March 1, 2009

YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS INTERVIEW. IT FOLLOWS THE ADVERTISING.

Dr. Orly Taitz is an attorney representing Ambassador/Dr. Alan Keyes and other concerned Americans in a petition to the courts for action to unseal Barack Obama’s birth records. Since then, several other appeals are pending or have since been denied in New Jersey, Chicago and Hawaii, and other locations, to verify Obama’s citizenship. In addition, unhappy legislators in states all around the USA have brought bills up to be passed to be able to cede from the union if the Federal Government oversteps it’s powers and invades state sovereignties. What are Americans so angry about?

Dr Orlu Taitz blog is DefendOurFreedom. You absolutely must read it.

OBAMA APPROVAL PLUNGES 74%
Rasmussen Poll Shows Drop: 30% to 8% on Strong Approval

Barack Obama?s popularity ratings have plummeted according to the latest Rasmussen Poll.

The highly accurate poll subtracts the “strong dissapprovals” from the “strong approvals” to get their net approval rating.

The week Barack Obama was sworn in, the “Obama Approval Index” his approval rate was a whopping 30%. By March 1 to a meager 8%. Considering he had 15% on February 27, this is a veritable freefall.

President and CEO David Armstrong of Armstrong International, a century old family-owned company, has clear reasons for the significant drop in popularity.

According to Armstrong the public listens to promises and monitors how they perceive they area being delivered, after giving a reasonable “honeymoon” period wherein they give the benefit of the doubt.

During your interview with David he discusses that with an unprecedented number of Obama’s cabinet choices being surrounded by impossible to ignore ethics challenges, an “Obama fatigue factor” has set in. When virtually all of the ?changes? promised by Obama are changes toward big centralized government, or when they see Obama flip-flopping on so many campaign promises, such as his solemn vow to post important bills on the Internet prior to voting on them?such as the trillion dollar taxpayer-funded bailout of rich bankers–even moderate and some liberal voters are left scratching their heads in puzzlement and/or disenchantment.

Armstrong’s suggestion to Obama: “Speak only the truth and practice the Golden Rule: Do unto taxpayers as you would have taxpayers do unto you.”

“Sometimes the bull–he wins!” (Heard when the matador’s cojones are served after the bull fight)
by Bill Levinson

We are reluctant to apply the name “fight” to a rigged contest in which Spanish cowards torture an animal to death, with the role of the picador being the most cowardly of all. The picador’s function is to torture the bull with lances from a safe distance (as opposed to the matador, who does incur some personal risk). We add that this “sport” would probably constitute felony animal cruelty in most states, and that the Course Landaise should have emasculated the bullfight long ago; it takes real courage for an acrobat to vault over a charging horned cow.

Spain has most recently extended its national traditions of cruelty and cowardice from its time-honored practices of burning Jews, Moors, heretics, witches, and Protestants at the stake, enslavement and genocide of American natives, running in sheer terror from anyone who actually fights back (primarily England and France), and torturing animals to death for public entertainment in bullrings to playing picador for militant “Islamic” terrorists. The Spanish picador’s efforts to stick the Israeli bull by agreeing to put on trial, perhaps in front of the Spanish Inquisition, Israeli Air Force officials for their role in killing a Hamas terrorist has just earned him a good goring and a trampling as well: a courageous Knesset member has just called for prosecution of several Spanish officials for war crimes in Serbia. This is the slap in the face that should send the Spanish bully crawling back into his hole with his tail between his legs. (Read more…)

Condemned
Stephen Daldry’s The Reader

Alan A. Stone, Boston Review

Imagine, if you can, a film such as Schindler’s List in which the descendants of Nazis get to tell their side of the story. They ask the world to excuse and even to pity some of their loved ones who participated in the “final solution.”

The Reader is a such a film. Many of those who can never forget or forgive the perpetrators of the Holocaust will insist on condemning it. Many mainstream critics already have. The New York Times’s Manohla Dargis complained that it is “another movie about the Holocaust that embalms its horrors with artfully spilled tears and asks us to pity a death–camp guard” (emphasis added).

But with five Oscar nominations including best picture, the popular success of The Reader—and the critically acclaimed, widely read novel on which it is based—suggests that most of us do pity the death–camp guard. That makes it a story to ponder, a turning point in popular culture, a beginning of forgiveness if not the end of collective guilt for the Germans of the Third Reich.
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Exactly what I suspected and wrote about in The US is Dallying on Durban

by Anne Bayefsky, Forbes.

Barack Obama just added double-dealing to his foreign policy repertoire. On Friday, administration officials led many Jewish leaders to believe that it had decided to boycott the United Nation’s “anti-racism” conference known as Durban II. At the same time, however, human rights organizations were being led to believe that the administration was not pulling out and was looking for a way to “re-engage.”

Durban II, scheduled for Geneva in April, is the U.N.’s attempt at a rerun of the 2001 global anti-Semitic hate fest held in Durban, South Africa.
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by Bill Levinson

The Power of Words: Use Language to Define the Conflict demonstrates the overwhelming effectiveness of Naming a thing or an adversary, provided that one can make the Name stick. A Google search on “Barack Cade” previously resulted in references to barricades, but a comparison to Jack Cade in King Henry VI is now the top result. The new Name we have given the Messiah sticks because (1) Barack Cade is phonetically similar to Jack Cade and (2) more importantly, Barack Obama’s fiscal agenda is similar to Jack Cade’s promises: promises so outrageous and unbelievable that the low-class groundlings who attended Shakespeare’s plays laughed their heads off at the scenes in question. Hamlet’s advice to the Player King even takes the liberty of mocking this element of Shakespeare’s own audiences:

O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.

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By Ted Belman

Judging Operation Cast Lead by its affect on smuggling and rocket firing it was a total failure. DEBKA reports,

For more than a month, therefore, Israeli retaliation for the missile attacks has been muted, restricted to the harmless aerial bombardment of empty buildings and smuggling tunnels in Gaza.

This tactic contradicts the promises Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni made that Israel would respond instantaneously and effectively to Palestinian aggression from Gaza, if the military operation of January failed to bring the promised “new security reality” to southern Israel.

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REAL IRAQ PLAN: STAY IN & WIN

By RALPH PETERS, NY Post

YESTERDAY, President Obama went to Camp Lejeune. He spoke in front of US Marines, but his real audience was his left-wing campaign supporters.

And his carefully worded speech - its parsing of language worthy of Bill Clinton - may go down in history as his “Mission Accomplished” moment. We’ll see who leaves Iraq when.

During last year’s presidential campaign, it was evident that Obama wouldn’t keep his promises to his leftist base to pull our troops out rapidly.

While he benefited greatly from the troop surge he opposed - which handed him a convalescent Iraq - he’s learning that reality trumps rhetoric.
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At the [Washington, DC National Press Club] press conference I asked Wilders: “The polls show your party might finish second if an election were held today. [Wilders has now moved up to first place in recent polls.] You might someday be prime minister of the Netherlands. If elected — what would you actually do about the extremism problem?”Wilders is a controversialist, not a legislator or an executive. His speciality is raising an alarm about problems others would ignore — not devising solutions to those problems. European governments have responded to Wilders’ alarm by denying the existence of any problem at all — and using the silence to impugn anyone who dared say otherwise. That response was always doomed to fail. If it fails at a time when banks are failing too, when unemployment is rising and crime is worsening, a man like Wilders may find himself more than a celebrity. He may find himself the elected leader of a bitterly divided country on an angry and unstable continent.

by David Frum, National Post, Feb. 28, 2009

In a small room in Washington’s National Press Club, a tall man with bright blond hair stands flanked by grim-faced security guards. He is here to screen a short documentary movie — a movie that has caused him to be charged with three counts of hate speech in his native Netherlands and to be forbidden entry into the United Kingdom only two weeks ago.

Here in the United States, the reception is a little different. On Thursday, Geert Wilders showed his movie to members of the U.S. Congress. He has been interviewed on CNN and Fox, and on popular radio programs. He opened his remarks at the Press Club by ironically thanking U.S. immigration authorities for allowing him to visit the country.
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Livni backed out of negotiations on Friday because in her words Bibi didn’t want a two-state solution. But what Bibi is against is summarized

“A final agreement will see the Palestinians having the full authority to run their lives, …But do you want them to have control of the air space, their own army, the right for them to make alliances with other states like Iran, or control over borders that would allow for weapons imports? I won’t stand for it.”

Does this disagreement mean that Livni is willing to cede these things to them?

Barak and Mofaz not closing door on joining unity government

THE JERUSALEM POST

A day after Kadima leader Tzipi Livni told Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu that she will not bring her party into his government, both her Kadima rival, Shaul Mofaz, and Labor chairman Ehud Barak engendered hope that a national-unity government can still be formed.
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by Aluf Benn, Haaretz, March 1, 2009

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to declare his support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni, that is reason enough to go into the opposition or to attempt to impose a rotation arrangement on Netanyahu. This weekend U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated Washington’s commitment to a two-state solution, effectively joining the foreign minister in portraying Netanyahu as an obstacle to a negotiated settlement.

There are obvious political reasons for Netanyahu’s refusal to demonstrate a more moderate stance: It would cost him his potential coalition with the right-wing National Union and Habayit Hayehudi, and force him into a rotation arrangement with Livni. But his opposition to a Palestinian state is also a matter of principle, one he has held for many years.

Netanyahu says he doesn’t want to rule over the Palestinians, and has no interest in Nablus, Tul Karm or Jenin; they should govern their own lives, as long as they don’t threaten Israeli security, he says. Netanyahu seeks to deny the Palestinians four rights of any sovereign state: control of its airspace; control of its electromagnetic spectrum; the right to maintain an army and to sign military alliances; and, most importantly, control of the border crossings where arms and terrorists could pass. Netanyahu believes Israel must retain all of these.

Netanyahu’s model is based on the work of Stanford University political science professor Stephen Krasner, who was director of policy planning in the State Department under Condoleezza Rice. Krasner developed a “restricted sovereignty” model for problematic state structures. (Continue Reading this Article)

Patrick Poole on Pajamas media: From my limited perspective, all Geert Wilders has done is hold a mirror up to reflect back the ugly racism and advocacy of violence that are the staple of the most prominent and authoritative officials in Islam. For that he has earned nothing but enmity from the avowed enemies of the West. But it wasn’t enough to earn him a speaking spot on this year’s CPAC schedule. Meanwhile, GOP operative and Karl Rove confidante Grover Norquist, who is single-handedly responsible for opening the doors of political power for [convicted felons] al-Qaeda fundraiser Abdulrahman Alamoudi and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, was given the honor of introducing House Minority Leader John Boehner on Friday morning. The contrast between the cold reception of Wilders and the warm embrace of Norquist by CPAC could not be any starker.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent, March 1, 2009

Dutch soccer fans who last week called Rotterdam’s mayor “a dirty Jew” and urged him to “go to the gas chambers” must be prosecuted, a Jewish group has told the city. But Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, a practicing Muslim of Moroccan descent, disagrees.

The dozens of soccer fans shouted the anti-Semitic slurs during a demonstration in Rotterdam last Saturday, in which they protested a ban on fan attendance at games between the city’s Feyenoord team and Amsterdam’s Ajax.

“We fear that not prosecuting serves as a carte blanche for others elsewhere in Holland to shout offensive slogans against Jews,” the head of the Hague-based pro-Zionist CIDI organization, Dr. Ronny Naftaniel, wrote to Rotterdam Public Prosecutor Henk Korvinus.

Aboutaleb and his Amsterdam counterpart, Job Cohen, who is Jewish, imposed the five-year ban on fan attendance last week following violent clashes between fans that also featured anti-Semitic tones. Amsterdam is perceived as a heavily-Jewish city, and Ajax supporters are often dubbed “Jews” by jeering Feyenoord fans. (Read more…)