Friday, December 04, 2009
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Four Questions No Reporter Dares to Ask Obama
Why is this President different from all other Presidents?
Four questions no news reporter dares to ask Barack Obama:
1. Would you talk directly to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?
2. If you could meet the Iranian Ayatollah, would you bow to him--deeply and submissively, from the waist--the way you bowed to the Saudi monarch?
3. If Iran develops nuclear weapons while you are in office, which seems increasingly likely, if not certain, owing to your engagement (appeasement) policy, which has given Iran another year to achieve its atomic aims, would you deter Iran from anonymously attacking the United States or Israel--through Hezbollah or Hamas or other Islamist terrorists or proxies--by warning the Iranian regime that any nuclear attack on the U.S. or Israel would trigger the immediate obliteration of Iran?
4. Why won't you put an end to the so-called birther issue for once and all by releasing your original, long-form birth certificate?Obama Posed With WH Party Crashers in 2008
BETTER TIMES IN 2008: President-Elect Barack Obama with White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi; Randy Jackson, best known as a Judge on the American Idol TV program; and members of the Black Eyed Peas rock band.US Mayor Criticized for Calling Obama Muslim
Click here for the story. In fact, Obama is a Muslim, according to Islamic law, which traces religious identity through the father (unlike traditional Jewish law, which traces religion through the mother).
In addition to being born a Muslim, according to Islamic law, Obama studied and practiced Islam as a child in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, where his Indonesian Muslim stepfather registered him for elementary school as a Muslim and an Indonesian citizen. Obama's apparent dual citizenship, which may have aided his acceptance to Occidental College and Columbia University, and, perhaps, even, to Harvard Law School, was ignored by the mainstream media throughout the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Since taking power, Obama has sought to appease and align with right-wing political Islam, or Islamism, addressing "the Muslim world" from Cairo University, encouraging Turkey's Islamist tilt, intervening in Europe on behalf of Turkey and Islamist agitation for barbaric burqa-wearing, bowing to the Saudi king, relentlessly pressuring Israel, America's strategic ally and the only democracy in the Middle East, to withdraw to indefensible borders and acquiesce to the creation of a Palestinian state in disputed parts of Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem, and, most important, giving Iran at least another year to develop nuclear weapons.Infamous Pakistani Spy Boss Working for Taliban
Hamid Gul, who headed the ISI and worked closely with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, has resurfaced on behalf of the Islamist mass murderers. Click here for a solid exclusive by UPI editor at large Arnaud de Borchgrave.Countdown to Conflict: Iran Simulates Nuke Blast
Iran has reportedly successfully simulated a nuclear detonation, while a United Nations group has established an atomic blast detection center in Turkmenistan near the Iranian border. Click here and here for the accounts.
The Vienna-based, UN agency says on its website:Located in Central Asia between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range and just a few kilometres from the border with the Islamic Republic of Iran, primary seismic station PS44 in the Republic of Turkmenistan has now been fully constructed and is currently undergoing testing. PS44 is one of the 337 facilities belonging to the International Monitoring System (IMS), which are being established around the world to monitor compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions.
Clinton Denies US Plans to Cut and Run
Iran Offers Only Minimal Cooperation With IAEA
Iran says it will only do the minimum required to cooperate with the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency.
Tehran officials will only inform the International Atomic Energy Agency of its progress in building its 10 new nuclear enrichment sites 180 days before it injects gas into centrifuges, and not during the construction phase of the plants, as the IAEA had demanded, according to media reports.
"According to the safeguards, after installation of equipments and only 180 days ahead of injecting gas into centrifuges ... we should inform the IAEA," senior Iranian diplomat Abolfazl Zohrehvand told the official Iranian news agency IRNA. "And we will act within the framework of the safeguard."
The IAEA last week censured Iran for having built a second nuclear enrichment site in Qom.
Meanwhile, in an interview Thursday with Politico, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) said he intended to pass the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act by the end of the year, and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told Democrats that the bill would come to the floor in the next two weeks. That legislation would sanction companies that help Iran import or produce refined petroleum, which is seen as potentially having a large impact on Iran's economy because the country imports 40 percent of its refined petroleum.
-JTAPutin Talks Frankly About Terrorism and Stalinism
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Following criticism of U.S. President Barack Obama's plan for an Afghanistan escalation and exit strategy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose administration role has been marginalized, denies that Washington intends to cut and run from the Taliban. Click herefor the story.
A remarkable Q&A session with one of the most important leaders in Russian--and world--history. Click on the video below.
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