/capture mission in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which resulted in the death of the World’s Most Wanted Terrorist and in the recovery of a treasure trove of intelligence (and of pornography - gotta love those radical fundamentalists’ aversion to hypocrisy!) has naturally increased national and media interest in the elite special operations professionals who carried out this operation. While the information being reported by various media outlets and individuals has often missed the accuracy bulls-eye by quite a bit (yet again demonstrating that life imitates the Onion), enough accurate-ish information has apparently been revealed to the public by the usual suspects - the administration and those members of Congress who hold security clearances because of the voters’ actions rather than for any personal character qualities they may actually possess - that some units within, and affiliated with, JSOC are reportedly being forced to consider adapting their Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) — not to mention the fact that some operators are now concerned for the safety of their families (more on this later).
Homophobic Barbarians: 10 Reasons Every Gay American Needs to Support the War Against Islamofascism
Excerpt: For all the screaming about intolerance and bigotry against gays here in America — driven by many people’s objection to changing the definition of the centuries-old institution of marriage — many so-called liberals don’t seem to notice the actual intolerance and murder being meted out on gays in Muslim countries. Homosexuals living in Muslim countries suffer dire consequences for coming out including whipping, banishment, humiliation and even death by stoning, hanging or familial stabbing in accordance with Islamic law. Homosexuals in the Muslim culture are encouraged to commit suicide rather than bring shame on their families. While the biggest argument regarding homosexuals in America
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387332/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-London-sleeper-cell-told-carry-attacks-death.html
Easier there, as the UK Somalia returned to Britain West London . He is married with a child and moved to Britain as a young boy from Iran
Afghan intelligence: Taliban using child bombers
Evil in the name of God. ~Bob. Excerpt: The orders from their religious teacher were clear: Go to Afghanistan Pakistan with three other would-be boy bombers and headed into eastern Afghanistan
Turned over to kin after elopement, Baghpat women killed by mothers
Excerpt: Two Muslim women in an Uttar Pradesh town, 40 km east of Delhi
The victims had sought police protection after they returned to their homes in Baghpat earlier this week, but the subdivisional magistrate sent them home to reconcile with their mothers.
Pray for Britain
Excerpt: Seems to me that this will place Britain Britain
The Week That Was: 2011-05-14 (May 5, 2011)
As always, there are some good articles in here. Ron P. Excerpt: Quote of the Week: “A lie gets halfway around the world before truth has a chance to get is pants on.” Winston Churchill. In the past two weeks several reports were produced by the orthodoxy insisting that consequences of human-caused global warming are more dire than previously estimated – that is, than projected in the 2007 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Consistent with the Quote of the Week, these new, non-scientific claims were quickly repeated by many news organizations. Two of these reports are briefly discussed below: the one agriculture production and the one the Arctic .
Enter Unit 8200: Israel
Excerpt: Amid mounting tensions in the Middle East, Israel Iran for recent cyberattacks, blamed on Israel , on Tehran India
Germans Delve into Sins of Nazi Grandparents
Excerpt: Rainer Hoess was 12 years old when he found out his grandfather was one of the worst mass murderers in history. His boarding school's gardener, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him black and blue after hearing he was the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the death camp synonymous with the Holocaust. "He beat me, because he projected on me all the horror he went through," Rainer Hoess said, with a shrug and a helpless smile. "Once a Hoess, always a Hoess. Whether you're the grandfather or the grandson — guilty is guilty." Germans have for decades confronted the Nazi era head-on, paying billions in compensation, meticulously teaching Third Reich history in school, and building memorials to victims.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: I don’t want to make this a habit, and I suspect he doesn’t either, but Paul Krugman and I are once again in (very) partial agreement. We both think the American elite has intellectually and morally lost its way, and we agree that the problems our country faces today have more to do with elite breakdown than popular stupidity. We locate the blame somewhat differently within that elite; Krugman splits the blame between George W. Bush and the economic policy makers of the Clinton/Obama administrations. I think the rot goes deeper and has spread out more widely. But the United States today — in both parties, in the corporate and business worlds, in academia and among the intelligentsia, in religion and in many other fields — does not have the strong and thoughtful leadership that we need. That is not what the elite thinks, by and large. To listen to many bien pensant American intellectuals and above-the-salt journalists, America
The Arizona Republic
Excerpt: Rather, the NLRB lawsuit over Arizona Arizona
Beyond the Lunatic Fringe
Excerpt: The most disheartening aspect of the 2012 election cycle (so far) has been Donald Trump's effort to press the "birther" argument, claiming that President Barack Obama may not have been born in Hawaii in 1961 but somewhere else—Kenya, perhaps. A survey in February recorded that 51% of GOP primary voters believed Mr. Obama to be a non-native son. In a victory for common sense, support for the position plummeted with the recent release of Mr. Obama's long-form birth certificate. Liberals should avoid crowing too loudly, though, since they have their own share of nutters. In 2007, pollster John Zogby asked Democratic voters about the terrorist attacks of 9/11; 42% of respondents said that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney either allowed the attacks to happen or deliberately caused the attacks to happen, presumably for political gain or to reap a financial windfall by waging a war for oil in the Middle East. To Jonathan Kay, Birthers and Truthers are flipsides of the same coin. "Like an earthquake, 9/11 produced a great fissure through the heart of America's political center," he writes in "Among the Truthers." "It is not just politics that separates these two camps, but the very manner by which they answer fundamental questions about the world." A Canadian who is an editor and columnist at the National Post, Mr. Kay decided to criss-cross America and meet Truthers of all stripes.
"No question": Schakowsky describes "violent crime scene" photos of bin Laden
If this was a “crime scene,” is Rep. Schakowsky (D-USSR) going to turn Obama in for ordering the hit? ~Bob. Excerpt: After viewing photos of a dead Osama bin Laden, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky said there's "no question" in her mind that they should not be released to the general public because of their graphic nature. "These are pictures of a violent crime scene. This is a dead person. A dead Osama bin Laden," she said.
Donald Trump won’t run for president in 2012
Democrats weep. It was all about his ego and getting publicity for his TV show all along. ~Bob.
Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth
Excerpt: “It is an impossible scenario,” says Mark Boslough, a physicist at Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., where he taps the world’s fastest computers for nuclear bomb experiments to study such impacts. His computations show the debris from such a comet couldn’t cover the proposed impact field. In March, a “requiem” for the theory even was published by a group that included leading specialists from archaeology to botany. Yet, the scientists who described the alleged impact in a hallowed U.S. scientific journal refuse to consider the critics’ evidence — insisting they are correct, even though no one can replicate their work: the hallmark of credibility in the scientific world. (...) Such intransigence has been seen before in other cases of grand scientific claims. Sometimes those theories were based on data irregularities. Other times, the proponents succumbed to self-delusion. But typically, advocates become so invested in their ideas they can’t publicly acknowledge error. (The “Allen West” mentioned in this story not only isn’t the congressman, he isn’t even “Allen West.” You’ll have to read this to believe it. It seems climate science isn’t the only field where questionable results can be found, but only AFTER they’ve been funded and published. Ron P.)
Hate the twisty bulbs? ESL’s coming soon
Excerpt: The light generation process is similar to a cathode ray tube (CRT) but lacks magnetic or electrostatic deflection. Just wait, somebody will figure out a yoke coil for these bad boys and a way to hack the power supply to modulate video and we’ll have little live video pictures of the sun or some other star on the phosphor screens. Or, we’ll all get to claim we have miniature particle accelerators in our ceiling. Amuse your guests with a Geiger counter capable of recording Beta and X-rays. Don’t freak out though, we’ve been doing the same thing for half a century with bigger, badder CRT’s in TV sets. Beats having a mercury hazard around.
Supreme Court Won't Revive Torture Lawsuit
Excerpt: The case involved five terrorism suspects who were arrested shortly after 9/11 and said they were flown by a Boeing Co. subsidiary to prisons around the world where they were tortured. A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco cited national security risks in dismissing the men's case last year. The terror suspects sued Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan in 2007, alleging that the extraordinary rendition program amounted to illegal "forced disappearances." They alleged that the San Jose-based subsidiary conspired with the CIA to operate the program. A trial court judge quickly dismissed the lawsuit after the Bush administration took over defense of the case from Chicago-based Boeing and invoked the state secrets privilege, demanding a halt to the litigation over concern that top secret intelligence would be divulged. (There are TWO bits of good news here. First is the headline. Second is that Justice Kagan recused because she had worked on the case at the DOJ. Ron P.)
Egypt's Transition Emboldens Brotherhood
Excerpt: Much of the idealism and the promise of unity that emerged from the massive populist uprising that captivated Egypt and swept longtime President Hosni Mubarak from power in February seems to have been lost. In the three months since, the Muslim Brotherhood—an Islamist movement that was banned under the previous regime—has grown more confident and has shed layers of its past façade, as it prepares for Egypt's important parliamentary elections in September. The group has grown increasingly bold—announcing that it would raise its target for the number of seats it would contest in elections to 45-50% and forming a coalition with Egypt's hardcore Islamists. Both of these changes appear to be in direct contravention with earlier promises made by the Brotherhood in the immediate aftermath of the January 25th revolution.
Read It Now: The Possible/Probable Main Crisis for 2012
Excerpt: Save this note. Last year I predicted that Egypt’s instability might well be the big story of 2011. Why wait until December? The central scenario for the Middle East in 2012: Hamas attacks Israel with mortars, rockets, a few missiles, and a few attempts at cross-border attacks. Israel counterattacks into the Gaza Strip. What does Egypt do? (The author has laid out some possible scenarios, none of them appealing. Ron P.)
Pakistan's Nuclear Surge
Excerpt: Even in the best of times, Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons program warrants alarm. But these are perilous days. At a moment of unprecedented misgiving between Washington and Islamabad, new evidence suggests that Pakistan’s nuclear program is barreling ahead at a furious clip. According to new commercial-satellite imagery obtained exclusively by Newsweek, Pakistan is aggressively accelerating construction at the Khushab nuclear site, about 140 miles south of Islamabad. The images, analysts say, prove Pakistan will soon have a fourth operational reactor, greatly expanding plutonium production for its nuclear-weapons program. (…) Unlike Iran, which has yet to produce highly enriched uranium, or North Korea, which has produced plutonium but still lacks any real weapons capability, Pakistan is significantly ramping up its nuclear-weapons program. Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration, puts it bluntly: “You’re talking about Pakistan even potentially passing France at some point. That’s extraordinary.” (From 1945 to 1989, we faced down “godless communists,” and succeeded in the end. But, because they were “godless,” they were—or at least acted like they were—rational. Their moves made sense to us, our counter-moves made sense to them. Once religious motivations enter the picture, none of that is necessarily true any longer. If this world “needs to be destroyed to make way for the next”…. Ron P.)
Obama's immigration hypocrisy
excerpt: Barack Obama's immigration speech in El Paso May 10 was an exercise in electioneering and hypocrisy. Hypocrisy, because while Obama complained about "politicians" blocking comprehensive immigration bills, he was one himself.
In 2007, when such a bill had bipartisan backing from Senate heavyweights Edward Kennedy and Jon Kyl, Sen. Obama voted for union-backed amendments that Kennedy and Kyl opposed as bill-killers. In 2009 and 2010, President Obama acquiesced in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to pass cap-and-trade and bypass immigration and in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision not to bring an immigration bill to the floor. Both times the votes were probably there to pass a bill. Obama didn't lift a finger to help. But that didn't stop the president, who's constantly calling for civility, to heap scorn on those seeking stronger enforcement. "They'll want a higher fence. Maybe they'll need a moat," he said to laughter from the largely Latino audience. "Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied."
Dems' thuggery knows no bounds
Excerpt: Orrin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah, didn't mince words the other day on Hugh Hewitt's national radio show. The Democrats, he said, "play politics very, very tough, they play it well, and they don't give a damn about what's right and what's wrong."
He was speaking about battles in Washington, but an even more vivid example can be found in Wisconsin, where the Democrats are still trying to overturn the 2010 elections.
Obama official won’t provide information about executive order on transparency
Tell me this is an anti-Obama spoof. Please. ~Bob.
The Tyrant Temptation
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/267228/tyrant-temptation-steven-f-hayward
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/267228/tyrant-temptation-steven-f-hayward
Excerpt: There is a close contest under way to choose the most embarrassing aspect of our Libyan misadventure: Is it the utter fecklessness of American and NATO power in the field, the murkiness of the result being sought, or the wider incoherence of the Obama administration’s perspective on the “Arab Spring,” one day declaring that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is “not a dictator,” demanding his ouster the next, and then going on to declare hands-off in Syria because its bloodthirsty ruler, Bashar Assad, is a “reformer”? The Obama administration can at least claim that a certain amount of opacity or ambiguity is necessary in dealing with a region of such immense instability and political immaturity. The intellectual class that had come to regard Qaddafi as a more or less normal ruler with potentially reasonable or liberal inclinations has no such excuse, and their self-deception has had the consequence of enabling the policy incoherence of our political leaders.
The Foreign Policy Elite and Bureaucracy Starts Parting Ways with Obama
Excerpt: Perhaps the most important policymaking development of the last month has been President Barack Obama's increasingly visible loss of a lot of the foreign policy elite, including considerable segments of the State and Defense departments. Why this is happening is one of the most interested-and highly neglected-stories of this period.
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