Saturday, November 12, 2011

NOW, WHAT PART ABOUT ISLAM IS IT THAT YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND ?

All About Muhammad ...

FACTS; NOT CONJECTURE


There are several true but disagreeable facts concerning Islam. To ignore these facts only hastens the destruction of our democratic society, which is well underway. We challenge anyone to refute any of the following:

* There has never been a society that has come to Islam, except by the sharp edge of a sword; no exceptions! Of the estimated 1.2 – 1.4 billion Muslims in the world, only about 12% are of Arabic descent; the remainder, are the descendants of conquered societies.

* Since its invention by Muhammad, in the 7th Century, and as well outlined in the Koran, the repeatedly stated goal of Islam is to bring the entire world into Dar Al- Islam, the “peace” of Islam and only a society completely subjecting itself to Islam will have peace. In the double-speak of Islam, any nation not willing to capitulate and be enslaved without a fight is a “transgressor”, and devoid of any further consideration. No further provocation is necessary!

* Islam has the world’s record of genocide. Its victims, over more than 1,350 years, number in the hundreds of millions, many more than the victims of the Holocaust and World Communism combined. Muslim genocide is still ongoing in the Sudan, Ivory Cost. Mauritania, Somalia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and, to a lesser extent in other Muslim countries.

* Slavery is still alive in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Somalia, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia but to a lesser extent in other countries even partially controlled by Islam. Estimates vary widely, but there can be no less than 750,000 slaves, of which around 250,000 are considered to be held in Saudi Arabia!

* Of the 53 countries of the Muslim world, none is a democracy, and human rights, is an abstract concept. Under Muslim law, the Shari’a, women and children have few rights and infidels have none at all!

* The Crusades, cited by Muslims as their mistreatment by Christians, were only belated attempts to reclaim predominantly Christian and Jewish lands previously conquered by Islam. Facts: The Dome of the Rock Mosque was built on the ruins of the second Jewish temple and Constantinople, the previous seat of Christianity is now called Istanbul.

* Islam allied itself with Germany in both World Wars and in World War II, brigades of Muslims from the Balkans were incorporated into Hitler's S.S Divisions. Heinrich Himmler, head of the S.S., admired Islam and the ferocity of its followers

* Muslim countries, mostly Saudi Arabia, have invested more than 50 billion dollars towards the destruction of our society, more than World Communism spent in over 75 years! This has resulted in the construction of more than 100 multi-million dollar mosques, with Muslim clerics preaching jihad from the pulpit, and over 125 universities teaching a sanitized version of Islam, as well as thousands of public schools, at all levels. This investment has already produced several “home grown” terrorists. Some have been captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban and others have done their bit for Allah on the home front.

* We have had, and still have training camps, in various states, for Muslim teenagers and even pre-teens, that teach basic infantry arms training, mostly with brooms and mops, but in some cases with rifles and live ammunition!

* Muslims are accepted into delicate positions throughout our entire society, including at airports, including Air Traffic Control positions and baggage handlers, railroads, chemical plants, laboratories, education, waterworks, political offices and even our armed forces. In 2005, President Bush signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to educate 25,000 Saudis in the U.S. over a five year period, including flight training! Fifteen of the 19 suicide Jihadists responsible for 9/11 were Saudis and their leader is Osama ‘bin Laden. But the U.S. still buys about 20 billion dollars of oil yearly from Saudi Arabia.

* According to Islam, Allah, Muhammad and the Koran, which in effect are all one and the same, Holy Jihad is the responsibility of all able-bodied adult male Muslims. But it is also the duty of all others of the society, including older persons and even women and children, when called upon to assist. And, since all Muslims consider that the Koran is the unadulterated word of Allah, it is thereby “set in stone” and must be obeyed by all Muslims, upon pain of death!

* Our leaders and media tell us that most Muslims are peace-loving useful citizens and this is perhaps true. History, however, tells us that as little as 3% of a population, if sufficiently dedicated and vicious can control the rest of the population. Only 3%, of the Russian population in 1917, were Communists and only 3% of Germans were Nazis in 1924 but we all know the results of those beginnings. It is exceedingly naïve to believe that most Muslims would not help terrorists if called upon to do so. Regardless of any affinity felt towards our society, any Muslims refusing to cooperate with jihad would endanger their own lives, those of their family and guarantee loss of their cultural identity. There are an estimated 1.5 to 2.0 million Muslim U.S. citizens, several thousand Muslim students and an undermined number of terrorists that have passed over our leaky borders.

* The ridiculous claims of the so-called Palestinians to Israeli territory only started four years after Israel reclaimed their homeland in 1948. Over a period of 3,000 years, various conquerors ruled there but the Muslim Arabs exerted control for the briefest time period, less than 30 years! Nor did they establish any type of government there; they were just bandits. Israel, however, has the most perfect birthright of any country in the world, with a continuous presence there since 1,317 B.C.

* In our present politically correct society, the concepts of sedition and treason have lost their meanings! In several cases, convicted Muslim terrorists have received lesser sentences than persons mistreating animals. Today, there are countless politicians, lobbyists, media personnel, corporations, educators, clergymen and others furthering the cause of Islam, either by design or ignorance. In 1942, if working for the Axis powers, or as late as 1985, if undermining our democracy for World Communism, they would have been vigorously prosecuted, for sedition or treason. Today, several of our present congress would certainly qualify as seditionists!

* It is a sad but hard fact that most of the American public, including most of our media, political leaders and the general public, are abysmally ignorant concerning Islam. The silly phrase “War on Terror” used by President Bush and now echoed daily in the media, is both misleading and dangerous. It is misleading because it labels a tactic of war, “terror” as the enemy and dangerous because it does not identify our real enemy, Islam. All Muslims are active or potentially active terrorists if following the fundamental doctrine of their religion. Those who do not are hypocrites!

* The organization of C.A.I.R. (Council of American Islamic Relations), now allied with the A.C.L.U., is the most important organization for Islamic subversion in our country. Notwithstanding that C.A.I.R has been linked to various terrorist organizations by our Department of Justice, and that several of its members have been indicted or deported, it still operates with impunity, protected by powerful members of our own government. The website of anti-cair-net.com can be accessed for a great deal of information regarding this subversive organization.

* Muhammad ‘bin Abdallah was personally guilty of murder, by beheading, crucifixion, burning his victims alive, drowning them in boiling water, pouring molten pitch down their throats and by ripping off their flesh. He was also guilty of rape, mutilations, kidnapping, extortion, slavery, banditry, abuse of women, pedophilia, adultery and false witness. All these crimes are sanctioned in the Koran and Hadith, and well chronicled by Christian, Jewish and even Muslim scholars. However, none of these offenses are considered crimes if committed against infidels and some not considered as such when only Muslims are involved. A quote of Muhammad from the Hadith, “I am the prophet that laughs when killing my enemies.”, well illuminates his base character.

* Muhammad, if alive today, and not resident in a Muslim country, or a country lacking the Death Penalty, would be an inmate in an asylum for the criminally insane or be serving life imprisonment without parole. Or, if resident in a country with the Death Penalty, and not having been determined insane, he would be in a 6 x 8 foot cell on Death Row, awaiting execution!

NOW, WHAT PART ABOUT ISLAM IS IT,
THAT YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND ?

[ Ignorance is perhaps bliss, but knowledge incurs responsibilities. ]

Bee's Notes:


2. State Rep. Womick calls for purging military of muslims (with video)

3. Former FBI agent says "Mosques not protected by First Amendment" (front groups for the MB, ...)

While former federal agents speak out against Islam, recognizing the threat against America; and State Representatives see the dangers of Muslims in the military i.e. Ft. Hood shootings, etc.; and persecuted Christians are fleeing from Islamic tortures/murders/burnings from the four corners of the earth, we have an administration that continues to cover with a broad brush the "contributions" of Islam within America.

Listen up, folks!  This Administration will have to be removed through elections in 2012; they shove Islam down our throats, refuse to acknowledge the dangers of Islam - a civilization that contradicts modern civilization, and demands that Americans remain "tolerant" of a so-called "religion of peace" that holds no tolerance towards any non-Muslims anywhere in this world.

While America is opening its front doors to those Christians fleeing Islam persecutions, the back door and windows are open wider to accept the flow of so-called "Muslim refugees"!  This is an accident waiting to happen!  How long before the Muslims begin clashing with the very same Christian refugees from their former Islamic countries?!  Something is very wrong with this picture, don't you think?  And what, exactly, are the Muslim "refugees" fleeing from, since they are living in Muslim countries?!  Either this is a ploy to enter non-Muslim countries in order to gain control of our Western civilization, or they are fleeing other Muslims ... and since we are aware that the different Muslim sects kill each other, is it any wonder they can't get along with non-Muslims?  .... Just saying .......

All the more reason why the United States had better get their own house in order, by a complete overhaul of its Immigration and Naturalization Services, starting immediately!  I believe they are now under Homeland Security ... so much for America's "security"!  





Bill Warner exposes ultimately political nature of Islam


"ISLAM IS A WAR BETWEEN TWO CIVILIZATIONS"



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Islam is a complete political manifesto for a takeover ,hostile if necessary ,wherever it's adherents set their feet. It is a manual for world conquest ,domination and complete supremacy through all and any means available.


AND, from the archives of "Islam Watch":
Islam and the Iranian Dilemma


Since its inception fourteen hundred years ago, Islam has been at war with the people of this planet. Millions of people have been literally butchered with the sword of Islam.
 
Some may argue that all religions at one point in time have committed crimes against humanity. That may be so, but none of the existing world religions' foundation has been based upon shedding the blood of its innocent victims. Islam lives, breaths and grows on blood. Once we take away this red element from Islam, Islam will vanish completely. Islam cannot possibly live in the hearts and minds of its believers. Islam needs to shed the blood of the infidels, meaning all non-Muslims. Islam is about world domination. It is utterly part of being Muslims.

Muslims are radical even in their intrafaith dealings. Various sects and sub-sects pronounce other sects and sub-sects as heretics worthy of death; women are treated as chattel, deprived of many rights; hands are chopped for stealing even a loaf of bread; sexual violation is punished by stoning, and much much more. These are standard day-to-day ways of the mainstream “moderate” Muslims living under the stone-age laws of Sharia.

The “moderate” mainstream of Islam has been outright genocidal from inception. Their own historians record that Ali, the first imam of the Shiite and the son-in-law of Muhammad, with the help of another man, beheaded 700 Jewish men in the presence of the Prophet himself. The Prophet of Allah and his disciples took the murdered men’s women and children in slavery.

“Ali, who is the successor of Apostle of God on the earth, and known to fight with a double edged sword, ordered the warriors to cut off the heads of the nonbelievers. Zobair assisted him in finishing this job. Ali also ordered the distribution of the captives and their property [i.e. the ‘booty’] among the Muslims, in accord with Sa’ad’s (b. Mu’adh) decision regarding the fate of the defeated Jews [i.e., the Qurayzah]. After the battle [and executions], Ali ordered everyone [of the Muslims] to return home. Sa’ad (b. Mu’adh) who had been very anxious during the battle, was now happy and praised God upon completion of his task. Then [later] they [i.e., the Muslims] celebrated and enjoyed beautiful women.”

Muslims are taught deception and lying in the Quran itself—something that Muhammad practiced during his life whenever he found it expedient. Successive Islamic rulers and leaders have done the same.
Khomeini, the founder of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, for instance, rallied the people under the banner of democracy. All along his support for democracy.

was not a commitment of an honest man, but a ruse. As soon as he gathered the reins of power, Khomeini went after the Useful Idiots of his time with vengeance. These best children of Iran, having been thoroughly deceived and used by the crafty phony populist-religionist, had to flee the country to avoid the fate of tens of thousands who were imprisoned or executed by the double-crossing imam. 
“Throughout centuries, Iranians continued to prevent Islam from making inroads into their cultural identity and divesting them of their heritage. Knowing their culture well, they influenced events and paved the way for posterity to turn the tide. From the beginning, three lines of resistance are distinct: administrative manipulation, political resistance, and intellectual nonconformity.”
Almost three decades after the tragic Islamic Revolution of 1979, the suffocating rule of Islam casts its death-bearing pall over Iranians. A proud people with enviable heritage is being systematically purged of its sense of identity and forced to think and behave like the barbaric and intolerant Muslims.
Iranians who had always treated women with equality, for instance, have seen them reduced by the stone-age clergy to sub-human status of Islamic teaching. Any attempt by the women of Iran to counter the misogynist rule of Muhammad’s mullahs is mercilessly suppressed. Women are beaten, imprisoned, raped and killed just as men are slaughtered without due process or mercy.
One must pay attention to how Islamists engage others in discussion. When they don't like what they hear, they resort to ridicule, accusations and name-calling. Wouldn't it be wonderful if these people would, for once, were to abandon their primitive mindset and use a civilized method of dialogue?
What are the facts the Islamists dispute? Is it the truth that they don't like? Well, that's tough. Truth is often unwelcome. Yet, it is light to our feet. We really must be truthful even if it hurts and often it does.
Are there any questions about the facts?
1. Muhammad died and did not leave a written will (he was illiterate, that's understandable). So, his high-ranking disciples began scheming for leadership. The Shias claim that Muhammad verbally indicated that Ali was to lead his Ummah. Well, 90% of the Muslims say, no he did not and the Caliphate system was the way to go.
2. Shortly after Muhammad's death, Ali was killed by some disgruntled Muslim, for whatever reason. Violence was part and parcel of Islam from the very outset.
3. Then there was a battle between Yazid's forces and Hussein. Wasn't there? Hussein and his band of relatives-followers got butchered. Well, friends, that's the nature of the beast called war.
4. To this day, Shias bloody themselves, their children, even their babies with self-flagellation in a most horrid way in aza dari (morning) for what happened to Hussein. What good does this do, other than perpetuate a sense of defeatism and fanaticism that mitigates against Iranians freeing themselves from the yoke of the conniving mullahs?
The long-suffering Iranian people must put the past behind them and use their excellent talents to not only join the advanced world, but lead it. What a shame to remain stuck in this horrid mentality of victimization. Iranians deserve better than being manipulated by a bunch of mullahs who have been having a great ride on the back of the ignorant poor. They have been deceiving the poor and the ignorant with empty promises all the goodies that they are promised in the afterlife.
Forget the afterlife and pay attention to the plight of the suffering masses. Stop playing politics with the life of the people. Those responsible for this sham have no heart and no shame. Let the bad bygones be bygones and use the marvelous human potential of Iranians to provide them with the opportunities to better themselves and their families.
The most important step in the direction of emancipation of our people is the establishment of the rule of law -- not the barbaric Sharia -- to grant all Iranians, male and female, young and old, of any and all beliefs equal rights.
We Iranians don’t have a dog in this fight. In fact we should rid ourselves of all Islamic stains, Shia, Sunni, or whatever, and with it stop playing victims of one power or another. Playing victim may give psychological relief but doesn’t solve any problems on the ground. And problems on the ground we have aplenty.
Let's look forward and do something about the sorry plight of Iranian people today so that future generation recall this generation of Iranians as trailblazers who had the courage to break from the bleak past and launch a bright future.



Friday Afternoon Roundup - Occupy Cain - by Sultan Knish

Friday, November 11, 2011



What's the real danger of Islamophobia? Think of it as a license to kill.

the most pernicious thing about the Islamophobia myth is that once it is used to legitimize Muslim grievances, it is then used to legitimize the violent Muslim response to those grievances. Once you accept that Islamophobia is a serious problem, you have taken the first step to justifying violence as a response to that problem.

That is how it began in Israel, once the narrative of Muslim suffering under the “occupation” was accepted; Muslim terrorism became legitimized as a resistance to the occupation. Once you accept that Muslims in France have been marginalized by an Islamophobic society, then criticizing their religion marginalizes them further and justifies their violent response.

...

That’s the Orwellian Doublespeak of Islamophobia: we are to be afraid of being afraid and if we are afraid enough, then perhaps we won’t need to be afraid anymore. The left’s twisted politics endorse militant terror and then warn us not to be terrorized by them. Only the guilty condemn the violence, the innocent cheer it on or pretend that it isn’t there. From the French Revolution to the USSR’s Great Terror to the Black Panthers to Islam, nothing has changed.

See the rest in my Front Page Magazine article: Islamophobia: A License to Kill and back over in Libya that wonderful war we had to fight in order to set the Islamists free to run the place.

In this week’s issue of The Australian, Sheikh Hamza Abu Fas, Libya’s new Minister for Religious Affairs, gave Westerners a taste of the “free and democratic” that NATO had been fighting for.

The law that allowed a first wife to veto marriage to a second wife will be overturned. “The woman is not equal to the man in the body,” explained Sheikh Hamza. Thieves will have their hands chopped off: “If this happens it will only happen once because other people will not want it to happen again and will not commit theft,” said the good Sheikh.

Islamic banking will be the only kind of banking in Libya. “In the future, we hope all banks will be Islamic,” Sheikh Hamza said. “The Islamic bank is best for all people. All Europeans and Australian people will realize the best solution for banks is Islamic banks.”

...

How extreme a figure is Sheikh Hamza? In Feb 2010, he participated in a symposium on “Revisionist Studies of the Concepts of Jihad, Verification, and Judgment of People” held under the auspices of Sheikh Salman bin Fahd al-Awda, secretary of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Qaradawi’s organization, and a member of the European Council for Fatwa, another Qaradawi group.

Sheikh Hamza has participated in sessions of the European Council for Fatwa and in Muslim World League events. The Muslim World League is another Muslim Brotherhood group for the promotion of Sharia and is funded by Saudi Arabia.
So the good news is that Libya is now free. Free to kill Africans, oppress women and eagerly await the latest interpretation of Islamic law. See this and more in my FPM Article, "Meet Libya’s New Islamist Boss."



THE ELECTION FOLLIES

I doubt the Democrats could have imagined that the primaries would sink to this level of absurdity. And there's no escaping the inevitable trajectory.

Bachmann was supposed to be the anti-Romney, then the task fell to Perry and Cain, and both of them are in trouble. Gingrich is waiting in the wings and while I think he could be a very effective president, I'm not altogether convinced that he could win an election.

Cain's problem is very basic. While this is a political hit job, no doubt about it, the only way to shake it loose is to conclusively prove that at least one of his accusers is lying. And in a He-Said, She-Said situation that's going to be hard to do. Next to impossible. And multiple accusers and preexisting cases raise the possibility that where there's smoke, there's fire.

I like Cain, I would very much like to see him take on Obama in a debate, but this isn't just going to go away. Cain has demonstrated that he has a certain measure of that teflon that I discussed in last week's roundup, at least among Republican voters, but I'm not that confident the same bulletproof thing will work for him with the general body of voters.

This is still a developing story so we'll see where it heads and where it ends up.

Perry has his own problems that he keeps creating.Going into the race as a front runner, all he really had to do was grin a lot, deliver platitudes smoothly and denounce Romney. So far he's managed to grin a lot and that's only one out of three.

The debate moment won't end his campaign, obviously, though it will reinforce all the existing doubts and while the way he's exploiting it shows a certain amount of teflon stamina, it doesn't change that he screwed up in a bizarre way to get to that point.

The screwup isn't that he forgot a key plank of his program that he had managed to compellingly lead into, it's that he couldn't think of a way to work around that memory loss except to go around asking Ron Paul if he remembered what it was. That's more unforgivable in a way.

Speakers are only human and everyone makes mistakes. Do you think that Reagan never forgot anything or didn't face a question to which he didn't know the answer? Obviously, again. But there are ways to handle that. Watch some of Reagan's speeches, debates and conferences and you'll see how a masterful speaker dealt with it.

The no-brainer for Perry, in this situation, would have been to begin talking about his second department, and going into detail and throwing in something controversial to divert a follow-up question. It might not have saved him, but it would have been a much less problematic moment.

The issue isn't really that Perry couldn't remember, that's bad in its own way, it's that he handled it in the worst way possible in a public forum watched by millions of people. And this isn't exactly the first time. That confrontation with Romney comes to mind.

In a national campaign against Obama, the Republican opponent is going to have to be on the ball with a media and a nutroots that will take anything and turn it into a viral video or a smear. Perry's response shows a certain amount of cleverness and resilience, but I have to wonder if the credit goes to him or his people for that one. The cleverness and resilience was needed on stage.

In the debates, Perry has been either stiffly over-rehearsed or just impulsive, letting himself be carried away. The impulsive Perry is better than the robotic Perry clumsily delivering attacks, the former won't be able to win an election, the latter might, but the latter is giving his opponents a ton of ammunition.

Again all is not lost. Bush said plenty of things in front of an open microphone during and before the campaign. It didn't cost him the election, and his good humor about it helped build his image. Perry might sail by under the same flag. Maybe.




THE OCCUPATION CONTINUES

Local businesses near Zuccotti Park are being vandalized by the occupiers. Oakland is being vandalized by the occupiers. Rape, TB and other fun stuff are all part of what being the 3 percent who pretend to be the 99 percent before getting degrees in philosophical anthropology and a job at the EPA regulating people's carbon emission means.

And naturally the whole thing slips into increasingly pointless occupation spinoffs. "Occupy Birthright." Should people who are against occupations be occupying anything at all? It would be like pro-Israel activists calling themselves terrorists. It's bad just at a common sense linguistic level. But then we're dealing with people who create checkpoints to protest against checkpoints.

Occupy Wall Street at least had the virtue of choosing a widely despised target. But Occupy Oakland? What did Oakland ever do to anyone? Or Denver? Or Newark?

Like Hitler invading Russia, the occupation's worst enemy is the weather. Their second worst enemy is themselves. Downtown Manhattan is full of dogmatic liberals and most people want them gone. If the media wasn't spinning everything they did 24/7 it would be much worse.

That this entire national human bedbug infestation even exists can be put down to a lack of municipal leadership and the desperation of the Obama campaign. But how many rapes, murders and disease outbreaks is it going to take before the whole thing backfires on the left?

The good is that OWS at least has a new poster.




OLD GLORY

(Via Director Blue at The Volokh Conspiracy)

Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School District (N.D. Cal.), decided the day before yesterday, upholds a California high school’s decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. (See here and here for more on this case.)

The decision might well be correct under Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist. (1969), which allows a “heckler’s veto” in K-12 school: Schools may indeed restrict student speech when it’s likely to cause substantial disruption, even when the disruption stems from other students’ hostility to the speech.

You want bad? We're at the point where American flags are too controversial to allow in schools not just because of some leftist administrators, but because of the students... in a decision upheld by a court.

Here, for the reasons discussed above, Defendants have provided a non-discriminatory basis for asking Plaintiffs to remove their American flag attire. Defendants have put forth significant evidence demonstrating that Plaintiffs were asked to change clothes in order to protect their own safety. Plaintiffs have not offered any evidence demonstrating that students wearing the colors of the Mexican flag were targeted for violence.

If Mexican students terrorize American students, then a Mexican-American vice-principal can order American students to get rid of the flag, without there being any discrimination involved. Except on the part of the Mexican students.

Beautiful, isn't it? And the school system is paid for through compulsory taxes levied on homeowners who have to fund the schools and all the minority homeowners too, and the cost of bailing out the banks which were brought down by those mortgages and a local government deep in debt to pay for the schools, the health care and anti-gang programs.What could be more American than that?

This in a nutshell is the problem with Perry. National debt, growth of government, those won't matter if much of the country is just an extension of the disaster area south of the border. If this goes on for another 30-40 years there isn't going to be an America, there are going to be American enclaves in Greater Mexico.

And that American flag will be in the trash.




GREEDY RADICALS

Won't you please save a leftist? Every day Nation editors have to cut back to drinking only one glass of chardonnay and only one Michael Moore Netflix rental.

As the protesters of Occupy Wall Street voice their frustrations just a few blocks south of our offices, we’re facing our own very real challenges. It’s simple: because of the economy, donations to our Nation Associates program are down $200,000 for 2011.

This is no time to pull punches, scale back or otherwise take our eye off the ball. Not with a presidential election heating up and so much at stake. We must make up this shortfall before we sit down to plan our Election 2012 coverage for the coming year. Help us by bidding in our online auction.

So instead of buying your loved ones holiday gifts that enrich the corporate establishment, why not share your passion for progressive journalism by bidding on a one-of-a-kind gift from The Nation.

But isn't the Nation a corporation? Aren't its editors and advertisers enriched by its operations?

It's begging for donations, so it's not a very good corporation, but it's certainly isn't a non-profit. It's The Nation LP. I can see a Sears ad on the front page. Sears is a corporation that pays money to place ads on the site of a magazine with paid subscriptions.

What is Teresa Stack's salary? I don't know, but I suspect it's a number close enough to that donation shortfall.

It was certainly possible for The Nation to run without losing money, but by maintaining the image of a money losing operation that's subsidized by donations, it never really had to develop a workable business model. It can just ask for money. Advertising makes up 20 percent of its revenue. How much of the rest is made up by radicals with their hand out?

If you have nearly a fifth of a million of subscribers at 40 to 50 bucks for an annual subscription and you can't figure out how to make money from that or find advertisers, then it's a real problem. But instead The Nation wraps itself in its own radicalism and goes panhandling, while pretending that it's more moral because they're not greedy capitalists, they're greedy radicals.

But if you are moved to help out a red mag, you can pick up Memories of Lenin at their auction for a steal.





THE LIST

From American Digest

The twin towers loomed over everything, thought of, if they were thought of at all, as an irritation in that they blocked off so much of the sky. It was 1975 and, Vietnam not withstanding, America was just about at the midway point between two world wars. Of course, we didn't know that at the time. The only war we knew of was the Second World War and the background humm of the Cold War. It was a summer Sunday and we were in the midst of what now can be seen as "The Long Peace."

In front of the lawns at Battery Park was a monument that caught my attention. It was formed of an immense stone eagle and two parallel rows of granite monoliths about 20 feet wide, 20 feet tall and 3 feet thick. From a distance you could see that they had words carved into them from top to bottom. There was also a lot of shade between them so I took my hot dog and my coke and wheeled my bike over, sitting down at random among the monoliths.

I remember that the stone was cool against my back as I sat there looking at the stone across from me on that warm afternoon. As I looked up it dawned on me that the words cut into the stones were all names. Just names. The names of soldiers, sailors and airmen who had met their death in the north Atlantic in WWII. I was to learn later that there were 4,601 names. All lost in the frigid waters, all without any marker for their graves -- except those in the hearts of those they left behind, and their names carved into these stones that rose up around me.

I read across several rows, moving right to left, then down a row, and then right to left. I got to the end of the sixth row and went back to the beginning of the seventh row.

At the beginning of the seventh row, I read the name: "Gerard Van der Leun." My name. Cut into the stone amongst a tally of the dead.


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Friday, November 11, 2011

Israel rushes airliner defenses as Libya leaks SAMs (video included) ..


Seeing enhanced risk of attack with smuggled Libyan arms, Israel accelerates installation of anti-missile defenses on airliners
Reuters
Published: 11.11.11, 15:11 / Israel News


Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defenses on its airliners, a security official said on Friday, seeing an enhanced risk of attack by militants using looted Libyan arms.
Jets flown by El Al and two other Israeli carriers are being equipped with a locally made system known as C-Music that uses a laser to "blind" heat-seeking missiles, the official said, giving a 2013 target for fitting most of the fleet.

As a stop-gap, Israel is adapting air force counter-measures for use aboard civilian planes, said the official, who declined to elaborate on the technologies involved, or to be identified.
"We have long been aware of the threat and were ahead of the rest of the world in preparing for it. Libya has meant government orders to step things up even further," the official said, citing intelligence assessments that chaos during the North African nation's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi allowed trafficking of Libyan shoulder-fired missiles to Palestinians and al Qaeda-linked groups in the Egyptian Sinai.


Israel began deploying another system, "Flight Guard," on El Al after al Qaeda tried to shoot down a planeload of Israeli tourists in Kenya in 2002. Flight Guard's use of diversionary flares set off safety concerns abroad and the Israelis turned to C-Music, manufactured by Elbit Systems Ltd.


According to the Israeli official, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is covering the $1 million to $1.5 million that it costs to fit C-Music to each plane.


The bathtub-sized pods, built into the planes' bodies, increase drag in flight, meaning "a few million (dollars) a year" in extra fuel expenses, the official said, adding that this, too, would be borne by the government.
Anti-aircraft missiles in West Bank?
Israel's main international gateway, Ben-Gurion Airport, is 10 km (6 miles) from the West Bank.


The Israeli official said he had no information indicating the presence of anti-aircraft missiles in the West Bank - unlike in Gaza, which has seen an influx of smuggled weaponry from Egypt since Israel withdrew settlers and soldiers in 2005.


The official said Netanyahu had, in closed-door discussions, described C-Music as a way to help reassure the Israeli public about security should the government one day return occupied land to the Palestinians under a peace agreement.


Asked for confirmation, Netanyahu's spokesman, Mark Regev, quoted him as saying that "in any possible peace deal there have to be effective security arrangements that can deal with a range of security threats, including shoulder-fired missiles."


Israel also wants to protect traffic to its small airport in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, which abuts Jordan and Egypt, where Islamist militants have operated in the past. Armed infiltrators killed eight Israelis on the Egyptian border on August 18.
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Bee;s Note:
Israel, I just love your "music" system!  Actually, I love all your music, but this one is brilliant.
As for the Libyan smuggled weapons into Gaza, interesting that the U.S. liberal media refuses to publish this news; should we say, "Way to go, Obama, NATO, Clinton!"  Look where all those "missing" weapons are winding up - right into the hands of terrorist who are aided by US tax dollars every time one penny is "gifted" to the Palestinian/Hamas leaders.  But, oh, keep flying the PA's flag in Washington, DC - must  help the "decision-makers feel it is a legitimate "gift" to enemies of the US and Israel.
However, to most of us watching, the involvement in Libya over the past six months has become another botched up fiasco!  See: Meet Libya's new Islamist boss by Daniel Greenfield.







It's All In The Timing, More on The Obama Sarkozy Open Mic

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011


I was certain that I had blogged the last about Obama's and Sarkozy's anti-Bibi loose lips, the open mic scandal here and here.  But this morning I saw what Caroline Glick wrote, which of course brings up additional and crucial points.
Location and timing really are everything.  It's not like United States President Obama and French President Sarkozy had met at a clothing store, restaurant or the opera.  This wasn't a cultural or occasion or a celebration in honor of the birth of Sarkozy's new baby daughter.  
The slurs against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama after last week's G20 summit were revealing as well as repugnant. (emphasis mine)
Of all the international leaders, our Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been the strongest and most consistent pushing and prodding and begging and warning the free world about the dangers of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.  None of the big shot G20 leaders take it seriously, and that includes Obama and Sarkozy.  Obama and Sarkozy haven't a clue.
To understand why this is the case it is necessary to first ask, when has Netanyahu ever lied to Sarkozy and Obama? This week the UN International Atomic Energy Agency's report about Iran's nuclear weapons program made clear that Israel - Netanyahu included - has been telling the truth about Iran and its nuclear ambitions all along. In contrast, world leaders have been lying and burying their heads in the sand.

Since Iran's nuclear weapons program was first revealed to the public in 2004, Israel has provided in-depth intelligence information proving Iran's malign intentions to the likes of Sarkozy, Obama and the UN. And for seven years, the US government - Obama included - has claimed that it lacked definitive proof of Iran's intentions.

Obama wasted the first two years of his administration attempting to charm the Iranians out of their nuclear weapons program. He stubbornly ignored the piles of evidence presented to him by Israel that Iran was not interested in cutting a deal.
What other topic could they have had been referring to? Could it have been the faux peace process?
Because the truth is that Israel never had a chance of achieving peace with the Palestinians.

And the reason this has always been the case has nothing to do with Netanyahu or Israel.

THERE WAS never any chance for peace because the Palestinians have no interest in making peace with Israel. As the West's favorite Palestinian "moderate," Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with Egypt's Dream TV on October 23, "I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will never recognize the 'Jewishness' of the State [of Israel] or a 'Jewish state.'" That is, Abbas will never make peace with Israel.
The PA depicts a world without Israel. They're neither shy nor discreet about saying so.



I thank Caroline Glick for putting it all in context.  I recommend reading her entire article.

Joe Brucato - Thank You soldier




November 11, 2011 - President Ronald Reagans Speech at Point-du-Hoc, Normandy

Ronald Reagan
Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day
delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France


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My first attempt at video editing, a tribute video to those who fought, some surviving, others falling, on the Beaches of Normandy in World War II.

Part of the reason I suppose I did this now was that there is what I consider an alarming trend with some who refer to this person or that person as a Nazi or some Hitler as if this is just an insult you hurl around. It seems perhaps, even if unmeant, to be insulting to the memories of those who fought so valiantly, gave so bravely and fell with such nobility on those far distant beaches fighting the onslaught of Hitler and the Nazi's. This is a thank you to them and a plea for others not to take what they fought against so lightly as if to consider it so light as just to throw around so easily.

With heartfelt gratitude that can never completely to expressed to those who served thank you to all who fought there, we remember.

KEEPERS OF THE PEACE


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Heart touching, patriotic video dedicated to America's courageous Soldiers who safeguard liberty and democracy throughout the world. These selfless "Serviens" have all signed a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount, up to and including my life; which many of our Veterans have paid in full. Thank you for serving and God bless America!




Veterans Day - November 11, 2011 - "Freedom don't come free"


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
By Alan Caruba

Veteran's Day - 11/11/11

As a veteran I naturally feel an afinity for all who have served their nation in uniform, but I am no fan of war. Those who commanded and those who served often feel the same. And then there are those who gave their lives. Their numbers would astound you and their bravery confounds the imagination. Veteran's Day is especially for them, but for the living, too.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice—is often the means of their regeneration."
-- John Stuart Mill, "The Contest in America,"
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity."
       -- Dwight  D. Eisenhower, speech, Jan. 10, 1946
"I know not with what weapons World War II will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein
And, a poem by Henry Reed, an English poet who was killed in World War I. Told in the voice of an instructor teaching new soldiers about their rifle, it juxtaposes the poet's observation of the beauty of nature around him and the absurdity of war for any but the most noble purpose.
NAMING OF PARTS
By Henry Reed
 Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens
And to-day we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.

This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.

And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have naming of parts.



POSTED BY ALAN CARUBA AT 1:49 PM