Sunday, 4 September 2011

Coming together in 1948





Obama is steeped in Marxism

This is making the rounds:

    WHEN Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank (Frank Marshall Davis was his Mother’s boyfriend) an avowed Communist, people said it didn’t matter.

    WHEN it was discovered that his grandparents were strong socialists who sent Obama’s mother to a socialist school where she was introduced to Frank Marshall Davis. He was later introduced to young Barrack Hussein Obama. People said it didn’t matter.

    WHEN people found out that Barrack Hussein Obama was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and stepfather were both Muslims, people said it didn’t matter.

    WHEN he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” people said it didn’t matter.

    WHEN he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college– people said it didn’t matter.

    WHEN he traveled to Pakistan...

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KA-POW, in the kisser

What constitutes a physical assault in Toronto these days?

“The details: I was at Yonge-Dundas Square with my nine-year-old son. We ate pizza. We drank bubble tea. And I used my new Canon camera to take photos of this neon shrine.Suddenly, a woman wearing a hijab ran toward me. She was part of a group that included two women wearing full face-covering burkas. She was screaming: “We are Muslim! You do not take pictures of us!” (Odd. I can’t find the “no photos” rule in the Qur’an.)I informed the lady I was in a public square in a democracy. I can actually take pictures of whomever I please.And then: Ka-pow! Her fist collided with my face. Worse, she almost knocked my new camera from my hands.My son and I were then surrounded by a mob of about 20 people, many of whom were speaking Arabic. One kept demanding I surrender my camera to him.

It was surreal. Was I in Toronto — or Riyadh?”

This would appear to be straightforward. If, for example, one individual...

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Why Gaddafi got a red card

In a nutshell, Gaddafi left himself defenseless when he gave up his WMD. From then on he had to dance the western tune or else. Ted Belman

By Pepe Escobar(left wing writer), Asia Times

Surveying the Libyan wasteland out of a cozy room crammed with wafer-thin LCDs in a Pyongyang palace, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il, must have been stunned as he contemplated Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s predicament.

“What a fool,” the Dear Leader predictably murmurs. No wonder. He knows how The Big G virtually signed his death sentence that day in 2003 when he accepted the suggestion of his irrepressibly nasty offspring – all infatuated with Europe – to dump his weapons of mass destruction program and place the future of the regime in the hands of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Gaddafi clan still couldn’t tell the difference between partying hard in St Tropez and getting bombed by Mirages and Rafales. But...

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How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli

By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times


Hardly by accident, all the top military rebel commanders are LIFG, from Belhaj in Tripoli to one Ismael as-Salabi in Benghazi and one Abdelhakim al-Assadi in Derna, not to mention a key asset, Ali Salabi, sitting at the core of the TNC. It was Salabi who negotiated with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi the “end” of LIFG’s jihad, thus assuring the bright future of these born-again “freedom fighters”.

It doesn’t require a crystal ball to picture the consequences of LIFG/AQIM – having conquered military power and being among the war “winners” – not remotely interested in relinquishing control just to please NATO’s whims.

Meanwhile, amid the fog of war, it’s unclear whether Gaddafi is planning to trap the Tripoli brigade in urban warfare; or to force the bulk of rebel militias to enter the huge Warfallah tribal areas.

Gaddafi’s wife belongs to the Warfallah, Libya’s largest...

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Wilders on Need to Defend the Nation-State

The Threat of Europeanization and the Need to Defend the Nation-State
By Geert Wilders

Thank you for inviting me to Berlin. It is an honour to be here in this beautiful city of Berlin. When I was here last year I emphasized how important Germany is for all of us. We all benefit from a healthy, democratic, self-confident Germany.

Much has happened since my last visit. In the Netherlands we were able to achieve many amazing things. We have successfully started to roll back the process of Islamization in the Netherlands.

We have done so in a peaceful way and through the democratic process. Recently, a deranged narcissistic psychopath from Norway committed a horrible crime. In cold blood he murdered nearly eighty innocent fellow citizens. The assassin pretended to be a concerned European. He said that he had committed his atrocity because “It is meaningless to participate in the democratic process.”

But he is wrong!...

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Turkey’s bark worse than its bite

Turkey left an opening

By Ron Ben-Yishai, YNET

Despite Turkish announcement – which sounds dramatic – it will not have profound effect on existing state of relations between two nations, leaving room for bridging gaps in the future

As expected, Turkey was infuriated by the publication of the Palmer Report and Israel’s refusal to apologize for its takeover of the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara vessel in 2010.

With that being said, its response is not extreme, leaving room for rehabilitating relations in the future – via low-profile, secretive talks mediated by the US. Perhaps even in the near future.

The first reason behind Turkey’s decision not to completely break ranks with Israel is its desire to maintain its position as a major Mideast player. Without ties with Israel, Turkey would have a limited ability to shape and influence events in the region, which is currently undergoing rapid change and fluctuation.

Turkey has recently lost all its clout in Syria and in...

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Palmer committee member: No use of excessive force

By Attila Somfalvi, YNET

Israeli representative to the Palmer Commission Joseph Ciechanover has expressed Friday he has reservations about some of the conclusions of the United Nations’ controversial report.

“Israel does not agree with the committee’s depiction regarding the decision to board the ships, which they claim was ‘excessive and unreasonable,’” remarked Ciechanover in a statement issued on his behalf by the Prime Minister’s Office.

In his statement Ciechanover explained that “the committee was provided with evidence of repeated warnings given to the ships regarding the intent to board their decks.”

He added that “Israel believes that the committee did not sufficiently consider the operational limitations, which determined the boarding process, including the need of an undercover takeover meant to minimize the risk of resistance once onboard.”

As for the report’s conclusions regarding the Navy...

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The conflict is here to stay

It’s Not Going to Go Away

The Moslem world and its faith as is currently revealed and practiced in universal society is religion run amuck, as much a danger to itself as to others.

From Rabbi Berel Wein

In spite of all policies, agreements, hopes and wishful thinking, it should be obvious that the Israeli-Arab dispute is nowhere near solution or accommodation. It really is not about borders, land swaps, or even begrudging acceptance of the two-state solution to the dispute. It is something far deeper, religious in nature and hardened over centuries of behavior and custom.

It basically is that the Jew, the dhimmi, the infidel, has no right to rule over territory that was once under Moslem sovereignty and certainly no right to rule over Moslem people themselves.

The inability of Israel over lo these many decades to face up to this fact has in fact only prolonged and deepened the conflict and made the problem more intractable.

It is in reality a biblical epic that we...

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Palmer Report, a diplomatic victory nevertheless

[Perhaps I was a little too harsh on the Report, rejecting it out of hand.. ]

Fresno Zionism does a better job

The Palmer report expressing the conclusions of the UN commission chaired by former New Zealand PM Geoffrey Palmer about the Mavi Marmara incident last May 31 is now public.

For a UN document, it is remarkably fair, including the following:

Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law…

Although people are entitled to express their political views, the flotilla acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade. The majority of the flotilla participants had no violent intentions, but there exist serious questions about the conduct, true nature and objectives of the flotilla organizers, particularly IHH. The actions of the flotilla...

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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel