Bloomberg continues:Just another name to keep an eye on in the corrupt world we live in: the dual American and German citizen, Nicolas BerggruenBerggruen is moving...to save the West from sinking into chaos. He says the stock market swoons of 2011, the brinkmanship in Washington over the debt ceiling and the euro-zone debt debacle are symptoms of the same underlying problem. “What you really have is a deep, deep governance crisis in the West,” he says.
To reduce the political paralysis that threatens the U.S. and Europe, the billionaire donated $100 million to create the Nicolas Berggruen Institute, with offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York and Washington.
In early September, the institute assembled a group called the Council for the Future of Europe. It includes former government leaders Gerhard Schroeder of Germany and Felipe Gonzalez of Spain, former European Commission President Jacques Delors, as well as economists Nouriel Roubini, Joseph Stiglitz and Mohamed El-Erian, the chief executive officer at Pacific Investment Management Co. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has served as an adviser.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The Billionaire that Could Become the Next George Soros-Type Global Manipulator
Sheriff Joe predicts Obama investigation to be a 'shock'
Be careful Joe, The Obama Cartel provided the Mexican Cartel a lot of powerful weapons in your State!"The investigation into Obama's eligibility to be president is proceeding as planned," Arpaio later told WND. "I expect to have the investigation completed early next year."
He continued, "Yesterday, I met with the leader of the posse conducting the investigation, and I am very satisfied with their progress. The posse is doing a thorough and very professional job, and I am confident the posse is asking the right questions."
Arpaio declined to reveal to WND any specifics of the investigation, but he suggested the issues being examined are comprehensive in their scope.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Debate Is Over! He's Not Natural Born – Part Ii - Conservative Crusader
What Now? That is the Question!
It's up to the Citizens to hold him and his accomplices accountable. And we will.
Hillary Clinton: 'President Obama Has Passed With Flying Colors Every Leadership Challenge' | CNSnews.com
Reminds me of "The Pot calling the Kettle Black." Neither one is an example of Leadership!
GAO: With China dialogues, WH violated law | Campaign 2012
It’s not every day that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the Executive Office of the President violated federal law, but that’s the conclusion the GAO released in a report this month, after reviewing bilateral talks with the Chinese government hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).What law? The law doesn't apply to this Regime unless we say it does.
The Constitution protects this Regime if there is a law.
This Regime is different from previous government and everybody should recognize that.
DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security
Anyone want to volunteer for Embassy duty in Iraq two months from now?The Iranian regime's right hand for achieving those goals was – and is - Al Qods commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the man also accused by Washington of masterminding the assassination plot.
Washington is well aware of Soleimani's capacity for interfering with American interests. Indeed he crows about it.
Last July, US sources leaked a message he posted in 2008 to Gen. David Petraeus, then head of US Central Command and now CIA Director: "General Petraeus, you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and Afghanistan. And indeed, the ambassador in Baghdad is a Quds Force member. The individual who's going to replace him is a Quds Force member."
He was flaunting his control of Baghdad at American expense.
Since then, he has expanded this control, debkafile's military sources report, by injecting 30,000 al Qods fighting personnel into Iraq, all trained in guerrilla tactics to the standards of Western and Middle East elite units.At least half are deployed in Baghdad in the guise of bodyguard units Iraqi government members and political figures have hired from local firms. Most of the Shiite figures in government and parliament are now using al Qods details for protection. This makes the easily vulnerably to manipulation from Tehran.
Today, Al Qods has the run of Baghdad's Green Zone, the top-security enclave built a cost of billions of American dollars to keep the US embassy and high commands in Iraq and its seat of government safe from terrorist bombs.
After the US military drawdown in just over two months, the 16,000 US embassy staffers remain in the Green Zone, including 5,000 security officers from civilian contractors.They will stand eyeball to eyeball with a like number of al Qods operatives defending the pro-Iranian Iraqi government. It is on this jarring note that America is about to end its war in Iraq.
Obama demonstrates how easy it is to loose a war after it already won. Damn that Bush.
Or is he on their side?
OCCUPY WALL STREET (OWS)-Discover the Networks
Some good information you may or may not know.
The UPS Store
Re: Occupy Wall Street
118A Fulton St. #205
New York, NY
10038
URL: Website
- Anti-capitalist movement that seeks to create "a society of cooperation and community" – i.e., a socialist economy
- Its members refer to themselves as "the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%."
- Uses "the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic" to achieve its ends
Monday, October 24, 2011
West's Weekly Wrap-Up
There is a quote I would like to share with all of you from Roger Sherman, one of the original signers of the Declaration of the Independence. Sherman said, “Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and no longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.”Congressman West Weekly Wrap-Up is a must read, again.
Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad | FrontPage Magazine
It has been a long time coming, but the Obama Administration has now officially banned the truth. Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole declared Wednesday at a conference in Washington that he had “recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security.” This “reevaluation” will remove all references to Islam in connection with any examination of Islamic jihad terror activity. The Obama Administration has now placed off-limits any investigation of the beliefs, motives and goals of jihad terrorists.Obama reveals where his true loyalty lies, again.
Obama's Libyan Coup
Our precipitate abandonment of Gaddafi has already put at risk our national security. The collapse of Gaddafi’s regime engineered by NATO has set loose thousands of weapons, some of which are very likely headed to the black markets supplying terrorists. In February, rebels were documented plundering assault rifles, machine guns, mines, grenades, antitank missiles, and rocket-propelled grenades from arms depots. According to government officials in Chad and Algeria, some of these weapons have already reached the North African al Qaeda affiliate Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Particularly worrisome are the SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles, 20,000 of which were stockpiled by the Gaddafi regime. These weapons have in the past brought down commercial airliners, including an Air Rhodesia plane, an Angolan Airways 737, a Sudan Airways plane, and the plane carrying the presidents of Burundi and Rwanda, which led to the Rwandan genocide. And don’t forget the remnants of Libya’s WMD program, including 10 tons of mustard gas and dumps of raw nuclear fuel, that we are depending on the NTC to secure, on the assumption that it will in fact be able to restore order over the numerous heavily armed tribal factions, and account for the missing weapons and secure the remainder before they end up in the hands of terrorists.Obama is a disaster for America and the Free World.
Obama Regime Surrenders for America--Again
First they win an election with a known undocumented, illegal candidate, and prevent Congress and the Courts from requiring any evidence of eligibility even 3 years into the Regime. This should be our first clue that America was being taken over by a serious enemy.
Immediately they take control of GM, Chrysler, Big Banks, and the Courts and ignore the Constitution and Stock Holders rights. The Regime ignores and protects the primary institutes of corruption created and controlled by the Regime of Fanny and Freddie and their regime supported derivatives.
Then the Regime takes over both Health Insurance and Medical Care with the Illegal ObamaCare enacted rulings in spite of the Honest Courts that remain.
Then they increase unemployment and run up the debt to weaken America's position in the World and create as much a dependent welfare state as possible.
Then they prevent America from becoming self sufficient in energy and make America more dependent on foreign Energy and drive up the prices to further weaken America.
Then they prevent states from protecting themselves against illegal invasion by siding with the drug cartels against America and Mexico and ignore any borders.
Then they fund worthless companies and Union thugs to provide money for campaign contribution for the Liberals in the Democratic Party and the Rinos in the Republican party. Don't forget these resources are laundered to advance the liberal Media, GE, and Soros.
Then they side with Hamas against Israel and force Israel to release prisoners at a rate of 1200 to 1 handing another enemy a perceived and real victory.
Then they join with Iran to remove a brutal dictator that sides with us more than Iran by providing most of the war power in Libya to facilitate the removal but leave Iran to determine the outcome in Libya. They started an unlawful war by bypassing the "Congress of Old."
After normalizing the perception of World Mobs in Egypt, Libya, and Syria while ignoring them in Iran, the Obama Regime has setup and supported World Mobs in America and overseas under the name of Occupy in case the Republican Party can come up with a legitimate candidate that will recognize and address the Coup that has taken place.
Meanwhile business as usual in destroying America and siding with Iran--Surrender Iraq to ElSader and Iran after it was successfully freed by the blood of US and allied Soldiers, the treasures of American Citizens, and many Iraq patriots.
Barack Obama: All US troops to leave Iraq in 2011
The Regime's new way of increasing the Debt--Surrender after Victory.Can Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Israel be far behind? Forget about Syria, they fall in the protected class.
America and The World has a more immediate worry than this.
Will America have an honest election in 2012? Or will it be like the last corrupt election, which resulted in a Rino Candidate running against a Illegal whose loyalty is against America being bought and paid for by outsiders sources.
If things don't change soon, it won't even be a question.
If the Courts can't address an Illegal SS#, and unconstitutional office holder that has provided this much evidence of anti American intentions, then they too have already been taken over.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
LightSquared Scandal Explodes | National Legal and Policy Center
On its iwatch news website, the Center for Public Integrity published a blockbuster special report on Wednesday confirming that LightSquared "pressed its case... at times citing its fundraising for Democratic causes and President Obama..." The report by Fred Schulte and John Aloysius Farrell is based on 300 emails obtained by the authors under the Freedom of Information Act. The emails contradict repeated denials by LightSquared and the White House that the campaign contributions were related to the FCC action.Just another day of Corruption? Now defined as Normal Business by this Regime.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Occupy Wall Street’s Marxists--Charles Gasparino - NYPOST.com
It’s not an overstatement to describe Zuccotti Park as New York’s Marxist epicenter. Flags with the iconic face of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara are everywhere; the only American flag I saw was hanging upside down. The “occupiers” openly refer to each other as “comrade,” and just about every piece of literature on offer (free or for sale) advocated socialism in the Marxist tradition as a cure-all for the inequalities of the American economic system.Gasparino is one of the few in the media that can see what is going on in the Obama Regime and doesn't mind expressing it.
With Holder, the Politicizing Never Stops - By Andrew C. McCarthy - The Corner - National Review Online
The controversy is strictly about a narrow category of terrorist: enemy combatants against whom Congress has authorized the use of military force (such that Holder supports killing even American enemy combatants without any judicial intervention). It is this category of terrorist for whom Congress — at the Supreme Court’s urging — has designed a system of military detention and trial. That system is consistent with the laws of war which, contrary to the attorney general’s suggestion, have always been the “rule of law” applicable in wartime.Another accurate assessment of the Holder "Injustice Department."
Monday, October 17, 2011
Judge Blocks Release of Recusal-Related Emails Kagan Sent WH—Says They're ‘Personal’ | CNSnews.com
Are the Judges and Courts beyond Liberal Corruption, or are they just another active part of it?The “purely personal objective” cited by the judge was Kagan’s goal of being confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.
At issue is whether Kagan must recuse herself as a Supreme Court Justice when the cases challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare reach the court.
Kagan was the Obama administration’s solicitor general—charged with defending the administration’s positions in federal court cases--at the time President Obama’s health-care plan was enacted and when Virginia and Florida filed lawsuits against that health-care plan in federal court.
Internal DOJ emails that CNSNews.com did obtain via FOIA revealed that in January 2010 Kagan had personally assigned her then-top deputy, Neal Katyal, to handle the anticipated lawsuits against Obama’s health-care plan. The emails also showed that Katyal at that time believed Kagan “definitely” wanted her office involved in the administration’s defense against those legal challenges.
Katyal later signed Justice Department briefs countering lawsuits filed against Obamacare and argued some of the cases in federal court.
Under federal law—28 U.S.C. 455—any “justice, judge or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be reasonably questioned.” The law further states that any justice “shall also disqualify himself … [w]here he has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceedings or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy.”
America’s Worst Wind-Energy Project - Robert Bryce - National Review Online
The Obama administration’s loan guarantee for the now-bankrupt Solyndra has garnered lots of attention, but the Shepherds Flat deal is an even better example of corporate welfare. Several questions are immediately obvious:This should be known as the "Full of Hot Air" GE Liberal Campaign Fund Raiser!First: Why, as Browner and Summers asked, is the federal government providing loan guarantees and subsidies for an energy project that could easily be financed by GE, which has a market capitalization of about $170 billion?
Second: Why is the Obama administration providing subsidies to GE, which paid little or no federal income taxes last year even though it generated some $5.1 billion in profits from its U.S. operations?
Third: How is it that GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, can be the head of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness while his company is paying little or no federal income taxes? That question is particularly germane as the president never seems to tire of bashing the oil and gas industry for what he claims are the industry’s excessive tax breaks.
Over the past year, according to Yahoo! Finance, the average electric utility’s return on equity has been 7.1 percent. Thus, taxpayer money is helping GE and its partners earn more than four times the average return on equity in the electricity business.
Don't forget the "Lost in Space" Solyndra Liberal Campaign Fund Raiser!
Pajamas Media » Green Tesla Motors: Another Day, Another Solyndra
What kind of "government" will result from a "government" that finances it's on election?Tesla also is no simple new age car company. It is owned and financed by big donors to the Democratic Party and to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Tesla’s principal owner is Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal. He has an estimated personal wealth of $672 million. His firm received venture capital from the The Westly Group, Daimler Chrysler, and from Abu Dhabi investors. The firm has partnerships with luxury sports car manufacturer Lotus and with Mercedes-Benz.
The secret to access to the DOE money is The Westly Group, run by California Democratic Party stalwart and big Obama campaign bundler Steve Westly. The former eBay executive wasn’t merely a prodigious fundraiser for Obama, raising $500,000 for his presidential campaign. He also served as the president’s California campaign co-chairman. Another Obama $500,000 bundler was Solyndra investor George Kaiser and his foundation.
Westly got statewide attention in 2006 when he spent $35 million of his own money to run an ugly and largely negative race against California state Treasurer Phil Angelides for governor.
Westly is a personal friend of President Obama, and since the election has visited the White House for meetings and social parties. He privately dined with the president in February with a small group of Silicon Valley billionaires. It was called the “trillion-dollar dinner.”
Westly was rumored to be on Obama’s energy secretary short list. When he lost out to physicist Steven Chu, the White House got him a seat on a pivotal DOE advisory committee that made recommendations to the secretary on alternative energy policies. The committee voted in favor of changes to federal rebates for all electric cars — which would benefit Tesla.
Westly’s Washington political connections to the White House have made him a “pied piper” of DOE money for start-ups. DOE records show that Westly’s venture capital firm has reaped at least $500 million in DOE loans for his companies, wowing Silicon Valley’s VC community.
Westly also sat on Tesla’s board of directors early in the car company’s life.
Do we already have it?
Can it be stopped?
Why U.S. military in Uganda? Soros fingerprints all over it
Does Soros support any pro American organizations? Name them if you can.Soros himself has been closely tied to oil and other interests in Uganda.
In 2008, the Soros-funded Revenue Watch Institute brought together stakeholders from Uganda and other East African countries to discuss critical governance issues, including the formation of what became Uganda's national oil and gas policy.
Also in 2008, the Africa Institute for Energy Governance, a grantee of the Soros-funded Revenue Watch, helped established the Publish What You Pay Coalition of Uganda, or PWYP, which was purportedly launched to coordinate and streamline the efforts of the government in promoting transparency and accountability in the oil sector.
Also, a steering committee was formed for PWYP Uganda to develop an agenda for implementing the oil advocacy initiatives and a constitution to guide PWYP's oil work.
PWYP has since 2006 hosted a number of training workshops in Uganda purportedly to promote contract transparency in Uganda's oil sector.
PWYP is directly funded by Soros' Open Society as well as the the Soros-funded Revenue Watch Institute. PWYP international is actually hosted by the Open Society Foundation in London.
The billionaire's Open Society Institute, meanwhile, runs numerous offices in Uganda. It maintains a country manager in Uganda, as well as the Open Society Initiative for East Africa, which supports work in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
The Open Society Institute runs a Ugandan Youth Action Fund, which states its mission is to "identify, inspire, and support small groups of dedicated young people who can mobilize and influence large numbers of their peers to promote open society ideals."
Proof! Wall Street protests no 'spontaneous uprising'
Another Team behind the CFR/Soros/Obama Team, or is it one team?Soros, Fenton, Tides
Fenton Communications was founded in 1982 by David Fenton, an activist who served as a photographer for Bill Ayers' domestic Weather Underground terror group.
Fenton Communications works in conjunction with the Soros-funded Tides Center that funded Adbusters, which was reported to have started the concept of Occupy Wall Street.
Fenton used the Tides Center to set up Environmental Media Services in 1994. Tides reportedly originally ran EMS' daily operations.
David Fenton serves on the board of numerous Tides-funded groups, while his firm represents more than 30 Tides Center grantees, as well as Soros himself and the billionaire's Open Society Institute. Fenton helped to craft Moveon.org's attacks on Gen. David Petraeus.
An example of the close public relations relationship between Fenton and Tides is the Social Venture Network, which was established and operates as a project of the Tides Foundation, while its strategy is represented by Fenton. SVN's board has included Tides' founder Drummond Pike as well as Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink.
Another group, September Eleventh Families For Peaceful Tomorrows, is an antiwar organization founded by individuals who lost loved ones in 9-11 terrorist attacks. The group's campaign was coordinated by Fenton while the group was funded by Tides.
Also represented by Fenton is the Win Without War group, which was funded by Soros and Tides.
WND found more than 30 recent examples of Tides grantees whose strategy was coordinated by Fenton.
Fenton, Obama, Ayers ties
While David Fenton first photographed Ayers in the 1960s, he later served alongside both Ayers and Obama on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago nonprofit which channeled money to a slew of progressive groups, including the Tides Center and the Alinsky-style Midwest Academy training outfit. Obama served as a paid director on the Woods Fund board from 1999 to 2002.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Time to Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty--Again
By John R. Bolton, Dan Blumenthal |
Beware of this Treaty. It contributes to Resident Obama's plan to Weaken the U.S.A. It would be a major coup for him.At issue is China's intensified effort to keep America's military out of its "Exclusive Economic Zone," a LOST invention that affords coastal states control over economic activity in areas beyond their sovereign, 12-mile territorial seas out to 200 miles. Properly read, LOST recognizes exclusive economic zones as international waters, but China is exploiting the treaty's ambiguities to declare "no go" zones in regions where centuries of state practice clearly permit unrestricted maritime activity.
Take the issues of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, both by air and sea. LOST is silent on these subjects in the exclusive zones, so China claims it can regulate (meaning effectively prohibit) all such activity. Beijing also brazenly claims--exploiting Western green sensibilities--that U.S. naval vessels pollute China's exclusive zone, pollution being an activity the treaty permits coastal states to regulate out to 24 miles.
China wants to deny American access to its nearby waters so it can have its way with its neighbors. Beijing is building a network of "anti-access" and "area denial" weapons such as integrated air defenses, submarines, land-based ballistic and cruise missiles, and cyber and anti-satellite systems designed to make it exceedingly hazardous for American ships and aircraft to traverse China's exclusive zone or peripheral seas.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Soros Surfaces On The Edge Of White House Controversy Involving LightSquared | Fox News
Do you smell anything yet?The company is being funded by private equity titan Philip Falcone, the founder of Harbinger Capital Partners, a hedge fund that has counted Soros as a "significant" investor since 2009, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Soros also funds four groups that have lobbied on behalf of LightSquared in regulatory and policy fights.
The Washington Examiner first reported this week that the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, which includes the Soros-funded groups Free Press, Media Access Project, the New America Foundation and Public Knowledge, filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission in April 2010 supporting Harbinger's attempt to become a national player in the wireless industry over the objections of AT&T and Verizon.
VIDEO RELEASE: Who Is Accountable for Fast and Furious?
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Congressional Budget Office - Preliminary Analysis of the President's Budget for 2012
Cheerful data for you Bean Counters provided by the the Cover But Offset Department, also known as The Garbage in Garbage Out Department (Numbers are Right, but Assumptions are not): PDF
As Mike said, until they get rid of Baseline Budgeting I'm not sure we will get accurate presentations. Baseline budgeting allows them to make bad data not look so bad for The Liberal Media, the Spread Sheet Liberals, and the Blame Somebody Else crowd.
Mission Impossible--Can you name one, just one, budgetary responsible Democrat?
Obamacare: Impact on Doctors of Health Care Reform
Can Doctors opt out if they still support Democrats? That is the question now for those that helped put the Libs in office.No class of American professionals will be more negatively impacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act than physicians. Third-party payment arrangements already compromise the independence and integrity of the medical profession; Obamacare will reinforce the worst of these features.
Specifically, physicians will be subject to more government regulation and oversight, and will be increasingly dependent on unreliable government reimbursement for medical services. Doctors, already under tremendous pressure, will only see their jobs become more difficult.
Fannie, Freddie Threaten Taxpayers Again - Investors.com
These aren't on the books. Go Dems Go!The financial threat is substantial. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts our national debt will surge from about $14.8 trillion now to $23 trillion by 2021.
That may be an understatement. Fannie and Freddie, now wards of the state, have an estimated $7.5 trillion in debts. These are carefully kept off the government's books — though, as we've seen, because of "too big to fail," U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for their mistakes.
So instead of $23 trillion you may be shelling out $30 trillion — or more. Remember, the GSEs have already racked up nearly $250 billion in losses, and private estimates say the toll could reach $1 trillion.
Pelosi's disclosure belated in husband's land deal - Washington Times
This is how to become a Speaker from California.
George Soros Controls All Arms & Ammo Makers In The U.S. | Before It's News
Why don't you check this out and see if it is true?The George Soros controlled private equity company Cerberus Capital Management could cut off all gun and ammunition sales in the US. Apparently, the American people are totally unaware that Cerberus has for the past decade acquired nearly every gun and ammunition maker in the United States and consolidated them into a holding company called The Freedom Group.
For the last several years a company called "The Freedom Group" has been buying up American gun and ammunition manufacturers. www.freedom-group.com/
Some of these companies are:
Bushmaster,Marlin,
Remington,
DPMS,
Dakota Arms and
H&R.
DPMS Panther Arms
NEF
Dakota Arms
LC Smith
Parker
AAC
Barnes Bullets
EOTAC
INTC
Some people worry that Freedom Group is going to control most of the firearms companies in the United States. Of course, If you control the manufacturers you can decide not to sell to civilians, or, you can raise the prices to rediculous levels or you can make the supply of guns and ammo scarce - all sorts of logjams.
What a perfect way to control America's guns!
If you do some digging you will see that The Freedom Group is owned by a Wall Street investment company called "Cerberus Capital Management".
Monday, October 10, 2011
Judicial Watch Releases Comprehensive Special Report on President Obama’s 45 Czars | Judicial Watch
Good information from Judicial Watch.The new report is available at Judicial Watch’s website
- Czars appointees have seized unprecedented control over major aspects of government policy and programs. In some instances, unconfirmed czars have authority, in seeming violation of the U.S. Constitution, over certain Senate-confirmed officers.
- A number of the czars have been linked to scandals, thefts and kickbacks, flagrant and offensive statements, conflicts of interest, and radical leftist political ideologies and policies.
“Barack Obama’s unconstitutional use of czars to help run his administration is at odds with republican, limited, and accountable government. Obama has simply installed his radical leftist allies in various positions of power while thumbing his nose at Congress and the American people. As we document in this report, too many of these czars have proven to be corrupt or radicals (or sometimes both). No wonder the Obama administration fights tooth and nail to allow these czars to operate in secret. Nevertheless, Judicial Watch managed to develop this comprehensive list of czars as part of efforts to ensure government accountability.”
Friday, October 7, 2011
EconomicPolicyJournal.com: How Fascism Has Gone Mainstream
Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police State as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive State the unlimited master of society.If it's not Fascism, then what is it?
This describes mainstream politics in America today. And not just in America. It’s true in Europe, too. It is so much part of the mainstream that it is hardly noticed any more.
Holder may have had fingers in 'Fast and Furious' for years
In May 2011, Holder told Congress, "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
But on the video, dated March 24, 2009, some 26 months earlier, David Ogden, deputy attorney general, was talking about Barack Obama's orders to "fight" the Mexican drug cartels, using "Project Gunrunner."
Name one Democrat you can trust!"Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration's comprehensive plan. Those steps include the following: DOJ's Drug Enforcement Administration, which already has the largest U.S. drug enforcement presence in Mexico with 11 offices in that country, is placing 16 new DEA positions in southwest border field positions .., uh, field operations, specifically to target Mexican trafficking and associated violence," he said."The DEA is also deploying four new mobile enforcement teams to specifically target Mexican methamphetamine trafficking both along the border and in U.S. cities impacted by the cartels," he continued.
"DOJ's bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees and three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner, which is aimed at disrupting arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico," he said.
Read more: Holder may have had fingers in 'Fast and Furious' for years http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=352705#ixzz1a6SGgk38
Read more: Holder may have had fingers in 'Fast and Furious' for years http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=352705#ixzz1a6S8hK1P
Read more: Holder may have had fingers in 'Fast and Furious' for years http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=352705#ixzz1a6Roo6ox
President Obama Announces the Creation of a Presidential Emergency Board, Names Members | Before It's News
Check their background by clicking on the title link to see the full article.WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order creating a Presidential Emergency Board to help resolve an ongoing dispute between major freight rail carriers and their unions.
President Obamasaid, “Freight rail is vital to our economy and our future. It’s in our national interest to make sure our freight rail system runs smoothly, since a disruption could affect businesses across the country and cause unnecessary damage to our already-fragile economy. These dedicated individuals have a wealth of experience and talent addressing and resolving labor-management disputes. I’m grateful they have agreed to serve in this capacity, and I trust them to work toward a swift and smooth resolution of these outstanding contracts.”
The Presidential Emergency Board will provide a structure for the two sides to resolve their disagreements. The Presidential Emergency Board will hear evidence and, within 30 days, will deliver a report to the President recommending how the dispute should be resolved.
President Obama also announced that he intends to appoint the following members to Presidential Emergency Board No. 243:
- Ira F. Jaffe – Chair, Presidential Emergency Board No. 243
- Roberta Golick– Member, Presidential Emergency Board No. 243
- Joshua M. Javits– Member, Presidential Emergency Board No. 243
- Gil Vernon– Member, Presidential Emergency Board No. 243
- Arnold M. Zack– Member, Presidential Emergency Board No. 243
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
NATO preps for new war
Now, my liberal friends are going to say it is all George W. Bush’s fault…however, in eight years, President Bush’s biggest annual deficit was $500 billion in 2008.Soros again?
In three years under President Barack Obama, we have had deficits of $1.42 trillion, $1.29 trillion, and an estimated $1.5 trillion for 2011- which ended just a couple days ago.
Yes, big government-spending Republicans started us down this road as we offered tax cuts, but grew the federal government. But any reasonable person must confront the truth that a bad situation has been exacerbated to a level of epic proportions, and that makes me sick and should make most Americans sick as well.
Americans are not soft and we are not a “nation of cowards.” Americans are a proud, hard-working, and resilient people who, through our entrepreneurial spirit and determination, have overcome countless obstacles. We are a nation of victors, not victims, and when we have leadership in America that seeks to empower us through encouragement, not enslave us through regulatory obedience,our greatest days lie ahead, not behind.
Next, I want to bid farewell to two traitors who got their proper punishment, Mr. al-Awlaki and Mr. Samir Khan. There are those, to include a couple of GOP Presidential candidates, who believe these dangerous men should have been brought back to the United States for due process. They did get due process- by way of an American Hellfire missile.
Let me be straightforward, any American who decides to become a non-state, non-uniform belligerent on this 21st Century Battlefield and incite insurrection and death upon Americans from a foreign land, deserves a one way ticket to Hell.
We must send a message to radical Islamic terrorists that an attempt to foment homegrown Jihad in America shall not be tolerated. If we need to change laws, then we in the United States Congress should go about doing so....
DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security
The Obama Regime has even a worse foreign policy than economic policy from the standpoint of the United States of America.By faulting Israel at this late stage for not using its military strength for political gains, is the Obama administration showing impatience with the Netanyahu government for its exaggerated military restraint? In almost three years in power, Netanyahu, Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have managed to avoid a single military campaign for diplomatic ends – an almost unique demonstration of passivity in the annals of Israeli governments.
Are the Americans now saying this was a mistake?Panetta seems to be saying that by not applying Israel's military prowess in the dramatically changing times in the Middle East Israeli leaders failed as statesmen.
debkafile's military sources find three fallacies in the new American position articulated by Leon Panetta:
1. The Netanyahu government took no part in arousing, causing or taking sides in the ongoing Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen.According to the latest military and intelligence evaluations in Washington, eleven months of tumult have not produced the results the US hoped for. The United States – and not just Israel – appears to be increasingly isolated in the Middle East with the resulting curtailment of its leeway for determining events.
2. The Obama administration and Panetta's predecessor Robert Gates not only objected strongly to Israel taking military action to preempt Iran's nuclear program or even its spreading influence across the Middle East up to Israel's very borders and the arming of its surrogates.
Sanctions failedInstead, President Obama repeatedly persuaded Israel to wait patiently for the US and international community to bestir themselves and impose sanctions certain to bring about the Iranian economy to collapse and starve its nuclear program of resources. This was a bad miscalculation because in the event those sanctions failed and the Iranian economy, along with its nuclear weapons program, is thriving.
But meanwhile Washington held Israel firmly back from "projecting its military strength."
3. Like most of the West, Israel praised the "Arab Spring" which claimed to be dedicated to bringing democracy to the Arab world. Israel - even more than the US - should have known better.
By tacitly approving Hosni Mubarak's overthrow as Egyptian president, the Netanyahu government erred badly. It is more than likely that by taking a stand against the revolt, like Saudi Arabia, Israel would have won more respect from the Egyptian military led by Field Marshal Mohammed Tantawi who took his place, in consideration of its military strength.
But Israel could on no account afford to sit on its military hands when Sinai veered out of Egyptian control and the pipeline carrying natural gas to Israel was sabotaged six times by terrorists.
This passivity allowed the strategic Sinai peninsula to become the hub of Islamist terrorists dedicated to fighting Israel and be used as the highway for Libyan arms, including anti-air missiles, to be smuggled into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and other unruly Middle East destinations.
But they are as good as you can get at corruption, destruction, and obstruction when it comes to America.