Have you been following the Libby trail? What is this travesty costing the taxpayer? Of course it doesn't matter - the liberal left is using this trail to try and destroy the Vice President and eventually the president - Again, the means justifies the ends.
They never had a case in the first place and now all of the star witnesses are folding like paper bags - and just who are the star witnesses? Reporters - their story is full of holes - that is, they lied under oath - Oh no! - not the professionals -
this is from the American thinker -
Clarice Feldman on the Libby Trial
Thomas Lifson
Our astute Libby Trial correspondent Clarice Feldman has been live blogging the Libby Trial from the media room, and has posted her reflections on yesterday's proceedings at Just One Minute. Clarice's many fans will find her characteristic wit and insight on full display. Here are some highlights:
Wednesday was a good day for the Libby defense. Judy Miller, as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the AP's Matt Apuzzo noted was not an all star witness for the prosecution. I don't like ploughing a field that's already been tilled and refer you again to my media bloggers association colleague, Rory O'Connor who has some good thumbnails on the last portion of her testimony (1, 2).
The most amusing witness of the trial was up today, the charming Matt Cooper who with his sloppy notes, shoddy journalism and wry humor brought the old play "Front Page" to life before our eyes. He is the sort of person it would be fun to have dinner with, not the sort of person whose news story should be taken as a bit of serious journalism.
Cooper is one of the prosecution's chief witnesses and surely by now even those who believed in the "Elliott Ness with a law degree" fluff about the prosecutor must be thinking more along the lines of "Get Smart". In a brutally devastating but gentlemanly low key way the defense destroyed a key prosecution witness. The defense showed through an examination of the internal Time emails and documents that the story that brought Matt Cooper into this, "A War on Wilson?" was something concocted out of thin air.
Clarice has long predicted that the media would be the ones in a world of hurt at the end of the trial. So far, her predictions are coming true.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Harry Reid Loves a Good Scam
Again, criminals and Democrats, if you are looking for a good scam artist, look no further than Harry Reid - a Democrat, of course. If it were a Republican that was involved in this scam, the media would be on it every day for weeks until everyone was convinced he is guilty, even if he wasn't. And then, of course, according to the rules of the Republican Party, he would have to resign if found to be compromised in any way.
This is way the Democrat party is loaded with criminals.
Harry, on the other hand, will get a pass by everyone because of the political stakes involved. The power in the senate would change back to the Republicans and we can't have that.
Hey, William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana got a pass even when he was caught on tape - it didn't matter. He was reelected and is back in Washington - and Harry Reid won't get a pass - pleeeeease.
Questions Surround Reid Land Deal (NewsMax)
New Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bought undeveloped land in Arizona far below its assessed value, then introduced legislation that could have aided the seller of the property.
Revelations about the land deal follow last year’s reports that Reid, a Nevada Democrat, had collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t personally owned the property for three years.
In the newly disclosed land deal – uncovered during an investigation by the Los Angeles Times – Reid paid $10,000 to gain control of a 160-acre parcel in Bullhead City, Ariz., in 2002.
Story Continues Below
The money was paid to a pension fund controlled by Clair Haycock, a Los Vegas lubricants distributor and Reid’s friend for 50 years. The deal gave Reid – who had already owned a five-eighths interest in the property, equivalent to 120 of the 160 acres – full control of the parcel.
The purchase price for the remaining three-eighths, or 60 acres, breaks down to just $166 an acre, less than one-tenth of the value an assessor had placed on it at the time, according to the Times.
Six months after the deal closed, Reid introduced legislation that sought to protect lubricants distributors from abrupt cancellations by their suppliers.
The Haycock family had lost business in 1994 when Mobil Oil Co. canceled the family’s distributorship of lubricants.
The Times noted: "It is a potential violation of congressional ethics for a member to accept anything of value – including a real estate discount – from a person with interests before Congress.”
But Reid’s spokesman, Jon Summers, insisted that the transaction was not a gift and the Senator paid a fair price for the pension fund’s minority interest.
And Clair Haycock told the Times that Reid "has never taken any official action to provide personal financial benefit to me, and I would never have asked him to.”
Nevertheless, Prof. Crocker H. Liu, chair of real estate at Arizona State’s University W.P. Carey School of Business, told the Times that the price Reid paid to gain control of the parcel "strikes me as low. But I don’t know what other considerations – valuable or otherwise – were part of this transaction. Usually when a purchase price is that low, there is other juice in the deal.”
Footnote: Since taking full control of the property, Reid has urged federal funding for a new bridge over the Colorado River – a few miles from his Arizona property.
This is way the Democrat party is loaded with criminals.
Harry, on the other hand, will get a pass by everyone because of the political stakes involved. The power in the senate would change back to the Republicans and we can't have that.
Hey, William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana got a pass even when he was caught on tape - it didn't matter. He was reelected and is back in Washington - and Harry Reid won't get a pass - pleeeeease.
Questions Surround Reid Land Deal (NewsMax)
New Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bought undeveloped land in Arizona far below its assessed value, then introduced legislation that could have aided the seller of the property.
Revelations about the land deal follow last year’s reports that Reid, a Nevada Democrat, had collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t personally owned the property for three years.
In the newly disclosed land deal – uncovered during an investigation by the Los Angeles Times – Reid paid $10,000 to gain control of a 160-acre parcel in Bullhead City, Ariz., in 2002.
Story Continues Below
The money was paid to a pension fund controlled by Clair Haycock, a Los Vegas lubricants distributor and Reid’s friend for 50 years. The deal gave Reid – who had already owned a five-eighths interest in the property, equivalent to 120 of the 160 acres – full control of the parcel.
The purchase price for the remaining three-eighths, or 60 acres, breaks down to just $166 an acre, less than one-tenth of the value an assessor had placed on it at the time, according to the Times.
Six months after the deal closed, Reid introduced legislation that sought to protect lubricants distributors from abrupt cancellations by their suppliers.
The Haycock family had lost business in 1994 when Mobil Oil Co. canceled the family’s distributorship of lubricants.
The Times noted: "It is a potential violation of congressional ethics for a member to accept anything of value – including a real estate discount – from a person with interests before Congress.”
But Reid’s spokesman, Jon Summers, insisted that the transaction was not a gift and the Senator paid a fair price for the pension fund’s minority interest.
And Clair Haycock told the Times that Reid "has never taken any official action to provide personal financial benefit to me, and I would never have asked him to.”
Nevertheless, Prof. Crocker H. Liu, chair of real estate at Arizona State’s University W.P. Carey School of Business, told the Times that the price Reid paid to gain control of the parcel "strikes me as low. But I don’t know what other considerations – valuable or otherwise – were part of this transaction. Usually when a purchase price is that low, there is other juice in the deal.”
Footnote: Since taking full control of the property, Reid has urged federal funding for a new bridge over the Colorado River – a few miles from his Arizona property.
John Kerry Walks a Crooked Path
Did you hear what John Kerry had to say about the United States when he was giving a speech in Switzerland? (I think it was Switzerland) No matter, the point is he said horrible things about this country's government and her people.
Much like Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter before him, John Kerry had no problem using America as a political football for personal gain - if what he says causes Americans to die, he feels that the means justifies the ends. There is no sacrifice to large for others to suffer for the greater cause in the pursuit of political gain for John Kerry.
Why is it that you never hear a Republican, a conservative, say such things about our country, not ever!!!??? What is it that makes these two factions so different?
Maybe we have to examine more closely what exactly is the definition of a Marxist socialist? What is the definition of a traitor?
Someone once said, "Integrity, when once compromised, is gone forever and is not replaceable" knew the true meaning of citizenship, of honor, of pride and, not least among these, common sense.
The Bible says in Proverbs 10: 9 "The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out." It isn't difficult to determine who has taken the crooked path and has been found out.
Much like Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter before him, John Kerry had no problem using America as a political football for personal gain - if what he says causes Americans to die, he feels that the means justifies the ends. There is no sacrifice to large for others to suffer for the greater cause in the pursuit of political gain for John Kerry.
Why is it that you never hear a Republican, a conservative, say such things about our country, not ever!!!??? What is it that makes these two factions so different?
Maybe we have to examine more closely what exactly is the definition of a Marxist socialist? What is the definition of a traitor?
Someone once said, "Integrity, when once compromised, is gone forever and is not replaceable" knew the true meaning of citizenship, of honor, of pride and, not least among these, common sense.
The Bible says in Proverbs 10: 9 "The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out." It isn't difficult to determine who has taken the crooked path and has been found out.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Is California A Sink Hole for Waste?
This is a good story from the nightmare that is California - we need a fence around that hell hole as well as our souther boarder.
CALIFORNIA: THE END OF THE WORLD
Take the time to read this, it's worth it..... Makes you think !!
This should make everyone think, be you Democrat or Republican or Independent,,,,,From a California school teacher - - -"As you listen to the news aboutthe student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:"I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a
large Southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens,
Huntington Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.One hundred percent of the students in this school and other Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program.
When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll --
but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits andjuices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight.About 75% or more DO have cell phones.
The school also provides day care centers for theunwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for
anything; my budget was already substantial.
I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative
students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education
in America.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hellwith the female teachers, calling them "Putas", whores, and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc.
Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?Our congress has helped to sell-out this country with this pro-illegal policy.To my friends who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they
LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to payless for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc.For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.We need to wake up.
The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it.Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends
We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have doneit the right and legal way.It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnantand dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate,
and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "politically correct" that we don't have the will to doanything about it.
CALIFORNIA: THE END OF THE WORLD
Take the time to read this, it's worth it..... Makes you think !!
This should make everyone think, be you Democrat or Republican or Independent,,,,,From a California school teacher - - -"As you listen to the news aboutthe student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:"I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a
large Southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens,
Huntington Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.One hundred percent of the students in this school and other Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program.
When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll --
but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits andjuices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight.About 75% or more DO have cell phones.
The school also provides day care centers for theunwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for
anything; my budget was already substantial.
I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative
students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education
in America.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hellwith the female teachers, calling them "Putas", whores, and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc.
Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?Our congress has helped to sell-out this country with this pro-illegal policy.To my friends who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they
LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to payless for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc.For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.We need to wake up.
The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it.Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends
We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have doneit the right and legal way.It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnantand dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate,
and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "politically correct" that we don't have the will to doanything about it.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Chavez in Trouble: Jimmy Carter Not Happy
I knew it would only be a matter of time before this communist would begin his spiral into oblivion - except now the terrorist community will try and take the country away from him to continue it's conversion to a totalitarian state.
It appears Jimmy Carter will do what ever he can to make sure that happens if Chavez is forced out - liberal Democrats will get behind the push as well to ensure Venezuela's total collapse and conversion to communism - having a communist state in our back yard will help the Democrats in their quest to convert America to a socialist nightmare.
- -time will tell.
(this if from Newmax)
Expert: Chavez’s Venezuela Headed for ‘Collapse’
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is steering his oil-rich country toward an almost inevitable economic collapse.
That’s the warning from Richard W. Rahn, director general of the Center for Global Economic Growth, a project of the FreedomWorks Foundation. “What has not been reported is the full extent of the corruption in Venezuela and how this ultimately will destroy the economy,”
Rahn writes in a commentary that appeared in The Washington Times. “Venezuela has had a rapidly growing economy for the last few years, due to high oil prices, but the house of cards is about to collapse.” Chavez was first elected president on an anti-corruption platform. But he has been steadily dismantling independent political institutions and is taking control of the oil, telecommunications, and energy sectors as well as the media.
He has also misappropriated much of the Central Bank’s reserves, according to Rahn, who reports that since 2004, the Bank has transferred about $22.5 billion to accounts abroad — and about $12 billion of that remains unaccounted for. Chavez’s government has used the nation’s wealth to buy foreign political influence and loyalties in Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and other countries; and to buy weapons from Russia, Spain, and elsewhere.
The money has also gone to local cronies for inflated economic development projects and to buy the loyalty of government officials, according to Rahn, who writes in the article reprinted in Petroleumworld:
“The Venezuelan economy will collapse, despite massive oil revenues, because we know socialist economies perform poorly . . . “Venezuela no longer has an independent central bank, and inflation is already up to 17 percent and rapidly rising . . . “Venezuelans will be increasingly squeezed, and you can bet the blood from the innocent Venezuelan people will be drained long before those on the take from Mr. Chavez agree to have their looting stopped.”
It appears Jimmy Carter will do what ever he can to make sure that happens if Chavez is forced out - liberal Democrats will get behind the push as well to ensure Venezuela's total collapse and conversion to communism - having a communist state in our back yard will help the Democrats in their quest to convert America to a socialist nightmare.
- -time will tell.
(this if from Newmax)
Expert: Chavez’s Venezuela Headed for ‘Collapse’
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is steering his oil-rich country toward an almost inevitable economic collapse.
That’s the warning from Richard W. Rahn, director general of the Center for Global Economic Growth, a project of the FreedomWorks Foundation. “What has not been reported is the full extent of the corruption in Venezuela and how this ultimately will destroy the economy,”
Rahn writes in a commentary that appeared in The Washington Times. “Venezuela has had a rapidly growing economy for the last few years, due to high oil prices, but the house of cards is about to collapse.” Chavez was first elected president on an anti-corruption platform. But he has been steadily dismantling independent political institutions and is taking control of the oil, telecommunications, and energy sectors as well as the media.
He has also misappropriated much of the Central Bank’s reserves, according to Rahn, who reports that since 2004, the Bank has transferred about $22.5 billion to accounts abroad — and about $12 billion of that remains unaccounted for. Chavez’s government has used the nation’s wealth to buy foreign political influence and loyalties in Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and other countries; and to buy weapons from Russia, Spain, and elsewhere.
The money has also gone to local cronies for inflated economic development projects and to buy the loyalty of government officials, according to Rahn, who writes in the article reprinted in Petroleumworld:
“The Venezuelan economy will collapse, despite massive oil revenues, because we know socialist economies perform poorly . . . “Venezuela no longer has an independent central bank, and inflation is already up to 17 percent and rapidly rising . . . “Venezuelans will be increasingly squeezed, and you can bet the blood from the innocent Venezuelan people will be drained long before those on the take from Mr. Chavez agree to have their looting stopped.”
Friday, January 26, 2007
I Have Broad Band - Finally
After many months of deliberation, I have finally gotten on the satellite program - I live in the country where DSL or cable is not available.
- this program is expensive but so much better than dial-up -
- this program is expensive but so much better than dial-up -
Monday, January 22, 2007
Associated Press Associated with Terrorists
I have always believed that our media is part of the terrorist net work world wide. The main stream press has always been willing to sell it's bottom line to anyone that is will to help destroy America. We see it every day of the week - The MSM is operated for the sole purpose to destroy freedom in the west.
If the middle east terrorists are to succeed, they must convince the west that to fight them is futile. The west must be isolated in this corner of the world until all other countries have been defeated. Then it will be our turn to bend the knee to the Muslim world.
We have millions in this country that are willing to do just that even now. Proof? Look how many people voted for the liberals.
How the AP helped stoke civil war in Iraq
James Lewis
The Associated Press is among the large news organizations whose reporting in Iraq has been challenged by bloggers. Beyond the specifics of any one incident, a certain pattern and practice of news gathering has made for systematic bias. The end result is propaganda.
Michelle Malkin has a new report on the "Jamil Hussein" fiasco at the Associated Press. "Jamil Hussein" is the alleged Iraqi Police captain who has been cited 61 times by AP, recently as a source for an atrocity story that now looks mighty dubious.
What has been lost in the debate about "Who is Jamil Hussein?" is the substance of his Iraqi atrocity stories peddled by the AP. The most recent ones have been denied by the US military, which has much better sources than the Associated Press. They have also not been confirmed by other news outlets. Whether "Jamil Hussein" was a cover name, an AP fabrication, or a real person is not as important as the content of his apparent disinformation. What was the purpose of the lie about six Iraqis being deliberately burned to death by terrorists?
What about the other 60 AP stories that cited "Hussein"? How many lent credibility to other atrocity tales?
Two hypotheses spring to mind. One is that "Jamil Hussein" was benefiting from being an AP source. He was smart enough to know that AP wanted horror stories, and that's what he gave them. Maybe he was paid. Maybe he liked instant fame. But 61 citations as an AP source suggests an ongoing relationship, one with a clear and sustained purpose.
A more sinister interpretation is that "Jamil Hussein" was a political plant, whose primary goal was to feed atrocity stories to the AP. He could be an Iranian plant in the Iraqi Police, which is heavily infiltrated by Mahdi Army killers who are paid by Iran. They were the ones who shouted "Muqtada Al Sadr!" when Saddam Hussein was hanged. An Iranian mole's purpose would be to stir up civil war, and at the same time to provide more "evidence" for the American Leftist news narrative that Iraq is a hopeless mess.
So "Jamil Hussein's" disinformation could have served two goals.
One: to worsen ethnic warfare in Iraq, and
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wo: to demoralize the American home front.
Objectively, AP has clearly served both purposes in the past and continues to do so today, whatever one believes about motive or lack thereof. This is its obsessive story line, and "Police Captain Jamil Hussein" would be seeding prepared ground. That's straight disinformation practice. Always tell the newsies what they want to hear.
Our Organs of Propaganda --- AKA the "news media" --- know perfectly well that most of their sources have an axe to grind. When Saddam Hussein was still in power he arm-twisted the Western media for favorable coverage, as we now know from former CNN executive Eason Jordan. The same thing happens every day with other terror regimes like Hamas, Fatah and Hizb'allah, where the media trade access for favorable coverage. That is unbelievably cynical, profoundly corrupt and massively destructive, but it has been routine at least since Stalin's time. That is why we have Organs of Propaganda, in Karl Marx's phrase, and not honest news sources.
In this case, the defeatist narrative makes the Western media into propaganda tools for Ahmadinejad, Al Qaida, and the Baath fascists in Iraq.
That is the real take-home lesson about the lies peddled by the Associated Press in the name of "Jamil Hussein." If full-scale civil war breaks out in Iraq, and if the Democrats force a military withdrawal after the next election, this kind of disinformation will have accomplished its aim.
The propaganda war is the real war.
James Lewis is a nom de plume of a frequent contributor. http://www.dangeroustimes.wordpress.com/
If the middle east terrorists are to succeed, they must convince the west that to fight them is futile. The west must be isolated in this corner of the world until all other countries have been defeated. Then it will be our turn to bend the knee to the Muslim world.
We have millions in this country that are willing to do just that even now. Proof? Look how many people voted for the liberals.
How the AP helped stoke civil war in Iraq
James Lewis
The Associated Press is among the large news organizations whose reporting in Iraq has been challenged by bloggers. Beyond the specifics of any one incident, a certain pattern and practice of news gathering has made for systematic bias. The end result is propaganda.
Michelle Malkin has a new report on the "Jamil Hussein" fiasco at the Associated Press. "Jamil Hussein" is the alleged Iraqi Police captain who has been cited 61 times by AP, recently as a source for an atrocity story that now looks mighty dubious.
What has been lost in the debate about "Who is Jamil Hussein?" is the substance of his Iraqi atrocity stories peddled by the AP. The most recent ones have been denied by the US military, which has much better sources than the Associated Press. They have also not been confirmed by other news outlets. Whether "Jamil Hussein" was a cover name, an AP fabrication, or a real person is not as important as the content of his apparent disinformation. What was the purpose of the lie about six Iraqis being deliberately burned to death by terrorists?
What about the other 60 AP stories that cited "Hussein"? How many lent credibility to other atrocity tales?
Two hypotheses spring to mind. One is that "Jamil Hussein" was benefiting from being an AP source. He was smart enough to know that AP wanted horror stories, and that's what he gave them. Maybe he was paid. Maybe he liked instant fame. But 61 citations as an AP source suggests an ongoing relationship, one with a clear and sustained purpose.
A more sinister interpretation is that "Jamil Hussein" was a political plant, whose primary goal was to feed atrocity stories to the AP. He could be an Iranian plant in the Iraqi Police, which is heavily infiltrated by Mahdi Army killers who are paid by Iran. They were the ones who shouted "Muqtada Al Sadr!" when Saddam Hussein was hanged. An Iranian mole's purpose would be to stir up civil war, and at the same time to provide more "evidence" for the American Leftist news narrative that Iraq is a hopeless mess.
So "Jamil Hussein's" disinformation could have served two goals.
One: to worsen ethnic warfare in Iraq, and
T
wo: to demoralize the American home front.
Objectively, AP has clearly served both purposes in the past and continues to do so today, whatever one believes about motive or lack thereof. This is its obsessive story line, and "Police Captain Jamil Hussein" would be seeding prepared ground. That's straight disinformation practice. Always tell the newsies what they want to hear.
Our Organs of Propaganda --- AKA the "news media" --- know perfectly well that most of their sources have an axe to grind. When Saddam Hussein was still in power he arm-twisted the Western media for favorable coverage, as we now know from former CNN executive Eason Jordan. The same thing happens every day with other terror regimes like Hamas, Fatah and Hizb'allah, where the media trade access for favorable coverage. That is unbelievably cynical, profoundly corrupt and massively destructive, but it has been routine at least since Stalin's time. That is why we have Organs of Propaganda, in Karl Marx's phrase, and not honest news sources.
In this case, the defeatist narrative makes the Western media into propaganda tools for Ahmadinejad, Al Qaida, and the Baath fascists in Iraq.
That is the real take-home lesson about the lies peddled by the Associated Press in the name of "Jamil Hussein." If full-scale civil war breaks out in Iraq, and if the Democrats force a military withdrawal after the next election, this kind of disinformation will have accomplished its aim.
The propaganda war is the real war.
James Lewis is a nom de plume of a frequent contributor. http://www.dangeroustimes.wordpress.com/
Zeros are Zeros - No Spin Here
No matter how you add them up, a bunch of zeros is equal to zero - the new liberal Democratic party that was going to set the world on fire can't seem to get even a spark going - their agenda is to destroy what better people have done -
The have no new or fresh ideas - how did they get into office? Is the voting public that ill-informed, or is it that they just don't have the time to think this stuff through?
Is everyone doing that well that they can afford to sacrifice everything that this country has achieved over the past fifty years just so they are not inconvenienced in anyway?
I believe that this is true - the voting public is lazy and fat with prosperity - they just don't have time to think anymore.
Now were safer - Liberal Democrats are in control of national security - God help us!
The have no new or fresh ideas - how did they get into office? Is the voting public that ill-informed, or is it that they just don't have the time to think this stuff through?
Is everyone doing that well that they can afford to sacrifice everything that this country has achieved over the past fifty years just so they are not inconvenienced in anyway?
I believe that this is true - the voting public is lazy and fat with prosperity - they just don't have time to think anymore.
Now were safer - Liberal Democrats are in control of national security - God help us!
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Liberals are Zeros - Lots of Them
What happened to the oil price? The liberals said it would go up after the election. Why hasn't the media taken them to task for this? Oh, that's right, the media is liberal! It was just a ploy - dah!
The Oil Price Weapon ( in part )
Thomas Lifson
Numbers of leftists predicted with certainty that following the November elections oil prices would rebound. Their conspiracy theory had it that Bushalliburton was conspiring with its flunkies to dupe the ignorant masses into voting Republican. Once the elections were over, the sheep would once again be sheared by the oil patch gang.
Exactly the contrary has happened. Oil prices are going down. Warm weather in the eastern United States helped, as did a slowing of our economy. There hasn't yet been and won't be a chorus of apologies, or even demands from the right for a reckoning. Such foolishness speaks for itself.
Only one actor has the ability to substantially influence oil prices at the margin: Saudi Arabia. The reason is simple. Only Saudi Arabia has substantial unused production capacity. Because it can raise or lower its own production by roughly 3 million barrels a day, Saudi has an oil weapon to use. The major use for the weapon has been to enforce some discipline on OPEC.
Saudi does not want sustained high prices (above $50-60 a barrel, roughly) because at that level it becomes economical to develop tar sands, oil shale, and other substitutes. It wants the maximum price that prevents development of new resources outside of its control.
Commentators are beginning to notice that Saudi is pushing prices down, and the reason seems to be more than economic. Iran needs every penny it can get from oil. High prices have funded the mullahs' nuclear development plan, and helped keep a lid on civil discontent.
The Oil Price Weapon ( in part )
Thomas Lifson
Numbers of leftists predicted with certainty that following the November elections oil prices would rebound. Their conspiracy theory had it that Bushalliburton was conspiring with its flunkies to dupe the ignorant masses into voting Republican. Once the elections were over, the sheep would once again be sheared by the oil patch gang.
Exactly the contrary has happened. Oil prices are going down. Warm weather in the eastern United States helped, as did a slowing of our economy. There hasn't yet been and won't be a chorus of apologies, or even demands from the right for a reckoning. Such foolishness speaks for itself.
Only one actor has the ability to substantially influence oil prices at the margin: Saudi Arabia. The reason is simple. Only Saudi Arabia has substantial unused production capacity. Because it can raise or lower its own production by roughly 3 million barrels a day, Saudi has an oil weapon to use. The major use for the weapon has been to enforce some discipline on OPEC.
Saudi does not want sustained high prices (above $50-60 a barrel, roughly) because at that level it becomes economical to develop tar sands, oil shale, and other substitutes. It wants the maximum price that prevents development of new resources outside of its control.
Commentators are beginning to notice that Saudi is pushing prices down, and the reason seems to be more than economic. Iran needs every penny it can get from oil. High prices have funded the mullahs' nuclear development plan, and helped keep a lid on civil discontent.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Win the War in America First
This is a good article as it points out the problem that I have been talking about for some time - the fight in Iraq is not the war that will kills us, the war in America with the liberal left trying to destroy democracy is the one that we must win if we want to have any kind of a future for the next generation.
(This is from The Traditional Values net work of Rev Lou Sheldon)
The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
Whenever Muslims charge that the war on terror is really a war against Islam, Americans hasten to assure them they are wrong. Yet as Dinesh D’Souza argues in this powerful and timely polemic, these Muslim critics of America are right--there really is a war against Islam. Only this war is not being waged by Christian conservatives bent on a moral crusade to impose democracy abroad, as many liberals maintain, but by the American cultural left, which has for years been vigorously exporting its domestic war against religion and traditional morality to the rest of the world.
By the “cultural left” D’Souza does not mean all liberals or even all Democrats, but the militant secularists, feminists and gay activists who make up the left wing of the Democratic party, along with their allies in Hollywood, the academy, the antiwar movement, and the human rights establishment. D’Souza contends that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in two ways: by fostering a decadent and depraved American culture that angers and repulses other societies--especially traditional and religious ones; and by promoting, at home and abroad, an anti-American attitude that blames America for all the problems of the world.
Why did 9/11 occur? D’Souza traces the roots to the Khomeini revolution, the first regime to target America as the Great Satan. He documents the role of the Carter administration and its left-wing allies in displacing the Shah and consolidating Khomeini’s rule. D’Souza also shows that after the Cold War the radical Muslims were fighting to overthrow their local governments, what they termed the “near enemy.” But then Bin Laden and others got the idea that perhaps the United States—the “far enemy”—was even more vulnerable than the near enemy.
Starting in the mid-1990s, Islamic radicals tested their theory of American weakness by launching a series of strikes against American targets, such as the Khobar Tower facility in Saudi Arabia, the two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the U.S.S. Cole. During this period the Clinton administration was focused on its own political and cultural agenda: integrating homosexuals into the military, promoting ethnic diversity in the CIA, and discrediting special prosecutor Ken Starr. Clinton’s response to Bin Laden was feeble and ineffective. This inaction confirmed Bin Laden in his conviction that America was cowardly and weak, and that’s when he decided to launch the 9/11 attacks.
D’Souza shows that Islamic anti-Americanism is not merely a reaction to U.S. foreign policy but is also rooted in a revulsion against what Muslims perceive to be the atheism and moral depravity of American popular culture. “They don’t hate us for our freedom,” D’Souza writes, “They hate us for how we use our freedom.” Muslims and other traditional people around the world allege that American values are being imposed on their societies, and these values undermine religious belief, weaken the traditional family, and corrupt the innocence of children. Muslim fears are largely justified, but it is not “America” that is doing this to them, it is the cultural left. What traditional societies consider repulsive and immoral, the cultural left considers progressive and liberating.
Taking issue with those on the right who speak of a “clash of civilizations,” D’Souza argues that the war on terror is really a war for the hearts and minds of traditional Muslims—and traditional peoples everywhere. The only way to win the struggle with radical Islam is to convince traditional Muslims that America is on their side. To prove this the U.S. must allow Muslim countries to defend Muslim interests and live according to their own moral precepts. Moreover, America’s leaders must contest the notion that liberal depravity equals American depravity. If America were to proclaim itself a Judeo-Christian society and stand up for the principles of traditional morality worldwide, this would greatly weaken the threat posed by radical Islam.
We are accustomed to thinking of the war on terror and the culture war as two distinct and separate struggles. D’Souza shows that they are really one and the same. Conservatives must recognize that the left is now allied with the Islamic radicals in a combined effort to defeat Bush’s war on terror. So Bush and the right are fighting not only a war against radical Islam, but also a political “war against the war” in America. A whole new strategy is needed to fight both wars. “In order to defeat the Islamic radicals abroad,” D’Souza writes, “we must defeat the enemy at home.”
(This is from The Traditional Values net work of Rev Lou Sheldon)
The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
Whenever Muslims charge that the war on terror is really a war against Islam, Americans hasten to assure them they are wrong. Yet as Dinesh D’Souza argues in this powerful and timely polemic, these Muslim critics of America are right--there really is a war against Islam. Only this war is not being waged by Christian conservatives bent on a moral crusade to impose democracy abroad, as many liberals maintain, but by the American cultural left, which has for years been vigorously exporting its domestic war against religion and traditional morality to the rest of the world.
By the “cultural left” D’Souza does not mean all liberals or even all Democrats, but the militant secularists, feminists and gay activists who make up the left wing of the Democratic party, along with their allies in Hollywood, the academy, the antiwar movement, and the human rights establishment. D’Souza contends that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in two ways: by fostering a decadent and depraved American culture that angers and repulses other societies--especially traditional and religious ones; and by promoting, at home and abroad, an anti-American attitude that blames America for all the problems of the world.
Why did 9/11 occur? D’Souza traces the roots to the Khomeini revolution, the first regime to target America as the Great Satan. He documents the role of the Carter administration and its left-wing allies in displacing the Shah and consolidating Khomeini’s rule. D’Souza also shows that after the Cold War the radical Muslims were fighting to overthrow their local governments, what they termed the “near enemy.” But then Bin Laden and others got the idea that perhaps the United States—the “far enemy”—was even more vulnerable than the near enemy.
Starting in the mid-1990s, Islamic radicals tested their theory of American weakness by launching a series of strikes against American targets, such as the Khobar Tower facility in Saudi Arabia, the two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the U.S.S. Cole. During this period the Clinton administration was focused on its own political and cultural agenda: integrating homosexuals into the military, promoting ethnic diversity in the CIA, and discrediting special prosecutor Ken Starr. Clinton’s response to Bin Laden was feeble and ineffective. This inaction confirmed Bin Laden in his conviction that America was cowardly and weak, and that’s when he decided to launch the 9/11 attacks.
D’Souza shows that Islamic anti-Americanism is not merely a reaction to U.S. foreign policy but is also rooted in a revulsion against what Muslims perceive to be the atheism and moral depravity of American popular culture. “They don’t hate us for our freedom,” D’Souza writes, “They hate us for how we use our freedom.” Muslims and other traditional people around the world allege that American values are being imposed on their societies, and these values undermine religious belief, weaken the traditional family, and corrupt the innocence of children. Muslim fears are largely justified, but it is not “America” that is doing this to them, it is the cultural left. What traditional societies consider repulsive and immoral, the cultural left considers progressive and liberating.
Taking issue with those on the right who speak of a “clash of civilizations,” D’Souza argues that the war on terror is really a war for the hearts and minds of traditional Muslims—and traditional peoples everywhere. The only way to win the struggle with radical Islam is to convince traditional Muslims that America is on their side. To prove this the U.S. must allow Muslim countries to defend Muslim interests and live according to their own moral precepts. Moreover, America’s leaders must contest the notion that liberal depravity equals American depravity. If America were to proclaim itself a Judeo-Christian society and stand up for the principles of traditional morality worldwide, this would greatly weaken the threat posed by radical Islam.
We are accustomed to thinking of the war on terror and the culture war as two distinct and separate struggles. D’Souza shows that they are really one and the same. Conservatives must recognize that the left is now allied with the Islamic radicals in a combined effort to defeat Bush’s war on terror. So Bush and the right are fighting not only a war against radical Islam, but also a political “war against the war” in America. A whole new strategy is needed to fight both wars. “In order to defeat the Islamic radicals abroad,” D’Souza writes, “we must defeat the enemy at home.”
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