For first time, we are getting the real story behind Benghazi. For those who may have not gotten a chance to watch the hearings, I chose these two clips that sum it up. Obama could have cared less, and never expressed any concern. Mark Levin made the point last night that it was Obama that had the authority to order a cross border entry of our military. Clearly, he did not. Lindsey Graham does a good job of nailing it down. Levin also commented that ABC, CBS, NBC did not cover the hearing at all.
Here is a good outline of how it really went down.
Truthfully, it has been pretty much of a gagger to try to post the last couple of days. But finally I found a real hoot. Now that Panetta is walking out the door, after we left Americans to die in Benghazi, and have done nothing to go after those who did it, after we turned the Middle East into a tinder box, this savant has his last remarks recorded and that should go down in History as demonstrating one of the most insightful foreign polices in our Nation’s History. He claims we helped out big time in Algeria after everyone knows Algeria told us to go to hell as well as the rest of the Europeans. Add our savant Clinton who just issued this warning that perhaps Americans may want to take off Algeria as their destination vacation port. Wow, four more years that should get even better with our new Secretary of State and Defense. At least the word “Terrorist” was used. We indeed have come a long way. So this is my inaugural post. God help us.
The State Department issued a travel warning Saturday night for Americans in or traveling to Algeria, citing credible threats of the kidnapping of Western nationals. The department also authorized the departure from Algeria of staff members’ families if they choose to leave.
“Terrorists should be on notice that they will find no sanctuary, no refuge. Not in Algeria, not in North Africa, not anywhere,” Panetta told an audience in London.
Panetta says US officials are “working around the clock” to secure the safe release of aof US citizens who have been taken hostage by militants at a gas plant near the Algerian town of In Amenas.
The fact that latest reports are that Eric Schmidt will decline any cabinet position offer in the administration should not bring us any relief of concern. I have done numerous posts on the direct involvement of Google and a number of his Executives in the various Arab Springs. Know for sure, Google is more than willing to help Obama with any spying desired. Now that the NSA case is back in the news, let’s take a look as well as his particpation in the Middle East debacle.
NSA spying on Citizens Chilling video and story later in post: “The Program”. (By the way Schmidt and Google are working with the NSA).
Eric Schmidt and what he is about. What part does he play with the NSA
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman and former CEO, is reportedly on the White House’s list of candidates to either replace Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary or head up a new position to be coined something along the lines of “Secretary of Business,” according to The Washington Examiner. “Nobody’s better positioned for a Cabinet job, if he wants one,” a Democratic strategist told The Examiner. Newsmax.com Money News
ERIC SCHMIDT, FORMER GOOGLE CEO: “My view of Mr. Soros is that he is one of the most important people in the world today in terms of the impact he has had”.
“What we shared is a belief in changing the world from the bottom up, not from the top down,” Obama told Google employees during a 2007 visit to its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Money CNNDidn’t Van Jones say something like that?
Three reasons to be wary of Google
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO, he is on the White House council for science and technology, co-chaired by John Holdren.
Second point — they are working with hard-core leftists. Eric Schmidt is on the board of an organization called the Politics of Trust Network. You might recognize a couple of other names on that board like Van Jones, oh, and Drummond Pike, the former CEO and founder of the Tides Foundation.
In 2010 the Google, Inc. charitable giving fund of the Tides Foundation gave over $145 million directly to nonprofits and academic institutions. Google has made donations in the seven figure range to Moveon.org. George Soros is doing that, too, one of farther left political action groups in America.
They also gave money to the Trickle Up Program, a big recipient of cash from the Tides Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Institute. And speaking of George Soros, here is Eric Schmidt saying this about George Soros. ”My view of Mr. Soros is that he is one of the most important people in the world today in terms of the impact he has had”.Full story here at Fox News
Wikileaks published a secret cable that detailed the U.S. government’s involvement with Egyptian dissidents.
UPDATE: WSJ 2/7/11: Google Executive emerges as a key figure in the Revolt:Read Here
More than a week after his mysterious disappearance in Egypt, Google executive and political activist Wael Ghonim will be released from government detention on Monday, according to his family and a prominent businessman.
I have posted several stories about the April 6 group or “Alliance for Youth Movements”. Hillary Clinton set up these meetings. The Hilliary Video includes the work with Face Book and the Google Executives in order to teach youth around the world how to agitate.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton records a video message for participants of the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit in Mexico City, Mexico October 16, 2009
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The world’s governments are getting sick of google and its shenanigans.
Russia is getting tired of google as well:
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s deputy blamed Google Inc in an interview published on Tuesday for stirring up trouble in the revolution that ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
“Look what they have done in Egypt, those highly-placed managers of Google, what manipulations of the energy of the people took place there,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told the Wall Street Journal. Reuters
We should be as well. First they are working closely with the government.They have a close relationship with the NSA. They work closely with law enforcement. Last year they signed a $27 million deal with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I don’t even know what that is.
But they have been accused of receiving preferential treatment and a $6.5 million contract with the General Services Administration. They are working hard to bring net neutrality, the kind that like Free Press are advocating for.
NY Times Domestic Spying program story:The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans’ personal data. September 2, 2o12
More heat is being placed on Susan Rice. While we may have made progress in getting a reality check on who she really is and what she is about, we hear little about the failure to make any effort to save the brave men who died in Benghazi. Even less about those who were critically injured and sent to Germany. This song should move even those who are most cynical.
Tribute to the heroes of the Benghazi attack on our embassy: Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Ambassador Chris Stevens…and a rebuke of the treason that let them die. All proceeds (that’s ALL…except the Bandcamp 15%) will go to the SEAL NSW Family Foundation. Downloads at http://chriscassonetea.bandcamp.com.
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So now the new Pharaoh Morsi of Egypt has done away with the court system. During the time of Mubarak, Mubarak contended with the courts and pushed tirelessly against Muslim Fundamentalism including the practice of Female Genital Mutilation. And he never outlawed the court system. Even Hillary and Barak embraced the Mubarak reign, with words of praise just a few short months before they decided to dispatch him. I have put together a collage of clips showing the absolute hypocrisy of Obama, and why only fools would ever trust us, even for a day. So let us take a look a the bad fellow Mubarak who had sustained a peaceful relationship with Israel, and stood by his word with the agreement of peace.
Islamic apologists in the West maintain that female genital mutilation has nothing to do with Islam, and that only greasy Islamophobes think otherwise. But eventually Muslims themselves get around to vindicating every last charge that greasy Islamophobes have ever made about Islamic belief and practice.
Let us review this evil dictator Mubarak and his wife. Not enemies of Israel and the United States. Who managed to keep the radicals at bay with often brute force, similar to the Shah of Iran, to stop the radicals who would have their country dissolve back into a 11th century state again. Who, with his wife, attempted to take on the Clerics and as an example, the practice of Female Genital Mutilation.
A 2005 report by UNICEF suggested that 97% of Egyptian women between the ages of 15 and 49 who have never been married have undergone some form of FGM or circumcision. 6
An older meta-study on “female sexual castration” presented in 1989-MAR showed that five surveys conducted between 1977 and 1985 estimated that 80.5% of Egyptian women in Cairo and Alexandria had undergone FGM.
During Mubaraks tenure:FGM debate in Egypt:
Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, head of the al-Azhar Islamic Institute, had stated during the 1990s that the practice is un-Islamic. The Health Minister of Egypt, Ismail Sallam, announced a ban on FGM in 1996-JUL. This was upheld by a junior administrative court in Cairo.
Sheik Youssef Badri, a Muslim fundamentalist, took the health minister to court. In 1997-JUN, an Egyptian court overturned the ban. Eight Muslim scholars and doctors had testified that the ban exceeded the government’s authority and violated the legal rights of the medical profession. Sheik Youssef Badri commented:
“[Female] circumcision is Islamic; the court has said that the ban violated religious law. There’s nothing which says circumcision is a crime, but the Egyptians came along and said that Islam is a crime.”
The government appealed the case to Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court. They ruled that the operation is not required by Islam, and that “female circumcision is not a personal right according to the rules of Islamic Sharia (law).” Thus, FGM is subject to Egyptian law. The government prohibited the procedure, even if it is done with the agreement of the child and her parents. However, gynecologists are still allowed to perform the surgery if it is needed for health reasons.
The BBC reported in 2007 that:
“Egypt’s first lady, Susanne Mubarak, has spoken out strongly against female circumcision, saying that it is a flagrant example of continued physical and psychological violence against children which must stop.” 7 Religious Tolerance Org
Now the hypocrisy FLASHBACK: 2009 – Hillary Clinton Has A Most Wonderful Time Visiting Hosni Mubarak
President Obama and President Mubarak Speak to the Press
President Barack Obama and President Mubarak of Egypt address the press after meetings at the White House on the prospects of peace in the Middle East. August 18, 2009 Really very sad. Just take the first few minutes to watch, it gives a keen insight as to what a traitor looks and sounds like..
Finally a short clip that says it all and how we got to where we are;
Strange isn’t it. The Progressives have no trouble with Obama’s “Kill list”. But trouble with water boarding which might actually get information that would more likely save lives. I have been on the story of our drone bombing which has been causing many civilian casualties and instigating unrest from the populations. So here is an update on Obama’s list, First a bit of what is going down.
Somalia is the sixth country where the US military has engaged in unauthorized aerial bombing campaigns through the use of its remote-controlled aircraft.Press TV Ir
Here we go:
The matter may have lost some urgency after Nov. 6. But with more than 300 drone strikes and some 2,500 people killed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the military since Mr. Obama first took office, the administration is still pushing to make the rules formal and resolve internal uncertainty and disagreement about exactly when lethal action is justified.
“One of the things we’ve got to do is put a legal architecture in place, and we need Congressional help in order to do that, to make sure that not only am I reined in but any president’s reined in terms of some of the decisions that we’re making,” Mr. Obama told Jon Stewart in an appearance on “The Daily Show” on Oct. 18. (Chuckle time)
The administration of United States President Barack Obama feared they might lose re-election and in the weeks before Election Day began to develop a set of rules for using drones, according to a New York Times report by Scott Shane.
An unnamed official with the Obama administration told : (Link to NYT article-worth it) Shane
…“There was concern that the levers might no longer be in our hands,” said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity. With a continuing debate about the proper limits of drone strikes, Mr. Obama did not want to leave an “amorphous” program to his successor, the official said. The effort, which would have been rushed to completion by January had Mr. Romney won, will now be finished at a more leisurely pace, the official said.
The revelation is remarkable in that it shows GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney—not the fact that the power to extrajudicially kill people suspected of committing or having ties to terrorism was being claimed—was why the administration began to have increased concerns over drone warfare.
A video had circulated just after the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, where John Cook was stopping Democrats to ask if Romney could be trusted with the kill list. It was a shrewd way to expose how they had given Obama a pass to normalize targeted killings when they would not like the program if a Republican had the power. Lanny Davis, who served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton, said, “I’m not regarding that question as a serious questions so I’m not interested in your interview.” Sen. Charles Schumer answered, “I don’t think he’ll do that, but I think there are a lot of other issues we shouldn’t trust him on.” Gloria Allred, a lawyer known for taking women’s rights cases, did not answer the question but in a follow-up stated she would trust Obama “one thousand percent” with the decision to extrajudicially assassinate people on the kill list.
Full Story over at Fire Dog Lake well worth the full read
UPDATE: Astute Blogger has more that may put light ont this, what if any is the relationship? Natalie is Jill’s twin sister:
BOMBSHELL OR “COINCIDENCE”?: NATALIE KHAWAM’S EX-HUSBAND, GRAYSON WOLFE WAS, “Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction and Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States” What is the relationship? LINKED IN FOR GRAYSON WOLFE - EX-HUSBAND OF NATALIE KHAWAM:
HAT TIP:Pat Doillard first gets the tip of the hat. This come out of The Daily Kos. so I will pass it along, If true, and what many of us believe, the government is filled with Muslim infiltrators from the other side. It adds up. Kelly claims to be this social party maker and hangs with Officers in high places. Here we go: UPDATE: The FBI agent has been identified, and has apparently a good record.
Kelly, though Lebanese, is ostensibly a Maronite Christian.
Hat tip to The Blaze and excerpted from The Daily Kos:OK, this is getting weird. If Jill Kelley was not in the employ of a foreign intelligence service then the world’s spy agencies have collectively suffered a dereliction of duty.
As we know today, General Petraus’s successor in Afghanistan is a man named General John Allen who also happens to be in line for promotion to Commander of the United State European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
It probably goes without saying that both General Petraus of the CIA and General Allen would be top targets for foreign intelligence operations — especially by countries in the Middle East. Knowing details of US actions there would be of benefit to many countries; some allies, some nominal allies and some considered to be enemies.
The fact that socialite Jill Kelley’s maiden name is Khawam and that she was born in Lebanon to Maronite Christian parents should raise eyebrows a bit. (Note that the Maronite Christians were allies of Israel in the Lebanese Civil War/Lebanon invasion.) The fact that she and her husband were willing to go into debt to throw lavish parties for high level officers who are involved in the Middle East should make even the most resolute anti-CTers among us pause. The further fact that she is identified as an unofficial liason between top American Generals and unspecified Middle Eastern contacts, well…Keep Reading…
Just who is Susan Rice? Beside carrying the water, or lies for Obama on the now famous five Sunday morning shows about Benghazi and the video, there is much more to fear if she becomes our Secretary of State. Obama, now the angry black man who said today at his presser he will not tolerate anyone who “besmirches” his gal Susan. His believer in R2P. First the Presser: The president calls McCain’s efforts to criticize U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice “outrageous
Frankly, I am sick as well that the GOP cannot mount a more substantial rebuttal of why she should not be considered for the post. Simply appearing on the Sunday show will not do it. So GOPers get with it. So, lets take a look. She, Samantha Power, and Hillary Clinton and their belief in R2P and their push for war:
Ever hear of Samantha Power? Now you have Susan Rice on your radar. Their background check is well worth i:
One thing is clear: The sudden emergence of Obama’s National Security Council Advisor, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and the “new theory” she is using as justification for action in Libya, has very serious implications for future military action against Israel. As John Podhoretz explains in the New York Post, the “reason” behind the Libyan military strike is not the traditional justification of “protecting the national interest.” It is a “new” standard called “R2P” or “right to protect.” This concept is being promulgated by the “one-world” order activists at the United Nations, like Samantha Power.
“R2P is an effort to create a new international moral standard to prevent violence against civilians.
In her career as a genocide expert, Power was an indefatigable proponent of R2P, and now on the National Security Council has been “trying to figure out how the administration could implement R2P and what doing so would require of the White House going forward.” Hillary is her ally in this effort, it appears.”
This shameful United Nations ambassador,with her most recent anti-Israel tirade, gashed open an already-raw-wound in Obama administration U.S. Israeli relations.
“But then Rice opened her mouth, and as I write, is delivering a truly foul speech in which she flatly declares that “we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” and declares that such activity is, essentially, the cause for “corroded hopes” in the Middle East. She condemned “the folly and legitimacy” of continued settlement activity”.
“And now she is a senior foreign policy adviser to Presidential candidate Barack Obama, as well as occupying the Anna Lindh Professorship of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy How appropriate: Anna Lindh, the late Swedish Foreign Minister, was a dedicatedopponent of Israel.”
“The change became possible, though, only after [Secretary of State] Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, who had been pressing the case for military action, according to senior administration officials speaking only on condition of anonymity. Ms. Power is a former journalist and human rights advocate; Ms. Rice was an Africa adviser to President Clinton when the United States failed to intervene to stop the Rwanda genocide, which Mr. Clinton has called his biggest regret.
Now, the three women were pushing for American intervention to stop a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Libya.
In joining Ms. Rice and Ms. Power, Mrs. Clinton made an unusual break with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, who, along with the national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, and the counterterrorism chief, John O. Brennan, had urged caution. Libya was not vital to American national security interests, the men argued, and Mr. Brennan worried that the Libyan rebels remained largely unknown to American officials, and could have ties to Al Qaeda.”
Paula Broadwell. This name will sure be remembered. Was the Ambassador sacrificed? This story has never held up to the light of day. Just hope the hearings do not remain secret.
This story is getting very interesting, and finally the truth may be starting to leak. Throw in a bit of sex, and the intrigue may have captured the interest finally of the American proletariat.
She stated: “Now I don’t know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually had taken a couple of Libya militia members prisoner. And they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that’s still being vetted.”
The existence of a U.S. prison or CIA detention center in Benghazi would be a new development in the debate surrounding the attacks there. The information does not appear to be publicly known.
TEL AVIV – Did Paula Broadwell, the alleged mistress of ex-CIA Director David Petraeus, reveal a secret CIA detention center in Benghazi during a public speech she gave last month?
Broadwell, a former counterterror operative, co-authored a bestselling biography of Petraeus, titled “All In.” She discussed the book during a keynote speech on Oct. 26 at a University of Denver alumni symposium. The speech is available in full on YouTube. Full video over at WND
Is it the economy? That has many conservative bloggers down? It is more than being dispirited. There is overwhelming sadness in many quarters. Many are chosing to cut back, and perhaps not post at all.
I suggest that the sadness, and fear for the future is about more than descending or progressing into a European style socialism. We are/were the last superpower. For close to a century, mutually assured destruction kept the peace within the superpowers. Allies of ours took comfort in us being around. Now it turns out, much to their detriment. They became dependent on us for their freedom just as of our citizens became dependent on our government.
So the testing begins, They kill our Ambassador, Iran is becoming more and more bellicose. China steals our secrets and develops a plane similar to our latest design. It builds its Navy. Russia says it will sail the seas once again as it did in the cold war, Obama will be more flexible. He tells us little of what is going down. The media colludes, secrets leak out. Enough to make us nervous.
In response, Iranian born Valerie Jarrett who was born in Iran, and I have posted ad nauseam still has friends in Iran– she loves Iran, so her friends say, is to “negotiate”. She speaks Persian Farsi. I am sure that is why she is involved. Valerie Jarret’s Father in law, head of Communist youth party- just a refresher.
There is much more to our discomfiture. As bloggers, many are History buffs. That is what brings us to our interest in government. No, it is not about the economy that brings us to our sadness. Rather it is our concern and fear of what the future holds regarding our security. We know what appeasement brings to governments who have rotted on the inside.
The world knows we are sick of war, and so we should be. But our Appeaser in chief will not just be the appeaser. He intends to destroy our defenses, manage ways around to circumvent the approval of treaties, cut our nukes, our Navy, make sure we are not energy independent. The list goes on and on but I have said enough, you fill in the rest of it. Because you know. It is not the economy alone that will bring us down, we shall soon become prey to a more powerful force. That is how the last chapter ends. It always has, and always will. We have much to fear. So does the world.
The military budgets for China, India and Russia are PPP figures, not nominal figures. These figures were published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
