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Is Obama a looter or a dictator or both?

There seems to be contempt growing against the President of the United States lately and there is a laundry list of reasons why many Americans are becoming angry.

While President Obama probably deserves an Academy Award for his performance, (since that is what politics are all about, performances) it is high time for this man to start accepting reality and get serious. People in this country are suffering horribly from just about everything. Tens of millions of people are out of work, while the Federal Government continues to throw out false numbers of unemployment and that the economy has been recovering. More recently, the record breaking flooding and tornadoes that have been sweeping throughout the South and Mid West has affected an estimated 80 million people.

The residents in Joplin, Missouri have spent this last week digging through wreckage for deceased loved ones. Meanwhile, President Obama has spent the week vacationing throughout Europe drinking beers in Ireland and dining with the Queen of England, and making a complete ass of himself in the process.

Remember President Bush’s disgraceful response to Hurricane Katrina? Obama already had that similar experience with the BP oil disaster in the Gulf Coast last year. The natural disasters that have occurred recently in the South and Mid West may come back to haunt him come the 2012 election. True, he will be visiting Missouri on Sunday, but if you ask me, Obama should have stopped his European tour for the sake of the nation.

On another note, the President has also violated Federal Law. Under the War Powers Resolution, it requires Congressional approval to continue any further attacks on a country. In this case, it involves the two month long NATO attacks on Moammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya. Under the law, the operation should have already stopped, but due to Obama’s little excursion to Europe, no action has been taken.

This is because the plan in Libya was to seize oil and it was concocted by Obama and his instigating little shrewish adviser, Samantha Power.

However, some members of Congress are more than a little concerned and calling this as nothing more than ripping the Constitution apart. Remember when Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich questioned Obama’s actions as an impeachable offense? Well this certainly should sum it up now.

This is also the first time we’ve had a U.S. President engaged in an apparent “conflict of interest” because he is also serving as Chairman of the United Nations Security Council. In President Obama’s fantasy land, he believes that these powers under the UN allow him to do whatever he wants with regards to other nations, without Congressional approval.

It’s no wonder why so many Americans are becoming so fed up with this man.

Seems like we have a President acting both as a looter and a dictator.

More than 30,000 California prisoners to be released?

Here in California, we already have enough problems. A crippled State economy, unemployment over 12%, a budget deficit of $9.6 billion and more than $100 billion in long term financial obligations.

As if things couldn’t be any worse, on Monday the Supreme Court upheld a decision from a State Court that California prisons are increasingly becoming overcrowded and over 30,000 prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights are being violated.

As far as I’m concerned they shouldn’t have any rights.

The court order is forcing California to address this problem within two years by either releasing prisoners onto the streets or to build new prison systems. Both of those bright ideas have problems though.

If inmates are released out onto the streets, more than likely they will do the same thing they were incarcerated for and crime will skyrocket. According to the Department of Justice, in 2010 the homicide rate alone in California fell to its lowest level since 1996. It declined 9.6% from 2009. This should be some kind of evidence that keeping these dirt-bags incarcerated shows that crime in California has declined.

And build new prison systems? Where will this money going to come from? California is fundamentally bankrupt.

While the State is currently looking into alternatives such as transferring some of these tens of thousands of prisoners to other States and perhaps even countries, there is a very real possibility that a good percentage of them will indeed be released onto the streets again. As usual, there will be some press release that these are prisoners with “good reputations” and “non-violent”. Yeah right.

I’m not sure exactly why our legislators and our courts are committed to supporting criminals and endorsing crime in general when they should be on the side of the innocent American.

Associated Press attacks Netanyahu’s speech

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the United States Congress today commenting on Palestine and Israel, and if both States should return to 1967 borders. In other words, essentially force Israel to give up its land in favor of sharing it with the Palestinian people.

While President Obama is vacationing around Europe and spreading some BS that he’s now an Irishman, Netanyahu’s visit to the United States was to also send a clear message that “Israel can defend itself.”

It is interesting that every time Netanyahu comes to the United States, President Obama has other things he has to be doing.

But already, the news media is attacking Netanyahu. By way of example, the Associated Press stated that Israel is a leading recipient of more than $1 billion in military aid each year. Israel is a crucial ally in the Middle East, as was Egypt, before Obama apparently forgave that debt last week. Despite the assistance, Israel’s military is more than capable of defending itself, which is what Netanyahu was alluding to.

AP also said that Netanyahu was wrong with indicating “Israel will not negotiate with the Palestinian government backed by the Palestinian version of al-Qaeda.”

AP says that Hamas (which is backed by Palestine) and al-Qaeda have no connection. Really?

Maybe the AP apparently forgot that Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood which supports Hamas as well?

Furthermore, Netanyahu spoke heavily about wanting to reach a peaceful compromise with Palestine and said that while it would be extremely painful, it could be done. He noted that in the past, Israel has given up occupation of land in both Southern Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip. What did that leave Israel? With acts of terror from Hezbollah and Hamas.

Towards the closing of his speech, Netanyahu remarked that if Palestine is willing to sever its relationship with Hamas, then peace would be reached. But some of his comments about Israel keeping several territories have apparently upset Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who calls this nothing more than a “declaration of war”.

In short however, Netanyahu’s speech on stabilization and peace for the Jewish people in the Middle East was found to be very inspirational and welcoming. I’d prefer him as President of the United States any day.

Could we perhaps negotiate with Netanyahu and allow him to become President? We’ll just give Obama to the Middle East since he enjoys sympathizing with the Arab world so much.

Al-Qaeda leader comments on U.S. and Middle East upheaval

When Libya’s upheaval began in February, Moammar Gaddafi had indicated that al-Qaeda was responsible for destabilizing his country. This turned out to be factual after the Muslim Brotherhood crippled Egypt and removed Hosni Mubarak and the Brotherhood’s clerical leader called for an assassination of Gaddafi.

A piece on News24.com says that Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is presumed to be the new leader of al-Qaeda and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, posted an audio sound byte on the Libya situation a few days before Navy SEALS killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The audio was posted on militant forms in which al-Zawahiri claims that NATO’s intervention in Libya is meant to remove Gaddafi and the United States will set up a ‘puppet government’ to control the country’s rich oil resources.

No surprise there. After all, the U.S. did the same thing in Iraq and Kosovo.

In this recording, Zawahiri gave high praise to Egyptians that were successful in toppling Mubarak in Egypt and that the Gaza Strip border should be opened. And what happened? The post-Mubarak Egypt supported Hamas and vowed to open up the Gaza Strip.

Zawahiri also called on Syria to remove its president, Bashar al-Assad. Interestingly, while al-Qaeda harbors resentment against countries in the Middle East like Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia which are associated with the United States, in the same aspect, al-Qaeda is indirectly supporting the U.S. because President Obama wants to see these dictators removed from power.

Of course that is exactly what al-Qaeda wants, as does the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hezbollah. In this unprecedented move, you have Sunni and Shiite Muslims actually working together to bring down the Middle East and remove Israel.

In another unbelievable move, President Obama said that the United States forgave Egypt’s $1 billion debt, while the rest of us in America continue to suffer. Maybe the President believes that once the U.S. controls Libya and seizes its oil rights, they’ll cross collateralize the loss of Egypt’s debt?

As usual, the ignorance by President Obama shows that this danger will continue to escalate. Why does this President continue to embrace terrorists and destabilization?

End the world starts tomorrow?

Tomorrow is Judgment Day according to Christians nationwide. For months now, you’ve probably seen the billboards or heard the radio advertisements “save the date” for May 21^st. This is being promoted by Harold Camping of Family Radio and according to Camping, tomorrow will be the start of the first phase for the end of the world. Officially the end will come this October.

Skeptics however, whether they believe in God or not, are calling Camping’s bluff. Camping had stated that 1994 was to be the end of the world. He claims it was a mathematical error based on his findings in the Bible. The reason why Christians believe the end is here is because it welcomes the time of the rapture in which God will take his believers to heaven and the rest of us can live in a world of hell.

Call it what you may, whether you believe this or not, one does have to take into careful consideration with relation to significant events in the last year. We’ve had a major oil spill in the Gulf Coast, major earthquakes not only devastating the entire nation of Japan, but also in Haiti and Chile, recording breaking tornados and flooding damaging the mid-west and southern regions of the United States and the Middle East engulfed in unprecedented protests and violence. Could any of these catastrophic events actually hold validity?

Additionally, countries like North Korea and Iran have developed nuclear capabilities. Could we possibly see a nuclear war in the very near future? Certainly it is possible. For years now, Iran has been insisting on “wiping Israel off the map” by any means necessary and Iran has had close relations to terrorist groups including Hezbollah.

This came to light today when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made President Obama look like a total embarrassment after insisting Obama’s plans to allow Israel and Palestine to return to 1967 borders would never happen. Obama insists that the United States will work with Israel on peace talks between Palestine hopefully reaching a compromise by September. That is if Iran doesn’t blow up half the world in the meantime.

Obama’s hope to recognize Palestine as a legitimate nation by September is interesting though. It happens to be right around the time that the Christians say will be the final end date. Perhaps by then there will be a nuclear war? I’ll let you decide.

But if chaos really disrupts your Saturday plans by tomorrow evening, well then, kiss your weekend goodbye!

Obama’s ignorant Middle East speech

Today, President Obama made a speech at the height of killing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, addressing the current situation in the Middle East and in particular the focal point of this being those so-called ‘peaceful protests’.

Unfortunately, the President is becoming increasingly arrogant on just about everything it seems like these days and the Middle East is just one of many on that long list.

He has now generated quite a bit of heat in endorsing a plan to demand Palestine and Israel to return to 1967 era borders. In other words, he wants Israel to share its current occupation with Palestine which would include the city of Jerusalem. This comes to light as last year; President Obama spoke at the United Nations hoping to recognize Palestine as a legitimate nation by September of 2011.

The clear motive behind the President’s ignorance is unclear, as Palestine currently occupies the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the terrorist group Hamas.

One of President Obama’s most outspoken critics is the prime minister of Israel himself, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is insisting returning to the 1967 borders will do significant damage to Israel.

In another point of ignorance, the President hopes to see “many more” leaders being toppled, as we saw with Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and currently, NATO forces trying to remove Moammar Gaddafi in Libya.

Because of the removal of these leaders, the Middle East has opened its doors to an infestation of radicals and terrorists. The President has yet to issue any condemnation for Christian churches being burned in Egypt thanks to the so-called peaceful protesters, and has yet to acknowledge the fact that the Gaza Strip is now open or the Muslim Brotherhood’s increasingly majority in Egypt. The same Muslim Brotherhood calling for the "extermination of Jews". And, for the first time in 30 years, Egypt and Iran have resumed diplomatic relations to begin a phase in moving against Israel.

In response to the protests in Syria, Obama issued a warning to President Bashar Assad to either “lead his country or get out of the way”. Perhaps Obama isn’t aware of the relationship Syria has with Iran and its relationship with Hezbollah?

We can bash ruthless dictators all we want; the point is if they’re removed, we will see an increase in destabilization just as we have seen in Egypt.

The real question to be asked is: Why does Palestine want control of Israel? The religion of Islam within the text of the Qur’an only cites Mecca and Medina as its Holy Cities, not Jerusalem. Secondly, why does this President seem to harbor such resentment towards Israel? Why doesn’t he ever visit Israel?

Finally, does he even understand that the nations surrounding Israel are basically a pack of wolves?

Apparently not.

The “new” Egyptian leader of al-Qaeda

Following the death of Osama bin Laden, it had been speculated that his second hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri was to succeed him as the leader of al-Qaeda.

For the time being however, al-Qaeda has chosen a “new caretaker” to lead the terrorist group, Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant who has been under indictment for the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and one of the masterminds behind the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar al Sadat.

According to terrorism expert Peter Bergen, Adel’s track record also includes joining the U.S. backed Mujahedin in Afghanistan and training al-Qaeda operatives in Sudan. Perhaps what is most shocking of all is that Adel believes that radical jihad should appeal to the “youth of the ummah”.

In other words, the youth of a Muslim community or the nation should appeal to radical jihad. What we have seen in Egypt is the beginnings of radical Islam growing out of control. While the news media will want you to believe that these were “so called” peaceful youth revolutions demanding the removal of Hosni Mubarak, which is true to some extent, the reality of the situation is that the Muslim Brotherhood used these protests as a catalyst in achieving a goal, which is to get control over Egypt.

It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that both Adel and al-Zawahiri are part of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the same “god father” organization of all terrorist groups in the Middle East that has vowed to whip Israel off the map and for the first time, we are witnessing Sunni and Shiite Muslims working together against Israel as a result of the protests throughout the Middle East.

The news media and the Obama Administration does not appear to be too concerned over the new diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran, or the fact that Egypt has opened up the Gaza Strip or the fact that these new al-Qaeda leaders are members of the Muslim Brotherhood or the fact that just last week in Egypt, Muslims were targeting Christians and burning down churches. Really peaceful democracy isn’t it?

In all, it works as a victory for al-Qaeda. If the Muslim Brotherhood does get a majority control over Egypt, this allows the terrorist group to establish additional training bases and utilize the youth for their operation. Furthermore, al-Qaeda has a presence in Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. Five countries next to each other. Again, it doesn't take rocket science to figure this out.

Honestly though, how does President Obama sleep at night knowing that because of his vocal support to remove Hosni Mubarak as President of Egypt, has turned that entire country and the Middle East into a level of instability?

Sexual assault by IMF socialist chief leaves France in crisis

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the corrupt International Monetary Fund and a contender for the 2012 presidential election in France against Nicolas Sarkozy, not to mention a full time socialist pig, decided to have some fun in New York City over the weekend after sexually assaulting a maid at the hotel he was staying at. For the time being, he is being held at Riker’s Island.

France is now in a crisis, as Kahn was the leading candidate to defeat Sarkozy. But now, many of his supporters have started to loose confidence and the international community is demanding for his immediate removal as the chief of the IMF.

Some supporters of the French Socialist Party, quite a few actually, believe that this was nothing more than set up by Sarkozy himself. But other supporters of Sarkozy are quick to point out that Kahn’s arrest only helps Sarkozy marginally.

Of course in France, it seems that Kahn’s perverted behavior is usually acceptable.

For some strange reason, the press decided to ask House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about the arrest of Kahn, presumably because Pelosi is the queen of the American Socialist Party and responded “What a shame, at a time when the IMF is at the center stage at what is happening in Europe, Greece, etc., and the world financially, to have this disruption and I know they moved immediately to put someone in his place and it gives new definition to moral hazard. But it is so unfortunate and I feel really sad for the victim.”

Seriously Ms. Pelosi?

At this time, nobody seems to know anything about the victim that was attacked in the New York hotel, but one would think Pelosi would be supporting the Socialist himself because he represents everything Pelosi stands for. I wonder what Pelosi’s reaction would have been if the hotel maid was indeed raped and impregnated by Kahn? Just curious about her support for abortion…

More importantly, why is the press even interested in what Pelosi has to say on this issue? The woman is beyond irrelevant.

In all, if Kahn drops out of the election in France, the socialist people can more than likely expect Sarkozy as a shoe-in.

Debt ceiling expired today, but U.S. holds on?

The money weasel Tim Geithner informed Congress today that the United States has now reached the debt ceiling level, but rest assured, Geithner says the country can hold until August.

How strange when you consider that for many months now, Geithner has been jumping up and down about the necessity for Congress to raise the debt level; otherwise the United States would default on its financial obligations and face severe economic consequences.

So today that deadline expired, but Geithner says we can hold on until August because thanks to Geithner. he came up with an extra $200 billion just last week to meet the country’s obligations for a temporary period of time.

Where did this money come from Mr. Treasury Secretary? Some reserve fund that you and Ben Bernanke totally forgot about? A generous donation by George Soros?

According to Geithner, the debt is now at $14.3 trillion which is the legal limit as to how much the United States can borrow. However the debt is likely to increase to $15 trillion by September.

For the interim, the Obama Administration is stopping payments to retirement plans and pension funds to federal workers. Will we see protests from union thugs like we did in Wisconsin when Governor Scott Walker decided to cut state worker funds to balance his state budget? Probably not. Because the Obama Administration, as well all know by now, is untouchable. Even though they are now theoretically doing the same thing that Governor Walker did in Wisconsin. But I digress.

But the bickering under the circus tent on Capitol Hill continues. Republicans and even some Democrats are refusing to raise the debt ceiling limit any further because it is recklessly and fiscally irresponsible and Democrats continue to demand only a status quo for supporting the same federal programs that have contributed to the downfall of the United States. They’ll only raise the debt ceiling limit if there is a compromise on reducing spending drastically since Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget plan was not exactly favorable. The reality is that taxpayers simply cannot continue to subsidize these programs any longer and the country continues to spend more than it takes in.

But the real reality is the United States is owned by global investors, not the tax payers. This in itself is a rather scary scenario. As every man and woman in America continues to struggle to put food on the table, pay a bill, look for work in an economy that will most likely never recover, or their children having to grow up in a “new America”, there is a very wealthy internationalist in China that wants either your welfare or social security check.

Ron Paul running for President in 2012

He was instrumental in grassroots campaigning in 2008 when he ran for President and was able to encourage the support of a younger group of voters that were fed up with traditional Republicans and Democrats, as well as the “fantasy change” of Barack Obama.

His philosophy has largely been inspired by our nation’s founding fathers, and uses common sense and our Constitution as “the real road map” to get his message across. He’s called for abolishing the IRS, CIA and an out of control Federal Reserve. He speaks like an average American Joe and not some typical politician that speaks like a hawk.  Now, he is joining in a group of not-so appealing Republican contenders for the 2012 Presidential race.

He is Republican Congressman Ron Paul of Texas.

Congressman Paul, who is a physician and apparently understands basic economics, better than anyone else in Washington, D.C. had ran for President even before 2008. In 1988, he ran on the Libertarian ticket, and then in 2008, despite his unprecedented massive grassroots campaign, he only garnered about 10% of the vote in the Republican primaries.

But now that we have seen a train wreck under Obama, which includes a laundry list of extending some of the policies that made Bush very unpopular, massive spending, larger government, no transparency, unemployment, high inflation and three wars in the Middle East, Congressman Paul may have a better chance at getting elected this time around.

His message resonates with a younger crowd, especially for college students who want to grow up in the same America as our parents and grandparents did. As it looks right now, that type of America is more than likely gone forever. Despite that the older generation of America and the bureaucrats in Washington D.C. want the status quo; things in this country are not the same as they used to be and they will never be the same. But Congressman Paul has carried the goal for a long time now, to restore at least the real American values and principals that have been lost.

Having grown tired of Republicans and Democrats that have been ruining the country, it seems that a larger portion of Americans have awakened to the fact that you can have a President who is not going to sell their soul to corporate America and will abide by the U.S. Constitution.

Ron Paul certainly represents these qualities and perhaps “third time’s a charm” in 2012, will get Paul elected as President of the United States.

Avenging Osama: 80 killed in Pakistan

In its first efforts to avenge the death of their top terrorist Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda took responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings on a paramilitary training ground today in Pakistan which has resulted in the death of at least 80 people and wounding over 100 more.

Al-Qaeda is harboring resentment against the Pakistan government because they failed to stop the United States from killing bin Laden.

With the recent development of suicide bombers attacking Pakistan paramilitary trainees, it is pretty obvious that al-Qaeda’s current targets are not just Americans.

But al-Qaeda has issued a clear warning to the United States that additional violence will ensue and will aim to target Americans living within Pakistan.

Since the killing of bin Laden, Pakistan and the United States have had tense relations as to how the operation was carried out and also if Pakistan had been providing safe haven for bin Laden throughout all of these years, not to mention the billions of dollars Pakistan has been receiving from the Untied States government.

Perhaps this is a good opportunity to maybe mend those ‘fighting words’ and come up with some kind of compromise to battle terrorism.

Most significant of all is the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. One possible concern is the idea of al-Qaeda somehow intervening through Pakistani intelligence and getting its hands on one of those weapons or even blowing it up through another suicide bombing.

A catastrophe would be on our hands.

Democracy in the Middle East? Not so much

Remember back in June of 2009, President Obama delivered a speech to Muslims in Cairo about democracy in the Middle East?

How has that worked out for the President thus far?

According to White House Spokesman Jay Carney, the President will deliver a speech concerning democracy in the Middle East sometime in the next few weeks. I’m curious if the President will talk about any of the real issues that have taken place?

Over the last five months, the uprising throughout the Middle East has resulted in the overthrow of the governments in Tunisia and Egypt, an illegal NATO air strike over Libya and countless other countries including Syria, Yemen and Bahrain experiencing similar revolutions.

I suppose in some regard, the President got what he wanted.

As the mainstream news media supported Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, they paid little attention to the Muslim Brotherhood presence in Egypt during the protests. It seems as though it was just a funny coincidence that after Mubarak resigned, the Muslim Brotherhood presence continued to grow and its clerical leader, Yusuf al-Qaradawi returned to Egypt for the first time in twenty years and spoke to the crowd of protesters in Cairo, encouraging Muslims to unite, work against Israel and open the borders to the Gaza Strip.

What happened? The Gaza Strip was opened up. Hamas and Fatah formed a new alliance and for the first time in thirty years, Iran and Egypt began to have diplomatic relations. That is Shiite and Sunni Muslims respectively.

But apparently, the news media is looking at this as forms of “democracy”.

It really isn’t. Qaradawi has vowed to see the extermination of Jews in Israel. On January 28^th, 2009 Qaradawi told Al-Jazeera news: “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews people who would punish them for their corruption...The last punishment were carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them...Allah willing; the next time will be at the hand of the believers.”

Additionally, Qaradawi has outspokenly supported Shiite Muslim terrorist groups including Hezbollah, because they also want to destroy Israel. Iran, which also backs Hezbollah, has largely been outspoken on its attempts to destroy Israel and while President Obama diverted the establishment of missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, this actually favored Iran more time to its developing nuclear program. Not to mention that Iran has missiles of its own that it received from North Korea.

Is this President Obama's idea of democracy in the Middle East? Surely he can't be that ignorant as to what is really going on over there? A completely destabilized region of the world largely becoming infested in radical Islam and terrorist groups? For whatever reason, the President is completely reluctant to mention anything about the negative developments that have materialized in these countries.

Just imagine Israel is a lamb, surrounded by a pack of wolves. Eventually, the wolves are going to stop circling the lamb and go into attack mode. The United States has seemingly ignored Israel’s repeated calls for help. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated many times, the Middle East looks at Israel as the ‘little Satan’ and the U.S. as the ‘bigger Satan’.

The interesting development of all is the United Nations attempts to recognize Palestine as an independent State by the end of the year. It is possible that President Obama’s ‘so called’ attempts at democracy in the Middle East are to favor a Palestinian nation. The same Palestine that supports Hamas.

The big loser here will be Israel. This is not democracy in the Middle East. This is basically what appears to be the beginnings of a new World War and an extension of the Nazi Holocaust.

The Hitler, Clinton, Obama, Libya and Kosovo connection

There is a saying “somehow everything is connected”. Well the current events in the Middle East and the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, seem to have interconnections to prior historical events that everyone is more than likely familiar with.

A fact that is often overlooked during Nazi Germany in the 1940’s was that Adolf Hitler “secretly” had very close ties to Muslims, or more specifically, you could say the “early years” of what came to be radical Islam. Sounds bizarre. Especially when you consider that Hitler ordered the extermination of more than 6 million Jews. Hitler had a close relationship to Haj Amin al-Husseini, a Palestinian leader who supported Hitler’s reign to exterminate those Jews and asked Hitler to support Arab independence and oppose any establishment of what eventually became the Jewish State of Israel. al-Husseini also was an original member of the Muslim Brotherhood. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood that is currently occupied in Egypt and Libya and its current clerical leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi has vowed to see the extermination of Israel.

On numerous occasions, Hitler consulted with al-Husseini on ways to strengthen the Nazi regime. One way they accomplished this occurred when the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia and utilized the 21^st Division of the SS Skanderbeg, to arm the Muslim dominated Yugoslav region of Kosovo, which in turn, the Muslims fought against Yugoslav forces.

The presence of Muslims in Kosovo has existed for centuries, many of them had come from neighboring Albania; and furthermore, Kosovo had been part of the Yugoslav state of Serbia. Eventually by the late 1980’s however, Yugoslavia began to fall apart primarily due to ethnic tensions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which had been diversely dominated by Muslims, Croats and Serbs. During Slobodan Milosevic’s rise to power in Serbia, they had invaded Bosnia and carried out “ethic cleansing” and Yugoslavia continued to become divided. By the mid 1990’s, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia had declared independence.

Another overlooked fact was in 1998, when the Kosovo War broke out; Milosevic was President of Yugoslavia and made unsuccessful attempts to solve the Kosovo problem peacefully. President Bill Clinton, looking at Milosevic as nothing more than a pure dictator, took action by commanding NATO to bomb Yugoslavia for three months, thus destroying the Serbian army and effectively arming Muslims in Kosovo. According to declassified CIA documents, many of these Muslims were either associated or were members of al-Qaeda who not only trained in bin Laden’s terrorist camps in Afghanistan, but also on camps in Bosnia.

Eventually, Milosevic was overthrown and turned over to the UN International Criminal Tribunal Court on war crimes charges while Kosovo continued to become a destabilized part of the former Yugoslavia, having declared its independence, but is still a disputed territory and seemingly infested with growing radical Islam.

Fast forward to Libya. President Obama made the same move that Clinton did with Kosovo. Ordering NATO strikes on Libya, and arming the so-called ‘rebels’ that we don’t even know who they are or where they’re really from. Moammar Gaddafi stated that these rebels were from al-Qaeda. Why does this sound difficult to understand? It is the same al-Qaeda group with close relations to the Muslim Brotherhood now occupied in Egypt and now occupying Libya.

In essence, the United States has not only on one occasion, but on two occasions, effectively armed the same terrorist group that orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. Yet neither Clinton nor Obama seem to realize that their decisions to arm al-Qaeda in Kosovo and Libya respectfully, is in essence, the same strategy that Hitler initiated by recruiting and arming Muslims in Nazi Germany so many decades ago.

A long commentary short, this began with Hitler’s Nazi Germany which is responsible for the extermination of 6 million Jews, utilizing Albanian Muslims from Kosovo and after World War II, the same dominated Muslims remained there. Hitler’s relationship with al-Husseini proves that the Nazi Holocaust never ended. It has continued under the direction of the Muslim Brotherhood and from its relationship with Hamas and Hezbollah, this organization’s goal is to ultimately see the destruction of Israel and Iran has the same goal as well. It should also be noted that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the new leader of al-Qaeda, is also a member of the Brotherhood. If the unrest continues throughout the Middle East, one place to watch very carefully is Kosovo.

The connection is fascinating, yet dangerous.

Senator Schumer calling for “No Ride List”

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is calling for a “No Ride List” for train travelers, similar to the “No Fly List” created for airline passengers. The lists are designed for individuals suspected of terrorist activity or pose as a threat to the country’s national security.

The information seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan discovered plans which included targeting railway trains that pass through major cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C. and New York. Because of the lax in security at train stations, Senator Schumer said “that’s why I’m calling for the creation of an Amtrak no ride list. That would take the secure flight program and apply it to Amtrak trains.”

Rather strange that this was not set up in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks ten years ago, don’t you agree?

With nearly 150,000 miles of train and freight track in this country, one could certainly argue the possibility of monitoring and securing the railway system would be difficult. This stretch of train tracks doesn’t even count the subway systems in major cities.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is insisting that security will be stepped up in all public transportation eventually. What’s next? Do cab and bus drivers have to pat down passengers too?

More than likely, this means that if you wish to travel by plane, train or ship, you’ll be subjected to those invasive pat downs and body scanning machines. We’ve already seen this fiasco from the TSA at airports nationwide.

In general, most Americans understand the government’s role in protecting the country from suspected terrorists. What we don’t need in this country is to have every single form of public transportation controlled by the TSA and give them the right to basically sexually assault people including children. It is quite disgusting.

While Senator Schumer’s idea of a “No Ride List” is certainly debatable, a much better idea for DHS to impose is simple: Profile passengers!

Decision to raise the debt ceiling draws closer

The United States Congress is going to have to make a decision within the next week: Either to raise the national debt ceiling to its legal limit, which the debt is now $14 trillion, or let the United States go into default.

It has been nothing more than a circus act between the two failed parties over the course the last several months and America’s attention on our major financial problems were diverted this week because of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Republican controlled House is refusing to do anything with relation to raising the debt, unless the Obama Administration agrees to additional budget cuts, and Democrats want the status quo. In short, they want everything to remain the same. History has shown that keeping everything the same is what got us into this mess in the first place.

As the decision to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner decided to tap into a $200 billion reserve fund that seemed to have just come out of nowhere, to make some of the nation’s obligations. Well, the $200 billion was quickly depleted within a week’s span. I guess that verifies what we thought about raising taxes on the rich, which if Congress were to tax even 100% all of the people in this country annually making $250,000 or more, would net the Federal Government an estimated $1.4 trillion. So if Tim Geithner can spent $200 billion in a week, then $1.4 trillion would only fund the Federal Government for maybe four to five months.

Furthermore, Geithner has been warning Congress that if the debt ceiling isn’t raised and the United States doesn’t pay its obligations, we would have another economic crisis similar to what we had experienced in 2008 and the unemployment would reach 17%, which by the way, the unemployment in this country is much higher than they really want you to know. The April 15^th edition of USA Today had a stunning report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics which found that only 44.4% of Americans actually held jobs in 2010, which means 55% of Americans did not have jobs. How does the Federal Government seriously determine that the current unemployment rate is only at an average of 9%? Surely, they're only counting the percentage of Americans that are actually collecting real unemployment benefits.

To address the debt ceiling from another perspective, on the April 19^th blog of Independent Word, I commented on a report from Professor Antony Davis of Duquesne University Donahue School of Business who insists the debt ceiling is really nothing more than a work of fiction. In his analysis, Professor Davis indicated that the debt ceiling has been raised by the U.S. Congress 70 times since 1970. Despite the Federal income tax ranging from 77% in 1969 to averaging between 30% and 40% for the years from 1990 to 2011, the average GDP remained the same at about 18%. Davis’s conclusion is the if tax brackets are fixed to jump up and down through four decades, but the GDP remained the same, then our debt problem is nothing more than a pure spending problem.

But does anyone in Washington really believe this nation has a severe spending problem?

I guess not. If that were the case, then we probably should have cut substantial government cost two years ago following the financial collapse. This way, Geithner wouldn’t be whining right now about raising the nation’s debt limit.

Osama bin Laden victory becoming an embarrassment?

Today President Obama will be visiting the site, in which the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11^th. It comes four days after he broke the news on Sunday that we had killed Osama bin Laden, and immediately, the nation sprung into celebration.

But in the days following, some of that celebration has become dominated by mixed reactions based on the contradictions of the Obama Administration. We were told at one point that Osama bin Laden was armed. Then he wasn’t armed. He used his wife as a human shield. He didn’t use his wife as a human shield. His wife was killed; then his wife wasn’t killed. CIA director Leon Panetta said the death photos would be released; now they’re not going to be released.

Over the course of the last three days, what should have been a triumphant moment to unite the country just as we were on September 12^th, 2001, the entire issue of Osama bin Laden’s death has seemingly continued to divide the country. Apparently the administration has no problem with the leaked photos that are available of bin Laden’s couriers that were killed in the compound, but they have a major problem with releasing a photo of the man that masterminded an attack which killed thousands of innocent Americans.

In addition, there is growing hypocrisy on the left and the right. People on the right are arguing that President Bush deserves more credit than President Obama for bin Laden’s demise, which is true to the extent that Bush initiated the War on Terror, even though President Obama ultimately made the final call. The left meanwhile are all up in arms about whether bin Laden should have even been killed, because universally, the left is against violence and death … with the exception of abortion.

With happiness, closure, sadness, anger, doubt and further questioning from Americans abroad, and with the actual story of the raid changing on so many occasions, one has to ask themselves if this victory has become something of an embarrassment for this administration?

Osama bin Laden photos not be released

Following the death of Osama bin Laden on Sunday, theories and speculation have been circulating by some people that they will be rest assured once they have actual evidence to see that the world’s most wanted terrorist was killed by Navy SEALS.

The most significant evidence the White House presently has in its possession? The actual photos of bin Laden riddled with bullets, including a gruesome head wound between his eyes. The photos were taken before bin Laden was thrown into the Arabian Sea.

CIA Director Leon Panetta had initially stated that the photos would be released to the public. Today however, the Obama Administration said the photos would not be released because the images would be “too inflammatory”.

It is a rather debatable move by the White House, because a majority of Americans want to see the photos as proof that the man who has killed thousands of innocent people has indeed been killed and would put conspiracy theories to rest.

However, on the other side of the issue, the Federal Government doesn’t want people to be shocked by such gruesomeness and it could further upset the Middle East, especially al-Qaeda when they see Americans celebrating the death of their “beloved martyr”.

I can honestly say that there wouldn't be much inflammatory reaction by Americans, because just about everybody, including myself, is thrilled beyond reasonable doubt that this scumbag is dead and the photos can’t be any more gruesome than what we see on a daily basis in the movies and on television.

Perhaps Americans will put the pressure on the Obama Administration and demand the release of the photos. In a strange way, this may actually unite the country for a change.

Hint the word “Change”.

Pakistan angry over Osama bin Laden raid

While the U.S. celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden, one of the world’s most wanted criminals, the reaction from the Middle East has been nothing more than pure outrage.

Hamas had publicly condemned the United States; the Muslim Brotherhood is demanding U.S. military forces leave the Middle East immediately and the Taliban is vowing revenge.

But perhaps the most interesting of all was Pakistan's comments, a country that is supposed to be a U.S. ally. Well apparently it seems as though the so-called ‘alliance’ has been rather bleak these days.

Yesterday, former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told CNN-IBN “American troops coming across the border and taking action in one of our towns, that is Abbottabad, is not acceptable to the people of Pakistan, it is a violation of our sovereignty. It would have far better if Pakistani special services group had operated and conducted the mission.”

What a load of crap. It has been the case since the moment we entered Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, that the Pakistan Government has swayed back and forth. First vowing to help the United States combat terrorism and insisting al-Qaeda members are not wanted in Pakistan and then deciding to provide safe haven for Osama bin Laden throughout all of these years. It is patently absurd that the U.S. would agree to cooperate with Pakistan military forces, because if that were the case, Pakistan would have most likely alerted Osama bin Laden’s compound and he would have fled, as he has done many times over the course of the last 10 years.

While Pakistan continues to lie to the United States about helping the Taliban and that they provided a safe haven for bin Laden all this time, we still managed to send them over $3 billion in 2010. How does that image help the United States?

Despite the fact that this evil man masterminded the most horrific attack our country has ever experienced, and the countless bombings throughout Europe, and at African embassies and the Bali nightclub bombings, this man is now garnering tremendous sympathy throughout the Muslim world.

That is a hint with relation to the uprising in the Middle East right now. We have the Muslim Brotherhood destabilizing Egypt and Libya, Hamas and Hezbollah forming a coalition to destroy Israel; Iran and Egypt bridging relations for the first time in 30 years and to completely open up the Gaza Strip.

Yes, the death of Osama bin Laden is a great victory, but his death appears to be nothing more than the end of Chapter 2.

Osama bin Laden: Dead

In a surprise announcement last night, President Obama gave a speech that every American has been waiting to hear: Osama bin Laden is dead.

The mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks had been evading capture for almost ten years ever since President Bush gave the orders to the U.S. military to invade Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and to dismantle the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

According to President Obama, bin Laden was killed in a Navy Seal operative shoot out where he was hiding in a mansion in Pakistan, presumably where he has been hiding since fleeing Afghanistan. His body has been disposed of at sea.

While the death of Osama bin Laden immediately sparked celebrations nationwide and should offer some closure to the families of the men and women killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this does not mean that al-Qaeda is gone.

Immediately following the news that bin Laden was killed, the terrorist group, Hamas, publicly condemned bin Laden’s death saying "We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.”

In other words, there will be a high level of alert, as this news has likely infuriated al-Qaeda and followers of radical Islam. Al-Qaeda has already selected its new leader to succeed bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and most likely, al-Qaeda will continue in its pursuit to do harm to America.

On a side note, while the entire Middle East region is increasingly becoming destabilized, it was interesting to know that Ali Abdullah Saleh, the President of Yemen, after indicating for weeks that he would leave power at the height of protests, refused to cease power on the same day that bin Laden was killed. Yemen just happens to be a country that is infested with al-Qaeda.

For the moment however, this should be an exciting day for Americans and to offer some closure to those families affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is one step closer in combating Islamic terrorism in the Middle East. But when will the battle actually end? We may never know.