...It appears to me that Obama is a man of tremendous internal contradictions. He fancies himself as a post-partisan, post-ideological figure who alone can elevate public discourse. He obviously took great pride in presenting himself as Americas Socrates during the presidential campaign.
At the same time, Mr. Obama is a man of unusual arrogance who, if things dont go his way, becomes prickly. He lashes out. And he begins to feel sorry for himself. Notoriously thin-skinned and accustomed to worshipful treatment by those around him (including the press), Obama is now clearly disquieted.
On some deep level, Obama must understand that, at this moment at least, his presidency is coming apart. Its not at all clear to me that hes particularly well equipped to deal with the shifting fortunes, the hardships, and the battering that a president must endure. Difficult circumstances seem to be bringing out his worst qualities rather than his best. And that may be what was on display this afternoon.
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agree - he is unable to handle adversity due to his narcissism and ultra-high (and undeserved) self esteem. His pouty announcement last night is the mark of an emotional child, not the leader of a nation
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agree - he is unable to handle adversity due to his narcissism and ultra-high (and undeserved) self esteem. His pouty announcement last night is the mark of an emotional child, not the leader of a nation
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Bes, please check your sources. Linking to an interview with a writer for "Executive Intelligence Review," a Lyndon LaRouche publication, is a way to get this site laughed at.
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12/07/2010 21:06 Comments ||
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hmmmm have to have that stutter looked at?
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12/07/2010 21:10 Comments ||
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Frank Gaffney hosts a panel discussing jihad in America at David Horowitzs Restoration Weekend held recently. The panelists are Robert Spencer, S.E. Cupp, Mark Thiessen and Karen Lugo.
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I know I am not in the majority but I agree with Mr. Assange. Any number of publications or websites would have published this files, in fact the NYT published a bunch as well. Anybody who wants can find an outlet for classified material. We need to plug the leak at the source. First off we need to (after a speedy courts martial) execute one PFC Manning. This will have a dramatic and immediate affect on any wannabe/copycat leaker. Second we need to follow the OPSEC/COMMSEC rules for dealing with classified material. No more jump drives or CD burners. These two measures will greatly reduce the chance of this happening in the near future.
Yes, Cyber Sarge is correct about fixing leaks at the source. Private Manning needs to spend the rest of his life in a SuperMax, and the rules need to be tightened (again).
But what Mr. Assange has done qualifies as espionage against the United States. He's an unfriendly foreign national who received American state secrets and distributed them in an effort to harm our country. It may not be 'illegal', but it is espionage.
Once upon a time, oh back in the Cold War for example, we knew how to handle people who committed espionage against us. The Soviets Russians knew as well. The Chinese are still pretty good at it.
Mr. Assange needs to pay for what he did.
Back in the Cold War our own newspapers would not have printed classified information. The NYT got away with it with the Pentagon Papers because it was an attack on Nixon and that was always okay. That opened the floodgates; those floodgates need to be closed. We might promulgate a new set of rules as to what will happen to news outlets that print classified information in the future.
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Don't shoot him for a being a messenger. Shoot him for being a child molester who is responsible for the deaths of 200+ people whose cover he destroyed.
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The reason Wikileaks is the only one attacked and not the Old Media is because Governments (UK, Australia, US) are now SO GOOD at manipulating and controlling the feed of information to old media that they pose no threat.
Wikileaks however is now an uncontrollable source of information - and it feeds to Old Media.
So if you kill WIkileaks, Old Media will go back to being the chained up dog. it still can bark (giving appearance of independence) but it's on a tight chain. It can't report what it does not know.
I totally support Julian Assange. I think it is disgraceful how our Governments are conducting themselves.
Perveting the judicial process
Interfering with the media
these things are a greater threat to your society than some Islamofascist living in a cave in Afghanistan.
Dismantling our norms and freedoms which took centuries to build is NOT on.
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Besoeker, if the "accused rapist" (and go read the facts in the Reuters article about that trumped up charge) tells you the truth and your other source is uninformed - that leaves you precisely where?
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Assange needs to die like King Ludwig of Bavaria - drown in 18 inches of water (with a bullet-hole behind his left ear that 'did nothing to hasten his death'). His remains should be used for chum the next time the Swedes go fishing.
Manning needs to be welded into a 6'x6'x6' steel box that has two 2" x 12" slits cut in the side, and a 3" circular hole in the floor. The box can be moved back and forth from Fort Erwin to Fort Riley to Fort Lewis to Fort Huachuka as needed as an example of what happens when you're stupid. Feed him nothing but peanut butter sandwiches and stale beer - REALLY stale beer. Make sure he never gets to spend a night inside a building ever again - just his little steel box.
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OP... you down in the cellar pulling maintenance on that collection of medieval weapons and interrogation devices again?
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Claim: It is neither. WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history. During that time we have changed whole governments, but not a single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been harmed. But the US, with Australian government connivance, has killed thousands in the past few months alone. Reality: When I try to question him about the morality of what he's done, if he worries about unleashing something that he can't control, that no one can control, he tells me the story of the Kenyan 2007 elections when a WikiLeak document "swung the election".
The leak exposed massive corruption by Daniel Arap Moi, and the Kenyan people sat up and took notice. In the ensuing elections, in which corruption became a major issue, violence swept the country. "1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak," says Assange. It's a chilling statistic, but then he states: "On the other hand, the Kenyan people had a right to that information and 40,000 children a year die of malaria in Kenya. And many more die of money being pulled out of Kenya, and as a result of the Kenyan shilling being debased."
It's the kind of moral conundrum that would unnerve most people, that made some wonder last week what the potential ramifications of the latest leak might be, but it is a subject on which Assange himself is absolutely clear: "You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good
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Glenmore
In short the Islamizaion of Australia, creeping inches at a time.
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12/07/2010 9:30 Comments ||
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Glenmore, here you go:
The old expression give them an inch and theyll take a mile is the stark reality Australia must come to terms with, as it slowly wakens from its slumber to confront the islamic menace. Muslims in Australia are running a near-perfect textbook islamisation campaign. It is not as though it were straight from a Muslim Brotherhood manual for take-over of western nations - their campaign IS straight from just such a manual.
Just to bring people either up to speed or to refresh memories, recall this document which is now available world-wide.
To quote the website which hosts the document - LINK
The Al Qaeda Manual
The attached manual was located by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an al Qaeda members home. The manual was found in a computer file described as the military series related to the Declaration of Jihad. The manual was translated into English and was introduced earlier this year at the embassy bombing trial in New York.
And here is only one brief encapsulation of its dire content:
To those champions who avowed the truth day and night......And wrote with their blood and sufferings these phrases...
The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals, nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun.
Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and cooperative councils. They are established as they [always] have been
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Well, if Anon1 is at all representative (i hope not) of what the Aussie home team is like (I have never met an Australian until here on Rantburg) it is no wonder Islamization is happening. Despite all evidence to the contrary, she still supports Assange. That type of denial is toxic, and would allow such campaigns.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
