"In the years preceding World War I, General Pershing was commander of the American forces in the Philippines. The small Moslem community on the island nation began to wreak havoc against the Philippine government and American forces. The American troops captured a large group of these terrorists. During the interrogation by the Military Court, the fanatics were heard to repeatedly shout, 'Allah Achbar! Allah Achbar! Jihad! The Philippines are the lands of Islam!'
"Pershing ordered the Amalekites executed one by one in the presence of the whole group. (The author is referring to the prophecy in the Bible that the Amalekites would be a very vicious and war‑like people down through history.) Moslems will not eat pork believing that no one could enter Paradise if there is even the smallest amount of swine flesh in their bodies. Knowing this, the General first ordered the firing squad to shoot large hogs. After they skinned the swine, the executioners rolled their bullets in pork fat and passed fat through the barrels of their rifles while the condemned watched. As each condemned terrorist was executed, his corpse was wrapped in hog's skin and buried on the spot. The entrails of the swine were dumped over the corpse before the grave was covered. Three of the convicted Amalekites were released to take the news back to their Islamic Communities. That ended the Islamic Jihad in the Philippines. Terrorist incidents from Islamic Fundamentalists were unheard of until a decade ago when the U.S. State Department recognized the PLO as legitimate 'Freedom Fighters' " (Vendyl Jones, RESEARCHER [Arlington, Texas: Vendyl Jones Research Institutes, January 2001]: 20).
If the government has Ten Commandments, the game of politics, not homeland security, would be at the top of the list. Eager to play the game, the Obama Administration pulled out of Iraq in time for Christmas as it welcomed Iran’s puppets into the Oval Office. The Iraqi delegation, headed by Nouri al-Maliki, included a conspirator in Iran’s terror campaigns—the Iraqi Minister of Transportation, Hadi al-Ameri.
To quash the voices of survivors and victims’ families who linked al-Ameri to American deaths in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the Obama administration replied, “There is no evidence of Hadi al-Ameri’s involvement in any act of violence against U.S. Citizens.”
However, when dots are connected, they point to al-Ameri being an Iranian agent—a first-class terrorist. Ten days after al-Ameri’s visit to the White House, US District Judge George B. Daniels signed a 53 page document in Havlish v. Iran that included 276 Statements of Fact and 35 Conclusions of Law in his ruling that the 9/11 attacks were the result of an “Iran-Hezbollah-al Qaeda alliance.” The document showed one Abolghasem Mesbahi—who had defected years earlier after receiving a tip from a colleague that he was on the regime’s kill list while working for Iran’s Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS)—testified that MOIS gave material support to Hezbollah. His credible testimony included three coded messages he received in the weeks leading up to the 9/11 attacks from contacts he had inside Iran.
The case revealed that Imad Mughniyah, once Iran’s notorious Hezbollah leader, was involved in coordinating and facilitating the 9/11 attacks and committed “numerous terrorist operations against American citizens.” He cracked the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list for twenty-one years but al-Ameri’s terrorist rap sheet puts him on par with Mughniyah, whose connection with the Iranian Revolution is not without significance. Arabic translations surfaced from Al-Malaf Net in Amman, Jordan; they uncovered top-secret documents years ago that identified Al-Ameri as:
“…the most prominent identity in this equation. He possesses all the keys relating to the connections with Iran and is in charge of the strongest security authority in Iraq at present—Badr Organization… [al-Ameri] is a high-ranking member in the Central Committee of the institution, known as the Central Authority; it is the largest security/military organization in Iraq that plans and executes dozens of military and security operations against Iran’s opposition in various Iraqi cities, on a daily basis. He works directly under the command of Abdel Aziz Al Hakim.”
Posted by Southern on Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 17:22:42 EST (2 reads)
Bill Daley leaving the Obama administration was big news for ten minutes. But as my friend Streetwise Professor and I discussed on Twitter after the news broke, this really signals a big change in direction on how Obama will campaign.
It’s going to get really ugly. How ugly? Think of the election cycle from 1796-1804. It will be that ugly. The culmination of those election cycles was a duel by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, with Hamilton losing his life after the gun battle.
Both Hamilton and Jefferson manipulated the press of that time to scandalize the other side. Character assassination is a mild phrase to use when describing the vitriol that went back and forth. Look for more in the coming months.
It takes a thick skin to be a politician, but in Chicago, no one ever plays fair. The game is rigged before the ballots are printed. They say backroom politics are dead, but the political bosses in Chicago are alive and well. As Craig correctly points out, what you just saw in the White House was a street fight from Chicago manifesting itself into an internal power struggle in Washington.
Even though they are all Democrats, there are still big political divisions within Chicago. Mayor Daley’s special talent was mitigating the special interests of all the factions. Truly, it is a special skill that should be admired and not chided, even though he accomplished it on the back of the tax payer. Daley would be an excellent CEO of a large company. I have a lot of respect for him. He is an extremely bright and energetic person. He isn’t a political hack.
There are different kinds of Democrats in Chicago. You need to know the species before you jump to conclusions. Nothing happens in a vacuum, and nothing happens without a consensus.
There are the machine Dems that understand you need a really vital business economy to support all the union jobs and other enterprises they make money from. The machine Dems can’t wet their beaks without a continuing flow of both private and government money they can skim from. Culturally, these kinds of Democrats would describe themselves as “fiscally conservative and socially liberal”. They are fiscally conservative until you start cutting spending on government programs, or simply cutting out government programs because they mean jobs and pensions to their constituents. Dan Rostenkowski was the textbook example of this machine Democrat. Blagojevich was a machine guy that jumped ship. He got too big for his britches. If he would have followed orders, he would have been just fine. Instead, he is going to jail. Machine Democrats do play by some rules. Once you negotiate with them and have a deal, you have a deal. At least until the next negotiation where they will try to take a little more from you. But in the ensuing years, you will be great friends.
The next kind of Democrat works the system and plays racial politics all the way. This is where many ethnic politicians play. They make sure they use race to “get their fair share”. They have allies in their mission. In the case of the White House, it’s David Plouffe.
There is a part of Chicago politics that is really well known. However, it’s unspoken because of fear. The fear of being branded a racist when you are merely saying something everyone knows but social constraints make it taboo. The cost of silence is high. Practitioners of racial politics are very tough to negotiate with, and extract a high price for their support. Jesse Jackson is a good example of someone where the issue of race is forefront in the negotiation.
An example of how a person like Jackson was placated was when his family miraculously received the rights to all the distribution of Budweiser at city and county establishments. John Kass of the Chicago Tribune doesn’t call him the King of Beers for nothing.
Posted by Southern on Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 17:13:34 EST (3 reads)
Listening to Barack Obama laying out what he calls his new defense strategy, my first reaction was, "Here we go again." Having basically written off the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Obama is falling prey to a temptation several of his predecessors found irresistible in peacetime: Cut defense expenditures. Shrink the military. And hope the rest of the world will neither notice nor take advantage of our weakness.
Something is decidedly different, however. This is the first time in memory that a president has voluntarily eviscerated the armed forces of the United States and redeployed what remains so as to create acute vacuums of power in time of war. Unfortunately, I am referring not just to the war in Afghanistan that we continue to be engaged in, for the time being at least.
There is also the war now developing as what might best be described as "Shariah Spring" metastasizes into grave new perils for America's allies and interests in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond. All other things being equal, "beyond" may include: the Far East, where China and North Korea are responding to domestic turmoil with outward truculence; Russia, where Vladimir Putin has already blamed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for demonstrations against his kleptocracy; and our own hemisphere, where a dying Venezuelan dictator blames us for his cancer and is working feverishly with our adversaries in Latin America and the rest of the world to turn our front-yard into a staging area for a greatly expanded "axis of evil."
Under such circumstances Mr. Obama's "revised defense strategy" is a formula for disaster. If even the defense reductions, downsizing and disengagement that it envisions come to pass - let alone those in prospect if the cuts associated with the pending sequestration legislation are imposed, the United States will not simply expose its people, allies and vital interests to attack. It will invite such attack.
While the details of the Obama unilateral disarmament program remain to be fully fleshed out, the broad outlines are bad enough:
Our military will be cut sharply in size.
It will be denied vital modernization programs - the absence of which ensures the remaining force will be ill-equipped to contend with present dangers, letalone those in the offing.
The retrofitting of existing equipment, much of it badly degraded in the course of a decade of war, will be stretched out or abandoned altogether. This willexacerbate the risks associated with the Obama failure to modernize the armed forces' kit.
Posted by Southern on Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 16:49:28 EST (2 reads)
Victorinox has pulled from its technology pocket a version of its vaunted Swiss Army knife equipped with a solid state drive capable of holding all of the digital data in a person's life.
A USB drive capable of holding as much as a terabyte of data is folded into a Swiss Army Knife being shown-off at the Consumer Electronics Show that officially opened its doors on Tuesday in Las Vegas.
"It fits in the palm of my hand," Victorinox spokeswoman Renee Hourigan said as she cupped in her palm a one-terabyte drive sheathed in the Switzerland-based company's iconic red casing.
"You can transfer everything to this and then throw your computer's external hard drive out the window," she quipped.
The terabyte-capacity version will be released globally by August and be priced at $3,000 (US), according to Victorinox.
Posted by Southern on Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 16:35:14 EST (3 reads)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-Winston Churchill
A shocking, "Arab Spring" (winter for the West) video suppressed by Islamist-appeasing, mainstream media. Egyptian soccer fans chanting and raising a huge banner proclaiming, "One Nation for New Holocaust."
Eye on Iran … more specifically, on the Nazi-like, nuclear-arming regime's military, meaning, mainly, the SS-like Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the IRGC's foreign terrorist Quds Force. The clerical fascist forces (which President Obama at first appeased and sought to engage) are preparing to fight the West, as shown by escalating tensions and rhetoric and a surge in Iranian war games, drills, and propaganda aimed at conditioning domestic and international public opinion ahead of the coming conflict. Click here for a reasonably in-depth but overly optimistic analysis.
Foreign Confidential™ analysts take Iran's leaders and military commanders at their word. They mean what they say, and they say what they mean. Unlike the German Nazi Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, who hid his real intentions in order to trick the European appeasers and appeal to their peace-loving electorates, the Hitler-admiring (yet Holocaust-denying) Iranian Islamonazis are letting everyone know that they aim to destroy Israel, drive the United States out of the Middle East, and dominate the region--for starters. Actual destruction of "the Great Satan" as well as "the Little Satan" is part of the Iranian master plan. Not for nothing does the turbaned tyranny invest in asymmetric warfare--with its Axis of Evil ally and nuclear/missile proliferation partner, Stalinist/Kimist North Korea.
The West is dangerously in denial. Appeasement of Iran has made war with Iran inevitable; and Iran, inspired by the Nazi example, is working night and day to make sure that the war will be fought on Tehran's terms.
History is repeating itself, or, at the very least, rhyming, as Mark Twain put it.
Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.
Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms.
Specifically, the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s own definition of personal identifiable information, or PII, such data could consist of any intellect “that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.” Previously established guidelines within the administration say that data could only be collected under authorization set forth by written code, but the new provisions in the NOC’s write-up means that any reporter, whether someone along the lines of Walter Cronkite or a budding blogger, can be victimized by the agency.
Posted by Southern on Thursday, February 02, 2012 @ 01:48:16 EST (6 reads)
Not everything is weird at the nanoscale. Wires so small you'd expect them to obey the strange laws of quantum mechanics have instead displayed the same electrical properties as ordinary electrical interconnects.
The finding bodes well for conventional computers, because these tiny, conductive wires could make chips smaller. It could be bad news, though, for the super-fast quantum computers that are hoped to come next.
So far, conventional computers have followed Moore's law: the density of transistors that a conventional integrated-circuit chip can hold doubles approximately every two years, yielding ever-better performance out of ever-smaller devices.
However, it's getting harder to build smaller interconnects to wire up the devices on the silicon chip. As the width of metal wires drops to few tens of nanometres, their resistivity soars because electrons start interacting with nearby surfaces, dissipating more heat and lowering efficiency.
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Also, as wires get down to nanometre scales, quantum behaviour usually dominates. For instance, the entire wire can exist in a superposition of states because of a property called quantum coherence. The wave behaviour of electrons in the wire might then cause them to interfere with each other, disrupting the electrical properties you would expect to see at larger scales.
Posted by Southern on Thursday, February 02, 2012 @ 01:19:50 EST (5 reads)
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And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword....
And the Lord said unto Moses,
"Write this for a memorial in the book and tell it unto the ears of Joshua:
for I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven..
the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."
- Exodus 17:14
"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."
- Hosea 8:7
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