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The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show For Nov. 20th...
By Matt Bruce | 11/20/09 | 12:26 PM | 0 Comments
The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show For Nov. 20th...
T.G.I.F.!!!!!
Hello everybody and welcome to hour #3 of "The Captain's AMERICA" weekday radio show heard LIVE 6-9 AM ET on AM 1220 and FM 106.9 WSRQ Radio in Sarasota, FL.
We start out today with Ryan Mauro from World Threats.com as he addresses the additional threat posed to America by bringing the 9/11 Terrorist's to NYC for a 'civilian trial'. First of all the COST in unknown and will be above any 'estimate' because of the nature of what Security Forces will have to be on guard for. The powers that be in Washington, DC have given NO consideration to what COULD happen to the people of NYC if a security related incident were to occur which could be an attack, big or small, which would more than likely shut down NYC.
Then we speak with Greg Allen, co host of the John Loftus Show heard in NYC, as he addresses concerns of his own about the 9/11 Terrorist trials. We also speak about the Senate's version of the Health Care Bill being rushed into a weekend 'test' vote to see if the Democrats have enough votes to bring it to the Floor of the Senate for further discussion. We also address Afghanistan and the 'Lily Pad Theory' that Ret.Major General Paul Vallely has proposed.
Time next for Sally Tibbetts, FL-13 District Director for Cong. Vern Buchanan, as she talks about the Obama Administration's Stimulus Bill that has now been identified as having numerous incidences of fraud associated with job creation, the reluctance to send more troops to Afghanistan, the House's version of the Health Care Bill that has now been handed over to the Senate, plus Comg. Buchanan's SCORE Bill that passed this week.
We finish the week up with 'Earl Pitts' and some 'Strange But True' news and a small LI NY Town who has brought the word 'Christmas' back into the Boat Parade because attendance had dropped because it had been named a 'Holiday Parade'.
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The Rifqa Bary Columbus Court House Rally: An eyewitness account
By Jerry Gordon | 11/20/09 | 11:43 AM | 0 Comments
Alan Kornman, a colleague and leader in the ACT! for America Orlando chapter and Radio Jihad co-host, spoke with us about what transpired at the Rally for Rifqa on Monday, November 16th. The rally went ahead as scheduled despite the adjournment until December 27th of a custody hearing involving Rifqa Bary. This report basically questioned the figures of those who attended and content of the Columbus Dispatch Report we posted. The hundreds, who attended, many driving thousands of miles to attend the Rally for Rifqa, was a palpable testimony to the broad reach of Pamela Geller and her blog Atlas Shrugs.
Kornman, who with sidekick, Mark Campbell filmed the Rally, estimated the crowd in the park across the street from the Franklin County Courthouse at in excess of 250 persons. Campbell had been involved in development of recent stunning video disclosures of the Sri Lankan death threats revealed by Tom Trento of the Florida Security Council – see our post. Kornman said that the crowd consisted of devotees of Geller’s Atlas Shrugs blog, some of whom came from as far away as California, South Carolina and Florida. Among the Florida contingent were the intrepid Jacksonville Chapter stalwarts led by Randy McDaniels. Eric McDaniels provided the sound equipment for the rally. There was a strong Evangelical Christian contingent exemplified by the Gainesville, Florida Dove World church members who wore those “Islam is the Devil” tee shirts.
Kornman said that no Muslim counter-protesters showed. The police presence there was discrete, although Kornman noted observers on the roof of the Courthouse.
Overall, Kornman said that the crowd was energized and respectful. Among the speakers were:
- Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs;
- Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch;
- Nonie Darwish, colleague and co-founder of Former Muslims United;
- Jim Lafferty, Islamic Saudi Academy protest colleague from Traditional Values Coalition;
- Pastor Jamal Jivanjee, stalwart friend of Rifqa’s; and
- Simon Deng, ex-Sudanese slave.
Kornman noted Andrew Bostom, acclaimed author of The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, who was attending a professional medical meeting in Columbus, generously treated several of the speakers and protest attendees for a post rally dinner.
Kornman found Deng’s remarks particularly arresting as he spoke with the authenticity of a victim of Sharia as a survivor of Islamist razzias in war torn Southern Sudan. When articulate and fervent friend of Rifqa, Pastor Jivanjee, asked the crowd to pray for Rifqa’s safety and ultimate freedom, the evangelical Christians rose one arm, as a traditional form of blessing. The Columbus Dispatch account of the rally featured a photo of an attendee caught in a prayerful pose clutching a Free Rifqa poster, that some misguided observers bizarrely construed as a ‘Nazi salute’. Was that purposeful, I asked Kornman? Kornman thought it might have been inadvertent.
A few of the more intrepid attendees at the Rifqa Rally in Columbus on Sunday prior to the event visited the Noor Islamic Center encountered President Hany Saqr - who had been tied to the Muslim Brotherhood by counter terrorism investigator, Patrick Poole. We will bring you that story when it breaks in a subsequent post.
Kornman noted that the Columbus Courthouse Rally for Rifqa last Monday was a testimony to grass roots activism of Rifqa’s supporters and the power of blogging especially that of organizer, Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs.
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UNILATERALISM IS OUR ONLY OPTION
By Ted Belman | 11/20/09 | 5:39 AM | 0 Comments
Last August, PM Salam Fayyad released a Plan to “establish Palestine as an independent, democratic, progressive, and modern Arab state, with full sovereignty over its territory in the West Bank and Gaza, on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.” within two years. Israel took little notice of it.
In early November Haaretz reported it included a secret provision which stipulated a “unilateral declaration of independence”. Then Israel took notice and said ‘If PA Declares State, Israel Will Annex Settlements’.
“If the Palestinians take such a unilateral line, Israel should also consider … passing a law to annex some of the settlements,” Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) said.
MK Danon says that Israel must not settle for annexing settlement blocs, but must rather annex Judea and Samaria in their entirety, except for Arab cities.
Minister Erdan also said Israel has the option of tightening up travel restrictions for Arabs and stopping the transmission of tax money that the Israeli government currently transfers to the Palestinian Authority - money that is collected by Israel for the PA.
Meanwhile, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) and Minister Landau have taken action to introduce bills for annexing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
The PA also threatening to seek the formal endorsement of the UN but the Eu and the US have turned thumbs down on the issue.
So far Israel has been adamantly against abrogating the Oslo Accords no matter what the provocation. After 15 years of trying to negotiate a deal, perhaps its time for Israel to do so and the PA unilateral declaration, should it happen, could be just the pretext, if pretext is needed.
Everyone knows that there is no diplomatic solutions. Neither party is willing to make the necessary compromises. That’s why the PA talks about a unilateral declaration and the EU and some in the US talk about an imposed solution. Israel also is contemplating a unilateral solution. What might that be?
According to the remarks above, it would involve annexing parts, if not all Judea and Samaria. No land would have to be conquered. Israel has already annexed Jerusalem and the Golan and could do the same for other settlements such as Ariel and Maaleh Adumin and perhaps the Jordan Valley. At a minimum it would signal that these settlements, like Jerusalem, are non-negotiable.
This would be an incremental approach to gauge the reaction of the international community. It wouldn’t be pretty. The next step would be to annex all of Areas “B” and “C” with its Arab population of about 340,000. Area “A” with its 1.2 million Arabs would be dealt with thereafter assuming that it is not decided to do it all at once.
Mike Wise, published the Jewish One State Plan, hereinafter referred to as the “Plan” a number of years ago. I first endorsed it in 2005 in my article Israel From the Mediterranean to the Jordan and have written much since.
In Caroline Glick’s article, Obama’s failure, Netanyahu’s opportunity she introduces this Plan.
- Israel should strike out on a new course and work toward the integration of Judea and Samaria, including its Palestinian population, into Israeli society. In the first instance, this will require the implementation of Israeli law in the Jordan Valley and the large settlement blocs.
but she doesn’t fully, at least in this article, endorse the Plan. The Plan proposes that Israeli law be extended to all of Judea and Samaria as follows,
- Annexation will provide a clear and well-defined status for West Bank Arabs. At the time of Annexation, the PA will no longer have a reason to exist and it and all terrorist infrastructures will be outlawed and dismantled. The PA and other terrorist organizations will be subject to Israel law and be dealt with in the same manner that all countries deal with internal subversive, treasonous and criminal organizations. Israel would no longer police the West Bank as an “occupation force”. It is important to understand that after Annexation, Israel will have significantly greater flexibility in dealing with issues and problems on the West Bank. Those problems will all be viewed as internal problems of the State of Israel and not problems subject to constant international scrutiny by those who view the West Bank as “occupied” territory.
Although Glick wants to integrate all of Judea and Samaria, she only wants to extend Israeli law to the “Jordan Valley and the Settlement Blocks”.
The Plan further provides,
- It is essential that the process and strategy of offering Israeli citizenship to West Bank Arabs must be very carefully planned, including its timing, demographic, geographic, historical and social factors. Citizenship will include all the benefits currently available to the citizens of Israel including: health care, education, welfare, economic incentives, employment, social safety nets, voting rights and others. The responsibilities of citizenship will include a public oath of loyalty to the State of Israel. The procedures and the details of the citizenship offer will be determined as an internal matter by the State of Israel. Each country determines its own citizenship rules and there are many models ranging from extremes like Switzerland where citizenship is often not granted for several generations, and the extremely restrictive standards set by Islamic States to the more liberal standards applied by other countries. Since the process will be phased in over time, the possibility to adjust the procedures appropriately will be available as circumstances require.
The reason Glick excludes Area “A” is because of the 1.2 million Arabs living there. She and most Israelis don’t want to extend Israeli citizenship to them no matter on what terms. The Plan doesn’t see this as a problem that can’t be dealt with.
There are about 200,000 Arabs in Jerusalem who have been given blue cards which entitled them to work and vote in municipal elections. Some suggest that such cards, rather than citizenship, should ultimately be given to the Arabs in the annexed territories .
Jerusalem Summit, a Christian/Jewish think tank, in 2005 published Prof Martin Sherman’s article, Redefining the Palestinian Problem which proposed an humanitarian solution rather than a political one. This proposal involves resettling the refugees elsewhere and offering compensation to Arabs living in Judea and Samaria to leave. Nothing unusual about that.
Apparently, Denmark to pay immigrants $20,000 to go home if they “can’t or won’t” assimilate
- Denmark is boosting cash incentives to entice immigrants to return to their homelands if they ‘can’t or won’t’ assimilate into society.
The offer now on the table is close to £12,000 for every person who takes up the offer to leave.
Critics of the measure say it sends the wrong message to foreigners but the centre-right government in Copenhagen is forging ahead with the plan.
The financial carrot is ten times more than that previously offered under a scheme which as been law since 1997.
Sarkozy has also floated such a plan. So why can’t Israel do likewise.
Paul Eidelberg is totally against relying on Netanyahu’s “economic peace” which Glick supports. He says they “succumb to the wishful thinking of crypto-Marxists and capitalists who think there is an economic solution to human conflict, including religious conflicts.”
One consequence of bettering their economic lot would be that Arabs would immigrate to this area rather than emigrate from it. The reverse of what we want. But that is not what he is concerned with. He wants to deal with reality and not fantasy. Therefore the problem must be solved in a different way.
One suggestion that he makes in The Eidelberg Plan is for Israel to become more Jewish. He believes that this would cause Arab Israeli emigration. But aside from not saying what to do with Judea and Samaria, he agrees that “Palestine” won’t come into existence because neither side will make the necessary compromises.
Currently PM Netanyahu, supported by Barak and Peres, is banging the peace drum for all he is worth. He is begging for negotiations to begin and hinting he will be generous but has not yet backed away from his demands of recognition, an undivided Jerusalem and demilitarization. The Obama administration has supported him in accepting that negotiations should be without pre-conditions. The PA wants to have negotiations begin where Olmert left off and to have an end result of the creation of Palestine with ‘67 borders.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Netanyahu is not about to give away the farm.
What negotiator starts negotiations by showing how much he wants them. The reverse is always the case. Therefore, I believe that Netanyahu is talking the talk knowing he won’t have to walk the walk. Many in the know, that I have talked with, agree.
Today, the focus of the Middle East players is Iran. The creation of Palestine is of little concern.
Assuming no diplomatic solution will be forthcoming for the creation of Palestine, Israel will begin to make moves, probably after Iran is dealt with, to incorporate Judea and Samaria unilaterally. The key questions in so doing will involve whether to extend Israel law to Area “C” only or to all of Judea and Samaria and whether to give blue cards or Citizenship based on significant requirements.
The peace process has brought death and destruction and not brought us closer to peace. Time for new approach.
Thomas Friedman, writing in the New York Times a week ago, agrees.
- “It is time for a radically new approach. And I mean radical. I mean something no U.S. administration has ever dared to do: Take down our “Peace-Processing-Is-Us” sign and just go home.”
This would enable Israel to do its thing as suggested above.
ADDENDUM
The JCPA released a study entitled International Recognition of a Unilaterally Declared Palestinian State
- International law has traditionally required that four separate criteria be satisfied before the recognition of an entity as an independent sovereign state can be considered:
1. The entity must exercise effective and independent governmental control.
2. The entity must possess a defined territory over which it exercises such control.
3. The entity must have the capacity to freely engage in foreign relations.
4. There must be effective and independent governmental control over a permanent population.
Only if the Palestinian entity satisfies the traditional criteria for statehood by exercising independent and sovereign governmental control (including the capacity to freely engage in foreign relations) over a permanent population in a defined territory over which it has possession, can its recognition as a sovereign state be considered.
It concludes that “should the Palestinian Authority unilaterally declare a state, under present circumstances, it would not meet these legal criteria, and hence should not be recognized.” That doesn’t mean it won’t be.
Even if the U.N. recognizes a Palestinian state, it would make little difference to the reality. In 1988 the Palestinians also declared independence and many states recognized it, but nothing came of it.
So long as Israel controls the land it controls what happens there.
But Alan Baker, writing in JCPA, says such declaration Undermines the Legal Foundations of Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy and “could set off a series of reactions - whether legal or political - that might create substantive, structural damage to the peace process.” because the Oslo Interim Agreement provides
- Neither side shall initiate or take any step that will change the status of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip pending the outcome of the Permanent Status negotiations.
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“Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan”
By Brigitte Gabriel | 11/20/09 | 5:16 AM | 0 Comments
Most Americans are justifiably outraged by Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, in a civilian criminal court in New York.
There are countless reasons to oppose Holder’s decision, not the least of which is the potential for compromising our intelligence assets in a public, criminal trial where Mohammed’s attorneys will demand release of such classified information.
This is not a hypothetical concern. During the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the perpetrator of the 1993 New York trade center bombing, Rahman’s attorneys forced the release of the list of unindicted co-conspirators developed by the prosecution.
One of the names on the list? Osama bin Laden. Soon after, bin Laden fled Sudan.
The insightful Wall Street Journal column by William McGurn (see below) provides another powerful reason why Holder’s decision is so outrageous. Bottom line: Holder’s decision has given terrorists a greater incentive to target civilians.
The perversity of this defies description. This is just one more in a long line of decisions by the Obama administration that is putting America—and our lives—at greater risk.
Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan
By William McGurn
Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2009
When it comes to terrorists, you would think that an al Qaeda operative who targets an American mom sitting in her office or a child on a flight back home is many degrees worse than a Taliban soldier picked up after a firefight with U.S. Army troops.
Your instinct would be correct, because at the heart of terrorism is the monstrous idea that the former is as legitimate a target as the latter. Unfortunately, by dispatching Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda leaders to federal criminal court for trial, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be undermining this distinction. And the perverse message that decision will send to terrorists all over this dangerous world is this: If you kill civilians on American soil you will have greater protections than if you attack our military overseas.
"A fundamental purpose of rules such as the Geneva Conventions is to give those at war an incentive for more civilized behavior—and not targeting civilians is arguably the most sacred of these principles," says William Burck, a former federal prosecutor and Bush White House lawyer who dealt with national security issues. "It demolishes this principle to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed even more legal protections than the Geneva Conventions provide a uniformed soldier fighting in a recognized war zone."
Go here for the full article.
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Nonie Darwish muzzled by Muslim Intimidation and Dhimmitude at Princeton
By Jerry Gordon | 11/20/09 | 5:10 AM | 0 Comments
I was stunned to find out that out colleague, Nonie Darwish, co-founder of Former Muslims United had events at both Columbia and Princeton cancelled at the last moment this week. This was on the heels of her appearance at the Columbus, Ohio, Rifqa Bary Rally, and virtually, as she told me by phone this morning, while flying to New York for both events. The reason is taqiyyah on the part of Campus Imams and dhimmitude displayed by Campus Rabbis and the lack of courage of their convictions on the part of Jewish students in supporting forums for speakers exercising their right to free speech. I went through the process of facilitating the recent Geert Wilders event at Columbia University, my alma mater, and knowing what Craig Snider of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Philadelphia had experienced at Temple University, I know firsthand the process and the difficulties of airing controversial views on college campuses.
We noted in our interview with Kurt Westergaard, the controversial Danish Mohammed Cartoonist, that he was lionized at Princeton for exercising his free speech, so, why wouldn’t Darwish, author of “Cruel and Usual Punishment, “ appear on both ivy campuses? This time it is all about being an apostate from Islam and trying to tell the truth about the core of Quranic canon beliefs and Shariah law.
Darwish was sponsored at Princeton by Tigers for Israel (TFI) and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society. The report in today’s edition of The Daily Princetonian, “Egyptian activist invitation withdrawn,” is a sorry display of dissembling by campus sponsoring groups, intimidated by the adverse comments of Muslim and Jewish chaplains about Darwish’s ‘extremist views’ on Islam as a totalitarian ideology inimical to the human rights of women, gays and unbelievers. The excuse that Princeton Jewish campus leaders also gave was that they relied on due diligence from the Boston-based Middle East Media watchdog group, CAMERA. We note that the CAMERA Campus program was also endeavoring to arrange Darwish’s appearance at Columbia.
In many ways this is reflective of the PC multicultural views of American Jewish leaders who have fecklessly supported Jewish Muslim dialogue dissected in the NER article, “Chelm on the Charles River.” Jewish students on these elite campuses unfortunately have been suckled on this multiculturalist tolerance world view at home and shy away from controversy. Their behavior gives life to the Yiddish expression about cowering Jews during the Czarist Russian pogroms, “Sha shtill stil, yidin,” (be quiet it will all pass). At Columbia, we found the Hillel chapter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood front group on campus, the Muslim Student Association, which criticized Wilders appearance there. The MSA, with the alleged support of the Hillel chapter, stated that “freedom from fear” trumps free speech in a Columbia Spectator op-ed.
Dawish said: “Muslim Imams have total disregard to freedom of speech for the sake of protecting blasphemy Sharia laws under the guise of being offended and accusing any critics of Islamophobia and distortionof the ‘true Islam.” She went onto say: ‘this is Sharia bending all of ethics and laws of this country, because no one can criticize Islam, without penalty.”
Read the Daily Princetonian article below. It portrays graphically the intimidation and collapse of free speech rights that Darwish and others have faced on college campuses. Is it a mere coincidence that this has erupted since the Cairo (“outreach” to the Muslim world), speech of President Obama?
Egyptian activist's invitation withdrawn
By Hannah Martins
Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2009
A planned Wednesday talk by controversial Egyptian-American activist Nonie Darwish was cancelled Tuesday evening when both of the event’s sponsors, Tigers for Israel (TFI) and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, withdrew their sponsorship, citing her criticism of Islam.
Darwish, a writer and the founder of Arabs for Israel and Former Muslims United, was scheduled to give a talk Wednesday afternoon titled “Sharia Law and Perspectives on Israel.” TFI officers rescinded their invitation, however, explaining that they had not been fully aware of Darwish’s views when they invited her to speak.
Though TFI had been planning Darwish’s visit for nearly three weeks and advertised it with posters across campus, TFI president Addie Lerner ’11 said that her organization, which is affiliated with the Center for Jewish Life (CJL), did not wish to be seen as endorsing Darwish by sponsoring her lecture. “We didn’t know in the beginning that [Darwish’s] views were not at all in line with what we believe,” Lerner explained.
After TFI co-vice president Rafael Grinberg ’12 proposed inviting Darwish to campus, Lerner said she read “the first couple of paragraphs” of Darwish’s entry on Wikipedia before extending the invitation. She added that she did minimal research on Darwish largely because she trusted Grinberg and the nonpartisan media watchdog group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) to vet Darwish.
“I accept complete responsibility for the fact that I did not vet her fully,” Lerner said. “I am very sorry if people thought we agreed with [Darwish’s views].”
On her blog, Darwish — formerly Muslim and now Christian — has called Islam “the greatest lie in human history” and criticized Muslim law for encouraging “vigilante street justice to bring about Islamic submission.”
“It was clear that she was very critical of radical Islam in the contemporary Arab world,” TFI co-vice president Jeffrey Mensch ’11 said in an e-mail. “However, we did not realize the extent to which she denounces not just radical Islam, but all of Islam.”
Whig-Clio president Ben Weisman ’11 said the society withdrew its sponsorship and did not permit the event to take place in Whig Hall as planned because of the withdrawal. “Our decision to co-host the event was based on our belief that by extending an offer to speak to Ms. Darwish, members of TFI deemed her views a legitimate element of the mainstream discourse and in part agreed with her incendiary opinions,” Weisman said in an e-mail. “By rescinding their offer, TFI indicated their understanding that Darwish’s views have no place in the campus community, essentially rendering irrelevant our attempt at opening them up for debate.” Weisman is also the director of national sales and development for The Daily Princetonian.
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Coordinator of Muslim Life Sohaib Sultan and CJL director Rabbi Julie Roth both said they played a role in changing TFI’s opinion of Darwish. Sultan said he contacted Roth on Monday and discussed with her why Darwish’s appearance on campus could offend the Muslim community.
“[Darwish] fails to make any distinction between extremism and mainstream Islam,” Sohaib said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “She has branded the entire faith as backward and violent and against women’s rights. That type of rhetoric goes beyond academic discourse and into the demonization of a people.”
Sultan noted that he assumed that Roth and the board of TFI were not fully aware of the strong objections concerning Darwish. “I have a very good relationship with the CJL,” he said, adding that he aimed to share with Roth and the TFI “what types of feelings and divisions” Darwish’s visit could foster on campus. Lerner and Mensch said TFI then decided to withdraw sponsorship of the event upon learning more about Darwish’s opinions.
Grinberg, however, said he thinks Darwish was not permitted to speak because TFI feared a large-scale protest. “In my opinion, it has become an issue about whether or not this is allowed to happen at Princeton,” he said. “This is a big step backward, because basically students are taking their preconceived notions of this person to protest and not to listen, instead of going to the lecture and seeing for themselves.”
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Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) president Yoel Bitran ’11 said PCP did not ask either TFI or Whig-Clio to cancel the event. “It makes sense that hate speech wouldn’t be something encouraged on campus,” he noted.
But PCP was planning a campaign “to inform the community about Darwish and to encourage people to go to the event and challenge her by asking questions,” Bitran explained.
On Monday, the Arab Society of Princeton held a meeting, attended by Arab Muslims and Arab Christians, to discuss the issue, Arab Society president Sami Yabroudi ’11 and former president Sarah Mousa ’10 said in a joint statement. “Nonie Darwish is to Arabs and Muslims what Ku Klux Klan members, skinheads and neo-Nazis are to other minorities, and we decided that the role of her talk in the logical, intellectual discourse espoused by Princeton University needed to be questioned,” they said of the meeting.
On Wednesday afternoon, Lerner sent an e-mail to the members of the Muslim Students Association apologizing for the initial decision to invite Darwish to campus and explaining that the event had been canceled. “I sincerely apologize for offending any person or group on campus, especially the Muslim community,” she said in the e-mail. “Tigers for Israel deeply regrets the initial sponsorship, and we do not in any way endorse [Darwish’s] views.” …
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Calling Iran's Bluff
By Alan Caruba | 11/20/09 | 5:02 AM | 0 Comments

If the endgame was not so serious, I would confess to enjoying the way the Israelis and much of the rest of the world are getting ready to call the Iranian ayatollah’s bluff as they hope to avoid a military response to their nuclear quest and the threat it represents.
It wouldn’t surprise me that the ayatollahs who have had Iran by the throat since 1979 are beginning to have serious misgivings about embarking on their nuclear mission.
As the Iranian intelligence community watches the comings and goings of their counterparts, it has surely not escaped their notice that two high-ranking teams of American CIA and DIA intelligence officials were conferring with the Israelis this week, shortly after attending a four-nation intelligence summit held in Amman, Jordan. It brought together key players in the U.S., Egyptian, Jordanian, and Israeli clandestine services.
Such cooperation is unprecedented in recent years and it making the Iranians very nervous. Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said of these comings and going, “Iran is a great world power whose strength is unlimited and on whom no other state would dare impose sanctions.” This is straight out of the late Saddam Hussein’s Book of Hilarious Claims.
Then, too, despite extensive economic ties with Russia, the Iranians are so upset with the delayed delivery of a Russian S-300 air defense system they actually went public with their complaints. It was expected in April.
It is a $1 billion contract and one suspects that the Russians have calculated that the Israelis will attack soon enough, so why waste a perfectly good air defense system that can be sold elsewhere? I hope they got paid in advance.
“Don’t Russian strategists realize Iran’s geopolitical importance to their security,” asked Iranian Chief of Staff, Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi. Yes, they do and so do the Chinese with whom the Iranians also have extensive economic ties, but both nations are hardly in a rush to see a nuclear-armed Iran, run by religious fanatics who might decide to threaten them or worse.
Meanwhile, earlier this month the UN International Atomic Energy Agency announced it found “nothing to be worried about” after a quick, first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran. Are you worried? Am I worried? Certainly not, after all, Mohammed ElBaradei is a Nobel Peace Prize winner just like President Obama.
It has been reported that the U.S. has delivered a number of “bunker-buster” bombs, MOABs, to the Israelis and they are designed for use against nuclear facilities buried deep in mountains or underground.
All their bravado and boasting has only managed to get the Iranians further isolated and at considerably greater risk. Instead of sinking billions into their nuclear program, they could have been building oil refineries and other infrastructure of value. Instead, they have to import much of their gasoline. This is a definition of stupid.
The Iranians (by which I always mean the leadership, not the people) have managed to sour relations with Europe by jerking them around in an endless series of “negotiations” concerning their nuclear program. It is not lost on Europe that Iranian missile systems permit them to target much of that continent. Ditto Russia. Ditto China. Ditto the entire Middle East.
The immediate target, of course, is Israel and Israel has a history of destroying nuclear reactors in their neighborhood, first in Iraq and more recently in Syria when the combined talents of U.S. and Mossad intelligence revealed where the Syrians were building a secret nuclear facility.
There is a historic irony in this because ancient Iran, Persia, provided a sanctuary to Jews when they were exiled from Israel and facilitated their return. Modern Iran’s leaders have mocked the Holocaust and threatened the Israelis with nuclear annihilation.
All of which is to say that, if I were an ayatollah in Tehran these days, I would be thinking about opening a dry cleaning business just about anywhere else on planet Earth.
Caruba blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
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Burning Down the Straw Man
By Paul Ibbetson | 11/20/09 | 1:36 AM | 0 Comments
As has been the case for many years, and especially most recently, the charge is that conservatives are falsely railing against a straw man in their observations and accusations leveled against the activities of liberals, and the Obama administration. Before I address this situation directly, let’s take a moment to look at what is meant by the term “straw man.”
The concept of the “straw man” is the observation of the deceptive capability of humankind. When an individual wants to divert attention from a true issue, a false or irrelevant topic is created and attacked, and by doing so, advantage (if not victory) is achieved through such an argument. This is a mixture of misdirection and deception, and in layman’s terms, a battle waged against things that just aren’t there. Defending against the straw man charge is problematic. For conservatives that have the fortitude to stand up to the Obama administration’s attacks on this country, it is not just the repercussions brought forth by angry liberals that are a problem. Going beyond those attacks is the challenge for conservatives to constantly disprove the straw man; that is, that the threats facing this nation being brought forth by the most aggressive socialistic pushers of modern day are more than the fictitious creations of a minority party wishing to grab back the reins of political power.
When it comes to battling the accusations from the left that conservatives are simply attacking a straw man, the strategy liberals have in play is for those who wish to stand up for this country to spend endless time trying to prove the obvious - that this administration is about to destroy the country. This is the epitome of hypocrisy, even from the left which has hit some really highs lately, hitting below the belt pertaining to the best interest of this country. This does not mean that illusionary constructions are not taking place to deceive the public. What it does mean is that the biggest scams on reality today are not coming from the demonized gun toting, Bible-clinging conservatives. Here are the real culprits and the straw man illusionary constructions they are spinning, and why they must be stopped sooner - not later.
The biggest false reality and misdirection that is being framed across the United States is that we, the American people, are living in a state of normalcy and the greatest nation on Earth is being guided by a President, with a supporting cast of politicians, who aspire to promote the continual prosperity of a capitalistic Christian nation. The most deadly of illusions being forwarded daily to the public, and with extreme efficiency, I believe, is the notion that this nation can survive any and all actions of abuse heaped upon it. It’s time to remove the veil of deceit before the face of this country and let all the straw men burn until nothing but the truth stands before us. The truth, unfortunately, is that we are all in big trouble. As the nation goes, we go.
In a country where the waters of the “well of the benefit of the doubt” run deep, President Barack Obama has drawn every drop in his short tenure as commander and chief of the United States. From his lips alone, he has rejected America as a Christian nation and washed his hands of the Biblical (if not humanity’s) responsibility for the unborn. This same president has indebted the nation to our economic opponents to amounts the human mind can no longer fathom, and the numbers keep increasing by the second. Through his minions found in the radical, left-leaning Democrat Party, this president is attempting to socialize the very existence of every man, woman, and child within our borders and bring them to their knees as modern-day slaves.
The question of the acceptance of a fabricated illusion of normality versus the cold reality of impending doom and chaos is nothing new as it has been the unfortunate choice for people throughout history, such as the Romans in the time of Caligula, the Soviets in the time Stalin, the Germans in the time of Hitler, the Iraqis in the time of Hussein, and now the Americans in the time of Obama. The tyrants, methods of destruction, and illusions spun to quell revolt may change but the inevitable outcomes remain the same. Slavery, pain, suffering, economic and physical death have consistently been the end product.
The American people stand in a historical place where others have been before. A place where once a myriad of choices stood, having been squandered, now only the most basic remain. As those before us have had to decide, we can choose to languish in an illusion that all is well, that all will be well, until the bloody end, or we can collectively take up the mantle of responsibility and meet the forces of destruction and unseat them from power and stop the deadly tide that will inevitably destroy us. Let all the straw men burn with their adjoining deceptions despite who may be their creators as this country can no longer afford illusionary constructions when our current situation is so near, real, and dangerous.
Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 f.m. www.ibbetsonusa.com. For interviews or questions, please contact ibbetson91.9@gmail.com
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The Fundamental Transformation of America...
By Matt Bruce | 11/19/09 | 6:32 PM | 0 Comments
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When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist. People said it didn't matter... 'Matt' Host Of: "The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show" - Weekday Mornings 6-9 AM ET On 1220 WSRQ Radio... |
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Obama fears a relapse of the economy
By Mihalek Zark | 11/19/09 | 5:12 PM | 0 Comments
The U.S. economy is not immune to a relapse into recession. On the way back from his trip to Asia in eight days, Barack Obama told the television channel Fox News that "if we continue to burden the debt (public), people might lose confidence in the economy U.S., leading to a relapse into recession "(double dip recession is a double represented by a W). These comments follow a series of contradictory reports on the U.S. economy, where good business results contrast with the deterioration of unemployment and the deterioration of household confidence. The American authorities are hesitating less and less to express their concerns. Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, said Monday that interest rates near zero could be kept longer than expected. Wednesday is James Bullard, one of Fed officials in St. Louis, which found that raising rates might not occur before 2012.
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The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show For Nov. 19th...
By Matt Bruce | 11/19/09 | 12:06 PM | 0 Comments
The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show For Nov. 19th...
Hello everybody and welcome to the third hour of "The Captain's AMERICA" LIVE weekday radio show!
After yesterday's show the email cam POURING in about our chat with the Religious Scholar Dr. Barbuna in Istanbul, Turkey! On Friday we'll read some of what we received.
Today's first guest is Henry Raines, Tampa Talk Show Host, who fills us in on what he's hearing about the 9/11 Terrorist's coming to NYC to stand trial. Henry also answers our morning Poll question which you'll love hearing the results of later in the radio show! We also speak about the Senate's Health Care Bill released yesterday by Majority Leader Harry Reed calling it 'popular by the majority of Americans'. Wonder who he's listening to because there's not one Poll out there that even remotely agrees with HIM???
Time next for Kevin 'Coach' Collins, from the Collins Report.net, who will be a regular Wednesday guest each week! The 'Coach' continues the discussion about the questions he asked our Turkish Islamic Religious Scholar yesterday as well as continuing to inform us about the 'fallout' in NYC from the 9/11 Terrorist Trials headed there. You're going to want to HEAR this one!
Then 'The Captain' and Producer 'Steve' inform the listeners what MIGHT happen with the legal technicalities of having a CIVILIAN Trial for these 9/11 Terrorist's who have already admitted to what they did. First of all, their confessions MIGHT be tossed out because of the "enhanced interrogation" methods used to obtain them. If this happens the possibility is VERY real they could all get off 'Scott FREE'! Wouldn't that be interesting???
Get IN the know and listen to what our mainstream news media is NOT telling YOU right here on "The Captain's AMERICA" radio show heard LIVE weekday mornings from 6-9 AM ET on AM 1220 and FM 106.9 WSRQ Radio in Sarasota, Fl.! More accurate, concise, hard hitting factual news accounts that Americans need to know about.
God Bless America!
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