Matt is a Vietnam Veteran, retired 25 year Fire-Rescue Captain, a First Responder to the WTC on 9/11/2001, former Town Tax Assessor, the proud father of a son serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and has traveled across America border to border several hundred times. He hosts a syndicated Talk Radio show and writes articles which are picked up by numerous sources both on the Internet and in print. He can reached by e-mail: mattbruce@newssarasota.com
Matt Bruce - Nationally Syndicated Columnist & Talk Radio Host...
The Fundamental Transformation of America...
SARASOTA, FL. (NS) -
When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said it didn't matter.
When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong Socialists, sent Obama's mother to a Socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, people said it didn't matter.
When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, people said it didn't matter.
When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" regarding the Palestinian issue, people said it didn't matter.
When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, people said it didn't matter.
When he traveled to Pakistan after college on an unknown national passport, people said it didn't matter.
When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist Party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, people said it doesn't matter.
When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach Black Liberation Theology, people said it didn't matter.
When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator", people said it didn't matter.
When the Palestinians in Gaza, set up a fundraising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, people said it didn't matter.
When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn't matter.
When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.
When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Mummar Muammar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.
When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.
When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.
When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn't matter.
When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn't matter.
When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.
When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.
When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage, anti-capitalism, anti-free markets, pro-government control over everything and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn't matter.
When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, people said it didn't matter.
When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.
When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn't matter.
When his first act as President, literally within 5 minutes of taking office, he signed executive order #13489 that sealed his own records, people said it didn’t matter.
When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, and continues to spend millions in court to keep the material sealed, people said it didn't matter.
When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezko, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn't matter.
When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.
When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxists and Communists, people said it didn't matter.
When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.
When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed a cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and Socialist, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in "Explicit Consent", harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed Kevin Jennings, an overt homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.
When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, people said it didn't matter.
When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse-Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.
When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on 'Cap and Trade' as the nation’s largest tax hike in history, people said it doesn't matter.
When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.
When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.
When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn't matter.
When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.
When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend, people said it doesn't matter.
When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States , people said it doesn't matter.
When he upset our European allies by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it doesn't matter.
When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, people said it didn't matter.
When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn't matter.
When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.
When he forced the takeover of insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc, people said it didn't matter.
When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn't matter.
When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn't matter.
When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy resources in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.
When he announced he was returning the masterminds of 9/11 to New York City to stand trial as ordinary criminals -- not war criminals -- and thus allow them the benefits from our system of jurisprudence, the mainstream media loved it and the people said it didn't matter.(Oh really? Go ask an FDNY FF, NYPD Cop, NY EMS, NY Port Authority Cop or Transit Worker, or a 9/11 Families member who was at the World Trade Center 9/11/2001 and see if it matters.)
When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up, but it was too late.
Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ? Personally, I like happy endings.
If you are an Obama Supporter, please recognize that you have elected a president who is a 'socialist'. There is simply no debate about these facts. But you need to seek the truth; you will be richer for it. Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation.
Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy. Don't rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there as well, but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies. Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he is currently waging an open war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, and he has failed to refute any facts presented – because it is all true. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn't. Please, find the truth, it will set you free.
Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia or Iran; no, our biggest enemy is the current contingent of politicians in Washington DC led by the Progressive Left Liberals who support the previously mentioned things.
Is it any wonder why America is in the shape its in today???
Wake Up America! There's still time in 2010 to take back America and send a message LOUD and CLEAR to those who think "it doesn't matter."
I happen to think "it does matter."
God Bless America!
Thanks,
'Matt'
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Deepwater Horizon - Incident Protocol Was Not Followed...
Written By: Matt Bruce
Deepwater Horizon – Protocol Not Followed…
LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL. (NS) -
Everyone saw what happened on April 20, 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded and caught fire with the loss of 11 lives.
First of all, we want to know who was working on that rig. To date we have no idea as to whether or not there were any Foreign Nationals working aboard that oil rig, something that many see as what could point to espionage or terrorism. Until we know for sure who was working on that rig and what their background was, we can not rule out either as a possible cause.
BP has been quick to say it as an accident describing it as an “equipment failure” even though at least 1 of the oil rig workers has gone public saying they had “no warning” of anything wrong with what they were doing.
Have you noticed the information coming from the oil rig workers has stopped???
What we’ve seen happen since then has experts scratching their heads wondering why the established Federal Plan called the “In-Situ Burn” plan which was produced in 1994 by Federal Agencies responsible for handling and event like a major Gulf oil spill weren’t followed.
That plan would have brought a Hydro-Fire Boom System directly to the scene being pulled by 2 boats which would have completely surrounded the oil rig keeping the oil in the immediate area of the rig.
This wasn’t done…
Now let’s take a look at why water was dumped on the fire for 3 days straight instead of the use of foam.
With the explosion it was obvious to fire units, including the Coast Guard, there was the presence of gas at the well. It is a normal practice to use water first and then try and approach the source, in this case the rig, and attempt to shut any and all valves off. The water is used to shield the gas and firefighters who would them attempt to shut the valves off on the oil rig.
The problem with the water was with any chemical fire, water helps to spread the chemical, in this case oil, further away from the fire.
What could and should have been used to immediately smother the fire was foam. In the fire service foam has been used in all conditions including on the water to smother oil, gas and chemical fires before along with use of a fire boom to keep it where it is.
When Federal officials called, Elastec/American Marine shipped the only boom it had in stock, according to CFO Jeff Bohleber. Then at Federal official’s request they began calling customers in other Countries asking if the U.S. Government could borrow their fire booms.
Once again, I repeat, this goes against the established Government Protocol that was put in place back in 1994 where Hydro-Fire Boom Systems were supposed to be stored in the Gulf available for just such an emergency. Obviously that wasn’t the case.
The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation.
While the cause of the explosion is still under investigation, the sequence of events described in the interviews provides the most detailed account of the April 20 blast that killed 11 workers and touched off the underwater gusher that has poured more than 3 million gallons of crude into the Gulf
Portions of the interviews, two written and one taped, were described in detail to an Associated Press reporter by Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety and worked for BP PLC as a risk assessment consultant during the 1990s. He received them from industry friends seeking his expert opinion.
A group of BP executives were on board the Deepwater Horizon rig celebrating the project's safety record, according to the transcripts. Meanwhile, far below, the rig was being converted from an exploration well to a production well.
Based on the interviews, Bea believes that the workers set and then tested a cement seal at the bottom of the well. Then they reduced the pressure in the drill column and attempted to set a second seal below the sea floor. A chemical reaction caused by the setting cement created heat and a gas bubble which destroyed the seal.
Deep beneath the seafloor, methane is in a slushy, crystalline form. Deep sea oil drillers often encounter pockets of methane crystals as they dig into the earth.
And then came the accusations revealing that BP had contributed millions of dollars in 2007 and 2008 to the Democratic Party for the 2008 Elections. They also received some "special exemptions" from the Federal Government. Special exemptions for what? We need to know if it was because of the 'money' that these exemptions were granted.
Oil & Gas: Top Contributors to Federal Candidates and Parties...
Let’s start with the Department of the Interior whose Under Secretary on call for just such an emergency was white river rafting with his wife in the Grand Canyon. It’s still not clear if this person was notified and chose to remain on his trip or just couldn’t be reached.
Then there was BP telling everyone for the first 96 hours “we have everything under control.” Nothing, in fact, could have been further from the truth as we all now know.
After the oil rig collapsed into the Gulf of Mexico, the answer now lies at the bottom of the Gulf in 5,000 feet of water.
Now because BP was providing information to both the Coast Guard, DOE and EPA which proved to be inaccurate, those Agencies just seemed to follow along until it was realized some 5 days later the information just wasn’t correct.
We then found out there were 3 oil leaks at the floor of the Gulf spurred by the oil rig explosion, fire and then collapse.
So with the Federal Government scrambling to say “Units were immediately deployed,” the Federal response teams had to sit and wait for their equipment to show up so they could spring into action. Meanwhile we started to hear statements like “this could take a while,” or “it could be 30 to 90 days to stop the flow of oil.”
Again I point to the earlier Oil Rig Fire Protocol plan that had been instituted back in 1994 which was NOT followed.
If that plan and the equipment to conduct had of been in place, as it was supposed to be, we would NOT be looking at this huge Gulf oil spill today nor would we be talking about “who did what, when.”
I submit to you, the readers, that mistakes were made, starting with the Federal Government not following their own plan they had in place along with taking the word of BP, who obviously had no clue what they were talking about merely hoping for the best which never came.
What we need now is a thorough and complete investigation by Congress, the U.S. Coast Guard and even an Independent Panel of experts to find out what mistakes and made and make sure they NEVER happen again.
In the Fire Service and Emergency Management Services all across the Country we prepare for all types of disasters and our response to them. We have planners who do nothing but write disaster response plans for everything ranging from Hurricanes, Wildfires, Terrorist Attacks, Floods, Earthquakes, Avalanches, Hazardous Material Explosions and even Oil Rig Fires both on land and water.
There was a plan in place to deal with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, “In-Situ Burn” Plan, which was never followed and we need to find out why and make sure an event like this NEVER happens again.
Matt Bruce Retired 25 Year Fire-Rescue Captain Hazardous Materials Instructor & Incident Commander Lakewood Ranch, FL., USA
by Annie and Rick Hamilton Bob and Teirsa Belvin Mike and Stacy Belvin J. Timothy Longpre June 10, 2010
“ The bravest battle that was ever fought; Shall I tell where and when? On the maps of the world you will find not; it was fought by the mothers of men”
It’s often been said that a person’s true character is often tried during times of crisis. Mom’s first health crisis occurred in 1981 with her diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer.
I was fourteen, my older brother 16, and my baby brother was eleven. Mom became aware of pain in her arm, like a bruise from her elbow to her armpit. She said she’d been feeling it for a while but ignored it.
One night, she walked into the bathroom to check it out. Under her arm she found a lump the size of a walnut that prevented her from putting her arm all the way down and freaked out.
She knew something was wrong. She made an appointment with her doctor. He referred her to the hospital for tests.
Mom recalls sitting in the office of the oncologist who treated her. He told her she had inflammatory breast cancer and that it had spread to her lymph nodes.
Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare and aggressive (rapidly spreading) breast cancer that involves the skin of the breast and the lymph nodes.
“So now what?” she asked. “What are my chances of being cured?”
He said he would try to treat her, but suggested she enjoy her time with her family. He told her she ‘might live for six months but probably closer to three’.
We were shocked to hear the words from her oncologist, Stephen Gorton.
During this period, Mom and Dad’s marriage was in a crisis although she was more fearful of what would happen to us if she died than dying itself…she quickly decided leaving was not an option and dug her heels into a ‘mind over matters’ mindset, refusing to budge.
Her physicians went away to a conference one week later where they learned of new treatments and her chances of survival went from zero percent to 25%.
We were ecstatic.
She confidently announced to him that SHE would be the ‘one in four’ who survived.
It was very difficult and she had her first treatment on her thirty-eighth birthday. She threw up all over her cake and felt awful, and we didn’t know quite how to react to her side effects.
Mom gained strength and stuck with the program and sixteen months later, her determination paid off.
Her specialists declared her 100 % cured although she had to undergo regular checkups, blood work, ct scans, etc.
She was not officially out of the woods, for the next couple of years and although she managed to stay healthy for many years and continued to serve as an inspiration for many people, her illness took an unbelievable toll on her body, one that is now coming full circle, twenty-seven years after her initial diagnosis.
This incredible woman of unbreakable strength and faith has endured two bouts with breast cancer, a five-way bypass, lymph edema, kidney failure, brain tumor and a host of other physical ailments stemming from her initial diagnosis.
We are blessed though…We got to keep our beloved Mother, friend, daughter, grandmother, niece, aunt, cousin, wife, sister.
This precious, beloved woman has meant a great deal too many people and her legacy continues to live through all of those who love her.
Please stay tuned for part II information for the conclusion to her story.
Thank you.
Editor’s Note: Annie Hamilton is a Researcher and Writer with published chapters featured in medical journals (including the 4th edition of The Pituitary Patient Resource Guide, featuring prominent Physicians/Surgeons from facilities such as; MD Anderson, Stanford, Lisbon Cancer Center in Portugal
(Luis Sobrinho MD) Shereen Ezzat MD of the University of Toronto, George Chrousos MD of National Institutes of Health as well as the University of Athens, Robert Knutzen MBA to name a few) as well as Town hall, Stand up America USA, The Competitive Advantage, Forbes, Gold Coast Chronicle, House Conservatives Fund, National Institutes of Health, American Daily Review and dozens of other publications.
Her columns, chapters and work has appeared in libraries, medical institutes and teaching facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Japan, South America and the Middle East.
Hamilton continues to write about current events, cultural affairs, America’s Founding documents, Economics, Health Care, Islam/Sharia in the west, Gun rights, Cancer/Neuroendocrine medicine and a variety of other subjects.
She is currently working on a research project and paper titled Hormonal Impact on Psychosocial Dysfunction as related to Battlefield Fatigue/PTSD featuring friends and retired military personnel Colonel Andy O’Meara, Lt General Tom McInerney and BG Bill Mullens in addition to several physicians, scientists and Researchers who worked with her on previous research of the same subject.
As the project endeavors to ‘bridge the gap’ between applied science, military, academics, physician community and the patient themselves…it will be a first, ever.
Patients will be very carefully selected. Hamilton has a unique role in that she is versed in each arena and has worked in most of the avenues, understanding the others.
It shall give a new face to PTSD everywhere, to the ‘everyman and woman’, bringing new understanding to the long misunderstood issue.
She’s also finishing a manuscript about our current Administration.
Ms. Hamilton has enjoyed a successful career in research and medical affairs, lobbying successful legislation, protecting the interests of physicians and nurses, fighting unions, facilitating medical studies, coordinating NIH meetings, researching and writing papers for multiple parties.
One of her papers earned her a nomination for The Rolex prize in 2003 and was accepted to the NIH through the Pediatric Neuroendocrine division of the University of Athens and is in under review at Stanford.
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The Unbreakable Spirit Mom’s Final Journey – Part
Two
By Annie and Rick
Hamilton Bob and Teirsa
Belvin Mike and Stacy Belvin J. Timothy
Longpre June 14, 2010
The boys and I used to joke that Mom must be like a cat with nine lives,
surviving two bouts of breast cancer, a five-way by-pass, lymph edema,
gall-bladder surgery where she’d forgotten to mention that she’d drank
liquid prior to her surgery, causing complications and irritating her surgeon,
congestive heart failure, thyroid complications, pituitary complications,
kidney failure and a brain tumor.
My little brother said if he was ever in a plane crash, he wanted to be
sitting “Next to Mom, because SHE would be the one person whose area would be
unaffected! “ She was that determined in her survival
instincts.
She took it in stride, refusing to worry anyone, maintaining practicality,
sense of humor and a clear head until she was unable to process information
correctly which would frustrate her, occasionally moving her to tears.
Despite her long relationship with illness, she remained relatively well
until 2009 when her health took a serious turn south and she was told she’d
require another heart surgery to repair faulty aortic and mitral valves.
Various complications prevented her surgery numerous times eventually
disallowing it altogether.
Her window of opportunity closed mid-2010 with the news that she was too ill
to survive another round in the operating room and that she needed to spend time
with family.
Second opinions yielded similar results and although Mom was referred to
Swedish in Seattle, known for their peerless handiwork in cardiac science, Mom’s
condition declined further before Swedish was able to confirm her potential
placement in their study for problematic procedures.
We were devastated, especially when days after this event, Mom decided to
check herself into hospice.
I drove up from California, meeting my brothers and their wives, step-dad,
nephews and niece, aunts, uncles, grandmother and friends who gathered around
her to spend her final days together.
We downloaded her favorite music on I-tunes, snuck in her favorite foods,
sung to her, (she used to sing to us as children, especially the song, “You
are my sunshine”) and slept in shifts with the others keeping vigil in
order to not miss anything, whether it was her ‘awake time’ or the possibility
of her leaving without our knowledge.
We didn’t want to miss a single moment of her life much like she hadn’t
wanted to miss even a minute of ours while healthy.
At one point, my little brother brought in key lime pie, one of Mom’s
favorites. Her eyes lit up a bit. He started spoon-feeding her tiny bites off of
the top, careful not feed her the crusted portion, fearful that she might choke
on anything too hard.
She caught on quickly and glared at him, using every bit of her breath to
blurt out “CRUST!” (Her favorite part was the crust)
Startled but laughing, Bob gave her a bite with a bit of crust in it,
crumbled up so she wouldn’t choke.
Our last few days with Mom were filled with similar experiences, laughter
through tears.
One of her biggest fears had been leaving family, making sure we were ok and
at one point, my brother, knowing she was suffering leaned in and told her it
was ok to let go and meet Jesus because we were all ok and loved her so
much.
She had been non-responsive nearly all day but right then, she opened her
eyes, looked at him and defiantly said, “NO!” which made us laugh, her resolve
and strength knew no limits and although she had previously asked us
‘permission’ to go, now we all felt a little guilty for laughing at her response
or for even asking in the first place.
Her ‘no’ made it sound like he was suggesting we simply toss her out with the
trash.
Wednesday, June 9th at approximately ten p.m., we noticed that her
breathing was no longer labored and within a minute or two she was gone.
Oddly enough, she had the appearance of a smirk on her face, like she
harbored a secret that we were not yet privy to and would have to wait to find
out what the fuss was all about.
Mom, a deeply spiritual woman had been excited for days to go and finally
meet her maker and expressed absolutely no fear whatsoever.
Her only reservation about her death was the potential suffering that may lay
in wait for her – she did not wish to endure that part and we truly would have
taken that away from her if possible.
She wanted others suffering from cancers and dysfunctions to understand that
help and hope is available for those willing to reach out and help
themselves.
She always served as her own advocate and refused to accept lower standards
for herself or for her children.
After her first diagnosis in 1981, her gut reaction was panic and depression
and her Specialists told her without reserve that her success was determined by
her attitude; therefore she must shift gears, anyway possible and suggested ways
in which she might do this. Counseling, swimming, nutrition, writing in a
journal, group support, anything.
Even back then, Mom understood the correlation between body and mind and took
advantage of this advice and decided to live – and live she did.
They had given her three to six months and instead, this extraordinary woman
survived twenty-seven years, raising her own children, seeing her kids find
appropriate mates who gave her grandchildren, watched her siblings kids grow up
to have their own families, endured happiness and pain.
(one Sister buried two sons during this time from complications
of diabetes, one of the deaths occurring on the morning of one of her
grandchildren‘s birth, she lost her father, an aunt and various other relatives
and friends)
She got to live her life in her own unique way…the same way she handled her
death. Mom snubbed her nose at crowds that was for conformist types.
She preferred to do her own thing, digging her heels in with determination
once she’d made her mind up.
She had a bit on a naughty innocence about her, invented funny words for body parts, swore that ‘Mothers never use the
bathroom’ (but then we believed her until we were quite old) yet on the
other hand did not want us learning about important things on the playground so
she developed a policy that invited “any question or concern, regardless of how
embarrassing or terminology used, no rejection!” and she honored it.
We were to take anything we heard from another kid, stranger or cousin to her
and she would explain what it meant (or she would find out and get back to
us) and she would give us the facts, nothing more or less, straight
face.
(Although our father often had a red face and shocked expression during
one of these little ‘educational episodes’) it was effective and kept us
out of trouble.
She also had straight talk about drugs, sex and other behaviors and what
people really thought about kids who engage in such behaviors. She was
so influential, eyes blazing with passion, we usually listened to her.
Jeanne Marie (Knapp Belvin) Longpre’ is survived by her devoted husband, J.
Timothy Longpre, of Puyallup, WA, former husband, David Belvin of Kennewick, WA,
Mother, Virginia, of Tacoma, WA, brothers, Max (and wife Joie) in Juneau,
Alaska, Chuck (and wife Ellen) in Boulder, Colorado, sisters Donna (and husband
Joe) in Tacoma, WA, and little sister Bobbie ’her Irish twin’ (and husband Rick)
who divide their time between Washington and Hawaii, her children Mike (and wife
Stacy) who live in Battle Ground, Washington, Annie (and husband Rick) in
coastal Los Angeles, Bobby (and wife, Teirsa) in Spanaway, Washington, Maria
Cook (and Clint) of Portland, OR and Timothy Longpre (and wife Nicole) of
Bellevue, WA.
Mom is survived by 13 grandchildren, relatives and friends who loved her with
a passion and will continue to be influenced by her wisdom, humor and insights
for our remaining years.
Although this is a time marked with an incredible loss, it’s not a time for
sadness, because she’s in a new body now, doesn’t have to struggle for breath to
make her points, laugh or sigh.
Mom’s better and so are we all for having had her in our lives, especially
that last nearly three borrowed decades.
I’m fortunate to get to call her Mother and friend and I’ll love her
always.
NOTE: She was born 1/27/45, died 6/9/10 and her
Service will be held on 6/19/10 at 3:00 p.m. at Lutheran Church of
Christ the King, 1710 85th St E, Tacoma, WA 98445
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INA Today - Toby Westerman...
THE BEAR IN THE SUN: MOSCOW PROCLAIMS NEW "INTERNATIONAL ORDER" IN LATIN AMERICA...
January 29, 2009
International News Analysis Today By Toby Westerman
On January 28, 2009 a meeting in Moscow helped to undermine the position of the U.S. in Latin America and hasten the arrival of a new, and anti-American, "international order." Cuban president Raúl Castro, brother of the increasingly infirmed Fidel, arrived in Moscow to meet with the elite of Russia's ruling class in what the Cuban dictator described as an "historical event" of "great emotion."
Moscow has always considered Cuba a "key ally" in Latin America, a region whose governments are, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, "natural allies in the formation of a more just and secure international order." Raúl stated that Latin America has a "growing strategic relationship" with Moscow. Havana already hosts a large and sophisticated Chinese electronic spy base, which replaced the Soviet-era Lourdes base closed in 2001. It remains uncertain how Moscow will express the "strategic relationship" with Cuba. Russian naval forces have recently visited Cuba, and there are reports that Moscow has considered placing bombers on the island.
Moscow has already promised the Cuban regime military and technical aid, including assistance with "domestic security" measures.
For years Cuba has had the well deserved reputation of a tropical gulag. Growing pressure from dissidents, however, has proved to be embarrassing to the island's Communist regime. Moscow has a proven track record in the elimination of those who make trouble for the Kremlin elite, and is apparently willing to share its experience with Havana.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the earliest days of the "new" Russia, individuals who have challenged Russia's political elite have been eliminated in a variety of ways, including being shot to death in the center of Moscow. Investigative journalists have been favorite targets. Recently, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta asked state authorities to allow its journalists to carry firearms.
Journalists, however, are not alone. Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer known for energetically defending human rights advocates, defending investigative journalists, and representing those accusing the Russian military of abuses, was gunned down mid-day in Moscow. During the same attack crusading journalist Anastasia Baburova was also murdered.
Commenting on the killings, Igor Yakovlenko, head of the Russian Journalists' Union, remarked that "it is a disgusting symbol of our times that a lawyer and a journalist were killed at the same time."
Russia's growing influence in Latin America extends to Venezuela, where millions of dollars in small arms, fighter jets, attack helicopters, and other weaponry support the Marxist regime of Hugo Chavez. Other leftist leaders in the region are working closely with Moscow: Argentina's president, Christiana Fernandez de Kirchner, Communist ex-guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Chavez-want-to-be Evo Morales of Bolivia, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, and Raphael Correa of Ecuador.
The regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador are also tied to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Spanish acronym, FARC), a communist narco-terror army which sells illegal drugs and arms throughout South and North American continents. Some of their best customers are the Mexican drug cartels along the U.S. border which are threatening the very existence of the Mexican state.
Cuba and Venezuela also have close ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is willing to share its nuclear knowledge with the Chavez regime.
The new "international order" that Moscow and Havana advocate is patently anti-American and includes the most violent, oppressive groups and states in the world. This is Socialism in action.
Led by dictators and supported by secret police organizations, Latin America's socialist governments seek an international socialist system and an end to the economic and political system in United States as we now know it.
We place ourselves in peril if we ignore this threat.
Frank Salvato, The New Media Journal...
The Tea Party Movement, The GOP & Making It Work...
By Frank Salvato
Only the most partisan and/or politically ignorant among us would fail to recognize the magnitude, importance and the consequences of the Tea Party Movement. To be certain, it is a force to be reckoned with. But, as with the science of storms, there is a danger when two forces compete to occupy the same space. We of the Right side of the aisle must recognize this danger and insist that actions are taken, definitions are designated and roles are recognized, lest we turn an important moment in time into catastrophic history.
The Tea Party Movement
The first thing we have to do is to recognize and understand exactly what the Tea Party Movement is, where it came from and why.
Many in the political world have erroneously identified the Tea Party Movement as a political group not unlike the Democrats, Libertarians or Republicans. In fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Proof to this reality is in the fact that people who have embraced the Tea Party Movement come from every flavor of politics. When over a million people descended on Washington in the name of the Tea Party Movement last Fall, the crowd was comprised of people from every political party – sans the Progressives, every social background, every religion and every race. To say that it is dominated by any one political party is to make a huge mistake.
The Tea Party Movement – and the name itself is symbolic rather than manufactured – is, in reality, the re-awakening of the American people to their obligation to civic responsibility; to governmental oversight. This is nothing new or revolutionary, as was the original Boston Tea Party of 1773.
This re-awakening is actually a return to the obligation of citizenry as envisioned by the Founders and Framers. People like Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Franklin and Madison took for granted that the citizenry would understand their role in government: that of the overseer. The Founders and Framers believed that we would be vigilant in providing governmental oversight, in understanding just who we were electing to office and in holding them accountable for their actions. In short, they believed we, as citizens, would do our part by paying attention to government.
The truth is We the People began to abdicate this solemn responsibility with the advent of government entitlement and as apathy increased, political opportunists, ideologues and nefarious elements – such as the Progressive Movement, the globalists and their proxies – took hold in government. As we slid ever deeper into the abyss of political apathy we lost out government to special interest groups and those who would want to “fundamentally transform” our country from a Constitutional Republic to a cog in a new One-World Order.
The Tea Party Movement is – for all practical purposes – We the People re-establishing our rightful place at the top of the governmental food chain, from whence all the power of government is derived. It is not a political party. It is the American people re-establishing their constitutional right of governmental oversight and redress of government.
Re-Establishing the GOP Brand
Understanding that the Republican Party can never “own” the Tea Party Movement – essentially because the Tea Party Movement is a mindset and not an entity – there remains the issue of re-establishing the Republican brand.
The fact that the Republican brand is in trouble – and has been since at least 2006 – is attributable not only to the lack of governmental oversight by We the People, but by the lack of oversight targeting the political party hierarchy by rank-and-file Republicans. The GOP allowed itself to be co-opted – to a great extent – by inside-the-beltway political operatives that cared more about winning elections than advancing Republican principles.
▪ A rededication of government to constitutional principles, philosophies and limitations
▪ A strong, prudent and principled national security
▪ A well-maintained infrastructure
And perhaps the most important and defining provision,
“RESOLVED, That we invite the affiliation and cooperation of the men of all parties, however differing from us in other respects, in support of the principles herein declared; and believing that the spirit of our institutions as well as the Constitution of our country, guarantees liberty of conscience and equality of rights among citizens, we oppose all legislation impairing their security.”
Simply stated, the platform of 1856 created the “big tent” party that Republican National Committee members say they quest for today by limiting the planks in the platform and by employing the understanding that it is more important to safeguard an individual’s right to advance their own “special interest” agenda (please understand that the term “special interest” doesn’t necessarily mean something unsavory) than it is to champion that special interest as a part of the party’s platform.
This concept is brilliance in practice.
The Republicans who crafted the original platform understood that legislating the micromanagement of specific societal mores was a no-win proposition. If one administration choose to advance legislation – or even the establishment of a constitutional amendment – to champion a specific special interest issue, it was understood that all that would be necessary to render that legislation moot would be for a future administration, in possession of an opposing view on the issue, to simply overturn or craft legislation nullifying the prior legislation. They recognized that legislated solutions to societal and/or cultural ills would never – and could never – render the issue resolved. A perfect example of this comes in the issue of prohibition.
Instead, the Republicans who established the original party platform understood that protecting the right of the individual – the right of the individual – to affect societal change and establish cultural mores outside the confines of government was the singular effective political component in resolving societal differences. The Republican Party of 1856 stood for defending the individual’s right to affect society and the societal norms, and they expected that the citizenry would be self-motivated and self-sufficient enough to embrace that freedom and the self-ordained civic responsibility to engage on behalf of their societal beliefs.
Today, aside from recovering from the moniker of spendthrift, the Republican Party has morphed into a mirror image of the Progressive-held Democrat Party. They say “black” and the GOP says “white.” They have planks in their platform about separation of church and state, abortion, gay rights, etc. and the GOP simply takes the opposite viewpoint. This tactic does not create a choice, it creates division. It does not advance the principles and philosophy of Americanism, it advances factionalism with the body politic, something James Madison and George Washington identified as a direct threat to the Republic.
In re-branding the Republican Party, the leadership would serve its members – and the country – best by refusing to expand the platform to include special interest planks and, instead, returning to the limited plank platform of its roots, where the party championed individual freedom and individual responsibility and engagement where issues of societal mores were concerned, not the legislation of ideological solutions or social engineering. The GOP must resign itself to defending an individual’s right to affect change, not to being the vehicle for that change.
The Role of Today’s GOP & The Tea Party Movement
As I stated in the beginning, in the science of storms, there is a danger when two forces compete to occupy the same space. This is exquisitely illustrated in the dichotomy of power now playing out between the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Party, most significantly where candidates for office are concerned.
I was heartened to hear that Republican National Committee Political Director Gentry Collins stated the RNC would exercise a “light touch” in the 2010 midterm elections. This approach promises to diminish what could have been a disastrous confrontation between candidates championed by the Tea Party Movement and candidates “mandated” by the RNC. But this is simply a commutation of the inevitable unless a reformation is undertaken by the RNC hierarchy.
In re-branding itself, it would wise for the GOP to take the opportunity afforded by this unique moment in American history to re-invent itself. The Republican National Committee – along with Republican organizations at every level – must re-structure itself to be less the inside-the-beltway command and control entity (an entity that mandates candidates and strong-arms platforms and agendas, which it has most certainly evolved into) and re-dedicate itself to becoming more of a mammoth and viciously efficient support and organizational tool that embraces candidates sent up from the grassroots; Conservatives re-awakened to their constitutionally mandated civic responsibility who have taken it upon themselves to run for office in 2010, 2012 and through the future.
If the Republican Party can wrap its brain around the strategic brilliance of this re-invention, it will position itself to be the preferred political party of those in the Tea Party Movement; it will be the avenue and political structure through which the Tea Party Movement advances their preferred candidates.
If the Republican Party refuses to understand the dramatically changed political landscape of the country, if they refuse to evolve from the inside-the-beltway mentality that allows for the existence of egotistical power-players no different from the elitists now in control of Congress, should the GOP insist on maintaining the status quo, they will be compromised, marginalized and, perhaps, even destroyed by the re-awakening of the American people to their constitutionally mandated obligation to governmental engagement and oversight.
Simply put, the GOP can either adapt or become ineffective.
Editor's Notes:
Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for BasicsProject.org a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(c)(3) research and education initiative. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. His organization, BasicsProject.org, partnered in producing the original national symposium series addressing the root causes of radical Islamist terrorism. He is a member of the International Analyst Network. He also serves as the managing editor for The New Media Journal. Mr. Salvato has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel, and is a regular guest on talk radio including on The Captain's America Radio Show Nationally syndicated weekends and on Net Talk World - Global Talk Radio catering to the US Armed Forces around the world also on The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Roth syndicated nationally on the USA Radio Network. His opinion-editorials have been published by The American Enterprise Institute, The Washington Times & Human Events and are syndicated nationally. He is occasionally quoted in The Federalist. Mr. Salvato is available for public speaking engagements...
Frank Salvato is a regular Tuesday guest on "The Captain's AMERICA" Radio Show and his op-eds appear regularly on News Sarasota.com...
Frank Salvato is the managing editor for The New Media Journal and serves as the vice president and executive director of Basics Project a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. He is a contributing writer for GOPUSA, CNS News, ChronWatch, Opinion Editorials, Family Security Matters, Canada Free Press, American Daily and The American Chronicle. His pieces have been featured in Townhall.com, The Washington Times, The Conservative Battleline, American Enterprise, The Federal Observer, US Politics Today, The London Morning Paper, Real Clear Politics, Townhall and Pravda among over 100 other publications both nationally and internationally. He served as an editor for The Washington Dispatch before leaving because of philosophical differences. He has been quoted in The Federalist. He has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel and is a weekly guest on The Right Balance with Greg Allen on the Accent Radio Network, syndicated on over 20 stations nationally, and a semi-regular guest on The Captain's AMERICA (Radio-Internet-Satellite, Windows Media & I-Tunes - Around the World), The Kyal 2K Show (KTKK, Salt Lake City), The Bruce Elliott Show (WBAL, Baltimore), The Schiffer Report (RightTalk Radio). He has been a guest on American Breakfast with Stan Major (National Radio Network), The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. He has worked as a jazz musician, firefighter/paramedic, harbormaster, political strategist, media consultant and writer. He partnered in producing the first ever symposium addressing the root causes of radical Islamist terrorism. This symposium offered lectures from 14 of the most respected terrorism and counter-terrorism experts in the world, and took place in Washington DC in April of 2006. He supports conservative and traditional causes including the Republican Presidential Task Force.
Because Barack Obama is constitutionally unqualified to become president of the United States under Article II – Section I of the US Constitution, he is set to become the First (government housing) Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in US history.
But before resident-elect Barack Obama can be crowned the official messiah on January 20th, he has hit a few snags in his promise to “change” leftist corruption in WashingtonDC.
His Chicago Machine buddy Rod Blagojevich was arrested for trying to sell Obama’s vacated Senate Seat
His Chicago Machine buddy and campaign fixer David Axelrod has had to have his memory of Obama/Blago conversations retracted and rewritten
His Chicago Machine buddy and Chief of Staff Emanuel may have to resign due to his direct involvement in the auction of Obama’s Senate seat
His buddy Blago searched for the best black Chicago Machine insider to replace Obama in the Senate and named Roland Burris despite threats to block the appointment
Senate leader Harry Reid has now turned Burris away at the Senate door
Stuart Smally kept recounts going and invented votes evolving from thin air until he “won” (read stole) Norm Coleman’s Senate seat
House Speaker Pelosi has been caught trying to quietly rewrite House rules to eliminate Republican input from all future legislative matters
Bill Richardson has resigned his appointment as Commerce Secretary due to his ongoing criminal ethics investigation
And not a single Obama cabinet appointee has even a minutes experience in the fields for which they have been appointed
Other than Obama’s effort to keep Hillary Clinton out of the country visiting the most dangerous parts of the world by naming her Secretary of State for the next four years, not a damn thing seems to be going well for the incoming messiah.
Liberals Expected What Kinds of Change?
Even the drunkest college student at the grass roots of the Obama coup was smart enough to know that at best, Obama was a know nothing, done nothing, nobody. Even if they couldn’t connect the dots between his twenty years of ill-fated friendships, they still knew he was a big phat nothing...
So, why did they choose him over Hillary? We were going to get a third Clinton administration either way, because Obama has NO experience of his own, upon which to make decisions on his own.
Politically speaking, his résuméwas clear. He’s a kindergartener in the high finance school of left-wing political leadership. As such, he is being led around by the nose, as any intelligent American could have predicted.
This is the problem with getting college kids who have yet to take responsibility for themselves all stirred up about politics and sending them into a voting booth still hung over from the frat party the night before. Garbage in, equals garbage out...
Making History Alright
The 2008 election will go into history books as the year Americans became stupid enough to elect Obama.
Americans voted for the “first black president” and got the first Arab-Muslim White House resident instead
They voted for Obama and got a third Clinton administration
They voted for undefined “change” and are getting a big helping of more of the same Chicago corruption
They voted for government transparency and got a resident-elect who won’t even make his birth or college records public
They voted for new leadership, but chose someone barely qualified to follow
They wanted an honest administration and elected someone with a historical number of criminal and ethical entanglements surrounding his inauguration
Now that’s history in the making!
Meanwhile in America
A trillion in taxpayer funded bailouts has done nothing to stem the tide of impending economic disaster, the free world remains at war with international terrorism, Democrat run states are begging for another trillion in freshly printed monopoly money to buy them out of their financial irresponsibility, and Republicans are stumbling around dazed and confused about how they squandered their power and were relegated to their own private political sandbox, far from power.
In case you think things can’t get any worse, you had better start thinking for yourself a little.
The Media Manufactured Malaise
Americans are floundering about like sheep in a hypnotic trance, thanks to the efforts of the American press to lead them into a corner where socialism by democratic process starts to look pretty good compared to the soup line Washington elitists have prepared for the masses.
Some think greed is the greatest motivator in America, but they are wrong. Fear is the greatest motivator on earth. People do things out of fear that they would never do for love nor money.
Of all the recent failures in America, the failure of the American press to keep the American public abreast of the TRUTH has to top that list.
The press completely ignored Obama’s lack of qualified experience
They continue to completely ignore the fact that he won’t even release his birth or college records and may not even be a legal citizen of the US
They aren’t telling the American people that the BUCK stops with them, not with the new messiah – every penny in federal spending will come out of taxpayers’ pockets
The press is nothing more than a leftist propaganda machine today and outlets like the New York and LA Times should be put out of business, not bailed out with taxpayer funds since no intelligent citizen would buy their rags today
No Magic Turnaround
Americans foolish enough to elect the very people responsible for bankrupting everything they touch, are also foolish enough to keep believing in a false hope of magic change, until the wolf is standing at their front door.
The 111th Congress is being sworn in as I write this column. New members of congress stand and applaud themselves, as they begin the diligent work of dismantling America at break-neck speed.
If they don’t shove trillions in printed funny money into the economy they have wrecked, it will continue to be flushed down the crapper. If they do pour more funny money into the economy they wrecked, the dollar won’t buy a cup of bad coffee by spring. Washington has placed the entire nation between a rock and a hard place and there is no escape hatch.
WashingtonDC is a sad and frightening joke!
The fact that Stuart Smally was able to steal the Minnesota Senate seat without a single member of the press so much as blinking is a demonstration of just how perverse the American system has become.
As of January 20, 2009, when the new resident-elect is sworn in as the new subverter-in-chief, the US Constitution will be worth less than an outhouse copy of an old green stamps booklet.
And as anti-American Democrats publicly wipe their behinds with it over the coming months, the average American voter will sit back and scratch their heads in wonderment, never once considering the possibility that they alone, made it all happen.
A new tone indeed!
America has never faced so much turmoil with so little talent at the helm.
But it is “change” and it will “make history” and that’s what Americans voted for....
That’s the dangerous thing about freedom.
The same freedom that allows one to succeed beyond their wildest dreams, also allows them to choose failure. And the same freedom that allows individual liberty and happiness, allows us to choose self-destruction as well.
We have chosen poorly... and now, we must pay the piper.
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In times past, coalminers working in the depths of the earth took along caged canaries. As long as the canaries warbled, the miners knew they were safe from the methane and carbon monoxide that would kill them in minutes. But when the tiny songbirds stopped singing, the miners knew to run for their lives.
Jews have always been the canaries in the coal mines of civilization, serving as a warning of impending doom to those who believed, as Churchill said, that the crocodile — of tyranny — would eat them last. The Jews of Hitler's Germany who listened carefully to the savage dictator's early words, and watched as his promises of hope and change morphed into incremental losses of freedom and ultimately genocide, fled their country and survived, while the six-million who said "it can't happen here" — as well as six-million non-Jews who believed they were immune — perished in the largest mass-murder in history.
After Hitler's brutal annihilation of half the Jews on earth, the straggling survivors established the State of Israel, which in less than 50 years became a formidable power, and also a world obsession — admired and respected but also envied and loathed.
Since Israel's founding in 1948, America has been the Jewish state's most steadfast supporter, even when this or that president was not particularly enamored of "the Jews" — with the stark exception of Jimmy Carter who, to this day, oozes Jew-hatred from his aging pores. Why? Because, unlike every state in the Middle East and every anti-freedom regime on earth, Israel embodies all of our country's values — the ideal of democracy, the rule of law, a determination to fight the enemies of Western civilization, and a fidelity to the Judeo-Christian ethics that have made both America and Israel shining lights among freedom-loving nations.
Today, with the advent of the Obama administration, Israeli canaries are chirping loudly, warning the entire world, particularly America but also Europe, that if Israel is sacrificed to Obama's far-left anti-Israel and anti-American agenda, then freedom-loving, God-fearing countries around the world will be suffocated and sacrificed to a new American caliphate — to the harsh and inflexible rule of Islamic theology, philosophy and law.
SHARPENING THE MACHETE
To prepare for his meeting on May 18 with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama prepared a menu of poison pills — the kind given to people with the same Hobson's Choice that Mafia attorney Tom Hagen gave to the imprisoned and about-to-testify-before-Congress Frankie Pentangeli in "Godfather Two" — either commit suicide or we're going to kill you. Examples abound.
Just the other day, Obama announced he will be addressing the Arab and Muslim world from a mosque in the city of Al-Azhar in Egypt — a location writer Ruth S. King has described as "the locus of Koranic-inspired Jihad." Indeed, this Sunni bastion supports suicide-bombings. And only last week, according to JihadWatch.org, Sheikh Ali Osman of the Egyptian government said "Pigs are Jews cursed by Allah, and thus can be lawfully slaughtered."
This week, by Executive Order, Obama directed the expenditure of $20.3 million — of U.S. taxpayers' dollars — in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza, which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas and its Islamic Resistance Movement to resettle in the United States. Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27, 2009 was recorded in the Federal Register on February 4.
Also this week, Obama submitted a budget to Congress that while increasing military aid to Israel for the Arrow 3, cut in half aid for the Arrow 2 and significantly reduced aid for short-range missile interceptors, just as Iran is strengthening its conventional ballistic missile force.
This month, Obama refused to meet with Netanyahu for the P.M.'s planned visit to address the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Conference in D.C.
At the same AIPAC meeting Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly told donors that America's ability to face Iran depended on Israel's ability to make progress with the Palestinians, once again echoing the tired Leftist canard that all conflicts in the Middle East are the result not of the jihadist mentality, but rather the failure of Israel to accept their virulently anti-Semitic propaganda (in the media and in schools), non-stop homicide bombings, and relentless rocket attacks..
In numerous Obama-sanctioned public statements, his henchmen have, in the common vernacular, put the screws to Israel, among them Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who threatened: "For Israel to get the kind of strong support it's looking for vis-à-vis Iran, it can't stay on the sideline with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts ... they go hand in hand," and National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones who recently told a European foreign minister that the U.S. is planning to build an anti-Israel coalition with the Arabs and Europe to compel Israel to surrender Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
Obama let it be known that his plan for a "two-state solution" was perfectly in-sync with the wipe-Israel-off-the-map crowd, including terrorist-sponsoring Syria and Saudi Arabia, among others. And what sweet nothings do you suppose Obama whispered into the ears of Iran's Ahmadinejad that just prompted the sudden release from jail of the Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi?
And let's not forget that Obama's first phone call to a head of state was to Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Fatah party in the Palestinian territory, and who also wrote his doctoral thesis denying the Holocaust. Did I mention Abbas' loyal second-in-command fealty to "the father of terrorism," Yasir Arafat?
Or that Obama gave his first TV interview to Al Arabia television.
Or that Obama summarily dismissed all charges against the Muslim murderers of 17 American sailors on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2001.
Or that Obama, according to David Patten at Newsmax.com, "is preparing to reinstate a fraud-riddled immigration program that has brought over 36,000 Somalis into the United States under questionable circumstances."
Or that Obama bowed so repugnantly on his recent European trip to the Saudi Arabian potentate.
This "genocidal hostility toward Israel," as writer Mona Charen describes it, is Obama & Co.'s way of insuring that they succeed where former administrations have failed in bringing about the ever-elusive "two-state" solution — a "solution" Leftists like Obama have cravenly tried to delude much of the world into believing will magically resolve the world's other conflicts.
Anne Bayefsky of www.eyeontheun.org explains Obama's nefarious plans perfectly: "President Obama unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel to the wolves. It takes the form of enthusiasm for the United Nations and international interlopers of all kinds. Instead of ensuring strong American control over the course of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or the Arab-Israeli peace process, the Obama administration is busy inserting an international mob between the U.S. and Israel. The thinking goes: If Israel doesn't fall into an American line, Obama will step out of the way, claim his hands are tied, and let the U.N. and other international gangsters have at their prey."
The Obama formula, based not on an American or Israeli plan but rather on the "Saudi Peace Initiative," involves:
Forcing Israel to withdraw to 1967 cease-fire lines, or as the late Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban called them, "the borders of Auschwitz."
Demanding that Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem, leaving behind important Biblical sites, the Temple Mount, and the country's border security.
Surrendering of over one-third of Israel's water supply.
Dividing Jerusalem in half, to make way for a Palestinian capital.
Coercing Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which writer Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation said is tantamount to "demanding that a man in a rough neighborhood give up his shotgun when the criminal next door is getting a Kalashnikov."
Inundating Israel with millions of Palestinian refugees and their relatives from 1948, thus stripping the country of its Jewish ethos.
De facto surrounding Israel with jihadists who live and die to kill the "infidel" Jews. As Judith Apter Klinhoffer writes, "Let us not forget, Iranian satellite Hezbollah is perched on Israel's Northern border and Iranian satellite Hamas on the Southern one. An Iranian satellite on the Western one would complete the encirclement."
As King Abdullah of Jordan told journalists after his recent meeting with President Obama — clearly referring to the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) — "That is not a two-state solution; it is a 57-state solution." Mmmm...Obama himself said during his campaign that he had visited "all 57" of the United States! And let's not forget that during an interview with George Stephanopoulos, he said ..."in my Muslim faith..." — which he didn't correct but his host rushed to correct.
GOING IN FOR THE KILL
In spite of more than a half-century of Arab belligerence, war-mongering, suicide bombings, and virulent anti-Israel propaganda blaring from mosques and the media, brainwashing school texts, maps that eliminate the Jewish state, and obdurate resistance to all peace initiatives, Caroline Glick says that "as far as the Obama administration is concerned, Israel is the only obstacle to peace....the Obama White House's bald attempt to force Israel to take full blame for the Arab world's hostility toward it is not the only way that it is casting Israel as the scapegoat for the region's ills. In their bid to open direct diplomatic ties with Iran, Obama and his advisors are also blaming Israel for Iran's nuclear program."
"Even Ethan Bronner of the The New York Times pointed out," Glick continues, "that Obama's Middle East policy is not based on facts. If it were, the so-called 'two state solution,' which has failed repeatedly since 1993, would not be its centerpiece. Obama's Middle East policy is based on ideology, not reality. Consequently, it is immune to rational argument. By blaming Israel for the absence of peace in the Middle East while ignoring the Palestinians' refusal to accept Israel's right to exist; by seeking to build an international coalition with Europe and the Arabs against Israel while glossing over the fact that at least the Arabs share Israel's concerns about Iran; by exposing Israel's nuclear arsenal and pressuring Israel to disarm while in the meantime courting the ayatollahs like an overeager bridegroom, the Obama administration is telling Israel that regardless of what it does, and what objective reality is, as far as the White House is concerned, Israel is to blame."
Sound familiar? As I documented in recent articles — "Obama's Revenge" and "The President Who Hates His Country" — Obama and his Leftist cronies revile Western civilization and all those evil white men who established the U.S. Constitution and the most productive, most generous and freest country in world history, as he so amply demonstrated in his recent apologize-for-America trip to Europe.
In an article, "The United Hates of America," David Solway comments on "...the long and destabilizing campaign of the American Left against the political interests of its own country and its rush to embrace the dictatorial agendas of America's most resolute enemies...'the unholy alliance' between the radical Left and the Islamic Right." Solway also comments on a new book by Jamie Glazov, "United in Hate":
"Glazov's "analysis," Solway continues, "seems the only conceivable means of making sense of the leftist orgy of national treason, betrayal of genuine liberal principles, and passionate support of tyrants and demagogues. It also clarifies the bizarre and singular marriage between the Left and Islamism. Glazov writes that the 'common denominator' between two such improbable bedfellows — the one ostensibly promoting gender equality, freedom of speech, and a pluralistic society, and the other predicated on gender apartheid, theocratic coercion, and conformity to Sharia law — is a belief in redemptive violence. This is why so many on the secular Left...exulted in the carnage of 9/11, as did their fundamentalist counterparts in the Islamic world, like the Palestinians who danced in the street and handed out candies to celebrate the great event. For the members of the anti-American Left, their papers and speeches were the candies they distributed to mark this sublime and long-awaited triumph.
"Yet another important common denominator, Glazov explains, between the Western Left and Islamism is their shared hatred for the state of Israel, the only true, democratic nation in the Middle East and the West's forward position in the war against an undeviating adversary. The Left abominates Israel as a mini-America, that is, as a colonial occupier of third world innocents, and as a symbol of all the things it loathes: 'modernity, freedom, corporate capitalism and globalization — all things reviled by Muslim fundamentalists. It has thus allied itself with militant Islam on the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend.'"
So we know where Obama and his henchmen-and-women stand. And we know that they've read every Jew-hating, Israel-hating word of The Fatah (Palestinian) Constitution and agree with every defamatory, racist, genocidal tenet of this kill-the-Jews-and-destroy-Israel manifesto, which they apparently find less objectionable than the U.S. Constitution.
OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL COLLABORATORS
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, has long and deep ties with the enemies of America and Israel. This is what Dick Morris, former advis= or to President Clinton, and his wife, Eileen McGann, wrote last year:
[Hillary's] relationship with terrorists began in the mid-1980s when she served on the Board of the New World Foundation, which gave funds to the Palestine Liberation Organization [when] the PLO was officially recognized by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization. In 1996, the First Lady initiated an outreach program to bring Muslim leaders to the White House. But, as terrorism expert Steve Emerson noted in the Wall Street Journal, 'Curiously, nearly all of the leaders...came from Islamic fundamentalist organizations....Among these radical groups was the American Muslim Alliance (AMA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, both groups that support Hamas...The Palestinian terrorists know that Hillary hears their point of view...Abu Hamed, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in Gaza, [said], 'We just hope that she will go until the end and change American policy."
Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has advocated ending all U.S. military aid to Israel. Ed Lasky at TheAmericanThinkercom writes that "Rice was John Kerry's chief foreign policy adviser when he ran for President. One of the major steps Kerry suggested for dealing with the Middle East was to appoint James Baker and Jimmy Carter as negotiators. When furor erupted at the prospect of two of the most ardent foes of Israel being suggested to basically ride "roughshod" over Israel, Kerry backtracked and blamed his staff for the idea. His staff was Susan Rice."
Lee Hamilton, as Lasky writes, is a key Obama advisor on Middle Eastern affairs. A former Indiana Representative, Hamilton led the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, which concluded, among other things, that the withdrawal of troops from Iraq should be coordinated with Syria and Iran! And that the U.S. should develop Syrian "goodwill" by pressuring Israel to surrender the Golan Heights and leave the West Bank — but not a word about dismantling Hamas or Hezbollah! Hamilton wrote in the NY Times that Hezbollah's "hatred was created by Israel; it wasn't there at the beginning."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor, has been one of Israel's most consistently hostile critics and Hamas's most ardent supporters, as well as a staunch admirer (both in writing and verbally) of Stephen Walt's and John Mearsheimer's= virulently anti-Israel book, "The Israel Lobby," which, among other things, contends that Jewish pressure, and not shared values, binds America and Israel together.
James ("F... the Jews") Baker, among the harshest detractors of Israel, has often engaged in raw anti-Semitic remarks, is known for coddling Middle East dictators (including Syria's Assad), and has been heavily invested (through the Carlyle Group) in the Israel-hating country of Saudi Arabia. In fact, Baker's law firm defended the Saudi Defense Minister who was sued for alleged complicity by the families of the World Trade Center victims.
Samantha Power, now on Obama's National Security Council, has advocated ending all U.S. military aid to Israel and written of her willingness to "alienate a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import [American Jews]...it may more crucially mean sacrificing...billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the state of Palestine."
Believe me, the above is the short list. As Glick has written: "In the past, while anti-Israel politicians, policy makers and opinion shapers were accepted in Washington, they would not have felt comfortable brandishing their anti-Israel positions as qualifying credentials for high position...today in Washington there are powerful circles of political players for whom a person's anti-Israel bona fides are his strongest suit."
OBAMA'S COURT JEWS
Oh, I can hear the blather as I type: But what about all the Jews who voted for Obama and are in his cabinet and among his advisors? Make no mistake — Obama's Court Jews are identical to those of the past who financed, supported, licked the boots of and sold out their people in order to gain the personal influence, privileges, wealth, and protection that the "nobles" afforded them. They helped Roman emperors kill Jews. They helped Hitler kill Jews. But after their groveling and traitorous service, they were blamed for economic downturns and used as scapegoats to explain away the failures of the evil regimes and leaders they abetted. Fools and dupes, to a person!
Journalist Melanie Phillips writes that "Obama is attempting to throw Israel under the Islamist bus, and he's getting American Jews to do his dirty work for him...none of this, however, should come as the slightest surprise to anyone who paid any attention to Obama's background, associations and friendships before he became President and to the cabal of Israel-bashers, appeasers and Jew-haters he appointed to= his administration, with a few useful idiots thrown in for plausible deniability."
Obama has been clever about putting his Jewish appointees front and center. Like many minorities, some American Jews suffer from self-esteem problems that are soothed when they see a seeming acceptance. Of course what they fail to realize is that exploitation is not acceptance. And that Obama's appointees are creatures of his backers, Nazi collaborators like Soros, who have nothing but contempt for Jews, individually or collectively.
While outwardly courting Jews, Obama's people have also been quietly shoving Jewish organizations and their leaders into a corner. Within the Jewish organizational world there has been a silent but deadly takeover of major Jewish groups by left wing radicals. Former alumni of the far left wing and anti-Israel groups like Breira or Coname in the 70's have been elevated to key positions in such organizations as the UJA Federation. Behind the scenes any Jewish leaders who expressed even doubts about Obama during the primaries were intimidated and silenced. The overall idea is to keep a happy face pasted on American Jewry while the knives are out in the dark.
But why would people who hate Jews surround themselves with so many of them? As Don Vito Corleone warned his son Michael, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." As much as the enemies of Jews hate them, they also fear them. They can't figure out how a historically besieged people — whose population today is about 14 million, as compared to, say, Muslims, whose population is 1.3 billion — have not only managed to survive the Jew-targeting Inquisition, Crusades., pogroms. Concentration camps and pandemic outbreaks of anti-Semitism, but to flourish and rise to the top echelons of any community they've ever lived in. In short, they want the brains of the Jews and also the ability to blame them when things go wrong.
But don't these smart Jews know they're being used? Yes and no. They've studied his= tory, but they think that the passage of time has made them immune from mistakes of the past. Of course they're wrong. Fools and dupes always get fooled and duped. Unfortunately — actually, stupidly — too many Jews, over the ages, have been seduced by the hope-and-change rhetoric of the Left, so yearning are they to be "included" and "accepted" into cultures that have ultimately rejected them.
Just who are Obama's Court Jews?
Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff and, in my opinion, Chief of Dupes. As writer Judith Apter Klinghoffer reminds us: "By choosing a Jewish chief of staff to do the dirty work, Obama showed himself a 'worthy' successor to LBJ. Arthur Goldberg was LBJ's point man to read the riot act to Israel. It was his Jewish U.N. representative that was charged with berating Israel for daring to retaliate against Palestinian acts of terror in 1966 and to inform Israel that it should not rely on any American assistance against Nasser in may 1967." And now Emanuel is taking the bait, currying favor for his figurative 10-minutes of fame, the better to sell out his Israeli-born father and the land his father heroically fought for in the early years of Israel's existence.
David Axelrod, the chief strategist and media advisor for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and now a White House insider, is not front-and-center about his hero's antagonism toward Israel. But as the old chestnut says: Silence is Consent!
Robert Malley is another fan of Hamas and Hezbollah. According to Wikipedia, Malley is the son of Simon Malley, an Egyptian-born Jewish journalist, and Barbara Silverstein, a New Yorker who worked for the U.N. delegation of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Both loathed Israel and apparently passed their toxic DNA onto their son. Malley has often called for an end to all aid to Israel.
Dennis Ross, Obama's special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia, which includes Iran, participated in 12 years of failed Israeli-Palestinian "peace" efforts. In 2001, he suggested that future negotiations ought to be based on "something the parties have put on the table, and not [what] the United States has put on the table." Translated today, that would mean listening to the 22 hostile states that surround Israel and saying "majority rules!"
George Soros, the Budapest-born multibillionaire (and Nazi collaborator) has devoted his entire life, as writer Srdja Trifkovic points out, to supporting "increased government spending and tax increases, drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders and immigr= ation, immigrant entitlements, feminism, free abortion-on-demand, affirmative action, and gay rights" and "remains primarily committed to destroying the remaining bastions of the family, sovereign nationhood, and Christian Faith..." He is also devoted to vilifying Israel and funding numerous groups that work unstintingly to bring about its destruction.
Again, this is the short list. But the entire list of Obama "advisors" on Middle East affairs is comprised of hard-core Leftists who want nothing more than to see America humiliated and Israel destroyed. As Lasky has said, "This is the company Barack Obama keeps."
CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED
Melanie Phillips calls the Obama administration's "malice" toward Israel "incomprehensible in its suicidal stupidity."
It is trying to make Israel play the role of Czechoslovakia in 1938, when Britain under Neville Chamberlain told it that if it didn't submit to the Nazis it would stand alone — with the result that the following year, Hitler invaded Poland. Determined to prove that history repeats itself the second time as tragedy, America is trying to force Israel to destroy its security by accepting the creation of a terrorist Iranistan on its doorstep, under the threat that otherwise the U.S. will not help protect its security by de-fanging Iran...but in doing so, the Obama administration is jeopardizing the security of America itself and the free world, not to mention the Arab states which have good reason to fear Iranian regional hegemony.
Indeed. As DEBKAfile reports:
Tehran itself will not let Washington dictate the limits of its expanding influence (or) nuclear aspirations.
Cairo and Riyadh will resist with all their might the U.S. bid to anoint Iran the crowning Middle East-Gulf power [and are] extremely concerned by Obama's public endorsement of Turkey as the senior Muslim power in the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia, a boost for Ankara's aspirations to resuscitate the Ottoman Empire.
Jerusalem will resist being cast into a peripheral role in the strategic and military processes going forward with regard to Iran, the Palestinians, Syria and their terrorist arms, Hezbollah and Hamas, all of which bear pivotally on Israel's future exis= tence.
Like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the Netanyahu government may not accept being crushed between two hostile regional powers, Iran and Turkey, whose aggressive pretensions Washington is promoting.
Amil Taheri points out: "Convinced that the Obama administration is preparing to retreat from the Middle East, Iran's Khomeinist regime is intensifying its goal of regional domination. It has targeted six close allies of the U.S.: Egypt, Lebanon, Bahrain, Morocco, Kuwait and Jordan, all of which are experiencing economic and/or political crises...Khomeinist propaganda is trying to portray Iran as a rising 'superpower' in the making while the United States is presented as the 'sunset" power.' The message is simple: The Americans are going, and we are coming...with pro-American and other democratic groups disheartened by the perceived weakness of the Obama administration, Tehran hopes its allies will win all the elections planned for this year in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
And writer Tom Gross says that "the threat of a nuclear arsenal in the hands of the only government in the world (Iran) that promotes suicide bombing as a matter of state policy (by its client militias in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere), and celebrates 'martyrdom of its fellow Muslims' in such attacks, is a threat quite unlike any the world has ever seen. The combination of weapons of mass destruction and jihadist ideology poses a problem of much greater magnitude than that when secular dictatorships and semi-dictatorships, such as Russia, China and North Korea and Pakistan, possess nuclear bombs. In addition to posing an existential threat to Israel, a nuclear Iran could mean the end of American influence in the Middle East. Tehran, not Washington would dominate oil in the region."
But none of these threats, not only to the Middle East but also to America, are of any import to President Obama. In his single-minded obsession to appease our enemies and get rid of his "Jewish problem," he is willing to sacrifice the safety and security of America, the country he can't stop apologizing for. Or is that he has a Muslim problem and the Jews and Israel are simply in the way?
From 'Kyle Warren'...
The Dangerous Nuclear Policy of Barak Obama
by Kyle Warren, April 8, 2010
Since Barak Obama took office, American's have wondered many things. For example, they have wondered if the economy would improve with a new, young, popular president. They wondered if the jobs that had literally disintegrated into thin air would ever return. They wondered if they had gone the right direction in electing Barak Obama--especially when they had to wonder about the future of our healthcare system.
This week President Obama evidently decided that the American people did not have enough to wonder and worry about. In announcing his radical new posture regarding the U.S. Government's strategy for the use of its nuclear forces, he has now created a situation where the U.S. will literally be a laughing stock among our enemies. One wonders how Obama thought to top his apology tours that seem so long ago and far away as to be almost quaint by comparison.
Essentially, this radical and dangerous new policy states that the U.S. will not use nuclear weapons against a county that is "up to date" with any IAEA inspections and has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty or NPT. As if that simple gesture would ever be enough to make us let down our guard against some of the most repressive and undemocratic regimes around the world. Oddly enough, Israel has not signed that treaty so, we must presume, that Israel would technically be on the list of possible countries that we could nuke if the occasion ever arose. And that, in and of itself, should be enough to make us all stop and think about exactly how utterly nonsensical Obama's radical shift in policy truly is.
Commentators and politicians alike are making their opinions and reactions known. What is important to understand is that most of them are in no way looking to simply tweak Obama's ideas. What we are seeing and hearing (apart from the usual suspects on the left) is a total rejection of an absolutely ridiculous policy that only allows our enemies to become emboldened and ties our hands. This departure from what has been the policy of this country for decades and spanned various administrations both Republican and Democrat is more than just a slap in the face to common sense. It is a slap in the face to all Americans who look to the Commander-in-Chief to protect them at all costs. From Truman to Kennedy, Johnson to Reagan, Nixon to Clinton, Carter to the Bushes, Americans have gone to sleep each night knowing that these men commanded the most terrible and awesome arsenal the world has ever known--and they would use it if there was no other way to defend liberty. End of story. That is what kept the Soviets guessing! That is what, up until now, has kept many regimes and governments who do not wish us well guessing! Whatever those presidents' differing political views, they were not willing to compromise on this. Whatever arms reduction talks or treaties took place never put the U.S. in vulnerable position that Obama's nightmarish and unwarranted policy has.
In one fell swoop Obama has tossed away the security that Americans expect from the President. In doing so, evidently through a massive case of naiveté, he is handing our enemies a reason to doubt us. If they attack us with chemical or biological weapons and thousands or millions die as a result, our enemies will think to themselves that they are not going to suffer the full retaliation of U.S. might. Why would anyone want an enemy that would not think twice about killing huge amounts of Americans to believe, even for a second, that their "glorious" victory would be augmented by a wrongheaded and dangerous policy that restricts the U.S. from doing all possible to stop the attack or future attacks.
Since Obama took office, yes, Americans have wondered many things. Now they must wonder just how our enemies will interpret this new policy--and how they will use it against us. Unfortunately, there are many sleepless nights ahead.
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President John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Rather, ask what you can do for your country.”
Barrack Obama says, “I think we should share the wealth” and thinks the Supreme Court should take an active position to redistribute wealth. He wants the government to take from you and give to unproductive people by taxing large corporations and wealthy people, forcing millions of customers to pay those taxes in the form of higher prices for the products sold.
The Christian Bible says, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.
Barrack Obama says, “Get in your neighbor’s face and argue”.
The United States Constitution says the people have a right to bear arms. Thirty seven individual States have a “Right to Carry” a gun law in effect.
Senator Obama's record on the Second Amendment is as follows: he has supported a complete ban on handguns, he voted to ban most rifle ammunition, he opposes the right to carry for self-defense, he voted to allow prosecution of citizens for using firearms for self-defense in their own homes.
Crime statistics show that over 2 million crimes, each year, are stopped by citizens with guns. Statistics prove that when a community institutes a gun ban, crime jumps. When a community says everyone can have a gun, crime drops in that town and goes up in nearby towns with a gun ban.
The US Constitution starts out by saying the People have a right to Life.
Obama says, “Let ‘live abortion’ babies die”.
Americans, like most people of this World, do not like secrets. When someone has a secret, that they don’t want you to know, it is rarely in your interest. Obama, with the help of our major media, fights desperately to keep many things about Obama’s life a secret. Obama doesn’t want to discuss his long term relations with William Ayers, who organized bombings of government buildings in America. William Ayers is a two bit light weight compared to some of Obama’s other conspirators.
Obama’s religious faith is questionable. Is he Christian or Muslim? To most Americans, it doesn’t matter, as we have a right to worship as we please. But does a man who attends a “Christian” church for 20 years, where his minister screams, “God D** America!!” really believe in the Christian principle of “Love Thy Neighbor”? Obama said he was not aware of Reverend Wright’s attitude towards America. The Bible says, “Thou shalt not lie”, but obviously Obama does lie.
In “The Prince” which has been the “Bible” of all Kings and successful rulers, Nicollo Machiavelli says it is important for a leader to appear to have the five virtues: honesty, mercifulness, humanity, religious piousness, and be upright in all his doings. Obama fails in all five necessities.
In response to a lawsuit filed by Phillip Berg, Obama has refused to produce a valid Birth Certificate to The United States District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Speculation has been that Obama is not a citizen of the United States and now that speculation is that it may be so sinister, that he is an illegal alien.
In that lawsuit, Phillip Berg identifies that Barrack Obama has used the names:
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, BARRY SOETORO, BARRY OBAMA, BARACK
DUNHAM and BARRY DUNHAM.
Who exactly is Barrack Obama and where did he come from?
In Executive Intelligence Review, Anton Chaitkin and Jeffrey Steinberg have said about international curiosity George Soros, “Soros had been bragging for years about his longstanding scheme to stage a "hostile takeover" of the Democratic Party. Through billions of dollars in donations to a select group of Democratic Party-linked organizations, such as MoveOn and ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), and through his longstanding links to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) corporatist president, Andy Stern, Soros has established his financial and political control over the very grassroots apparatus that is supposed to give Obama the margin of victory on Nov. 4.”
They go on to say, “From public accounts, Soros met Obama for the first time in March 2004, when Obama was an Illinois state senator, running for a vacant U.S. Senate seat. On July 27, 2004, Soros held a fundraiser at his New York home for Obama, which raised at least $60,000, mostly from Soros's family members, according to news accounts. On Dec. 4, 2006, then U.S. Sen. Barrack Obama traveled to New York City, to privately confer with Soros about a possible Presidential run in 2008.”
“May 18, 2007, Soros was again host to an Obama fundraiser, this time at the Greenwich, Conn. home of fellow hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Investment Corp.”
“According to the Greenwich Times, the 300 guests each kicked in $2,300 to the Obama campaign.”
True to major media methods, this story is known by few people. A very few people in America even know the name George Soros, let a alone what he does. I do not judge him. The world is a very complicated place. I do believe however, that people should not be kept in the dark about events that affect their daily lives.
As William Holden said to Billy Holliday, in a 1950 movie, “Born Yesterday” when she asked why he thought that all people should be educated, “Because, a world full of ignorant people is a very dangerous place.” This was the way Americans and our government thought 68 years ago. We believed it with every fiber of our being, until things changed when John Kennedy was murdered in broad daylight. After that, our entire system, starting with school education started going down hill. So much so that most College graduates have no idea what our Constitution says, what purpose it serves or what it takes to preserve that blueprint of a prosperous, peaceful society.
I predicted in President William Jefferson Clinton’s first term, that he would be the last President we ever elect. Since then, I have been correct. George W. Bush, Jr. was “appointed” to both of his terms.
On October 20, 2008, Sorcha Faal, wrote in “What Does It Mean”, the World’s largest English language news service (according to them) stated: “A stunning report circulating in the Kremlin today states the Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has told both the Syrian President and Lebanon’s Hezbollah Leadership that the next American president would the ‘last one’ during secret meetings he held in Beirut this past week.”
On October 20, 2008 Middle Eastern news service, Aljazeera reported a meeting in Hawaii of top military brass from China and the US. Denny Roy, of Hawaii's US government-funded East-West Centre, said "both countries are positioning each other for the possibility of some kind of military conflict in the future".
The next day, on October 21, 2008, The Press Republican reported that Military leaders from five countries met in Lake Placid, New York. Apparently these are very busy people doing very busy work.
On October 22, 2008, in What Does It Mean Sorcha Faal, wrote, “Top US Generals Flee To EU And Russia In Last Attempt To Stop World War”. She explains that a non-fascist group of American military are asking the EU and Russia for help in averting a planned destruction, with nuclear weapons, of America this year. Most of the world knows that our leaders are crazy.
Now, the World should know that we know it too, and there are some of us trying to stop the maniacs from their course of implementing a New World Order, based on destruction and misery, to put themselves in absolute and total domination of the entire Earth.
What these crazy ones don’t realize is that all attempts in the past to accomplish this have failed. They actually think they can do it this time. That is what makes them so dangerous.
On October 25, Sorcha Faal wrote about “Iranian Leader In Secret Meet With Obama At US Military Stronghold In Hawaii” She explains that “Top US Generals have ‘summoned’ the presumed future American President Barrack Obama to an ‘urgent’ meeting at the their strongest Military stronghold located in the Hawaiian Islands, and which is home to more military personal and hardware than any other US State.” This is five days after the Chinese military had arrived.
Sorcha Faal, says, “Russian Military Intelligence reports to Prime Minister Putin today are stating that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has joined US Senator Barrack Obama in Hawaii at an emergency conference ordered by America's Top Generals in their effort to avert World War III and the collapse of the United States by the fascist forces within its own government it is currently battling.”
“The American anti-fascist forces now headed by Senator Obama also appear to have had their main first condition met that President Ahmadinejad will step aside and not run for another term of office, which he appears to have agreed to”.
I don’t agree with the report that Obama is “anti-fascist”. I would be more willing to believe that he is more easily controlled by the military than John McCain would be. On all of Obama’s “issues” he changes direction like a mosquito in a hurricane. He has made his hate of white and brown people publicized in his books and his speeches have shown his distain for people who work for a living.
While these reports may or not be true, it is not a coincidence that both Barrack Obama and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the reason of “illness” to disappear from the world political map, for the same few days.
Thanks to the major media, the one thing we do know about world affairs is that we don’t know anything.
Whether WWIII is about to take place or not, whether the American psychos are going to nuke us, whether Barrack Obama is a good man or bad, whether Obama wins or McCain wins, the only thing that will truly restore the United States Constitution and enforce our laws, is for an overwhelming force to come to the United States, root out the traitors and give us our country back. It is too far gone for us as a People to reclaim it.
Barrack Obama is not a mystery. We do know that under the guise of “Change” he wants to totally rearrange American’s way of life. He defies our Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land, he defies the will of the People and he defies God’s will.
One of his “booboos” was telling reporters that he has campaigned in 57 States. America only has 50 States. But, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference does have 57 States. Either he has Islam on his mind or he doesn’t know that America only has 50 States. Would a Harvard trained lawyer not know how many States we have in America?
At the University of Delaware in 1970, a chicken was elected as Homecoming Queen, because her managers never let anyone see her or know her past or her associates, while they promised everything the voters wanted. The only major difference between that Chicken and Obama is the chicken’s name was Cynthia.
Most Americans are good people wishing no harm to others. Most go to church on a regular basis. Like all people, we want food, clothing, a roof, friends and family. Most don’t covet riches. We just want to spend our lives doing what makes us happy, as long as we can provide for our families.
Our greatest error was in trusting our politicians, on the Federal level and locally. Our politicians are robbing us blind and persecuting us if we complain. They seem to think that holding public office is a license to steal, even from their friends and neighbors. As they rise in office, they become like third world dictators. As they get to the national level, they get drunk with power. They become dictators, passing law after law against their voters, as they spend our money partying and laughing all the way to their offshore accounts. They are genuinely envious of real third worlds dictators. Both George Bush Jr. and Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger have said they would like to be dictators. In the bathroom and in the board room and in the news room, scum sticks together.
One of the things Dictators do when they attempt their takeover of a nation is they cut communications. The first thing to cut is television and radio news programs. It is imperative that the populace not know what or who or where their enemy is or to be able to organize against that enemy.
America has been in a major news blackout for several weeks. All we see or hear on television or radio is “Election 2008”. Day and night, all we here is that Obama and McCain are neck and neck. We have no idea what is going on in our government, our economy or the rest of the World. The World is a very busy place right now, but the American public doesn’t even know it exists. Ignorance is not bliss.
America was once and can still be a friend and a benefactor to all people on this Earth. Or, we can be the greatest machine of destruction ever conceived by mortal man. We have the power to obliterate entire nations with fire power. We have the ability to destroy the majority of the world’s crops. We have the knowledge and the technology to bring deadly diseases to large populations, and we can discriminate as to which populations. We have the political ability and the will to corrupt almost every nation on Earth to the detriment of its citizens. We can manipulate the international drug trade or we can destroy it. We can deny education or we can empower it. We can and will assassinate any leader on Earth who disagrees with our conquest for a New World Order.
But there is always one simple fault that all global megalomaniacs and community bullies have. They never understand that there is always someone out there that is faster, better and more ruthless than they are.
Let us believe that the one who is faster has goodness in his heart for all people on Earth.
History has proven that to be true. If, not, civilization would never have progressed this far. Look around us………….most people live a better life than their parents did and far better than their great-great grand parents did. Civilization progresses, not because of politicians, but in spite of politicians.
We can win this one. These new guys on The New World Order block, the sons and grandsons of the 1930s traitors, don’t have the brains or the guts to pull it off. All they will do, if not stopped, is cause massive destruction. But we need help on this one. And we need to work together, regardless of nationality. We should know soon what all these cross-nationality military meetings are about. Hopefully, they will destroy these international gangsters who hide behind religion and call themselves politicians.
Mark S. McGrew has written over 35 articles on a variety of subjects, originally published in newspapers and magazines in The United States, Mexico and Russia...
His articles on Barack Obama have been re-published on over 200 web sites in fifteen countries and translated into seven languages. He also writes business and legal documents...
Undermining Our Sovereignty from Without & Within..
Written By: Nancy Salvato...
DOWNERS GROVE, IL. (NS/NMJ) -
The first amendment to the United States Constitution expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws that infringe on the freedom of the press. While it should be expected that those elected to the legislature have at least a basic understanding of the Bill of Rights, this is not necessarily the case.
“Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the average score of 49% for those who have never been elected.” Neither score bodes well for the state of our nation.
If we are to continue to be a sovereign country, we must understand the rule of law and why each and every word of the founding documents are so important to the defense of our nation and to the continuation of our freedoms.
While copies of the founding documents (Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, Bill of Rights) can be found freely on the internet, the basic understanding of the meaning behind the Founders’ and Framers’ words appears lost on a great many Americans. Perhaps this is why Google, a private corporation, has been allowed to get away with systematically censoring a great many authors and publications that call for a critical examination of radical Islam, take issue with the unfounded theory of global warming, and more recently, displayed criticism of extreme progressive left political candidates and principles. One can surmise that Google figures that since less than 50% of the people are not going to employ any intelligence in making sense of the founding documents or in trying to understand their relevance in today’s world, they don’t pose a threat to the utopian world order they are promoting at the expense of the rule of law that has guided our nation for over 200 years.
Sadly, the lack of outrage over this censorship by a private search engine such as Google, which has virtually monopolized access to any information made available over the internet, has not only made it much more difficult to construct a well researched opinion about what is happening around the world and how these events may affect our way of life but it is literally revising our history as it is happening right before our eyes.
This global ideology, which introduced Political Correctness (uniformity of thought) and has infiltrated our schools, our media, and our legal system and is threatening the future of our culture, is advanced by the fifth column and appears to be winning the hearts and minds of those who believe the propaganda associated with it. Adherents of this Marxist ideology embrace moral relativism and do not take the time to understand the importance of the Judeo/Christian influences on the fundamental values that guide our civilization.
At the same time, our country is fighting a war against those who embrace a radical ideology whose goal is to impose Islamic rule over Infidels, those who doubt or reject the tenets of Islam. There have been three declarations of war against our country since 1996, when Osama Bin Laden declared war against the United States of America, followed by Al Qaeda’s 1998 “Fatwah” of Jihad against America(Fatwahs can only be issued by an Islamic religious figure) and most recently Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter, “widely interpreted as a peaceful overture” yet “is in fact a declaration of war” as evidenced by the closing salutation, “Peace only unto those who follow the true path."
History reveals that the prophet Mohammad’s letters to the Byzantine emperor and the Sassanid emperor “telling them to convert to the true faith of Islam or be conquered” included the same phrase that President Ahmadinejad used to conclude his letter to [President] Bush.
These terrorist groups or sponsors of terrorist groups likely already possess the means to create a nuclear explosion high above the United States that would produce an electromagnetic pulse in our atmosphere strong enough to severely damage all the civilian electrical power sources and electrical equipment on which our society relies.
According to, The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, "Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan."
An explosion of this magnitude could set our civilization back hundreds of years. The comforts to which we’re accustomed would be gone. It’s nearly impossible to conceive what this would do to our present way of life. And that is the idea…
The colonists had begun to settle this country one hundred years before they acquired the wherewithal to declare our independence. Should our country fall to nefarious forces, if our civilization witnesses a nuclear holocaust, we may never again experience life as we know it. The sovereignty of our country depends on the ability to protect our freedoms from without and from within. The continued public apathy and indifference to the encroachment on our protected rights will ultimately erase our liberties with nary a shot being fired.
Nancy Salvato is the President and Director of Education and the Constitutional Literacy Program for Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan 501 (C) (3) research and educational project whose mission is to re-introduce the American public to the basic elements of our constitutional heritage while providing non-partisan, fact-based information on relevant socio-political issues important to our country, specifically the threats of aggressive Islamofascism and the American Fifth Column. She serves as a Senior Editor for The New Media Journal. She is also a staff writer, for the New Media Alliance, Inc., a non-profit (501c3) coalition of writers and grass-roots media outlets. News Sarasota has permission from Nancy Salvato and the New Media Journal to reprint this article...
During the waning days of the US presidential campaign, Barack Obama is feeling confident enough of his chances that he — at a recent rally — didn't dispute his being a Socialist. Obama was even a member of the New Democratic Socialist Party in the 1990s. Perhaps he will at some point even admit that his true intention for the USA is Soviet-style Communism. That, of course, will be after he is elected POTUS — largely due to his voter fraud strategic unit ACORN — and when it is too late for the all-too-many gullible American people to do anything about it.
During the aforementioned rally Obama said that his dastardly opposition had called him and his "spread the wealth" programs Socialistic, then added that in doing so these same opponents — McCain and Palin — had "made a virtue out of selfishness." With that he has said that Americans who do not agree with his Socialist (actually Communist) policies of theft-by-politicians are selfish. One can only surmise that — considering his recent and ongoing investigations of both "Joe the Plumber" and media member Barbara West — that anyone who complains about Obama's theft of their money will be intimidated and investigated to the proverbial "Nth" degree. After that, will there be prosecutions and possibly jail time — or worse? Looks like it. We already know that his prosecutorial "truth squads" are in effect in Missouri and at least one announced additional chapter exists in Pennsylvania under the auspices and rulings of Democrat Governor Ed Rendell.
Obama's "Truth Squads," his suppression of the media who ask either Obama or his VP candidate Biden uncomfortable questions, his banning media outlets who support McCain and his [already] directing Democrat-run states to investigate "Joe the Plumbers" who ask the secular messiah and/or his vice-prophet Biden questions that cause either of them to tell the truth gives us a clear picture of what Obama's regime and ruling decrees will entail.
An Obama presidency means free speech — including that which asks unapproved questions of Democrat candidates is out, gone, ended — kaput! He will redistribute your money — he has said so on multiple occasions including an NPR interview — to those he considers to be more deserving than you. Note: One can deduce — as this is true Soviet-style Communism and Chicago-thug politics — that the recipients of this redistribution will include Obama and his cronies. Obama has expressed disdain for the US Constitution and has already advised that he wants a new" Bill of Rights that is not as 'restrictive' to the government's treatment of its citizens.
The above assertions have been well-documented as fact and it's time for some stark reality, folks. I've said it before but, it bears repeating. If you want the country to devolve into a Stalinistic government — that creates a permanent cabinet post for the Obama voter fraud unit ACORN (so that he will NOT ever be voted out) — vote for Barack Hussein Obama. If you want the USA to continue as a free Republic, vote Tuesday for John Sidney McCain. Remember, once a dictator seizes power, all bets are off. Any of the additional safeguards the founders incorporated into our US Constitution are moot if the ruling power chooses neither to follow nor to continue them. This country's Constitution can be ended with the stroke of a presidential pen and the Democrat power elite agreeing.
Democrats Pelosi, Reid and Waxman have already told us that they will be redeploying the "fairness doctrine" in order to get rid of talk radio and conservatives — to end broadcast opposition to Democrats once and for all. Print media — whatever opposition still exists — will be next on their list. And with all 3 branches of government in their back pockets, they can and will finally destroy the country and set themselves up for never-ending and increasing power. The US Supreme Court's passing laws that agree with Marxism are only one associate justice's resignation away. Democracies can only last and be strong so long as people of good will and faith allow them to exist. Once those with opposite inclinations and intentions assume the reins of power, democratic republics end. Democracies — with not enough willing to protect them — die.
Sher Zieve is an author, political commentator, and staff writer for The New Media Alliance (www.thenma.org). Zieve's op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Boston Star, Massachusetts Sun, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Ms. Zieve is currently working on her first political book: "The Liberal's Guide To Conservatives."
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