Neo-Nazi complains about Ron Paul's denial of ties to white supremacists

Thomas Lifson
American Thinker has extensively covered the troubling links between Ron Paul's campaign and neo-Nazis. For our trouble we were blasted by some critics, and subjected to a torrent of abusive letters from Ron Paul supporters.

But now, an apparently genuine Neo-Nazi, Bill White, Commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party is fed up with the campaign's mild distancing and disavowal, and claims on a neo-Nazi website, the Vanguard News Network, that he has attended meetings with Paul at both a Thai restaurant in Arlington, and in his official office.

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has assembled  links to corroborating evidence

Comrades:

I have kept quiet about the Ron Paul campaign for a while, because I didn't see any need to say anything that would cause any trouble. However, reading the latest release from his campaign spokesman, I am compelled to tell the truth about Ron Paul's extensive involvement in white nationalism.

Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. This is part of a dinner that was originally organized by Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran, and has since been mostly taken over by the Council of Conservative Citizens.

I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.

For his spokesman to call white racialism a "small ideology" and claim white activists are "wasting their money" trying to influence Paul is ridiculous. Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position.

I don't know that it is necessarily good for Paul to "expose" this. However, he really is someone with extensive ties to white nationalism and for him to deny that in the belief he will be more respectable by denying it is outrageous - and I hate seeing people in the press who denounce racialism merely because they think it is not fashionable.

Bill White, Commander
American National Socialist Workers Party

In his address, which he read in Arabic and English, Sabbah said Israel should abandon its Jewish character in favor of a "political, normal state for Christians, Muslims and Jews."

Israel says Hezbollah can hit Tel Aviv (and apparently the UN can't disagree)

By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 31, 8:16 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS - Israel alleges that Hezbollah militants in Lebanon have rearmed with new long-range rockets capable of hitting Tel Aviv and tripled their arsenal of land-to-sea missiles since last summer's war, the United Nations secretary-general said in a report Wednesday.

Ban Ki-Moon said the reports of Hezbollah's rearming are a cause of great concern for the stability of Lebanon.

"Israel has stated that the nature and number of weapons in Hezbollah's control constitutes a strategic threat to its security and the safety of its citizens," he said.

Israel claims Hezbollah's long-range rocket force is stationed in areas north of the Litani River and that most of the new rockets, including hundreds of Zilzal and Fajr generation rockets, have a range of 155 miles, "enabling them to reach Tel Aviv and points further south," the report said.

"Israel also claims that Hezbollah has tripled its shore-to-sea C-802 missiles and have established an air defense unit armed with ground-to-air missiles," Ban said.

While Israel has not provided the United Nations with specific intelligence due to the sensitivity of the sources, Ban said several speeches by Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah in the past few months "seem to confirm these Israeli claims."

Human race will 'split into two different species
By NIALL FIRTH - More by this author » Last updated at 16:18pm on 26th October 2007
The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.

100,000 years into the future, sexual selection could mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.

The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.

No doubt they are the Eloi and the Morlocks

And we then degenerate into TRUE stupidity for this "Bravo Evolution Report" from the London School of Economics (RU KIDDING ME?)

These humans will be between 6ft and 7ft tall and they will live up to 120 years.

"Physical features will be driven by indicators of health, youth and fertility that men and women have evolved to look for in potential mates," says the report, which suggests that advances in cosmetic surgery and other body modifying techniques will effectively homogenise our appearance.

Men will have symmetrical facial features, deeper voices and bigger penises, according to Curry in a report commissioned for men's satellite TV channel Bravo.

Women will all have glossy hair, smooth hairless skin, large eyes and pert breasts, according to Curry.

I sincerely hope that this study did not cost more than $3.95

US might delay missile defense sites

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The United States might delay activating its proposed missile defense sites in EuropeDefense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday, until it has "definitive proof" of a missile threat from Iran,

At a news conference after meeting Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, Gates said this was a proposal to the Russians — who strongly oppose U.S. missile defense — that has yet to be worked out in detail.
"We would consider tying together activation of the sites in Poland and the Czech Republic with definitive proof of the threat — in other words, Iranian missile testing and so on," Gates said with Topolanek at his side.

LIKE THIS?




or maybe ....

Call it the anti-Guantánamo. Young Saudis are captured in Iraq waging jihad against the American infidels. But instead of being shipped off to a bleak detention camp in Cuba, they are dispatched to a cozy chalet an hour outside the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Technically it's a detention center, but no one is forced to wear an orange jumpsuit or a blindfold. And far from being condemned to solitary confinement, its occupants are free to roam the landscaped courtyard and play Ping-Pong, volleyball and video games.

Welcome to the Care Rehabilitation Center, part of a three-year-old experiment to reform malleable minds who have fallen under the sway of Osama bin Laden's radical brand of Islam. To get here, jihadis have to demonstrate during a prison interview a readiness to rethink their extremist views. (About 20% of the 1,875 holy warriors invited to participate have refused.) The program, developed by a team of Islamic scholars, psychiatrists and sociologists, tries to convince these men of their mistakes and make them productive members of Saudi society, which has been rocked by terrorism: al-Qaeda attacks have killed 144 people there over the past four years. By not treating the detainees as criminals, the center seeks to avoid reinforcing their radicalism and turning them into role models for more jihadis.

Hey, maybe it's a 12 step program ..and they have to ask forgiveness from Deborah Burlingame

Although the perimeter is guarded by police, the facility feels like a country club or college campus. Detainees have lots of downtime and soda pop. They spend their days in vocational training, psychological counseling and classroom lectures, most of which are given by religious scholars from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, including the center's director, Sheik Ahmed Hamid Jelan. He walks the detainees through religious texts on jihad--a theological minefield, considering that while the Saudi government forbids fighting in Iraq, it once recruited young Saudis like bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. The basic difference, Jelan explains to his charges, is that fighting the Soviets served the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world, while struggling against the U.S. in Iraq does not. "We answer all the questions about al-Qaeda concepts by referring to the Koran and the message of Islam," says Jelan. "We have dialogue. They become convinced."

Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote

By CARL HULSE NY Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 — Worried about antagonizing Turkish leaders, House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution supported by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago.

Almost a dozen lawmakers had shifted against the measure over the last 24 hours, accelerating a sudden exodus that has cast deep doubt over the measure’s prospects. Some representatives made clear that they were heeding warnings from the White House, which has called the measure dangerously provocative, and from the Turkish government, which has said House passage would prompt Turkey to reconsider its ties to the United States, including logistical support for the Iraq war.

Until today, the resolution appeared to be on a path to House passage, with strong support from the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California. It was approved last week by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. But this evening, a group of group of senior House Democrats had made it known they were planning to ask the leadership to drop plans for a vote on the measure.

“Turkey obviously feels they are getting poked in the eye over something that happened a century ago, and maybe this isn’t a good time to be doing that,” said Representative Allen Boyd, a Florida Democrat who dropped his sponsorship of the resolution Monday night. .

Others who took the same action said that while they deplored the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, beginning in 1915, the modern-day consequences in the Middle East could not be overlooked.

“We simply cannot allow the grievances of the past — as real as they may be — to in any way derail our efforts to prevent further atrocities for future history books,” said Representative Wally Herger, Republican of California.

“I think it is a good resolution and horrible timing,” said Representative Mike Ross, Democrat of Arkansas.

Turkish General Issues Warning on Bill

Oct 14 10:27 PM US/Eastern By C. ONUR ANT Associated Press Writer

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.

Turkey, which is a major cargo hub for U.S. and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations and warned that there might be a cut in the logistical support to the U.S. over the issue.

"If this resolution passed in the committee passes the House as well, our military ties with the U.S. will never be the same again," Gen. Yasar Buyukanit told the daily Milliyet newspaper.

Despite the general's strong words, it is not clear how far Turkey will go to express its dismay to Washington.

Turkey suspended its military ties with France last year after the French parliament's lower house adopted a bill that that would have made it a crime to deny that the Armenian killings constituted a genocide.

But there is more at stake for NATO's only Muslim member when it comes to its relations with the U.S. The Turkish military, and especially the air force, is heavily dependent on the American defense industry, experts say.

Still, when Washington imposed an arms embargo against Turkey in 1975 due to a dispute over Cyprus, Turkey ended all its logistical support to U.S. troops and sharing of intelligence until the embargo was lifted, said Onur Oymen, the country's former permanent representative to NATO.

Lobbying for an enhanced U.S. defense relationship with Israel keeps getting tougher.

Conservatives and national security advocates understand the need for a reliable and democratic ally in the Middle East. But the Israel of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, which has been promoting a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank, is becoming more difficult to promote in the Bush administration and Congress because of the weakness of and divisions within the Jewish state.

"You have leading Israelis tied to the Olmert government actually sabotaging efforts to promote a strong Israel in Washington," a pro-Israel Christian activist said. "It's clear that Olmert has a different agenda than previous Israeli leaders."

Indeed, Olmert has been more comfortable with the anti-Israeli Jewish lobby than with the traditional groups such as the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.

Akiva Eldar, a confidante of the Olmert government and political commentator for Israel's Haaretz daily, was invited by the anti-Israel Americans for Peace Now to attack the Bush administration policy in the Middle East. In an address last week, Eldar sounded like the most vicious of anti-Semites who peddle the canard that Jews own America.

Eldar????

Haaretz Editor Says "The Settlers" Control Israel Lobby

 
by Ezra HaLevi

(IsraelNN.com) For the second time in the course of four weeks, a senior editor of ultra-leftist Haaretz has openly given voice to his radical agenda.

This time it was Akiva Eldar, the paper's senior political editor, who endorsed the recently published book "The Israel Lobby," which alleges that a powerful network of lobby groups and Jewish organizations induce the US to pursue policies that are against its best interests.

The Oxford Research Group said that any U.S.-British war with Iran would plunge the Middle East into violence. A report by the think tank concluded any U.S. air strike would invite Islamic retaliation against Western interests throughout the region.

"Going to war with Iran will make matters far worse, playing directly into the hands of extreme elements and adding greatly to the violence across the region," the report, released on Monday, said. "Whatever the problems with Iran, war should be avoided at all costs."

The report was released as the British government was said to be discussing war options against Teheran with the United States. British media reports said Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged that the British military would help Washington in any attempt to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program.

The Oxford Research Group urged a reassessment of the Western military strategy against Islamic adversaries. The report said the war against Al Qaida and its allies was failing and called for a Western withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq.

"If the Al Qaida movement is to be countered, then the roots of its support must be understood and

systematically undercut," said Paul Rogers, the report's author and professor of global peace studies at Bradford University in northern England. "Combined with conventional policing and security measures, Al Qaida can be contained and minimised but this will require a change in policy at every level."

Entitled "Alternatives to the War on Terror," the think tank said Iran and its ally Syria must be wooed by the West through diplomacy. Rogers said Islamic insurgency groups in Afganistan should be granted aid in an attempt to turn them into political partners.

"Failure to make the necessary changes could result in the war on terror lasting decades," the report said.

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US President George W. Bush's administration tortures detainees in defiance of international law, former US president Jimmy Carter charged Wednesday.

"I don't think it, I know it, certainly," Carter told CNN television when asked if he believed the US administration allowed the use of torture.

Carter rejected Bush's statement last week that the United States does not torture terror suspects.

"That's not an accurate statement, if you use the international norms of torture as has always been honored, certainly in the last 60 years, since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated," Carter said in the interview.

Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 9, 2007; A01

A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden

video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.

Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.

The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.

If a democratic administration was responsible for this kind of leak, or Dick Durbin's office (for instance), cries of TREASON would fill the air.

"Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless," said Rita Katz, the firm's 44-year-old founder, who has garnered wide attention by publicizing statements and videos from extremist chat rooms and Web sites, while attracting controversy over the secrecy of SITE's methodology. Her firm provides intelligence about terrorist groups to a wide range of paying clients, including private firms and military and intelligence agencies from the United States and several other countries.

The precise source of the leak remains unknown. Government officials declined to be interviewed about the circumstances on the record, but they did not challenge Katz's version of events. They also said the incident had no effect on U.S. intelligence-gathering efforts and did not diminish the government's ability to anticipate attacks.

While acknowledging that SITE had achieved success, the officials said U.S. agencies have their own sophisticated means of watching al-Qaeda on the Web. "We have individuals in the right places dealing with all these issues, across all 16 intelligence agencies," said Ross Feinstein, spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

You just have VERY LIMITED CREDIBILITY on this, don't you get it, admin? Hasn't the experience over the 'immigration' issue demonstrated this to you?

But privately, some intelligence officials called the incident regrettable, and one official said SITE had been "tremendously helpful" in ferreting out al-Qaeda secrets over time.

The al-Qaeda video aired on Sept. 7 attracted international attention as the first new video message from the group's leader in three years. In it, a dark-bearded bin Laden urges Americans to convert to Islam and predicts failure for the Bush administration in Iraq and Afghanistan. The video was aired on hundreds of Western news Web sites nearly a full day before its release by a distribution company linked to al-Qaeda.

Computer logs and records reviewed by The Washington Post support SITE's claim that it snatched the video from al-Qaeda days beforehand. Katz requested that the precise date and details of the acquisition not be made public, saying such disclosures could reveal sensitive details about the company's methods.

SITE -- an acronym for the Search for International Terrorist Entities -- was established in 2002 with the stated goal of tracking and exposing terrorist groups, according to the company's Web site. Katz, an Iraqi-born Israeli citizen whose father was executed by Saddam Hussein in the 1960s, has made the investigation of terrorist groups a passionate quest.

"We were able to establish sources that provided us with unique and important information into al-Qaeda's hidden world," Katz said. Her company's income is drawn from subscriber fees and contracts.

Katz said she decided to offer an advance copy of the bin Laden video to the White House without charge so officials there could prepare for its eventual release.

She spoke first with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, whom she had previously met, and then with Joel Bagnal, deputy assistant to the president for homeland security. Both expressed interest in obtaining a copy, and Bagnal suggested that she send a copy to Michael Leiter, who holds the No. 2 job at the National Counterterrorism Center.

Administration and intelligence officials would not comment on whether they had obtained the video separately. Katz said Fielding and Bagnal made it clear to her that the White House did not possess a copy at the time she offered hers.

Around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, Katz sent both Leiter and Fielding an e-mail with a link to a private SITE Web page containing the video and an English transcript. "Please understand the necessity for secrecy," Katz wrote in her e-mail. "We ask you not to distribute . . . [as] it could harm our investigations."

Fielding replied with an e-mail expressing gratitude to Katz. "It is you who deserves the thanks," he wrote, according to a copy of the message. There was no record of a response from Leiter or the national intelligence director's office.

Exactly what happened next is unclear. But within minutes of Katz's e-mail to the White House, government-registered computers began downloading the video from SITE's server, according to a log of file transfers. The records show dozens of downloads over the next three hours from computers with addresses registered to defense and intelligence agencies.

By midafternoon, several television news networks reported obtaining copies of the transcript. A copy posted around 3 p.m. on Fox News's Web site referred to SITE and included page markers identical to those used by the group. "This confirms that the U.S. government was responsible for the leak of this document," Katz wrote in an e-mail to Leiter at 5 p.m.

Al-Qaeda supporters, now alerted to the intrusion into their secret network, put up new obstacles that prevented SITE from gaining the kind of access it had obtained in the past, according to Katz.

A small number of private intelligence companies compete with SITE in scouring terrorists' networks for information and messages, and some have questioned the company's motives and methods, including the claim that its access to al-Qaeda's network was unique. One competitor, Ben Venzke, founder of IntelCenter, said he questions SITE's decision -- as described by Katz -- to offer the video to White House policymakers rather than quietly share it with intelligence analysts.

"It is not just about getting the video first," Venzke said. "It is about having the proper methods and procedures in place to make sure that the appropriate intelligence gets to where it needs to go in the intelligence community and elsewhere in order to support ongoing counterterrorism operations."

As hideously predicted, the Moveon ad, which btw is no overreach, but represents the heart and soul of what they consider their better morality, and are burning to tell us all they really feel, has generated no negative response from ANY of the Harry Reid-ite, I'm bending over for you, simpering, fear struck, and terrorized Democratic candidates when one is CLEARLY called for. Even Ms Hill.

Hillary Clinton has ruled herself out for me, and she had the benefit of the doubt on foreign affairs side of things from me. But shockingly, Rudy has struck home with a point.

If Hillary (or any of them) cannot stand up to Moveon, who will they stand up for when it's not just critical, but civilizationally unredeemable if you don't.

How fast will they wither for the support of the morally unravelled western european govts and their soft power, and the snickering smiles of the oil nations? How fast will they justify the credo of Hassan Abbasi of Iran, who advises the mullahs?

So I have a small thought, from another western european...

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing! Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" 

It took the national democrats less than a year to get me to feel this way. Despite all the stunning incompetence (beginning with the lack of holding people accountable at Tora-Bora), and misplaced loyalty to friends of the Bush admin (too big a list for here), I have more confidence in them, than in you, democrats.

The lot of you look and are craven before a bunch of arrogant, morally superior, holier than thou, cultural shouters, with some money and campaign workers. How will you fare against the arrogant, morally superior, holier than thou, cultural shouters with allegiance to the ascendant forms of Islamism, whose beliefs give them permission to kill your people unless you accede to their words and deeds?

This, 'misperformance', with Moveon has, very unfortunately, provided the answer.

U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich: The U.S. Must Pay Reparations to the People of Iraq

WORSE IN BLACK AND WHITE THAN THE ORIGINAL STORY

"It was a meeting where President Assad showed a real desire to play a role in helping to create a peaceful settlement of the conditions in Iraq, as well as a grander approach towards creating peace. So it was a very important meeting, and I felt honored to have the chance to speak with him."

We need to see that there is honest reconstruction in Iraq, no Halliburton dishonest cheating of the people of Iraq and the people of the United States – the taxpayers.

The truth is that we have to reach out to the world to get help

The fact of the matter is we are all being weakened by continuing a war that's based on a lie

It is an extraordinary gesture on the part of the Syrian government that they would provide an opportunity for people to save their lives. And so this is something that I think needs to be recognized. And it also shows that here is a man, President Assad, who should be respected and appreciated for the role that he has played.

We also must pay reparations to the people of Iraq 

RAMSAY CLARK, GEORGE GALLOWAY, NOAM CHOMSKY, and a democratic candidate for president. Think the other will rebuke him for what MOVEON (Money $trings) really thinks?

And in SYRIA!

Well.... 

 

 

 

"Look, I know from experience that there's no such thing as a military solution to a situation like this, and no amount of "metrics" can create one"

 

This is what happens when you turn your back and they all turn into 'jenjis kong'.

John do yourself a favor, go have lunch with dhimmi Carter and both of you concentrate on not embarrassing the democratic party, the nation and your 12 step recovery groups, whatever they may be. 

To my knowledge, no one has reported anything officially. Except Katie Couric.

So sit down and stfu 

It used to be interesting as to whether those who followed the romanticized idea of Fukuyama (history as we knew its cycles, ended) were correct, or the seemingly 'warmongers' who believed that Samuel Huntington was probably on the right track were correct.

Now it seems thats unless a nation is military defeated in the way that Germany and Japan were defeated, FLAT ON THEIR BACKS, and unable to perform the most basic tasks, except for intercession of the victor, the situation is actually WORSE than Huntington portrayed it. There exists both a world wide religious war of civlizational dimension, and the same national rivalries which lead to massive wars in the past. To this we can add insane strategic weapon sales to aggressive players in the religious war by one rival.

As you read this remember, that last new strategic ballistic missile deployed by the USA occurred in 1986, and it's been almost completely retired. We now retain about 50 strategic missiles of this kind. We also have launched NO NEW NUCLEAR BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBS, or deployed new missiles for them.

RUSSIA: "This year we will continue test and combat-training launches of new types of warheads for the Topol-M and Bulava sea-launched missile complexes"

The Topol is a newly deployed, BRAND NEW, mobile ICBM.

The Bulava is a missile for a brand new YET TO BE DEPLOYED SSBM missile submarine fleet.

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Strategic Missile Forces will conduct more tests of new warheads for its intercontinental ballistic missiles later this year, the SMF commander said Saturday.

"This year we will continue test and combat-training launches of new types of warheads for the Topol-M and Bulava sea-launched missile complexes," Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said.

He said previously a second missile battalion, equipped with advanced Topol-M (SS-27) road-mobile ICBMs, will be put on combat duty before the end of the year and that the deployment of silo-based Topol-M systems in the Saratov Region and road-mobile systems in the Ivanovo Region (central Russia) would be completed in 2010.

As of December 2006, the Strategic Missile Forces operated 44 silo-based and three mobile missile systems.

The commander said the Topol-M system will be equipped with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) in the next two or three years, adding that the new system would help penetrate missile defenses more effectively.

Did someone say FAMILY VALUES? What a joke they all are! 

GOP Senator Pleaded Guilty After Restroom Arrest
Idaho's Craig Denies 'Inappropriate Conduct,' Says He Regrets Entering Plea

By Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer and Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 28, 2007; A01

Sen. Larry E. Craig pleaded guilty earlier this month to misdemeanor disorderly-conduct charges stemming from his June arrest by an undercover police officer in a men's restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, a court spokeswoman and the senator's office said yesterday.

Craig issued a statement confirming his arrest and guilty plea, which were reported in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. But the Idaho Republican maintained that he had not engaged in any "inappropriate conduct" and that the airport police misunderstood his behavior.

"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions. I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct," Craig said. "I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."

Now in his third term, Craig, 62, has been a member of the Senate Republican leadership and ran unsuccessfully in 2002 to become the GOP whip, the No. 2 leadership job. He has been a prominent figure on gun rights and Western land issues, and he resigned yesterday as Idaho chairman of the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R).

Craig "did not want to be a distraction," said Romney spokesman Matt Rhoades, "and we accept his decision."

Roll Call, citing a copy of a report by airport police, said officers had been conducting a sting operation inside the men's room because of complaints of sexual activity there. The police report gives this account of the arrest:

In a galactically stupid, venal and venomous editorial this morning, the NY Times said this:

The problem is not Mr. Maliki’s narrow-mindedness or incompetence. He is the logical product of the system the United States created, one that deliberately empowered the long-persecuted Shiite majority and deliberately marginalized the long-dominant Sunni Arab minority.

If the NY Times can imagine a way that a minority in the United States comprising about 20-25% of the population could outvote the majority and call it just, proper and wise, I'd like to hear it.

But because the vote was granted in Iraq by the force of arms of the USA, and under a republican, no matter that their post victory tactical policies were remarkably stupid, the Times cannot HELP THEMSELVES but blame the FACT of a Shia majority in another nation on Bush.

We make not LIKE what Maliki is doing, but Maliki was chosen by others just as Chirac was chosen. That this fairly elected government in fact IS enabling Shia dominated sectarian violence may be our problem, but it is not our fault.

That nation must find IT'S way to nationhood or, like India and Pakistan do what must be done, but in the end, that MUST be up to them.

The Times then warps history ...

The real lesson of Vietnam for Iraq is clear enough. America lost that war because a succession of changes in South Vietnamese leadership, many of them inspired by Washington, never produced an effective government in Saigon. None of those changes, beginning with the American-sponsored coup that led to the murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, changed the underlying reality of a South Vietnamese government and army that never won the loyalty and support of large sections of the Vietnamese population.

The short-term sequels of American withdrawal from Indochina were brutal, as the immediate sequels of America’s withdrawal from Iraq will surely be. But the American people rightly concluded that with no way to win a military victory, there could be no justification for allowing thousands more United States troops to die in Vietnam.

We'll never know that since Congress, with NO AMERICAN FIGHTING IN VIETNAM cut off all aid to South Vietnam, AFTER AMERICAN COMBAT FORCES WENT HOME.

ALL AID. 

The NY Times well understands the REAL ISSUE.

A repeat of the scene at 22 Gia Long Street in April 1975, will mean a generation of Republican dominance AGAIN.

Fatah Militant: U.S. Training Was Key to Intifada's Success

By AARON KLEIN
Special to the Sun
August 21, 2007 posted 12:36 pm EDT

RAMALLAH -- American-run programs that train Fatah militias were instrumental in the "success" of the Palestinian intifada that began in 2000, a senior Fatah militant told The New York Sun.

"I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than one thousand Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings," a senior officer of President Abbas's Force 17 Presidential Guard unit, Abu Yousuf, said.

America has longstanding training programs at a base in the West Bank city of Jericho for members of Force 17, which serves as de facto police units in the West Bank, and for another major Fatah security force, the Preventative Security Services

Someone remind me, why are we training FATAH?

"Harmless to our enemies and treacherous to our friends" - Bernard Lewis

Whatever you say, moron. DO IT. PLEEEEEEEEZE !

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Iraq's prime minister lashed out at American criticism, saying Wednesday that no one has a right to put timetables on his elected government.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the U.S. presidential campaign for the recent tough words from the Bush administration and from other American politicians.

"No one has the right to place timetables on the Iraq government. It was elected by its people," he said at a news conference in Damascus at the end of a three-day visit to Syria.

"Those who make such statements are bothered by our visit to Syria. We will pay no attention. We care for our people and our constitution and can find friends elsewhere," al-Maliki said.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said Monday that al-Maliki should be ousted and replaced with a less sectarian leader.

In addition, both President Bush and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on Tuesday voiced frustration and disappointment with the al-Maliki government.

The harsh exchange erupted just a few weeks before Crocker and the U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, are to report to Congress on the success of the latest military campaign to reduce violence in Iraq, and the Iraqi government's progress in achieving political reconciliation.

Without naming any American official, al-Maliki said some of the criticism of him and his government was "discourteous."

Presidential aides hinted yesterday that Russia could shortly resume the production of Tu-160 and Tu-95 strategic nuclear bombers, now that the aircraft are again flying "combat missions".

The TU-95, which at the end of the Cold war was used for long range patrolling, MAYBE electronic surveillance and intelligence, can have but one path to success as a strategic bomber... if the USA is already without any kind of protection aloft, and they can fly around like bunch of SPAD's. The TU-95 flew in 1954. It has fantastic range, but WTF?

Maybe we should be happy they are prepared to waste resources on this.

They can carry a stand off missile, but they are not exactly stelthy enough to get within range, EVEN OF CARRIER TASK FORCES (8 contra rotating propellors), having been designed about 1951 before anyone even THOUGHT about that in operational aircraft as a function in design. 

This must be a step taken as a symbol. But a symbol of what? Are they trying to provoke the USA in to a resource draining war? Are they so CONFIDENT they have taken our measure in their seminal economic oil-gas resource 'war' with europe, and our own resource weaknesses long term as a POEPLE to begin this?

The Islamists, Russia, China, morons like Chavez....against a somewhat declining, sometime seeminlgy spiritless europe, an isolated Israel attacked over and over demographically, culturally, and religously, poltically amongst its 'allies', and ACTUALLY, and a nearly solitary USA, successfuly portrayed as nearly a rogue cowboy as a result of others attacking it.

So WHERE IS MY HYDROGEN CAR? 

What is the plan? Must we defend those who are strategically NOT WITH US except somewhat for the immediate family because they own a gas station?

NYT:“The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” is not even in bookstores, but already anxieties have surfaced about the backlash it is stirring, with several institutions backing away from holding events with the authors.

Now, I have not yet read the book, but I have read their Harvard/Kennedy School of Govt report, in a detailed fashion several times. The book is based on these ideas, what they claim to be facts, and conclusion.

I will make my OBSERVATIONS again.

The Israel Lobby is the Protocols of Zion, Diet Version. 

The very kernel of their 'thesis' is a conclusion they make based on these items:

1. AIPAC (American Israel Poltical Affairs Committee), which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress. (page 19)
2. That power derives in part from the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections. Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates “depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money.”76 (page 19)
3. On the media… they just take a section in order to assert jews are successful ….Manipulating the Media (page 21)
   

Conclusion?

Jews are powerful, rich, and manipulate the media, and btw, do it all against the interests of the USA and for the interest of Israel.

Just substitute the idea of the USA for the world, and we have the Protocols of Zion. 

This is the basic, unvarnished, deconstructed assertion of this paper.

U.S. still selling banner F-14 parts sought by Iran

GERTZ : WASHINGTON — The Defense Department sold 1,400 F-14 spare parts in 2007 despite a ban on such transactions, according to a GAO report.

The Pentagon sold the parts in February in wake of its announcement of a suspension of any transfer of F-14 components.

"One country with operational F-14s, Iran, is known to be seeking these parts," Greg Kutz, managing director of special investigations for the Government Accountability Office, said. "If such parts were publicly available, it could jeopardize national security."

On Aug. 1, GAO released a report that disclosed continuing Pentagon sales of F-14 components. The Pentagon decision in January 2007 to block F-14 spare parts sales took place amid intelligence information that Iran was seeking to overhaul its F-14 fleet. The Iranian fleet was procured from the United States more than 30 years ago.

The report cited the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, the Pentagon's surplus sales division, as responsible for the sale of F-14 spare parts. DRMS was said to have failed to update an automated control list and remove F-14 aircraft parts listed on the agency's Internet sales site.

The disclosure of the F-14 spare parts sale has alarmed members of Congress. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has won House approval for legislation that would suspend sales of all F-14 parts. The bill has been pending in the Senate.

I only hope we charged as much as THESE GUYS 

I keep saying it, I will keep on saying it, dedicated religious racist murderers with heartfelt social programs and education, and a firm beleif they are doing god's work, will utterly defeat mafioso racist murderers who would rather operate a spoils system and shop in Paris EVERY SINGLE TIME, and the mafioso should receive NO SUPPORT. The idea that they can be 'negotiatied with' besides being a delusion should pale beside the fairly OBVIOUS outcome of a protracted battle between the two.

GERTZ : Hamas winning the intelligence war with Fatah in the West Bank

TEL AVIV — Hamas has been fighting a silent war with the ruling Fatah movement in the West Bank.

Israeli intelligence sources said Hamas has formed an underground force that was assaulting Fatah officials and their installations in the West Bank. The sources said Hamas has been targeting the homes and offices of Fatah politicians and commanders.

"Hamas has been on the offensive and Fatah is on the defensive," a senior intelligence source said. "Fatah is showing the same signs of fatigue that we saw in early 2007 in the Gaza Strip."

 

Let me posit a reason(s) - besides knowing in their heart FATAH is simply a corruptocracy with roots in the 19th and early 20th century's stupidities, some of the footsoldiers of FATAH have great sympathy for the religious fervor and real feeling of HAMAS's genocidal killers, who actually are sincere in the desire to see Islam supreme as both the means and the end, and will acutally KILL the jews if they can, something near and dear to all their hearts.

The sources said the Hamas campaign has continued despite the arrest of some 300 Hamas operatives by forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The detained Hamas operatives were deemed low-level who enabled Hamas commanders to go underground.

I don't think I stand second to anyone in demanding that a set of secure borders exist.

But you just have to watch out WHO is in the parade along with you.... now the SPLC is one of the oldest and best anti-segregation, anti racism orgs in the USA, and played a key role in KILLING aryan nation. They have regarded the border battle as one of racism and I have criticized them for this, both here and to them directly (I have contributed there, and WILL) 

However....PAY ATTENTION MINUTEMEN ..

San Diego Minutemen Linked to White Supremacists

San Diego’s KPBS-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate, aired a story Aug. 2 detailing the links between the white supremacist activities of two high-profile supporters of the San Diego Minutemen, a nativist extremist group whose bellicose tactics and internal feuding are detailed in the current issue of the Intelligence Report.

The KPBS story revealed that San Diego Minutemen activist Ray Carney worked for 11 years as a computer expert for White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi hate group lead by Tom Metzger. The story also quotes Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok describing the white supremacist tattoos and symbols featured on a MySpace page belonging to Steven Shine, another frequent participant in San Diego Minutemen protests.

Our favorite moment in the KPBS story has Shine being interviewed by the station’s reporter “while restraining a pit-bull at a north county canyon where local Minutemen rallied to evict migrants from outdoor camps.”

Shine took down his MySpace page shortly after the Intelligence Report story came out. But we captured it for our archives before it vanished.

It's nice when the venal, self centered, solipsoid, wrong headed turn out to be SO TRULY STUPID they end up congratulating racists. Trent Lott's people should be ALL OVER THIS ONE.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Sean Penn applauded President Hugo Chavez as the Venezuelan leader lambasted the Bush administration and demanded an end to war in Iraq.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a U.S. Jewish rights group, has accused Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez of making "anti-Semitic declarations" in a televised Christmas Eve speech.

According to a transcript, Chavez said "the world has enough for all, but it turned out that some minorities, descendants of those who crucified Christ, descendants of those who threw Bolivar out of here and also crucified him in their own way in Santa Marta, there in Colombia, a minority took the world's riches for themselves."

Chavez met privately with the 46-year-old actor for two hours Thursday, praising him as being "brave" for urging Americans to impeach President Bush.

"In the name of the peoples of the world, President Bush, withdraw the troops from Iraq. Enough already with so much genocide," Chavez said before an auditorium packed with his red-clad supporters.

The Chavez Regime: Fostering Anti-Semitism and Supporting Radical Islam Introduction

This report details a number of troubling trends observable in the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Chavez and his government-affiliated institutions have elevated their anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic rhetoric – under the guise of anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism – to dangerous new levels.

At the same time, a proliferation of anti-Jewish statements and actions by government officials, university faculty and government-sponsored media outlets has created a spillover effect into mainstream society in Venezuela, where anti-Israel rallies, anti-Semitic vandalism and vicious anti-Jewish caricatures have become all-too commonplace.

This is taking place as Chavez has taken an aggressively hostile foreign policy stance against America and the West and, by extension, the State of Israel. 

Schumer to fight ALL/ANY new Bush high court picks

New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.”

“We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Schumer told the American Constitution Society convention in Washington. “The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”

Now, though I favored many of decisions made by the courts of the late 40's to the late 60's, I wonder what Chucky would have said if Everett Dirksen had said all that about the decisions of Earl Warren, William O Douglas, Robert Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, and Arthur Goldberg and others ... who served at the appointments of liberal (now neocon) presidents of the USA chosen by the people of the USA over LENGTHY periods of time.

By stating that the court is dangerously our of balance, Schumer has stated the US people are dangerously unbalanced, and that we have been in electing those men whose chose those justices over a VERY long time.

Do any of these people realize how they sound? 

After a heart attack, it's a risk every time I read the man's words. Responsible editors need to recognize this threat to me and eliminate his words permanently as a risk to a small, endangered minority, in a rural area.

From (MODERATE?) MUSLIMS SPEAK OUT : 

One of the most important things for all people to remember in these difficult times is that there are more compatibilities than differences among the major religions – at least concerning treatment of one another as individuals.

Gulp, sure all the jews and christians and hindus and buddhists claim their treatment of others are the result of the revealed, perfect immutable words of God. 

In some Islamic societies, women are relegated by official religious laws to subservient positions in society where they must remain veiled, cannot operate an automobile or compete with men for a job, and often receive inferior if any education. In other more secular nations of the same faith, all of these restrictions are absent.

You mean like Pakistan where the MMA now wins every election by landslides on a RELIGIOUS basis?

Within predominantly Christian societies, civil laws usually provide for equal treatment of women, while religious organizations are often the primary source of discrimination, which provides a justification for similar inequities within the secular world.

Surprise ! While I am no admirer of James Dobson (to say the least) I have to admit that it's news to me that christian wives are relegated to "similar inequities" to license-less, chador and burqqa clad ladies not allowed out without suitable male guardianship from the consciousless walking penises crowding the streets.

Why does this stupid, naive, dangerous, and foolish man vex me so ... I feel like Ahab, charging the 1st mate to go on ..'BECAuSE HE TASKS ME STARRBUCK, HE TASKS ME....'

Jimmy Carter has NO PLACE at this table.

Build HOMES, Jimmy, You are meant for that fulfillment and are supreme at it. We NEED you to help people in that way. BUILD HOMES!

It's true I never actually blog about Clinton, but Curmudgeonly makes it too, too easy.

Esperanza Brooks bragged about her discreet girls and high-end clientele.

But the cheerleading coach turned moonlighting madame name-dropped to the wrong people and landed in jail last week.

Las Vegas police arrested Brooks, 36, and four associates last week after a two-week investigation into the local prostitution ring. The investigation started when a tipster told detectives about a cheerleading coach at Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy who might be running a prostitution service.

When an undercover detective called Brooks, she said her girls were clean and only serviced upscale clients, a police report said. She later boasted that she had more than 40 women working for her and that her clients ranged from basketball star Shaquille O'Neal to a former president, according to the report.
           
"These are not your average girls. Some of them have worked with Bill Clinton," Brooks told an undercover officer, according to the report.

Police don't have any information to prove or disprove Brooks' clientele claims, Officer Jose Montoya said.

President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged today that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan had failed

You mean the strategy of creating the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan, and then having Pakistan forbid american arms and men from entering, while releasing all the terrorists held in Pakistan from those and FATA areas, in order to think we were making them happy so they wouldn't be so mean? You mean that strategy? You mean the one where we give them a mini-Afghanistan?

How could thinking, learned, experienced people be convinced that such outright appeasement in the face of Quranic compulsion, prejudice, and outright anti americanism EVER succeed?

Well?

1) They are not learned, and like Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh, mistake their adversaries as people who can be sent 'messages. I don't think so sport 

2) They have swallowed UNQUESTIONING the idea of Religion of Peace. Now there may be a great deal of argument over that, but our govt seems to have ruled out a religiously based war, with imams teaching that god wants certain outcomes inimical to sunday barbecues and football.

3) They can't deal with the policies which would be compulsory if this turns out to be a religiously based world war of varying intensities in different places and times, and sometimes requiring us to use real weapons, and real armies for the outright express purpose of slaughtering the enemy ( as opposed to liberation and nation building), in what would have to be a war of the peoples.

In other words, the leaders are incompetent, and the principles the other side would use  (the democrats) are WORSE (hey it's a bumper sticker, and a police matter---BTDT). 

NYT - President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged today that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider more aggressive measures inside Pakistan.

The intelligence report, the most formal assessment since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks about the terrorist threat facing the United States, concludes that the United States is losing ground on a number of fronts in the fight against Al Qaeda, and describes the terrorist organization as having significantly strengthened over the past two years.

In identifying the main reasons for Al Qaeda’s resurgence, intelligence officials and White House aides pointed the finger squarely at a hands-off approach toward the tribal areas by Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who last year brokered a cease-fire with tribal leaders in an attempt to drain support for Islamic extremism in the region.

“It hasn’t worked for Pakistan,” said Frances Fragos Townsend, who heads the Homeland Security Council at the White House. “It hasn’t worked for the United States.”

Yesterday both Newsweek and the Boston Globe managed to get it ALL wrong.

ALL

The Globe published an editorial of fear. Not prudence, fear. In Al Qaeda Without Illusion the Globe centers on Waziristan, and then in fear recommends no action lest we piss them off and they go and do something which might make us even more nervous.

Were US troops to pursue bin Laden inside Pakistan, they could set off a chain of events that transforms Pakistan -- a nuclear power -- into an Al Qaeda state. Islamist extremism is primarily a challenge to the moderate mainstream of the Muslim world. America must protect itself against Islamist terrorism, but it should avoid falling into the traps that bin Laden and his gang set for it in Muslim countries. Musharraf has a potent army and a highly developed instinct for self-preservation. The United States should not be making it harder than it already is for him to cope with Pakistan's terrorist threat

Here's how it works, morons. Their religious teachings guarantee their victory. Therefore if we do nothing we embolden them, and if we do something it enrages them. Therefore we have to ensure we KILL THEM or one or the other will ensue, and EITHER ONE is bad for us. This is not about choosing hte least worst course. They are not the bad union press people against whom there will be many many go rounds in a shared future vision of some commonality. When the Globe's editor's encompass this unavoidable reality, they might be able to write a common sense editorial about it.

And then there is Newsweek, the Newsweek which praised Yusuaf Al Qaradawi as a moderate .

I have watched this all before. 1972-1975.

This denouement, and it's inevitable outcome is as certain as that of the creation and treaty with the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan by Pakistan last year.

The democrats then also lead the excuse laden, blind to results and consequences, 'we'll all feel better', bring our boys home, Breugel filled parade.

At that time a marginal war waged by a man who thought Ho Chi Minh was a George Meany on the side of a people too few of whom cared enouh about freedom or communism, or freedom to worship (most of those who cared over there were catholic) was lost strategically as a direct cost of battles won, a news anchor's personal agita and all about me-ism, and historical stupidity about the nature of war (Sherman's dictum - 'All attempts to make war easy and safe will end in disaster and humiliation'). However, we were saved by the nature of the enemy who had no care about us in ANY WAY that did not involve us being there, and the inner titanic power of the american desire to do well in all phases of life in freedom, which powers our economy and political system. But it took from 1975 to 1991 to do it, during which time Star Wars and the McDonalds strategy also, BTW, killed the USSR, rendering 1991 into a tactical CAKEWALK. As we all know, the strategic job was left unfinished.

But what is identical is the growing emotional hysteria to get out of Dodge, as if the place and thinking about it filled our homes and dreams with swarms of spiders. Weakest in this parade are the SAME PEOPLE. Only the faces have changed. And even though there is a civil war going on in ONE campaign area of this global war, it does not change that effort, only complicates it. But not for the Breugelites who will claim any ground which will hurt the domestic opposition.

U.S. approves contacts with Muslim Brotherhood: 'Region is going Islam'

WASHINGTON World Tribune — The Bush administration has been quietly engaging the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

Officials said the State Department has approved a policy that would enable U.S. diplomats to meet and coordinate with Brotherhood leaders in Egypt, Iraq, Syria and other Arab states. They said the program would first be restricted to elected officials from the Brotherhood and eventually be extended to their political chiefs.

"The region is going Islam," an official said. "We see this in nearly every country in the Middle East. We either understand it and engage with it or find ourselves completely out of the picture."

MORONS, we live in Dar al Harb, and according to the MB, we make up laws out of our own heads instead of following god's ..WE ARE OUT OF THE PICTURE. We are the ESSENCE of what they want to rid the world of. The rest is salad dressing. Why is this difficult to comprehend?

The Brotherhood has been regarded as the inspiration for Muslim movements throughout the Arab world. The organization, founded in Egypt, spread through Saudi financing and has served as the inspiration for Al Qaida.

Many Arab countries have banned the Brotherhood. But in Egypt, a party composed of Brotherhood members has won 20 percent of the seats in the National Assembly and plays a major role in domestic policy.

In 2007, officials said, the State Department was quietly fostering ties with the Brotherhood. U.S. embassy staffers in Cairo have attended sessions led by parliamentarians from the Brotherhood and invited the Islamists to official receptions.

Global poll shows wide distrust of United States

By Meg Bortin

Wednesday, June 27, 2007, IHT

PARIS: Distrust of the United States has intensified across the world, but overall views of America remain very or somewhat favorable among majorities in 25 of 47 countries surveyed in a major international opinion poll, the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.

"Anti-Americanism since 2002 has deepened, but it hasn't really widened," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Global Attitudes Project. "It has worsened among America's European allies and is very, very bad in the Muslim world. But there is still a favorable view of the United States in many African countries, as well as in 'New Europe' and the Far East."

Nonetheless, majorities in many countries reject the main planks of current U.S. foreign policy and express distaste for American-style democracy, the survey found.

Respondents worldwide not only want Washington to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq "as soon as possible," but also seek a rapid end to the American and NATO military intervention in Afghanistan, now in its sixth year.

We are beset by FOOLS AND MORONS, and media which publicizes TRASH. This is an Ellsworth Toohey prize winner ! 

"Most of the citizens in the global survey agree the environment is in trouble and most blame the United States and, to a much more limited degree, China," Pew said.

Unfortunately, science does not grant to the perception of the masses the mantle of scientific fact, YET. But this whole thing gets better...

Chavez Warns of Resistance War With U.S.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.

Dressed in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke inside Tiuna Fort—Venezuela's military nerve-center—before hundreds of uniformed soldiers standing alongside armored vehicles and tanks decorated with banners reading: "Fatherland, Socialism, or Death! We will triumph!"

"We must continue developing the resistance war, that's the anti- imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war everyday," said Chavez, who has repeatedly warned that American soldiers could invade Venezuela to seize control of the South American nation's immense oil reserves.

U.S. officials reject claims that Washington is considering a military attack. But the U.S. government has expressed concern over what it perceives as a significant arms build-up here.

DO YOU KNOW ANYONE STILL BUYING AT CITGO? 

Recently sold to Venezuela by Russia:

SU-30 top line fighter
 

MI-35 Attack Helicopters
 

Modern Top Line Diesel-Electric Subs Capable of Firing Cruise Missiles Which Reach the USA from the Harbors in Venezuela

Then again, maybe it's a JUG of androgel that went missing...

UN forces in Lebanon under orders not to offend Hizbullah

TEL AVIV — United Nations forces have sharply reduced operations in southern Lebanon, enabling Hizbullah to restore its military presence following last year's war with Israel. Israeli military sources said the UN Interim Force in Lebanon has curtailed patrols and other operations near the Israeli border. They said UNIFIL patrols have been ordered to avoid population centers and refrain from any act that could anger Lebanese supporters of Hizbullah. Israel has appealed to UNIFIL to expand operations in southern Lebanon, Middle East Newsline reported. But the sources said European Union contingents, including Italy and France, have refused to take any action that could anger Hizbullah.

"The European contingents of UNIFIL are deathly scared of a backlash that would put their troops in danger," a military source said. "We are quickly returning to the 'See no evil, hear no evil approach' that existed before 2006."

That's actually a kind characterization from an Israeli source.
The UN is not useless, they are merely a useful shield for evil to hide behind, while good refrains from action which might tarnish it in the mind of others who actually don't care at best, and wish evil comes to good at worst.

The forces of Hizballah are the forces of racism, and genocide. The UN is simply an impediment.

By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY BARAGA, Mich. — "Where did the water go?" asks Ted Shalifor, manager of a marina and campground on Lake Superior's Chippewa Indian Reservation. The water on Lake Superior is so low that he couldn't put his docks in the water this year. Where he used to see water, he now sees sandbars. Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake, has dropped to its lowest level in 81 years. The water is 20 inches below average and a foot lower than just a year ago. The dropping levels have had serious environmental and economic consequences. Wetlands have dried up. Power plants run at half capacity. Cargo ships carry partial loads. Boaters struggle to find a place to dock.The changes can be seen all along the 2,800-mile shore of Lake Superior, the coldest and deepest of the Great Lakes. The water has receded, sometimes 50 feet or more, from its normal shoreline. Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are at low levels, as well, although not quite as extreme. Researchers at the University of Minnesota and elsewhere study whether Lake Superior's low water levels are a result of global warming. The average water temperature of Lake Superior has risen 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1979. A drought and warm weather are the immediate cause of the drop in water levels.

Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN's Sec. Gen. Ban Ki Moon

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change (Quran) and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon(Quran) , in an article published Saturday.

"The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis(Quran), arising at least in part from climate change(Quran)," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.

UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons(Quran).

"This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming," the South Korean diplomat wrote(Quran)

"It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,(Quran)" Ban said in the Washington daily.

Malaysia rejects Muslim convert's bid to be recognized as Christian

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: Malaysia's top civil court rejected a Muslim woman's appeal to be recognized as a Christian on Wednesday, in a landmark case that tested the limits of religious freedom in the moderate Islamic country.

A three-judge Federal Court panel ruled by a 2-1 majority that only the Islamic Shariah Court has the power to allow Lina Joy, who converted to Christianity in 1998, to remove the word "Islam" from the religion category on her government identity card.

"This appeal is rejected," Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim said. "Apostasy is a matter linked to Islamic laws. It's under the jurisdiction of the Shariah court ... Civil courts cannot interfere."

"She cannot simply at her own whims enter or leave her religion," Judge Ahmad Fairuz said. "She must follow rules."

Can you imagine?

These are 'allies' (?) in the war on terror? This is legalized religious oppression. Pure and simple.

The ruling is likely to drive another wedge in the Malaysian society which has become increasingly polarized in recent years with Buddhist, Christian and Hindu minorities complaining that their religious rights are held hostage to Islam. Muslim groups that say Islam is under threat because of people like Joy hailed the verdict.

We all know the story..a bunch of rich daddy's boys at a 'white' southern school, in a varsity sport get likkered up and revert to the yahoos and red neck lynching wannabee's they really are, and after hiring a collud gal to cavort and strip, rape her like the rented property they 'really' think she is in the bathroom.

Except it's a figment, chimera, canard, dream, fantasy . Yet it's widespread instant acceptance emotionally attached to 88 Duke professor morons with no more sense than the professional Ratherite LYNCH MOB they are, and it's spread by a news industry whose PC factless bias proves it's unobjective reality proves that this REAL story's iron hard facts MUST be ignored.

Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were out on a dinner date in Knoxville, Tenn., on January 6, when they were carjacked, kidnapped, raped, tortured, sexually mutilated, and killed.

Despite the press's taste for dramatic crimes, even crimes that do not involve missing blondes in Aruba, the story got almost no publicity. Conservative bloggers, who are beginning to buzz about the case, think they know why: the couple was white and the five suspects arrested in the case are black.

The mainstream press does not like to carry stories of black mayhem and white victims. First, there is the fear of stirring up more racism among Klansmen and neo-Nazis, as the Knoxville case has started to do. More importantly, the newsroom culture tends to view black-on-white crimes as responses to black oppression, and therefore not worth reporting. Whereas similar white-on-black crime is oppression itself, and thus crucially important to put before readers and viewers.

Truth is not oppresive racism. The press has an obligation to report what IS, not avoid what they are afraid will happen if they report what IS

Wolfowitz to Resign From World Bank

WASHINGTON (AP) - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will resign at the end of June, he and the bank said late Thursday, ending his long fight to survive pressure for his ouster over the generous compensation he arranged for his girlfriend.

His departure ends a two-year run at the development bank that was marked by controversy from the start, given his previous role as a major architect of the Iraq war when he served as the No. 2 official at the Pentagon.

"He assured us that he acted ethically and in good faith in what he believed were the best interests of the institution and we accept that," the board said in its announcement of Wolfowitz's resignation.

Wolfowitz was all but forced out, however, by the finding of a special bank panel that he violated conflict-of-interest rules in his handling of the 2005 pay package of bank employee Shaha Riza.

The controversy, which gripped the bank for a month, was seen as a growing liability that threatened to tarnish the poverty-fighting institution's reputation and hobble its ability to persuade countries around the world to contribute billions of dollars to provide financial assistance to poor nations.

By tradition, the World Bank has been run by an American. The Bush administration keenly wanted to keep that decades-old practice firmly intact as the board dealt with Wolfowitz's fate. The United States is the bank's largest shareholder and its biggest financial contributor.

 

The White House said it would have a new candidate to announce soon, allowing for an orderly transition.

From, Yahoo News,,,,, really....

Wang hit hard by Rangers

Only V the K can find this stuff 

South African engineers to stand trial for nuclear smuggling

Two South Africans have been linked to international trade in nuclear weapons technology to rogue states, .....

according to South Africa’s Star newspaper. The engineers were identified as Daniel Geiges and Gerard Wisser. They are being held South Africa and their lawyers are opposing open court proceedings. “By international and South African law, the state is obliged to keep certain things secret," senior counsel Wim Trengove told the Pretoria High Court May 2.

File under the ' capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with'

"If not, certain technology can fall into rogue hands and lead to the development of illicit nuclear arms . . . and that poses a significant threat to the public." According to the report, the two men played a key role in securing and developing technology for an apartheid-era nuclear bomb for the government. According to the state, Wisser and Geiges were "suppliers of uranium-enrichment technology to the South African nuclear program and acquired extensive nuclear technology" during their period of employment at Krisch Engineering Co. Trial is scheduled in July. The men face charges of fraud, perjury and charges under the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act and Nuclear Energy Act.

Both were linked to the Pakistani supplier network headed by A.Q. Khan.

Matthew Parris: Rotting empire vs. inept enemy

Why the Islamist threat is greatly exaggerated

WRITING in The Spectator three weeks ago, David Selbourne - the distinguished essayist, author and thinker - had sniffed the wind and concluded that it is all up for what he calls the US imperium. Islam has been Washington's undoing, he believes, and after six short decades as top dog of the world, America is already stumbling and set to lose its predominance.

It's a fascinating thesis. Selbourne is right about one thing. The American empire has passed its zenith. More disputable is his implicit suggestion that the US and the world are heading for some kind of nemesis. And he is mistaken, I reckon, to conclude that Islam will prove that nemesis. I think the question of how, when and by whom an imperium is toppled is often secondary. Cometh the hour, cometh the mutiny. Empires fall because they rot from within: they over-extend themselves, become greedy, and lose idealism, nimbleness and drive.

Have we not noticed how incompetent are Islamic governments and organisations the world over?

Has it not occurred to us that if al-Qa'ida really were as wily and resourceful as we tell ourselves it is, and if its tentacles really did extend as wide and deep as some say, it would be on the advance - not battled into a stalemate by Western security and intelligence? Al-Qa'ida's failure to infiltrate or penetrate Western structures has been complete.

There is a reason for this. Islam, in its more fundamentalist form, doesn't work. Serious, committed Islamists are most unlikely to succeed within any structures but their own. Their own, meanwhile, are notoriously inefficient and corrupt. Only by lucky coincidence have much of the world's known petrocarbons been found beneath Islamic nations, giving them what temporary influence they wield.

Hey Matt, in case you hadn't noticed, there ARE no fundamentalist Islamic govts, YET, save one. Iran, and THEY are thumbing their Quranic nose at you, while contemplating their Geiger counters. And we simply don't KNOW to what degree we MAY be interpenetrated. It turned out it only took 19 penetrators to kill a lot of people, necessitating a world wide response. No doubt, an 'exaggerated' bother to some. Of course, this view persists among those too tired, bored, and filled with an ennui about it all, since in that view we are the crass, rotten, boorish overreacting killers.

But wait, it gets better 

Democratic candidates don't even have the stomach to call "REDEPLOYMENT" what it is?

How can they expect the voters (unless they hold them in utmost contempt) to take them for anything more than typical, marketing deployed, frame the argument, sound bite characterized, fakirs of the left, willing only to follow what they think the voters want?
Whatever the american people want, a replay of 22 Gia Long St., or a string of Srebinica's is not it.

As Newsweek points out this week, they all want to be Harry Truman.

They all want to be Harry Truman. Hillary Clinton invokes his iconic sign (THE BUCK STOPS HERE) to call for better treatment of wounded veterans. Barack Obama reminds us that Truman was the first politician bold enough to call for universal health care. Rudy Giuliani notes that Truman was unpopular in his day, but if he hadn't stood up to the Soviets in the late 1940s, asks Giuliani, "Who knows how much longer the cold war would have gone on?"....Americans say they want to see courage from their politicians. As the historian Michael Beschloss illustrates in his new book, "Presidential Courage," the greatest presidents were willing to risk their political careers to do the right thing for the country. Being courageous is usually hard to fake; voters, even apathetic ones, have a way of spotting phonies. But it is difficult to tell whether a candidate will make the hard choices until he or she actually becomes president—by which time, it's too late.

• Would that be the Harry Truman who dropped the nuke on Hiroshima and slept soundly?

• The Harry Turman who unhesitatingly fired Macarthur?

• The Harry Truman who went for a stalemated war in Korea and saw his popularity drop to 28% rather than 'change course'?

• The Harry Truman who 'created' the cold war?

• The Harry Truman who risked nuclear war over a Berlin cut off from the free world, and 'strategically indefensible'?
  

• THE HARRY TRUMAN WHOSE 'CONSERVATISM' CAUSED THE DEPARTURE OF THE ENTIRE LEFT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?

They make our guys look diligent..

Iraqi legislature to go on 2 month vaca this summer?

OR... Iraq unites the USA

BAGHDAD- Iraqi lawmakers said Thursday they might consider shortening—or even canceling—their planned two-month summer break to continue working. But they insisted that pressure from Washington is not behind the possible holiday-on-hold.

And besides, they say, the U.S. Congress is not thinking of calling off its own recess because of wartime debate.

If these gavones want to lead, then they had better be seen to lead. If these people want to keep a republic THEY had better be prepared to do WHAT IT TAKES.

NO american, NONE will support Iraq being death ground for american sacrifice and treasure if the Iraqis head for the beach, and they won't deserve it.

The US Congress' vote to push for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq was wrong and will bring comfort to Al-Qaeda insurgents, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday.

One square of toilet paper

'Gulfstream' Laurie David and celebrity comedienne (singer?) Sheryl Crowe demonstrate why environmentalism has failed.

Singer Sheryl Crow and environmentalist Laurie David have been traveling across America on a two-week Stop Global Warming College Tour, which winds up today at George Washington University. Crow and David (co-producer of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and wife of "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Larry David) have been touting their cause and chronicling their travels in a rather idiosyncratic blog. 

And appearing everywhere to claim (falsely) the debate on global warming is over. So is the debate on there being one singular war on jihadi freaks, worldwide, right gals? 

This movement whose underpinning, that we should avoid adding heat to the atmosphere is a worthy goal under any set of circumstances (political, environmental, and philosophical) keep on demonstrating the idiocy of celebrity-dom.

As if Sean Penn, and Alec Baldwin and Rosie are not enough, we now get to be lectured by the wife of a real talent, and a voice, composer who have no more to offer us than what has already been stated in this sentence.

We are not going to succeed in this movement by trying to find one square of toilet paper in a dark cold bathroom. Too bad, so sad, gals.

Cheaply charged electric, or hydrogen fuel cell cars would be the largest component we can add to help this situation, and by the way, screw our enemies. ALL OF THEM.

So stop talking about toilet paper. You sound like crap.

Everyone who has ever used one square only, raise your hand, please?

That's what I thought. 

I have mentioned the true stupidity of some of Robert Kuttner's public philosophizing before. But this is a mischaracterization.

People such as Mr. Kuttner are not stupid. 

They simply believe the facts and history are marshmallows to be shaped to achieve the only ends they deem good.

In an earlier column Mr. Kuttner totally brutalized the facts represented in DK Goodwin's Team of Rivals. Today he turns his misrepresentation machine to the word conservative. In his misleading theory of evolutionary history he declares that conservatism has failed three times and points out the three 'conservatives' who have lead us to failure.

THREE TIMES in my political adulthood, we have seen the exhaustion of a conservative ideology and presidency. Under Presidents Nixon and Bush II, the ingredients were corruption, corporate excess, and overreach of presidential power. During the 12 years of Reagan and Bush I, the hallmark was the failure of conservative economics.

Richard Nixon, Bush I , Bush II ?? CONSERVATIVE?

Maybe I missed something, but the only conservative I remember is Ronald Reagan. He is unmentioned. 

But Mr. Kuttner reveals just who he is in the next sentence:

And twice, the electorate ousted Republicans only to get centrist Democrats, who ran more competent administrations but did little to redress the structure of financial inequality in America.

That's roger on the code word alert for capital, property, greed, and the american way of life. Some people just don't get it. FDR was trying to save the nation in 1932, not turn it into a modified USSR. But who is it that Mr. Kuttner thinks can represent thecorrect, progressive value set?

John Edwards would seem the most likely to govern as a true economic progressive.

You know, Mr. I have the biggest house in the county, two armericas, breck girl 

9/11 attack on USA because of Crusades - no one is innocent

This will come as shocking news to Sam Adams et al who needed another 640 years or so to be born when the Council Of Clermont resulted in Urban's response to the armed dawa, and Fatah of 4 centuries length.

Sheik Omar Bakri: Killing innocent people is forbidden in Islam. But who is innocent - that is another question.

Sheik Omar Bakri: They were magnificent, even though they were terrorists. The fact that they carried out a terrorist act does not prevent us from calling them "magnificent," because this is what religious scholars call "commendable terrorism."

Interviewer: You are saying that they waged Jihad.

Sheik Omar Bakri: That's because we have two kinds of terrorism - commendable terrorism and reprehensible terrorism. Reprehensible terrorism is an attack on women, children, the peaceful, and the innocent..The 9/11 operations were a response to great aggressive acts by America - its attacks on Afghanistan, on Iraq, on Sudan, not to mention the historic Crusades from long ago, and so on.

Of course on 9/11 no americans were in Afghanistan either. Or the Sudan, except for consular personnel.

He is someone also who attempted to escape from Lebanon by way of Fernch and British evacuation last summer, if I remember correctly.

A little backround

Fox News is reporting that Steny Hoyer, majority leader of the House of Representative has met with the parliamentary opposition leader in Egypt, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Nearly 90% of Palestinian youth deny Israel's right to exist

A recent poll of Palestinians shows a direct correlation between the PA curriculum and Palestinian youth's opinions. PMW's newest report on Palestinian Authority schoolbooks warns that because of the PA curriculum, which repeatedly and utterly rejects Israel's right to exist, "The well-meaning (Palestinian) student is left with no logical justification or religious option to accept Israel as a neighbor ..."


At a Washington news conference to release the new report, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton likewise concluded that these PA schoolbooks are "...deeply disturbing, particularly for the denial of Israel's existence..."

Maybe Hezpalosi is too naive to be off on this jaunt? 

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ! 

! NOT

No more GWOT, House committee decrees

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.