Friday, November 13, 2009
Feds Move To Seize 4 Mosques, Tower Linked To Iran
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The assets include bank accounts; Islamic centers consisting of schools and mosques in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston; more than 100 acres in Virginia; and a 36-story glass office tower in New York.
Prosecutors said the Alavi Foundation managed the office tower on behalf of the Iranian government and, working with a front company known as Assa Corp., illegally funneled millions in rental income to Iran's state-owned Bank Melli. Bank Melli has been accused by a U.S. Treasury official of providing support for Iran's nuclear program, and it is illegal in the United States to do business with the bank.
The U.S. has long suspected the foundation was an arm of the Iranian government; a 97-page complaint details involvement in foundation business by several top Iranian officials, including the deputy prime minister and ambassadors to the United Nations.
"For two decades, the Alavi Foundation's affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United Nations, in violation of a series of American laws,"
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
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Iran began second nuclear plant 7 years ago
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Iran's recently revealed uranium enrichment hall is a highly fortified underground space that is a year away from completion after construction that first started seven years ago, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday...
[The organization is worthless - the IAEA in particular.]
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Netanyahu on the capture of Iranian ship loaded with arms
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In his usual forthright manner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully labeled
the contents of a disguised heavy weapons laden ship sent by Iran, bound for Syria and then ultimately to Hezb'allah in Lebanon. It was a ship whose purpose was
"to attack and kill as many civilians - women, children and the elderly - as possible"
It was a war crime of such dimension that he called upon the UN General Assembly, to convene in special session, especially since it was in gross violation of UN Security Council resolutions.
"This is a war crime which we know the Iranian regime intends to repeat, further arming Hezbollah, which has already fired thousands of missiles at our communities."
Having extensive experience, Netanyahu is not a starry eyed fool hoping that the UN's eyes will finally be opened to the evil that Iran, Syria and others are plotting.
"This is what the international community should concentrate on at all times but especially today. But instead, they have chosen to assemble and condemn the IDF and the State of Israel, and to try and undermine our legitimate right to defend ourselves."
And so, he promised
"I would like make it as clear as possible: This will neither deter us nor prevent us from continuing to act in order to defend Israeli citizens because Israeli citizens know the truth, that the IDF is a moral army without peer, either qualitatively or morally. We know that it is the IDF and the security services of the State of Israel that stand against the war criminals who plan to perpetrate war crimes against Israeli citizens."
In closing he challenged the UN--and the passive international community that supports its distortions--
"I think that the time has come for the international community, at least its more responsible countries, to recognize the truth and not promote a lie."
But it is the so-called more responsible countries that have refused to recognize the truth and have even helped promote the lies.
Either way, Israel and the US will continue to defend themselves, with or without the UN. And the UN's passive international community which has enabled the UN member countries to flaunt decency and condemn the decent while glorifying the perverted will be the ultimate losers if they don't recognize the truth.
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'Obama must choose - Israel or Iran'
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel and Iran on Tuesday night, according to Iranian state media
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The New Iran Man at the State Department's Iran Desk
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John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard of publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert is not a neutral arbiter; he serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), widely considered to be the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime in America.
What is the National Iranian American Council?
The NIAC adamantly opposes any military attacks on Iran. In other words, it all but serves as Iran's Embassy in Washington-though the NIAC vociferously dispute this characterization. However, there is very little sunlight between the views of Tehran and the NIAC... [snip]
There are a range of efforts that the NIAC has undertook to enhance its power in Washington: it has placed interns in the offices of Congressmen; persuaded House members to sign a letter to President Bush in 2006 calling for unconditional negotiations with Iran's regime; and has, among other steps, hired the Iranian-American Press Secretary for Representative Marcy Kaptur (not known to be a stalwart supporter of the America-Israel relationship) to help improve their lobbying in Congress. The key goal of the NIAC, as made clear in their master plan, was to place its supporters into key positions of power in Washington.
Their efforts have reached fruition: the National Iranian American Council now has one of their own as the Iran man (literally and metaphorically) at the State Department.
The caviar is flowing in Tehran...
[Appointments are policy.]
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Medvedev warns Russia opposition not to rock boat
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The harsh words came alongside modest pledges by Medvedev to boost regional democracy in Russia.
''Any attempts to rock the situation with democratic slogans, to destabilise the state and split society will be stopped.''
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EPA Lawyers: Cap-And-Trade "Fatally Flawed"
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After stifling a report questioning the science behind climate change, the EPA is censoring two of its lawyers for saying the proposed solutions are also problematical. The debate isn't over. It's being suppressed.
In the proud tradition of EPA whistle-blower Alan Carlin, whose leaked study blew the lid off the EPA's hyped and flawed science behind climate change, two EPA lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, have produced a Web video titled "A Huge Mistake." In it they say cap-and-trade in general and the Waxman-Markey bill in particular are the wrong answers anyway.
Williams states:
"Cap-and-trade for climate change has been tried in Europe. It produced harmful volatility in energy prices and few greenhouse gas reductions. It raised energy prices for consumers and raised billions in windfall profits for utilities."
Zabel says:
"carbon offsets won't work because they can't be certified or verified as real additional reductions." Williams says carbon offsets are like "subprime mortgages and other clever financial instruments" and similarly "lack integrity."
They compare the mammoth Waxman-Markey bill that includes cap-and-trade provisions to the Challenger disaster, where administrators "refused to listen" to experts who knew better.
They say it and other proposals like it create "perverse incentives" to continue polluting while others trade offsets for fun and huge profits...
[Translation: another scam, again at taxpayer expense.]
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WaPo: EPA Forces Employees to Pull Down YouTube Video Critical of Cap-and-Trade
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Imagine if you will, that during the prior presidential administration two EPA employees put up a video on YouTube that criticized environmental and energy policies supported by Republicans in Congress and President Bush, only to be told by EPA officials that they need to take down the video.
Given the media's consternation about the Bush administration's alleged efforts to squelch proponents of the theory of manmade global warming, such a story would likely be front page news in many newspapers, including the Washington Post.
But in this instance, the administration in question is Obama's, and the EPA employees are going at the president from his left flank, arguing the so called "cap-and-trade" plan would "lock in climate degradation."
Despite this, the Washington Post placed David Fahrenthold's November 11 story, "EPA tells workers to take down YouTube clip about climate bill" on page A8...
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Fat mothers to be banned from hospital
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[Think this could happen in the private sector? Only empowered governments can discriminate like this - better not to empower them.]
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Liberal Concedes Health Care Bill Will Create New Entitlement "Impossible to Rescind"
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"[W]e will be dealing with its consequences for decades to come...
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Sen. Ben Nelson: ‘I’m Not Going to Be Able to Answer That Question’
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[Whereas the 10th Amendment explicitly bars it from doing so...]
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Palin: Health bill should be DOA
arah Palin said Thursday that the health care bill passed last weekend by the House should be “dead on arrival” in the Senate.
Palin urged supporters in a note on her Facebook wall.
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Naval Academy Changed Color Guard to Appear More 'Diverse'
[PC run amok: evidently there's something wrong with white men - so much so it overrides merit. Is this America?]
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WASHINGTON—In a rare display of bipartisanship, senators on both sides of the aisle set aside their differences Tuesday and passed off responsibility for the nation's problems by an overwhelming 91-8 margin.
"As senators, it's our duty to get any sort of blame out of Congress and onto the president's desk as quickly as possible,"
said Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who recalled a similar 2005 decision in which the Senate firmly rejected accountability by a vote of 93-6.
"Someone has to accept this blame and do the right thing, and both Democrats and Republicans alike understand the importance of fighting tooth and nail to ensure that it's not us."
President Obama is widely expected to veto the blame, sending it back down to the House of Representatives.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Interview with the President: Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance
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During an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper today, President Obama said that penalties are appropriate for people who try to “free ride” the health care system:
“What I think is appropriate is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don't, you're subject to some penalty.."
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Dems Rejected 11 Amendments Requiring Congress to Enroll in Gov’t-Run Health Plan
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Congressional critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.
“If Congress forces our constituents into a public option plan over time, then members of Congress should be expected to do the same,”
Rep. Howard McKeon (R-Calif.) told CNSNews.com.
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U.S. swine flu response dismal at best
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[Another single-program {like cash-for-clunkers} the government proves inept at managing. Health care anyone?]
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Confessions of an ObamaCare Backer
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Mr. Cassidy is more honest than the politicians whose dishonesty he supports. "The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment," he writes. "Let's not pretend that it isn't a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out as being portrayed. It won't. What is really unfolding, I suspect, is the scenario that many conservatives feared. The Obama Administration . . . is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind."
Why are they doing it? Because, according to Mr. Cassidy, ObamaCare serves the real goal of furthering the Democrats' "political calculus." In other words, the purpose is to further redistribute income by putting health care further under government control, and in the process making the middle class more dependent on government. As the party of government, Democrats will benefit over the long run.
This explains why Nancy Pelosi is willing to risk the seats of so many Blue Dog Democrats by forcing such an unpopular bill through Congress on a narrow, partisan vote: You have to break a few eggs to make a permanent welfare state. As Mr. Cassidy concludes, "Putting on my amateur historian's cap, I might even claim that some subterfuge is historically necessary to get great reforms enacted."
No wonder many Americans are upset. They know they are being lied to about ObamaCare, and they know they are going to be stuck with the bill.
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We demand all the facts
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You know, to help you make sense of this, and to help stop such a terrible thing from happening again.
This information was kept from the public for fear, I assume, that you might get the "wrong" idea - just as SBS after the September 11 attacks destroyed tape it had of the then mufti of Australia praising suicide bombers in his mosque, telling me it feared you might reach an "unfair" conclusion about this hate-preaching jihadist.
And the "wrong" idea you might have got from Friday's slaughter was this: here was yet another American Muslim on a jihad against his own country...
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Sacrificing Americans
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Many in the media are arguing there is nothing more to the Major Hasan mass murder than derangement and the various personal "issues" that "set him off."
Bottom line: The society at large, driven by the sermonizing of its elites, has come to an unstated conclusion that, unfortunately, a few Americans will have to be sacrificed from time to time, for the larger goal of establishing the fact that Americans in no way think Muslims are any more likely than any others to commit either random or premeditated terrorist violence.
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[If only we could discover a common thread between these people...
10 Percent of U.S. Mosques Preach Jihad, FBI Estimates
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Even more frightening: some 25 percent [1 in 4] of American Muslims ages 18-29 believe that suicide bombings can be justified...
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Mosque Leaders Part of Fort Hood 'Healing Process' at Memorial Service
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'We are partners in the healing process,''
Maj. John Zavage, an Arabic-speaking specialist in Middle Eastern affairs who came to transport four members of the mosque...
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[FLASHBACK >
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Reframing the Ft. Hood massacre
Expect to see the following words and concepts to be emphasized by the lapdog media commentators:.
Tragedy
Grief
Healing
Face the future
Unite
Strength
Jihadists In Military Playing U.S. for Suckers
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How much longer will we tolerate fighting this war as if it were a minor crime wave?
If you were an enemy of America, not only would you fight overseas and develop nuclear weapons (Iran), you would also engage in an even more effective strategy by striking at America's underbelly. This is our most vulnerable region because we now tolerate virtually everything, indulge in political correctness and subscribe to a bogus belief that if radical Islamists can see we mean them no harm, they will mean us no harm.
By now, the script should be disturbingly familiar. Whether in the Middle East, or increasingly in America, a fanatical Muslim blows up or goes on a shooting spree, killing many. This is quickly followed by "condemnations" from "Muslim civil rights groups," like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). We are then warned by the president and some newspaper editorials not to jump to conclusions, or to stereotype. Yasser Arafat wrote this script, which he used with great success throughout his bloody career as a terrorist.
Our enemies are fighting to win and they are fighting everywhere, including within our borders.
Suddenly, the issue of gays in the military doesn't seem as important as jihadists in the military.
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Europe's Wall Of Ingratitude
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Liberation: "Gorby! Gorby!" was Berliners' curious chant as the head of the defunct Soviet Union took part in the 20th anniversary of the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Liberated Europe has walled itself off from reality.
'You made this possible," gushed East German-born Chancellor Angela Merkel to ex-Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday, as the two shared an umbrella in the drizzle where the wall separating East and West Berlin
Eurocentric Europeans have built a mental wall that blinds them from seeing who they should thank for their high-priced freedom.
The Russians were not and are still not their friends.
As Charles Krauthammer put it in his Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute last month,
"Europe can eat, drink, and be merry for America protects her."
Think of it as a new wall — a wall of ingratitude.
The chants at the Berlin Wall on Monday should have been, "America! America!" in thanks to the U.S. taxpayer, who for so long has footed the bill for Europe's defense against Russia...
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Chavez Prepares for War on Colombia
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Computers, Records Seized at ACORN Offices in La.
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State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans.
"This is an investigation of everything — ACORN, the national organization, the local organization and all of its affiliated entities, specifically as it relates to any potential violations of Louisiana law,"
ACORN staff on the scene declined to comment, but an attorney for the group said in a statement the raid was prompted by allegations that former ACORN employees had removed or altered electronic documents and may do so in the future...READ MORE
Citigroup Executive Pulls Out of Sham ACORN Panel Under Pressure
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If you read between the lines, it also seems to mean Citigroup agrees the panel is a sham. According to ACORN, the advisory council was established in early 2009 "to help facilitate a transition to a new management team 'under the leadership'...
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ACORN embezzlement 5 Times Worse Than Thought
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An internal review by the board of directors of the community organization ACORN determined that the amount allegedly embezzled from the community organization was $5 million, well more than the previously reported amount of nearly $1 million, according to a new subpoena in an investigation by Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell.
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Doctor's note required to read this column
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Were you shocked that the nation's unemployment rate in October jumped to 10.2 percent, the first time it has been in double digits since 1982? Did the fact that another 190,000 jobs disappeared from the US economy last month cause you to lose sleep?
U-6 was 17.5 percent in October, a big jump from 17 percent in September and a major leap from the 10.6 percent in September 2008...
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Central study claims not all Himalayan glaciers are receding
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In fact, glaciers such as Siachen, Machoi, Drung Drung, Gangotri, Satopanth, Bhagirath Kharak and Zemu did not retreat during 2007-2009.
The scientists found no evidence to suggest that the prior retreat was because of climate change.
Senior environment ministry officials said all glaciers under observation received less snowfall during 1970-1990, resulting in a negative snow mass balance that resulted in their retreat and not abnormal melting...
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Energy to spare
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Will technology solve our energy problems? This seemingly fatuous question is actually stupider than first appears. For we already have the technology to power anything within reason, with minimal if any environmental fallout.
Yet under the inspiration of the Green Zeitgeist, I cannot go into a magazine shop without finding some science-lite cover story on new prospects for harnessing solar, thermal, wind, tidal, or whatever "renewable" forces. There is an immense credulous audience out there, willing to be entertained by such nonsense.
No one with a grasp of high school physics should take any of these schemes seriously. In each case, we are looking at a crank idea from the hippie era, which has not since been significantly improved, because it can't be...
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Treaty from climate conference could alter operation of Constitution
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In December, there will be a 12-day Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark. "Climate change," of course, means "global warming." It seems that the outcome of the conference has been predetermined since there is a treaty, which has already been written, to be signed at the end of the conference... [snip]
These issues were reignited following World War II and our admission into the United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations. Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio, like Lodge before him, feared the possibility of de facto amendment of the Constitution by a treaty. His attempt failed, by one vote, in 1954.
However, in 1957, in Reid v. Covert, the Supreme Court held that a treaty cannot take precedence over the Constitution. That is, as constitutional law stands now, even if we were to ratify the Copenhagen treaty, it could not operate to surrender our sovereignty to the U.N. as a one-world government...
[Now imagine a re-vote with the crew we've in congress now...]
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MSNBC's 'Countdown' Goes Drag to Rip Sarah Palin
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On the day after the Republican Party showed gains in a few statewide elections and with key health care and cap-and-trade legislation pending, MSNBC went back to the well to do what it does best - attack the character of one of the network's favorite targets, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Stay classy, MSNBC.
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Palin remains a GOP player
She was a high-voltage candidate, lighting a fire in the grass roots of Republican-land -- fresh, folksy and fierce.
She famously belittled her party's presidential opponent, Barack Obama, at her coming-out party at the 2008 Republican National Convention:
Sarah Palin remains a force -- the most recognizable name in the Republican Party, a headline magnet...
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Lefties complain that conservatives sell too many books
According to The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and other right-of-center stars that regularly dominate the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestsellers List are - or should be - in a league of their own.
No, that isn't Arianna Huffington's blog heaping praise on conservative authors. It's a literal suggestion.
With right-leaning books and authors holding so many spots on the list, and more to come - it's being suggested that they be given their own section so as not to diminish 'main stream' {liberal} publications with their dominance...
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