Update
The weather continues to tend towards the warm side, which I
love despite the aggravation the allergens cause to my chronic cough. knee deep
in preparing for the ethics hearing Monday against the Dane County
Story of my life. People have been telling me I couldn't
make it in the Marines, I wasn't college material, I couldn't be elected to the
senate, I couldn't turn around a couple of hopeless situations, I couldn't
survive a pulmonary fibrosis more than three years, and that the country is
hopeless so I should give up the blog for fifty years. But I loath quitters--it
wasn't on the curriculum at the University
of Parris Island
General News and Comment
Clinton, Inc.: Report: Clinton
Excerpt: The Clinton
Foundation reportedly accepted millions of dollars from a Colombian
oil company head before then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to
support a trade deal with Colombia
despite worries of human rights violations. The report in the International Business Times comes
as Clinton
readies an expected run for president. She’s been dogged by questions about
whether foreign donations to her foundations could have influenced her official
decisions. The report centers on donations from Frank Giustra and the oil
company that he founded, Pacific Rubiales. (The foundation is the Clinton slush fund for
first class travel and perks. Want a favor from President Billary? It will cost
you. ~Bob)
Hillary Clinton to
announce White House run on Sunday. She has privately told aides that she wants
to avoid the coronation atmosphere of her 2008 launch.
Excerpt: The wait is almost over. Hillary Clinton will kick
off her long-anticipated campaign for president on Sunday with a social-media
announcement, three sources close to the campaign-to-be told POLITICO, and will
begin her 2016 run for the presidency with a trip to Iowa .
'Draft Biden'
movement imagines vice president in Corvette By Jesse Byrnes
Excerpt: Those hoping to draw Joe Biden into launching the
2016 presidential race are looking to rev up support by getting others to
imagine the 72-year-old former senator driving a Corvette. Organizers behind
the Draft Biden 2016 super-PAC have launched an online store around a "I'm
ridin' with Biden" logo depicting the vice president sporting aviator
sunglasses while behind the wheel. (I wouldn't let me 14-year-old granddaughter
ride with "Touchy Uncle Joe." Biden may turn out to be the John
Edwards of this cycle. ~Bob)
The Paradox of Rand
Paul’s National Security Moment. By Molly O'Toole
The young, alternative Kentucky senator who blasts Republicans and
Democrats as trigger-happy hawks makes his pitch for commander-in-chief with an
old backdrop and mainstream message. Nothing says maverick outsider challenging
the Republican establishment like a major national security speech delivered
from a stars-and-stripes-draped podium in front of an aircraft carrier.
Excerpt: With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young
fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A
quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and
Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by letters handwritten from their
fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The
Wall—the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they
discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son.
Excerpt: A group of eight-year-old children in New Jersey
have written letters to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, wishing that he
will 'get better soon' while recovering in hospital from a mystery illness
after being encouraged by their teacher. The cards have caused outrage and
alarm among political commentators, many of whom claim the 60-year-old's
illness is a fraud and clamor for attention. Abu-Jamal, who shot Philadelphia police
officer Daniel Faulkner in cold blood in 1981, was taken to hospital on April 2
after collapsing in the bathroom of the State Correctional Institution at
Mahanoy. (Her New Jersey
School District
Last IOC in Marine
infantry experiment drops female officers
Excerpt: The two-and-a-half year period in which the Marine
Corps' Infantry Officer Course became gender-integrated for research will end
without a single female graduate. The final iteration of IOC to accept female
Marines on a volunteer basis began April 2 with two female participants. One
was a volunteer and one was a member of the newly integrated ground
intelligence track. Both were dropped that same day during the grueling initial
Combat Endurance Test, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a spokeswoman for Headquarters
Marine Corps. Nine of the 90 men who began the course were also cut.
Video: Atheists become protected class in Madison , Wisconsin
First in the country. Pushed by the Freedom From Religion
Foundation. No protection for Jews or Christians of course. I suppose a church
who turned down an atheist for the position of pastor could be sued. ~Bob
The Long Retreat in
the Culture War. By Patrick J.
Buchanan
Excerpt: Politics follows culture. And the cultural
revolution of the ’60s is triumphant. Traditional Christianity, driven out of
schools and the public square, is being whipped back into the churches and told
to stay there. America
has gone over to the revolution. Looking back, the sweep of the capitulation
becomes stark.
This Culture War We’re In . By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: How are wars won? To win a war you don’t need to
kill every soldier on the other side. What you need to do is destroy the other
army as an organized force. You destroy the ability of the officers to command
and the morale of the men. You destroy their perception of the worth of their
side and of their own self-worth. All wars are culture wars. To win you must
destroy the values of the other side. (That is one reason why we’re losing to
Islam no matter how many times we beat them on the battlefield.) You must
destroy their sense of purpose and the values instilled in them to break them
as an organization. That is what the left has been doing to us. (Our founding
fathers were brilliant in crafting a constitution whose Bill of Rights and form
of government protect minorities from the tyranny of a democratic majority.
However we have now reached a point where the bureaucratic state has enabled
aggrieved minorities to tyrannize the majority. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Excerpt: This Fourth of July marks the 234th anniversary of
one the most dangerous ideas ever unleashed on the world. That people do not
belong to governments, but governments belong to people. This was not an
altogether new idea. History was filled with all sorts of theorizing and
debating over the grounds on which a king might be overthrown. But the process
that began with the Declaration of Independence did not merely set out to replace
one set of chains, with a nicer set, but to overturn the top down rule of
government, and replace it with a system in which people choose and replace
their governments at will. (Just happened to come across this essay from five
years ago, but it's a real Keeper. Thought it worth passing on. --Del )
Feds Paid Violent Sexual Predators $523,987. 18 individuals
involuntary confined to mental health centers. By Elizabeth Harrington
Excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) paid
violent sexual predators nearly $524,000, in violation of federal law. According
to a new audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the
SSA awarded benefits to 18 sexual predators after they were moved from prison
to Special Commitment Centers (SCC).
Excerpt: Nearly a year after Fairfax
County scrapped its touch-screen
voting machines, state officials are recommending decertification of the
WinVote system used in 20 percent of Virginia ’s
precincts. The investigation has raised concerns about the credibility and integrity
of upcoming elections throughout the swing state. With fewer than 60 days to
the June primaries, the Virginia Department of Elections is taking public
comment on the machines used in 29 localities. (I was on the Election Laws
Committee. The old timer who ran the state elections division, very fair,
competent, non-partisan guy, told me, "I'm a paper ballot man. Any voting
machine man can make, man can fix." ~Bob)
Soldier dancing
OK, here is one guaranteed to choke you up a little. It's
the TV show "Dancing With the Stars" and this one pair is made up of
a double amputee US vet and his professional dancing partner. It is a superb
example of how good people rise above the tragedies that befall them, and
that this man lost so much in service to his country, but has gone on to adapt
and overcome, is an inspiration of huge proportion. It's not a long video, but
don't watch it until you have time to watch and then recover. --Del
Worth Reading
Excerpt: If, at the charity dinner, I had found a way to
sneer a little at America ,
I might have elicited a few cheers from the same side of the room (obviously an
in-crowd) that had booed my reference to American exceptionalism. But
cheers or boos, that side of the audience only reinforced what most Americans
already suspect: that in the culture war between liberalism and conservatism
that followed the tumultuous 1960s, liberalism won. That is, liberalism
won the moral authority, the power, to set the terms of social relations among
Americans — the manners, the protocols, the ideas of decency, the rules
establishing how people must interact within the most diverse society in human
history. Liberalism gave America
a new “correctness” that enforced these new rules with the threat of
stigmatization. There are still, certainly, ferocious debates between liberals
and conservatives in many realms — economic policy, education, foreign policy,
immigration, the environment, and so on. And these debates will surely grind
on. But post-1960s liberalism won a certain moral hegemony over the
culture by establishing dissociation as the über human value — the
value that arbitrates the importance and relevance of all other values. (Long
articles, by and about a (as well as from another) serious thinker,
portends the decline of civil tolerance and the imposition of the Left's rules
by governmental police power. As suggested by Erickson, this is Alinsky
transformation into Machiavelli. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Obama, Castro to hold
bilateral meeting Saturday
Excerpt: President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro
will hold a bilateral meeting Saturday on the margins of the Summit
of the Americas
here, the first such encounter between the two nations in more than 50 years,
White House officials said.
“We anticipate that they will have a discussion,” deputy
national security adviser Benjamin Rhodes said.
U.S. military tactics
falling behind those of adversaries, Pentagon official warns. By Spencer
Ackerman
Excerpt: A “proliferation of precision” weapons and the
spread of styles of warfare displayed by Russia
in Ukraine risks
ending “the American way of war that we have grown accustomed to over the last
three decades”, the Pentagon’s No 2 official warned on Wednesday.
In a speech likely to be hotly debated in defense circles,
US deputy defense secretary Robert Work outlined a vision of ground warfare for
what might be called a post-insurgency era, one in which US adversaries cycle
between using subterfuge tactics and high-tech precision artillery – “conventional weapons with near-zero miss”, in his warning –
to potentially overmatch the US military.
How Marines Plan
To Survive Littoral Warfare. By Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr.
Excerpt: PENTAGON: “You ever seen what an attack helicopter
does to a small boat? That’s a Cuisinart.” The Navy’s long been nervous about
the survival of its high-cost high-seas warships in coastal knife fights. (That
anxiety drove the development of the controversial
Littoral Combat Ship). Iran ,
in particular, is notorious for its shallow water mini-submarines and its light-weight but heavily
armed attack
boats. But as Marines come back aboard ship after a decade spent deep
inland in Afghanistan and Iraq , the Navy is rediscovering America ’s own
littoral brawlers. Just as the Marine Corps’ recent Expeditionary
Force-21 doctrine reemphasizes the value to Marine operations of ships
and the sea, the Navy is refocusing on what Marines can do for the fleet.
Excerpt: The
Hill reports that Major General James Post, the vice-commander of Air
Combat Command was relieved from his position for warning Airmen at a
convention to refrain from speaking to Congress or the media if they didn’t
support the official policy of the Air Force to dump the A-10 Thunderbolt (the
Warthog) close ground
support aircraft.
Worth Reading Appomattox
Excerpt: Were I asked to pick critical points in American
history, points after Independence
was a done deal but where the very fate of the Republic teetered on razor’s
edge, three would instantly come to mind. First. Washington ’s response to the Newburgh
Conspiracy and his subsequent resignation as Commander in Chief. Second. Washington ’s leaving
office after two terms. (Obama, the first black president, took no notice of
the surrender of the pro-slavery forces, ensuring emancipation. Maybe because
the majority of those who fought and died to put down the slave power were
white--including my great, great grandfather, Oliver Vernal, who fought through
the war with the 6th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and was badly wounded
twice. Had he died, I would have died with him--he had no kids yet. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The Obama administration has finally acknowledged
that those hurt and killed in the 2009 Fort Hood
Hearing date set for
war hero who faces the boot
Excerpt: Maj. Matthew Golsteyn, the former Green Beret
stripped of his Silver Star, will face a board of inquiry on May 18 to make his
case against the Army's effort to boot him from the service. The board could
recommend to separate the soldier and, if so, what type of discharge he should
receive. ... Details of the case remain sparse. The Army has not publicly
stated the allegations pursued in a completed Criminal Investigation Command
probe. Stackhouse, however, said the Army investigated whether Golsteyn shot an unarmed combatant suspected of
building a bomb that killed two U.S.
VA makes little
headway in fight to shorten waits for care. By David B. Caruso
Excerpt: The chronic delays plaguing the Veterans Affairs
health system are concentrated in a fraction of its hospitals and clinics -
many of them in the South - that have done far worse than others in delivering
prompt care, according to government data reviewed by The Associated Press. A
year after Americans recoiled at revelations that sick veterans were getting
sicker while languishing on waiting lists, VA statistics show that the number
of patients facing long waits has not declined, even after Congress gave the
department an extra $16.3 billion last summer to shorten waits for care. (A
whole year later, all kinds of promises, a change at the top, supposedly a
bunch of people fired, more money thrown at it, and somehow things haven't
changed all that much. What will it take? --Del. I'm still happy with and alive
because of the Madison VA. ~Bob)
Gun News
Gun-friendly climate means big business in
Excerpt: When executives from Italian gunmaker Beretta USA were looking to expand their U.S.
manufacturing base, the first step was to make a list of gun-friendly states. "The
first bright-line criteria was (is) it a state not only that was pro-gun, but
that was likely to be pro-gun for many decades or generations to come,"
said Jeff Reh, general counsel for Beretta. It was not until after they
assessed the political climate that they turned their attention to what most
corporations prioritize: tax rates, workforce quality, education system,
climate and proximity to their current base in Maryland . Tennessee
rose to the top of their list, and in 2014, the company announced that not only
would it be expanding in Gallatin ,
but it would move its entire operations there.
Police arrest 4,
release surveillance video in Kute's Liquors robbery attempt
Excerpt: Jeffersontown Police Chief Rick Sanders said
the video shows
30-year-old William Brandon Sexton walk into the store and order the clerk to
the back.The clerk refused and that's when Sexton pulled out what the clerk
thought was a loaded gun. The clerk then pulled out his semi-automatic weapon
and the two were gun to gun before the clerk shot Sexton in the hand, sending
the bullet into his chest.
One for the good
guys; Craigslist robber shot by his victim
Excerpt: The victim stated that all of a sudden he heard his
friend yell, “Son of a b***h.” He said that was when he saw his friend bending
over in pain, like he had been punched in the stomach. At this point, the
victim did not know that his friend had been stabbed. The victim told deputies
that Smith then turned and ran toward him, at which time he drew his gun and
fired a single shot, striking Smith. According to the victim, Smith fell to the
ground but continued to try and get up to come at him. The victim said he told
Smith to stay down.
Moms Against Guns;
Gunning For Kroger
Excerpt: Well, despite all of Kroger's success, they are
"under the gun" from an army of libtard moms called "Moms
Against Guns." Unlike Target and Starbucks and a whole host of other
retail establishments who have caved into political correctness, Kroger prefers
to follow the gun laws of the states where they operate. Arizona is an "open carry" state
so customers are allowed to carry guns if they wish. And Kroger accepts that. In
states where open carry is prohibited Kroger honors those mandates as well. Well,
this past week Kroger held their shareholders meeting. And, yes, Moms Against
Guns stood outside with their protest placards, and screamed spittle filled
hate words at anyone who dared to attend the meeting. Thankfully Kroger went
about their business and politely ignored these PC goons. They announced that
business was so good that they'll be hiring another 20,000 American workers so
that we'll be paying for welfare and food stamps for 20,000 fewer people.
Race Card News
Witness: S.C. victim,
cop struggled before killing
Excerpt: This is setting up to be an interesting trial. In
no way am I trying to say what the officer did was right, but I see a defense
building. The perp struggled with the officer after fleeing, threw the Taser at
him, and the fear in the moment overcame him. Will this be enough to find him
not guilty? Again, I’m not trying to defend the officer, just saying there will
be a defense that could possibly set him free. (No excuse to kill a guy who was
unarmed and no longer a threat, IMHO. ~Bob)
The Scott Killing. From
The Patriot Post
Columnist Jonah Goldberg: "There are capital offenses
for crimes other than murder because the integrity and effectiveness of the
armed forces is a priority. We are not a martial society, but I could make a
similar argument about police officers who murder and lie about it. Faith in
the fairness of the justice system is simply indispensable to a democracy and
social peace. Lack of such faith may be why [Walter] Scott ran from Officer
[Michael] Slager. If so, his mistrust was tragically well-placed. ... People
claim, usually tautologically, that retribution is illegitimate because revenge
is illegitimate. Maybe that’s true. But it seems to me that what some people
call revenge many others see plainly as justice. Deterrence is often a
distraction. Capital punishment clearly doesn’t deter every murderer, but does
it deter any would-be murder? It seems obvious it must. Deterrence is a red
herring because the function of the death penalty isn’t simply to scare a
would-be murderer with the corpse of a convicted one; it is also to inform an
entire society about what we take seriously."
Video: From routine traffic stop to deadly encounter
in minutes: New dashcam video from killer cop's car shows Walter Scott fleeing
WITHOUT a struggle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3032828/New-dashcam-video-shows-Walter-Scott-fleeing-car-records-sounds-struggle-pulled-over.html#ixzz3WuWlV6ry
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3032828/New-dashcam-video-shows-Walter-Scott-fleeing-car-records-sounds-struggle-pulled-over.html#ixzz3WuWlV6ry
Excerpt: A dashcam video has been released showing the
moment Officer Michael Slager pulled over Walter Scott and engaged in a civil
discussion - minutes before shooting him dead.
The camera on Slager's patrol car captures him telling Scott
his third brake light is broken, before asking him to produce insurance papers.
Excerpt: Why did it take until 100 years after the Civil
War, until 1964, to pass a Civil Rights Act? Because the Democratic Party
would not take its boot off the neck of the black man until Martin Luther King
made the black vote a political force. Dedicated to being in power above all
else, the Democrats had to make a U-turn on their race policy in the 1960s and
join the Republicans in passing the Civil Rights Act because they realized that
after the black vote was counted, they were not going to win any more national
elections without it. But there was a problem. How was the Democratic Party
going to overcome its deplorable record on race? It was the party of slavery,
segregation, lynching, and the Klan.
Undocumented Democrat News
Texas Attorney General: ‘If the Law Matters,’ Courts Will
Side With States in Fight Over Obama Immigration Policy. By Josh Siegel
Excerpt: As a federal appeals court considers whether to
keep or rescind a hold on Obama’s immigration program, the attorney general of
the state leading the charge against the president’s executive actions “is very
confident” the plaintiffs will win out. “All I can tell you is, based on the
law, I feel very confident,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in an
interview with The Daily Signal. “I am very confident we are right on the law.
And if the law matters, we will do very well.”
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : Iran ’s Negotiating Triumph Over Obama and America
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dubowitz-mark-irans-negotiating-triumph-over-obama-and-america/
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dubowitz-mark-irans-negotiating-triumph-over-obama-and-america/
Excerpt: President Obama believes that the nuclear
“framework” concluded Friday in Switzerland
is a historic achievement. Iran ’s
foreign minister, Javad Zarif, says he believes the same. Those two positions
are incompatible. Mr. Zarif is also a loyal servant of Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who believes that the West, in particular the
U.S. , and Iran are locked in a “collision of
evil and evil ways on one side and the path of . . . religious obedience and
devotion on the other,” as he said in July 2014.
The Growing Chorus
Against the Iran
Excerpt: President Obama would like to pretend that anyone
who opposes the nuclear deal with Iran that he is in the process of striking
must be a warmonger—because war is the (supposed) consequence of not doing a
deal. But that charge is hard to level against some of the high-profile critics
who had spoken out in recent days. –In the Wall Street Journal, former
secretaries of State George Shultz (architect of the Intermediate Nuclear
Forces Treaty with the Soviet Union) and Henry Kissinger (architect of the
Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement with the USSR
and the “opening” to China ) blast Obama’s
deal-making. They warn that not only will the agreement be extremely difficult
to enforce, it is unlikely sanctions will be reimposed even if Iran is caught cheating: “Iran is in a
position to violate the agreement by executive decision. Restoring the most
effective sanctions will require coordinated international action.”
Ayatollah Khamenei
Accuses WH of ‘Lying,’ Being ‘Deceptive,’ and Having ‘Devilish’ Intentions. By
Thomas Joscelyn
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/thomas-joscelyn-ayatollah-khamenei-accuses-wh-of-lying-being-deceptive-and-having-devilish/
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/thomas-joscelyn-ayatollah-khamenei-accuses-wh-of-lying-being-deceptive-and-having-devilish/
Excerpt: President Obama has long known that the real
decision maker in Iran
is Ayatollah Khamenei, the so-called supreme leader. While other Iranian
officials have negotiated with Western powers over the mullahs’ nuclear
program, Khamenei’s opinion is the only one that really counts. It is for this
reason that Obama began writing directly
to Khamenei early in his presidency. Earlier today, Khamenei broke his
silence on the supposed “framework” the Obama administration has been
trumpeting as the basis for a nuclear accord. Khamenei’s speech pulled the rug
out from underneath the administration.
The Win-Win delusion.
By Clifford D. May
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-the-win-win-delusion/
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-the-win-win-delusion/
Excerpt: “The West Capitulates.” That was the headline on an
article by Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Lebanese daily al-Akbar. He
elaborated: “Victors and vanquished. This is the truth of conflicts in the
world since ancient times. Only those who live with their eyes closed believe
conflicts end with compromises.” Al-Akbar is an anti-American newspaper, sympathetic
to Hezbollah, the terrorist militia funded and instructed by Iran . Still,
can one honestly dismiss Mr. al-Amin’s analysis -- and his gloating -- as
unjustified?
Excerpt: The first thing one needs to know about the nuclear
deal with Iran
is that it is not, in fact, a deal. You might be confused about this point,
given that so many news outlets refers to a "deal" that
doesn't exist. In fairness, many do so simply for expediency's sake. The
various parties to the talks did come away with
an agreement, but it was an agreement to haggle more about what a deal
might look like. We don't have a good word for such things, so people use
"deal" as a placeholder.
Excerpt: What made nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants
bad was not that they killed children, mutated fish or doomed mankind. There
was nothing wrong with Plutonium or Uranium. In Iranian or Soviet hands they
are perfectly good substances. It’s when Uncle Sam gets his hands on them that
they go bad. Soviet nuclear weapons were never the problem. Now anti-nuclear
activists are defending Iran ’s
nuclear program because they were never really opposed to nuclear weapons; they
were opposed to America .
(Ye, lefties who would drop everything to protest the opening of a new nuclear
power plant in the us are fine with a nuclear Iran . We are going to lose NYC.
~Bob)
Obama Ignoring
Christian Slaughter
Excerpt: President Obama has a strange pattern of citing
Christians for violence and intolerance on the one hand but refusing to
identify them as the targets of Islamist supremacists on the other. In fact, in
his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast the president stretched back more
than 800 years to declare that "during the Crusades and the Inquisition,
people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ." This was a
remarkably one-sided history of a long series of wars between Christians and
Muslims in which atrocities were common on both sides. The president may not
know that Saladin had more than 200 knights beheaded on July 4, 1187, or that
in 1680 Turks cut off the heads of 813 Christians in Otranto , Italy Del )
8 Dead, 25 Wounded in
Heavy Fighting Between Philippine Troops and Abu Sayyaf Militants
Excerpt: Officials say Philippine troops, backed by attack
helicopters and artillery fire, battled with at least 250 Abu Sayyaf militants
in the country's restive south, leaving two soldiers and six militants dead.
Losing Ground in Iraq , ISIS Pushes Farther into Syria
Excerpt: The conquest by the Islamic State of the Yarmouk
Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus
confirms the resilience of the jihadis and is an indicator of their current
strategy. Islamic State has lost considerable ground in Iraq , with the
recapture of Tikrit constituting its latest setback. IS has no real response to
coalition air power, when it is combined with a competent and determined ground
force. This was first demonstrated in the organization's defeat at Kobani in
January, and it is now becoming apparent in Iraq . However, Islamic State is
responding to this reality in a shrewd and calculated way.
Administration Will
Not Say It Got Yemen
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/09/administration-will-not-say-it-got-yemen-wrong/#ixzz3Wulk1X2O
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/09/administration-will-not-say-it-got-yemen-wrong/#ixzz3Wulk1X2O
Excerpt: The head of the supposedly “rolled back” AQAP,
Nasir al-Wuhayshi, is now also general manager of al-Qaeda, the No. 2 position
with the ability to order attacks in the global terrorist organization. Defense
Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday on a visit to Japan that “of
course AQAP is a group that we’re very concerned with as the United States because in addition to having
other regional ambitions and ambitions within Yemen ,
we all know that AQAP has the ambition to strike Western targets, including
the United States .”
(Will unsuspecting US cities
soon be home to thousands of refugees of unknown allegiance, courtesy of the UN
and Regime to "transform" America ? Article points out US
citizens caught in the melee sought help and told by embassy to evacuate;
however, airport closed and ship could not dock. India currently attempting to help
Americans.....Barb)
On the Ground
in Yemen
Excerpt: Over the past several months, the political crisis
in Yemen has
escalated dramatically: A capital city occupied by the Houthis, a rebel
movement whose slogan includes the words, “Death to America . Death
to Israel .”
An airstrike campaign against them, led by Saudi Arabia . A president who has
fled the country. A U.S. embassy
closed. It’s a chaotic mix that has catapulted Yemen into the international
spotlight. But one thing has at times been missing from media narratives
on Yemen :
reporters on the ground capturing voices from those caught in the middle of the
crisis.
Excerpt: Two weeks into a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen ,
airstrikes appear to have accelerated the country’s fragmentation into warring
tribes and militias while doing little to accomplish the goal of returning the
ousted Yemeni president to power, analysts and residents say. The Yemeni
insurgents, known as Houthis, have pushed ahead with their offensive and seem
to have protected many of their weapons stockpiles from the coalition’s
bombardments, analysts say.
Would-Be Suicide
Bomber Targeted Kansas
Excerpt: A year ago, he wanted to join the U.S. Army to kill
his fellow soldiers. When that didn't work, 20-year-old John T. Booker
repeatedly expressed his desire to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or commit a
suicide attack in the United
States on the terrorist group's behalf.
Booker, a convert to Islam who changed his name to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan,
said American soldiers are enemies to Muslims, and the Quran sanctions killing
enemies anywhere.
Excerpt: This is not just a view that
Muslims who try to join the Islamic State hold. It is much more mainstream than
that. But one wonders — where did this convert to Islam learn this in Wisconsin ? Was he
“radicalized on the Internet” — the all-purpose phrase that government and law
enforcement officials use to absolve themselves of any responsibility to
investigate what is being taught in mosques?
Excerpt: Yazidi girls were snatched from their mothers, sold
to IS fighters, tortured and even raped in public by more than two or three
jihadists at a time before being freed by the Islamic State (Isis) in northern Iraq , according
to harrowing details recounted after their release.
Excerpt: Islamic State militants in Iraq have
beheaded a man accused of practising sorcery and witchcraft. Harrowing images
of the killing have emerged on social media and have been shared by supporters
of the terror group. While the exact nature of the crime the victim is accused
of is not known, images of his death were uploaded to Twitter claiming that he
was a 'sorcerer'. (Ask Obama if this is "Un-Islamic." If he says yes,
ask him if he's told our Saudi allies. A Saudi man has been beheaded on charges
of sorcery and witchcraft, the state news agency SPA says. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18503550.
~Bob)
ISIS gaining traction
in nuclear-armed Pakistan
Excerpt: While President Barack Obama, his so-called
security team and his news media water-carriers push the Iranian nuclear deal
to prevent an Islamist regime from obtaining a nuclear bomb, reports coming out
of the troubled nation of Pakistan on Wednesday are all but being
ignored, at least for the time-being. One such intelligence report indicates
that members of the notorious and bloodthirsty terrorist network, the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria or
ISIS, attacked a platoon of Pakistani soldiers killing at least three of them
and wounding several others, according to Steven Dunsforth, a former U.S. police advisor in Afghanistan . While
the "always late to the party" Obama administration claims ISIS is
only a threat to Iraq, Syria and perhaps Lebanon, it's been reported by
regional newspapers in the Middle East, Asia and Africa that the Sunni
terrorist army is recruiting members from a number of Muslim countries and at
times entire terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab in Somalia, Boko Haram in
Nigeria and some of the Pakistani Taliban have sworn allegiance to ISIS, which formerly
called itself al-Qaida in Iraq.
Excerpt: Jeffrey discovered that the objective is to plant a
“seed community” in Spartanburg that
will eventually blossom and transform the city.....The goal of integration is
to have a multitude of diverse cultures living side by side in “coexistence”
but never assimilating.... Of the more than 500 Syrian refugees brought to
the U.S. so
far this past year, 90 percent of them have been Muslim, Corcoran said.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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