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Gerald Molen feels towards Obama as I do. Not qualified to be a dog catcher and that is even quite a compliment. You Decide. (See 1 below.)
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Another documentary regarding Obama's passionate love of Israel. A repeat! (See 2 below.)
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Avi Jorisch takes after Australian firm wanting it both ways with Iran. (See 3 below.)
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U.N continues to be infested with Arabists termites. Place needs complete fumigating. (See 4 below.)
More crap from Obama's minister of twenty years. (See 4a below.)
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Yesterday, Obama told more lies about the energy problems we face. First, the solutions to increased drilling were hatched before he came into office. Any increase we are currently experiencing is attributable to the fact that increased drilling now occurs on non federal lands because he has restricted drilling on federal land. Second, the amount of oil and gas that is now recoverable has increased tremendously reducing our potential energy dependence but, once again, he and his energy Sec. want higher oil prices so they are opposed to these new methods. Third, Obama's opposition to the pipeline was a payoff to narrow Green voters and impacts immediate job hires. Finally, there is no way various renewable sources are in our near term future and could fill any prospective gap for years to come.
Just more garbage out of Obama's mouth and you t thought Michelle was opposed to junk food.
Obama is full of jive junk talk when he knows his audience will swallow anything he dishes.
Then yesterday, our imbecile V.P gave us more insight into the White House 'Pravda's divide and conquer strategy that will be the essence of Obama's re-election campaign. This is all from the Chicago' ward heeler' playbook Obama used to build his political career!
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Being choked with regulations so more trees need harvesting to allow thousands of pages of bureaucratic gobbledygook can be printed allowing federal agents to usurp more of our freedoms. playing The Federal Gotcha Game. The stifling effect on small businesses, the nation's engine for employment, is both staggering and disheartening. (See 5 below.)
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1)OSCAR-WINNING PRODUCER OF 'SCHINDLER'S LIST' SLAMS OBAMA, SALUTES BREITBART
By HOLLYWOODLAND
Gerald R. Molen is an Oscar-winning film producer whose credits include "Rain Man," "Minority Report," "Twister," "Schindler's List" and "Jurassic Park."
My fellow patriots,
As we sit in our comfort-laden abodes, sipping our lattes or pink lemonades and either wishing the snow would be gone for another year or baseball season would start so there was something interesting to do, the world continues to move forward. But as we seek other interests, we are not listening to the sounds emanating from the world around us. If you would listen carefully you would recognize the woeful sounds of America gasping for its very breath of life and its inner soul.
Yes, the sounds are there. We just don't listen. We only hear (or see) what we want. As the country gasps for clarity of purpose, we the people figure someone or something else will come along and fix the problems for us. I don't think so. The warning signs have been there for a long time. A very long time. It is my humble opinion that, during these turbulent times, we find ourselves in the dilemma of our lifetimes. As a country we have been either asleep or just too comfortable in our own cocoons to realize the depth of our plight.
An event took place in 2008 that changed the world we live in. It changed the face of America, it changed the direction of our moral values, it changed how we view the future and how we see ourselves as human beings and it changed the make up of our basic freedoms that we so irreverently tossed aside for entitlement freebies and empty promises by the engineers at the helm.
Thus, I have some questions; As we sit at the precipice of financial collapse from debt and entitlements, how much time do we have? Can we reverse course? What can we as individuals do? Who best to bring us back from the brink? Or are we too late?
The latter question first ... are we too late? No. Not really. That is the one thing we do as Americans ... once awakened from a slumber and the realization sinks in that we are in a pot of dirty soup up to our noses and some bunch of dirt bags are throwing in more slop to hopefully drown us in our own spittle, we fight. We fight hard and will win in the end because we always have.
It's in our DNA. The sad part is we have to get to the point of losing everything before we stand tall and state unequivocally, "No more. Stop the madness. Stop it now!"
The event I speak of, of course, was the presidential election of 2008. We put a man in office, a man not really qualified to be a dog catcher, much less the most powerful man in the world. We refused to listen to what he was saying. We missed the first gasp of incredulity when he promised to transform America. Oh, we bought into the cliched slogans of "hope and change." We liked his smile, his ability to read from a teleprompter, his super-friendly demeanor and his charismatic oratorical skills. Yeah, we jumped in with both feet thinking the country would show the world we had found our mojo and racism was gone forever.
Once again, our ears failed us. Our eyes failed us. We failed to hear that horrific sucking sound of our falling into the vortex of calm voices pushing us ever so gently but with assured and deft platitudes, into the hell of our own making.
We found that the dreaded four-letter word that could burn the eardrums of a sweet mother or even a hard-hearted father did not start with the letter 'F.' No, no ... that would have been too simple. There are worse four-letter words that not only burn the eardrums but they singe the soul. They change life as we know it. They create an environment of hell on earth. And alas, sometimes they come wrapped in the promises of easy living, free lunches forever and fun times at the social picnic. But as the wrappings are peeled away and truth is revealed, and we see the four-letter words that imprison us with our own trappings. They become clear and defined. They are "fear and envy" and the worst four letter word of all, "hate."
Hate fuels the fear, the envy, and we bind ourselves to the adversary by falling into the trap of each of them. We can never lose our awareness that those who perpetrate the lie and the hate by using their best tools of fear and envy and class warfare are alive and well and doing their very best to take our basic freedoms away from us. The word and its implications need to get lost from the lexicon of the American landscape. I realize that will be hard for the Left in America as it is what feeds their motivations and goals.
Another part of the ongoing dilemma is that the President surrounded himself with self-proclaimed Marxists, socialists, communists and progressives. Why? Is the answer that he embodies some or all of those ideological characteristics? I think so. Each of them arrived with an agenda to turn America into the vision of themselves and the despicable goal of changing America into a European style state of fear and class warfare. Sadly, we see it happening before our very eyes, but we refuse to stand up and make our presence and our voices known. That must change. We have to get involved. If we sit still for the usual emanations from Washington, D.C. and say nothing, do nothing, we will be nothing. Who to blame? Only ourselves.
Now we are confronted with the possibility of changing the mistake the country made in putting Obama in the highest office in the land by electing a new POTUS. But will we? Will the majority fall on their faces while groveling at the feet of the feed-lot proprietor? Will our defenses be pushed aside by the desire to partake of the entitlements the proprietor doles out as temporary freebies and the empty promises of a better life if only we will give our souls and our minds to this false benefactor? Or will we stand up to the forces of promises of easy living and more and more entitlements? It won't be easy, but it is necessary, or we won't live in the America we grew up in.
The election of 2008 was filled with the same promises we are hearing again as the President travels across the country extolling his virtues and penchant for handing out goodies wrapped in the same old hope and change. The empty promises were countless, but we Americans have a habit of short memories. How many of you remember the promises of transparency, the tremendous number of czars, the idea of having our military pay for their own insurance, etc?
We need to reawaken our memories. Give them a jolt. Then each of us should care enough to get off our butts and do something about the crisis we find ourselves in. When we do not, we condemn our progeny to a lifetime of debt and potential servitude to the miseries of progressive lifestyles and socialist living conditions. The era of personal responsibility will be gone forever and the future we leave to the next generations will fall on our inability to shoulder the reasoning of our forefathers and the burdens of freedom. Yes, there is a price to pay for the greatness of America. Are we and will we stand up to the task and be willing to carry our portion of that burden? It is my fervent and continued prayer that we will find the resolve, the strength, the willingness and the love of country enough to make a difference.
By the way ...
Last month, the conservative side of politics lost a champion of truth and a strong voice in the conservative movement with the passing of Andrew Breitbart. He was a man of high intellect, vision and courage. He never backed away from a fight and was responsible for turning out those who sought to endear themselves at the public trough via their egregious actions and poor moral values. He disclosed them and brought them to the bar of justice for the American people to see and judge for themselves. He was a great example for all of us to aspire to. We cannot allow his passing to be just a closing of another chapter in the fortunes of America. We must carry his part of the burden he was so willing to share for all of us.
In freedom and in purpose, I am
Jerry Molen
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2)Let all who think that Obama is our friend watch this fact filled documentary.
If you are a friend of Israel you must wake up and understand what is happening
Best,
fsm
3)THE world's second largest telecommunications company is looking closely at Australia
By Avi Jorisch
http://www.avijorisch.com/10973/do-downer-and-brumby-support-huawei-in-iran
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Huawei Technologies has an aggressive plan to become the No 1 provider of telecommunications services, Down Under and across the globe, in less than five years. Unfortunately, in the recent past, this Asian giant has played a key role in helping the Iranian government, the world's most dangerous state sponsor of terror, to monitor, track, and kill those who oppose it. The Australian government should consider forcing Huawei and other Asian companies to make a choice: trade with Iran or trade with Australia, but they cannot do both.
Huawei is a Chinese multinational corporation that is soon expected to surpass Sweden's Ericsson as the largest telecommunications infrastructure supplier in the world.Founded two decades ago by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army soldier, with just $4000 in seed capital, the company has annual revenues of $32 billion and more than 110,000 employees. Huawei's products and services are deployed in most of the largest telecom markets, and the company recently ranked 352 on Fortune magazine's global 500 list.
Huawei has been in Australia since 2004 and employs 800 staff members locally. In Australia alone, it has reported revenue of $171 million, and in 2010 it increased its sales by 35 per cent. It has also announced that it hopes to establish a research and development centre in Australia in an effort to get more market share from Labor's $35.9bn National Broadband Network, a national wholesale-only, open-access, high-speed broadband network.
John Lord, John Brumby, and Alexander Downer were appointed directors of Huawei Australia to boost their ability to secure the domestic market for the company. As prominent members of Australia's political elite, these three specifically have been asked to lobby Canberra in an effort to "overcome prejudice about the company". Sadly, some of that prejudice flows from the company's business practices in places such as Iran.
Until late last year, Huawei dominated Iran's telecommunications business and garnered vast revenue from doing so. Unfortunately, there are also reports that it has assisted the Iranian regime in tracking, silencing and killing Iranian opposition figures. In 2009, when Iranians took to the streets to protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election, Huawei reportedly installed tracking equipment for all of Iran's telecommunications providers that allowed the intelligence services to locate people through their mobile phones, thus enabling the regime to pursue, jail and kill oppositionists.
Of course, this type of technology exists in many countries, and it is widely known that law enforcement professionals in the West, including Australia and the US, use mobile phones to track criminals and other illicit actors.
But repressive regimes such as Iran use this type of technology not only to go after criminals but also to quash their political opposition. The US State Department is investigating Huawei, stating that it "shares the concern of potential export of technology to Iran that is used specifically to disrupt, monitor or suppress communication".
For Huawei, doing business in Iran has had a definite downside, costing it at least some of its access to the US market. In October 2010, the US administration, citing "national security concerns", blocked Huawei from building a wireless network for US emergency workers, including police officers and firefighters. Huawei also was barred from acquiring three US companies and forced to divest its shares in a cloud computing company called 3Leaf.
As a result, in December Huawei decided to scale down its operations in Iran. Bowing to US pressure, the company chose to "restrict its business development by no longer seeking new customers and limiting its business activities with existing customers". In other words, it chose the US market over Iran.
Other Chinese companies will face the same decision in the months to come. In 2009, the People's Republic emerged as Iran's top economic partner, with trade totalling about $21.2bn annually. Chinese companies supply Iran with 13 per cent of its imports, about $7.9bn a year. In addition, more than 100 Chinese state companies operate in Iran, where they invest heavily in the energy sector.
Australian government officials should follow the US model and force Asian companies doing business in Australia and Iran to choose between the two markets. As the international community struggles to find the most effective way to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, "all options are on the table", including a military strike. Many international policy officials are advocating robust economic warfare to force the mullahs to change their behaviour and to stop their march to nuclearisation.
Australian lawmakers should make it clear to Asian companies doing business with Iran that they are serious about sanctions against those who support the Islamic Republic and, by extension, its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Exerting economic pressure on Iran's commercial partners is one of the few tools at the West's disposal, short of the military option, and should be used to avert the unthinkable.
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4)Israel: Fire UN official over false Gaza photo
By HERB KEINON
Prossor calls for dismissal of OCHA official who posted photo of bloodied Palestinian girl during latest escalation.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor called Wednesday for the dismissal of a UN official who earlier this week tweeted a picture of a Palestinian child covered in blood and falsely claimed she was killed by an IDF strike.
Kuhlood Badawi, an information and media coordinator for OCHA, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, posted a link to the picture of a young girl covered in blood being carried by her father, along with the tweet: “Palestine is bleeding. Another child killed by #Israel... Another father carrying his child to a Grave in #Gaza.”
The picture, it emerged, was published in 2006 by Reuters and was of a Palestinian girl who died in an accident unrelated to Israel.
Prosor, in his letter to Valerie Amos, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, expressed “outrage” at Badawi’s conduct, saying that even though her tweet was blatantly false, it became the top tweet the day it was posted for anything relating to Gaza.
“We have before us an OCHA information officer who was directly engaged in spreading misinformation,” Prosor wrote.
“When the conduct of an OCHA employee so grossly deviates from the organization’s responsibility to remain impartial, the integrity of the entire organization is eroded.
The credibility of OCHA is already seriously in doubt among the Israeli public. This is why immediate action in this case is necessary.”
Prosor said that not only did Badawi’s actions violate conduct expected of a UN official, but that she “actively engaged in the demonization of Israel, a member state of the United Nations. Such actions contribute to incitement, conflict and, ultimately, violence.”
Prosor not only called for her firing, but also for an OCHA statement disassociating itself from her Twitter comments.
The Foreign Ministry has numerous grievances against OCHA, which is widely viewed in the ministry as badly one-sided.
“We have long observed, sadly, how OCHA betrays its stated humanitarian mission, which it has swapped for pro- Palestinian propaganda,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Thursday.
“But this latest piece of furious fabrication goes even below the low standards it had set so far. It is intolerable that UN money pays for this.”
An OCHA spokeswoman in Jerusalem said she was not authorized to comment on the incident, and suggested calling the office in New York. The spokeswoman there said she was unaware of Prosor’s letter, but would look into it. By press time, no further response was forthcoming.
4a)Rev. Wright Reportedly Endorses Radical ‘March on Jerusalem’ to End the Israeli ‘Occupation’
By Billy Hallowell
Rev. Wright Reportedly Endorses March on Jerusalem to End the Israeli Occupation
Nearly four years ago, Rev. Jeremiah Wright stunned the American people with his harsh and racially-charged words. Now, just months before his former congregant Barack Obama is up for presidential re-election, the faith leader is back in the headlines. Wright is reportedly endorsing the “March to Jerusalem,” a radical, anti-Israel event planned for later this month
Mr. Zaher Birawi, Spokesman for the ‘Global March to Jerusalem,’ an initiative that aims at getting over one million Arabs and their supporters to attempt to infiltrate Israel’s borders on March 30th, said that the initiative “demand[s] freedom for Palestine and its capital Jerusalem.”
He claimed that the campaign is “an international coalition of hundreds of organizations,” which plans on amassing organizers from the bordering countries of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and also organizing protests in countries worldwide.
Here’s how the Global March to Jerusalem web site describes its efforts:
We aim to make this march a turning point in the nature of the confrontation, with the occupation having to face millions of protesters and demonstrators demanding Freedom for Palestine and its capitol Jerusalem. We will make a renewed true effort towards ending the occupation through peaceful national movements inspired firstly by our convictions, secondly by the justice of our cause, and thirdly by the spirit of the Arab spring revolutions and the determination of young people who were able to overthrow dictatorships. Especially now that the nations have realized the magical effect of the people’s will to make the impossible possible. The advancing slogan, “the people demand,” has proved to be more effective than armies and weapons.
Plainly stated: This isn’t a positive development for the Israeli state, although these sorts of assaults are common in the region. Wright, who was Obama’s pastor for 20 years at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, is listed on the group’s web site as an American personality who is endorsing the march. Here’s a screen shot of a portion of the list (his name is circled):
Rev. Wright Reportedly Endorses March on Jerusalem to End the Israeli Occupation
According to IsraelNationalNews.com, the White House has declined to comment regarding Wright’s endorsement. In all fairness, it would seem a bit odd for Obama, from a tactical and practical standpoint, to weigh in. To begin with, questions regarding the president’s allegiance to Israel already exist. Additionally, he no longer attends Trinity and Wright is no longer the faith leader at the church.
Still, the endorsement of such a radical effort does cause one to wonder if Obama’s claim that he never heard Wright speak harshly or offensively as a congregant is true. After all, the faith leader has a track record of making some pretty unsavory comments about the Jewish people.
Rev. Wright Reportedly Endorses March on Jerusalem to End the Israeli Occupation
In 2009, the Anti-Defamation League dubbed Wright a “messenger of intolerance” and recapped some of his comments and statements that the group saw as inflammatory and discriminatory against Jews:
Wright blamed Jews for the fact that he has been out of touch with President Barack Obama in an interview with the Daily Press, a Newport News, Virginia-based newspaper, on June 9. Wright noted that “them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me.”
In the same interview, Wright asserted that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza, which he described as “a sin and a crime against humanity,” and expressed his belief that the Obama Administration would have sent a U.S. delegation to the 2009 Durban Review Conference in April if not for fear of losing “the Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling him.”
Wright later stated that he misspoke and that he did not mean to refer to Jews, but rather Zionists. “I’m not talking about all Jews, all people of the Jewish faith, I’m talking about Zionists,” Wright said.
The National Conference of Jewish Affairs, among others, is condemning Wright’s purported endorsement. So far, the former reverend hasn’t announced his support on his official web site, but his name appearing on the group’s web site is enough to cause angst.
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5) Former FDIC Head Isaac: Excess Regulation Has Country 'Scared to Death'
By Forrest Jones and Ashley Martella
Excessive regulations are preventing the labor market from recovering, as companies are unable to invest and hire while they fret over compliance, says William M. Isaac, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC).
New regulations, including those outlined in the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul legislation as well as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, are also preventing smaller banks from lending to smaller businesses, which further prevents job-creating endeavors from getting off the ground.
"The Obamacare bill, the Dodd-Frank bill, all of these things could have waited until another day. What we really needed to do is focus on the economy and how to create jobs," Isaac told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.
"I think we are all scared to death about the future," said Isaac, who headed the FDIC during the banking crisis of the 1980s, serving under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from 1978 through 1985.
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"I don't think we have any faith in the political system right now, and we really need to work on trying to get confidence restored in the economy so people can make long-term investment decisions," said Isaac, now senior managing director of FTI Consulting.
Uncertainty and poor policy planning made the recent financial crisis much worse than it should have been.
The Bush administration hastily intervened to bail out institutions like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or AIG while letting others like Lehman Brothers fail, thus creating turmoil.
President Barack Obama followed up with too many regulations, both leaders fueling a financial crisis that was much worse than it should have been.
"We had a far more serious problem in the financial system in the 1980s, when we lost 3,000 banks and thrifts compared to only 400 this time around. And yet we didn't have this crisis of confidence and the panic that almost brought the whole world financial system down," Isaac says.
"I think a lot of it had to do with very bad accounting policies and regulatory policies leading up to the crisis and very bad regulatory supervision of institutions and ratings agencies that weren't doing their jobs and then a new administration that really bungled it once the crisis started."
Editor's Note: Google Banned This Video But You Can Watch it Here
To get the country back on firmer footing and see more sustained hiring, the Dodd-Frank and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act need to go.
Regulation needs to be smarter and less heavy-handed, as more market-driven policies could ensure financial institutions don't engage in excessive risk-taking that got the country into its current mess in the first place.
Take banking as an example.
"What we are calling for is requiring banks to go to the market on a regular basis to issue long-term debt, both subordinated and senior debt, and by having to go the market on a regular basis — no less often than annually — and prove themselves to the debt markets, we're going to bring more market-place discipline to bear on them," Isaac says.
"If they are taking more risk, the interest rate on their debt is going to go up."
Furthermore, tax overhaul needs to follow suit.
"In my view, we need a fairer tax code, a tax code that reduces marginal rates and eliminates the deductions that a lot of people with money take advantage of. I think it ought to be a flatter, fairer tax code along the lines what Simpson-Bowles suggested," referring to President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, headed by former Senators Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.
Loose monetary policies need readdressing also.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that interest rates will stay very low likely through the end of 2014.
Low interest punish savers, especially retirees, who are earning returns that fail to meet inflation rates.
"I think the only way we are going to do it is to have a regime change in Washington. We really need to send new leaders to Washington who are committed to getting this country back on the right track."
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