Friday, December 30, 2011

Newt Gingrich just rang up a few extra points on my tally: says Palin would be a viable VP or Secretary of Energy

If swear to all that's holy that I would pay serious money to watch the reactions of the moonbats when President Gingrich and Vice President Palin are sworn in.

Newt Gingrich said that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be among the candidates that he would consider when considering a potential running mate, adding that the former GOP vice presidential nominee would be an ideal candidate for secretary of Energy.

Gingrich, speaking Wednesday during a conference call with conservative voters hosted by Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, was asked by one of the attendees whether he would consider Palin as a running mate.

"She is certainly one of the people you would look at. I am a great admirer of hers and she was a remarkable reform governor of Alaska, she’s somebody who I think brings a great deal to the possibility of helping in government and that would be one of the possibilities," Gingrich said...

I wonder how hard a Vice President Sarah Palin would kick Lisa Jackson's ample posterior (metaphorically speaking, of course)?


Good news, folks - Ron Paul has finally discovered who was behind the first WTC attack: it was "The Jews".

How anyone in good conscience could vote for this nut is beyond me. Sure, a Democrat trying to sow chaos in a GOP primary I could understand. But people who think they're being "patriotic"? Give me a f***ing break.

One of the more insane claims in Ron Paul’s newsletters was that the Israelis were behind the WTC bombings in 1993:

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.


This claim is of course so ridiculous and absurd that even Paul has to protect himself by claiming that “a Jewish friend” told him about it. What a handy rhetorical device! If only Paul had had the foresight to couch all his racist remarks in the newsletters in this way, he wouldn’t have any problems right now! “As a black friend of mine once told me, 95% of all black people in DC are criminal or semi-criminal.” See how effective that is?

...One of the excerpts CNN did not cover was Paul’s section on the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. You’ll never guess who Paul thinks was responsible:

The Middle East, in the last forty years, has soaked up billions of dollars in the name of American security and peace. The more we give Israel, the more we must give their Arab enemies. The height of this folly was vividly and tragically dramatized on October 23, 1981, with the killing of the 241 Marines in Beirut when their barracks were destroyed by radical Moslems. The terrorists probably were aided by Iran and supplied with explosives sold to them by Israel, originating from the United States and paid for by American taxpayers.

I have to admit that this is somewhat of a new spin on the usual anti-Israel conspiracy theory associated with this particular event.

One thing that seems clear is that Paul’s natural instinct is to disbelieve that Muslim terrorism can exist unless those rascally Jews are behind it somehow.

Ron Paul in any GOP presidential field is -- quite literally -- the turd in the punchbowl.


Hat tip: Michelle Malkin. Image: The Looking Spoon.

Remember the name 'Courtney DuPree' when Obama starts handing out pardons

I stole that headline from Jammie Wearing Fool who points us to the Obama fundraiser found guilty in a $21 million bank fraud scheme. And, no, his name's not Rezko.

Seems to be an awful lot of Barack Obama’s buddies who keep winding up in prison.

A Democratic fundraiser was found guilty Friday of engineering a $21 million bank fraud scheme... Courtney Dupree was convicted of vastly overstating the billings of his Long Island City-based lighting company GDC Acquisitions in order to fraudulently obtain a loan from Amalgamated Bank.

...Dupree, who attended the elite Wharton School of Business, was a rainmaker in Democratic circles... In 2008, Dupree hosted a $1,000-a-ticket fund-raiser for Barack Obama at his Broad St. apartment that was attended by top aide Valerie Jarrett.

But maybe he was doing it for the children.

Just wondering: when you update your LinkedIn profile for prison, do you include your cell block?


Larwyn's Linx: Don't Fall for Operation Psych Out

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Nation

Don't Fall for Operation Psych Out: LI
Mullah Ron Paul: Spengler
Reagan Had the Recipe for Success. Let's Follow It: Gingrich

Ron Paul: Hitler Okay, But Gaza Is A "Concentration Camp": Riehl
Perry’s internal polling confirms that Santorum’s surge is real: Hot Air
Perry Hearing on Virginia Ballot Challenge Set for Jan. 13: NatlJrnl

Liberals Twice as Likely to Favor Socialism as Americans: VS
Pelosi’s Office Denies Daughter’s Retirement Claim: Malkin
The Obama Campaign's New Slogan: WZ

Economy

Voters Want Growth, Not Income Redistribution: Barone
The Thinly-Veiled Fed Bailout Of Europe: Insider
After Cop Drives Drunk at 143 MPH, Union Protects from Firing!: RightP

Recess Appts. To NLRB: War Declared Against Employers: Townhall
The Ongoing MF Global Disaster: Denninger
Tax Cuts, Less-Intrusive Gov't Help Canada Soar: IBD

Gunrunner & Energygate

Eric Holder: Cops Are Being Killed By The Flow of Illegal Guns: Ace
No one tell Holder: 70% of Americans want voter ID: Foundry
Rep. Ted Poe calls Eric Holder’s response to Fast and Furious “preposterous”: Chron

Climate & Energy

A Bad Year for Obama’s Green Dream: Foundry
California low carbon fuel law blocked by federal judge: Watts

Media

Ann Coulter Endorses Rick Santorum (Update: Santorum Ran on E-Verify in 2006): BizzyBlog
Free Speech Hating Peas in an Anti-Semitic Pod: Zilla
WordPress Takes Down “Bare Naked Islam” Blog After Threats From CAIR: GWP

Why Did Jack Ryan Drop Out of IL Senate Race in '04 (which paved the way for Obama's rise)?: HillBuzz
Bill Maher Twitter-Whips Tim Tebow, But CBS Says Tebow's the 'Notorious' One: NB
Mayweather placed $1M bet on Tebow to lose, report says: Post

Time to boycott Sharia-compliant Wordpress: TAB
Paul: I did write parts of the newsletters, but not the bad parts: Hot Air
Don't Underestimate the Power of Social Networking: AT

World

The Case for Military Action in Iran: Ricochet
Jan 2009: Iran TV Interviews Iran's Favorite Congressman, Who Bashes Israel, Defends Hamas: Nice Deb
A life alone for Saudis born out of wedlock: JPost

Ron Paul is truly dangerous: Union-Leader
Outrageous… Hillary Clinton Tells Syrian Freedom Protesters to Lay Down Their Weapons: GWP
IDF's unparalleled record of sparing civilians in counter-terrorism operations: AT

Ron Paul: Iran Would be Justified in Closing Strategic Waterway in Response to Sanctions: CNS
The Coming Collapse of China: 2012 Edition: Foreign Policy
Inept U.S. Congress frees $40 million for ‘Palestinians’: Creeping

Sci-Tech

Obama Stimulus Didn't Create Jobs But Does Permit Government to Hack Your Child’s Personal Infomation: GWP
2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil Liberties: Wired
Can your employer claim your social media connections?: Telegraph

Cornucopia

Occupying Honolulu: MOTUS
Can you guess who David Duke supports...?: WZ
I am really sorry if I have offended anyone: Kelly Clarkson

Image: "Alamo record setter - In thriller, Baylor outguns Huskies"
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "That’s why I think the debate on the Republican side is so important. And why when I see, I have to be candid, a candidate like Ron Paul whose foreign policy is if anything is worse than the Obama administration apparently leading in Iowa according to some polls, it just gives me great concern. …

But I guess I’d say to people who look at Ron Paul and have some measure of support for his domestic policies on the libertarian side, I’d have to say look, I consider myself pretty libertarian but you cannot live in fantasy land. The rest of the world is not going to leave us alone and we need a Commander-in-Chief who understands that. A Ron Paul president would simply not address the challenges we face.

So if you’re thinking about Ron Paul because of his domestic issues, think again and look at virtually any of the other candidates and consider how they would be as Commander-in-Chief. That’s the president’s first duty, defending the country." --Amb. John Bolton

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Thank an open-borders Democrat today: Hezbollah operating in Mexico, likely preparing terror attacks in U.S.

Remember this?

This was the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, the site of a massive truck-bombing that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in 1983.

The attack was orchestrated by Hezbollah, the fanatical Islamic terrorist group funded, trained and inspired by Iran's deadly regime.

Hezbollah is a particularly vicious, well-organized, and well-funded organization whose tentacles are extending ever closer to the U.S. homeland. And, thanks to the feckless policies of George W. Bush and -- especially -- Barack Obama, America's porous borders offer ample opportunity for professional terrorist groups to wreak havoc.

And havoc they will wreak, just as surely as night follows day.

In October, a Texas-car salesman was arrested in connection with an Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington. Prosecutors say officials in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps believed they were dealing with a "large and sophisticated" Mexican drug cartel to carry out the hit. A $100,000 down payment on the hit shows the Iranians were comfortable dealing with the cartel representative, who in fact was a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant.

Earlier this month, prosecutors in Virginia unsealed an indictment charging a Lebanese man, Ayman Joumaa, with smuggling more than 100 tons of Colombian cocaine with the Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel. Hizballah, an Iranian proxy in Lebanon, "derived financial support from the criminal activities of Joumaa's network," the U.S. Treasury Department claimed earlier this year.

...The law enforcement actions come amid a recent report citing Israeli intelligence saying Hizballah's funding from traditional state sponsors such as Iran and Syria has declined sharply. That financial crunch may be leading the Shiite group to build alliances with Mexican drug syndicates and increasingly fund its terrorist operations through profits from the lucrative South American cocaine trade.

...The growing nexus between Hizballah and Mexican drug cartels allows the Iran-backed extremist group to make use of drug cartel transit routes to gain entry into the United States through its porous border with Mexico. Hizballah, in turn, offers Mexican syndicates expertise on smuggling and explosives as well as access to its drug trafficking networks in the Middle East and South Asia.

Braun also alleged that members of Iran's Quds Force are "commanding and controlling" Hizballah's criminal operations in Latin America...

Thanks to the policies of President Obama and A.G. Eric Holder -- who are suing states for enforcing federal immigration law -- Hezbollah's entry routes into the U.S. will remain wide open.

The Obama administration appears to be actively encouraging illegal immigration in a cynical attempt to regain Hispanic voters. In fact, its tolerance of illegal immigration is so brazen that ICE agents have publicly warned Americans to "brace themselves for what's coming."

Indeed. Unless we toss this lawless group out of of office in 2012, the combination of open borders, Hezbollah, and a narcotics-fueled civil war will prove quite deadly for American citizens. Of that, there is no doubt.


Related:
ICE agents warn Americans "to brace themselves for what's coming" as catch-and-release of illegals -- caught committing other crimes -- begins
Hezbollah's inroads in Latin America

The Official Meat of the 2012 Obama Campaign

The Looking Spoon:

Just so long as it pairs well with Arugula and Grey Goose martinis.


Obama P.R. site Politico, which fixated endlessly on Sarah Palin's wardrobe, ignores FLOTUS' over-the-top clothing, jewelry and meals

The news equivalent of Media Matters, sometimes referred to as Politico, has a curious double-standard when it comes to public figures involved in politics. Jim Nolte explains:

Personally, I don’t care what Michelle Antoinette wears on her taxpayer-funded lavish Hawaiian vacations with her husband President FailureTeleprompterDuffer. Thanks to an autobiography that was probably ghost-written by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, Obama’s a millionaire and more power to him. If the First Lady wants to lord over the peasantry her fashionable dresses and skirts and purses that cost enough to feed about 500 hungry families, that’s Our Champions Of The Poor’s business. The same is true with what the GOP chooses to spend their money on during a campaign. The attacks directed at Governor Sarah Palin over the clothes supplied to her during the 2008 election were silly, stupid intentional distractions ginned up by Obama’s MSM Palace Guards...

...What isn’t silly and stupid is that the left-wing, journOlist-infested institution known as Politico was obsessed with Palin’s wardrobe in ‘08 and one of the prime drivers of that narrative. Just for starters see here, here, here, and most especially here...

...And now for the news that will surprise no one. A good faith search has revealed that the left-wing, journOlist-infested institution known as Politico isn’t at all interested in Michelle Obama’s pricey wardrobe. Nothing here or here...

...In their defense, however, Politico has been awfully busy.  Why, there’s White House spin to spread, those hundreds of articles necessary to cover 15 year-old harassment claims against Herman Cain, strategic memos to craft in order to get Obama’s Occupy Wall Street allies back in the 2012 game, and the frantic journOlisiting necessary to protect Obama from critics of his excessive golfing...

C'mon, Jim - cut Michelle and the brown-nosers at Politiho a break. After all, doesn't flouting a $42,000 bracelet cheer the little people up?

Doesn't wearing a $2,000 sundress resonate with the unemployed?

And can't you give her some credit for the one-woman stimulus package that's keeping haute couture designers employed?

Yes, that's right, Jim.

Democrats stand for the little people.


Sounds sustainable: Philadelphia councilwoman will 'retire' for one day, collect $478K union pension, then return to work on Monday

Consider this Exhibit 5,394 in the ongoing saga of public sector unions and their Democrat toadies sucking the life out of the private sector.

Marion B. Tasco, who has been described as being “politically savvy,” will retire from her sixth term as councilwoman, collect $478,057, and then be sworn in on Monday to serve her seventh term, Catherine Lucy and Chris Brennan of the Philadelphia Daily News.

...Tasco, along with many of her fellow Council members, is enrolled in Philadelphia’s Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP)...

...DROP allows city workers to collect salary and build up pension money during the last four years of their employment, writes Aaron Kase of Philadelphia Weekly.

...Naturally, when DROP was originally introduced, it was touted as being “revenue neutral.” It’s been anything but that. SInce its introduction, Philadelphia’s DROP program has cost the city $258 million in extra pension costs over a decade, according to a 2010 Boston College study...

Gee, it's so odd and unpredictable that a "revenue neutral" pension program designed by Democrat-slash-union hacks could cost the city a quarter of a billion dollars in only 10 short years.

And greatly enrich the same strain of said Democrat-slash-union hacks at the expense of the taxpayers.


Larwyn's Linx: The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers

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Nation

The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers: Malkin
Santorum Surge: RSM
With His Experience, Gingrich Could Get The Job Done: Sowell

Undocumented Immigrants, Real Crimes: Virtuous
The Justice Department's Identity Problem: Cal Thomas
Obama: taxpayer funds can be used to promote gun control: BreitTV

Economy

The Democratic Party's War on the Poor: AT
In Obama He Trusts: Why our president fails: Wolf
Pension Perks are Crushing Taxpayers: USA Today

Top 10 Worst Federal Rules of 2011: Foundry
Michelle sports $2,000 sun-dress: Naked DC
A Run On The Global Banking System - How Close Are We?: Lira

Repo Men: NRO
‘Your Tax Dollars at Work’ Update: Shrimp on a Treadmill: Malkin
Leo Gerard: The Most Powerful Man In America?: Ulsterman

Climate & Energy

MF Global chief missing $1.2B is financial adviser to EPA: Times
Aztecs Versus Our Warmies: Wolf Howling
EPA Rule May Cause Blackouts: Intelligencer

Media

Virginia Must Change Its Election System: Jeffrey
Gross: Former Dem Rep. Weiner Wanted Threesome . . . With Another Man…: WZ
AP Bemoans Retirement of 'Centrist' Ben Nelson, Who Voted for ObamaCare and Stimulus: NB

Voter ID: Holder Looks Through Race-Colored Glasses: IBD
After Only 2 Qualify for Presidential Primary, Virginia GOP Chair Says State Should Change Election Law: CNS
Breitbart: ‘Occupy The Caucus’ Is Part Of Organized Left’s Efforts To Re-Elect Obama: Breitbart

Conservatives Shouldn't Abandon Rick Santorum: Riehl
Ted Kennedy Prepared Barack Obama’s Attack Ads: RedState
99 Percent? Elizabeth Warren Was Third Highest Paid At Harvard In 1997: Glob

World

Texas Christmas Honor Killings: Mass Murderer Didn’t Want Daughter Dating Non-Muslim: GWP
Merry Christmas From Saudi Arabia: WSJ
Clerics clash in Bethlehem brawl at Jesus' birthplace: USA Today

The Paul Pot and the Paulestinians: Sultan Knish
The New Old Europe: Hanson
Bolton: If you’re thinking about Ron Paul, think again!: Scoop

Sci-Tech

Fallout from the Christmas Hack of Stratfor: Forbes
Detailed Analysis of Personal Information ‘Anonymous’ Attack on Stratfor: IdentityFinder
Avastin can stabilize tumors in ovarian cancer, studies find: LAT

The Next iPad Battery Will Be Awesome: Insider
Wi-Fi 'protected set-up' not so protected after all: CNet
Is China's New GPS System Better Than Ours?: Blaze

Cornucopia

Bumper Sticker of the Year Awards: LI
Doubling Down on Debt: It’s a Snow Job: MOTUS
No Car Will Escape This "Future Now" Speed Cam: Consumerist

Cheetah of 1930s Tarzan Movies Dies: WSJ
A fish that bites men's testicles? Yep, it's real: GlobalPost
White Castle considers alcohol sales: Cleveland

Image: "Iran Says U.S. Aircraft Carrier Has Entered Zone Near Key Oil Route"
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "I'm running a marathon of sorts on stories of crimes committed by illegal aliens.

We criminalize texting, but allow, if not encourage, a mass migration of people who we know exactly nothing about.

It is like, as a nation, we are suicidal." --The Machiavellian

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Chart o' the Week: The Obama Economic Record

I think this says it all:

Three years into Ronald Reagan's first term, I wonder how things were going?

For you drones: that's a rhetorical question.


Hat tip: @AACons.

Harbinger of Future Events: New York Times Emails Millions of Subscribers to Tell Them Their Subscriptions Are Cancelled

Paul Krugman hardest hit:

The New York Times mistakenly sent an e-mail on Wednesday to more than eight million people who had shared their information with the company, erroneously informing them that they had canceled home delivery of the newspaper.

The Times Company, which initially mischaracterized the mishap as spam, apologized for sending the e-mail. The people who received the message represented a cross section of readers who had given their e-mail addresses to the newspaper, said Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the Times Company.

...The e-mail urged recipients to consider continuing their subscriptions to The Times at 50 percent off for 16 weeks. The message sent off a flood of Twitter reactions and calls to The Times...

...She said the e-mail had been sent by a Times employee and not Epsilon Interactive, a third-party service the company uses to communicate with subscribers.

I'm thinking this is just the first step in a self-fulfilling prophecy.


The 10 Funniest Passwords Exposed by the Stratfor Breach


10 ABC News: jonathan.d.greenberger@abc.com:stephanopoulos
 9 Goldman Sachs: joseph.aiken@gs.com:derivative
 8 MSNBC: gary.nease@msnbc.com:Seaweed1
 7 Goldman Sachs: amy.lee@gs.com:password
 6 New York Times: kewald@nytimes.com:9295
 5 Soros? david.steinberg@soros.com:secret
 4 Fred Burton, VP of Stratfor: burton@stratfor.com:stratfor
 3 Standard Bank: ravi.bhatia@standardbank.com:ravi
 2 Control Risks: jennifer.harbison@control-risks.com:research
 1 Goldman Sachs: muneer.satter@gs.com:bulls***

Bonus Banking Password UBS: paul.brewer@ubs.com:1234



Top 10 Gifts to Give a Liberal [Looking Spoon]

Via The Looking Spoon: yes, it may be a little late for Christmas, but it always feels good to give gifts like these to the progressives in your life.

Basic math skills and/or common sense would be some other good gift ideas.


Coming This Weekend: The 2011 Fabulous 50 Blog Awards...

Forget the Pulitzers! Flush those stinking Nobel Prizes! There's only one award worth winning and we all know what it is.

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Larwyn's Linx: The Justice Department Condones Perjury … Again

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Nation

The Justice Department Condones Perjury … Again: Foundry
So long, farewell, DLTDWYOTWO: Ben Nelson retires: Malkin
The Case for a Conservative: Lord

2012: a Year of Media Savagery: Bozell
Santorum Surge: Legacy Media Begins to See the Omens: RSM
Judge: For blacks, 'voting rights' means identifying Dems on ballots: DC

Economy

Is White House Politically Manipulating Poverty Data?: Blumer
Why do we need governors, legislators or voters?: ProWis
Gullible Americans: Williams

Is Romney stirring up a VAT of trouble on taxes?: Peth
US House of Representatives: Internet pirates: Boing Boing
House GOP: IRS must investigate AARP tax-exempt status: Blaze

Democrats Use Fiscal Crisis As Weapon To Bash GOP: IBD
There's One for You, 19 For Me: Driscoll
580 MS Employees Learn of Layoffs Via Govt. Site, Not H.R.: ZH

Gunrunner & Energygate

The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers: Malkin
Is it complete incompetence or outright lying?: Mtn Valley News
Holder’s OIG ’Gunwalker’ investigation passes historic milestone today: Codrea

Climate & Energy

'Worst Piece' of NYT Climate Reporting Ever? Justin Gillis's Christmas Day Snow Job: MRC
NRDC’s ridiculous weather IS climate “sound the general alarm” map: Watts
Sen. Boxer defends embattled EPA: Californian

Media

ABC's Misleading Headline: "Gingrich ’06 Memo: 'Agree Entirely With Gov. Romney' on Health Care": NB
The NYT's Bad Gun Statistics: NRO
How Did We Get Here? Or, Why Do 20 Year Old Newsletters Matter So Damn Much?: BHL

Boston Globe Calls for Ban on Congressional Insider Trading: BigGovt
Jen Rubin: It Will Soon Be Time for Anti-Romney Forces To Get In Line: Ace
Paterno Put Money Above Child Abuse Disclosure: Bloomberg

Breaking news on Newt and Romneycare is not breaking and not news: LI
Horrifying New Reality Show: “The Real Congresswomen of D.C.”: JWF
SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers: Politico

World

Iraq in Political Crisis Following U.S. Withdrawal: PJM
Infographic: Our Military’s Dangerous Course: Foundry
Hamas top dog Haniyeh: Goal is destruction of Israel in stages: JihadWatch

Obama’s Surrender: FBI removes Mullah Omar’s name from list of most wanted terrorists: Bruce
The World's Worst Human Rights Observer: ForPol
Is Army Islamizing The Military By Allowing Hijab?: IBD

Beijing’s ‘New Frontier’ is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners: WklyStd
Europe Is Still Hip Deep In The Bad Stuff: Mead
Banks Bunker Hundreds of Billions in Deposits at ECB: Spiegel

Secrets of ‘Kim Jong-Il’: Everything About Him, Including His Name, Was a Lie :BigPeace
MSNBC: Kim Jong Un is So Totally Cool and Dreamy!: Driscoll
Kim Jong-Il's Floozies: LAT

Sci-Tech

Ex-Employee Sued $340,000 Over Twitter Account And What It Means To You: Chris Voss Show
Enigmatic fossils are neither animals nor bacteria: Nature
Google under fire for travel search placement: CNet

Cornucopia

Time Off Around the World: Ace
Shot three times in robbery, Marine plugs bullet holes with his fingers: DC
Rapper Heavy D died of blood clot in lung after long flight: LAT

Image: "Saudi textbooks instruct children in how to carry out amputations for Sharia punishments"
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "Herein lies a fundamental contradiction in our present system: The desire for constant inflation and constant credit expansion requires that the banks be shielded from the effects of their own business errors. Allowing capitalism’s most efficient regulators, profit and loss, to do the regulating, would mean that banks could face the risk of bankruptcy – this is, of course, the ultimate disciplinary force in capitalism. This could then lead to balance sheet correction and thus periods of deflation. Ergo, banks cannot be capitalist enterprises at full risk of bankruptcy as long as constant credit growth and inflation are the overriding policy goals. The constant growth of the banking sector must be guaranteed by the state through the unlimited provision of bank reserves from a lender-of-last resort central bank.

That banks get ever bigger, that they routinely hand out multi-million dollar bonuses, and that they frequently get bailed out, is not a result of the greed of the bankers – a stupid explanation anyway, only satisfactory to the intellectually challenged and perennially envious – but is integral to the fiat money system.

Banking under state protection ultimately means banking under state control. In the end it means state banking. And this is where we are going." --Detlev Schlichter

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Report: China's new GPS system more accurate than U.S. military's

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is engaged in a stealth form of warfare with the United States. It has launched numerous cyber-warfare campaigns against American interests. It is engaged in a massive buildup of its military capabilities including "cruise missiles, fighter jets and [a] growing, modernizing army."

And now, it has created a new GPS system that reportedly trumps America's capabilities.

China is now one step closer to becoming the top economic and military superpower in the world: its Beidou geo-positioning system is now fully armed and operational...

...Beidou cuts China’s dependency of the American GPS system completely. It means that they would be able to launch any attack and move their forces around the world without any US interference. Right now, the United States can deactivate their Global Positioning System so nobody can use it in certain areas. That includes enemy armies. After Beidou, however, this will be impossible.

...China will be able to move their civilian transport ships and airplanes all over the world without being dependent on any other country. Their military would also use this system to direct their ships, combat airplanes, drones and land forces in battle... They would also be able to use Beidou to target any kind of weapons with great accuracy, including cruise missiles.

Those questioning the PRC's goals would do well to read "Discerning China’s Intentions a Challenge for U.S.".


Hilarious: Hundreds of New York Times Staffers Rip Management Over Their Own Petty, Capitalist Concerns

As an aside, I read the Stuffington Roast so you don't have to.

New York Times staffers unhappy with management are letting publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. know it...

...In recent days, more than 270 current and former Times employees have signed an open letter expressing their "profound dismay" with recent company decisions...

...Bill O'Meara, president of the New York Newspaper Guild, said some staffers had considered even "more dramatic" actions.

"There were people who wanted to storm Arthur Sulzberger's office," O'Meara told The Huffington Post...

"There were people who wanted to stage a walkout."

And what are the staffers' major grievances? Curiously, for the world champions of wealth redistribution, the whining revolves around money.

The letter calls attention to several grievances. Last week, Times brass notified foreign citizens employed in the paper's overseas bureaus that their pensions would be frozen. In the letter, Times staffers dismayed by this decision point out to Sulzberger that some of these foreign employees, working alongside Times reporters in war zones, have "risked their lives so that we can do our jobs."

The open letter may have been prompted by this and other recent decisions, but it brought to the surface long-simmering tensions. In the past several years, staffers have faced temporary pay cuts, layoffs, and buyouts. They have worked since March without a new contract. Regarding ongoing negotiations, the letter notes that Sulzberger's "negotiators have demanded a freeze of our pension plan and an end to our independent health insurance." O'Meara said staffers did not receive a raise this year...

I find it uniquely hilarious that the world's foremost advocates for Statism -- people like Paul Krugman, who continuously lobby for endless confiscation and redistribution of money by a centralized, authoritarian government -- are concerned with petty concerns like money. With private property. With their own financial well-being.

Whatever happened to the collective?

Unhinged Statist jackasses hardest hit.


Hat tip: Memeorandum.

10 Fun Facts You May Not Have Known About Ron Paul

10. "Of the 620 measures that Paul has sponsored [since 1976], just four have made it to a vote on the House floor. Only one has been signed into law."

9. Ron Paul is 76 years old and would be 80 at the end of a hypothetical first term.

8. In 2007, Ron Paul criticized Abraham Lincoln for using military force to end slavery during the Civil War: "He shouldn’t have gone to war… Slavery was phased out in every other country in the world and the way I’m advising that it should have been done is do like the British Empire did; you buy the slaves and release them."

7. In 2009, Ron Paul said even the Nazi Holocaust was not sufficient cause for interventionism. He said, among other things, "No, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t risk American lives to [end the Holocaust]."

6. The Washington Post's Charles Lane -- hardly a "neocon" -- says that "Paul actually comes closest to the foreign policy views of Obama’s longtime religious leader, Jeremiah Wright."

5. Just days after the horrific 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 Americans, Ron Paul blamed America for the attacks: "It is clear that protecting certain oil interests and our presence in the Persian Gulf help drive the holy war. Muslims see this as an invasion and domination by a foreign enemy, which inspires radicalism."

4. In a television interview he gave in 1995, Ron Paul explicitly and personally endorsed the views of his newsletter: "I also do an investment letter. It’s called the Ron Paul Survival Report, and I put that out on a monthly basis ... which is a gold-oriented newsletter, but it’s also, uh, convening — expressing concern about surviving in this age of big government, where there’s a lot of taxes and regulations, and attacks on our personal liberties."

3. Ron Paul refuses to disavow support from "the racists, anti-Semites and neo-Nazis in his coalition (sorry, but whatever you think of Lew Rockwell, Stormfront and David Duke certainly deserve such labels)."

2. In an interview he gave just last month, Ron Paul also refuses to disclaim the despicable 9/11 Truther movement and, in fact, actively encourages it. When asked "why won’t you come out about the truth about 9/11?", he responded: "Because I can’t handle the controversy, I have the IMF the Federal Reserve to deal with, the IRS to deal with because no because I just have more-too many things on my plate. Because I just have too much to do."

1. Ron Paul believes in pretty much every discredited, crackpot conspiracy theory you've ever heard of. To wit:

He knows how crazy his conspiracy theories about The Illuminatis are, so he initially deflects the question ("What do you think the Bildersbergers are doing?") with an empty demurral. Then the questioner asks it a second and third time, and he can no longer counterfeit his beliefs; he offers up the Illuminatis conspiracy.

Remember, we're fighting a "phony war" against Al Qaeda, and it's all ginned-up neocon nonsense that Iran is cooking up a nuclear bomb, and Hamas was created by Israel.

But the thing we've got to really keep our eyes on is the Bildersbergers and Trilateral Commissioners.

Presidential!


Image credit: iOwnTheWorld.

Larwyn's Linx: 'Mischief' voters push Paul to front of GOP race

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Nation

'Mischief' voters push Paul to front of GOP race: York
Obama and the F-Word: Power Line
The Trouble with Ron Paul’s Defense: NRO

Did the VA GOP change primary rules last month?: RS
Sunlight needed from Virginia GOP: BauerBlog
VA A.G. Cuccinelli On GOP Primary Ballot: RSM

Ron Paul Campaigning In 1995: Hey, Read My Report!: Ace
The Virginia Primary Mess: Pundette
Paul Goldman helps Newt Gingrich with Virginia ballot: Politico

Economy

Obama gives back some of the Corzine cash: Hot Air
Crony Holidays: Schumer kin gets judgeship for Xmas: Malkin
Chart of the Day: Medicare Spending: Foundry

Certain prediction for 2012: Thomas
Pelosi Spends Holidays Sacrificing For Her Beloved 99%: Malkin
LTRO Bazooka an Epic Disaster: ZH

Gunrunner & Energygate

Folding Holder: PunditLeague
Obama’s Green Jobs Program “Infused with Politics at Every Level”: Foundry
List of Congressmen Calling for Holder’s Resignation Continues to Grow: Ammoland

Climate & Energy

Shutting down power plants: Imaginary benefits, extensive harm: Watts
The Volt is a jolt to taxpayers shelling out subsidies: Kelly
New Expansive EPA Power Grab: FPM

Media

Libertarians, Republicans would have benefited from giving Paul the attention he deserves: Betsy's Page
Ron Paul in 2009–‘I Wouldn’t Risk American Lives’ to End the Holocaust: BigGovt
What, If Anything, Could Convince a Ronulan Not to Vote for Ron Paul?: RS

Feds' War on Religion: Norris
Kathleen Sebelius Destroyed Evidence to Protect Planned Parenthood in a Child Rape Case: NewAm
Random Thoughts: Sowell

New Gingrich video: Victory or death: Hot Air
White Supremacist Founder of Stormfront Says His Followers Are Volunteering For Ron Paul’s Campaign: WZ
Just days after 9/11, Ron Paul blames America: Scoop

World

A Month of Christian Persecution: Power Line
Tennessee mom finds Islam in kid’s textbook, revised and sanitized: Creeping
Over 1,000 Christians Targeted & Murdered Worldwide by Islamists in 2011: GWP

Ron Paul is the Real Warmonger: RedState
Iranian Lawmaker: 'These War Games Are a Warning to the Western Countries': CNS
Twitter Continues To Evade Explaining Its Breaking of U.S. Law and Its Indirect Support For Online Jihad: MEMRI

Black Muslim Who Harrassed Many Shot Dead by Atlanta Police: GWP
Japan Seeks to Market Record 145 Trillion Yen Bonds in 2012: Mish
Italian Yields Spike To The Highest Level Since November: Insider

Sci-Tech

Highly critical zero day vulnerability in Windows discovered: Gladiator AV
Stratfor Hacking Victims Targeted After Comments: ABC
Who owns your Twitter account? Check out this lawsuit: CNet

Cornucopia

Kids say the darndest things: MOTUS
A perfect example of self-defense, and sound good sense: Bookworm
Obama Golfs for the 90th Time as President: Dossier

Image: Ron Paul and the racist newsletters (Fact Checker biography)
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QOTD: "Shortly after he gave General Motors a $53 billion bailout in 2009, President Barack Obama said the plug-in Chevrolet Volt would be salvation of the beleaguered automaker. Consumers will buy 120,000 Volts each year from 2012 onwards, the Energy Department predicted then. But through November, only 6,142 Volts have been sold. And that pitiful figure is inflated by purchases for government fleets.

Johan de Nysschen, president of Audi of America, isn’t surprised.

“No one is going to pay a $15,000 premium for a car that competes with a (Toyota) Corolla,” he told Lawrence Ulrich of MSN Autos in 2009. “So there are not enough idiots who will buy it.”" --Jack Kelly

Monday, December 26, 2011

Breaking: Statement on the 2.7 million emails obtained from Stratfor

More than 48 hours after it was rooted, the website of intelligence firm Stratfor Research remains down. In fact, as of this moment, even its temporary server (showing an "Under Maintenance" page) is inaccessible, perhaps due to an ongoing denial-of-service attack.

Via Wikileaks, the following statement describes some of the motives for the compromise.

In the wake of the recent operation by which Stratfor's servers were compromised, much of the media has focused on the fact that some participants in the attack chose to use obtained customer credit card numbers to make donations to charitable causes. Although this aspect of the operation is indeed newsworthy, and, like all things, should be scrutinized and criticized as necessary, the original purpose and ultimate consequence of the operation has been largely ignored.

Stratfor was not breached in order to obtain customer credit card numbers, which the hackers in question could not have expected to be as easily obtainable as they were. Rather, the operation was pursued in order to obtain the 2.7 million e-mails that exist on the firm's servers. This wealth of data includes correspondence with untold thousands of contacts who have spoken to Stratfor's employees off the record over more than a decade. Many of those contacts work for major corporations within the intelligence and military contracting sectors, government agencies, and other institutions for which Anonymous and associated parties have developed an interest since February of 2011, when another hack against the intelligence contractor/security firm HBGary revealed, among many other things, a widespread conspiracy by the Justice Department, Bank of America, and other parties to attack and discredit Wikileaks and other activist groups. Since that time, many of us in the movement have dedicated our lives to investigating this state-corporate alliance against the free information movement. For this and other reasons, operations have been conducted against Booz Allen Hamilton, Unveillance, NATO, and other relevant institutions. The bulk of what we've uncovered thus far may be reviewed at a wiki maintained by my group Project PM, echelon2.org.

Although Stratfor is not necessarily among the parties at fault in the larger movement against transparency and individual liberty, it has long been a "subject of interest" in our necessary investigation. The e-mails obtained before Christmas Day will vastly improve our ability to continue that investigation and thereby bring to light other instances of corruption, crime, and deception on the part of certain powerful actors based in the U.S. and elsewhere. Unlike the various agents of the U.S. Government, the hacking team that obtained this information did not break down the doors of the target, point guns at children, and shoot down any dogs that might have been present; Anonymous does not resort to SWAT tactics, and this is simply one of many attributes that separate the movement from the governments that have sought to end our campaign and imprison our participants. Of course, such points as these will not prevent our movement from being subjected to harsher scrutiny than is given to those governments which are largely forgiven their more intrusive tactics by virtue of their status as de facto holders of power in a world that has long been governed in accordance with the dictate that might makes right.

Incidentally, many of us are more than happy to proceed according to that amoral dictate if we find it to be necessary. And, increasingly, we have found it to be so.

Barrett Brown
Project PM
irc.project-pm.org