Monday, March 21, 2011

What Happens When You Drop A Bomb?

What Happens When You Drop A Bomb? (10:58 video)
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/520.html

It takes a while to get to the point of this video, but frankly only the serious and tough minded are going to be able to look at the footage when it arrives.

This is the reality of war.

Utterly innocent people slaughtered by the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, the millions - based on lies.

They're not even honored in death. Their murders are covered up and swept under the rug by a psychotically corrupt news media.

There's no "just cause" for this.

War has long ago ceased being a contest between brave soldiers.

It's pure evil to drop a bomb in a settled area, no matter who is doing it.

Never, ever interact with a government official without having a recorder running.

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FW: [CCCC-USA] Fwd: FW: Fw: Oil

sign me
daniel karl seigler, born in Fort Benning, Cussetta County, Georgia, son of
Clarance Roland O'Neil Seigler, born in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama, son of
Thomas Malcolm Seigler, born somewhere in Alabama

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:56:22 -0700
From: therealbeadweaver2002@yahoo.com
Subject: Fw: [CCCC-USA] Fwd: FW: Fw: Oil
To: danielseigler@hotmail.com; seiglerlaurencec@bellsouth.net

even if the this was NOT written by the individual credited, IF the information concerning the area is valid, who cares who wrote it...

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We are being royally screwed by                              big government.

                                                                                                    Subject:                                  The real story of ANWAR oil in                                  Alaska

Interesting                                  and factual.  It's been more than                                  obvious the current administration doesn't have                                  a clue about our energy policy!

Thank you                                  to this family for putting their time and energy                                  into sharing a very interesting first hand                                  account of what is going                                  on: 

My                                  daughter and son-in-law were in L.A.  last                                  week from their home in Anchorage .  He is                                  a foreman in the oil fields at AMWR.  He                                  has to fly his own plane to get to the job where                                  he spends months at a time in the most God                                  forsaken place this side of Siberia .  He                                  confirmed everything that is in this story, and                                  brought dozens of pictures for                                  proof.  

Our                                  environmentalist friends have forced gas prices                                  up to an impossible rate, forcing us to buy oil                                  from our enemies, for whatever reason that                                  simply isn't true.  There is enough oil in                                  AMWR to supply the US at our present rate of                                  usage for more than 200 years.  The space                                  that AMWR occupies in Alaska is equivalent to a                                  postage stamp in the Mojave Desert  .                                   

 If you won't mind                                  paying $5.00 a gallon in the very near future                                  try to make sense of the                                  following:  

Something                                  you should know: Oil!!

This is the best                                  presentation on ANWR I have                                  seen.  

I would like to                                  add a little more information. A new pipeline                                  across  Alaska isn't required since                                  the location for drilling in ANWR is about 160                                  miles from the North Slope Prudhoe Bay pipeline                                  where it would be connected. 

I did                                  not know this. Secondly, the wildlife love                                  the pipeline since it is heated and provides a                                  shelter during the worst times during the                                  winter. 

Do you know what ANWR                                  is?   ANSWER: Arctic National                                  Wildlife                                  Refuge.  

                                                                Now a                                  comparison...   

  And                                  some perspective?   

NOTE                                  WHERE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AREA                                  IS?   (it's in the "ANWR Coastal                                  Plain")   

THIS                                  IS WHAT WE HAVE                                  BEEN SHOWN  WHEN THE                                  GOVERNMENT TALKS ABOUT ANWR.  They are                                  right... these ARE  photographs of                                  ANWR,  NOT of the costal                                  plain.   

 ISN'T                                  ANWR BEAUTIFUL?  

WHY                                   SHOULD WE DRILL HERE  AND DESTROY THIS                                  BEAUTIFUL  PLACE? 

WELL                                  THAT'S NOT EXACTLY  THE                                  TRUTH 

The                                  map shows that the proposed drilling area                                  is in the ANWR                                  Coastal Plain.

Do                                  those photographs look like a coastal plain                                  to                                  you?   
WHAT'S                                  GOING ON HERE?   THE ANSWER IS                                  SIMPLE...   
THAT IS NOT WHERE                                  THEY ARE  WANTING TO                                  DRILL!  

THIS                                  IS WHAT THE PROPOSED  EXPLORATION AREA                                  ACTUALLY  LOOKS LIKE IN THE                                  WINTER.     

AND                                  THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE                                  SUMMER.   

HERE ARE A COUPLE                                  SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE                                  EARTH    

AS YOU CAN SEE,                                  THE AREA WHERE THEY ARE TALKING                                  ABOUT DRILLING IS A BARREN                                  WASTELAND.   

OH,                                   AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT                                  THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL                                  WILDLIFE?  

HERE IS                                  A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE                                   "DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION.                                    

  HERE'S                                  THAT SAME SPOT DURING THE                                  WINTER.  

HEY,                                  THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE                                  NEAR Prudho Bay                                       

The Prudhoe                                  bay area accounts for 17% of  U.S. Domestic                                  oil                                  production.  
NOW,                                  WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS LYING                                  ABOUT                                  ANWR?   

REMEMBER                                  WHEN  AL GORE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT                                  SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES TO                                  $5.00 A GALLON?  

WELL,                                  AL GORE AND HIS PALS HAVE ALMOST                                  REACHED THEIR GOAL!  

NOW                                  THAT YOU KNOW WHATS REALLY GOING ON...WHAT ARE                                  YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT                                  IT?     

YOU CAN                                  START BY FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE YOU                                  KNOW  SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW THE TRUTH,                                  TOO...
LIKE I                                  JUST DID.

FW: [CCCC-USA] Fwd: FW: May interest you..........

 
        This may be useful to know when shopping, if it's a concern to      you. 

The      whole world is afraid of China-made "black hearted goods".

Can you      differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China ?

If      the first 3 digits of the barcode are 690, 691 or 692, the product is      MADE IN CHINA.
 
     471 is Made in Taiwan      .. 
   
This is our right to know, but the      government and related departments never educate the public, therefore we      have to RESCUE ourselves.

Nowadays,  Chinese businessmen      know that consumers do not prefer products "MADE IN CHINA ", so they don't      show from which country it is made.   

However, you may now      refer to the barcode, remember if the first 3 digits      are:

690-692 … then      it is MADE IN CHINA ..
00 - 09 … USA &      CANADA
30 - 37 … FRANCE
40      - 44 … GERMANY
47      .... Taiwan
49 … JAPAN
50 … UK

BUY USA by      watching for "0" at the beginning of the number.  We need every boost      we can get!
 
Boise      Paper & Packaging: Renewable. Recyclable.      Sustainable.

NEW 9/11 VIDEO: What Hit the South Tower?

I make no claims. I am merely posting for those who have not seen this WNBC helicopter footage.

What Hit the South Tower?
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/911/911-foia-south-tower-strike-wnbc-helicopter-video-nist-release-.html

"This clip of raw, uncut footage was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act..."

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Fun fact of the day

My friend who travels to Africa, mainly Sudan and Egypt, told me something recently and when I googled it there it was

Rural African farmers teach their sons (why not daughters?) to perform cunnilingus on cows to make them produce more milk

http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/AFRICAOLD.HTM

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The Plot to Destroy the US Military

Daniel Greenfield article: The Plot to Destroy the US Military

The Plot to Destroy the US Military

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 07:36 PM PDT

In two generations we have gone from General Patton telling his troops to grease their tanks with the enemy's guts to an extensive purge of Navy command officers over a series of raunchy video skits. Slowly but surely we are turning the greatest armed forces into the world, into the most politically correct disarmed forces the world has ever seen.

The USS Enterprise crackdown, like the firing of General McChrystal and the push to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", completely ignore military realities for political objectives. A political military is also a useless military. Stalin's purges of the Russian Army's commanders left the Soviet Union completely unprepared for the Nazi attack. And the US military is being shaped along the same lines into a political military overseen by men whose chief credential is that they share the same politics as the politicians whom they serve.

A congressional report now says that the US military has too many white males at the top. Women are being kept out of the highest ranks because they lack combat experience. The report calls on the military leadership to "better reflect the racial, ethnic and gender mix of American society". Which is code for affirmative action. If we didn't have enough incompetents at the top, we can look forward to an affirmative action military in which the generals will be there because of the color of their skin or their gender, not because they're the best at what they do.

The mandate that every civic institution has to reflect the multicultural politics of the liberal elites reflects their determination to impose their vision on the country by hijacking its institutions. And every institution touched by their vision has become functionally useless, incapable of performing even their simplest tasks, but always needing more money. America's great cities have become sinkholes. The Postal Service is on the verge of extinction. And now it's the military's turn.

Such dramatic overhauls of the military usually take place because it is culturally out of step with the government. Would be tyrants, such as Turkey's Erdogan, go after the military because it represents a barrier to absolute power. Others because the military is a barrier to their agenda. Sharon destroyed the once great IDF, purging its commanders and replacing them with political generals in order to push through his ethnic cleansing of the Jewish communities in Gaza, leading to the disastrous performance in the Second Lebanon War. The Democrats may not have anything as ambitious in mind, but they are determined to bring it culturally into line with their agenda. And that will destroy the military as anything other than a politically correct corps that will occasionally show up for UN peacekeeping missions.

This did not begin yesterday. The left has hated the American military because it is a vehicle of national exceptionalism. A strong military gives the country a sense of independence and confidence that many European countries have lost. During the Vietnam War, the Anti-War movement targeted the military as an institution and the soldier as an individual, in order to destroy America's ability to take independent military action. Despite the abolition of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the left has continued its vocal opposition to an ROTC presence on campus. When a wounded Iraq War veteran spoke at Columbia, he was booed and jeered. Their excuse is that the military "discriminates" against transsexuals. And when that barrier too is dismantled, then there will be something else. It's not about gays or transsexuals, it's about a deep rooted ideological hostility to the military. Not because of any specific policy, but because of what it represents as the defenders of a country and an order that the left would like to see destroyed.

The War on Terror began a new phase of leftist terror against the military, with political organizations, the media and lawyers joining forces to demonize and demoralize the armed forces. They had a limited success until Abu Ghraib opened the door to a variety of prosecutions. The message shifted from soldiers as heroes, to soldiers as villains. Washington D.C.'s message to the military became to be unobtrusive and avoid embarrassing us-- while still getting results. From the man in the field to the man in the big office, if you do something that catches the media's unblinking eye, we will hang you out to dry. The panic that set in after Abu Ghraib kept sending shivers through the establishment. Good men were dragged through the mud to show our good faith, our willingness to burn our own at the stake of public relations.

But the bug was always in the system. Because once the initial fighting was done, Afghanistan and Iraq became political objectives. Turning a mess of tribal warlords and urban religious factions into working democracies became the mission. A political mission laid out in Foggy Bottom by men who never have to go out and die for it. And the men who did, went on dying because it was an impossible political objective. The worse the situation became, the more their hands were tied. Forgotten by the media which once turned every death into a cause, American soldiers are dying in Afghanistan because of Rules of Engagement that are meant to win over the locals. The locals have not been won over, but the graves in military cemeteries keep on growing.

Thousands of Americans died on 9/11 because of a failure to identify the enemy. Thousands of Americans have died since then in Iraq and Afghanistan for the same reason. Because our governments invested their lives into the implementation of optimistic theories about human nature and democracy. A theory they had to cobble together from bits and pieces, because the reality was too ugly and uncompromisable for them to face. So they lied to us instead. And they lied to the men they sent off to die, so that wells might be dug and generators started, candy handed out to smiling children and elections held in crowded cities. Now the wells have been dug, and so have the graves, and the Taliban are still here, and the Mullahs spread their shadowy wings over the region.

Now two airmen are shot in Germany by a Kosovar Muslim, another child of our efforts to bring peace and democracy. And because German officials do not know enough to lie about what happened, the media winces and uncomfortably reports the truth, while Obama mumbles empty platitudes and PJ Crowley wonders aloud how you go about defining terrorism. That is another one of those political problems. Politicians and their camp followers are very much concerned with defining things, not according to their meanings, but their implications. Defining what happened in Frankfurt or Fort Hood as terrorism would require action. And not the politically appropriate kind.

Politics is about the manipulation of reality, but on the battlefield there is only reality itself. Political objectives break against such realities, and when there is enough intellectual and cultural distance between the politicians and the soldiers, then the soldiers go on dying. Islam is one of those realities. The Jihadi is not a figment of some right wing blogger's imagination, as so many of the intellectual influences on the present administration would like to believe. Nor is he a member of some tiny minority that disturbs the peace of an otherwise peaceable region. He represents the hole in the ideal world that sits on antique desks in Washington and Brussels. The blind spot of their politics, their idealism and their faith that the world is becoming a better place. Even as countless politicians and academics have decided on their golden future, a knife comes flying out of the dark places of the past. The unfinished business of history toppling the progressive towers in savagery and hate.

While the next wave of violence was being birthed in caverns and huts, the American military establishment was busy debating how to comply with the political objective of integrating gays into the military. No satirist could have come up with a more absurd scenario in wartime. But life always outdoes the satirist, if he waits around long enough. One day those solemn discussions may go down with Caligula's horse in the Senate as moments of blinding insanity by the leaders of a great power come completely untethered from reality. They are damning because they represent a terrible disassociation from the military as a means of defending the society, to the military as a representative of the ideals of society's political representatives.

To the politicians, the military must represent their ideals. And so the military has become the peace corps, the tolerance corps and eventually nothing but a series of defense contracts for Green energy and Global Warming defense. Give this bunch in charge another few years and the key national security objective will be defined as fighting Global Warming and the army will be recruiting environmentalists to promote sustainable living in Afghanistan. The left has never understood why we needed to fight terrorism at all, instead of its root causes, such as globalism, global warming and other things that begin with 'G'. It is lunacy, but so was the Bush Administration's deeply held belief that the only thing wrong with the Muslim world was a lack of voting booths.

The underlying problem is that neither administration was very clear on what the military was for. They were and are even less clear on what reality is. They used the military as a vehicle for their ideals and their global vision. The world in their minds is one great line of dominoes and they have a moral obligation to send them flying in the right direction. This childish world-image collides with reality, men die, and still the dominoes go on falling in the game rooms of their minds.

The Muslim world still understands war in the old sense, a contest in which forces war to impose their will on one another. Their war is one of attrition. They cannot beat us in a straight contest, but give them enough time and they can still make us retreat.

They want to impose Islam on us so that we too will cry Allah Akbar, acknowledging the supremacy of their culture and race over our own .We want to impose something on them, but we don't know quite what it is. It's usually some muddled form of democracy, rights, freedoms, unions, multiculturalism, a dim murky mirror image of ourselves. But if the British couldn't do it after generations of colonialism, what in the world makes us think that we can.

The Muslim world has hated us ever since it learned that we existed, sometimes with the calmly implacable hatred of the other, sometimes with the burning rage of frustrated honor, sometimes hidden behind unctuous smiles, and sometimes with full throated bellows of rage. In this contest we are the weaker party because we hate less. Often we do not hate at all. And like tourists wandering with money in our hands through the bazaars of Cairo, that makes us vulnerable. Our enemies pride themselves not on their strength of arms, their intelligence or competence-- but on the strength of their hate. It is a fevered hate that would break itself against our arms, our intelligence and our competence-- if we were to actually make use of them.

It is not that we lack the ability to defend ourselves. It is that we lack the understanding and the will. Our leaders aspire to a purity of ideals that transcends self-interest, and such Gandhian austerity is another form of death. To say that we would rather die than defend ourselves is to commit suicide. To place a society's ideals above its survival is folly, as the society's doom is also the doom of its ideals. And those who do this are no longer following ideals, but a peculiar and fanatical faith of their own that compels them to die rather than spill a drop of the enemy's blood. But there is a more commonplace form of folly, to define reality narrowly by those ideals and to send men out into the trenches to die for them. After doing it a few too many times, Europe decided that it would no longer send men off to die for any reason, and then was forced to do it anyway.

Now the civilized world has decided that it will not send men off to die except for wholly unselfish reasons, pure 'good of other men' reasons, sanctified by the blessing of the UN and the international community. Good and pure 'feed the starving children' type reasons. No more greedy warmongering or cynical landgrabbing. We are now a good and pure people who rarely kill, and if we kill, it is only because we have absolutely no other choice. Why we would rather die than kill, and often do.

But war is selfish, not altruistic. It is a selfish decision to take the life of another, rather than our own or that of our loved ones or our fellow men. Its nobility comes from that very selfishness, a selfishness rooted in kinship and friendship, rather than the abstract ideals which so often come down to nothing. If we are to fight, then we must be selfish. If we are to win, then we must be realistic. Politics has no place on the battlefield. The only thing worth fighting for is ourselves. Our land, our homes, our survival. It is one thing to fight side by side in alliance with friends, but fighting wars to reform enemies is the worst sort of foolishness. We can try to transform our enemies, but then they will transform us also as well. By trying to win over Islam to our way of life, we have given it great influence over us.

To avoid casualties, we have become cleverer weaponsmiths, devising ways to avoid facing that bullet. But that cleverness often seems like cowardice. To avoid suicide bombers, Israel built up walls and border defenses. And then the terrorists began to shoot rockets over the fences. So Israel built and deployed, 'Iron Dome' a counter-rocket system. And after all this effort, Israel is still under siege because the enemy is still there. An enemy that Israel could easily defeat, if its leaders had the political will. All the clever technologies create a space age ghetto, surrounded by enemies who were once enclosed, but with each retreat, are the ones doing the enclosing.

The rest of the free world is cleverly building its own ghettos, dividing so that the conquerors will have an easier time of it. Worrying over the morals and ethics of their actions. Purifying its armies to reflect its ideals of tolerance, co-existence and surrendering before the first shot has even been fired.

For now the First World has the best soldiers and the worst leaders. And it would have almost be better if it were the other way around. The generals who are the interface between the two have become politicians. The armies rot, go unused or misused, and the enemy passes right around them. We can't win if we don't fight, and we aren't fighting. Not for ourselves anyway. For the purity of our ideals, and for some notion that everyone is entitled to a voting booth, birth control and microfinance, but not for ourselves. And until we start fighting for ourselves, until we find leaders who want to defend a country, rather than a set of ideals, then we will go on spending the lives of our soldiers for nothing and the future of our civilization for a tin penny prize.

Obama Marks Iranian Holiday

Is there anything else this guy can do to totally disgust the people of America?

http://tinyurl.com/4edb3vw

Obama Marks Iranian Holiday

Fire it up

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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

March 20, 2011

Remarks of President Obama Marking Nowruz
A link to the video can be found HERE.
Today, I want to extend my best wishes to all who are celebrating Nowruz in the United States and around the world.

Each year of my presidency, I have marked this holiday by speaking directly to the people of Iran. That is what I would like to do once more.

This is a holiday for the Iranian people to spend time with friends and family; to reflect on the extraordinary blessings that you enjoy; and to look forward to the promise of a new day. After all, this is a season of hope and renewal. And today, we know that this is also a season of promise across the Middle East and North Africa, even as there are also enormous challenges.

I believe that there are certain values that are universal - the freedom of peaceful assembly and association; the ability to speak your mind and choose your leaders. And what we are seeing across the region is the insistence on governments that are accountable to the people.

But we also know that these movements for change are not unique to these last few months. The same forces of hope that swept across Tahrir Square were seen in Azadi Square in June of 2009. And just as the people of the region have insisted that they have a choice in how they are governed, so do the governments of the region have a choice in their response.

So far, the Iranian government has responded by demonstrating that it cares far more about preserving its own power than respecting the rights of the Iranian people.

For nearly two years, there has been a campaign of intimidation and abuse. Young and old; men and women; rich and poor - the Iranian people have been persecuted. Hundreds of prisoners of conscience are in jail. The innocent have gone missing. Journalists have been silenced. Women tortured. Children sentenced to death.

The world has watched these unjust actions with alarm. We have seen Nasrin Sotoudeh
jailed for defending human rights; Jaffar Panahi imprisoned and unable to make his films; Abdolreza Tajik thrown in jail for being a journalist. The Bahai community and Sufi Muslims punished for their faith; Mohammad Valian a young student, sentenced to death for throwing three stones.

These choices do not demonstrate strength, they show fear. For it is telling when a government is so afraid of its own citizens that it won't even allow them the freedom to access information or to communicate with each other. But the future of Iran will not be shaped by fear. The future of Iran belongs to the young people - the youth who will determine their own destiny.

Over 60 percent of the Iranian people were born after 1979. You are not bound by the chains of the past - the distracting hatred of America that will create no jobs or opportunity; the rigid and unaccountable government; the refusal to let the Iranian people realize their full potential for fear of undermining the authority of the state.

Instead, you - the young people of Iran - carry within you both the ancient greatness of Persian civilization, and the power to forge a country that is responsive to your aspirations. Your talent, your hopes, and your choices will shape the future of Iran, and help light the world. And though times may seem dark, I want you to know that I am with you.

On this day - a celebration that serves as a bridge from the past to the future - I would like to close with a quote from the poet Simin Behbahani - a woman who has been banned from travelling beyond Iran, even though her words have moved the world: "Old, I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn. I will begin a second youth alongside my progeny. I will recite the Hadith of love of country with such fervor as to make each word bear life."

Let this be a season of second youth for all Iranians - a time in which a new season bears new life once more. Thank you. And Aid-e-Shoma Mobarak.

JP APPEAL FOR HOLY QURAN COPIES

From: bin_wallid_charity@yahoo.com
Subject: APPEAL FOR HOLY QURAN COPIES

BISMILAHI RAHMANI RAHIM

ASSALAMU ALAKUM WARAMATULAHI WABARAKATUH

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam,

We write to request for more Qur'an copies, due to the shortage of Qur'an books in Ghana, we would be there for grateful if the above mention quantities of the Holy Quran are considered to enable us organize the Quranic reading and memorization contest we are organizing,
We are in need of 1000 copies of Holy Qur'ans, either Arabic translated in English or Arabic version, These copies of the Holy Qur'ans are going to be distributed among the participant students who have done well, also to some schools, Mosques and some individual Muslims who can afford to buy one, Please if you find it difficult to send us the up to the number we requested, kindly send us what you can afford or you pass our request to any individual Muslim who is prepared to help, Every kindness will be rewarded ten fold, so may Allah swt. bless your efforts and rewards you abundantly.
We hope this our humble request will receive your immediate attention,
Thanking you in advance,
Jazakumulahu khairan,
Yours sincerely Brothers and Sisters in Islam

Director.SHEIKH ISSA AHMED,
ISSA AHMED BIN WALLID,
CHARITABLE SOCIETY
P.O. BOX GP 20417,
ACCRA- GHANA- W/A.
TEL: 00233-244-755516