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Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 4, 2010
Obama’s Inconvenient Truth: Doubling The Deficit In One Year – The Real Numbers!
Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 3, 2010
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President Obama is being disingenuous when he says that the budget deficit he faced “when I walked in the door” of the White House was $1.3 trillion. He went on to say that he only increased it to $1.4 trillion in 2009 and was raising it to $1.6 trillion in 2010.
Congressman Joe Wilson might have said “you lie,” but we’ll settle for “you distort.”
(As Mark Twain once said, there are three kinds of lies: “lies, damn lies, and statistics.”)
Here are the facts:
In 2008, Bush ran a deficit of $485 billion. By the time the fiscal year started on October 1, 2008, it had gone up by another $100 billion due to increased recession-related spending and depressed revenues. So it was about $600 billion at the start of the fiscal crisis. That was the real Bush deficit.
But when the fiscal crisis hit, Bush had to pass TARP in the final months of his presidency which cost $700 billion. Under the federal budget rules, a loan and a grant are treated the same. So the $700 billion pushed the deficit — officially — up to $1.3 trillion. But not really. The $700 billion was a short term loan. $500 billion of it has already been repaid.
So what was the real deficit Obama inherited? The $600 billion deficit Bush was running plus the $200 billion of TARP money that probably won’t be repaid (mainly AIG and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). That totals $800 billion. That was the real deficit Obama inherited.
Then…he added $300 billion in his stimulus package, bringing the deficit to $1.1 trillion. This $300 billion was, of course, totally qualitatively different from the TARP money in that it was spending not lending. It would never be paid back. Once it was out the door, it was gone. Other spending and falling revenues due to the recession pushed the final numbers for Obama’s 2009 deficit up to $1.4 trillion.
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So, effectively, Obama came close to doubling the deficit.
Obama seems not to understand that the deficit is the jobs problem. To add to the deficit in the hope of creating more jobs is an oxymoron. Additional deficit spending just crowds out small businesses trying to borrow money to create jobs and consumers seeking credit to buy cars and homes.
Soon, when the Fed stops printing money and we have to borrow real funds from real lenders, the high deficit will send interest rates soaring, further retarding growth and creating a cost-push inflation.
The interest rate we are now paying for the debt — about 3.5% — is totally artificial and based on the massive injection of money supply created by the purchase of mortgage backed securities by an obliging Federal Reserve. Once these injections of currency/heroin stop, the rate will more than double, sending our debt service spending into the stratosphere. Once we had to choose between guns and butter. Now we will have to choose between guns and butter on the one hand and paying our debt service on the other.
Obama’s program of fiscal austerity in this new budget is a joke. He freezes very selected budget items while he shovels out new spending in his stimulus packages. If he wanted to lower the deficit, here’s what he could do:
1. Cancel the remaining $500 billion of stimulus spending and
2. Cancel the $300 billion of spending in stimulus II.
Those are the real numbers. Or, as Al Gore would have it, “the inconvenient truth.”
What Ended The Ice Age? Global Warming And There Were No People There – Also, Obama’s Welfare State!
Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 2, 2010
And if anybody ever asks you, say, ‘What ended the ice age? Global warming and there were no people there.”
| RUSH: Who’s next? Milton, Delaware. Gerald, I’m glad you waited, sir. You’re up next on the EIB Network.CALLER: How are you today, sir?
RUSH: Excellent to outstanding, sir. Thank you. CALLER: Well, that’s the best way to be. I want to comment on something you talked about earlier in your show, and it’s just simply this. With Obama putting all the wealthy and all the people with all the great monies in his crosshairs, doesn’t he think about the backlash and the repercussions and everything that’s going to come as a result of that? I mean, these people have got millions of dollars to spend. Does he expect them not to spend it against him and the folly of the people who advise him?
CALLER: All that aside, I only have one statement to that. I don’t see near that amount of money per year as my income. But I see that if these people of wealth don’t do something about him, we are in trouble. I know I’m going to do whatever I can as modestly as I can, because this man needs to get out of the way. He’s killing this country. RUSH: I totally agree. I totally agree. Let me tell you something about the wealthy, though. They’re not going to complain. They will not complain. I once watched This Week with Brinkley when Brinkley hosted it. It was back in the early, mid-nineties. Andy Grove of Intel was on when Bill Clinton had just announced a limit on corporate salaries and their deductibility as a business expense of $1 million. They asked Andy Grove if he thought this was the right policy. He said, “I’m not going to sit here and complain about the amount of money I make and I don’t want to get into these social concerns over that. I’d love to tell you about Intel and what we’re doing.” They don’t want to talk about it because these people that are wealthy do not want to be seen as complaining. They think that will only fuel the fire to raise their taxes. Now, they might work in other ways quietly to try to defeat it and so forth, but look: I guarantee you that the vast majority of them, other than those in Hollywood, have the same attitude about this that you do, and they’re going to be working hard to find ways around the new tax increases, whatever they are. There are going to be more to come but this is going to come from “sunsetting” the Bush tax cuts, which is a tax increase. Pelosi says it’s not, but it is a tax increase if your top marginal rate is going to go from 36% to 39%, which is big. As I say, when you couple this with state taxes and Medicare tax increases and so forth, you’re going to be over — in some states over — 50% of your income. Over 50% of your gross is going to be taxed. The wealthy complain about it to themselves, but I can’t see ‘em complaining about what’s going to happen to them. I can see them maybe saying, “This is going to destroy the economy. This is going to hurt my business. I’m never going to be able to hire people. We’re not going to be able to grow our business.” They might do it that way, but they’re not going to complain about the impact on them because nobody’s going to have any sympathy for them — and, as I say: If they do complain, it’s just gonna spur other people to support raising taxes on them. |
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RUSH: Well, you have to understand what he’s doing here. He’s doing two things. He is relying on the fact that most people don’t earn a quarter of a million dollars or more, and in a time of recession he is hoping to capitalize on an emotion of hatred that they have for the people who make that much. Obama is hoping that he’ll get kudos for getting even with these people. He’s not gonna make anybody’s life any better who makes less than $250 a year. He just wants them to be happy that people who have more than they are are getting screwed. The second thing — and this is more important, Gerald — is he is redistributing wealth. It is destroying it for the express purpose of redistributing it to his buddies, primarily the unions — government and teacher unions, public sector unions — and minorities. He’s returning the wealth of the nation to its, quote, unquote, “rightful owners.”| BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: By the way, one thing about this $250,000. I made a bit of a mistake. Ladies and gentlemen, $250,000 is not wealthy. I know that for you families, $250,000, you’re not wealthy. But Obama and the Democrats have always called those kind of people “wealthy,” and they will. At $250,000 for a family of four, they will complain about their taxes going up. But I do think, depending on how much coverage their complaints get, it will still spur people who don’t make that kind of money, “Oh, really? You’re complaining? I’m outta work and you’re complaining about a tax increase?” They gotta be very careful about how this goes. But yeah, a lot of small businesses are in this category of $250,000, and I think the caller wanted them to organize and do something. A lot of people want somebody else to do something.
Here’s Virginia in High Rolls, New Mexico. It’s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Hello. I’m so honored to talk to you. RUSH: Thank you very much. CALLER: I wanted to mention first, I called to talk about the redistribution of wealth and how I think it’s going on already. But I was going to mention to you that I’m also a meteorologist and I don’t believe in global warming. RUSH: Man-made global warming? Exactly right. CALLER: Yeah, exactly. I’ve done a little looking into it, and I’m thinking perhaps some minor fluctuations in the magnetic field could cause a little bit of global warming in the Northern Hemisphere, but man-made? No way. RUSH: Thank you. CALLER: And if anybody ever asks you, say, ‘What ended the ice age? Global warming and there were no people there.” RUSH: (laughing) Something had to end it. That’s right. CALLER: Exactly. That was global warming. Maybe it was man’s first experiments with fire. I’m not sure. Anyway, just kind of a statement. I found something out. This redistribution of wealth — and I’m terribly nervous. I apologize. RUSH: I understand. I’ve been where you are. CALLER: I was talking to someone who was filing their taxes, a young couple, and he makes about $15,000 a year. You know, it’s not much. But they have two children, right? I asked him how much he paid in his income tax, and he said $143. I said, “How much are you getting back?” And he said $7,000, and I was like, what? “Well, there’s earned income credit.” They have two children. They get Medicaid. They get food stamps. They get WIC — which is about I think like milk and cheese and things like that for the kids. So I added it up, and I kind of came out with a rough estimate of about anywhere between $32,000 and $35,000 this couple makes — and I don’t have that much disposable income. I just find it shocking. I’m shocked because it’s already happening. RUSH: It is already happening, and your example is the exact intention that Obama has. That couple is not gonna object to any policy. That couple’s not gonna object to any increase in taxes. They’re gonna favor increase in taxes because they know they’re going to get the money. CALLER: I’m just floored. I have lumps on my head from banging it against the wall. RUSH: You know, I got into big trouble on April 1st of 1989 when I suggested that the poor start paying their fair share of taxes. I caught all kinds of hell for that. But, seriously, this is Obama’s intention. He wants more and more people to be in that category that you just described. CALLER: And I have not, in the last ten years, ever gotten a return — anything back of anything I’ve paid. RUSH: Well, it’s actually good, because if you had, that just means they’re keeping your money for a year with no interest. CALLER: Right. But I’m actually thinking of doing less work — and I hate that thought, less work — because I’m so worried about the tax increases that are coming. RUSH: Yeah. Less work and you get yourself in that couple’s situation, have an income of $15,000 a year and have a disposable income of $32,000. CALLER: Yep. Well, I appreciate you taking my call. RUSH: By the way, have you ever tasted government cheese and milk and butter? CALLER: Well, actually the cheese is pretty good. RUSH: I remember when I was a kid — I don’t know how this happened — my dad brought home some government butter, butter that was for welfare recipients. And it was the best butter I’d ever tasted. It wasn’t even close. It was astounding to me. CALLER: When we were eating margarine they’re eating butter? Is that what you’re trying to say? RUSH: No, it was better than real butter. Their butter was better than what you got at the store. CALLER: Yeah? RUSH: It was in big, round tins, not in sticks. Now, my dad did a lot to educate me on what this was really all about in the welfare community, the welfare world and so forth. And the milk, too. I don’t know where he got it because we were not on welfare. I think one of the farmers that was involved in producing it gave it to him. And he made a point, “This is better than what you can get at the store, son. Government just is better.” They had whatever their standard requirements are. I don’t know, but he made that point. Look, Virginia, you did great. I couldn’t even tell you were nervous. I’m glad you called. Thank you so much. |
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Sharia aka Islamic Fascism: Hate Being Taught In California Public School System – 7th Grade Classes
Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 2, 2010
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Under some pressure from parents, California’s Education Department is reviewing its guidelines for teaching Islamic Studies to seventh-graders in its public schools. We wrote about this trend six years ago when we discovered that, though the California standards require the study of all religions, Islam is examined disproportionately.
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Moreover, the more extreme elements of the more radically Islamic societies, though they represent a minority of a religion whose adherents are overwhelmingly peaceful, are ignored, no matter how visible their acts are. The latest attempt to revamp the California rules adds a new wrinkle to this approach.
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For example, the treatment of Shari’ah law in the framework for Islamic studies developed by the California Department of Education is, to say the least, problematic. “Students learn how the Qur’an and the Sunnah served as foundations for the Shari’ah, the religious laws governing moral social, and economic life,” the suggested framework reads. “Islamic law, for example, rejected the older Arabian view of women as ‘family property,’ declaring that women and men are entitled to respect and moral self-governance.”
“At the same time, students investigate the role of women in Islamic civilizations.” One page later we get, “Muslim merchants came to operate from China to the Mediterranean, their trade facilitated by shared acceptance of Shari’ah law.”
Muhammad Killing Christians And Jews Since 600 A.D!
Yet all the available evidence indicates that Shari’ah law is hardly benign even in its present incarnation. “Major principles of shariah are a ban on interest, a ban on contractual uncertainty, adherence to risk-sharing and profitsharing, promotion of ethical investments that enhance society, and asset-backing,” Shayerah Ilias reports in a February 9, 2009 report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). “The international market for Islamic finance has grown between 10% to 15% annually in recent years.”
“Islamic finance historically has been concentrated in Persian Gulf and Southeast Asian countries, but has expanded globally to both Muslim and non-Muslim countries.”
Ilias is an analyst in international trade and finance at the CRS. As its name suggests, the CRS is a research arm of the U. S. Congress.
“There is a small but growing market for Islamic finance in the United States,” Ilias writes. “Through international and domestic regulatory bodies, there has been effort to standardize regulations in Islamic finance across different countries and financial institutions, although challenges remain.”
“Critics of Islamic finance express concerns about possible ties between Islamic finance and political agendas or terrorist financing and the use of Islamic finance to circumvent U.S. economic sanctions.”
Analysts at Shariah Finance Watch (SFW) , who track the application of the law in the world today, do not take quite so sanguine a view of it. A project of the Center for Security Policy, SFW examines how this body of law works in and out of the Middle East.
Ordered By Shariah Teachings
“Understanding Shariah law is integral to understanding the dangers of Shariah-compliant finance,” the SFW website argues. “Shariah law is Islamic law dating back to the 7th century and is today the law of the land in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan and the law under which the Taliban operates.”
“Shariah law authorities, some of whom are now being paid handsomely by Barclays, Dow Jones, Standard & Poors, HSBC, Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Deutschebank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse and others have the power to dictate Shariah compliance as deemed by ’scholarly consensus’ on matters of finance, family, penal law, apostasy, and war.”
“Shariah law, or Islamic law, officially went into effect in a region in Pakistan this week and will likely result in ‘egregious’ human rights violations,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reported on April 16, 2009. The USCIRF went on to note that “Under Taliban-enforced shariah law in North West Frontier Province’s (NWFP) Swat Valley, human rights and religious freedom – especially for women and members of religious minorities – are expected to suffer severely.”
“The violent, Taliban-associated extremists based in NWFP’s Swat Valley consistently demonstrate their disregard for fundamental human rights, and use public beheadings and beatings as a means of enforcing their control,” Felice D. Gaer, USCIRF chair stated. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was created by an act of Congress and gives “independent policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and the Congress.”
Results Of Shariah Teachings
Those who have lived under Shariah offer even harsher assessments. “Sharia[h] laws are being used by terrorists to violate divine human rights,” Shaukat Malik, a Muslim-American Certified Public Accountant, wrote on The Baltimore Sun web log.
“Sharia[h] is used to scare the average citizen into submission,” he wrote. “This is done through publicly staged floggings, stoning and executions of men and women for committing adultery or other sexual acts.”
The California Department of Education is taking testimony today and tomorrow on its course revisions but if you would like to let them know how you feel about it, you can do so in the 60-day comment period that begins this weekend:
California Department of Education
Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division
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Room 3207 Sacramento, CA 95814
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FAX 916-319-0172
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, please e-mail mal.kline@academia.org.
FBI – Domestic Terrorism: In The Post 9/11 Era
Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 2, 2010
Today’s domestic terror threats run the gamut, from the left National Socialist white supremacists…to highly destructive left wing National Socialist eco-terrorists…to violence-prone anti-Republic government extremists…to radical Democratic Socialist separatist groups.
Nothing before or since has come close to the terror attacks of 9/11 in terms of lives lost, scope, and impact. And we know that al Qaeda led and inspired operatives still seek to strike our homeland—including with weapons of mass destruction. Which is why globally-fueled terrorism continues to occupy much of our time and attention these days.
And yet, as we were reminded by shootings in Kansas, Arkansas, and the nation’s capital over just 11 days this spring, the threat of domestic terror—Americans attacking Americans based on U.S.-based extremist ideologies—is alive and well.
One particularly insidious concern that touches all forms of domestic extremism is the lone offender—a single individual driven to hateful attacks based on a particular set of beliefs without a larger group’s knowledge or support. In some cases, these lone offenders may have tried to join a group but were kicked out for being too radical or simply left the group because they felt it wasn’t extreme or violent enough. We believe most domestic attacks are carried out by lone offenders to promote their own grievances and agendas.
As with all forms of extremism, preventing homegrown attacks before they are hatched is our overriding goal.It’s an especially tall order given the civil liberties we all enjoy as American citizens, including the right to free speech. Hate and anger are not crimes; neither are hard-line and poisonous ideologies. It’s only when actions by groups or individuals cross the line into threats, the actual use of force or violence, or other law-breaking activities that we can investigate. That goes for lone offenders, whose high degrees of autonomy make them difficult to stop before they strike.
As a result, we’re not shy about applying our full suite of anti-terror tools and capabilities to threats of homegrown terrorism. That includes our time-tested investigative techniques such as the use of surveillance and informants as well as the new intelligence skills and information-sharing channels we’ve cultivated since 9/11.
A few other strategies we’re using:
… Our 106 Joint Terrorism Task Forces around the nation bring together our law enforcement and intelligence partners into a single team dedicated to addressing terror threats of all kinds.
… Beyond these task forces, we talk constantly with our local, state, and federal partners—those who have a finger on the pulse of their communities and can tell us about the individuals or groups on their radar.
We’re also beginning an extensive study on identified lone offenders to come up with indicators and behavior predictors that investigators can use to assess suspects.
Last year on this website, we talked about animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists and our intelligence-driven approaches to stopping them. In the coming months, we’ll spotlight other homegrown terror groups to raise awareness on who they are and the threats they pose.
You can help. Be alert to potential signs of domestic terror plots and planning and contact us immediately with any information or leads.
Everything in Orange Is my Interjection Into The Press Release, Including The Image Photo Of Hitler, Obama, Lenin.
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Obama And Pelosi’s Domestic Terrorism: Flood America With Illegal Mexicans
Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 2, 2010
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Democrats Responsible For More Americans Killed By Illegal Aliens Than In The Iraq War
“Who in this country would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sending a parent away from their families?” Pelosi said about ICE raids on illegal aliens. Pelosi urged Obama “to stop the misguided raids and deportations that are tearing marriages, children and families” apart.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., who is on a 17-city, cross-country tour intended to put a human face on the immigration debate, has called immigration officers “Gestapo agents,” FOX News reports.
“The raids] must be stopped!” Pelosi warns. “What value system is that? I think it’s un-American.”
Pelosi refers to illegal aliens as “heroes” and pledges to protect their “right to work” in the U.S. She says illegals working and residing in the U.S. are “very, very patriotic” and are taking “responsibility for our country’s future.”
Rick Oltman of Californians for Population Stabilization tells the Associated Press he’s embarrassed by Pelosi’s pandering and her attempts to exhort illegals for taking responsibility for the future of the country.
“[She’s] insulting American citizens who consider themselves to be patriotic and obey the rule of law,” Oltman says.
“This is just another example of politicians blaming bureaucrats and police officers for things they don’t like,” Mark Krikorian, executive director of Center for Immigration Studies, tells World Net Daily.
“If Pelosi wants an amnesty, she should be up front about it. Until then, police are sworn to enforce the law, and it is outrageous for her to criticize them for doing their jobs.”
Meanwhile, Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to cease their workplace investigations into illegals.
The directive has had “a chilling effect on rank-and-file ICE agents, some of whom fear they will be investigated or prosecuted by the Obama Justice Department,” political strategist Mike Baker tells The Examiner.
Opponents of legalization legislation will try to mobilize public outrage against legalizing illegal workers while so many Americans are out of work. In the meantime, the administration will convene working group discussions with immigration groups and lawmakers from both parties, The Times reports.
Legislation on immigration reform is expected as early as this fall. |
House Whore Pelosi’s Ball Of Chains: Pelosi’s Knowledge of Water-boarding And Socialist Attempts To Exploit Empathy For Islamic Terrorists
Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 2, 2010
Domestic Terrorist? House Whore Pelosi.
Thiessen points to an incident in 2004 when Nancy Pelosi was House minority leader and intervened in a CIA operation she objected to. He rightfully points out that if she was able to stop one operation then her whole defense on the issue of not speaking up on the issue of waterboarding becomes viable only to the lobotomy-based community. I think, however, there is a bigger story here.
From the October 4, 2004 issue of TIME
PRESIDENT BUSH and interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi insisted last week that Iraq would go ahead with elections scheduled for January, despite continuing violence. But U.S. officials tell TIME that the Bush team ran into trouble with another plan involving those elections–a secret “finding” written several months ago proposing a covert CIA operation to aid candidates favored by Washington. A source says the idea was to help such candidates–whose opponents might be receiving covert backing from other countries, like Iran–but not necessarily to go so far as to rig the elections. But lawmakers from both parties raised questions about the idea when it was sent to Capitol Hill. In particular, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi “came unglued”[emphasis added] when she learned about what a source described as a plan for “the CIA to put an operation in place to affect the outcome of the elections.” Pelosi had strong words with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in a phone call about the issue.
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To fully understand the context one has to consider the time. We invaded Iraq in March 2003 and the plan was predicated on the idea that we would topple Saddam and then swiftly replace him with another government. The CIA finding dates from the spring of 2004. At the same time, however, the Democrats were engaged in probably one of the most disgraceful presidential campaigns in modern US history, a campaign fittingly headed by one of the most disgraceful presidential candidates in modern US history. It was as clear then to the Democrats as it was in 2006 that an unstable Iraq and a constant drumbeat of American casualties was a quick road to electoral success. Funding Iraqi political parties who were friendly to the United States would ruin one of the memes developed by the Democrat which was that there were no viable US partners in Iraq. The presence of those parties would also have worked against the “cancel the elections because Iraq is too violent” talking point used by the Dems at this time.
The article goes on to point out that the spin from the Pelosi confidant, that the funds would have changed the outcome of the election, was not true. The CIA was only helping friendly parties achieve funding parity with parties funded by other regional actors. Even so, it is more than a little unclear to me why having a friendly party win the elections, which had not been held with this article was written, is a bad thing. I might be concerned that the CIA was simply not competent to ensure the funding remained secret but the thought of having our guys win shouldn’t make any member of congress come “unglued.”
The other insight here is that the Bush Administration obviously consulted regularly with the Dem House leadership and actually responded to their objections. I don’t know why they did this and it didn’t work out well for them or the country.
I am a lot less concerned about Pelosi’s lack of candor and integrity on what she knew about waterboarding than I am with her intervening in a fairly mundane CIA operation for no other purpose than seemingly to ensure that Iraq was a political difficulty for Bush in 2004.
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Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 2, 2010
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The content of this White Paper is deliberately intended to stimulate thought and discussion. Informational analysis comprising global security, national security of the United States of America, socio-political-economic forces as a dimension to national security, culture, freedom in human rights, defense and the rule of law are considered within the framework of this treatise.
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Beginning as campaign rhetoric, the question of Barak Obama’s legal status as a citizen of the United States of America qualified to serve as President, is moving toward a crescendo that might be heard formally by the United States Supreme Court. Downplayed by many, including U.S. Senators on the Republican side and even Senators serving on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as late as Friday of last week, a significant meeting occurred last Thursday, March 12th in Idaho. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was speaking before a large audience 800 in attendance, including the President of the Idaho State Bar Association on the character of Abraham Lincoln, when attorney Orly Taitz of Mission Viejo, California came to the microphone and asked the Chief Justice if he would personally review a legal brief and a complaint signed by over 325,000 American citizens as to the Constitutionality of Barak Obama’s swearing-in as President. Chief Justice Roberts personally agreed to review the legal brief and the complaint saying such in front of the audience.
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to the Chief Justice warns: “If MR. OBAMA is not constitutionally eligible to serve as President of the United States, then no act that he takes is, arguably, valid, the laws that he signs would not be valid, the protective orders that he signs would be null and void, and every act that he takes would be subject to legal challenge, both in the Courts of the United States of America, and in International Courts, and that, therefore, it is important for the voters to know whether he, or any candidate for President in the future, is eligible to serve in that office.”
Just prior to this meeting, attorney Taitz sent Certified Correspondence on February 27th to the U.S. Attorney General, the Director of the FBI, Congressional and Senatorial Judiciary Committee, et.al. with the stated purpose “demand for investigation and immediate action in regards suspected crimes” identified as, but not limited to: impersonation of a military officer, libel, defamation of character, harassment, interference with judicial proceedings, breaking into the computer system of the Supreme Court of the United States, forgery, using cyberspace for voter fraud. Military officers from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces have joined in this action as Plaintiffs. Among the petitioners are: Maj. Gen. Carroll Childers; Lt. Col. Dr. David Earl-Graef; police officer and Selected Reservist Navy Commander Clinton Grimes; Lt. Scott Easterling, U.S. Army now serving on active duty in Iraq; New Hampshire state Rep. Timothy Comerford; Tenn. State Rep. Frank Nicely and others.
One of the “and others” is Harry Riley, a veteran who spent a significant time serving in the Pentagon. This former officer said the issue is basically over whether Americans will allow “the trashing” of their Constitution. “Myself, along with hundreds of thousands of other warriors, have fought for the U.S. Constitution. The whole issue is one of constitutional crisis. How can an individual become the Commander-in-Chief, or the president of the U.S., with questions regarding his constitutional qualifications?”
The complaint filed with the U.S. Attorney General (now in the hands of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) requests “relate Quo Warranto on Barack Hussein Obama II to test his title to president before the Supreme Court.” This legal phrase essentially means an explanation is being demanded for what authority Obama is using to act as president. This is the only judicial remedy for violations of the Constitution by public officials and agents. This legal right established in British common law 800 years ago and was recognized by the U.S. Founding Fathers to demand documentation that may prove – or disprove – Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president.
The complaint further states: “As president-elect, Respondent Obama failed to submit prima facie evidence of his qualifications before January 20, 2009. Election officers failed to challenge, validate or evaluate his qualifications. Relators submit that as president elect, Respondent Obama failed to qualify per U.S. Constitution; articles II and I; amendment XX paragraph 3.”
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What follows is the Summary of the complaint filed by Orly Taitz, attorney in Mission Viejo, California. As you can imagine, the complaint is thorough and long. I have replicated sufficient
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passages so not to diminish the nature, spirit, scope or details of the complaint but conscious of time to read and length, I compiled the salient points in this complaint to save you from reading the 78 page document. I will further attest that Exhibits and articles of proof were also attached to the documents I reviewed. I will further attest the investigator working this case for attorney Taitz is a licensed Private Investigator in the State of California for the past twenty-five years, and prior to this, served twenty years as a Detective at New Scotland Yard. I will further attest that I have reviewed documents containing additional names not previously mentioned. Some of the names are active military and others are retired at Lt. Col. and above rank.
Should it be discovered Mr. Obama is ineligible, a constitutional crisis would ensue attempting to determine which of his executive branch orders should be valid. If, however, this case continues and Mr. Obama fights revealing his documentation, there are growing concerns of civil unrest, or worse, being unleashed in the streets of our nation. The economic crisis coupled with this type of a constitutional crisis could prove to be a “flashpoint” that would test conventional law enforcement and elements of homeland security.
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Summary of the Complaint submitted to U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.:
“Recently an active U.S. Army Officer, who is risking his life in defending our country in Iraq, joined my (attorney Taitz) legal action aimed at unsealing Barack Hussein Obama’s, aka Barry Soetoro’s, (Obama/Soetoro) legal status and eligibility/legitimacy for presidency of the U.S. The president needs to be a ‘natural born citizen – one who is born in the country to parents (plural, both) who are citizens of this country.
This definition was recently unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in Senate resolution 511, presented by Senator Leahy in April 2008, as Senator McCain sought his legitimacy for the presidency to be verified, and Mr. McCain therefore presented his long version original birth certificate.
Mr. Obama’s father was never a U.S. citizen; he was a citizen of Kenya here in the U.S. on a student visa, which by itself made Obama/Soetoro ineligible for presidency, regardless of whether he was born in this country or Kenya, or whether he later lost his U.S. citizenship while immigrating to Indonesia and obtaining Indonesian citizenship (by being adopted and naturalized), and later reaffirming his Indonesian citizenship while traveling on a Indonesian passport as an adult, and also most likely obtaining taxpayer funded financial aid as a Foreign Exchange student from Indonesia (Indonesia did not allow dual citizenship and any U.S. citizenship would therefore have to be relinquished). Additionally, Obama/Soetoro’s paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, and the Ambassador from Kenya,
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Peter Ogego, made statements that he was born in Kenya, and there is no record of him being born in any hospital in Hawaii. HI Statute #338 allows foreign born children of Hawaiian residents to obtain Hawaiian Certificates of Live Birth (COLB), and those can be obtained based on a statement of one relative only.
Additionally, Forensic Document expert Sandra Line has issued an affidavit that Obama’s place of birth cannot be ascertained without reviewing the original birth certificate. Dr. Chiymoi Fukimo, director of Health Department for the State of Hawaii, issued a statement that Obama has a birth certificate on file, but intentionally refused to provide clarification, whether it is a birth certificate for a foreign born child of a Hawaiian resident, whether it was prepared based on hospital records or statement of one relative only, or whether it is an amended birth certificate, created upon Obama/Soetoro’s adoption by Lolo Soetoro, his Indonesian stepfather, and showing him a citizen of Indonesia.
There are forensic questions raised about the short version Certification of Life Birth posted by Obama/Soetoro on his web site; lacking corroborating evidence such as name of the hospital, name of the doctor, three signatures and a seal on the front of the document. 
Similarly, Obama/Soetoro supporters used Cyber space previously, in order to misinform and defraud American citizens and commit voter fraud. On November 3rd, a day before the National elections, when numerous voters questioned Obama/Soetoro’s Natural Born status and his refusal to provide his long version birth certificate, an article appeared on the Internet stating that a Virginia Judge reviewed Obama/Soetoro’s original birth certificate and found it to be valid, Obama/Soetoro to be a Natural Born citizen, and all legal actions to be frivolous (Exhibit). This whole case was manufactured, and Cyber space was used, to defraud American citizens….
I am also requesting an investigation into the financial dealings of Barack and Michele Obama. Please see attached list of over 100 addresses for Barack Obama and a 100 business addresses for Michele Obama. These are addresses obtained from a private investigator and an intelligence service. Obama/Soetoro’s addresses are connected to numerous different social security numbers. None of the 130 positions listed for Michelle and Barry or Barack H. Obama were listed on their disclosed tax returns. There has to be a corresponding search for each and every employer that is listed. If those are salaried positions then, there is massive tax fraud. And if those were campaign contributions over the allowed limits then, there is massive campaign contributions fraud, especially in light of over $300 million in
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contributions that are unaccounted for. Which is it? What social security numbers were used?
As you stated in your speech on Martin Luther King Day, Americans should not be ‘cowards’, particularly when matters of race are concerned. I was not a coward and prepared this large dossier, so I hope you will not be a coward and instead order an expeditious completion of this investigation and its subsequent prosecution.”
Conclusion:
Accompanying this complaint is a petition calling for an appointment of a special prosecutor similar to the one appointed during Watergate. The fact that Obama has not ordered Hawaiian officials to release the document leaves doubt as to whether an authentic Hawaii birth certificate exists. Similar concerns exist in Mr. Obama’s refusal to release student records from Occidental College in the early 80’s where he may have been a student under the name of Barry Soetero, attending the college on aid for foreign students.
The action handed to the Chief Justice is on behalf 120 military officers, many of high rank, and 9 state representatives. Purportedly the room was stunned and silent as attorney Taitz and Chief Justice Roberts engaged in an extremely brief exchange regarding these charges which led to the oral promise made by the Chief Justice to review them.
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Grass Roots America Buys Enough Guns In 3 Months, To Outfit The Entire Chinese And Indian Army Combined!
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“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto WWII
Washington, DC - -(AmmoLand.com)- It seem that readers of our recent post about honest Americans buying enough guns to outfit the current active army’s of China and India have been having trouble finding the hard data and facts to substantiate this article.
Here is the link to the NICS: The National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
As reported earlier each of the last few months has been a record for firearm purchases or sales in the USA with a record 1,529,635 background checks being performed in March of 2009 alone. Firearm Sales Continue to Climb in March 2009
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The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, is all about saving lives and protecting people from harm—by not letting guns and explosives fall into the wrong hands. It also ensures the timely transfer of firearms to eligible gun buyers.
Mandated by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 and launched by the FBI on November 30, 1998, NICS is used by Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) to instantly determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible to buy firearms or explosives. Before ringing up the sale, cashiers call in a check to the FBI or to other designated agencies to ensure that each customer does not have a criminal record or isn’t otherwise ineligible to make a purchase. More than 100 million such checks have been made in the last decade, leading to more than 700,000 denials.
NICS is located at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia. It provides full service to FFLs in 30 states, five U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. Upon completion of the required Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Form 4473, FFLs contact the NICS Section via a toll-free telephone number or electronically on the Internet through the NICS E-Check System to request a background check with the descriptive information provided on the ATF Form 4473. NICS is customarily available 17 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays (except for Christmas). See below for more facts and forms.
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Obama Promotes Hate Law: Rosa Brooks Promoter Of Islamic Head Cutting Sharia Law Appointed To Operate Within The Pentagon As Top Advisor!
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Americans everywhere should be gravely concerned at the news of Obama’s latest administration appointee. Rosa Brooks, an anti-military extremist, is Barack Obama’s pick as a Pentagon advisor on issues of national security. Brooks, who will be leaving her post as a Los Angeles Times columnist, will now be advising Michele Flournoy, Undersecretary of Defense.
Obama’s pick shows an outrageous lack of concern for American safety, because Brooks is notorious for being a left wing anti-military radical. It is a well known fact that she has been an apologist for Islamic terrorists and has criticized the counterterrorism efforts of the United States and Israel!
In this article she calls President Bush and Vice President Cheney ‘war criminals’ and wonders why they are not being prosecuted for their ‘war crimes’. She then goes on to compare those of us who support the troops in the war on terror and President Bush’s policies (yes, the same policies that won in Iraq and kept this nation safe for 7 years straight) to the Serbian supporters of the international war criminal Radovan Karadzic. “Even war criminals (President Bush and VP Cheney) have fan clubs (that’s us)” she writes. This is the woman who will now be advising national security officials?
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to be advising the Pentagon and State Dept.!!
Rosa Brooks used to work as an advisor for George Soros’s Open Society Institute. Soros is the anti-American billionaire who has been supporting the left’s assault on President Bush and conservatives in America. Just a few of their stated goals are to fight “entrenched institutional racism” in America and stopping our “increasingly punitive National Security policies”.
Brooks also previously held a position as an advisor for Professor Harold Koh when he held a position in the State Department in Bill Clinton’s administration. Harold Koh himself has also been picked by Obama this time around, again, as a State Department legal advisor.
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Brooks and her relationship to Koh, as well as his own appointment to a position of power in the State Department, are as suspect as Obama’s relationship to people like William Ayers and Rev. Wright! Harold Koh gained fame when he allegedly declared at a meeting of Yale alums that “…in an appropriate case, he didn’t see any reason why Shari’a law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States,” according to one lawyer who was present, Steven Stein.
As if that piece of information wasn’t bad enough, Koh is also a huge advocate of legal transnationalism – he advocates adopting international laws into the American system, making the laws our congress passes for us subservient to those of foreign countries.
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Awful. Made worse by capitulation after capitulation to the anti-human ideology.
BRITISH Muslim fanatics sparked fresh fury last night by praising Taliban “heroes” for sending our troops back from Afghanistan in body bags.
Dozens of homegrown “jihadis” have posted website messages cheering last weekend’s carnage in Helmand province that saw Britain’s death toll rise to 204 soldiers.
Last night there were calls by senior politicians for the Home Office to crack down on the hate-filled rants that will distress even further the relatives of troops who gave their lives fighting the Taliban.
The shameful website involved stoked up hatred as it emerged that one of two soldiers killed trying to save their mortally wounded commander had recently got married before deploying to Afghanistan.
The commander had got engaged while home on leave in June.
The tragedies were revealed yesterday as the Ministry of Defence named the three soldiers, all from 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, who died on Sunday.
The gloating jihadi website, Islamic Awakening, is a forum for Islamic extremism, prompting a slew of vile attacks on the efforts of British troops to rescue Afghanistan from the grip of fundamentalists.
The first messages were posted within minutes of the news of the latest outrage in Helmand on Sunday.
“Isma’eel”, said: “Man, they really are dropping like flies over there lol [laugh out loud].”
Another, calling himself “AbuJunayd”, said: “Inshallah [God-willing] the more the kuffs [non-Muslims] deploy, the more the bros will send em back in body bags, or crutches or with serious psychological problems.”
California Hastings College Of Law Hate Speech: Professor George Bisharat Lier
Posted by: volubrjotr on: February 2, 2010
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Fascist New York Times Ran This Headline Of Our American General
New York Times ran an anti-Israel op-ed by University of California Hastings College of Law professor George Bisharat titled “Israel on Trial”. The piece, false where it is not misleading, is a disgrace. It offers a sounding board for all those who believe that only Muslims have a right to self-determination, that Gaza remains “occupied” even though Israel disengaged in 2005, and that Israel – a sovereign and legitimate nation – doesn’t have the right to defend itself against attack.
Bisharat is a Palestinian-American law professor whose professional mission is the indictment of Israel for war crimes, no matter how incredulous the argument. He begins his piece with the statement: “Chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law.” Actually, it would be more accurate to describe this “chilling testimony” as rumors circulated by an anti-Israel activist. The fact that it was subsequently exposed as unsubstantiated like the Mohammed al-Dura defamation a decade ago that led to the deaths of hundreds of Israelis in the Second Intifada, merited scant attention by Bisharat or the Times for that matter.
Bisharat argues that while Palestinians firing missiles indiscriminately at Israeli towns and cities constituted a war crime, Israel’s response to such aggression constituted a war crime as well. It is the moral equivalency of the two – equating the actions of the aggressor with the response of the victim – that is offensive, but the fact that the New York Times chose to give it op-ed status is repugnant.
Bisharat lists six “offenses” committed by Israel in the Gaza War, each of which is deceptive:
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1. “Violating its duty to protect the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel’s 2005 “disengagement” from Gaza, the territory remains occupied. Israel unleashed military firepower against a people it is legally bound to protect.”
As Dore Gold wrote in an analysis after the Gaza disengagement, what creates an “occupation” is the existence of a military government which “exercises the functions of government” making Bisharat’s statement nonsense. Israel uprooted army bases, entire towns, synagogues, the livelihoods of thousands of Israelis, and even forced them to remove their dead from these communities and rebury them in Israeli cemeteries. If no Israeli military government is exercising its authority or any of “the functions of government” in the Gaza Strip – and none is – then there can be no “occupation” and Bisharat’s statement cannot make it so.
More to the point, an entire industry of successful Israeli greenhouses was subsequently purchased for the Palestinians in Gaza after the disengagement – much of it by wealthy, idealistic American Jews. In return, the Palestinians elected an Islamist government that not only destroyed this lucrative Palestinian industry, but undermined the fabric of Palestinian society by firing thousands of missiles at Israel’s civilian population rather than tending to the more “mundane” aspects of statehood like paving roads, collecting taxes, creating jobs, providing healthcare and other social services, arranging garbage collection and educating their children in matters other than martyrdom and the glories of Paradise. If any entity has failed to “protect the civilian population of the Gaza Strip,” it is most assuredly Hamas.
2. “Imposing collective punishment in the form of a blockade, in violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In June 2007, after Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip, Israel imposed suffocating restrictions on trade and movement.”
Article 33 provides that no persons under foreign occupation are allowed to be punished for an offense they did not personally commit. In making collective punishment a war crime, the drafters of the Geneva Conventions had in mind the reprisal killings of World Wars I and II where the Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity and carried out collective punishments against entire towns to suppress resistance. Aside from the fact that Israel was not an “occupying force” or that the Palestinians were not “protected persons” within the meaning of Article 33, no such actions took place by the Israelis against the Palestinians during the recent Gaza War.
If however, Bisharat was speaking of the blockade Israel imposed on Gaza to prevent Hamas from smuggling further weapons into the territory or rebuilding its terrorist infrastructures, it should be noted that Israel’s actions are no different from the American embargoes against Iran and Korea yet no accusation has ever been made that the US is committing a war crime by imposing “collective punishment” on the Iranians or the Koreans. Only Israel seems to merit that “honor”.
3. “Deliberately attacking civilian targets”.
According to international law, high-value targets protected by civilian human shields can still be attacked so long as every effort is made to minimize civilian deaths. The unfortunate truth is that the Geneva Conventions have become more of a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists. As Noah Pollak writes in Commentary: “The laws of war permit attacking a civilian object (ie: a school, home, mosque or building) only when it is making an effective contribution to military action and a definite military advantage is gained by its destruction” and Article 51 of the 1977 amendment to the 1949 Geneva Convention extends this provision by providing that: “The presence of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain areas (ie: civilian objects) immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield these military objects from attacks or to shield, favor or impede military operations.”
Hamas does not, nor has it ever acted in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and, as a matter of military strategy, consciously targets civilians in Israel and uses its own civilian population as human shields to protect its military assets. Indeed, its goal is to maximize the number of deaths and injuries among vulnerable civilians for propaganda purposes. Its foot soldiers do not wear military uniforms, deliberately hide amongst civilian populations, and use ambulances, mosques, schools, private homes, playgrounds, the Islamic University of Gaza, and UN buildings not as “civilian objects” but as military installations (not to mention using women pretending to be sick or pregnant, and even children as carriers of lethal explosives) knowing that none of their leaders will ever be charged with war crimes. That right, it seems, is reserved only for Israel.
4. “Willfully killing civilians without military justification.”
Bisharat’s condemnation of Israel as “willingly killing civilians” in not only factually incorrect but an abomination. In Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces dropped leaflets, used radio and TV stations, sent text messages and even amassed the complete list of cellular telephone numbers of Gaza Palestinians which, through an automated telephone response system in Arabic, warned residents to evacuate targeted buildings prior to Israeli air strikes. What other army in the world has ever conducted war in this fashion?
5. “Deliberately employing disproportionate force.”
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In Gaza, Israel’s actions were justified under international law. Article 51 of the UN Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks. The only restriction is that their actions must be “proportionate” – an ambiguous term at best. Unfortunately, no way has yet been found to conduct even the most justified war without causing harm to innocent civilians and Bisharat knows this. Was Cold Harbor proportionate to Fort Sumter? If Hamas can fire missiles into Ashkelon, would a proportionate response be for Israel to fire missiles into Gaza City? Was the war in the Pacific a proportionate response to the attack on Pearl Harbor? During World War II, British bombers firebombed German cities in response to Nazi bombings against civilian targets in British cities. While some 60,000 civilians in British cities were killed by Nazi bombers, the Allied aerial counter-offensive to eliminate that threat cost 600,000 German lives – a ratio of 10 to 1. Was that a “proportionate” response? Australian soldiers fought in Vietnam, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan and sometimes caused more casualties among civilians than among the enemy as the US has done in Iraq. Yet, despite these actions, no one would think to call the Australians or the Americans murderers. Thus, to condemn the Israelis as “deliberately employing disproportionate force” in response to over 8,000 Hamas missile attacks against its civilian population is the height of hypocrisy.
6. “Illegal use of weapons, including white phosphorus.”
Although white phosphorous in artillery shells, bombs and missiles can cause serious burns and spark fires on the ground, militaries are permitted under the laws of warfare to use it to create smoke screens to hide troop movements as well as to illuminate battlefields at night, but you wouldn’t think so after reading Bisharat’s editorial suggesting that Israel used it as a weapon.
While white phosphorous can and has been used as a weapon in the past, such was not the case in Gaza. It was, however, the case in Fallujah in November 2004 when US forces used white phosphorous as a weapon and not just for illumination or camouflage. Nor was the US alone in such use. In World War II, white phosphorus mortar bombs, shells, rockets and grenades were used extensively by American, British, and even Japanese forces, and later, it was used in Korea, Vietnam and Chechnya in both smoke-generating and anti-personnel roles, although Bisharat fails to mention this in his editorial.
Rather, the impression is created that Israel’s use of white phosphorous was “illegal” thereby implying that Israel committed a war crime. What he also neglected to mention was the January 14th, 2009 Ha’aretz article noting that Hamas had fired a white phosphorus mortar shell into southern Israel, but since Israeli civilians were the intended victims of the attack, it was not worth mentioning.
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There was once a time when the New York Times would never publish biased editorials such as this. Those days are clearly gone. Rather, it seems that the narrative has become more important than the facts, especially when that narrative aims at the demonization of Israel.
Mark Silverberg is a foreign policy analyst for the Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel), a Contributing Editor for Family Security Matters and the New Media Journal and a member of Hadassah’s National Academic Advisory Board. His book “The Quartermasters of Terror: Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Jihad” was published by Wyndham Hall Press in 2005 and his articles have been archived under www.marksilverberg.com and www.analyst-network.com
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