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Africa North
Obama Reaches Out to the Muslim Brotherhood
The Obama administration is set to begin formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, a group dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.”

This news came in a Reuters report Wednesday, quoting a “senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.” Why this official felt it necessary to speak on condition of anonymity is a mystery, given the fact that Barack Obama has never made a secret of his solicitude for the Muslim Brotherhood. Even though the Brotherhood was still outlawed in Egypt at that time, he made a point of inviting leaders of the group to attend his speech to the Islamic world in Cairo on June 4, 2009.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/05/2011 12:29 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought that ammounted to "Consorting with the Enemy" and merited the death Penalty?

What, he doesn't count?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/05/2011 17:48 Comments || Top||

#2  See also MEMRI-ORG > ARTICLE ON MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WEBSITE: IMPLEMENT SHA'RIA [law = rule] IN PHASES.

* ALso from MEMRI > JORDANIAN OFFICIAL: AMERICA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN WILL TURN IT INTO ONE BIG TERRORIST CAMP.

ARTIC = America helped create the Afghan = AFPAK Militants by departing AFghanistan prematurely back in the 1990's after the USSR's own defeat + pullout, hence America should NOT leave Afghanistan until such time that it can GUARANTY the COUNTRY'S LT STABILITY, + INSTALL A REGIME/GOVT. STRONG ENOUGH TO CONTROL THE COUNTRY AFTER THIER DEPARTURE.

As long as AQ + Taliban, etc. remain in force, any post-US/2014 Afghan Govt. will be at risk of suffering new MilTerr problems + takeover by same which will only serve to cause America to return again.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/05/2011 22:28 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Libya war boosting Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb?
Despite US training and support, West African nations have been unable to stamp out the terrorist group and the upheaval in Libya may be bolstering the group's arsenal
Posted by: tipper || 07/05/2011 12:55 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Expose Of Obama Agents In Control Of Major Jewish Organizations
Obama has taken an embarrassing uppercut from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has jolted him, and he is not one to forget. He is out not only for revenge but for victory. And that includes the demise of Israel. He has already set the stage for this. His hand-picked agents are in place in his corner. And they include the most powerful, influential individuals and groups.

AIPAC, the leading American pro-Israel lobby, is now run by Lee Rosenberg, a close Chicago buddy and top fundraiser for Obama.

The Anti-Defamation League, the largest Jewish-American defense organization, is headed by Abe Foxman, a loyal and lifelong Democrat who recently lauded Obama's speech in which he called for Israel to retreat to its 1948 borders, referred to by both former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meier and Foreign Minister Abba Eban as "suicidal" and "Auschwitz" borders.

Billionaire George Soros, the former Jewish-Nazi, formed and funded J-Street, composed of Palestinian-supporting Jews to support Israel's enemies.

Obama also planted Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a committed J-Street leader, as head of the Democratic National Committee.

Former Congressman Robert Wexler, another J-Streeter who ran Obama's Florida campaign, now heads The Center For Middle East Peace, a well-funded, radical Jewish group that pushes Palestinian goals.

The all-powerful Jewish Reform Movement has just selected Rabbi Richard Jacobs as its head. He is an outspoken, rabid Obama and J-Street supporter.

Not to be outdone by other Jewish radical groups, The Jewish Council for Public Affairs is headed by Rabbi Steve Gutow, the founder of the National Jewish Democratic Council, which speaks for and to Democratic Jews.

Never heard of JCPA? It is the umbrella organization for groups including Hadassah, ADL, JWV, the JCCs, The American Jewish Committee and others. JCPA shares its officers with such radical Jewish groups as Americans For Peace Now and J-Street.

Obama and the radical element in the Jewish community have done their job of infiltrating and controlling the Jewish community. When Soros was outed by Glenn Beck as working for the Nazis during World War II in his native Hungary, his billions somehow convinced 400 rabbis to sign a letter condemning Beck in the Wall Street Journal for his accurate but embarrassing disclosures.

Sadly, rabbis in my own community in South Florida signed on to this ad. They are still delivering anesthetizing sermons to their worshipful, mindless congregations.

However, in Broward County, the Republican Party has just organized a Jewish outreach. Its formation has been careful and well-thought-out. The board has met and is preparing meetings to be held in the Century Villages, Wynmoor and other Democrat strongholds.

And they are finding an ally in the Zionist Organization in America, the most active and fearless Jewish pro-Israel/America group
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/05/2011 12:21 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somehow, I doubt there was much resistance.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/05/2011 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  In my synogogue, Mr. wexler gave an Obama defense presentation after kiddush a few weeks ago. It was surprizingly well attended (most people go home after kiddush) but when he finished speaking a lot of people didnt stay for the questions (which were largely hostile). I heard a few people say somethings like "this must be what OJ's lawyers sounded like" or similar comments Of course this is an Orthodox congregation and probably more Republican than most. I attended a conservative congregation in Alex, VA for several years and the rabbi there was a leftist squish.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/05/2011 18:46 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
'Third way' for mid-east peace?
Posted by: ryuge || 07/05/2011 06:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  there may still be a way out of this mess that preserves calm but also acknowledges Palestinian aspirations

Palestinians are garbage that needs to be removed. Anybody who supports their "aspirations" is toxic waste.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2011 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I will second the motion (g(r)omgoru.
Palestinians are a ditch full of it. Taking a bath wont help a Palestinian. Some things you cant wash away.
Posted by: de Medici || 07/05/2011 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  They want to be a state? Awesome, give it to 'em and cut off all aid. Let them be a real state and do their own taxes, infrastructure building and negotiating for resources they don't have with full payment agreements.

They can't do it all will self destruct in a month. They don't want a state, they just want Israel destroyed and the Jews dead. One thing they don't see, that if they do manage to accomplish that, their death cult will still want to be fed. It will eat them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/05/2011 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  "EXTERMINATE THE BRUTES!"
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Kurtz
Posted by: borgboy || 07/05/2011 17:16 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Flotilla activists fail smell test
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted by: ryuge || 07/05/2011 06:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ordinarily I would tend to open the window and air out the place if Christopher Hitchens came into the room, but then now I hear him sniffing ...and I realize he has a nose himself.

The "Flotilla" does have a distinct aroma all its own. Sort of like Hitler would smell right about now, if they hadnt burned the corpse in a ditch and just saved his dentures for the Soviet museum.

But then you can depend on some kinds of people to always line up with the SS and with the Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas and Hizbollah......its their Nature.
Love the Palestinians?
SNIFF! Smells just like Jenin downwind. Or Arafat's grave (PBUH).
With Palestinians you have to be careful what you step in.
Posted by: de Medici || 07/05/2011 7:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Why O Doesn't Like Britian (and Seems Like He Hates America)
Yesterday's Reagan editorial lead me to this, published in the UK Telegraph, last December.
What has he got against us? The conventional answer is that he is bitter about the way his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was interned during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. But this explanation doesn't fit with what Obama himself has written. Barack never knew his grandfather, but what he later found out repelled him.
It seems O hates colonialism, and the part of America that he views as colonial.
In The Roots of Obama's Rage, the American author Dinesh D'Souza advances the theory that Obama's world-view is based on his father's anti-colonialism. The mistake that every other analyst has made, argues D'Souza, is to try to fit Obama into America's racial narrative. But the battle for civil rights is only tangentially a part of his story. Indeed, he has infuriated many black political organisations by refusing to take up the issues that they care about, such as the minimum wage and affirmative action. His struggle was not that against desegregation in Mississippi but that of Southern colonies against Northern colonists, of expropriated peoples against those who had plundered them.
Which means, I suppose, he's not a big friend of Russia?
Only this explanation fits all the facts, argues D'Souza. For example, Obama's climate change policies make little sense either as an attempt to slow global warming or as a way to make the US more popular. But they make perfect sense as a mechanism for the redistribution of wealth from rich nations to poor. (D'Souza notes, as an instance, the way in which the Obama administration has banned offshore drilling in the US while sponsoring it in Brazil). The same is true of his enthusiasm for nuclear disarmament. It seems bizarre to be pursuing the elimination of atomic weapons in a forum that doesn't include Iran or North Korea. But, argues D'Souza, this isn't really about Iran or North Korea. It's about making America a less warlike, less intimidating, less -- in a word -- imperial nation.

Now anti-colonialism is not the same thing as anti-Americanism. On the contrary, a measure of anti-colonialism was encoded in the DNA of the new republic. Obama does not, as his more hysterical critics allege, "hate America". As he sees it, making America more peacable, more internationalist and more engaged with global institutions is in the national interest. He may be wrong, but I don't doubt that, after his fashion, he loves his country.
However ...
Ours is a different matter. Britain created the greatest and most extensive empire the world has known. For Obama, Winston Churchill is not simply the man who defeated Nazism; he is also the man who defeated the Mau Mau insurrection. No wonder he didn't want to have the bust in his office. For Obama, the Falkland Islands are not a democratic society threatened by an autocratic aggressor, but a colonial relic.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/05/2011 06:22 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, colonialism is all mean and evil and nasty and stuff. But it is funny how 60% of Jamaicans feel they were better off when they were a British colony. But that just might be a relative indication of Jamaica's recent socialist suckitude.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/05/2011 14:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Transference.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2011 17:26 Comments || Top||

#3  "Britian" > Whoa, the Bammer doesn't like Brit-A-I-n, Britanny, or Britney Spears???

Who knew???

* "Internationalist" = GLOBALIST? = TERRAN/PLANET-IST???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/05/2011 19:56 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2011-07-05
  Hundreds of Gunmen Attack Pakistani Border Post
Mon 2011-07-04
  Bomb kills 10 in beer garden northern Nigeria
Sun 2011-07-03
  Assad sacks Hama governor
Sat 2011-07-02
  Swiss couple kidnapped in SW Pakistan: official
Fri 2011-07-01
  Report: U.S. Drone Wounds Top Islamists in Somalia
Thu 2011-06-30
  Pakistan tells US military to leave 'drone' attack base
Wed 2011-06-29
  Libyan rebels seize Gaddafi weapons depot
Tue 2011-06-28
  Breaking: Kabul Intercontinental Hotel under attack
Mon 2011-06-27
  Suicide car bomber kills 35 at Afghan clinic
Sun 2011-06-26
  25 killed in beer garden attack in Nigeria
Sat 2011-06-25
  60 dead in Afghanistan hospital bombing
Fri 2011-06-24
  Syrian Army Enters Village Bordering Turkey, Hundreds Flee
Thu 2011-06-23
  AL chief slams NATO bombing in Libya
Wed 2011-06-22
  Obama Opts for Faster Afghan Pullout
Tue 2011-06-21
  Assad holds hard line on unrest


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