Obama Funds Hamas Immigration to U.S. Behind Our Backs -- HB 1388 PASSED

(Analyst's note by the friend who shared this information with us: Well, he did it. Obiwan signed a bill to let thousands of Palestinians into this country and be eligible for Medical, housing, welfare, schooling, health care, etc. We really need more Muslims in this country who want to convert or kill us, who want us to practice Sharia law, to close down businesses on Muslim Holidays and to be training to disperse and set off explosions in every part of this country to take us down. He is betting on it. I thought we needed money for health care - well here goes another $20M plus benefits that we will pay for and lose as well. Why is our congress letting him do this? Although I think this one was in his range of private spending that did not require congressional support. Not sure but will find out tomorrow. But enough of this guy, tell him to resign and deport him to Kenya because that is where he is a citizen of.) -- Maybe this private citizen will let us know what he's really thinking next time. Yes, this is an absolutely must read item.

You just spent $20,000,000 to move members/supporters of Hamas, a
terrorist organization, to the United States ; housing, food, the whole enchilada.

HB 1388 PASSED

Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to
know....

Something happened.... H.R. 1388 was passed, behind our backs. You may
want to read about it.. It wasn ' t mentioned on the news... just went by
on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN
screen.

Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the
USA . This is the news that didn't make the headlines...

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of
$20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and
"conflict victims" in Gaza .

The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States , was
signed and appears in the Federal Register.

Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a
free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who
have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance
Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

Let's review....itemized list of some of Barack Obama ' s most recent
actions since his inauguration:

His first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas,
leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.

His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was
with Al Arabia television.

His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just
here within the U. S. , but within the world, using U. S. tax payer
funds.

He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees
halted.

He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.

He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and
the "terror attack" on 9/11.

Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.

These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding
bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.

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PLEASE PASS THIS ON... AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW

WE are losing this country at a rapid pace.

Obama scrapping U.S. missile shield in Europe Pentagon confirms 'major adjustment' involving radar sites in Poland, Czech Republic

Colonel rebuts Obama war plan

By David Centofante

On Sept. 11, retired Army Lt. Col. Allen B. West appeared at several events in the Washington area and addressed audiences on the war on terror. He had fighting words and vigorously challenged the Obama administration's approach.

Col. West was present at a Sept. 11 vigil at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, sponsored by the Free Republic, a grass-roots, independent, conservative, online resource. He paid tribute to those who died eight years ago and lampooned the language currently used to describe America's enemies.

"We have a recalcitrance to call the enemy, the enemy," Col. West said during his address. "We now don't want to say we're fighting a war."

Col. West has been sounding alarm bells at the Obama administration's attempt to induce a cultural shift by changing the language used to address America's combat operations. In March, the administration began to strip the term "global war on terror" from the defense community's vernacular. The term "overseas contingency operations" is being used instead. In addition, the term "terrorism" has been replaced with the phrase "man-caused disasters" by administration officials, such as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

President Obama has "used that phrase [war on terrorism], but he's also used different words and phrases in order to denote a reaching out to many moderate parts of the world that we believe can be important in a battle against extremists," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in a news briefing in February.

The last time the president used the phrase "war on terror" was on Jan. 23, his fourth day as president, according to a report published in The Washington Times. In August, John Brennan, head of the White House Homeland Security Office, said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the administration will not use the phrase "war on terror" due to the fact that "terrorism is but a tactic - a means to an end, which in al Qaeda's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate." In addition, "global war" is imprecise in his view because it connotes that al Qaeda is "a highly organized, global entity capable of replacing sovereign nations with a global caliphate."

Col. West disagrees. ....

During the memorial, Col. West challenged the Obama administration's decision to declare Sept. 11 a national day of service, calling it the dilution of the meaning of the 2001 attacks. "This is a day of remembrance for the most heinous crime that was ever perpetrated against our nation - it is not a national service day," he said.

Col. West said that if administration officials continue to change the significance of Sept. 11, "Pearl Harbor will be a remembrance of Japanese seamanship."

The White House declined to comment on the record but pointed The Washington Times to a description of a Sept. 11 service conception by the families of the attack victims. The September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance was launched by the organization MyGoodDeed in collaboration with some of the family members of the victims.

Earlier that day, Col. West addressed the Center for Security Policy's National Security Working Group on Capitol Hill. His speech had a similar message: communication matters. The correct terminology, in his view, is important for recognizing and identifying the enemy and rallying domestic support. In addition, appropriate language is also useful for information operations in combating the enemy, he said.

According to Col. West, a number of strategic goals must be achieved in order to secure victory in Afghanistan, one of which is preventing vital areas from being influenced by the opponents of coalition forces. He suggests that the U.S. try to communicate directly with the Afghan people.

Military bases that the U.S. is building in Afghanistan should be outfitted with radio transmitters, he said. This would emulate a similar program by the British in Helmand province that broadcasts throughout southern Afghanistan. It also would complement Radio Free Afghanistan's Azadi radio station, which is widely popular in the nation.

Col. West's communications strategy takes into consideration the high rate of illiteracy in Afghanistan. The CIA World Factbook estimates that about 28 percent of the Afghan population is literate.

Col. West also provided observations and assessments based on his combat experience in Afghanistan. He spoke about the need for greater security for the Afghan population. He said that without proper security from internal and external forces, a state cannot guarantee the rights and freedom of its people.

"Schools being open are a great thing, but at night the Taliban comes in to destroy those schools. If we cannot provide security, young girls will still be gunned down when they walk away from those schools," said Col. West.

He recommended a revision of the new rules of engagement issued by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, which do not allow soldiers to engage forward enemy observers. Forward enemy observers are those who conduct intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance but do not carry weapons and do not appear to display hostile intent. Since they are unarmed, they are not considered legitimate targets and cannot be engaged. In Col. West's view, this puts our troops at a significant disadvantage on the battlefield.

"The war on terror is a worldwide conflagration. It is not restricted to any certain country or theater of operation, and if we do not start developing goals and objectives at the strategic level and tying it in to what our soldiers, our men, women, airmen and Marines are doing on the ground, we are going to follow the same suit as Vietnam," Col. West said. "We cannot afford to lose to this enemy."

China could undermine US military power in Pacific: Gates

from Breitbart

China's increasingly advanced weaponry could undermine US military power in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday.

Echoing US intelligence guidelines released on Tuesday that warned of Beijing's military modernization, Gates said US naval carriers and air bases in the Pacific faced new threats from China.

"In fact, when considering the military-modernization programs of countries like China, we should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the US symmetrically -- fighter to fighter or ship to ship -- and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options," Gates said in a speech to the Air Force Association.

"Investments in cyber and anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry, and ballistic missiles could threaten America's primary way to project power and help allies in the Pacific -- in particular our forward air bases and carrier strike groups," Gates said in National Harbor, Maryland.

The new threats meant long-range military aircraft would take on greater importance as the latest weaponry would "degrade the effectiveness of short-range fighters and put more of a premium on being able to strike from over the horizon -- whatever form that capability might take," he said.

When Bishops Despise Their Enemies and Bear False Witness

By Roy Beck

The immigration debate often brings out the worst in people, but it still is disappointing to see the sad display by a number of bishops and other religious leaders yesterday outside the Capitol. They used their prayer vigil to spew hatred at their fellow Christians and other Americans working to reduce immigration in order to help the most vulnerable members of our society.

Look at the Episcopal news service story below that describes the vigil land the sentiments behind it.

The United Methodist, Episcopal and Catholic bishops held the prayer vigil/publicity event to call for an end to hateful rhetoric in the immigration debate.

But as far as I can see most of the hateful rhetoric this week has come from organizations campaigning for amnesty and higher immigration. All the mud-slinging and name-calling has come from America's Voice, the National Council of La Raza, their close allies in Congress and now from these religious leaders.

I'm not hearing our the leaders on our side call immigrants names or demonize them. What I hear from our side is a request for a rational public policy debate about how to set a reasonable number for immigration and how to enforce that law. ....

Bin Laden to U.S.: ‘Drop Israel, Let's Talk’

by Dr. Walid Phares

Why is Osama bin Laden suddenly placing more blame than usual upon Israel for the al Qaeda attacks on 9/11?

Saving Western Civilization One Toddler at a Time – Or – What Worked for Levittown Can Work Again

by Robert Weissberg

Birthrates are a battle between the First and Third worlds, yet this demographic disaster is discussed only privately and cloaked in euphemisms.

The Sinking Lifeboat: Uncontrolled Immigration and the U.S. Health Care System in 2009

The Editors of Family Security Matters

America’s health care system is in crisis – one way to address this would be to address uncontrolled immigration. Will Washington do the right thing for the American people?

Had Enough Yet?

by Tom McLaughlin

What caused ordinary men and women to make signs and journey to Washington in huge numbers? Something’s happening out there. Something different. Something big.

Dr. Doom's not-so-dire projections

by Sara Behunek

Famed economist Nouriel Roubini may be known as Doctor Doom, but his outlook for the course of the recovery is, in essence, no less dire than that held by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said on Tuesday -- one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. -- that the "recession was likely technically over."

Speaking Tuesday evening at New York University's Money Marketeers event in downtown Manhattan, the NYU professor and chairman of consulting firm RGE Monitor stated that, "At worst, the recession would be technically over by the end of the year," and that for the next two quarters -- the third and fourth quarters -- the U.S. and other advanced economies would experience robust economic growth of 3% or more. Ultimately, Roubini (like Bernanke) expects the recovery to resemble a U-shape thanks to far-reaching government programs. (See Dealscape's Matthew Wurtzel's take on Roubini's alphabetical posturing here).

Rather rosy for Dr. Doom, no?

However, the timing of a technical end is not all that important, he claimed.

I think the key issue is not the question of whether recession is over today or over in three months or whether there'll be a couple quarters of high economic growth, but rather over the medium term, whether in the especially advanced economies, growth is going to be robust or whether there is a risk of a much more anemic recovery, or even the risk of a double dip.

Despite expected initial progress in the third and fourth quarters, Roubini thinks the recovery will hew closely to the latter. In funereal tone, he said that the process of climbing out of what some call the Great Recession would be arduous and specked with land mines, such as the threat of a premature exit of government programs -- or just as detrimental, a stalled exit. The current rally is not sustainable, he maintained, and the market would undergo a correction beginning in the fourth quarter. Following that, the economy would grow at a snail's pace of 1.5% for the next few years, with the euro zone and Japan lagging at 1%.

Overall, though, it is becoming increasingly clear that Roubini and his economic views no longer exist in the fray -- or perhaps everyone else has just imbibed a spoonful of doom.

Eligibility lawyer urges focus on the goal Taitz says 'attacks' need to be directed at Obama

from WorldNetDaily

One of the key attorneys

working on the challenges to Barack Obama's eligibility to be president – and the first to actually obtain a trial date in federal court on the question – says doubters should be questioning Obama, not her.

Various accusations have been cluttering the blogosphere in recent weeks, and today Orly Taitz, an attorney working on a number of cases brought to challenge Obama's eligibility under the U.S. Constitution's requirements that the president be a "natural born" citizen, addressed them on her her blog.

"Please don't listen to vicious rumors," Taitz wrote. "I am getting close to removing the usurper and there are more and more vicious rumors about me and my whole family. It is 5:30 in the morning and I had to cut on sleep yet again to take some time and debunk all those vicious rumors."

She continued, "I hope people stop attacking my family and start attacking Obama and demand that he produce his vital records immediately or resign or be removed immediately. Judge [David] Carter has written, 'Court encourages discovery before the scheduling conference' (it is on October 5th) I have submitted a proposed deposition schedule. Let's make sure Obama shows up for his deposition with his hospital birth certificate ready for examination."

Ron Paul's Fed audit has majority support 'There's going to be a lot of hollering and screaming before this is over'

By Bob Unruh

Federal Reserve

U.S. House hearings are scheduled to start a week from now on a proposal from U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, to audit the Federal Reserve, which oversees U.S. monetary policy, and the congressman believes the plan actually could become law this time.

Paul, who has sponsored similar legislation on and off since the 1980s, during this Congress for the first time is seeing significant support for the idea of looking into the actions of the decision-makers who set interest rates and take myriad other actions that affect Americans' financial well-being.

The Federal Reserve, an independent organization apart from the U.S. government, largely has operated behind a veil of secrecy for decades, but Paul told WND today that its operations could be about to face the light of day. ....

Sunstein: 'Desirable' to give U.S. wealth to poor nations

By Aaron Klein

Cass Sunstein

JERUSALEM – It is "desirable" to redistribute America's wealth to poorer nations, argued President Obama

's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

According to Sunstein, global climate change is primarily the fault of U.S. environmental

behavior and can, therefore, be used as a mechanism to redistribute the country's wealth.

The argument bears striking resemblance to comments made by Obama's former environmental adviser, Van Jones. WND reported Jones used a major environmental convention

to argue for spreading America's wealth.

Now WND has learned Sunstein made similar, more extensive arguments.

The Obama czar penned a 2007 University of Chicago Law School paper – obtained and reviewed by WND – in which he debated whether America should pay "justice" to the world by entering into a compensation agreement that would be a net financial loss for the U.S.

Sunstein heavily leans on the side of such an agreement, particularly a worldwide carbon tax that would heavily tariff the U.S. ....

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Cass Sunstein drafted 'New Deal Fairness Doctrine'

Patriots' newest target: Obama 'Minion Media'

By Chelsea Schilling

In the wake of the massive 9/12 march on Washington, American citizens outraged by President Obama and the actions of Congress are now setting their sights on a new target – the so-called mainstream media.

On his Sept. 14 show, talk show host Rush Limbaugh urged citizens who are frustrated by a media blackout of the nation's growing movement against Obama administration policies to bring their protests to the front doors of major media outlets.

9/12 march on Washington photo (Flickr)

"The media [are] no longer reporters. They are repeaters," Limbaugh said. "There have been hundreds and thousands of protests by conservative groups that haven't been covered, and tiny turnouts by the left that are covered."

He continued, "What about this? We're looking for a force multiplier. Yeah, the protest in Washington on Saturday was great, two million people, but imagine what a force multiplier would be if the next one were held outside of local and national television networks and their headquarters where they can't miss it?"

Limbaugh suggested citizens host tea parties "on or next to the properties housing the TV networks."

"Dare them to cover what is right under their noses!" he said.

"Put the media in the spotlight and on the hot seat. Don't make them the protest. Continue to protest Obama. Protest health care. Protest the loss of liberty. Protest the coming tyranny. Just do it on their property or as close to it as you can get being law-abiding and all that. … Just show up where they can't miss it. Show up in numbers where they can't escape it." ....

Obama phones Czech PM on missile defense decision

By KAREL JANICEK and WILLIAM J. KOLE

PRAGUE – President Barack Obama phoned the Czech prime minister to discuss a controversial missile defense system, a government spokesman said Thursday, and Czech media reported that Obama told the premier he will shelve the plan. ....

New 'Code Red' System Alerts Some Local Residents of Emergency

Lawrence County (Ky.) Emergency Management is currently working to implement the new system, which will automatically notify you by telephone, cell phone, text message or e-mail, should an emergency situation or condition develop in your area. ....

Founder Of Oregon Terror Training Camp Gets Life

A Lebanese national was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday by a Manhattan federal judge for his role in establishing a terror training camp and operating a terrorist Web site, officials said. Oussama Abdullah Kassir, 43, who was also identified as a Swedish citizen, was handed the life term by U.S. District Court Judge John Keenan.

Kassir was convicted in May following a four-week trial in which prosecutors presented evidence that he and associates conspired to set up a terror training camp in Bly, Ore.

UAE kept tight lid on disrupted terror plot

By Eli Lake and Sara Carter THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year quietly broke up a major terrorist ring affiliated with al Qaeda that had plotted to blow up targets in Dubai - a banking hub that has long seemed immune to attacks by the terrorist group.

The disruption in May of the previously undisclosed plot came at a sensitive time for the UAE, which months earlier concluded an agreement with the United States that would allow the U.S. to sell it nuclear reactor technology and nuclear fuel. Congress has until Oct. 17 to block the agreement, which has been viewed with concern by some nonproliferation groups.

Three U.S. intelligence officials and one former senior U.S. government official confirmed that the terrorist scheme originated in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), a relatively poor member of the seven-emirate country.

According to these officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the incident, UAE authorities found evidence that the terrorists had conducted video surveillance of targets in Dubai including Dubai Towers, which will be the tallest building in the world when it is completed in December. The officials also said the plotters had designated suicide bombers for the operations, but had not yet made so-called martyrdom videos. ....

FBI sees no imminent threat following New York raids

by Rolfe Winkler

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - .... A joint anti-terrorism task force carried out raids on Monday in the Queens borough of New York, in an area believed to have been visited by a man suspected of sympathizing with al Qaeda. The raids rattled some residents as they came just days after the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

New York police and the FBI have provided few details about the raids. Witnesses said dozens of heavily armed FBI agents arrived in a phalanx of unmarked vehicles and stormed the building in the early morning.

A federal law enforcement official said three search warrants had been executed.

After the raids, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security advised police how to track evidence of bomb-making, including looking for burn marks typically found on suspects involved in a particular kind of bomb-making. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Frances Kerry)

Obama’s Retreat in Afghanistan CIA Official Says Internet is the Real Enemy

by Streiff

I did a short diary on this subject a few days ago contending that the conundrum facing the Obama Administration in Afghanistan is that it knows it can’t lose the war and, yet, it believes winning the war is wrong.

My analysis was flawed because I failed to take into consideration the chutzpah required to break out of this binary scenario. We are on the cusp of a campaign by the White House to convince us that Afghanistan simply isn’t important.

Fareed Zakaria, writing in the Washington Post’s Newsweek magazine, takes the position that our objective in Afghanistan should be to reduce it to a suppurating wound. He takes the position that we need to buy the Taliban to convince them to stop fighting, a rather stunning misreading of what we accomplished in Iraq with the Sons of Iraq movement, and accept that their dominance of a substantial part of Afghanistan is something we just have to deal with.

At least he concedes that keeping al Qaeda out of Afghanistan is a goal though how he plans on accomplishing that in an environment of warlordism is more than a little unclear.

In today’s Washington Post, former CIA weenie Paul Pillar argues that Afghanistan as a terrorist haven is a mistaken presumption that threatens to make Afghanistan [cue ominous scary music] another Vietnam.

For those of you who don’t remember, Paul Pillar is the CIA official who attempted to aid the election of John Kerry by attacking the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy shortly before the 2004 election in what was billed as an “off the record” address. Thankfully he was outed by Bob Novak. He also claimed that secular Ba’athists in Iraq would never cooperate with al Qaeda and defended the CIA’s gross shortcoming in Iraq intelligence pre-2003 by saying, in essence, so what?

Rationales for maintaining the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan are varied and complex, but they all center on one key tenet: that Afghanistan must not be allowed to again become a haven for terrorist groups, especially al-Qaeda. Debate about Afghanistan has raised reasons to question that tenet, one of which is that the top al-Qaeda leadership is not even in Afghanistan, having decamped to Pakistan years ago. Another is that terrorists intent on establishing a haven can choose among several unstable countries besides Afghanistan, and U.S. forces cannot secure them all.

The debate has largely overlooked a more basic question: How important to terrorist groups is any physical haven? More to the point: How much does a haven affect the danger of terrorist attacks against U.S. interests, especially the U.S. homeland? The answer to the second question is: not nearly as much as unstated assumptions underlying the current debate seem to suppose. When a group has a haven, it will use it for such purposes as basic training of recruits. But the operations most important to future terrorist attacks do not need such a home, and few recruits are required for even very deadly terrorism. Consider: The preparations most important to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took place not in training camps in Afghanistan but, rather, in apartments in Germany, hotel rooms in Spain and flight schools in the United States.

When one gets belong the historical illiteracy in this statement, I’d refer Mr. Pillar to read the 9/11 Commission Report. According to that document the plan for the attack originated in Khandahar (page 155), the leaders were recruited in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan (page 160), and the “muscle” for the hijacks were talent scouted and recruited in Afghan camps (page 248).

He asserts that the internet is the new battleground

In the past couple of decades, international terrorist groups have thrived by exploiting globalization and information technology, which has lessened their dependence on physical havens.

By utilizing networks such as the Internet, terrorists’ organizations have become more network-like, not beholden to any one headquarters. A significant jihadist terrorist threat to the United States persists, but that does not mean it will consist of attacks instigated and commanded from a South Asian haven, or that it will require a haven at all. Al-Qaeda’s role in that threat is now less one of commander than of ideological lodestar, and for that role a haven is almost meaningless.

While one would be ill advised to deny that use of the internet, one would be an utter moron to argue that the internet is a substitute for a safe haven or that jihadi use of the internet goes back two decades.

A victory in Afghanistan, no matter how distasteful the idea is to Obama, is critical for several reasons.

First, terrorists do require a national actor to provide safe haven. Contrary to what some would have us believe, 9/11 was not produced in Adobe Flash and it did not use the internet to any appreciable degree. Terrorists require safe areas in which to train, safe areas in which to house their infrastructure, they need valid passports to allow them to legally cross borders, they need embassies to receive shipments of money, documents, or weapons. While the internet is important, the internet is no substitute for a safe haven.

Second. Even were Pillar correct winning in Afghanistan is vital because winning is all that is important. Any analysis of the war in Iraq will show that the Sons of Iraq movement came into being when it became obvious that the United States was not going to go away. Warfare is actually a series of cliches, success begets success, nothing wins like a winner, etc. Our withdrawal from Somalia in 1993 and our lack of response to the bombings of our embassies in East Africa, the bombing of our facilities in Saudi Arabia, and the bombing of the USS Cole all sent the message we were an easy mark. It has taken 8 bloody years in Afghanistan and Iraq to put the lie to that message. And the fact is, unless we choose to lose in those two wars we cannot lose.

Third. Given the importance, Mr. Pillar’s opinion notwithstanding, of sanctuaries to transnational terrorist organizations, it is vital that no country believes it can pick up the pre-9/11 policy of hosting terrorist organizations hostile to enemy nations and maintaining the fiction that you aren’t supporting them.

Fourth. Lots of young men have died in Afghanistan. The have died there for as good a reason as any nation has ever had for sending it’s young men in harm’s way. They deserve better than to have their families told that it didn’t matter.

Lastly, this Administration must be held accountable for something. To date it has delivered on only one promise, that Barack Obama would be elected president. The man in the Oval Office lambasted President Bush on the subject of Afghanistan and he must be held accountable for his words.