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MSNBC
has "withdrawn" its charges that Governor Palin did not know that Africa was
a continent. The reality is that of course Governor Palin knew that Africa was
not a country. The simulacra, or false reality that becomes accepted as
unquestioned truth, is that she was ignorant, as are most Americans, of
geography. Now that MSNBC has recanted the story, how long will it take for the
notion of Palin's geographical ignorance to dissipate in the minds of
Americans?
The proof is in the pen.
Henry Paulson, the man leading President Bush's economic bailout efforts, said
that buying
troubled assets was not the way to go
and that he knew that at the time the bill was signed. But buying troubled
assets is what the public was sold on as the one and only solution. So sure were
the experts that to do anything other than to vote for the "economic stimulus
package" to buy the assets was deemed heretical. A massive transfer of wealth,
$700B+, was moved from the peoples' pockets to the government's treasury for it
to redistribute the ill gotten booty as it deemed necessary.
A new report
reveals a change in the methods used to finance terrorist operations. Instead of
the traditional top down approach, recent research indicates the emergence of a
parallel fund raising stream through crimes being committed by local cells to
help finance the mother organization. For the top down approach, the study
identifies Saudi Arabian donors as the chief financiers of Al-Qa'ida linked
groups and Iran as the chief financier of Hezbollah, Hamas and others. For the
bottom up approach the manuscript cites multi-million euro robberies. It is a
timely reminder that targeting terrorist finance operations can contribute to
great results.
During the summer of 1982, in the wake of a
presidential directive, Marines went ashore at Beirut, Lebanon. Fifteen months
later, on 23 October 1983, extremists struck the first major blow against
American forces - starting this long war on terrorism. On that Sunday morning, a
suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden truck into the headquarters of Battalion
Landing Team 1/8, destroying the building and killing 241 Marines and corpsmen.
In economic times that are so dire taxpayers
have to pony up $700B to bail out wall street shysters, after already having to
bail out government shysters like Freddie and Fannie, all expenditures need to
be reevaluated as to whether we are getting our moneys worth. Just as millions
of American households have been forced to reexamine and ultimately change their
spending habits, government must seize the opportunity. It is a great time to
cut out the bloat, to get healthy and lean again. What has our $700M in aid to
the Palestinians bought us this year?
During his election bid, President Barack Obama
said that he would be willing to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. this has certainly sparked interest from leaders in the Middle
East. It now seems that Hamas has been encouraged by the President's stance
enough to express a desire to talk with the President-elect. "We are ready to
hold a serious duologue with the new United States president," de facto Gaza
prime minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Thursday.
Neil Christopher Lewington, a 43-year old man,
was stopped at a Lowestoft railway station and searched, police discovered two
improvised explosive devices. The man was stopped last week, October 30, at the
rail station. The man was also found in possession of seven timers, four
containers of Sodium Chlorate weed killer, three tennis balls and firelighters.
He is also suspected of having a book entitled Counter Bomb, and a UK members
handbook for the Waffen SS entitled, "Waffen SS U.K. Members Handbook." The
Waffen SS was the combat arm of Hitler's paramilitary forces.
On October 16, the Financial Action Task
Force (FATF), which has members representing 32 jurisdictions and is the world's
premier standard-setting body for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist
financing (AML/CFT), warned for the fourth time about the risks posed to the
international financial system by continuing deficiencies in Iran's AML/CFT
regime. The FATF called for all countries to strengthen preventive
measures to protect their financial systems from this risk.
Additionally, the UN Security Council called upon all states in March
2008 to exercise vigilance over the activities of financial institutions in
their territories with all Iranian banks.
Revelations of foreign hacking into Obama's
campaign computers present a wonderful opportunity for the incoming
President to set the tone for relations with the two dangerous powers. Now is
the time for the Obama camp to take a public stand against hacking and to call
out, by name, the aggressors. Additionally, a thorough damage assessment needs
to be conducted to determine what information was seized by foreign agents.
Although the event took place this past summer, and included attacks on McCain's
computers, the hacking has only just become public. An independent assessment by
the Obama campaign indicates Russian or Chinese involvement. The Bush
administration and the FBI concur.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated
the Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) pursuant to Executive Order 13382 for
providing or attempting to provide financial services to Iran's Ministry of
Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).
As Vice-President Joe Biden warned in a
speech earlier, the Barack Obama presidency would be challenged. Russia and Iran
did not even wait 24 hours before the countries issued challenges. The terrorist
group Hamas fired into Israel after the sovereign country tried to stop an
underground incursion route into Israel. While we must not forget that President
Bush still calls the shots, the international community is interested in seeing
how the newly-elected President will handle these issues.
A military commission
sentenced Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul of Yemen to confinement for life for
conspiracy, solicitation and providing material support to terrorism in
violation of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Bahlul will immediately begin
serving his sentence of confinement at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A recognized non partisan organization that researches the
media published a report about the way the press
has covered the presidential candidates. The results of this report will no
doubt surprise some people.
Here are highlights from an article from the
Lebanon Daily Star entitled, "Battered
Bint Jbeil has no shortage of Obama supporters":
Read an update about the trial....
Iran continues to pose problems for the stability of Iraq and now seems to be
fractured in its approach. One approach is encouraging instability through the
indirect actions of al-Sadr's militia and his political grandstanding. Although
at one time al-Sadr had problems controlling his forces, today he exercises near
total control. What is disturbing is the direct action that Iran now takes
against Iraq as seen in the above report.
The U.S. government designated three members of
the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) a.k.a. Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah
al-Muqatilah bi-Libya under Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists
and the financial, technological, or material support networks of
terrorists.
October 12th is the day that the Islamists
continued their war against the West with the cowardly attack on the USS Cole.
What also occurs on this day is the Annual Muslim Day Parade held in New York
City. While we do not condone the entire Muslim religion, the argument can be
made about the Islamists extremists who seem to be making the headlines with
terrorist attacks in the name of the religion. It seems some of the latter are
here in the United States and participated in the parade.
