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A smoking gun means that bullets have been fired. 
Does Mr. Obama need another 9/11 to wake up from his Hawaiian dream world?
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Ditch the 'smoking gun' standard, Mr. President
Iran can build bomb by 2011
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Defence Minister Ehud Barak delivered his assessment before the Israeli parliament's defence and foreign affairs committee.
It broadly matches assessments from other nations including the US, which estimates that Tehran could produce a nuclear weapon between 2010 and 2015...
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An Iranian military ultimatum to the regime?
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Afshin Elian, a professor at Leiden University, confirms in an article for Pajamas Media that a letter signed by key members of the Iranian military is a warning to the Iranian mullahs and their revolutionary guard henchmen that the army will intervene on the side of the protestors if the regime attempts a more serious crackdown on dissent: [snip]
The military in Iran has a tradition of obeying the civilian commanders and of eschewing efforts to drag them into domestic political matters. I take this letter as a sign that the regime is at a tipping point: Further, more brutal repression of the peaceful demonstrators will end in a military revolt against it...
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Iran's opposition spreads to heartland
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Activists such as Mohammad are the foot soldiers, discreetly reaching out to people in small, tightknit communities that don't enjoy the anonymity of Tehran.
The activists take enormous risks. Five large military bases guard Birjand, regarded as the springboard for Revolutionary Guard anti-drug operations along the eastern border.
But it also has five universities and four colleges, making it a potential opposition stronghold. More than 60% of Iranians are younger than 30, and 70% of college students reportedly opposed Ahmadinejad.
Students spray-painted graffiti on walls. "Death to the dictator!" they scrawled with green markers on phone booths, just as in the capital. Some went to jail. One of Mohammad's friends was sentenced to nine months in prison for distributing leaflets.
In the classrooms, professors lifted students' spirits by discussing the Islamic Republic's missteps, and what sorts of protest actions were effective and which were counterproductive.
One professor spoke to students about the difference between real and superficial freedom...
[The ONLY scenario that doesn't lead to WAR is regime change from within - and it's trying to happen NOW - where the hell is Obama?]
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Tehran is about to blow! Where's Obama?
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President Obama's end-of-the-year deadline for the mad mullahs to make a deal on uranium enrichment came and went, but not without incident.
There were three, none good... [snip]
Gibberish aside, the "dual track" is a fiction because sanctions are off the table.
A top Chinese diplomat made that clear, saying last week, "This is not the right time or right moment for sanctions," and more "patience" with Iran is needed.
Not coincidentally, a report surfaced showing Chinese companies routinely evade the three rounds of sanctions the United Nations already slapped on Iran...
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FREE TRADE LEAPS IN YEAR OF TIGER
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While the Obama administration has put its energy into trade wars with China, free trade is marching on without the United States...
- China and Asia's Tigers -- the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- scrapped 7,000 different tariffs to form a $200 billion open market for about 2 billion consumers, one-third of the world's population.
- Jan. 1 also heralded another ASEAN free-trade pact with mighty India, ending tariffs on 4,000 products staggered through 2016; this deal will expand a $50 billion market for 1.5 billion consumers into something even bigger.
- ASEAN also signed off on free trade with Australia and New Zealand, tacking on another $50 billion market to expand for their 600 million consumers.
- It follows ASEAN's Dec. 1 agreement with Japan, which created a $240 billion market for 670 million.
- In addition, Thailand and South Korea completed the last step of 2007's ASEAN-Korea pact, finalizing expansion of the zone to a $72 billion market for 600 million.
A year or three from now, the Obama administration may still be coddling jurassic labor unions that abhor free trade and fencing off America's market and hoping no one notices, but nobody doubts the Asian states are going to be growing...
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Housing, Jobless Benefits and Unemployment
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While there are varying views as to what tomorrow's unemployment report will reveal, it's generally assumed that the number will be too high. But what's not spoken of enough is how the very federal government seen as so eager to put people back to work is blocking the kind of recovery that would make more hiring possible.
To put it very simply, hiring is a cost born by investors and employers. And the problem with the latter in mind is that continued governmental efforts to drive non-market outcomes are reducing the amount of available capital for hires, all the while raising the cost of luring workers from the sidelines.
Somewhat ironically, efforts to prop up the housing market with an eye on jobs are actually making job creation more difficult. To understand why, it has to be remembered that there are no jobs without capital. Simple as that.
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Study: Stimulus spending doesn't stimulate economic growth
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U.S. leaders steering blindly toward the cliff
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Things go all to hell fast.
Those who enjoy genuine success in life, built upon lots of hard work, understand this. Those who don't get it, keep on slipping and sliding around.
From here, it looks like Obama and the congressional Democrats are steering toward the cliff.
The worry here is, they will take the rest of the nation over the cliff with them and things will truly go all to hell fast...
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Now stim bill money being sent to fake zip codes
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Jim Scarantino of New Mexico Watchdog was the first to uncover the fact that stim bill money was being listed as spent in non-existent congressional districts.
Now he's uncovered another tasty tidbit; the money is going to fake zip codes...
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LOW LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE UNITED STATES?
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The United States ranked 29th in the world in 2006 in life expectancy at age 50, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That places it more than three years behind the world's leader, Japan, and more than one-and-a-half years behind Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Iceland, Spain and Switzerland.
Despite the WHO study's contention, the low longevity ranking of the United States is not likely a result of a poorly functioning health care system,
But according to researchers with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the WHO's numbers are highly suspect. Its data shows that, on the contrary, the United States functions well compared to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in terms of death avoidance:
- Mortality reductions from prostate and breast cancers have been exceptionally rapid in the United States relative to a set of peer countries.
- These unusually rapid declines are attributable to wider screening and more aggressive treatment of these diseases.
- Screening for other cancers also appears unusually extensive, and five-year survival rates from all of the major cancers are very favorable.
- Survival rates following heart attack and stroke are also favorable and the proportion of people with elevated blood pressure or cholesterol levels who are receiving medication is well above European standards.
It's noteworthy that while in the United States reporting entities are usually not those responsible for care, the exact opposite is true in many OECD countries who's governments essentially run, and report on, their health care systems...
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Where U.S. Health Care Ranks Number One
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Last August the cover of Time pictured President Obama in white coat and stethoscope. The story opened: "The U.S. spends more to get less [health care] than just about every other industrialized country." This trope has dominated media coverage of health-care reform. Yet a majority of Americans opposes Congress's health-care bills. Why?
The comparative ranking system that most critics cite comes from the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO). The ranking most often quoted is Overall Performance, where the U.S. is rated No. 37. The Overall Performance Index, however, is adjusted to reflect how well WHO officials believe that a country could have done in relation to its resources.
The scale is heavily subjective: The WHO believes that we could have done better because we do not have universal coverage. What apparently does not matter is that our population has universal access because physicians treat indigent patients without charge and accept Medicare and Medicaid payments, which do not even cover overhead expenses.
The WHO does rank the U.S. No. 1 of 191 countries for "responsiveness to the needs and choices of the individual patient."
Isn't responsiveness what health care is all about?
[I.e., another UN paid for political propaganda piece mascarading as a 'study', and another literal example of what makes the organization literally worse than worthless: it does harm, again and again.
But watch: it's the WHO 'report' that'll get MSM air time.]
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The End of Insurance
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Health insurance as we know it (think home/auto/life) will no longer exist...
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The Risk of Catastrophic Victory
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Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the Union Address, as President Obama hopes, half the chamber will rise to their feet and cheer.
They will be cheering their own demise...
[Will they? While weak Dems running again this year likely will, once we're all dependent on them for health 'care' exactly who will be controlling whom?]
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[Better to stop it now - please, again...
"DEFEAT ALL HEALTH CARE 'REFORM' - IT'S NOT BROKEN "
YOUR Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
YOUR Congressman: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
or: Speed Message them with your personal distribution list...
and as always, pass it on...
contact-templateThe Man Who Can Stop Obamacare
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The Democrats have gotten to the precipice — to borrow President Obama’s word — of victory on health-care reform for one reason above all others: 60 votes.
Their supermajority in the Senate empowered them to muscle through a sprawling mess of a bill by partisan fiat. If the ball had bounced the other way in a close race or two (or if Arlen Specter had felt more loyalty to his party of decades), the Democrats wouldn’t have gotten to 60. Once there, they were willing to resort to any expedient to stay at the magic number. After Ted Kennedy’s death last summer, the Massachusetts legislature rushed to change state election law to allow for an interim replacement in advance of a special election, explicitly to keep the Democrats at 60.
Now, the special election for the seat is less than two weeks away. It represents the only electoral threat to 60 that Democrats will face until November. Republican Scott Brown is mounting a surprisingly strong bid, trailing Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley by only 9 points in the latest Rasmussen poll. A state senator, Brown is running an anti-spending, anti-Washington campaign perfectly suited to the political moment.
Should he win, it could make it all but impossible for Harry Reid to get 60 votes for the current version of Obamacare — and he’ll almost certainly need to meet that threshold at least one more time.
In short, Scott Brown is the man who could pull the brake on this train right before it gets fully out of the station...
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Mass. Senate Race Now Just ‘Likely’ Dem
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In the wake of the Rasmussen poll showing GOP’s Scott Brown down just 9 points vs. Democrat Martha Coakley (and just 2 points among those saying they’re sure to vote), the Cook Political Report has moved the Massachusetts Senate race from “solidly” Democratic to “likely.”
Cook still believes Brown has an uphill battle to win in the very blue Bay State [it's Kennedy's seat].
But an upset would have major implications, including possibly blocking the health care overhaul...
[More often than not, initiating change means putting your dollars where your mouth is - and our opponents are doing so.
Scott would be in place in time for the Senate's final vote on the health 'care' plans underway, and would deny them their 60th vote for filibuster cloture!
Please consider joining me in contributing, today, per link below, to Mr. Brown's campaign -
Bright Red CONTRIBUTE button at top right - one time for any amount - it worked well for me...
...and please do pass on to like minded friends.]
ACLU Says Oregon Woman Has Right to Bike Naked; Local Law Begs to Differ
They call Jen Moss "Ashland's Naked Lady."
Tuesday night's decision to expand the ban brought a threat of legal action from the American Civil Liberties Union, which says it violates the Oregon Constitution's protection of free expression...
[Yet more proof to never say never: in the case of Miss Moss, specifically {pictured!}, I feel the ACLU may actually be in the right.
And they say I'm not open minded.]
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