Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sept. 28, 2013 higher than 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, DMI Center for Ocean and Ice, min. 15% ice concentration

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9/28/13, Arctic Sea Ice Extent, DMI Center for Ocean and Ice. Thick black line denotes 2013, higher than 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012:

















"Sea ice extent in recent years for the northern hemisphere.
                       The grey shaded area corresponds to the climate mean
                       plus/minus 1 standard deviation.
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"The plot above replaces an earlier sea ice extent plot, that was based on data with the coastal zones masked out. This coastal mask implied that the previous sea ice extent estimates were underestimated. The new plot displays absolute sea ice extent estimates. The old plot can still be viewed here for a while."

"The ice extent values are calculated from the ice type data from the Ocean and Sea Ice, Satellite Application Facility (OSISAF), where areas with ice concentration higher than 15% are classified as ice.

The total area of sea ice is the sum of First Year Ice (FYI), Multi Year Ice (MYI) and the area of ambiguous ice types, from the OSISAF ice type product. The total sea ice extent can differ slightly from other sea ice extent estimates. Possible differences between this sea ice extent estimate and others are most likely caused by differences in algorithms and definitions. Some time in 2013 sea ice climatology and anomaly data will become available here." via Paul Homewood

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9/29/13, "Arctic Ice Growing Fast," Paul Homewood, Not a lot of people know that

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php

"Having effectively tied with 2009 for the highest minimum since 2006, Arctic ice extent is now refreezing, and is now well above the 2009 level, according to DMI.

NSIDC figures also show current extent to be 50,000 sq km above the same day in 2009. More significantly, it is within 10,000 sq km of the 2005 figure.

More at the end of the month." via Climate Depot


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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Islamists call prayer meeting at Wall St. Friday Oct. 14

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10/10/11, "NYC: ISLAMIC FRIDAY PRAYER AT WALL STREET!" Logan's Warning

"Recently I posted video footage of Muslims praying in the street at NYC’s 26Th Annual Muslim Day Parade. Of course that was not enough for NY’s Islamic community. They see America is in a state of weakness because of the politically correct disease, and will continue to push their religion in our faces. This upcoming event is another Islamic display of power, and let me make this clear. Muslims do not care what infidels want, they stand with Islam above all! It is time the rest of the country comes to terms with this, and demands an end to all Muslim immigration.

From the FRIDAY PRAYER AT WALL STREET Facebook page.

Time
Friday, October 14 · 1:00pm – 3:30pm

Location
Wall Street, New York

Created By
Normandy Al-Shams, Arwa Ahmed, Taz Omania Ahmad, Yasmin Asmar

More Info
FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY-PLEASE READ!

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO LITERALLY EVERYONE. MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS. THOSE WHO PRAY AND THOSE WHO DO NOT.

PERFORMING FRIDAY PRAYER: SALAT AL-JUMA
AT WALL STREET
ON OCTOBER 14! AT 1:00PM-3:30PM

Join the peaceful protest! Spread the word to everyone you know!
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION! NOT PART OF THE PROBLEM!

Update as of 10/10/11:
*Insha’Allah (God willing) the Imam is Talib Abdurashid from Majlis Shurra *Location: Meeting at the park next to the stock exchange! Right where the Statue is!

Once again we see Muslims using non-Muslims to help the cause of Islam. A cause they believe God has told them to live and die for. Unfortunately many non-Muslims blindly believe what Muslims tell them, but there are many crucial verses in the Koran that the Muslim puppet-masters do not tell their non-Muslim puppets. Here are two of them.

Koran verse 005.051
YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

As I stated, Muslims are using non-Muslims and in the end will side with Islam over them. This second verse states the ultimate intolerant goal of Islam.

Koran verse 9:33
{ Ù‡ُÙˆَ ٱلَّذِÙŠۤ Ø£َرْسَÙ„َ رَسُولَÙ‡ُ بِٱلْÙ‡ُدَÙ‰ٰ Ùˆَدِينِ ٱلْØ­َÙ‚ِّ Ù„ِÙŠُظْÙ‡ِرَÙ‡ُ عَÙ„َÙ‰ ٱلدِّينِ ÙƒُÙ„ِّÙ‡ِ ÙˆَÙ„َÙˆْ ÙƒَرِÙ‡َ ٱلْÙ…ُØ´ْرِÙƒُونَ }

He it is Who has sent His Messenger, Muhammad (s), with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may manifest it, make it prevail, over every religion, all the religions which oppose it, even though the disbelievers be averse, to this.

Don’t be fooled by smiling Muslims…


via Atlas Shrugs

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Wall St. protest group offered pay of $350-$650 a week for protest recruits, ad on Craigs List

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9/26/11, "FIGHT TO HOLD WALLSTREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERENCE GET PAID!" Working Families Party ad on Craigs List

"The WFP is seeking immediate hires.

You must be an energetic communicator, with a passion for social and economic justice.

Only outgoing, articulate dedicated, determined candidates will be considered for the positions.

For those candidates that qualify WFP offers substantial paid-training provided by senior leadership, on varied issues such as: advocacy, public speaking, mobilizing, fundraising, networking and organizing. We invest in passionate people with excellent communication skills and a full benefits package is offered to those candidates that qualify. In addition, there is opportunity for advancement and travel to our satellite chapters and out of state affiliates.

This is not a policy job! Through direct action you will be shaping NY state politics for the next 20 years.

If you care about New York and want to help educate and mobilize around legislative campaigns-then we look forward to hearing from you!

Apply at http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/jobs/.

Compensation: $350-$650 A Week Depending On Responsibility & Length Of Time On Staff
  • Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
  • Please, no phone calls about this job!
  • Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests."


via Free Republic

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Pictures from Freedom Rally at Ground Zero September 11, 2011

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Freedom Rally at Ground Zero, NY, Park Place and W. Broadway, 9/11/11, photo Atlas Shrugs. Many other pictures at Atlas Shrugs



Freedom Rally for 9/11 family members, first responders, and clergy, Ground Zero, NY, Park Place and West Broadway as crowd was assembling, from Atlas Shrugs



Sign from Freedom Rally at Ground Zero notes Dearborn, Mich. has rights, too, photo by Urban Infidel



Sign, "Too bad Walmart doesn't sell brains," above is NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Freedom Rally at Ground Zero photo by Urban Infidel



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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Black led South Central LA Tea Party to hold rally against NAACP. Some want to know what positive steps you suggest

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7/15/11, "Interview with BOND, black tea party group going after NAACP," African American Reports, George Cook

"I now know what they are against but have no idea what they are for. Maybe if the posted something positive about themselves instead of going negative I would have an idea of what they are really about. This press release does not make me want to learn more about BOND.

I decided to reach out to BOND and see if the organization wants to get it's side of the story and explain themselves."...

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7/14/11, "Black Led Tea Party Group to Rally Against NAACP (7/24/11)," ChristianNewsWire.com

"The newly formed black led South Central L.A. Tea Party group will hold a major rally to expose the lies and misinformation of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) during its102nd annual convention in Los Angeles on July 24. The purpose of the rally is to bring attention to the failed liberal big government agenda of the NAACP and to expose their lies and hypocrisy on race issues. Who: South Central L.A. Tea Party
What: Rally to expose the failed big government agenda and lies of the NAACP
When: Sunday, July 24, 2011, from 2-4 p.m.
Where:1201 S Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Outside the L.A. Convention Center- West Hall).

"The NAACP is a tool of the Obama administration," said founding member and President of BOND Action, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. He added, "For decades, this group has supported left-wing policies which have created dependency, destroyed black families, and hurt race relations." Rev. Peterson cited the following examples:
  • NAACP spreading lies about the Tea Party movement. NAACP has made numerous false allegations of 'racism' against the Tea Party movement, but has yet to provide a shred of evidence backing up their baseless claims.
  • Support for failing public schools and unions. The NAACP has aligned itself with the United Federation of Teachers to block 22 of the worst performing schools in New York City from being shut down. This has put them at odds with thousands of black parents in Harlem who support replacing these failing public schools with charter schools.
  • NAACP's hypocrisy on crime and race. The NAACP has remained silent while black thugs attack white Americans and commit crimes in flash mobs across the country -- but
    NAACP President Benjamin Jealous says he's "deeply concerned” with the lack of black news anchors on Television.
  • The NAACP supports black genocide. As an ally of Planned Parenthood and abortion on demand, the NAACP has aided and abetted in the death of some 15 million black babies since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion.
This event is open to all Tea Party supporters and like-minded patriots of all races. For more information call (323) 556-2623, or visit www.bondaction.org."

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via RedState.com

Friday, July 8, 2011

Percentage of Americans working lowest since early 1980's-BBC

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"Manufacturing has not seen any significant hiring in 13 months."

7/8/11, "US jobs creation stalls in June," BBC

"The percentage of all Americans, men and women, in work is lower than it has been at any time since the early 1980s, when that first space shuttle was launched. ”
  • BBC Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders
""Every aspect of this disappointing report points to the US facing an unemployment crisis," said Mohammed El Erian, the investments head at giant US fund manager Pimco....

The financial sector saw 15,000 job losses. Meanwhile, manufacturing has not seen any significant hiring in 13 months."...

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7/8/11, "Unemployment rose to 9.2 percent in June, US employers added only 18,000 jobs," newser.com

"More than a quarter-million people stopped their job searches in June.
That kept the unemployment rate from rising even further. When laid-off workers stop looking for work,

Including discouraged workers and those working part time, but who would prefer full-time work, the "under-employment" rate jumped from 15.8 percent

  • to 16.2 percent.

And those who do have jobs are earning less. Average hourly wages declined last month."...

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7/8/11, "Jobs Picture Gets Even Worse as Rate Swells to 9.2%," CNBC.com

"The government revised April and May payrolls to show 44,000 fewer jobs created than previously reported."...

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7/8/11, "U.S. Payrolls Grow at Slowest Pace in Nine Months as Jobless Rate Climbs," Bloomberg, S. Chandra

"Employers increased payrolls by 18,000 workers, less than the most pessimistic forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of economists, which called for growth of 105,000....

Companies reducing staff include Lockheed Martin Corp., the world’s largest defense contractor. Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed on June 30 said it plans to cut about 1,500 employees. McLean, Virginia-based Gannett Co., the publisher of 82 newspapers including USA Today, also announced last month it is eliminating about 700 jobs....

Government payrolls declined by 39,000 in June, the eighth straight decrease. Employment at state and local governments fell 25,000.

Average hourly earnings dropped 1 cent to $22.99, today’s report showed. The average work week for all workers decreased to 34.3 hours, from 34.4 hours the prior month.

The so-called underemployment rate -- which includes part- time workers who’d prefer a full-time position and people who want work but have given up looking -- increased to 16.2 percent from 15.8 percent. ...

The number of temporary workers decreased 12,000....

The economy expanded at a 1.9 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, and economists surveyed by Bloomberg from June 28 to July 7 forecast second-quarter growth of 2 percent. In the final three months of 2010, the economy grew 3.1 percent.

Lack of faster progress in the labor market and in the economic recovery, which started in June 2009, has taken a toll on Obama’s approval ratings. Since he took office in January 2009, unemployment has increased from 7.8 percent and

By a 44 percent to 34 percent margin, Americans say they believe they are worse off than when Obama took office, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted June 17-20....

The jobless rate rose even as the participation rate declined to 64.1 percent, the lowest since March 1984. The Labor Department’s survey of households, used to calculate the unemployment rate, showed a 445,000 decrease in employment and a 173,000 increase in unemployment.

In that survey, the government calls 60,000 households and asks people if they are working or looking for a job. The survey includes the self-employed, farm workers and domestic workers. Those people are not counted in the establishment survey used to calculate the payroll figures."...

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7/8/11, "The Bistromath Economy," VodkaPundit, Stephen Green, via Instapundit

"The numbers they are awful."




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Monday, July 4, 2011

July 4th, America declares its independence from tyrants and kings

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Next on the list is the GOP, as noted following the Nov. 2010 elections in which we gave them a majority they did not want:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim98SnZiHhjwUuCF4IAuuw197BdkenejtIL1ro6Mgwo5f_cVohxMMPOtk-4ga7BQx3R6k-otUczk5TGv77tLIDK8l8Wd8LpxJZVatNV1FlHX2duZpGP2VbGzkEXQJp8Q0NZc0LB1Jj0oM/s1600/VotersWatchingWimpyGOPviaLucianne111710.jpg

Declaration of Independence:
  • "IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

  • When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
  • a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them
  • to the separation....
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
  • He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
  • He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only....
*He has erected a multitude of New Offices,* and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
  • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
  • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
  • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
  • For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:...
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms:

  • Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may

  • define a Tyrant, is
  • unfit to be the ruler of a free people."...
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11/20/10, "Revolutionary Do-Over," Wall St. Journal, John Fund

Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, now a big-time Washington lobbyist, has already told the Washington Post that

  • it's imperative for his tribe to "co-opt" the tea partiers arriving in D.C."...
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11/4/10, "Ruling Class GOP declare war on country class conservatives, " Rush Limbaugh transcript.

Rush explains what we see, the Ruling Class GOP will fight more viciously to defeat conservatives than they will to defeat Democrats.

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  • US Air Force pilot with his Stearman biplane, 1940's
  • Same pilot above in his uniform, 1940's, surviving.
Thanks, Dad.




cartoon via Lucianne.com, 11/2010

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Tea Party leaders attend 'standing room only presentation on repealing ObamaCare,' 19 from Utah...

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GOP members of the US House of Representatives don't care to address ObamaCare. Left with no other choice, The Tea Party will do so. Getting a tan and playing golf aren't on the Tea Party schedule today.

6/25/11, "TEA PARTY NATION: David Kirkham emails from Washington, DC:," Instapundit



"Over 100 Tea Party leaders from 41 different states are meeting this weekend at Freedomworks’ headquarters in Washington DC. We are discussing deficits, Cap and Trade, Obamacare, and many other topics that are hurting our economy and costing everyone jobs.

All our focus is on organizing for the next elections. I took this picture from the middle of a standing room only presentation on repealing Obamacare. The Utah Tea Party delegation has 19 members attending."

A lot of other people seem to be there, too."

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"When the leaders won't lead the people, the people will lead the leaders."

(I heard the above phrase or its approximation on the Michael Savage show. I don't recall its provenance. ed.)



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Friday, June 17, 2011

Obama spending over $9mil per day in Libya, says action OK'd by UN. NY Daily News cover of Obama 3/29, 'MY WAR IS OVER'

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NY Daily News cover of Obama, 3/29/11 selling Obama and the lie that his war in Libya "is over."




"Operations legitimated by the United Nations Security Council," says Obama. Islam has achieved its goal of destroying the US economy. Since no one is upset about it, why shouldn't Obama push the envelope? He promised Libya would be just days, not weeks or months, the NY Daily News even screamed, "it was over" on March 29. Who cares about Libya's brutal racism against blacks? Not Obama or his golf buddies in congress.

6/16/11, "Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?" LA Times, Andrew Malcolm

"The Obama administration is spending almost $9.5 million every single day to blow things up in Libya because the president has determined that is in the country's national interest, this country's national interest, not Libya's.

You may not have noticed the $392,542 flowing out of the national treasury every hour, day and night, since those first $1.5 million Tomahawks flashed from the launch tubes back on March 19.

But Libya's dictator Moammar Kadafi has. Not enough to quit, mind you, because he can hide while his troops do the dying and killing.

Kadafi's military might has been degraded sufficiently by allied missiles and bombs to perhaps create a long-lasting stalemate with rebel forces in the desert conflict that Obama initially promised House members would last a matter of days, not weeks.Kadafi greets Obama 2009

Thirteen weeks later Obama, who was elected running against the war in Iraq, finds himself also embroiled in an escalating constitutional conflict at home over another war that he started while touring South America with his family in March.

You may recall that nine days later the Real Good Talker did what he usually does when attacked; he gave a speech to address the outcry over the sudden conflict without meaningful congressional consultation.

"When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act," the Democrat declared. The president made the case that Kadafi was a ruthless ruler, who vowed "no mercy" on his own protesting countrymen. Obama added:

We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi – a city nearly the size of Charlotte – could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world. It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen.

The trouble is that numerous bad guys are killing their own people all the time around the world. Syria comes immediately to mind as a place where government security....

....forces didn't even bother vowing "no mercy." They've just killed an estimated 1,000 protestors in recent weeks. Obama has "warned" Syria many times and frozen bank assets.

How could the Nobel Peace Prize winner order a military intervention over a possible civilian massacre in Libya, which was not attacking the United States, but do nothing over an actual civilian massacre in Syria? And how exactly is avoiding a stain on the world conscience in the vital

  • national interests of the United States?

Additionally, Capitol Hill and many Americans have the notion that....

.... Congress is responsible for declaring war. They cite the War Powers Act of 1973, a legislative legacy of the divisive Vietnam War, which was also prosecuted by a Democratic president.

That act, passed by a veto-beating two-thirds majority, sets numerous requirements for any president involving the U.S. military without congressional authorization or a declaration of war: There must be an "attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."

The president must notify Congress within 48 hours. And the White House has a total of 90 days to prosecute the conflict and withdraw without a declaration of war or legislative authorization.

Sunday is Day 90 of the Libyan war.

As Congress prepares to debate the new fiscal year's defense budget, House Speaker John Boehner warned the president this week he would be in violation on Sunday and mentioned cutting off funds for the mission. Cutting funds to troops, however, is extremely risky politically and unlikely.

Boehner added:

The ongoing, deeply divisive debate originated with a lack of genuine consultation prior to commencement of operations and has been further exacerbated by the lack of visibility and leadership from you and your administration.

On Wednesday, Reps. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat, and Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican, both staunch war critics, sued the administration in federal court over what they call its unconstitutional prosecution of a war.

On the same day the administration delivered a package of materials to Congress maintaining basically that the conflict, which will have cost $1.1 billion by late September, is so limited and inconsequential that Obama does

  • not need congressional authorization.

Lawyers for Obama, who is not the first president to ignore the War Powers Act, argued the Libyan operation is not so much war as normal military operations that sometimes might involve hostilities:

U.S. forces are playing a constrained and supporting role in a multinational coalition, whose operations are both legitimated by and limited to the terms of a United Nations Security Council Resolution that authorizes the use of force solely to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under attack or threat of attack and to enforce a no-fly zone and an arms embargo.

A Boehner spokesman called the White House response "creative arguments" requiring further study and ongoing consultations."

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12/12/10, "The target of the terrorists has always been our economy," American Thinker, T.L. Davis

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3/18/11, "Border Blues," Think Africa Press by Ben Judah, reporting from the Tunisia side of the Libya-Tunisia border

"“Libya bad for the black....” said a Malian arrival at the camp, “rebel chase us....Gadaffi chase us.”

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Soros and UN backed group, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, a new world order: "There is growing acceptance that the international community not only should but must act when the state itself is either incapable of protecting, or itself inflicting harm on, its populations. At the 2005 World Summit, governments accepted a new international norm, the Responsibility to Protect"...

R2P Donors include the George Soros Open Society Institute

George Soros group R2P (Responsibility to Protect) is credited with giving Obama cover to divert at least one billion American tax dollars toward a new world order in which US citizens are subservient and unquestioning:

3/21/11, "UN breathes life into‘responsibility to protect’," Toronto Star, Ramesh Thakur

"R2P responds to the idealized UN as the symbol of an imagined and constructed community of strangers:

  • We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.

R2P gave Obama the necessary intellectual and normative tool to act. His decision to reject the traditional, realpolitik definition of U.S. interests in favour of an alternative, values-accommodating definition of the Libyan crisis was closer to his instincts and consistent with the narrative that won him the White House.

The Arab League initiative and strong Franco-British urgings gave him the requisite political cover and international legitimacy. In Iraq in 2003, Washington did all the pushing but doors stayed firmly shut in most capitals. It does little harm to Washington today to be seen as the reluctant follower rather than the ardent suitor for military intervention in Libya."...

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3/31/11, "GEORGE SOROS STARTS HIS ONE WORLD ORDER – Responsibility to Protect – In Libya – Wither you like it or not," It Makes Sense blog

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It's the same old story. The people are well aware of the billionaires and thugs anxious to finalize global government (ie, make the US a client state of the UN and nothing more). The US congress knows but is happy about it, or at least does nothing to stop it. Which is why the Tea Party started, because our elected officials do nothing but sell us out. Which is a crime. ed.

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6/17/11, "Obama Claims The UN Can Usurp Congressional War Authority," BigGovernment.com, Jeff Dunetz


Below, George Bush burned in effigy for going to war, Nov. 2004



Bush effigy via Zombietime.com


via MichaelSavage.com

Generic Republican beats Obama in Gallup Poll, June 9-12, 2011

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6/16/11, "2012 Voter Preferences for Obama, "Republican" Remain Close," Gallup Poll, J. Jones

"Forty-four percent prefer the Republican; 39%, Obama"




"Forty-four percent of registered voters say they are more likely to vote for "the Republican Party's candidate" and 39% for Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, according to Gallup's June update. The current five-percentage-point edge for the generic Republican is not a statistically significant lead, and neither side has held a meaningful lead at any point thus far in 2011....These results are based on a June 9-12 Gallup poll."...



via Drudge Report

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Most Americans say we should not be involved in Libya and Afghanistan-CBS News poll, June 3-7

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CBS News Poll, June 8, 2011

Following are generic Americans polled, p. 6 and 7

"The conflicts in Libya and Afghanistan"
  • Right thing 30
  • Should not be involved 59"
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  • Increased 8
  • Kept the same 22
  • Decreased 64"
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  • Right thing 43
  • Should not be involved 51"
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The poll states, "A majority of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents think the US
  • should not be involved in Libya"



via InfoWars

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

NY Times does not mention well attended Salute to Israel parade in Manhattan Sunday Jun 5, 2011

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6/6/11, "NYT ignores 'Salute to Israel' parade," American Thinker, Herb Glatter

"Sunday was the Salute to Israel up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan - by some accounts record turnouts (30,000) in marchers and onlookers ( maybe 1,000,000).

So I searched the Times yesterday and today, apparently this wasn't: "All the news that's fit to print."

NY Post, The Daily News, CBS, Fox as well as local media did cover the event."

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Comment to AT


I am one of many Jewish readers of AT. For 4 years, I have watched anti-Semitism increase to 1930's-Germany-levels as a result of the global Marxist-Muslim alliance - whose great achievement was getting their Manchurian Candidate elected in 2008. Their official voice, the New York Times, has turned into an anti-Semitic propaganda tool. They may deny it, but being anti-Israel IS the "New Anti-Semitism." They have some writers who are Jewish, but they are of the self-hating type. Real Jews (those who actually observe Judaism) care deeply about Israel. I am used to the NYT's anti-Israel reporting, but when I read this article I was stunned. New York has the largest Jewish population in the US. They did not even write one line about the Israel Parade? Not even to bury it on some back page? It is like we are living in George Orwell's "1984." This is Barack Obama's "Hope and Change.""

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Many photos of Salute to Israel parade in Manhattan on June 5, 2011 from Atlas Shrugs:



6/5/11, "G-d Smiled on NY: Largest Israel Day Parade Ever, As Naksa Day Protests Erupt along Israel's Borders," Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller




photo from Atlas Shrugs

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Erick Erickson from RedState to interview Donald Trump Tuesday, May 17

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5/11/11, "Erickson and Trump. One on One," Tea Party News Articles, RedState.com, Erick Erickson

"Yes, it is true. On Tuesday (May 17), I will be going one on one with Donald Trump in his office in New York.

He has agreed to sit down and have an unfiltered conversation with no topic off limits. Thus I will ask him those questions many of you have wanted to ask him and flesh out why he thinks he is a conservative, why he might run, etc.

You can watch the interview live and for free. But you must register by going here."


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Donald Trump to deliver speech in New Hampshire today May 11

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At the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce Business Expo

5/8/11, "Donald Trump returns to New Hampshire," The StateColumn.com

"Donald Trump is headed back to New Hampshire and, apparently, it’s causing a major stir within the business community.

Mr. Trump, a potential Republican presidential candidate, is headed back to New Hampshire just weeks after traveling to the state the same day President Obama released a copy of his long-form birth certificate.

The New York Republican will speak at the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce’s 2011 Business Expo on Wednesday. In a release sent out by the Chamber, they noted a “tremendous” amount of interest in the event.

The Chamber “predicts tremendous media interest in Trump’s Nashua appearance, given the response [last month] to Trump’s first New Hampshire visit as a potential candidate, as well as the fact that Trump’s address will be his first major speech in New Hampshire while he’s exploring a run for the presidency.”

Mr. Trump’s appearance in New Hampshire comes as the New York billionaire continues to float the possibility of a 2012 presidential election. The potential Republican presidential candidate is expected to deliver his first major speech at the event, which is




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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Again jobless claims jump 'UNEXPECTEDLY' 4/30/11, Bloomberg

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Bloomberg's use of 'one-time events' in the headline is to be expected. The private sector has been rendered incapable of producing many jobs outside the service sector. Good jobs that do open up state 'unemployed need not apply.'

5/5/11, "Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Jump on One-Time Events," Bloomberg, The number of claims for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, pushed up by auto-plant shutdowns and other unusual events that seasonal variations failed to take into account, the Labor Department said.

Applications for jobless benefits jumped by 43,000 to 474,000 in the week ended April 30, the most since August, Labor Department figures showed today. A spring break holiday in New York, a new emergency benefits program in Oregon and auto shutdowns caused by the disaster in Japan were the main reasons for the surge, a Labor Department spokesman said as the data was released to the press.

Even before last week, claims had drifted up, raising concern the improvement in the labor market has stalled. Employers added 185,000 workers to payrolls in April, fewer than in the prior month, and the unemployment rate held at 8.8 percent, economists project a Labor Department report to show tomorrow....

Stock-index futures dropped after the report. The contract on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index maturing in June fell 0.6 percent to 1,334.8 at 8:58 a.m. in New York. Treasury securities rose, sending the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to 3.18 percent from 3.22 percent late yesterday.

Economists forecast 410,000 claims, [came in at 474,000] according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey. Forecasts ranged from 395,000 to 450,000 in the survey of 46 economists. The Labor Department revised the prior week’s figure up to 431,000 from an initially reported 429,000....

The spokesman also said that any claims filed by workers throughout the South that lost their jobs due to the storms that spawned tornados would probably be reflected in a different set of data rather than in the initial claims figures....

The number of people continuing to collect jobless benefits rose by 74,000 in the week ended April 23 to 3.73 million. The continuing claims figure does not include the number of

  • workers receiving extended benefits under federal programs....

The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits, which tends to track the jobless rate, rose to 3 percent in the week ended April 23 from 2.9 percent, today’s report showed...Another report yesterday showed employment at U.S. companies increased 179,000 in April, the smallest gain in five months, according to ADP Employer Services....

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest maker of computer- networking equipment, is among companies trying to cut costs. The San Jose, California-based company last week said it is offering early-retirement packages to some employees in the U.S. and Canada. The company didn’t specify how many workers it expected to take the packages or how much would be saved."

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2/16/11, "Unemployed need not apply, some firms say," McClatchy


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Sunday, May 1, 2011

'Tea Party is racist' slur from podium at Obama Beltway media dinner: “If your hair gets any whiter, the tea party is going to endorse it.”

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"A despicable betrayal of whites who elected him."...

Before Obama was even elected the stated idea to silence Republicans was just "call them racists."

Will CBS's Bob Schieffer say "This is an ugly strain of racism that's running through this whole thing."...Will the NY Times complain that Obama's scripted event was stained with "heavy racial overtones?" Will Al Sharpton complain that "this is the most divisive, polarizing tactic”?" No, because they're all in the lucrative race hustling business.

Obama has said the Tea Party is racist so his co-entertainer tonight was free to repeat the slur at the White House Correspondents Dinner in DC (item near end of page).

The GE/NBC comedian selected to share the podium with Obama in effect calls numerous Obama voters racist by saying the Tea Party is racist-the implication in stating it is 'all white' or would only endorse white candidates. Many whites including Tea Party supporters cried tears of joy when Obama was elected.

4/30/11, "Seth Meyers skewers DC," Politico Click

"To President Obama: “If your hair gets any whiter, the tea party is going to endorse it.”

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Many thought Obama's election would mean race would be less a factor in society. It has meant the opposite.
Race baiters including the media are in business like never before. People on "The View" even brought up race when watching the Royal Wedding this weekend, ("Let's see, where are the blacks, oh they're segregated in front,").

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3/10/11, "Obama Calling Tea Party Racist Reveals A Far More Disturbing Reality," American Thinker. Lloyd Marcus

President Obama said the Tea Party is racist. The liberal media, NAACP and Democrats have been
When final confirmation comes down from the highest office in the land, the Oval Office, that the Tea Party is racist; the allegation becomes "official" in the minds of millions. President Obama is slandering millions of decent hard working Americans
  • who simply disagree with his progressive/socialist agenda.
Think of the repercussions. Obama's indictment of the Tea Party will birth tremendous racial discord across America in schools, churches, and civic life. Obama's proclamation will cause Americans to double down on their already extreme caution when criticizing our black president. Sadly, I suspect such intimidation is a part of Obama's plan; anything to empower his mission
  • to "fundamentally transform America."
Barack Hussein Obama received more votes than any other presidential candidate in American history. So Obama alleging millions of Tea Party patriots are simply upset because America elected a black president
Obama is exploiting his race and sacrificing national race relations solely to implement his progressive/socialist agenda. Callously and strategically, the President of the United States is pitting millions of black and white Americans against each other. Lord help us,
  • that is pure evil....
A fine black young adult whom I have known for years has always appeared to be racially color blind. He idolizes Obama. Suddenly, I have noticed this kid beginning to view everything through a racial lens. His latest absurd statement,
  • "Friends" is a racist TV show because there are no black cast members."
While I admit this example is anecdotal, I suspect Obama's divisiveness is inspiring millions of Americans
  • to choose sides along racial lines.
Before knowing the facts, Obama immediately assumed the white police officer was guilty of racial profiling in the Professor Gates case. This suggests Obama has racial emotional baggage. Such a luxury
  • cannot be afforded the president of "all Americans."
Obama is not who most Americans thought he was and is exactly who the liberal mainstream media hoped he would be: their Great Black Hope for implementing their progressive/socialist agenda.

They will do whatever it takes to protect Obama; ignoring his character flaws, lawlessness, deceptions and lies. If Obama says two plus two equals five, the liberal media will defend it as being the "New Math."...

Obama's inauguration brought tears to the eyes of millions of Americans. Blacks are only 12% of our nation's population, which means it took many million white votes to put Obama in the Oval Office.
  • Thus, most of the American tears of joy were white.
  • President Obama is fully aware of this truth.
Obama willfully dividing Americans by exploiting his race for political gain is a despicable betrayal of the whites who elected him. But even more disturbing,
America deserves much, much better."

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4/30/11, "'Where are the black people?' asks Sherri Shepherd as The View hosts discuss Royal Wedding," UK Daily Mail

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"Beat Whitey Night a great success at 2010 Iowa State Fair"

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This tactic is priceless to the left. Those it accuses are usually without a microphone to defend themselves, and in any case are ridiculed and ganged up on by volumes of media publicity. The accusation also draws attention away from the misery and failure of far left governance. ed.

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JournoList: ‘Call Them Racists’ Is the Least Shocking Revelation," Big Journalism, Before Obama was even elected the idea

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Trump leads in national GOP primary poll-Rasmussen

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4/28/11, "National GOP Primary Poll: Trump 19% Romney 17% Huckabee 15%," Rasmussen

"The survey of 1,000 Likely GOP Primary Voters was conducted on April 26, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. Likely GOP Primary Voters include both Republicans and unaffiliated voters likely to vote in a GOP Primary....

But no matter which of the top current contenders is the GOP nominee, the president earns between 42% and 49% of the vote. This suggests, as is typically the case when an incumbent seeks reelection, that the race is still shaping up as a referendum on the president.
  • Trump leads among male GOP primary voters, while female voters prefer Romney as their first choice.

Similarly, Republican voters favor Trump, but unaffiliated voters who are likely to vote in GOP primaries like Romney best.

Trump is the top choice of likely primary voters who are Tea Party members with 22% support, compared to 16% support among non-members. Romney is the top choice of those who are not members of the grass roots movement....

Huckabee runs strongest among primary voters who are Evangelical Christians with 23% support. Romney leads among other Protestants and is tied with Trump among Catholic voters. Trump has a slight edge among likely primary voters of other faiths.

The nationally-known businessman and reality TV star leads among most income groups, too. He’s also ahead among married voters and those with children in the home."...



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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Reuters catching on, instead of 'unexpected' bad numbers they call them 'surprise.' GDP plummets to 1.8, dollar to 3 year low

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Reuters heart on sleeve about 'expectations'.... latest numbers "could
  • on expectations"...
4/28/11, "Economic growth slows as inflation surges," Reuters

"Another report on Thursday showed a surprise jump in the number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits last week, which could cast a shadow on expectations for a significant pick-up in output in the second quarter.

Growth in gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to a 1.8 percent annual rate after a 3.1 percent fourth-quarter pace, the Commerce Department said. Economists

  • had expected a 2 percent pace....

While a 25,000 rise in claims for state jobless benefits to 429,000 last week hinted at some

  • weakening in the labor market....

Economic growth braked sharply in the first quarter as higher food and gasoline prices dampened consumer spending and sent inflation rising at its fastest pace

  • in 2-1/2 years....

The weak GDP report and the Federal Reserve's stated commitment to a loose monetary policy stance after a two-day meeting on Wednesday

  • drove the dollar to a three-year low against a basket of currencies....

The Fed on Wednesday trimmed its growth estimate for 2011 to between 3.1 and 3.3 percent from a 3.4 to 3.9 percent January projection.

Some economists felt the U.S. central bank's estimates
  • might be a little optimistic...
Growth in the first quarter was curtailed by a sharp pull back in consumer spending, which expanded at a rate of 2.7 percent after a strong 4 percent rise in the fourth quarter.
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Home building made no contribution, while investment in nonresidential structures
  • since the fourth quarter of 2009."
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Reuters shows again they're catching on, economy slowed 'more than expected'
  • rather than 'unexpectedly'
4/28/11, "Most Americans say U.S. in recession despite data: poll," Reuters, Gallup Poll, April 20-23

"The government reported on Thursday that U.S. economic growth slowed more than expected to 1.8 percent in the first quarter of the year, as soaring food and gasoline prices
  • drained consumer spending power....
More than half of Americans say the U.S. economy is in a recession or a depression despite official data that show a moderate recovery, according to a poll released on Thursday.

Fifty-seven percent of independent voters -- a crucial segment of the electorate for Obama's re-election bid -- said the economy is
  • in a recession or depression
  • and 24 percent said it is growing."...


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

GAO reports billions of tax dollars lost in waste and duplication in federal gov., chides for plug-in cars when telling people to use less electricity

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3/1/11, "Billions in bloat uncovered in Beltway," Wall St. Journal, Damian Paletta

"The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development.

These are a few of the findings in a massive study of overlapping and duplicative programs that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year, according to the Government Accountability Office.

A report from the nonpartisan GAO, to be released Tuesday, compiles a list of redundant and potentially ineffective federal programs, and it could serve as a template for lawmakers in both parties as they move to cut federal spending and consolidate programs to reduce the deficit. Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.), who pushed for the report, estimated it identifies between $100 billion and $200 billion in duplicative spending. The GAO didn't put a specific figure on the spending overlap.

The GAO examined numerous federal agencies, including the departments of defense, agriculture and housing and urban development, and pointed to instances where different arms of the government should be coordinating or consolidating efforts to save taxpayers' money.

The agency found 82 federal programs to improve teacher quality;

  • 80 to help disadvantaged people with transportation;
  • 47 for job training and employment;
  • and 56 to help people understand finances,

according to a draft of the report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Instances of ineffective and unfocused federal programs can lead to a mishmash of occasionally arbitrary policies and rules, the report said. It recommends merging or consolidating a number of programs to both save money

  • and make the government more efficient.

"Reducing or eliminating duplication, overlap, or fragmentation could potentially save billions of tax dollars annually and help agencies provide more efficient and effective services," the report said.

There have been multiple efforts to cull the number of federal programs in recent years, but they often run into opposition from lawmakers in both parties who rush to defend individual spending provisions. In fact, GAO's recommendations are often ignored or postponed by federal agencies and lawmakers,

  • particularly when they could require difficult political votes.

The report says policy makers should consider creating a single food-safety agency because of a number of redundancies. The Food and Drug Administration makes sure that chicken eggs are

  • "safe, wholesome, and properly labeled" while a division of the Department of Agriculture
  • "is responsible for the safety of eggs processed into egg products."

Spokespeople for the Department of Agriculture and FDA pointed to the Obama administration's creation of the

  • Food Safety Working Group, which works to better coordinate the government's regulators.

The report says there are 18 federal programs that spent a combined $62.5 billion in 2008 on food and nutrition assistance, but little is known about the effectiveness of 11 of these programs because

  • they haven't been well studied.

The report took particular aim at government funding for surface transportation, including the building of roads and other projects, which the administration has made a major

  • part of its push to update the country's infrastructure.

The report said five divisions within the Department of Transportation account for

  • 100 different programs

that fund things like highways, rail projects and safety programs.

One program that funnels transportation funds to the states "functions as a

  • cash-transfer general-purpose grant program,
  • rather than as a tool for pursuing a cohesive national transportation policy,"

the report said.

Similarly, it chided the government over encouraging federal agencies

  • to purchase plug-in hybrid vehicles

while having policies that agencies

It said government agencies have purchased numerous vehicles that run on alternative fuels

  • only to find many gas stations don't sell alternative fuels.

This has led government agencies to turn around and request waivers

A spokesperson for the Department of Transportation said the president's budget for fiscal year 2012 "proposes to cut waste, inefficiency and bureaucracy by consolidating over 55 separate highway programs into five core programs, and by merging six transit programs into two programs."

On teacher quality, the report identified 82 programs that often have similar descriptions and goals and are spread across 10 federal agencies, including the

  • Department of Education,
  • the Department of Energy and
  • the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Nine of these programs are linked to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Fifty-three of the programs are relatively small, receiving $50 million or less,

The GAO highlighted 80 different economic development programs at the Department of Commerce, HUD, Department of Agriculture and Small Business Administration, that spent a combined $6.5 billion last year and often overlapped. For example, the four agencies combined to have

  • 52 different programs that fund "entrepreneurial efforts,"
  • 35 programs for infrastructure, and
  • 26 programs for telecommunications.

It said 60% of the programs fund only one or two activities, making them "the most likely to overlap because many of them can only fund the same limited types of activities."

The report took aim at several military programs, which could prove thorny because many lawmakers from both parties are wary to cut defense spending. It said there were 130,000 military and government medical professionals, 59 Defense Department hospitals and hundreds of clinics that could benefit from consolidating administrative, management and clinical functions.

For example, it said the government "may have developed duplicate" programs to counter improvised explosive devices, with the Marine Corps and the Army paying to develop similar "mine rollers." The Marine mine roller costs $85,000, and the Army mine roller costs $77,000 to $225,000. "Officials disagree about which system is most effective, and [the Pentagon] has not conducted comparative testing and evaluation of the two systems," the report said.

  • The Pentagon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The GAO study was required by a provision inserted by Sen. Coburn into a law that raised the federal borrowing limit last year. This report is the first produced in response to the provision."


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