I am an avid supporter of young people engaging in politics. It is their world.
I am embarrassed at the legacy my generation is leaving them so I am inviting you to our home to meet two fine young people who are running for public office:
Jolene Byrne - Seeking to become President of The Chatham County Board of Education (non political)
and
Martin Sullivan seeking the State Representative Office of our District 166.
This is a meet and greet. It is not a fund raiser but if you wish to contribute you certainly are welcome to do so. I have given both a contribution.
We live at 6 Pineside Lane at The Landings. The meeting will begin PROMPTLY at 7:00PM.
Please respond if you are coming 598 9251 and I earnestly hope you will.
Thanks,
Me
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I cannot vouch for the total authenticity of this article but I do know, from a variety of sources, Muslims are constantly stirring up problems in European countries who have allowed them to immigrate.This is particularly so in France but the press/media are afraid to expose for fear of stirring up more trouble.
There will come a time when there will be a response but probably not until it is too late.
It is sad when intimidation evokes silence. (See 1 below.)
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More from Sowell about how foreign our foreign policy is under Obama. (See 2 below.)
It is now coming out that a senior CIA official downplayed initial facts about Benghazi. Was this done to provide cover for the Obama Administration's claim the attack was not co-ordinated but was the result of a mob?
The relevance of this is two-fold:
a) It refutes, during a critical campaign period, Obama's claim that the attack was mob driven and un-coordinated.
b) Suggests when Obama was interviewed about knowing the attack was not by a mob he lied.
But then what difference does it matter as long as wining elections is placed above national security and saving lives of American diplomats and military.
General Motors hides flaws which kill people and Obama is also flawed and lies knowingly
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Roubini on the market. (See 3 below.)
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Is Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant structurally safe? (See 4 below.)
The Palestinian peace deal seems to have gone the way of al flesh. Israel and Netanyahu will be blamed but then it always was a pipe dream of Obama's naivety because Abbas is not liked, Hamas wants t destroy Israel and the Palestinians are unwilling to quit teaching hate, were not going to recognize Israel and persisted in their demands regarding their right of return. Other than that things were hunky dory!
Perry signed on, worked himself into a dither and came across pushing Israel to the wall so where does that leave us? Time will tell but Obama can claim millions of uninsured Americans are insured and no one will ever doubt him because he is protected by the leftist media and news dolts and they must protect their own.
One day Americans may begin to wise up but until then Obama will remain America's Darling
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Another Ft Hood shooting and more expressions of 'sending expressions of condolences and prayers to the victims'. And then we have' I accept full responsibility.'
These phrases are being uttered with such frequency that, even if sincere, they have become meaningless.
Politicians, bureaucrats and executives say they 'accept responsibility' but pay no price, their salaries are not docked, their reputations are not sullied. Life goes on and then there.is that IRS lady who invoked the 5th, which is her right,who retires with a fine pension and ends up perched on the top rung of Obama's wage disparity ladder and with total impunity.
I guess reporters have to say something but it is becoming a bit banal.
As for the 'I accept responsibility crowd' can't you come up with something more original and convincing?
How about, for starters, I am completely at fault for being so uncaring and stupid?
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Dick
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1)Norway's last 819 Jews are now leaving the country.
It seems what Hitler failed to achieve the Muslims have accomplished.
In a few weeks Norway will be "Judenrein". The last 819 Jews still living in Norway are now leaving the country due to the rise of anti-Semitism.
Thus Norway becomes the first European country in which Jews will no longer live. A similar development can be observed in all the European countries.
Jews in Europe are subject to anti-Semitic manifestations daily.
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported in February 2013 about the departure of Jews from the country. Anne Sender, the head of the Jewish community in Norway, once said: "Many immigrants have brought anti-Semitism from their countries. The shame is in that nobody speaks out against them." The waves of Muslim immigrants bring anti-Semitism back to Europe.
A similar development is taking place in the neighboring country, Sweden, and in all the European countries. The Muslims are the ones who drive away the Jews everywhere
The information agency, Kopp Exklusiv, is one of the few to talk about this subject.. It started
in France. A day doesn't go by without Muslim attacks of Jews. The press hardly reports it. There are too many incidents. In the first five months of 2012, there were 268 attacks against Jews. France today is an extremely anti-Semitic country. The socialist Government under the leadership of Hollande does nothing to protect the Jews - on the contrary. The numerous Muslims are a very important part of the electorate for the elected officials and they are under the auspices of the socialists.
On July 5, 2012, a 17 years-old Jewish youngster was nearly beaten to death near Toulouse by two Muslims of North-African descent, because he was wearing a chain with the Star of David. The police were unable to collect evidence. The Jews are publicly encouraged to leave the country.
The situation is not much different in Italy . Every Jew must fear for his life and live under the protection of a security unit.
The media channels in Britain too, have been reporting for six years about the emigration of Jews from Britain.. In 1990 there were 340,000 Jews. Today there are 240,000 left. The Muslim immigrants turn their life into hell and chase them away.
They have also succeeded in driving away the Jews of Antwerp. In the Netherlands, former politicians advised the Jews to leave the country soon. The former European Commissioner, Frits Bolkestein, said that Dutchmen of Moroccan descent are anti-Semitic and that it would be best if the Jews left of their own free will.
They can immigrate to the United States or to Israel. Dutch politicians from the Social Democratic circles marched together with the Muslims who called for the construction of gas chambers in order to burn the Jews.
In the German-speaking countries this is not reported in the press. The German journalists write that the Muslims are decent people who have no connection whatsoever to the extreme right.
With this approach, journalists are helping to drive the Jews away from Europe. They suppress the nightmare of the Islamic immigration.
[1] The 819 Norwegian Jews were members of a Synagogue in Norway. There are more than 1000 non-affiliated Jews throughout the country who are afraid to identify themselves as Jews and have assimilated through fear into Norwegian society and do not identify themselves as being different to the indigenous population.
[2] A similar situation exists in the Netherlands where no more than 20,000 Jews are affiliated and identify themselves as Jewish, but there are a few thousand more who have Jewish roots, but would never identify themselves as they still suffer from the fearful stigma propagated by the Nazi occupation and now from the Muslim communities who are often violently Anti-Semitic and hostile.
Almost the whole of Europe and Scandinavia are moving in this direction except for Finland who is overtly taking a stand against this racism.
Due to the grand silence of the majority, history is repeating itself.
" Freedom is preserved through vigilance - not passivity."
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2) How Foreign Is Our Policy?: Part II
By Thomas Sowell
Japan recently turned over to the United States enough weapons-grade nuclear material to make dozens of nuclear bombs. This was one of President Barack Obama's few foreign policy "successes," as part of his nuclear disarmament initiative. But his foreign policy successes may be more dangerous than his "failures." Back in 2005, Senator Barack Obama urged the Ukrainians to drastically reduce their conventional weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles and tons of ammunition. Ukraine had already rid itself of nuclear missiles, left over from the days when it had been part of the Soviet Union.
Would Vladimir Putin have sent Russian troops so boldly into Ukraine if the Ukrainians still had nuclear missiles? The nuclear disarming of Japan and Ukraine shows how easy it is to disarm peaceful nations -- making them more vulnerable to those who are not peaceful.
Ukraine's recent appeal to the United States for military supplies, with which to defend itself as more Russian troops mass on its borders, was denied by President Obama. He is sending food supplies instead. He might as well send them white flags, to facilitate surrender.
Critics who say that President Obama is naive and inexperienced in foreign policy, and blame that for the many setbacks to American interests during this administration may be right. But it is by no means certain that they are.
Another and more disturbing possibility is that Barack Obama, in his citizen-of-the-world conception of himself, thinks that the United States already has too much power and needs to be deflated. Rush Limbaugh, Dinesh D'Souza and some other critics have seen Obama's repeated sacrifices of American national interests as deliberate.
Monstrous as that possibility might seem, it is consistent not only with many otherwise hard to explain foreign policy setbacks, but also consistent with Obama's having been raised, literally from childhood, with anti-American mentors, beginning with his mother. He continued to seek out such people as an adult.
The ranting Reverend Jeremiah Wright was just one of these anti-American mentors.
President Obama's undermining of stable and unthreatening governments in Egypt and Libya, opening both to Islamic extremists, while doing nothing that was likely to keep Iran from going nuclear, seems more consistent with the views of Rush Limbaugh, Dinesh D'Souza, et al., than with the views of most other critics.
What is also more consistent with the Limbaugh and D'Souza thesis are such personal quirks as Obama's gross rudeness to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House and his otherwise inexplicable public debasement of himself and the United States by bowing low to other foreign leaders.
There was nothing to be gained politically by such actions. Nor by such things as his whispered statement to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that he should tell "Vladimir" that he -- Obama -- could follow a more "flexible" foreign policy after his last election was behind him.
What could be more "flexible" than denying Ukraine the military supplies needed to deter further Russian aggression? Or leaving Japan without material needed to create a nuclear deterrent quickly, while an aggressive China is expanding its military forces and its territorial demands in the region?
Domestically, the unbroken string of Barack Obama's grievance-mongering mentors included Professor Derrick Bell at the Harvard Law School, author of rantings on paper similar to Jeremiah Wright's rantings in his church.
Professor Bell was a man cast in the role of a scholar at top tier universities, who chose instead to take on the pathetic role of someone whose goal was -- in his own words -- to "annoy white people."
Derrick Bell was not a stupid man. He was a man placed where he should never have been placed, where there was no self-respecting role for him to play, without going off on some strange tangent. That Barack Obama literally embraced Professor Bell publicly in law school, and urged others to listen to him, says much about Obama.
It says much about those who voted for Obama that they paid so little attention to his life and so much attention to his rhetoric.
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3) Roubini: Investors Are Whistling Past the Graveyard
By John Morgan
The global economic risks that threatened the world a year or two ago have diminished like smoke, only to be replaced by a new set of worries ranging from war to national collapse, according to New York University economist Nouriel Roubini.
Roubini, noted for his bearish bent and his correct prediction of the 2008 housing bust and subsequent international economic meltdown, wrote in a Project Syndicate column that yesterday's crises are old hat.
The old risks included a eurozone breakdown, U.S. government shutdowns, global deflation and potential war over Iranian nuclear proliferation.
The new global problems to worry about?
"For starters, there is the risk of a hard landing in China," he said. Each time GDP growth in China slows toward 7 percent, Chinese authorities "double down" on credit infusions that lead to more bad assets and non-performing loans — a situation he noted could spiral beyond control.
A second big risk is that of potential policy mistakes by the Federal Reserve as it exits monetary easing. "Some investors and governments now worry that the Fed may raise rates too soon and too fast, causing economic and financial shockwaves."
The third big risk, according to Roubini, is the opposite of the second — that the Fed exits too slowly. "Indeed, unconventional monetary policies in the U.S. and other advanced economies have already led to massive asset-price reflation, which in due course could cause bubbles in real estate, credit and equity markets."
Other potential crises to keep investors awake at night include the threats of collapses in emerging markets, the possibility of the Ukraine conflict leading to a shooting war if Russia invades further in Eastern Europe and the potential for the territorial disputes between China and Japan to likewise end in military conflict.
So far, investors seem convinced none of these new potential flashpoints will turn hot, Roubini stated. "But investors may be deluding themselves that the probability of these risks is low — and thus may be unpleasantly surprised when one or more of them materializes.
"Indeed, as was the case with the global financial crisis, investors seem unable to estimate, price and hedge such tail risks properly. Only time will tell whether their current nonchalance constitutes another failure to assess and prepare for extreme events."
The latest world outlook from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is fairly optimistic, and includes the assertion that U.S. GDP could accelerate to 2.8 percent in 2014.
But the IMF concedes the global economy is not "out of the woods yet."
The IMF notes that deflation could yet take hold in advanced economies, and that emerging economies could suffer measurably from a global trend toward withdrawal of monetary stimulus measures.
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4) Olivier Guitta: Iran's other nuclear timebomb
While the international community has been focusing on a potential Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, another much larger issue looms, and should be tackled very urgently. But interestingly, except for a few concerned neighbours in the Gulf, nobody is really looking at the possible implications of a potential earthquake in Bushehr, where Iran’s oldest and main nuclear plant is located.
Bushehr, a city of over a million people in southeast Iran, sits in one of the most active seismic regions in the world, at the intersection of three tectonic plates. Building a nuclear plant in this area should have been a no-no, but construction started in 1975 with the help of Germany. It was stopped in 1979, right before the Revolution that unseated the Shah. It was resumed in 1996 with Russian assistance. The project took over 15 years to complete because of the very difficult technical issues of merging German and Russian technology. After Russia provided necessary nuclear fuel, the plant went operational in July 2013.
The safety issues concerning the plant are numerous: It is built with a 40-year-old design that has shown its limitations; the emergency coolant system is also 30 years old; it is running on two different technologies; according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the staff is not properly trained to face any kind of accident. In February, 2011, a broken water pump caused small metallic pieces to infiltrate the reactor cooling system, forcing the unloading of the fuel rods.
When you couple all this with the fact that Iran is the only nuclear-operating country that has not signed any of the major international safety conventions, one should be very worried about a possible Fukushima-style accident. Indeed, in May, 2011, Iranian scientists themselves concluded this, in a report that was subsequently leaked.
The design of the plant, and the competence of its staff, are not the only issues. It is situated in a zone that has experienced several deadly and very intense earthquakes — including as recently as April of last year. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Bushehr; luckily the plant was not online at the time.
The Gulf countries are even more concerned than Iran itself about a potential nuclear accident. By a quirk of geography, Bushehr is closer — much closer — to major population centres in the Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar than it is to other large Iranian cities. Additionally, the speed and the direction of the winds, northwesterly, would actually push the potential radioactive leak right towards the aforementioned neighbouring countries and the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s major population centers could be partially sheltered by the Zagros Mountains, a large mountain range about 550 miles long and 150 miles wide, which could act as a shield.
So any accident at Bushehr would have far more repercussions in the Arab world than Iran itself. First, the number of direct victims could be in the thousands, with hundreds of thousands more facing long-term cancer risks. The impacts on international relations and global trade in this economically vital area of the world cannot be predicted, but would clearly be devastating.
The Gulf Co-operation Council has asked repeatedly for international officials to inspect the plant for potential radioactive leaks and has loudly expressed its concerns, especially of late. So far, no success. Maybe that is something that the P5+1 should have demanded to be included in their much-hailed agreement.
Olivier Guitta is the director of research at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank.
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