Dictatorships and Revolutions
by Nonie Darwish, FrontPage:
The pressure in Egypt has been building for a long time and has now finally exploded – inspired by the events in Tunisia. The fact that the Egyptian government has been taken by surprise is a sign of how disconnected the regime has become from the reality on the ground. Mubarak has wasted many opportunities to transfer power to another administration peacefully. He could have gone down in history as the first Arab leader to conduct a fair election, but instead, he kept ignoring the inevitable and kept re-electing himself for 30 years, followed by grooming his son to take over. Now he will go down in history as just another Arab tyrant in the dysfunctional political history of the Muslim world.
Having been born and raised in the Muslim faith during the generation of the 1952 Egyptian revolution, in which my father held a prominent role in the Nasser revolutionary government of that time, I see things repeating themselves. The Nasser 52 revolution promised freedom, democracy, Arab Nationalism and self-rule. Nasser toppled what he called the tyrant King Farouk, promised a new era of freedom, democracy and prosperity, but ended up giving Egyptians more of the same. The era of Nasser was one of the most oppressive periods in Egyptian history, ushering in a long period of wars, socialism, poverty, illiteracy, and a police state.
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Media Matters Blames The Egyptian Crisis on Those Foreign Policy-Controlling, Media-Owning JEWS
by Jeff Dunetz:
The George Soros funded Media Matters has been waging a months-long attack on Glenn Beck trying to brand the commentator as a card carrying anti-Semite. Perhaps before making false charges against Beck, Media Matters should examine its own house of cards.
In a column published today on Media Matters political correction site, MJ Rosenberg claimed that the current Egyptian crisis was the fault of AIPAC and the “Israel Lobby.” For those of you who have lived on a different planet till today, “Israel Lobby” is a polite way of saying “Jews.” It is based on the old anti-Semitic canard that it is the Jews who control the United States government.
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Florida Judge Rules Against ObamaCare, Individual Mandate Unconstitutional
Florida Judge Rules Against ObamaCare, Individual Mandate Unconstitutional
Elitist privilrge [All animals are equal...]
Air Force withholds Pelosi flight docs; Judicial Watch appealing
Breaking News: Danish Free Press Society President Lars Hedegaard Acquitted…….
In Defense of Free Speech:
This is good news, and the Tundra Tabloids is happy that he was acquitted by the court, but the problem is that he was acquitted solely because he didn’t expect the interview to be made public. More than likely if he had known that the unedited taped interview was going to be disseminated to the public at large, he would still be facing a sentence of some sort. These hate speech laws need to be attacked from every which direction.
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The Media, Reagan and Obama
By Ed Lasky:
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, he has been in the news once again. One way he has been used is to boost the image of Barack Obama.
Some presidents have been used to degrade the image of others. Herbert Hoover was a convenient whipping boy to tar various Republicans through the years. Nixon was the epitome of evil in the White House. The fate of Ronald Reagan has been a curious one. The punditry that savaged him before, during, and after his years in office are now trying to burnish Barack Obama’s image by comparing the two Presidents.
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Code Pink, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorhn, Community Activists, Marxists, Muslim Brotherhood
By Judi McLeod Monday:
Completely missed amid the agonizing cries of human misery in Egypt is that the ending of a United Nations fairytale is being written. The bum’s rush for President Hosni Mubarak has now gone global and from out of nowhere the Muslim Brotherhood-endorsed Mohamed El Bardei has arrived on the protest scene. El Baradei’s got the Nobel Peace Prize. All he’s really missing is the white horse.
Egypt will be turned over to radical Islam leadership. And it would never have happened without President Barack Obama, who first ran the white flag flying over America up the flagpole—without the permission or knowledge of the American people—on April 6, 2010.
That’s the day when Obama—without warning—cancelled America’s ability to defend itself and when he announced the bombshell that he will make the world a nuclear weapons free zone.
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Workers of the World Unite: The American Left’s Role in Leading Mid-East Regime Change
by LaborUnionReport:
“Twitter, Facebook, and various instant messaging platforms (SMS, Skype, Google Chat, etc.) act as force-multipliers for revolutionary movements…” — Jeffrey Carr
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As the world watches Egypt crumble into chaos, with over 100 dead and 2000 injured, the Obama administration continues to be somewhat and rather curiously ambivalent. On the one hand, on Friday, Vice President Biden came to the defense of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, saying that he shouldn’t step aside. Yet, on the same day, the Telegraph (ala Wikileaks) reported that the U.S. had planned “regime change” for the “past three years” while both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton demand that internet be restored to the Egyptian protesters. This morning, Secretary of State Clinton again clarified the United States’ official position, ”We do not want to send any message about backing forward or backing back.”
For all the lack of clarity on where the Obama administration stands, one thing is becoming more and more clear: Signs are beginning to point more toward the likelihood that President Obama’s State Department, unions, as well as Left-leaning media corporations are more directly involved in helping to ignite the Mid-East turmoil than they are publicly admitting.
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Cancer, Carter and Obama
by Michael Ledeen:
There are some eery similarities between Egypt 2011 and Iran 1979, and some of them are unfortunately about American leadership. There are some big differences, too, but for the moment let’s just look at some parallels and try to draw some necessarily tentative conclusions. After all, everything is up for grabs right now and things will probably change a lot in the next few hours and days.
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The Arab world on the brink…but of what?
Melanie Phillips:
Well, what a turn-up for the books. Those same liberal circles which flayed the neo-cons alive for pursuing the apparently ludicrous idea that democracy could ever come to the Arab world are now hailing the current upheavals in that same Arab world as .. a democratic awakening.
Maybe it will be so. For sure some at least of the elements involved want true freedom and human rights. But that particular argument against the neo-cons was not wrong (and before anyone flies to their keyboard, let me clarify that what I support, and have always supported, is the principal belief that drove neo-con thinking — not that democracy in such countries was necessarily achievable, and certainly not overnight, but that there is a moral duty to defeat the jihad in order to defend the west. And that was always a very different matter).
Anyway, back to the crisis at hand.
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Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global food revolutions
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:
If you insist on joining the emerging market party at this stage of the agflation blow-off, avoid countries with an accelerating gap between rich and poor. Cairo’s EGX stock index has dropped 20pc in nine trading sessions.
Events have moved briskly since a Tunisian fruit vendor with a handcart set fire to himself six weeks ago, and in doing so lit the fuse that has detonated Egypt and threatens to topple the political order of the Maghreb, Yemen, and beyond.
As we sit glued to Al-Jazeera watching authority crumble in the cultural and political capital of the Arab world, exhilaration can turn quickly to foreboding.
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If Brotherhood takes over, IDF will face formidable enemy
JPOST:
Analysis: This year is turning into critical one for Israeli isolation in the Mideast. Turkey is gone and Egypt appears to be on way.
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Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt
By Aluf Benn:
Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as “the president who lost Iran,” which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic Republic. Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who “lost” Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America’s alliances in the Middle East crumbled.
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Fed Policy Burns Down the Middle East, Who’s Next?
by Chriss W. Street:
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke launched a second round of Quantitative Easing (QE2) in October, following over a year of growth in the economy at a robust rate of over 3%. Most analysts pooh-poohed QE2 as an insufficient economic stimulus to create enough inflation to reduce unemployment. I warned that QE2 was like pouring inflationary lighter fluid on the world and then lighting a match. With food inflation now running at 15% in poor countries, the Middle East is just the first area to burn, but fire is smoldering in much of the world and other fires will break out soon.
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The riots and revolutionary activity burning down Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt are about gut-level economics. Do you think Americans would riot and throwing out our government if we were forced to cut back to eating 1 1/3 meals a day? Once riots start people in cities hoard food to survive and becomes dangerous for farmers to transport food. This is exacerbates food shortages and drives prices even higher.
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It’s far more complex than food inflation or ‘gut-level economics’ but they are certainly factors in the equation and and various interests are more than happy to exploit them for their own political and religious ends.
QE2 In Tones Of Gray
The View from 1776:
James Pethokoukis’s analysis on the Commentary website of the Fed’s QE2 monetary policy, The Problem with Printing Money, is a fairly evenhanded discussion.
A couple of quibbles:
One, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is not “the foremost academic expert of his generation on the causes of the Great Depression.”
Two, Bernanke is completely wrong. Tightening of the money supply by the Fed in 1927 did not cause the Great Depression.
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NYC: “Long Live the Egyptian Intifada” “Down with the Camp David Accord Regime”
Pam Gellar:
Hundreds of people across America marched in solidarity praying for freedom cravers (and those brutalized Coptic Chrsitians slaughtered by the Muslims) in Egypt. Many good people stand in solidarity with those seeking to live free. Here are some scenes down the block, in front of the UN, in New York City — Saturday “Long the the Egytptian intifada.” And “Down with the Peace David Accords!” That screams volumes.
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Egypt: Please, Not ElBaradei
by Claudia Rosett:
Beware. ElBaradei is no Aung San Suu Kyi. As head of the IAEA, ElBaradei often looked like a shill for Iran — repeatedly glossing over obvious signs of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, obfuscating the realities, and delaying action. In the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick gives a good rundown of how, in the U.S. effort to corral Iran’s nuclear program, ElBaradei was not part of the answer, but part of the problem. Glick also describes ElBaradei’s cozy relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood — progenitor of al-Qaeda and Hamas — quoting him as giving a recent interview to Der Spiegel in which he claimed the Muslim Brotherhood has “not committed any acts of violence in five decades.”
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Oh, Baby!
Fay Voshell:
We don’t know why your mother did not want you, but we do know this: He who made you and formed you perfectly within the womb loved you even when others did not. He sent winged angels to take you to his heart.
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Ike’s Misinterpreted Farewell Address
By Zbigniew Mazurak:
Fifty years ago, on January 16, 1961, President Eisenhower delivered his Farewell Address, in which he warned against “the influence, whether sought or unsought, of the military-industrial complex.” These days, many people misinterpret, misuse, and falsify the meaning of Eisenhower’s speech in order to advance their anti-defense political agenda.
We’re now hearing claims that Eisenhower wanted to warn us against large defense budgets, a large standing military, and the defense industry. We’re being told that if he was alive today, he would have called for deep defense cuts, just like Ron Paul and many liberals have done. We are to believe that Ike would have blamed the Pentagon for America’s budget deficits and debt. But those who perpetuate these ideas are mendaciously using a deceased American hero for political purposes.
What is the truth? What did Eisenhower really mean? The answer lies in Eisenhower’s speeches (including that farewell address) and his presidential policies.
Let’s start with his Farewell Address. Its most oft-quoted part is Eisenhower’s warning that:
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Stratfor reports Hamas moving into Egypt to help the Brotherhood
Rick Moran:
To all those liberals mindlessly cheering on the revolt in Egypt, some sobering news from Stratfor:
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President Stealth
Ed Lasky:
In Britain, unions were given unprecedented power over their managers. The end result was an economy in downfall, falling living standards, and investor capital fleeing -or never coming. Margaret Thatcher broke the back of this economic regime and growth recovered. But only after years of stagnation that set back Britain for many years.
Now the so-called British disease is coming to America, thanks to deft and near invisible sleights of hand by Barack Obama.
He is using one of his favorite tools, the executive order, to bring about big changes in how government workers are managed.
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Carter Redux?
Steve McCann:
For those who lived through the 1979 Iran revolution and the abandonment of the Shah of Iran by the Carter administration, there is a tangible sense of foreboding as to what form the outcome of the current upheaval in Egypt will take.
Like Carter, Obama has made overtures to the Islamists. 1n 1978 Jimmy Carter was on the side of “human rights” and eagerly embraced Ayatollah Khomeini. Carter’s UN Ambassador Andrew Young went so far as to call him “some kind of saint”.
It now turns out that in 2009, the Egyptian daily Almasry Alyoum reported that President Obama secretly met with representatives of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, the Hamas and Al Qaeda ally that has been barred by the US and put on the terror watch list by the Bush administration.
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Unions make up 40 percent of employees exempted from Obamacare
By: David Freddoso:
Yesterday, the Deparment of Health and Human Services announced it had granted more than 500 new waivers to Obamacare’s requirement that health plans have annual limits of no less than $750,000. This annual limit requirement climbs to $1.25 million next year and then to $2 million.
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Posted by Larry O’Connor:
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has gone on a three-day Bachmann-bashing binge over a speech she gave in Iowa last weekend. In the speech, Rep. Bachmann pointed out that the scourge of slavery was a horrible chapter in our country’s history, but we should give credit to our forebears who worked tirelessly to eradicate slavery. As an example, she offered up John Quincy Adams and his relentless efforts on behalf of the abolitionist movement. Here is an excerpt from her speech and Mr. Matthews’ obnoxious assault on her and his guest:
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Obama Justice Department Colluded with ACLU to Attack Arizona’s SB 1070 According to Documents Uncovered by Judicial Watch
JUDICIAL WATCH:
ACLU Rep to DOJ Official: “Yes, a real pleasure to be on the same side.”
Contact Information:
Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305Washington, DC — January 27, 2011
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today announced that it has received documents from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that show DOJ worked hand-in-hand with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in mounting their respective legal challenges to SB 1070, Arizona’s get-tough illegal immigration law. The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed on June 17, 2010, include email exchanges between DOJ officials and ACLU staff.
Included among the documents obtained by Judicial Watch is a July 27, 2010, email exchange between Lucas Guttentag, leader of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and the DOJ’s Edwin Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General:
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Imagery on the Right and Left: Why Did the Rabbis Pick on the Right?
by Alan M. Dershowitz:
The inappropriate use of Holocaust and Nazi imagery to attack political opponents is rampant both on the left and the right and both among Jews and non-Jews. In fact, it seems far more prevalent on the left, many of whose most vocal ideologues invoke it against all manner of enemy ranging from George W. Bush, to Israel, to me (“Zionazi”). Rabbi Michael Lerner and his supporters refer to Kristallnacht when attacking those who criticize them. Rabbi Arthur Woskow decries the possibility of a nuclear Holocaust. Keith Olbermann repeatedly invokes Nazi imagery. Move On, an organization funded by George Soros, produced a video showing pictures of Hitler and Nazi rallies and claiming that Hitler’s war crimes have become President Bush’s foreign policy. Norman Finkelstein, whose articles are published and praised by Michael Lerner, repeatedly compares the Israeli army to the Gestapo. Gilad Atzmon apologizes for making such a comparison, arguing that the Israeli army is far worse than the Gestapo.
There are also several prominent Israeli professors who regularly compare Israel and Nazi Germany. And just a week or so before the Wall Street Journal ad appeared, a prominent Jewish liberal congressman, Steve Cohen, compared Republican arguments against Obama healthcare to the “big lies” told by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
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