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January 8, 2012
Tehran media trumpeted the news Sunday, Jan. 8 that Iran’s deep underground uranium enrichment site at Fordo near Qom goes stream soon, thereby crossing another line in its faceoff with the West on its weapons program. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoun Abbasi Davani told the Kayhan daily: … 20 percent, 3.5 percent and four percent enriched uranium can be produced at this site.” debkafile’s military sources report that 60 percent is equally feasible, just one step before weapons grade.
Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned in a number of interviews to US media that once the Fordo plant becomes operational, Iran’s nuclear bomb program will become immune to military attack and be able to operate out of the sight of Israeli and Western surveillance.
Tehran has clearly not been deterred in its drive for a nuclear weapon by the stiff sanctions the US and European Union began imposing in the past week against Iran’s oil exports and its central bank.
The announcement Sunday confirmed the report from diplomats in the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran had begun feeding uranium gas into the underground centrifuges in late December ready for upgraded enrichment. “I would assume they could start if they wanted to,” said one official. Read more…
Friday, 06 Jan 2012 11:58 AM
By Martin Gould
NewsMax.com
Rising GOP star Sen. Marco Rubio attacked President Barack Obama on Friday, accusing him of doing nothing to curb runaway government spending.
Florida’s junior senator said reports that Obama is on the verge of asking for yet another hike in the debt ceiling prove he has no real plan to tackle spending.
Such a request would mark the sixth time in three years that Obama has asked for such a raise, Rubio pointed out in a scathing letter to the president.
“When you served in the Senate in 2006, you called raising the debt limit “a sign of leadership failure.” Using your own standard, this request will mark your sixth ‘sign of leadership failure’ on the debt ceiling issue alone,” he wrote.
“Throughout our history, Americans have revered courageous leaders and celebrated them as profiles in courage. Unfortunately, the first three years of your presidency have been a profile in leadership failure.
“While you may choose to run your re-election campaign against a ‘Do-Nothing Congress,’ your insistence on doing nothing to meaningfully tackle our debt poses a direct threat to America’s exceptional character and is leading us toward a diminished future.” Read more…
The liberty we possess as Americans is not government granted but God given. It is what our Fathers call “Our natural birthright.” Therefore, it is not ours to give away nor to relinquish; for in essence, it is given to us as caretakers for the up and coming generations of Americans yet unborn.
It is as if we are running a marathon with the baton of American liberty clutched in our hands. Our goal and our purpose is to carry it safely and pass it on to the next generation of American runners so they in turn may pass it on to the next and so forth.
But – if because we cannot see the finish line and the odds against us seem insurmountable; if we become overwhelmed and lose our will to continue the race and succumb to the temptation to sit it out; if we lose the hope in the contest and give up the race, then all is lost and American liberty is no more. The fate of future Americans is weighed in the balance and we as a free people are in charge of the outcome for no man or group of men holds in their hands the final answer to the issue but ourselves. It is up to us to run the good race and fight the good fight; we as individuals as well as we as a team, for no one person carries the American baton of liberty by themselves, we are all in this together till the end…and be assured there is no end, at least not until Providence dictates it to be so. Read more…
By Lawrence J. Haas
Canada Free Press
January 5, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At its best, U.S. policy toward the Middle East consists of a deft combination of short-term pragmatism and long-term idealism.
In the short term, Washington works to protect Israel and other U.S. allies, combat terrorism, rebuff Iran’s hegemonic ambitions, and support regional stability, all of which ensures the continued flow of oil to power Western economies.
In the long run, Washington promotes the advance of freedom and democracy in the region and elsewhere to expand the circle of nations that share our values, reduce threats to U.S. national security, expand opportunity for hundreds of millions of people and create new markets for U.S. investment.
Unfortunately, the recent rise of Islamic movements in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere threatens both our short- and long-run goals, generating profound new challenges for the United States.
These groups, which include the Muslim Brotherhood and Nour Party in Egypt and al Qaeda-inspired jihadists in Yemen and Libya, are anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-women, anti-Western and, indeed, anti-modern.
At their most extreme, they seek to restore the region and convert the world to 7th Century life during the time of the Prophet Mohammad. Read more…
Reverend Rubicon
Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:37 PM PST
The Iowa Caucus has wrapped up and the remaining candidates and the Republican Party as a whole are going to need to re-calibrate to deal with the results. Michele Bachmann has already dropped out but all the other candidates are going to have to fine-tune their strategies now. Reverend Rubicon and I predicted in September that the GOP race would come down to Mitt Romney and Ron Paul and it looks like we were spot on.
Jon Huntsman: The former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China did not campaign in Iowa, and only ended up with .6% of the vote there. Huntsman’s strategy has focused exclusively on New Hampshire, where he’s currently polling between 9-11% behind Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. Iowa impacts Huntsman the least out of all the candidates since he did not focus there at all, so he needs to change the least to deal with it. Huntsman’s best bet is to pull an upset in New Hampshire’s primary next Tuesday the way Rick Santorum did in Iowa. It’s unlikely to happen, but by continuing to attack Ron Paul, who is competing for the same independents Huntsman wants, it might happen.
Huntsman is probably going to drop out of the race quickly after New Hampshire. His chances of winning are slim, he has little national organization or polling presence, and the next few primaries and caucuses are in more traditional conservative states where he has little appeal. If he comes in second or better in New Hampshire he may stick around a little longer, but it is not likely.
Rick Perry: The Governor of Texas is the dark horse of the campaign. Falling from grace after some atrocious debate performances and horrific ad campaigns, Perry only earned 10.3% of the vote in Iowa. While many of his staffers expected him to drop out of the race after his performance in Iowa, Perry has sworn to fight on. He is skipping New Hampshire where he is polling abysmally, and heading straight to South Carolina, the following primary state.
Perry had invested a lot of time and money in Iowa for very disappointing results, but was competing with Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann for the evangelical vote. Bachmann’s gone now and Santorum has little in the way of national organization. Perry has sworn to stop Mitt Romeny’s national level surge in South Carolina and there is a good chance that Perry could do it, becoming the conservative alternative to Romney, or least damaging him enough so Newt Gingrich or Ron paul could win the state. Iowa is the first time Perry has ever lost in an election or vote, and he will not take that laying down. Perry will do much better in the southern states, and if he can hold on till Texas holds its primary in April he could do some damage to Romney’s delegate count. Gingrich was open today about having the traditional conservative candidates (Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich, and Santorum) uniting around individual, and Perry could prove to be that person. Read more…
By Steven Ertelt
Washington, DC | LifeNews.com
January 2, 2012
Two abortion practitioners who have been charged with murder in the deaths of viable unborn children in a two-state operation aimed at avoiding late-term abortion laws will face extradition hearings on Tuesday.
Steven Chase Brigham and Nicola Irene Riley have been charged with murder related to the deaths of viable babies at an illegal secret abortion clinic that the pair operated in Elkton, Maryland. Brigham is currently in the custody at the Camden County Jail in New Jersey and Riley was arrested and is currently in the custody of the Salt Lake County Jail in Utah. Both are awaiting extradition to Maryland.
Brigham was charged with five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of second-degree murder. Riley was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder. The charges are the result of a Grand Jury investigation. While late-term abortions are not illegal in Maryland, those who kill viable babies killed in the commission of crimes can be charged with murder in that state.
Brigham operated a secret late-term abortion clinic in Elkton, Maryland, even though he had no license to practice in that state. He hired Riley to do late-term abortions there and at his abortion clinic in Baltimore. Brigham would start the late-term abortions at his office in New Jersey, then caravan the laboring women to Elkton where the abortions would be completed. The clandestine abortion scheme was discovered after a woman suffered a life-threatening botched abortion in August, 2010. When police raided the Elkton abortion clinic, they discovered the remains of 35 aborted babies, one of which was 33 weeks gestation. Read more…
By Nick Miroff
Washington Post
December 31, 2011
CALEXICO, Calif. — A decade ago, when illegal immigration from Mexico was at an all-time high, this stretch of border was as good a place as any to sneak into the United States.
Migrants and smugglers could slip through the alfalfa fields outside town or plow their pickup trucks through the desert, where the biggest worries were stuck tires and getting safely across the irrigation canals.
Mexico’s ongoing drug war continues to claim lives and disrupt order in the country.
But in the past five years, the international border here has become a harder, tougher, taller barrier — an American Great Wall. Miles of steel fencing now ride the desolate sand dunes west of Calexico. To the east, giant jack-shaped “Normandy” barriers, named for their resemblance to the defenses that once lined the beaches of northern France in World War II, block off old smuggling routes.
Overall, the United States has added 413 miles of new fencing to its southern boundary since 2006, raising to 649 miles the total length of border that has some form of man-made barrier to people or vehicles. The Rio Grande creates a natural partition along another 1,252 miles, and the government has been putting new fencing there, too.
Now the question is: How much more should be built?
Border Patrol officials say their current plans are to construct just one more mile of fence, in Texas. But as illegal immigration takes an increasingly central role in Republican campaign debates, several GOP candidates have renewed calls to fence the entire 1,969-mile boundary. Read more…
by Patrick J. Buchanan
12/30/20111
“Events are in the saddle and ride mankind.”
In describing 2011, few cliches seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle.
While President Barack Obama maneuvered skillfully to retain a fighting chance to be re-elected, the economy showed no signs of returning to the robustness of the Reagan or Clinton years. And Obama is all out of options.
By January 2013, he will have added $6 trillion to a national debt that just earned America a downgrade on its AAA credit rating.
The nation hearkened to the tea party in 2010, giving the GOP 63 new seats in the House. But Republicans, too, have little to show for it, if their goal was reducing the deficit.
During 2011, the European Union was gripped by a crisis caused by a collapse in confidence that eurozone nations like Greece and Italy will be able to service their debts and a fear that they will default and bring down the European banks holding trillions of that debt. Read more…
by John Hayward
12/29/2011
Why does a cybernetic info-society tolerate ridiculous amounts of voter fraud?
Last Friday, the Justice Department shot down South Carolina’s voter ID law. Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act requires that certain states obtain pre-clearance from either DOJ or U.S. District Court for changes to voting qualification, a measure designed to prevent scurrilous attempts to disenfranchise black voters. Long after this presumption of bad faith on the part of South Carolinans went from insulting to ridiculous, the Justice Department decided that requiring black voters to present photo IDs would unfairly keep them away from the polls.
This decision was not based on the slightest hint of discriminatory intent, but rather the sheer number of minority voters who would presumably be affected by the new law, measured against what Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez deemed an insufficiently urgent need to prevent voter fraud. South Carolina must now either take the matter to court, or persuade the Justice Department to reconsider.
South Carolina’s law, duly passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Nikki Haley, was extremely lenient – even more so than voter-ID laws already on the books in some other states. A driver’s license, passport, military ID, or photographic voter registration card was good enough to pass muster. According to the South Carolina Election Commission’s filing with the Justice Department, voters could “obtain an Identification Card from DMV, or may obtain a Voter Registration Card with a photo from his county voter registration office, both free of charge.” Nothing more than a trip to the county voter registration and elections office was necessary to obtain the photo ID. Read more…
The White House used every opportunity in 2011 to downplay any mention that the man who occupies the Oval Office is a Muslim. He keeps saying that he is a Christian, but never truly describes Jesus Christ as the Son of God–which would be blasphemy according to the Koran. He also has said that there is more than one way to heaven (March 27, 2008). Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” This is central doctrine to Christianity. Whether he claims to be a Christian, however, is truly found in his actions as Jesus also said in Matthew 7:20, “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” This is key concerning his foreign policy regarding Islam.
The president’s foreign policy has changed the direction of America as much as, if not more than, his domestic policies. From his Chief of Staff’s comments in early 2009 to Israeli leaders that America’s opposition to Iran’s nuclear program would be tied to Israel’s progress in peace talks with Palestinians to embracing the terrorist-sponsoring Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign policy partner, the president’s foreign policy has given Islam an unprecedented leg up in the Middle East. His policies have strengthened Islam in most every nation in the region. Swiftly abandoning Iraq has led to Iran immediately ramping up its influence there. There are virtually no Christian churches left in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more…
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