The only question I now have about the “LA Missile Launch”…

…There were no less than 65 other jet aircraft, commercial and corporate not counting any military aircraft in the same area at roughly the same time, both inbound to the USA and outbound.

So… lets forget a minute that both MOA W289 and W289N were active at that time which would have prohibited any overflight in that area anyway…

So, if the meteorological conditions at altitude were such that it produced a magnificent plume, where are all the other plumes from any of the other 60 plus aircraft that would have been in the same area of sky, same alt, same meteorological condition at the same time?

Huge contrails such as this are common, but normally in much colder conditions. I crew flights to Europe many times a year and during the winter months, the contrails from passengers jets in the North Atlantic Track System are magnificent.

But these occur above 55 North Latitude.Do contrails occur over Southern California?Sure they do, but… where are the others from the aircraft we know were airborne at the same time, same/similar altitude, same block of airspace.

Here is an amazing examples…

Boehner insists on making all current tax rates permanent

What a difference a couple of weeks — and a historic “shellacking” in a midterm election — makes. In October, John Boehner had to answer whether he would accept extensions on only the tax rates for middle- and working-class earners if Democrats insisted on blocking extensions for the top tax bracket rates.

Today, Boehner announced that not only will he insist on extensions of the current tax rates, but that those extensions be made permanent:“Extending all of the current tax rates and making them permanent will reduce the uncertainty,” said Representative John Boehner, in line take control as House speaker in January, when asked about potential compromise when he meets with Obama next week.The GOP feels as if they have a wind at their backs on this issue, and the midterm elections certainly seem to corroborate that.

Democrats continue to paint this position as an endorsement of tax cuts, but that message has failed to work. For one thing, it’s simply false; Republicans are arguing to keep the status quo, not for tax cuts. Voters are also not enthusiastic about soaking the rich while needing them to invest in growth-producing activities, and most people understand that raising taxes in a recessionary environment is counterproductive, especially for a Congress with no discipline whatsoever on spending…

Dem Senators Privately Griping About Obama

Clueless.

It seems that many of the top Democrats in the United States Senate do not hold a very high opinion of their former colleague, and current President, Barack Obama.

On today’s Morning Joe, Host Joe Scarborough claimed that all of the top Democrats in the Senate have been complaining about the President’s job performance, especially his treatment of Republican Senators.A claim that was later backed up.Scarborough, much to Republicans’ delight, claimed that Dems in Washington have been “horrified by this president’s handling of things for a year and a half now.”

Scarborough specifically claimed that “Democratic chairman in the Senate” — among the most powerful Dems in Congress — had complained privately to him that Obama had failed to adequately include Reublicans in the governing process.

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Violent leftists agree with SPLC and ‘Waco Jim’ on threat from the armed right

On Monday, we asked, in the context of the Southern Poverty Law Center conflating Constitutionalists with haters, if a video warning law enforcement to cue their behavior in citizen encounters off of bumper stickers could either chill free speech or endanger Americans expressing political sentiments.

We followed up yesterday asking if video co-narrator/former ATF Special Agent in Charge James Cavanaugh was a credible SPLC spokesperson.Here’s someone—a leading “respected” academic and activist who agrees with “Waco Jim” and the SPLC about the armed political right:

“It’s racist, it’s armed, it’s hostile, it’s unspeakable,” she said. “White people armed, demanding an end to this president – it’s very crazy-producing.”"She”?The speaker is Bernadine Dohrn, “former” homegrown terrorist and current darling of the left as some sort of elder stateswoman/“social justice” pioneer.

Drew Zahn of WorldNetDaily reminds us: …Dohrn, who with her husband William Ayers were leaders of the communist revolutionary Weather Underground, had been tied to so many acts of protest violence in the ’70s that she was placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the “most dangerous woman in America.

“And: Her association with Barack Obama notably led to Sarah Palin‘s famous comment during the 2008 presidential campaign that Obama had been “palling around with terrorists.”Dohrn had this to say about those whose goal is to restore the Constitution, not burn it and replace it with the Communist Manifesto:

In the interview, Dohrn speculated, “If the left had a demonstration in Washington against Bush, armed – armed? openly armed? – demonstration of black people in Washington demanding an end to this statist government, imagine! Imagine! There would have been a massive bloodbath.”

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Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped up

YoutubeNov 10, 2010

The TSA chose Meg McLain for special screening.

They wanted her to go through the new porno-scanners. When she opted out, TSA agents raised an enormous ruckus.

When she asked some question about what they planned to do to her, they flipped out. TSA agents yelled at her, handcuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket, called in 12 local Miami cops and finally escorted her out of the airport.

Listen to her story as she told it on radio show

Free Talk Live last night.

Things are truly getting scary.

http://wewontfly.com/question-tsa-risk

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Warning to Glenn Beck: “You’re ‘Hurting’ Mr. Soros and ‘His Business’

“I don’t think you hear me. I don’t think you understand. Glenn Beck is hurting Mr. Soros and his business,” was the message delivered to Beck via a front man for George Soros.

Though certainly a silkier warning compared to crudeness of Mexican drug cartels with their fondness for special delivery of a human head delivered in a suitcase, in George Soros’ world, the inference is equally chilling.

If Glenn Beck was frightened, troubled or disturbed by the ominous message, it didn’t show. Beck used the warning, told as a personal story,as a mere post script to his first segment of a series on George Soros, “The Puppet Master”, firing back to Soros, he will continue to speak out against George Soros – “as long as I have breath”

Following is the transcript of the event as described by Glenn Beck: There is a personal story that we need to share with you. A little over a month ago, George Soros, his right hand man reached out to one of the vice presidents, one of the executives on this television program.

He requested a meeting in public between the two of them. The executive accepted Mr. Soros’ invitation. The meeting began with the Soros guy saying that this program, and me in particular, was corroding the very foundation of America and instigating violence to boot. And that was just while they were waiting to be seated at the restaurant.

When that wild salvo failed to prompt anything more than a calm rebuttal from my executive, the Soros executive then shifted gears, explaining that we were hurting their business, even hurting Mr. Soros himself.

Then he went on to talk about…

Soros: Republic Enemy #1

By Jim O’Neill Tuesday, September 15, 2009image“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”—George Soros“George Soros is an evil man.

He’s anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, andanti-good.” —Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Is it possible to lay the global financial meltdown, the radicalizing of the Democratic Party, and America’s moral decline, at the feet of one man? It is indeed possible. If George Soros isn’t the world’s preeminent “malignant messianic narcissist,” he’ll do until the real thing comes along.

Move over, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. There’s a new kid on the block.What we have in Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath’s lack of conscience.

He considers himself to be a world class philosopher, despises capitalism, and just loves social engineering.

Uh oh. Can you say “trouble,” boys and girls? Soros is a real life version of Dr. Evil—with Obama in the role of Mini-Me. Which is not as humorous as it might at first sound. In fact, it’s bone-deep chilling.György Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary.

Soros’ father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of Esperanto—a language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity.The Schwartz’s, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate assimilation into the gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930s.

Soros is an Esperanto word meaning “to soar.”In 1944 Hitler’s henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary, to oversee the murder of that country’s Jews. The Soros children were all given fake identity papers, and were shipped out to various Christian families. George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population. Soros went with him on his rounds.

Dana Milbank: Bill O’Reilly wants my head

 

On Thursday night, O’Reilly asked, as part of a show that would be seen by 5.5 million people: “Does sharia law say we can behead Dana Milbank?” He then added, “That was a joke.

“The next night, O’Reilly read a complaint from one of his viewers, Heidi Haverlock of Cleveland, who said: “I thought the joke about whether sharia law would allow the beheading of the Washington Post guy was completely inappropriate.

“O’Reilly replied: “Well, let me break this to you gently, Heidi. If Dana Milbank did in Iran what he does in Washington, he’d be hummus.”O’Reilly’s on-air fantasizing about violent ends for me was precipitated by a column I wrote describing Fox News’s election-night coverage as a victory party for the Republicans.

This didn’t strike me as a terribly controversial point, but it evidently offended O’Reilly. “He said there were no Democrats except for Schoen on,” O’Reilly complained. “It was an outright lie.”That would have been an outright lie, except that I said no such thing. I wrote:

“To be fair and balanced, Fox brought in a nominal Democrat, pollster Doug Schoen. ‘This is a complete repudiation of the Democratic Party,’ he proclaimed.”Though I didn’t claim Schoen was the sole Democrat, in hindsight I should have quoted other putative liberals who appeared on Fox that night – and sounded much like Schoen. There was Bob Beckel, proclaiming: “I feel like the blind guy whose guide dog died” and “I give all the credit to Republicans on this.”

Or Juan Williams on President Obama: “I just don’t think he gets it.”O’Reilly has every right to quarrel with my opinion or question my accuracy. But why resort to intimidation and violent imagery?Let’s drop the thuggish tactics – before more people get hurt.

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Globe Magazine: Obama Birth Certificate Bombshell!

Investigative teams acting on orders of newly elected Congressmen are fanning out around the world to uncover the truth about President Barack Obama’s birthplace, political insiders tell GLOBE in a blockbuster world exclusive! Find out how Obama’s political enemies are leaving no stone unturned to expose his Hawaiian birth certificate as a fake and prove he was REALLY born in Kenya. It’s must reading for every American!

Watchdog wants probe of Google’s ‘unusually close’ ties to Obama

 

The National Legal and Policy Center NLPC, a group that advocates for a smaller and more ethical government, wrote to leaders of the House Oversight Committee this month urging them to investigate a major privacy breach by Google.

It wants to know if the company’s ties to the administration helped it dodge penalties after the incident.

The group also urges a look at Google’s ties to the administration more generally, pointing to what it calls “a growing body of evidence” that shows the administration’s “unusually close relationship with Google has resulted in favoritism towards the company on federal policy issues.”

After Google admitted last month that it collected and stored private user information, including passwords and entire e-mails, from Wi-Fi networks, the Federal Trade Commission FTC closed an inquiry into the issue, citing promises from the company that it would improve its privacy practices.

But NLPC alleges that Google’s political clout might be the real reason the FTC dropped the probe.

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Gunny G: Wondering about…NK…

Wondering about…NK…

First NK came up in an article involving the gulf oil rig last summer. Why?

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/here%E2%80%99s-the-problem-i-have-with-this-oil-rig-explosion/

Then there was a story about that oil rig and an official report having been changed…

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/ig-report-shows-obama-wh-rewrote-gulf-spill-report-to-support-moratorium/

Then, just today there is an article to do with NK and that supposed ‘missile’ sighting on the west coast,,,

But then actually we don’t really see all that much about NK in the US media do we?
But why not, since some news from international sources seems to sift through to us anyway–not that anyone cares.

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/west-coast-mystery-missile-may-be-north-korean/
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Of missiles & money – don’t ask, won’t tell

By Doug Hagmann

Wednesday, November 10, 2010image

A person of normal sensibilities would have to be intellectually numb, overly medicated or otherwise too preoccupied with keeping food on the table and the proverbial wolves from their door not to realize that there is something very, very wrong going on today. B

y now, most Americans have heard about the sighting of what appears to be a missile, and a big one at that, apparently being launched from a location about 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles near sunset last evening. Video of the incident was taken from a KCBS news helicopter flying over the mainland at the time.

The manner in which this story unfolded should be a story by itself. The corporate media, quick to comment on the culturally indigenous dancing rituals of U.S. royalty, were quite slow on the uptake on an issue that has serious national security implications in light of our government’s response to this incident.Today, Americans were treated with a number of explanations from our government officials, military pundits, and even media personalities about the incident. Those explanations range from the “embarrassing if true” to the “downright insulting,” with numerous variations in between.

Ranging from having no information on the incident, to assurances that an investigation is underway, and my personal favorite, it is the contrail from an airplane that caused an optical illusion due to a problem of visual perspective, we are either in a boatload of trouble with regard to our national defense, or the hubris of the power elite is at an all time high.

As news of the event began to appear in the media, I contacted several well placed and trusted intelligence and military sources in an effort to determine the truth about the incident.

These sources, as I was reminded by one during our conversation, are risking their careers to talk to me.

And they talk to me not because of my charm or influence, both of which I admittedly lack, but because they care about the current status and future of our great country. And there is no better reason. I was less than reassured from what I learned today.

A “Secret” Subway Stop

Hidden deep under New York City, a “secret” subway stop is drawing visitors. The Big Apple‘s City Hall station, a beautiful structure that opened in 1904, but has been out of use for decades, can be seen by riders … if they know how to make the journey.

Check out these photos below, courtesy of John-Paul Palescandolo….So why was the station closed so many years ago? Motobullet explains that the station’s curved tracks played a part in its closure.

When subway cars moved their doors to the center, it “created an dangerous gap between the exit point on the train and the platform.” There were plans to make the stop into a transit museum, but security concerns, especially following the events of 9/11/01, put the plan in limbo.

Now, though, folks who take a little extra time amid New York’s hustle and bustle can spy the station with their own eyes.

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Pilots’ unions oppose full-body scans, searches

If you have gone through airport security at O’Hare, Midway or any other major airport recently, then you know that there is new screening equipment in place and procedures to search travelers.

Thousands of pilots who fly jetliners are angry about those changes.There are two issues; two major pilots’ unions say the full-body scanners are untested and potentially unsafe because of the radiation they expose travelers to.

And the second issue is the new procedure for hand searches by Transportation Security Administration officers at airport checkpoints. Both have produced scathing memos about the TSA from the pilots’ unions.

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Flight attendants union upset over new pat-down procedures

A flight attendants union with 2,000 members is upset over what it calls “invasive pat-downs” recently implemented by the TSA.”We’re getting calls daily about peoples’ experiences, our members are concerned,” said Deborah Volpe, Vice President of the Association of Flight Attendants Local 66.

Volpe confirmed that the union is offering advice to its flight attendants, who mostly work for Tempe-based USAirways, involving the security moves.According to a union email obtained by ABC15, it tells flight attendants if they opt out of using the body scanner through security and are required to undergo a pat-down to ask the pat-down be conducted in a private area with a witness.

“We don’t want them in uniform going through this enhanced screening where their private areas are being touched in public,” said Volpe.

“They actually make contact with the genital area.”Some passengers have told ABC15 they’ve already encountered flight delays due to crew members having problems with TSA employees.”It delay was over three hours when they finally found a crew member to take her place,” said Les Johnson who says his Charlotte bound flight was delayed.

“She flight attendant felt that she was groped and supposedly filed a claim.”"They’ve already contacted the ACLU,” said Volpe when referring to some members of the union. “We don’t know if somebody may have had an experience with a sexual assault and its pat-down going to drudge up some bad memories.”Volpe made it clear the union is not against security.”Security is the most important aspect, our offices were used as murder weapons,” said Volpe.

“Keep in mind we undergo extensive background checks and we fly quite often.”

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Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment

Joe Miller, Alaska’s Republican nominee for the United States Senate, recently expressed support for an idea that is rapidly gaining steam in Tea Party circles: the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment. Miller subsequently backtracked from his statement, but he shouldn’t have: Repealing the Seventeenth Amendment would go a long way toward restoring federalism and frustrating special-interest influence over Washington.

Ratified in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment replaced the election of U.S. senators by state legislators with the current system of direct election by the people. By securing the Seventeenth Amendment’s ratification, progressives dealt a blow to the Framers’ vision of the Constitution from which we have yet to recover.The Constitution did not create a direct democracy; it established a constitutional republic. Its goal was to preserve liberty, not to maximize popular sovereignty.

To this end, the Framers provided that the power of various political actors would derive from different sources. While House members were to be elected directly by the people, the president would be elected by the Electoral College. The people would have no direct influence on the selection of judges, who would be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate to serve for life or “during good behavior.”

And senators would be elected by state legislatures.Empowering state legislatures to elect senators was considered both good politics and good constitutional design. At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the proposal was ratified with minimal discussion and recognized as the approach “most congenial” to public opinion.

Direct election was proposed by Pennsylvania’s James Wilson but defeated ten to one in a straw poll. More important than public opinion, however, was that limitations on direct popular sovereignty are an important aspect of a constitutional republic’s superiority to a direct democracy. As Madison observes in Federalist 51, “A dependence on the peo…

IG report shows Obama WH rewrote Gulf spill report to support moratorium

When the Obama White House announced its moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP-Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in April, the administration insisted that they followed the recommendations of its panel of experts.

This story blew up when the panel of experts insisted that they had not recommended any kind of blanket moratorium, and that one simply wasn’t necessary to address the deficiencies at MMS that contributed to the catastrophic fire and spill.

A new report from the Inspector General probing the White House response accuses the administration of rewriting key sections of the report in order to falsely give the impression that the panel had made that recommendation: The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report. In the wee hours of the morning of May 27, a staff member to White House energy adviser Carol Browner sent two edited versions of the department report’s executive summary back to Interior.

The language had been changed to insinuate the seven-member panel of outside experts – who reviewed a draft of various safety recommendations – endorsed the moratorium, according to the IG report obtained by POLITICO.

“The White House edit of the original DOI draft executive summary led to the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer-reviewed by the experts,” the IG report states, without judgment on whether the change was an intentional attempt to mislead the public…

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Today is the 235th birthday of the United States Marine Corps: May God bless the best of the best

Today we celebrate the 235th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Happy birthday Marines, Semper Fidelis and May God bless you all.

On November 10, 1775 the fledgling Continental Congress passed a resolution that two Battalions of Marines be raised and maintained for purposes for fighting our British oppressors as a seagoing army. Since the times of Col. Samuel Nicholas the first Commandant of the Corps, Marines have always fought above and beyond expectation on the high seas, on land and more recently in the air.

Because we Americans are a peace loving people, the Marine Corps and the United States Navy were actually allowed to go out of existences at the close of the Revolutionary War.

This state of unpreparedness existed until July 11, 1798 when the Corps was reestablished in preparation for a potential war with France. Soon the Marines were sailing off the foreign shores.The Corps’s first large scale assignment came at the dawn of the 19th century when President Thomas Jefferson sent them to smash the “Barbary pirates” who were kidnapping and terrorizing American merchant sailors.These “pirates” were actually Islamist thugs who had to be given a clear message about America’s willingness to fight back and the Marines were just the fighting force to send that message.

The Corps distinguished itself throughout the rest of the 19th century in the Mexican War, the Civil War on both sides and the Spanish American War.During World War I the ferocious fighting Marines earned the grudging respect of German troops who named them “Devil Dogs” a name still treasured by Marines today.During World War II from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima, and finally on to Okinawa the United States Marine Corps fought won battle after battle until Japanese…

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Beck Reveals Ominous Gift Soros Sent Him video

Beck Reveals Ominous Gift Soros Sent Him

Muslim World: We’re Sick of Obama Too

After his fact-free speech in Cairo, the Muslim World was supposed to quit hating America. The steady stream of attempts to blow us up are a pretty good indication that Obama hasn’t made much of an impression on the Muslim World.

They’re sick of him too.”‘It’s all speeches — in the end the same American politics, and Jewish politics, continues, said Cairo retiree Mohamed Abdel.

‘This is why nothing since Obama’s Cairo speech has translated into action with Arab nations.’”Hey, Mohamed, we’re with you on the excess speechifying. But, Obama’s policies toward Israel are increasingly wrong headed and dangerous.

But at least the Muslim World is now free from that evil cowboy, George W. Bush. Seems that, like the rest of us, some Muslims are waxing a bit nostalgic.

“Obama’s Jakarta speech emphasized democracy and Indonesia’s progress in bridging racial and religious divides, but Cairo University politics professor Hassan Nafaa said Arab states had moved away from democratic reform since the Bush administration.

“The Muslim World is going to have to adjust their expectations to meet the reality of Obama’s incompetence. We have.Joy Tiz, MS, JD is the author of It’s Not Easy Being God: the Real George Soros, now available!

Obama Visits Indonesia’s Grand Mosque; Michelle Wears Head Covering – Video

Here is a compilation of brief video clips showing President Barack Obama and wife Michelle in Indonesia, where they made a visit to the Istiqlal Grand Mosque in Jakarta. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

First Lady Michelle Obama is seen wearing a head covering at the Mosque compound.

So far, there just is no extensive video that I could find of Obama at the mosque

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A Hurrican hits America

Be devoted to one another in brotherly LOVE. Honor one another above yourselves. Romans 12:10What a time in histoir to be a TeaPublican.

These Patriots have no idea how much power they have acquired over the past year in their attachment w/America and hatred from the Libs.

They have withstood every arrow and limp wristed sling thrown their way and came out on the other side more powerful and focused than when they first began.

Any political movement that can claim it directly changed the balance of a chamber and the direction of a Country can no longer be ignored.

They have become a force like a hurricane moving across the Gulf picking up strength as it nears land the Pundiots try to predict if its next landfall will be a Tropical Depression or another Class 5 leveling the political landscape.

Never before has a movement hit w/such a force as this, like Katrina swamping the levies of the unions and flooding the DNC like Norleans. The Sinate may have been kept barely, but the house is where everything gets done and we have just the people to do it.

We also still have an army of patriots still ready to hold these congressmen’s feet to the heat.

If they don’t do what the people who got them elected want then there will be protests held in their offices just like were held in the Dems’. The difference is what the people who elected them want is less spending rather than more as well as a reduction of gubmint waste and control.The best part of the congress is the number of members it has to cover more territory and get things done.

There can finally be an audit and investigation of Fannie Mae to find out what happened and what was the chain of events to cause that entity to fall. There needs to be a complete investigation into how to either reform this corrupt institution or the closing of it.

 

There will be pain if it is closed and there have been agreements made w/foreign Gummits like the Chinese and Japanese but there needs to be market forces brought to bear for a lot of these wasteful bureaucracies and closing may be the only way to create the void to have private banking taking on some of its risk.

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Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama can rebound by taking page from Bill Clinton’s playbook

Secretary of State Clinton predicted today that President Obama will tame the new crop of Republican flamethrowers coming to Congress by taking a page from her husband’s playbook.

Clinton, who has proclaimed loudly and often that she’s out of politics now, got back into the game briefly to opine that Obama’s strategy will look a lot like what former President Bill Clinton did after the Dems got thumped in the 1994 midterms.”

I’m absolutely confident he can do that,” Clinton said on ABC’s “Nightline” about the 2008 upstart who beat her for the Dem presidential nomination. The trick will be to make it look like he’s moving to the middle while sticking to his agenda, Clinton said.

“I don’t think that Bill changed his principles or changed his objectives or really reversed course in any way,” Clinton said.

“I think what he did was take a very clear-eyed assessment of what was going to be possible with the Congress after the election, and moved on every front that he could to get things done.”

“And I think that’s what you’ll see President Obama doing,” she added, while acknowledging she can’t predict how the new crop of Tea Party and GOP hardliners will react.”I don’t know, because I don’t know them,” Clinton said. “I’m going to get to know them.”

Obama Hails Indonesia as Model for World

US President Barack Obama has held up Indonesia as an example of how a developing nation can embrace democracy and diversity. snipMr Obama said innocent people across the world were still targeted by militants but emphasised that the US was not at war with Islam.snip

In his address, he touched on the four years he spent in the country as a child and emphasised the importance of Indonesia’s example as a growing economy and a majority-Muslim nation that is largely tolerant of other religions.

“Today, I return to Indonesia as a friend, but also as a president who seeks a deep and enduring partnership between our two countries,” he said. snip

He also highlighted the role religion had played in Indonesia’s development, praising the country’s spirituality and “rich diversity”.

“Just as individuals are not defined solely by their faith, Indonesia is defined by more than its Muslim population,” he said.”But we also know that relations between the United States and Muslim communities have frayed over many years. As president, I have made it a priority to begin to repair these relations.

“He said more work needed to be done to address “the issues that have caused tensions for many years” but appealed for unity to defeat “violent extremists”.

 

“I have made it clear that America is not, and never will be, at war with Islam,” he said.”Instead, all of us must work together to defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates, who have no claim to be leaders of any religion – certainly not a great, world religion like Islam. But those who want to build must not cede ground to terrorists who seek to destroy. This is not a task for America alone.”snip

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Barack Obama’s Secret History

We’ve all heard President Barack Obama’s American journey. Twice. In “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama told his glossy, airbrushed story: son of a black father and single mother with international background but American values, a man who overcame his personal struggle with race to become a great uniter.

Then there are the untold parts of his background that we’ve heard from other sources: his associations with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. His real estate dealings with corrupt businessman Tony Rezko.

His political backstabbing in Chicago.Finally, there are the parts of his story we never hear about at all: the stories from his childhood and adolescence. The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

We know virtually nothing about this time in President Obama’s life. But we’re learning.

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No mention of Obama Jr. in 1962 letter

A letter Barack Obama Sr. wrote in 1962 raises new questions about the veracity of the official Obama nativity story related by Barack Obama Jr. in his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father.

“In a May 1962 letter he wrote from Hawaii to his political benefactor in Kenya, Tom Mboya, Barack Obama Sr. discusses his “wife,” but without mentioning Ann Dunham, his Hawaiian bride and the mother of the future president.Toward the end of the letter, Obama wrote, “You know my wife is in Nairobi there and I would really appreciate any help you may give her.”Clearly Obama Sr. is referring to his first wife, Kezia Aoko, whom he had married in 1954 at age 18 while she was pregnant with their first child.

Obama left Kenya in 1959 to study in Hawaii.He instructs Mboya that his wife Kezia was then staying with her brother, Wilson Odiawo, in Nairobi.Get the free, in-depth special report on eligibility that could bring an end to Obama’s presidencyHere is the relevant paragraph, at the end of the letter:The handwriting next to the paragraph appears to be Mboya’s: “Ask Odiawo to see me.”The handwriting at the bottom of the letter is that of Hoover Institution archivists identifying the location of the letter in the Tom Mboya Collection.Story continues below The official Obama nativity story maintains that Ann Dunham remained in Hawaii, living with her husband, Barack Obama Sr., and their infant son, until Barack Obama Sr. left Hawaii for Cambridge, Mass., in June 1962, to begin graduate studies at Harvard University.

As WND has reported, documentary evidence from the University of Washington at Seattle and testimony, including interviews with Ann Dunham’s high school friends and her babysitter in Seattle, indicate Dunham left Hawaii almost immediately after her son was born.

Dunham enrolled in extension classes at the University of Washington in Seattle, beginning Aug. 19, 1961, when Barack Obama Jr. was only 15 days old.WND has also reported that photos of Barack Obama Sr. attending a University of Hawaii party in the early 1960s show him enjoying the company of fellow students without the presence of Dunham.

Obama’s demeanor evident in the photographs suggests a familiarity with women that would give no indication he was engaged to be married or already wed to Dunham.Obama’s left hand, clearly visible in one of the photographs, shows his ring finger without a wedding band.

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On Daily Show, Texas Gov. Rick Perry denies he wants Texas to secede from the union

Eric W. Dolan

Raw Story

Nov 10, 2010

Appearing on the The Daily Show Monday to promote his new book, Texas Governor Rick Perry, a potential contender for the Republican nomination in 2012, denied being a secessionist and attacked the progressive movement of the 1920’s.

Although the governor has not explicitly supported the secession of Texas, his strong stance on the state sovereignty and comments he has made have caused some to wonder.

“Would you like to see, at some level, Texas as its own country?” asked Jon Stewart, the host of the show.

“A little bit? A little bit? United Republic of Texas?”

“No,” answered Perry.

For much of the interview, Perry attacked the size and power of the federal government.“If you want to know when Washington really got off the track — the 16th amendment, giving them the opportunity to take your money with a personal income tax,” said Perry.

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Expert Claims “Missile” Was Optical Illusion

Foreign aggressors and private ballistics firms were also ruled out. It lead to speculation among aerospace experts on the internet that the trail could have been the result of an optical illusion.[...]John Pike, a defence and aerospace expert who runs website GlobalSecurity.org, was convinced the phenomenon was a simple trick of the eye.

He said: ‘This thing is so obviously an airplane contrail… There’s a reason that they’re called rockets.’He said the object was moving too slow to be a missile, and footage showed light of varying intensity coming from the object, which suggested reflected light from the sun rather than light generated from an engine.

It looked like a missile launch, he said, because of an optical illusion that made the contrail appear as though it started on the ground and zoomed straight up.

In reality, he said, the contrail began on the horizon and ran parallel to the ground.‘It was an unusually clear day, so what looked like a missile launch 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles was actually the contrail of a jet that stretched 300 miles into the distance.’

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Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Emerging One World Economy

Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.

As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against “those who see globalization as a threat” and he spoke of the “integrated world” in which we all now live.

But is merging the entire globe into a one world economy, a one world financial system and a one world labor market really the best thing for the American people?For the past two decades, all U.S. presidents have been heralding the benefits of merging the American economy with the rest of the globe.

George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have all steadfastly supported the emerging one world economy. These presidents have each used different terms to describe this process such as “globalism”, “globalization”, “an integrated world”, “the global economy” and even “a New World Order”, but they have all meant the same thing.

All of these presidents have sought to integrate the United States even more deeply into the developing one world economic system.Barack Obama showed very clearly how he feels about globalism when he made the following statement during his speech in Mumbai….

“This will keep America on its toes.

America is going to have to compete. There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalization as a threat and those who accept we live in a open integrated world, which has challenges and opportunities.”This is something that Barack Obama has obviously thought quite a bit about.

In fact, during the same speech he warned that those supporting globalization will need to “guard against” those who would seek to put up barriers to the full integration of the economies of the world….

“If the American people feel that trade is just a one-way street where everybody is selling to the enormous US market but we can never sell what we make anywhere else, then the people of the US will start thinking that this is a bad deal for us and it could end up leading to a more protectionist instinct in both parties, not just among Democrats but also Republicans. So, that we have to guard against.”

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West Coast mystery missile may be North Korean

Nov 10, 2010

“A shot over the bow,” is what some in America’s intelligence community are whispering under the stunned media’s demands for answers.

And if the United State’s Navy is telling the truth, heads will roll among some of the Pentagon’s brass for permitting a foreign enemy vessel to breach U.S. sovereign territory and send a chilling message to the American government.

Make no mistake.

The missile, launched approximately 35 miles from the city of Los Angeles and north of Catalina island about 5 PM PDT, came from an offshore submarine.

Watch video report here: VIDEOPerhaps the navy had an accidental missile launch?

Well maybe

If so, they will not be able to continue to cover up the mishap for very long.But another more frightening scenario is being discussed by insiders at Homeland Security and the super-secret National Security Agency:

North Korea has rattled its saber again—this time with a very, very large missile launched from a Sang-O class sub modified to carry a missile or towing a missile launching sea sled.

A sea sled missile launch platform was first perfected by Nazi Germany in WWII and planned for use in the closing months of the war against New York and Washington, D.C.

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Three Sheets to the Wind: Nautical Slang in Common Usage

The spoken word is an extraordinary thing. Each language and its intricacies are in a constant state of flux, with words and phrases falling in and out of common usage.

As such, we often adopt words and phrases we have heard used without ever considering their original meaning. A perfect example of this is the many colorful phrases in the English language which derive their origins from nautical terminology.

Chances are you can pick out quite a few phrases from this list that you use at least every once in a while, yet you probably never knew where the term or phrase originated.Editor’s Note: Critics will point out that there seems to be a penchant in etymological spheres to attribute a nautical origin to just about anything. This idea is so prevalent, in fact, that etymologists even conjured up the tongue-in-cheek and completely fictional organization C.A.N.O.E., aka the Committee to Attribute a Nautical Origin to Everything.

With this in mind, we’ve tried to avoid some of the phrases with questionable nautical origin.Let’s take a look at some prime examples of nautical lingo left over from the age of sail that are still in use today.“To turn a blind eye to” – To refuse to see or recognize somethingCredited to the famous British Admiral Horatio Nelson whose naval exploits during the Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815 are the stuff of seafaring legend. Nelson was injured early in his naval career, leaving him completely blind in one eye.

During the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, the fiery Nelson was serving under a much more reserved and cautious Admiral Sir Hyde Parker. With the tide of battle seeming to turn against them, Parker raised the signal flag, ordering retreat at the discretion of the captains. When Nelson was notified by his flag captain of the signal, he replied, “You know, Foley, I have only one eye – I have a right to be blind sometimes.”

Calmly raising his telescope to his blind eye and aiming it in the direction of the signal to withdraw, he continued, “I really do not see the signal.” Thus, having turned a blind eye to the signal of retreat, he continued to fight, and within an hour had secured victory.

“As the crow flies” – In a straight line, the shortest route between…

Let’s Take This Country Back

 

Though this election was a resounding defeat of white liberals and the policies of Obama, members of the Congressional Black Progressive and Socialist Caucus went essentially unscathed.

Black people continued to support these government-funded extortionists, despite the destruction these black overseers have wreaked in black neighborhoods. Blacks seem annoyed at the idea that Obama lost ground in the last two years, and the Right is said to be taking the country back.The Right would argue that they are taking the country back from the socialist policies that have weakened the country. Back to the Constitution.

Blacks argue differently, saying that conservatives want to take black people back to slavery.

This may explain why black Democrats continue to allow ineffective and criminal leaders to be their caretakers.One thing is for sure: Black Democrats love handouts. They know that the Congressional Black Caucus will continue to fight for these handouts, which black Democrats now consider “entitlements.” Payback for slavery.

These days anything black Democrats want is considered an entitlement. Gucci purses and 60-inch flat-screen TVs in their taxpayer-funded, government-gifted homes — all are entitlements.For black Democrats, the government is supposed to provide food, shelter, clothing, cars tricked out, of course, cable TV and PlayStations the in-home babysitters, childcare, health care, and, of course, a check.What the government does not have to provide to black Democrats are safe schools, crime-free neighborhoods, adequate education, or jobs.

The government also doesn’t have to provide real hope. False hope is fine, however.

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Ted Rall Book Excerpt: Let’s Kill Some Christians and Tea Partiers

Ted Rall has a new book out titled The Anti-American Manifesto.

In it he makes an explicit call for a violent socialist revolution from within.

In case you think this is all a big joke, here’s an excerpt from the book: We are here because the U.S. is going to end soon.

There’s going to be an intense, violent, probably haphazard struggle for control. It’s going to come down to us versus them.

The question is: What are you going to do about it?…

Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the “Godless,” “secular” United States for decades.

In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party.

Right-wing organizational names change, but they amount to the same thing: the reactionary sociopolitical force—the sole force—poised to fill the vacuum when collapse occurs. The scenario outlined by Margaret Atwood’s prescient novel The Handmaid’s Tale—rednecks in the trenches, hard military men running things, minorities and liberals taken away and massacred, setting the stage for an even more extreme form of laissez-faire corporate capitalism than we’re suffering under today—is a fair guess of how a post-U.S. scenario will play out unless we prepare to turn it in another direction…

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In speech, Obama says ‘Indonesia is part of me’

SEOUL, South Korea – Declaring that “Indonesia is part of me,” President Barack Obama issued a strikingly personal appeal to the Muslim world to join the West in an unrelenting battle to defeat al-Qaida and violent extremism.

After his speech in Jakarta, Obama flew to South Korea and a meeting of the Group of 20 major economic powers in Seoul.

In Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, a place where he spent several years as a boy, Obama on Wednesday acknowledged the fraying that remains in U.S.-Islamic relations despite his best efforts at repair. He urged both sides to look beyond “suspicion and mistrust” to forge common ground against terrorism.

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Mysterious missile launch most likely US Air flight 808

Network news and the internet were abuzz with the report and video by Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCBS of a reported missile launch late Monday afternoon — around 5 PM. Both the Air Force and the Navy denied they had any missiles launches at the time.

According to CBS News the Defense Department remains baffled.”Nobody within the Department of Defense that we’ve reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said. “So far, we’ve come up empty with any explanation.”

And they go on:”The FAA told CBS News that they ran radar replays of a large area west of Los Angeles based on media reports of the location of a possible missile launch, but they did not reveal any fast moving unidentified targets in that area.

The FAA also did not receive any reports of any unusual sightings from pilots in the area.”

“The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, issued a statement jointly with the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, saying that the contrail was not the result of a foreign military launching a missile. It provided no further details.”A search for flights that could have left a contrail led me to US Air’s flight 808 from Honolulu to Phoenix.

The flight took off from Honolulu at 10:06 AM HST, passed over Catalina Island at 5:03 PM PST….

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